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...Iran to desist from its nuclear program. In a wide-ranging interview with TIME on Monday, the secretary of state indicated that Washington is confident of carrying the support of a majority of the 35 members of the board governing the International Atomic Energy Agency for a resolution to refer Iran to the UN Security Council over its failure to disclose numerous aspects of its nuclear program. Still, Rice noted, U.S. and European representatives at the IAEA board meeting that opened Monday in Vienna are holding their fire in the hopes garnering near-unanimous support for the move...
...couple and their family, Yolanda instructed Jan to poke around for clues. But, says Jan, "I felt at ease almost instantly." King and his wife Marie Hancock-King offered a tour of the house and pointed out where the Meehan-Hoo kids could sleep. "Marie asked how she should refer to us," says Jan. "She said, 'You gotta educate me.' I said, 'I call Yolanda my wife, and she calls me her wife...
...Ahmadinejad's words are unlikely to satisfy U.S. and European objections to Iran's nuclear plans. That could set the stage for further confrontation when the watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency meets in Vienna on September 19. The IAEA is expected to discuss U.S. and European plans to refer the case of Iran's alleged nuclear violations to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions, although it is not clear that the U.S. has enough votes to move in that direction immediately...
...making a case for a nuclear energy program, according to President Bush, and he wants China's support in pressuring Iran to surrender its nuclear ambitions. Specifically, he wants President Hu to support his efforts next week to have the UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, refer Iran to the Security Council over failure to disclose aspects of its nuclear program. That's a little like asking the glue factory manager to punish the guy who shoots horses: China imports roughly half of the 6.7 million barrels of oil it uses every day, and Iran...
Sporadic street violence has been a fact of life for so long in Belfast that residents of the city refer cynically to "recreational rioters" - youths thought to spend weekend nights tossing bricks at each other and the police, only to retreat when the icy Irish rain or the working week intervenes. But the traffic jams that hit early Monday afternoon as commuters emptied the city were a sign that people knew something more serious was going on. That night saw the third successive outbreak of serious rioting in Protestant neighborhoods, violence that has caused another dip in Northern Ireland...