Yanukovich and Obama discuss energy security cooperation
The presidents of the USA and Ukraine, Barack Obama and Viktor Yanukovich, discussed on Monday issues of energy security and cooperation in that sphere.
Nuclear stock security tightened
World leaders agree to secure all vulnerable nuclear material within four years, President Obama says.
Russia's Medvedev calls world nuclear summit very successful
Initiative to hold a global nuclear security summit in Washington "was absolutely timely" and the summit itself was "crowned with a complete success," Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday in a speech at the Brookings Institute on the results of the summit that had brought together the leaders of 47 countries, the UN, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the European Union.
Ukraine agrees to abandon nuclear weapons in first victory for Obama initiative
Ukraine has agreed to get rid of its stockpile of weapons-grade uranium in a move that gave President Obama the first significant achievement at the Nuclear Security Summit of 47 nations that opened yesterday in Washington.
Iran urges UN inquiry into wars
Iran asks the UN to investigate Western actions in Afghanistan and Iraq amid growing nuclear tensions.
Stark nuclear warning for summit
World leaders at a security summit in the US hear dire warnings about nuclear material falling into the wrong hands.
The Caucasus: a primer on the area already being blamed for the Moscow bombings
Many news stories have pointed out a possible connection to the mostly Islamic North Caucasus, a region Reuters describes as "plagued by insurgency, whose leaders have threatened to attack cities and energy pipelines elsewhere in Russia."
Chinese president leaves for nuclear summit in Washington
Chinese President Hu Jintao left here Monday morning for the upcoming Nuclear Security Summit on April 12-13 in Washington at the invitation of the U.S. President Barack Obama. Hu will deliver a speech stressing the
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