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...allies want to take the matter to the Security Council to ratchet up diplomatic pressure, and eventually seek sanctions, designed to force Iran to back down from what they believe is a nuclear weapons plan hidden within a civilian energy program. Efforts by France, Germany and Britain to achieve a negotiated solution to the crisis have stalled on Iranian intransigence. Now, U.S. and EU officials say that this week, for the first time, they've won the all-important backing of veto-wielding Security Council members Russia and China for a toughly worded IAEA resolution. "It is important that...
...State of the Union address promised to "rally the world" against the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran. The next step in that effort came Thursday, when the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) met in Vienna to discuss Iran. On the table was a resolution introduced by Britain, France and Germany, calling on the IAEA to refer Iran to the UN Security Council for what it calls Iran's "many failures and breaches of its obligations" under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The resolution notes that Iran's history of concealment of certain nuclear activities has produced an "absence...
...DIED. DR. ZAKI BADAWI, 84, founder and principal of Britain's Muslim College and the country's most respected Islamic scholar; in London. Egyptian-born Badawi pioneered inter-faith dialogue in the U.K. and promoted a British form of Islam compatible with Western life. A critic of terrorism and defender of women's rights, Badawi would be remembered, in the words of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, as "a wonderful mix of spirituality and practicality...
...China's estimated economic growth last year 4 Current rank of China among the world's largest economies, surpassing France and Britain, but still trailing the U.S., Japan and Germany...
...better reflect the plethora of activity taking place that wasn't counted in previous Soviet-central-planning-inspired statistics. The upshot was a 16.8% increase in gross domestic product that pushed China's economy past France's into fifth place worldwide - just behind the U.S., Japan, Germany and Britain. Zhu said that the new number is a better reflection of reality, but still doesn't take into account small private companies and service firms, including retailers, with fewer than 60 employees. As a result, "Chinese gdp is still underestimated. There's still 15-20% to go," he said. That...