Israel has spied on US negotiations over Iran’s nuclear programme and fed the obtained intelligence to Republican Congress members in order to undermine support for the talks, the Wall Street Journal reported. The Israeli effort was part of a campaign to help build a case against the emerging terms of[…]
President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday talks with Israel are still on the table, despite moves at the UN and numerous failed rounds of negotiations. Abbas was addressing the Palestinian leadership at the opening of a two-day conference in the West Bank to discuss the future of the Palestinian Authority, whose[…]
North Korea has offered holding talks with the United States in a renewed bid to sway Washington after it rejected Pyongyang’s proposal to suspend nuclear tests under the condition that annual US military drills with South Korea were put off. North Korea’s deputy UN Ambassador An Myong Hun told a[…]
Nuclear negotiators have failed to meet a Monday deadline for a deal that would ease international concerns about Iran’s atomic programme and are poised to extend the negotiations for a comprehensive agreement until July 2015, diplomats said. Iran and six powers – the US, China, Russia, Britain, France plus Germany[…]
Iran and six world powers are trying to reach a nuclear deal in the Austrian capital Vienna, with just four days left to reach a deal. Experts say the talks have reached a crucial point as Iran and the P5+1 – the US, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany –[…]
A final round of talks on Iran’s nuclear programme before a looming deadline hung in the balance Thursday as Britain expressed pessimism a deal could be done in time and foreign ministers stayed away. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond indicated that the most to be hoped for was enough progress[…]
Libya’s internationally recognised Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thani said Wednesday he was ready to talk to rivals in the conflict-hit country if “all sides” made concessions. Thani’s government moved to the eastern city of Tobruk in August for security reasons after mostly militia seized the capital Tripoli and a rival administration[…]
Protesters in Hong Kong have said they plan to hold a spot referendum on whether to stay on the streets or accept a government offer for more talks and clear their protest camps. The three main groups behind the demonstrations said on Thursday that they would register public opinion on[…]
Hong Kong student representatives and government officials have held much-awaited talks to end street protests now in their fourth week, but achieved little progress to defuse the crisis in China’s semi-autonomous city. In opening remarks, student leader Alex Chow said that an August decision by China’s legislature ruling out direct[…]
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday called for a resumption of the Israel-Palestinian peace process, saying the talks were vital in the fight against extremism. “It is imperative that we find a way to get back to the negotiations,” Kerry said at a State Department ceremony marking the[…]
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