India and Russia Thursday signed 20 agreements ranging from nuclear power, military cooperation and oil exploration, after a summit between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin here.
India has agreed to expeditiously identify a second site, in addition to Kudankulam in southern state of Tamil Nadu, to set up Russian-designed nuclear power units, local TV channels reported Thursday.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Thursday rejected remarks by South Korean President Park Geun-hye on its nuclear program and human rights record.
Russian president Vladimir Putin is due to arrive Wednesday for a high profile two-day visit to India, during which he will discuss with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi the strengthening of cooperation in nuclear energy, defense and oil explorations.
Iran's top nuclear negotiator has said that the ground is prepared for a final deal with world powers over Tehran's nuclear issue, Press TV reported on Thursday.
Sides will meet again in December to discuss the tough Iranian nuclear issue, and the expert-level meeting will start soon, aiming at an political deal within four months, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters on Monday.
Recent nuclear talks between Iran and the world powers over the country's nuclear issue have been " steps forward," Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said here on Monday.
A comprehensive nuclear deal could hardly be finalized by the Nov. 24 deadline, and all sides might discuss another extension by Sunday night, an Iranian official was quoted as saying.
The focus of ongoing nuclear talks in Vienna of Austria is on a "political agreement" over Iran's nuclear issue, which will include general principles rather than a comprehensive one, a senior Iranian official was quoted as saying by semi-official ISNA news agency on Sunday.
Iran and P5+1 group are striving to find a long-term solution for the decade-old disputed Iranian nuclear program, aiming to strike a comprehensive deal which could change the political map by deadline next Monday.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry headed for Europe Monday for talks on Iran's nuclear programs, a week before the deadline for a comprehensive deal expires.
Pakistan on Monday conducted a test launch of an intermediate range of ballistic missile which is capable of carrying nuclear and conventional warheads to a range of 900 kilometers, the military said.
Russia on Tuesday signed an agreement with Iran for helping the latter build two new nuclear reactors in the Islamic republic, local media reports said.
Mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two Japanese cities that suffered atomic bombing in World War II, on Tuesday sent letters to U.S. President Barack Obama protesting reported U.S. plutonium tests in September and October, Kyodo News reported.
Iranian foreign minister will meet U. S. Secretary of State and European Union foreign policy chief on November 9-10 to discuss core issues on Iran's nuclear program, an Iranian nuclear negotiator confirmed on Saturday the earlier report by the U.S. State Department.
Iran's nuclear talks with the world powers should lead to the removal of sanctions against the Islamic republic all at once, Iranian nuclear negotiator Majid Takht-e- Ravanchi said on Tuesday.
Fifty years on, Du Xueyou still hears the deafening sound of China's first nuclear bomb in a remote northwestern desert on Oct 16, 1964. He was there. He helped create it.
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