Russia to Build 40 Nuclear Reactors — Nuclear ChiefRussia’s nuclear agency chief said Wednesday that the nation needed to build dozens of nuclear reactors in a massive effort that would require restoring production links with nuclear-related industrial facilities in other ex-Soviet nations, news agencies reported.
Sergei Kiriyenko, head of the Federal Atomic Energy Agency, said Russia needed to build about 40 new nuclear reactors in order to bring the share of nuclear energy in the nation’s energy balance to 25%, the I... (more)
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UN's Promise to 'Save The World' In Return For Global GovernmentThe first wave of the attempt to create a global government has failed. The EU constitution is dead in the water and the UN can be defined as somewhere in between a talking shop and a laughing stock.
The sands have shifted. The Clinton era move to establish the United Nations and its offshoots as a de facto world government with dictatorial control over US sovereignty was met with ferocious opposition from conservatives sick to their stomachs from eight years of moral relativism.<... (more)
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UN unveils plan to release untapped wealth of...$7 trillion (and solve the world's problems at a stroke)The most potent threats to life on earth - global warming, health pandemics, poverty and armed conflict - could be ended by moves that would unlock $7 trillion - $7,000,000,000,000 (£3.9trn) - of previously untapped wealth, the United Nations claims today.
The price? An admission that the nation-state is an old-fashioned concept that has no role to play in a modern globalised world where financial markets have to be harnessed rather than simply condemned.
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Iran has inalienable right to nuclear energyIran has an "inalienable right" to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes such as the production of electric energy and the enrichment of uranium for its nuclear reactors. Could it be that Iran's plan for an oil exchange trading in euros is the real issue? Or is it Israel?
Article IV of the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which entered into force on March 5, 1970, states:
1. Nothing in this Treaty shall be interpreted as affecting the inalienable righ... (more)
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Hamas will make a deal: If Israel withdraws from the territories it occupied in 1967, the movement will end armed resistance A so-called expert was asked on the BBC's Arabic service last week what he thought Hamas should do now it is likely to be the government in the Palestinian territories. Hamas would have to change, he said, because the Palestinian people would want a government that recognises Israel, is willing to resume peace negotiations and will be acceptable to the United States.
If this is truly what the Palestinian people want they might as well have settled for Fatah and not elected Hamas. ... (more)
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Chavez taunts BushCaracas - As Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez on Friday stepped up his attacks on what he called the "genocidal" US administration, new figures showed that bilateral trade has surged, thanks largely to high oil prices.
To cheers from thousands of anti-globalisation activists, Chavez called US President George W Bush "the world's biggest terrorist" and his administration "the most perverse, murderous, genocidal, immoral empire" in history.
In his address to particip... (more)
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EU hosts last-ditch talks on IranOfficials from three EU powers are holding last-ditch talks with Iran on the crisis over its nuclear programme.
Iran requested the Brussels meeting with envoys from the UK, France and Germany, in the hope of averting moves to refer it to the UN Security Council.
EU3 foreign ministers will try to co-ordinate their stance at separate talks in London on Monday evening with US, Russian and Chinese counterparts.
The UN nuclear watchdog is due to hold urgen... (more)
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Iran Claims Evidence Of British Involvement In Ahvaz Bombings 28 January 2006 -- Iran said today it would hand over evidence to Britain that proved British involvement in bombings in the southern Iran city of Ahvaz earlier this week.
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki made the announcement but did not give any further details.
Eight people were killed and 46 were wounded in the blasts, in an oil-rich area in southwestern Iran populated by ethnic Arabs.
Ten people were arrested in connection with the bombings.<... (more)
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Iran nabs ten bombing suspectsTEHRAN - Iran has made number of arrests after Tuesday's twin bomb attack in the restive oil city of Ahvaz with 10 suspects already lined up for charges, the local media reported.
"A number of the people involved in the bombing were identified and arrested and so far 10 of those have been handed over to the judiciary," Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi was quoted as saying by Iranian news agencies.
Eight people were killed and 46 wounded in the blasts, and th... (more)
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Morales gives longtime outsiders of Bolivia a place in CabinetLA PAZ, Bolivia - The Evo Morales era began this week in Bolivia as the new president promised it would, with long days, new faces and quick decisions sure to anger the establishment.
Fresh off an inaugural weekend that celebrated Bolivia's indigenous majority and featured a parade of leftist dignitaries, Morales formed a Cabinet empowering the longtime outsiders of Bolivian society. He shook up the military brass in a move that brought howls of protest. And on Thursday, Morales n... (more)
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US diplomat flees Venezuela rather than face charges of CIA espionagePrensa Latina: The naval attache of the US Embassy in Venezuela, John Correa, has left the country after his participation in an espionage case involving several Venezuelan low-ranking officers was revealed.
