Earthquake shakes Te Anau
Fiordland was shaken by an earthquake this afternoon, the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences (GNS) said.An earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale hit 40km north-west of Te Anau at a depth of 80km at 1.45pm.The…
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Earthquake felt in Te Anau
Fiordland was shaken by an earthquake this afternoon, the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences (GNS) said.
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Earthquake felt in Te Anau
Ahmadinejad Heckled by Crowd in Iran
Ahmadinejad’s speech to crowd in southern Iran marred by shouts of discontent.
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Ahmadinejad Heckled by Crowd in Iran
Iran sanctions snarl global nuclear talks
The brisk rejection of a last minute compromise on Iran proposed by Brazil and Turkey has snarled broader UN talks on disarmament and non-proliferation The rapid flurry of diplomatic activity in the past few days over Iran has collided with the month-long talks in New York on mending the threadbare Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the results have not been pretty. Some observers inside …
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ANALYSIS – Iran hardliners in control, but still nervous
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Iran’s hardline rulers are keeping a tight grip on internal opposition and milking the nuclear standoff with the West to rally nationalist support, but hardly exude confidence that they enjoy wide popular backing.
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Russia, China push Iran to change stance (People’s Daily)
Russia and China have quietly made clear to Tehran they want Iran’s government to change its approach to the nuclear issue and accept a UN atomic fuel offer. Russia’s and China’s coordinated diplomatic approaches took place in Tehran around the beginning of March, according to several UN Security Council diplomats, reported the Reuters.
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Russia, China push Iran to change nuclear stance (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Russia and China have quietly made clear to the Iranian government they want Tehran to change its approach to the nuclear issue and accept a U.N. atomic fuel offer, Western diplomats said on Tuesday.
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5.1 magnitude earthquake hits NZ’s South Island (People’s Daily)
An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale hit New Zealand’s lower South Island on Friday evening, causing no casualties or damages.
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Iran Nuclear Standoff
Albert Einstein once remarked, “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones”. Ever since the dropping of the atom bomb (which abruptly ended World War II) on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, one can conclude that the ‘arms race’ will lead to the eventual destruction of humanity.
With the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, one hoped that the imminent threat to humanity’s survival could be stemmed by preventing the possession of nuclear warheads. While India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel have publicly declared nuclear capability, Iran is a party to the NPT but has been in the news recently because of failing to comply with the NPT Safeguards Agreement, based on a report filed by the International Atomic Energy Agency on November 16, 2007, which expressed their doubts about Iran’s nuclear program.
With the discovery of a second secret plutonium plant that manufactures nuclear fuel, the G20 summit witnessed a tough stand by the United States urging Iran to come clean with its nuclear program, which Iran claims, is solely for peaceful purposes.
In this ongoing battle since 2003, the latest developments include Iran rejecting the December 31 2009 deadline to accept an UN-drafted proposal to swap its low-enriched uranium for fuel exported from the West, thus indicating how seriously the nuclear program is being taken.
To make matters worse, with domestic turmoil intensifying in the country, and talks of imposing economic sanctions by the UN still underway, it seems that Iran has their work cut out for them both internationally and from within their own ranks.
One only hopes that Iran will clear up its act, and make the necessary compromises that will end heightened tensions in the Middle East.