The world's most powerful diplomats sat down in Lausanne with Iranian nuclear negotiators on Monday for the first time since November. And uncomfortable rumblings made headlines./ The assertion: Iran backpedaled the day before on an important detail of a possible deal to prevent it from ...
(Adds Western diplomat, Russian comment, Netanyahu) By Parisa Hafezi, John Irish and Louis Charbonneau (Reuters) - The foreign ministers of Iran and six world powers met on Monday in a final push for a preliminary nuclear accord less than two days before their deadline as Tehran showed signs of ...
European Union officials and Iranian officials wait for the opening of a plenary session on Iran nuclear talks at the Beau Rivage Palace Hotel in Lausanne, Switzerland, on March 30, 2015./ Photographer: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images/ (Bloomberg) -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov ...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry waits with others before a meeting with Britain, Russia, China, France, Germany, European Union and Iranian officials at the Beau Rivage Palace Hotel in Lausanne, Switzerland Monday, March 30, 2015, during Iran nuclear talks. Negotiations over Iran's nuclear ...
What to know about the U.S.-Iran nuclear negotations/ Two key sticking points: 1. What would be limits on Iranian nuclear research? 2. When would U.N. sanctions be lifted?/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns the deal would be a disaster/ Nuclear talks intensified Sunday between ...
Iranian negotiators reportedly have made a last-ditch push for more concessions from the U.S. and five other world powers as talks on the fate of Iran's nuclear program come down to the final days before a crucial deadline. reported late Sunday that Tehran had backed away from a tentative ...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L), U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz (2nd L), the head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi (2nd R) and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif (R) wait with others for a meeting at the Beau Rivage Palace Hotel.../ (Reuters) - The ...
From left, U.S. Under Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz wait to start a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and others at the Beau Rivage Palace Hotel in Lausanne, Switzerland Sunday, March ...
Secretary of State John Kerry (left), and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (right) wait for the start of a meeting at the Beau Rivage Palace Hotelin Lausanne, Switzerland, on Sunday to discuss a nuclear deal on Iran./ Inching closer to the end-of-month deadline for a deal on Iran's nuclear ...
Global powers were Sunday narrowing in on a deal to stop any Iranian bid to develop nuclear weapons, with diplomats saying some key parts of an outline had been tentatively agreed./ The "framework" accord -- no one knows how detailed it will be -- is meant to be fleshed out into a comprehensive ...
Iran and six major powers were exploring possible compromises aimed at breaking an impasse in nuclear negotiations on Sunday, though officials cautioned that they still had no agreement and were unable to move on several sticking points. In a significant development in talks aimed at securing a ...
China's foreign minister Wang Yi. Photographer: Lintao Zhang/Getty Images/ (Bloomberg) -- Gaps between the two sides at talks on Iran’s nuclear program may keep diplomats working until a self-imposed March 31 deadline, with no assurance that a deal will be reached, U.S. officials said. Foreign ...
By Louis Charbonneau, John Irish and Parisa Hafezi/ U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) waits to start a meeting with Iranian officials at the Beau Rivage Palace Hotel in Lausanne March 29, 2015./ German Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier (2nd-L), US Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz ...
Israel says possible deal is even worse than feared * Officials say Iran may be flexible on centrifuges (Recasts with compromise possibilities described by officials) By Louis Charbonneau, John Irish and Parisa Hafezi LAUSANNE, Switzerland, March 29 (Reuters) - Iran and six major powers were ...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) waits to start a meeting with Iranian officials at the Beau Rivage Palace Hotel in Lausanne March 29, 2015./ (Reuters) - Iran and six major powers were exploring possible compromises to break an impasse in nuclear negotiations on Sunday, but officials ...
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND - MARCH 29: United States Secretary of State John Kerry walks on the streets of Lausanne when he arrives to attend the nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 on March 29, 2015. (Photo by Betül Yuruk/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) | Anadolu Agency via Getty Images/ LAUSANNE, ...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry walks on March 29, 2015 with staff and security after a break in nuclear talks in Lausanne, Switzerland. Global powers are seeking to pin down the broad outlines of a deal to rein in Iran's nuclear program by a March 31 deadline. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty ...
