The remaining workers desperately seeking to stop a meltdown at a stricken Japanese nuclear plant have been pulled from the site Wednesday because of the radiation risk

• March 16, 2011

Switzerland freezes plans to build new nuclear plants, Germany raises questions about its nuclear future, and opposition to atomic reactor construction mounts from Turkey to South Africa.

• March 15, 2011

After it was hit by a catastrophic tsunami in 2004, the Indian government has put in place an effective system to issue tsunami alerts.

• March 14, 2011

The secretary general of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Nikolai Bordyuzha, will visit Tajikistan on March 14-18, the Central Asian country's Foreign Ministry said.

• March 14, 2011

The United States is using the recent uprisings in the Middle East to make the case to authoritarian Central Asian states to undertake democratic reform.

• March 11, 2011

The United States and the EU have once again repeated the unfounded claims questioning the peaceful nature of our nuclear activities without presenting any authenticated evidence, Iran's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) Ali Asghar Soltanieh told to reporters in the Austrian capital

• March 10, 2011

Russia will on Wednesday warn US Vice President Joe Biden that it will beef up its own missile defences against the West if it is not made a full partner in a US-backed missile defence shield for Europe soon.

• March 9, 2011

George Perkovich, director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, confessed to his audience, "Those who really know what's going on in Pakistan's nuclear complex aren't talking about it, and those who are talking, including myself, don't really know what's going on in Pakistan's nuclear complex."

• March 8, 2011