Over alleged weapons program.

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U.N. Nuclear Team Lands in Iran

Every country involved in the dispute over Iran’s possibly acquiring nuclear weapons is calculating how the American presidential election plays to their agendas.

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News Analysis: Confronting Iran in a Year of Elections

Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi had an undeclared stockpile of chemical weapons, the body that oversees a global ban on such weapons says.

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Libya had chemical weapon cache

Police investigating the deaths of three women and the man who shot them at a house in County Durham are expected to focus on the gunman’s six weapons licences.

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Focus on weapons at deaths house

Some fear that American weapons will strengthen Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s apparent efforts to consolidate his power and establish Shiite dominance.

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U.S. Military Sales to Iraq Raise Concerns

Citizens are reluctant to give up the guns and other weapons they seized as they wrested control of the country from Qaddafi loyalists.

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Misurata Journal: Libya’s Weapons Are an Uprising’s Deadly Legacy

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Iran May Have Given Libya Artillery Shells

Perched on a peak in the heart of Libya’s Nafusa Mountains, the ancient town of Kabaw was bathed in floodlight, rocked by music blaring from gigantic speakers and overwhelmed by thousands of people dancing in its steep streets. As the party ebbed and flowed up the steps of a castle, around a mosque with a steeple and down the sides of the mountain, the revelers waved the red, black and green flag of Libya’s revolutionaries. But they also flaunted another flag, with green, blue and yellow stripes and a curious red symbol. Read full article > >

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US Republican presidential hopefuls debate foreign policy, agreeing on blocking Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions, but differing on methods.

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Republicans debate foreign policy

SPARTANBURG, S.C. — With the International Atomic Energy Agency warning in a new report that Iran may be proceeding with developing a nuclear weapon, the leading Republican candidates for president accused President Obama of not being forceful enough to prevent that from happening. At the first GOP debate that focused on foreign policy, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and former House speaker Newt Gingrich indicated that if either of them were commander in chief, they would be willing to use military force against Iran, if tightened economic sanctions and support for the Iranian opposition did not work to deter nuclear weapons development in the country. Read full article > >

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GOP candidates hammer Obama on his Iran policy during South Carolina debate

At Revolutionary Guards weapons depot.

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Explosion in Iran Kills 17

TRIPOLI, Libya — A clash on the Libyan border left 14 people dead this week after a convoy loaded with heavy weaponry tried to cross from Libya into neighboring Niger, Reuters news agency reported Wednesday, citing security officials who said the convoy was made up of loyalists of Moammar Gaddafi. A statement by Niger’s government said that one Nigerien soldier was killed and that 36 assault rifles, 11 machine guns, three rockets and ammunition were seized when troops intercepted the convoy Sunday, according to Reuters. Read full article > >

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Libyan weapons smugglers killed in border clash

The International Atomic Energy Agency is about to be sucked into the political whirlpool about how the world should respond to murky weapons intelligence.

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News Analysis: U.S. Hangs Back as Inspectors Prepare Report on Iran’s Nuclear Program

Intelligence provided to U.N. nuclear officials shows that Iran’s government has mastered the critical steps needed to build a nuclear weapon, receiving assistance from foreign scientists to overcome key technical hurdles, according to Western diplomats and nuclear experts briefed on the findings. Documents and other records provide new details on the role played by a former Soviet weapons scientist who allegedly tutored Iranians over several years on building high-precision detonators of the kind used to trigger a nuclear chain reaction, the officials and experts said. Crucial technology linked to experts in Pakistan and North Korea also helped propel Iran to the threshold of nuclear capability, they added. Read full article > >

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IAEA says foreign expertise has brought Iran to threshold of nuclear capability

Diplomats say the UN’s atomic watchdog is due to reveal what it says is evidence Iran has been conducting research into nuclear weapons.

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UN ‘finds Iran nuclear arms bid’