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		<title>Iran says UN watchdog has cleared its nuclear program of any military intentions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
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Iran says UN watchdog has cleared nuclear program
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran&#8217;s nuclear envoy denied Tuesday that the U.N. inspectors tour of its recently revealed uranium enrichment site has turned up any evidence that the Islamic republic is seeking nuclear weapons.
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		<title>French President Sarkozy&#8217;s envoy says talks with North Koreans addressed sensitive issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
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French envoy talks about trip in North Korea
PARIS — French President Nicolas Sarkozy&#8217;s special envoy to North Korea said Sunday that he had long talks with officials there about sensitive issues including nuclear proliferation and human rights.
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		<title>In Asia, Obama, Medvedev see nuclear pact in sight, climate-change deal illusive</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
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In Asia, Obama, Medvedev see nuclear pact progress
SINGAPORE — President Barack Obama said Sunday the United States and Russia would have a replacement treaty on reducing nuclear arms ready for approval by year&#8217;s end, an announcement designed as an upbeat ending to a summit with Asia-Pacific leaders.
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		<title>In Asia, Obama, Medvedev see nuke pact in sight, climate-change deal illusive</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
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In Asia, Obama, Medvedev see nuke pact progress
SINGAPORE — President Barack Obama said Sunday the United States and Russia would have a replacement treaty on reducing nuclear arms ready for approval by year&#8217;s end, an announcement designed as an upbeat ending to a summit with Asia-Pacific leaders.
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		<title>Obama seeking to move ahead on climate deal, nuclear arms-control treaty during Asia meetings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
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In Asia, Obama talking climate, arms control
SINGAPORE — President Barack Obama and other world leaders agreed Sunday that next month&#8217;s much-anticipated climate change summit will be merely a way station, not the once hoped-for end point, in the search for a worldwide global warming treaty.
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		<title>Obama seeking to move ahead on nuclear arms-control treaty with Russia during tour of Asia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
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In Asia, Obama pushing arms control with Russians
SINGAPORE — A major pact within tantalizing reach, President Barack Obama aims to nudge forward an arms-control deal in talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
The 21-nation Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum brought Obama to Singapore, but he is focusing on individual meetings Sunday with Medvedev and with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US, Russia nearing replacement for expiring arms control treaty, but technical issues remain</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
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US sees progress on arms control talks with Russia
WASHINGTON — The United States and Russia have agreed on the broad outlines of a deal to replace a major Cold-War era arms control agreement and are trying to work out remaining technical issues, U.S. officials say.
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		<title>In Asia, Obama says US won&#8217;t &#8216;be cowed&#8217; by North Korean threats, welcomes robust China</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
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Obama hails expanded US engagement in Asia
TOKYO — President Barack Obama declared Saturday that an era of American disengagement in the globe&#8217;s fastest-growing region is over and warned that the U.S. and its Asian partners &#8220;will not be cowed&#8221; by North Korea&#8217;s continued defiance over its nuclear weapons and other provocations.
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		<title>Obama: Prosperous China strengthens all nations, human rights and dignity crucial</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
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Obama: Prosperous China strengthens all nations
TOKYO — President Barack Obama says the U.S. and the world will not &#8220;be cowed&#8221; by North Korea&#8217;s threats and nuclear belligerence.
Obama said in a major address in Tokyo on Saturday that Pyongyang must learn that its failure to meet international obligations on its nuclear arsenal &#8220;will lead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Explosions rock arms depot in Russian province, killing 2; dozens emerge safe from shelter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
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MOSCOW — Huge explosions and flames ripped through a Russian military arsenal for hours, killing two firefighters and sending personnel fleeing to a bomb shelter to wait out the worst of the firestorm, officials said.
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		<title>Obama seeks newly cooperative tone in Japan speech, opening lengthy first major trip to Asia</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
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TOKYO — President Barack Obama is emphasizing cooperation on his first major trip to Asia, opening with a warning to North Korea that there will be tough, unified action by the U.S. and its Asian partners if the Koreans fail to abandon their nuclear weapons programs.
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		<title>Text of President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama&#8217;s news conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
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Text of Obama&#8217;s news conference with Hatoyama
Text of President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama&#8217;s remarks at a news conference on Friday in Tokyo, as transcribed by the White House.
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		<title>Explosions rock arms depot in Russian province, regional governor says 35 missing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
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Blasts rock Russian ammunition depot, 35 missing

