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November 21, 2009 10:47 AM

Accept IAEA offer on uranium: El-Baradei to Iran

The International Atomic Energy Agency Chief Mohammad El-Baradei has urged Iran to accept an offer to process its enriched uranium abroad by the end of this year. Speaking at a news conference in Berlin, he said a plan brokered by the IAEA in which Iran would send low-enriched uranium to Russia and ...

November 21, 2009 10:30 AM

Iran’s stand on nuke programme disappoints major powers

Major world powers have expressed disappointment that Iran has not responded positively to a plan for resolving the standoff over its nuclear programme or agreed to new talks. A joint statement issued in Brussels, Belgium said Iran has not responded positively to the IAEA proposed agreement for the ...

November 21, 2009 10:28 AM

UN condemns human rights violation in Iran

A Committee of the UN General Assembly has voted to approve a resolution condemning what it calls "serious ongoing and recurring human rights violations in Iran. The resolution urges Teheran to end its persecution of political opponents and release those imprisoned for their political views. &#...

November 21, 2009 10:27 AM

Sears Tower attackers sentenced 13-yr imprisonment

A judge in the American city of Miami has given a 13-year prison sentence to the leader of a group of five men who were convicted of plotting to destroy the Sears Tower in Chicago. The other men had earlier been sentenced to between six and eight years. They had all pleaded not guilty to the plot an...

November 21, 2009 10:26 AM

Work halted at football stadium in Israel

Israel has ordered construction work to be halted on an internationally financed football stadium being built for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. <br/>The Palestinian municipal authorities in al-Bireh, near Ramallah, have been told that they did not have the appropriate building pe...

November 21, 2009 10:25 AM

Number of suicides reach record levels in US

The number of suicides in the US Army is reaching record levels. As of November 16th, the Pentagon said 140 soldiers on active duty and 71 not on active duty took their own lives so far this year. US Army personnel predict the suicide rate will almost certainly be higher than the total in 2008. The ...

November 21, 2009 10:24 AM

8 militants killed in Pak

Pakistani officials say at least eight alleged militants have been killed in a suspected US Drone attack in the country's north-west. Officials say two missiles were fired at a compound being used by suspected Taliban members in Mir Ali village in north Waziristan. That region near Afghan borde...

November 21, 2009 10:20 AM

Shun distorted propaganda: Dalai Lama to China

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has advised China to shun censorship and distorted propaganda, saying about 1.3 billion people of the Communist regime have the right to know the reality. The Communist party has no right to keep them away from reality, he said replying to a question after del...

November 21, 2009 10:11 AM

OECD lauds India for crisis handling

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has lauded India for its handling of the global economic and financial crisis. The Paris-based club of the leading industrialised nations, OECD, said in its half-yearly economic outlook published in Berlin that India's economy wil...

November 21, 2009 10:07 AM

Large Hadron Collider restarts

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment has been restarted after a hiatus of 14 months. Engineers have now made two stable proton beams circulate in opposite directions around the machine. If all continues to go well, the team might even try to increase the dollar 10 billion collider's energ...

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