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Election produces likely right turn, young leader in Austria

VIENNA – Austria’s 31-year-old foreign minister declared victory for his party Sunday in a national election that set him up to become Europe’s youngest leader and puts the country on course...

DATE: Oct 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Diplomats: Iran to get natural uranium batch

VIENNA – Iran is to receive a huge shipment of natural uranium from Russia to compensate it for exporting tons of reactor coolant, diplomats say, in a move approved by the outgoing U.S. admi...

DATE: Jan 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

UN backs nuclear test ban

Unratified treaty to mark 20th anniversary

DATE: Sep 23, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

EU ministers look for ways to mend dispute with Turkey

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia – European Union foreign ministers on Friday looked for a way to speak with one voice on relations with Turkey amid concerns about human rights that could threaten a key...

DATE: Sep 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

High-level meeting urges nuke test ban treaty ratification

VIENNA – A senior American official on Monday reaffirmed White House support for a treaty banning nuclear testing worldwide and urged other countries to move it toward its long-delayed enact...

DATE: Jun 13, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Officials say France wants more Iran sanctions

VIENNA – France has asked the European Union to consider new sanctions against Iran over recent missile tests, in a request made shortly after the EU ended sanctions over Iran’s nuclear prog...

DATE: Jan 27, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

UN ends investigation of Iran’s nuke program

VIENNA – The UN nuclear agency closed the books Tuesday on its decade-long probe of allegations that Iran worked on atomic arms, and Tehran proclaimed that within weeks, it would finish cutb...

DATE: Dec 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

OPEC nations opt to reject cutting their oil production

VIENNA – Acknowledging their inability to push up oil prices, OPEC nations on Friday effectively scrapped their official output ceiling and agreed to keep producing well above that level. ...

DATE: Dec 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

UN says Iran worked on nuclear weapons

VIENNA – Iran worked in the past on nuclear weapons, but its activities didn’t go past planning such a program and testing of basic components, the UN atomic agency said Wednesday, in what i...

DATE: Dec 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Iran deal may face new complication

UN to let Iranian investigators inspect suspected weapons site

DATE: Aug 19, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Iran demands end to arms embargo

VIENNA – A day before the new deadline for a nuclear accord, Iran pushed Monday to lift the United Nations arms embargo on the country as a parallel deal – a demand that the United States op...

DATE: Jul 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Iranian says talks going slowly

VIENNA – As negotiators at Iran nuclear talks focused on a June 30 deadline, a senior Iranian official spoke Friday of slow progress, invoking differences not only between Tehran and the six...

DATE: Jun 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World