Politics

TEHRAN, Iran—Iran’s nuclear chief said Saturday the country’s first nuclear power plant has been loaded up with fuel required for it to go on line, an incremental step bringing Iran closer to nuclear-generated electricity. Vice […] […]

YANGON, Myanmar—Released Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi met Saturday with a senior U.N. official and said she hopes the talks will be the first of many with the world body to solve the […] […]

NEW DELHI—India successfully tested an upgraded version of its most powerful nuclear-capable missile on Thursday during an army training exercise, a Defense Ministry official said. Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan regularly test missiles, and normally […] […]

QARAWAT BANI HASSAN, West Bank—The Israeli army on Wednesday destroyed a farm road built as part of a Palestinian campaign to assist residents, an apparent attempt to limit Palestinian efforts to extend their reach in […] […]

SARAH Palin has accused Barack Obama of being embarrassed by the US and of regarding white Americans as racist. The claims by the ex-Republican vice-presidential candidate come from a book to be released today that […] […]

VIENNA—Iran’s nuclear program has suffered a recent setback, with major technical problems forcing the temporary shutdown of thousands of centrifuges enriching uranium, diplomats told The Associated Press on Monday. The diplomats said they had no […] […]

KABUL, Afghanistan—The responsibility for finding peace after more than nine years of war rests with the Afghan people and not with the foreigners, the Afghan president said Tuesday. Hamid Karzai maintained his opposition to night […] […]

BURMA’S pro-democracy icon, Aung San Suu Kyi, will be allowed to see her son for the first time in 10 years after the country’s ruling junta granted him a visa. Kim Aris, 33, lives in […] […]

THE wife of the jailed Chinese dissident who won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been stripped of all contact with the outside world. Authorities in Beijing have confined Liu Xia to the high-rise flat […] […]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—In one of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s first major policy speeches back in 2005, he laid out some bedrock principles: Iran will never halt uranium enrichment and the West needs to deal […] […]