When he realized the espionage network had been discovered, Correa organized the escape of several of the officers involved to Miami, and then he fled when Venezuelan authorities called him up for a meeting, according to a report on Friday's VEA newspaper.
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Venezuela says U.S. spyingVenezuela has said it would throw in jail any U.S. official caught spying on its military.
President Hugo Chavez issued the warning Friday at the World Social Forum in Caracas, the BBC reports.
Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel said Thursday that some U.S. officers were detained for passing information to the Pentagon and had since left Venezuela.
The U.S. Embassy has denied any wrongdoing and called the issue an "internal matter" f
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Bush 'a terrorist': Chavez At a rally against imperialism, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has told thousands of cheering activists at the World Social Forum that the US government is a vile “empire” and its president a ”terrorist”.
Chavez waved and blew kisses when he stepped on stage in a Caracas stadium, then launched into fierce criticism of US president George Bush’s government.
“It’s the most perverse, murderous, genocidal, immoral empire that ... (more)
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India changes tune, defends IranNEW DELHI, Jan 27: India on Friday distanced itself from US-led calls to isolate Iran at next week’s meeting of the IAEA after controversial remarks on the issue by Washington’s envoy to Delhi enraged the nation as seldom seen before.
The Indian foreign ministry, facing a barrage of criticism for apparent obsequiousness towards Washington that ranged from allies in the Left Front to former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, appeared to have rowed back from its recent... (more)
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Ex-commissioner questions survival of euroFrits Bolkestein, the former EU internal market commissioner, has questioned the chances of survival for the euro in the long term.
Mr Bolkestein, who served in the previous Prodi commission from 1999 to 2004, predicted in a speech delivered on Wednesday (25 January) that the common currency will face a huge test in around 10 years, when a pensions boom is likely to hit Europe.
The ageing of Europe's population will hit the continent "ruthlessly," the outspoken Dutc... (more)
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Notorious Oligarch Berezovsky Reveals Plans for Coup in Russia Wanted Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky has gone public with his plans to seize power in Russia by force. The London-based oligarch said in an interview with the Ekho Moskvy radio station Wednesday that he had been working on the coup plan for 18 months.
Berezovsky, a notorious critic of Putin’s regime, said he aimed to replace the “anti-constitutional regime” in Russia.
“The regime has lost its legitimacy. Neither Putin nor the parliament ar... (more)
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Moscow Raves About Rock As 'Miracle' Spying Gadget Drop it from a ninth-story window, and it survives the fall. Submerge it in water for a long period of time? It drip-dries.
On Thursday, Russia's federal security service, the FSB, extolled the "space technology" powers of the fake rock, discovered in a Moscow park, that led Russian agents to an alleged British spy ring. A spokesman for the Russian agency, the KGB's domestic successor, said that the "miracle of a device" no doubt cost tens of millions of dollars.
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Russian Uranium Proposal “Not Sufficient” - Iran A Russian proposal to carry out sensitive nuclear fuel work outside Iran to allay fears Tehran is seeking the bomb is “not sufficient” for the Iranians, a top nuclear negotiator said.
“The Russian proposal is not sufficient for Iran’s nuclear energy needs,” Ali Larijani was quoted by AFP as saying to reporters on his arrival back from China.
But the head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council did add that “one can not... (more)
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U.S. President Backs Russian Plan for Iran’s Uranium EnrichmentPresident George W. Bush gave public backing to a Russian compromise plan to end the Iran nuclear, as well as China and the chief of the UN International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei. According to the plan, Russia would manufacture nuclear fuel for Iran and collect the waste to prevent the development of nuclear arms, AFP reported Thursday.
The U.S. State Department has expressed fears that Iran could be seeking to buy time through the Russian proposal, but Bush said Ru... (more)
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Germany 'needs a nuclear arsenal of its own' former defence minister has provoked outrage and broken a major taboo by suggesting that Germany should have its own nuclear arsenal.
Rupert Scholz argued that Berlin needed to embrace the idea of a nuclear deterrent in the light of threats from terrorists and the Middle East.
"We need to ask ourselves how we could react in an appropriate manner to a nuclear threat from a terror state, and if needs be, even by using our own nuclear weapons," he said.
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China backs Iran compromise planPlans to enrich uranium in Russia for use in Iran could help break a global stalemate over Tehran's nuclear aims, China's government has said.
Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, called the proposals "useful" after talks in Beijing aimed at heading off US and EU calls for UN action.
China, which could veto any sanctions bid in the UN, has urged greater efforts for a diplomatic solution.
Mr Larijani said China and Iran held "similar views" on ... (more)
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