BRUSSELS, July 5, 2006 (AFP) – The EU’s top diplomat and Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator hold potentially pivotal talks here Wednesday on whether Tehran might be prepared to curb its nuclear ambitions.
The talks between EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana and negotiator Ali Larijani are expected to explore whether Iran is ready to accept a package of economic and political incentives in exchange for suspending uranium enrichment.
TEHRAN, July 5, 2006 (AFP) – Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani was to hold meetings in Spain Wednesday ahead of crux talks in Brussels with EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, state television reported.
Larijani was due to brief Spanish officials about Iran’s position before discussing with Solana a package of incentives drawn up the main world powers in return for halting sensitive nculear fuel work, the television said.
Sakher Abu El Oun
GAZA CITY, July 5, 2006 (AFP) – Israel struck Gaza from the air and mulled further action Wednesday after militants holding a soldier in the strife-torn Palestinian territory launched an unprecedented rocket attack on the Jewish state and promised more bloodshed.
SEOUL, (AP) — North Korea stepped up its anti-U.S. rhetoric yesterday, accusing Washington of mounting military pressure on the regime and vowing to respond to any pre-emptive U.S. attack with an "annihilating" nuclear strike.
DENNIS BUECKERT
OTTAWA — So the warnings of harsher heat waves, stronger hurricanes and rising seas fail to impress. How about volcanic eruptions in the Arctic, or a tsunami off the coast of Newfoundland?
RYAN CUREATZ
Free Press, July 4 – An embarrassed Chatham-Kent police officer watched as a woman he’d arrested and cuffed only moments earlier drove off with his cruiser.
The Houdini-like escape — which involved a chase and a crash into a river — began about noon Sunday when a rookie officer arrested a woman he found slumped over in a car parked in the middle of Base Line Road in Wallaceburg, Staff Sgt. Don Vitek said yesterday.
LOS ANGELES, July 4 (AP) – A huge asteroid whizzed by Earth early yesterday, passing about 433,000 kilometres from the planet’s surface — slightly farther away than the moon.
TEHRAN, July 3, 2006 (AFP) – Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator said Monday the international community’s proposal for Tehran to suspend uranium enrichment was unreasonable, ahead of a key meeting with the EU on the nuclear dispute.
WASHINGTON, July 3, 2006 (AFP) – US President George W. Bush and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan agreed Monday that World Trade Organization talks were at a "critical stage", a White House official said after the two leaders spoke by telephone.
Sardar Ahmad
ARGHANDAB, Afghanistan, July 4, 2006 (AFP) – President Hamid Karzai boasts that Kandahar’s pomegranates are the best in the world; others say they contain the Almighty’s miracle cures. Desperate poets liken their shape to the breasts of their veiled lovers.