MOSCOW — Huge explosions and fire rocked a Russian ammunition depot Friday, leaving dozens of people missing and prompting the evacuation of thousands of civilians nearby, officials and Russian news agencies said.
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		<title>Obama says he&#8217;ll decide soon on sending more US troops to fight in Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
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TOKYO — President Barack Obama, facing withering criticism for a prolonged decision-making process on Afghanistan, asserted Friday he&#8217;s doesn&#8217;t want the next move to be seen as an &#8220;open-ended commitment.&#8221;
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		<title>Group: Work half done to clear the world of land mines, a decade after treaty&#8217;s signing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
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Group: Work half done to clear world of land mines

GENEVA — Significant progress has been made in removing land mines around the world, but the hidden devices killed more than 1,260 people last year, the International Campaign to Ban Land mines said Thursday.
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		<title>Clinton: Naval skirmish between 2 Koreas won&#8217;t affect decision to send envoy to North Korea</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
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SINGAPORE — A naval skirmish this week between the two Koreas will not affect Washington&#8217;s decision to send a senior diplomat to communist North Korea, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday.
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		<title>French president&#8217;s special envoy meets in Pyongyang with North Korea&#8217;s foreign minister</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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PYONGYANG, North Korea — The French president&#8217;s special envoy on North Korea held talks Tuesday with the country&#8217;s foreign minister during a visit to Pyongyang to explore the possibility of establishing diplomatic ties with the communist regime.
Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun greeted French envoy Jack Lang [...]]]></description>
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Monday that he&#8217;d be willing to attend an international climate summit in Copenhagen next month if it appears a deal is in the offing and his presence there would help clinch it.
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		<title>Russia&#8217;s Medvedev says new nuclear arms control deal with U.S. can be signed this year</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
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MOSCOW — Russia and the United States have a good chance of reaching a new nuclear arms reduction deal before year&#8217;s end, but other nuclear powers must join disarmament efforts, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in remarks released Saturday.
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		<title>Russian Foreign Ministry hopes new arms control pact with US reached before treaty expires</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
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Russian FM optimistic on arms control treaty deal

MOSCOW — A spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry has voiced hope that Moscow and Washington will be able to negotiate a successor to a Cold War-era arms control treaty that expires next month.
Andrei Nesterenko said Friday that Moscow hopes the next round of U.S.-Russian arms control talks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NKorea claims it is expanding arsenal of nuclear bombs, pressures US to agree to direct talks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
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NKorea claims to expand arsenal of atomic bombs

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea claimed Tuesday that it has successfully weaponized more plutonium for atomic bombs, a day after warning Washington to agree quickly to direct talks or face the prospect of a growing North Korean nuclear arsenal.
The announcement underlined Pyongyang&#8217;s impatience over securing one-on-one talks [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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UNITED NATIONS — The head of the U.N. nuclear agency urged Iran on Monday to clarify its response amid mixed signals over a U.S.-backed proposal that would have Tehran ship most of its nuclear material abroad for processing.
Iran&#8217;s foreign minister said that option still exists while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NKorea pressures US to agree to directs, threatens to expand nuclear arsenal otherwise</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
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NKorea threatens to expand nuclear arsenal

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea issued a veiled threat to increase its nuclear arsenal if U.S. officials do not quickly agree to the one-on-one talks that the communist regime is demanding.
The regime&#8217;s impatience came days after its No. 2 nuclear negotiator Ri Gun came away from meetings with Washington [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NKorea demands bilateral talks with US, warning Pyongyang will &#8216;go own way&#8217; otherwise</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
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North Korea demands direct talks with US
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea pressed the United States to accept its demand for direct talks on the communist regime&#8217;s nuclear program, issuing a veiled threat Monday that Pyongyang will expand its nuclear arsenal unless Washington agrees.

The statement came as North Korea&#8217;s No. 2 nuclear negotiator, Ri Gun, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia and Ecuador sign deals on military helicopters, energy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Russia, Ecuador sign deals on arms, energy

MOSCOW — President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday called new arms and energy deals between Russia and Ecuador just a beginning as Moscow strives to deepen ties in Latin America.
Medvedev and Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa announced a $22 million deal for Russia to provide Ecuador with two Mi-17 transport helicopters.
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		<title>IAEA says it has received &#8216;initial response&#8217; from Iran on plan to ship enriched uranium abroad</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
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IAEA: First Iranian response on enrichment deal

VIENNA, Austria — Iran has given an initial response to a plan that calls for Tehran to ship most of its enriched uranium abroad, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Thursday. An official familiar with Iran&#8217;s response said Tehran was unwilling to accept the deal, which would delay Tehran&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ahmadinejad says West, Iran now cooperating on nuclear issue on international scene</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
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Ahmadinejad says West now cooperating with Iran

