The Obama administration is to send a senior envoy to North Korea for direct bilateral talks on the country’s nuclear programme, the US state department has confirmed. Stephen Bosworth will visit Pyongyang at a date yet to be announced but most likely by the end of the year, US officials said on Tuesday. North Korea [...]
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union leaders agreed an offer to put on the table at global climate talks in Copenhagen in December after healing a rift over how to split the bill. A dust storm blankets Sydney’s iconic Opera House at sunrise September 23, 2009. (REUTERS/Tim Wimborne/Files) Developing countries will need 100 billion euros ($148 [...]
VIENNA (Reuters) – Talks between world powers and Iran on an accord to ease fears about its nuclear programme stalled on Tuesday after Tehran vowed not to agree to curbs on uranium enrichment and said France could not be part of a deal. Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki speaks at a news conference at United [...]
By CHARLES LEVINSON JERUSALEM — Palestinian demonstrators, angry at Israeli-imposed restrictions on access to the revered Al Aqsa Mosque, clashed with police in Jerusalem on Friday, capping a week of setbacks to Washington-led efforts to revive peace talks. The violence was the latest in a series of confrontations in the past two weeks. Eleven Israeli [...]