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WORLD / NEWS Tue Sep 11, 2007 @ 9:19am neoform

United Press International -- Faced with U.S. economic sanctions and a weak dollar, Tehran is demanding foreign energy companies do business in yen and euros, despite increasingly desperate need for investment. In a deal announced last week, Japan’s Nippon Oil agreed to buy oil f.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Dec 24, 2006 @ 6:15pm izgood

New York Times -- Iran vowed today to continue to develop its nuclear program and to reconsider its relations with the international nuclear monitoring agency, taking a defiant stance in response to the Security Council’s approval on Saturday of sanctions intended to cur.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Oct 31, 2006 @ 6:10pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Iran's firebrand president warned on Monday that his country would respond with an "appropriate and firm response" to any U.N. sanction over its nuclear program... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Jun 13, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

BBC News -- Japan is to partially lift sanctions against North Korea after it agreed to conduct a new probe into the issue of abducted Japanese nationals. Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura said a ban on charter flights and travel between the two sides would be lift.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Jun 4, 2007 @ 4:48pm neoform

CNN -- Liverpool will not face any sanctions by UEFA following a report into security problems at last month's Champion League Final, sources revealed on Monday. Citing the document, to be submitted to British sports minister Richard Caborn on Tuesday, source.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Apr 10, 2007 @ 3:09pm neoform

Al Jazeera -- Iran's declaration that it intended to accelerate its development of nuclear technology, in defiance of UN sanctions, was met with concern by the US and UK but Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, said it was too early to draw conclusions on Iran'.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Nov 4, 2006 @ 9:33am neoform

Reuters -- Russia is ready to back a U.N. resolution to curb Iran's nuclear programme but sanctions drawn up by European leaders greatly exceed what Moscow agreed with Western powers, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Oct 28, 2006 @ 2:49pm neoform

Chicago Tribune -- In an expected move nonetheless seen as a political signal to Washington, Iran said it stepped up its uranium enrichment program Friday, even as a divided UN Security Council became bogged down over a European draft resolution to impose sanctions on Tehra.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Oct 23, 2006 @ 8:14am neoform

Times Online -- AN underground resistance movement in North Korea, capable of smuggling out videos of executions and staging violent acts of defiance, has emerged as the Kim Jong-il dictatorship faces international sanctions for testing a nuclear bomb... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Oct 18, 2006 @ 12:07am neoform

BBC News -- US treasury officials are investigating whether American basketball players who were paid to play for Iranian teams have violated US sanctions... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Oct 15, 2006 @ 12:18am neoform

BBC News -- Japan and South Korea have welcomed the sanctions imposed by the United Nations Security Council on the North after its claimed nuclear test on Monday... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Oct 14, 2006 @ 8:17pm neoform

CNN -- The U.N. Security Council on Saturday voted unanimously to impose sanctions against North Korea in response to the country's claimed nuclear test... Read More