TEHRAN, Iran — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that Tehran will not give up its nuclear program although the West and Iran are now cooperating on the issue — remarks that appear to reinforce Iran&#8217;s support for the general outline of a U.N.-drafted nuclear deal.
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
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MOSCOW — Russia and the United States are scrambling to address disagreements over a new nuclear arms reduction treaty with a little over a month left until the existing agreement between the Cold War adversaries expires.
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
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IAEA team back from Iran inspection
VIENNA, Austria — A team of U.N. nuclear inspectors returned Thursday from a visit to a previously secret Iranian uranium enrichment site and their leader expressed satisfaction with the mission.

What the inspectors saw — and how freely they were allowed to work — will be key in deciding whether six [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese naval destroyer intercepts ballistic missile in test off Hawaii</title>
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Japan intercepts ballistic missile in Hawaii test

HONOLULU — A Japanese navy ship intercepted a medium-range ballistic missile in a test off Hawaii, the U.S. and Japanese militaries said Tuesday.
The drill was the third such test for Japan, which began investing in a U.S.-developed ballistic missile defense system after North Korea test-fired a long-range missile over [...]]]></description>
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Japanese warship to test missile system off Kauai

HONOLULU — Japanese and U.S. warships are preparing to test a missile defense system off Kauai.
The test is one of several in recent years on a U.S. ballistic missile defense system. It is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon or early evening after being moved up from Wednesday due to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP Interview: Ex-U.S. diplomat says Russia not ready to agree to talks on banning nuclear arms</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Birch</dc:creator>
		
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MOSCOW — Russia is not ready to agree to a proposed new round of arms control talks that were to begin after a deal is reached on extending the START 1 nuclear treaty, a U.S. nuclear expert said Tuesday.
The comments by former U.S. diplomat Richard Burt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>French court jails ex-minister, fines ex-president&#8217;s son in Angola arm trafficking trial</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Verena Von Derschau</dc:creator>
		
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Ex-French minister gets jail in Angola arms trial

PARIS — A Paris court sentenced a former interior minister to a year in prison Tuesday and fined the son of the late President Francois Mitterrand for links to arms trafficking to Angola in a case that involved corruption at the highest levels.
The trial of 42 defendants began [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese hope Obama become first US president to visit atomic bomb cities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Malcolm Foster</dc:creator>
		
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TOKYO — A speech and a Nobel prize have raised hopes in Japan that Barack Obama will become the first sitting American president to visit Hiroshima or Nagasaki, the two cities devastated by U.S. atomic bombs in World War II.
Past presidents have avoided a visit that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report: UN nuclear inspectors tour once-secret enrichment site</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ali Akbar Dareini</dc:creator>
		
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UN inspectors visit once-secret Iranian site
TEHRAN, Iran — U.N. inspectors entered a once-secret uranium enrichment facility with bunker-like construction and heavy military protection that raised Western suspicions about the extent and intent of Iran&#8217;s nuclear program.
The visit Sunday by the four-member International Atomic Energy Agency team, reported by state media, was the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IAEA inspectors head to Iran to visit recently revealed nuclear facility</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[VIENNA — A team of U.N. inspectors is heading to Iran to visit a recently revealed nuclear site.

The International Atomic Energy Agency experts are slated to examine an unfinished uranium enrichment facility near the holy city of Qom to verify it is for peaceful purposes. Disclosure of its existence last month raised international suspicion over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Korea says summit with North Korea should help resolve nuclear standoff</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kwang-tae Kim</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SEOUL, South Korea — A summit between the two Koreas should help resolve the dispute over North Korea&#8217;s nuclear programs, a South Korean official said, as an envoy for the North met with a U.S. government negotiator in likely pursuit of bilateral talks with Washington.

North Korea&#8217;s No. 2 nuclear negotiator, Ri Gun, has traveled to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Korea says progress in nuclear talks key condition for summit with North Korea</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jae-soon Chang</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea said that progress in efforts to end North Korea&#8217;s nuclear programs is a key condition for holding a summit with the communist nation.

The comments from Seoul came as a North Korean nuclear negotiator arrived in the United States, possibly to pave the way for bilateral talks between Washington and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suicide attacker kills 6 close to military complex in Pakistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD — A suicide bomber killed six people Friday near a military complex in northern Pakistan reportedly associated with the country&#8217;s nuclear weapons program, as the government presses on with a week-old offensive against militants in the northwest.

