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 ...
Parents of freed Russian-Israeli hostage tell BBC his return was a "miracle"/ "They were forced to speak in a whisper," says Michael Kozlov, whose son was one of four hostages dramatically rescued by Israeli special forces from Hamas captivity in central Gaza on Saturday. For the parents of ...
University of Pennsylvania athlete Lia Thomas prepares for the 500 meter freestyle event at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships, March 17, 2022, at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas failed in her challenge against rules that stop her competing in elite women’s races ...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke after discussing Hamas's response with Qatar's prime minister in Doha/ US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Hamas has proposed "numerous changes" to a US-backed plan for a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal, which currently hangs in the ...
Pictures from the scene show the fire-damaged building/ At least 35 people have been killed in a fire at a residential building in the Kuwaiti city of Mangaf, the interior ministry says. Video shared on social media showed flames engulfing the lower part of the building and thick black smoke ...
run authorities in Gaza say dozens of homes were damaged during the operation/ The UN human rights office says it is “profoundly shocked” at the impact on civilians of the Israeli operation in central Gaza that rescued four hostages held by Hamas. Palestinian health officials said hundreds of ...
Roquel Payton, from left, Alexander Morris, and Ronnie McNeir of the Four Tops perform at the All In Music & Arts Festival in Indianapolis on Sept. 3, 2022. Morris filed a lawsuit Monday against Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital in Warren, Mich. He is claiming racial discrimination and other ...
After deliberating for approximately three hours spread over two days, jurors in Wilmington, Delaware, reached a guilty verdict against The charges stemmed from his 2018 purchase of a firearm, wherein he was accused of falsely denying drug use on his application and unlawfully possessing the ...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A big, round, 4,000-year-old stone building discovered on a Cretan hilltop is puzzling archaeologists and threatening to disrupt a major airport project on the Greek tourist island. Greece's Culture Ministry said Tuesday that the structure is a “unique and extremely ...
The US is pushing for Israel and Hamas to reach a ceasefire deal/ US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has "reaffirmed his commitment" to a Gaza ceasefire plan, and that if it does not progress Hamas will be to blame. Mr Blinken reiterated his ...
The boat capsized off waters near Yemen's port city of Aden (file photo from 2019)/ At least 49 people from the Horn of Africa have died after their boat capsized off the coast of Yemen, according to the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM). Among the dead were six children and 31 ...