High-level representatives from the US and Iran are set to address a nuclear non-proliferation conference amid a deepening row over Tehran’s uranium enrichment programme.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, is the only head of state taking part in the UN nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference, which will host delegations from 189 countries.
He will speak at [...]
Barack Obama, the US president, has vowed that “no effort” will be spared in attempts to tackle a massive oil slick threatening the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
Shortly after arriving in the US state of Lousiana, one of four that could be affected by the spill, Obama defended his government’s response to the potential [...]
A car bomb has been found in New York City’s Time Square, prompting US police to evacuate thousands of people from the area.
Police said the explosive device, discovered in a four-wheel-drive vehicle on Saturday evening, consisted of propane tanks, fireworks, petrol containers, wires and two clocks.
Michael Bloomberg, the city’s mayor, said the bomb, which failed [...]
Satellite images taken of a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have shown the slick could be three times larger than previously estimated, analysts say.
The problem has been compounded by poor weather conditions that continue to hamper efforts to clean up the oil and prevent a major environmental disaster.
Images taken of the slick [...]
A US energy company is facing a criminal investigation by the FBI over an explosion at a West Virginia coal mine earlier this month which left 29 miners dead.
According to FBI officials investigators have interviewed almost two dozen current and former employees of the Massey Energy Company, the mine owner, as they look into the [...]
Barack Obama, the US president, has ordered all new domestic offshore oil drilling to be put on hold until the current disaster has been fully investigated.
Obama said on Friday that the government had dispatched teams to the coast “to inspect all deep water rigs and platforms to address safety concerns”, after oil from a massive [...]
The US secretary of state has said that the Mideast peace process will get back on track next week, with indirect Israeli-Palestinian talks.
Hillary Clinton said on Friday the US special Mideast envoy George Mitchell, who will mediate the talks, will travel to the region next week.
Saeb Erekat, Palestinian chief negotiator, hinted that the beginning of [...]
The southern US state of Louisiana is seeking emergency help after reports that an oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico was five times worse than previously thought.
Rear Admiral Mary Landry of the US coast guard said on Wednesday that the leak from an underwater oil well owned by British energy company BP was dumping [...]
The US president has renewed his commitment to a “new beginning” with the Muslim world, vowing no easing in US efforts to promote Middle East peace, curb violence and boost economic development.
Seeking to build on his outreach to Muslims in a speech in Cairo last June, Barack Obama has used the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship [...]
Manuel Noriega, the former military leader of Panama, has been extradited from the US to France where he has been convicted of money laundering.
The former army general and one-time CIA informant, now 76-years-old, was taken from his jail cell and put on board an Air France flight from Miami which was due to arrive in [...]