The attack took place near a sprawling aeronautical facility in Kamra around 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In AP interview, ex-Los Alamos physicist says he met with foreign agent who paid him $20,000</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Clark</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — It&#8217;s a tale of intrigue, involving a nuclear weapons physicist at a national laboratory and a mystery man, supposedly from the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, fluent in Spanish and English.

Late last year, that mystery man paid the scientist, P. Leonardo Mascheroni, $20,000 in cash left in a drop box at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel official: No verbal duels between Israeli, Iranian reps at Mideast nuclear conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JERUSALEM — Israel and Iran took part in an international conference on nuclear disarmament last month in Egypt — a gathering that is now prompting media reports the two foes held direct discussions that included an awkward exchange on whether the Jewish state has atomic weapons.

An Israeli official confirmed Thursday the two sides attended the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clinton cites need to stop nuclear arms race while panel says bioweapons threat is more urgent</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday warned of dire consequences from the spread of nuclear weapons, while a special U.S. panel asserted that the more worrisome and urgent threat is terrorists attacking the United States or its allies with biological weapons.

In a speech outlining the Obama administration&#8217;s nuclear arms agenda, Clinton [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US defense chief Gates says US won&#8217;t accept nuclear-armed North Korea</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/us-defense-chief-gates-says-us-wont-accept-nuclear-armed-north-korea-201722/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lara Jakes</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SEOUL, South Korea — Top American defense officials maintained a tough stand Wednesday against North Korea, calling its threat more lethal than ever even as an envoy from the communist regime was headed to the United States to discuss nuclear programs.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates accused North Korea of attempting widespread nuclear proliferation. &#8220;Everything they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SKorea&#8217;s foreign minister urges NKorea to take &#8217;substantial&#8217; steps toward disarmament</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/skoreas-foreign-minister-urges-nkorea-to-take-substantial-steps-toward-disarmament-199460/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hyung-jin Kim</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea&#8217;s foreign minister called North Korea&#8217;s uranium enrichment program &#8220;worrisome&#8221; and pressed the communist nation to take real steps toward nuclear disarmament.

Last month, North Korea told the U.N. Security Council that it was in the final stages of enriching uranium, a process that would give the regime a second way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Korea warns South Korea that &#8216;reckless&#8217; maritime incursions could spark naval clash</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kwang-tae Kim</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea warned South Korea on Thursday that a spate of incursions along their disputed sea border could spark a naval clash, in what analysts said was a threat to reinflame tensions if it doesn&#8217;t get what it wants from recent conciliatory gestures.

After months of provocations including nuclear and missile tests, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biden re-redefining VP job after Cheney, mixing public portfolio with private counsel to Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Benac</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Early in the 2008 campaign, when high hopes hadn&#8217;t given way to harsh realities, presidential candidate Joe Biden told his wife, Jill, &#8220;I can picture myself sitting in the Oval Office. I can picture who I&#8217;d pick up the phone and call.&#8221;

It turns out that Biden is getting calls from the president, not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report: New Russian military doctrine to allow preventative nuclear strikes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Nowak</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MOSCOW — A top Russian security official says Moscow reserves the right to conduct pre-emptive nuclear strikes to safeguard the country against aggression on both a large and a local scale, according to a newspaper interview published Wednesday.

Presidential Security Council chief Nikolai Patrushev also singled out the U.S. and NATO, saying Moscow&#8217;s Cold War foes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NKorea offers rare apology for releasing dam waters blamed for deaths of 6 South Koreans</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kwang-tae Kim</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea offered a rare apology Wednesday for unleashing dam water causing floods downstream blamed for six South Korean deaths and promised to alert Seoul to such measures in the future, an official said.

The release of dam water into the Imjin River last month without advance notice triggered floods that swept [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NKorea expresses regret over dam release that killed 6 South Koreans in flooding</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/nkorea-expresses-regret-over-dam-release-that-killed-6-south-koreans-in-flooding-195603/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kwang-tae Kim</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea expressed regret Wednesday over the release of dam water that sparked flooding downstream blamed for six South Korean deaths, as the two sides discussed how to prevent such incidents on their border, an official said.

The release of dam water into the Imjin River last month without advance notice triggered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analysis: Russia has restored some of its Soviet-era power by playing the angles</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Birch</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MOSCOW — As Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton began her first visit to Moscow as the top U.S. diplomat, the Kremlin sent a message to Washington: Russia must still be wooed and won.

It&#8217;s how post-Soviet Russia has managed to thrive as a world power, despite a shrinking population, a bloated and inefficient military, and [...]]]></description>
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