By Parisa Hafezi, John Irish and Louis Charbonneau/ German Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier (2nd-L), US Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz (C-L), US Secretary of State John Kerry (C), US Under Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman (C-R), and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius ...
World-power foreign ministers were due Sunday to make a final push to get Iran to agree to curtail its nuclear programme days before a looming deadline to agree the outlines of a deal./ On Saturday officials expressed guarded optimism that after 18 months of tortuous negotiations and two missed ...
Ministers eye March 31 deadline for preliminary accord * "Endgame of talks has begun" - Germany's Steinmeier * Iran denies wanting to build nuclear weapons (Adds comments by Iranian foreign minister) By Louis Charbonneau, Parisa Hafezi and John Irish LAUSANNE, Switzerland, March 28 (Reuters) - ...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, center, speaks to the press after meeting with the German and French foreign ministers in separate meetings at the Beau Rivage Palace Hotel in Lausanne, Switzerland, March 28, 2015./ The French and German ministers joined the talks in Switzerland on ...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, right, talk before the start of a meeting at the Beau Rivage Palace Hotel, in Lausanne, Switzerland, on March 28, 2015./ The United States and Iran entered a critical phase of negotiations over Iran's disputed ...
Two officials involved in the nuclear negotiations with Iran say the talks have a chance of succeeding by Tuesday, the target date for a preliminary agreement. Iran has indicated a greater willingness to accept constraints to its uranium enrichment program./ may accept new constraints to its ...
Iran and major powers are close to agreeing a two-or three-page accord with specific numbers as the basis of a resolution of a 12-year standoff over Tehran's nuclear ambitions, officials have told As the French and German Foreign Ministers arrived in Switzerland on Saturday to join talks between ...
including children - from across the Gaza Strip have been forced to flee their homes as Israel's offensive continues/ The UN has added the Israeli military to a list of offenders failing to protect children last year, Israel's ambassador to the UN says. Gilad Erdan, who said he had been notified ...
The Houthis control Yemen's capital, Sana'a, and the country's north-west/ The UN has called for the immediate release of 11 of its personnel who have been detained by the Houthi movement in Yemen. The employees were taken in various parts of the conflict-torn country, in what appears to be a ...
It appears the shark liked neither its prey's texture nor taste. A team of scientists reported getting a surprise after they witnessed regurgitate a spikey land mammal from down under that resembles a hedgehog. In what may be a first-ever world-sighting, James Cook University (JC) announced ...
NEW YORK (AP) — They are called zombies, companies so laden with debt that they are just stumbling by on the brink of survival, barely able to pay even the interest on their loans and often just a bad business hit away from dying off for good. An Associated Press analysis found their numbers ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address US lawmakers in Washington DC on 24 July, congressional leaders announced on Thursday. He will speak to both chambers of Congress - the Senate and the House of Representatives - as the Israel-Gaza war continues. Republicans and Democrats ...
The US has told Israel it must be fully "transparent" over an air strike that reportedly killed at least 35 people at a central Gaza school packed with displaced people on Thursday morning. Local journalists told the BBC that a warplane fired two missiles at classrooms on the top floor of the ...
The average rate on a 30-year loan declined to 6.99% this week, according to Freddie Mac./ The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage fell to 6.99% from 7.03% a week prior, Rate drops, even marginal ones, are generally welcomed by homebuyers sensitive to rates, yet buying activity has stayed ...
Israeli missiles hit classrooms on upper floors of the building in the overnight strike/ In a classroom-turned-bedroom at a UN school in Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, Palestinian children clamber through rubble and blood-stained mattresses. Just hours earlier, at least 35 people were ...
Lamees Altalebi, Ahmed Nour, Abdirahim Saeed, Paul Cusiac/ More than a million Palestinians - almost half of the total population of Gaza - have been displaced from the south of the territory over the past month, sharply worsening the already dire humanitarian situation, according to the UN. The ...
West of Maryland, was arrested in the 7200 block of Fairchild Drive in Groveton. Police say he was served a warrant for violation of conditions of release and charged with resisting arrest./ The former point guard played for Eleanor Roosevelt High School in , Maryland before starring at St. ...