VIENNA: Iran and a group of six nations led by the United States have agreed to a historic accord to significantly limit Tehran’s nuclear ability for more than a decade in return for lifting international oil and financial sanctions against Iran, a senior Western diplomat involved in the negotiations saidRead More

TEHRAN: President Hassan Rouhani has pledged that Iran “will never seek a nuclear weapon, with or without the implementation” of the deal agreed with world powers in Vienna. Rouhani said live on state television that such weapons were “against our religion” and contradicted a decree from supreme leader Ayatollah AliRead More

BRUSSELS: Some in the German government would have preferred a temporary Greek exit from the euro zone, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said today, without saying if he was among that number. “There are many people, including in the federal government, who are quite convinced that in the interests ofRead More

PARIS: French President Francois Hollande today rejected claims that Greece had been humiliated by a tough new bailout deal, adding that Paris would make proposals to reinforce Europe’s economic governance. ‘I cannot accept that people be humiliated… Humiliation would have been to drive it (Greece) out of the eurozone,’ heRead More

UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed the ‘historic’ agreement to curb Iran’s nuclear program, saying it could help bring peace to the Middle East. Ban praised the ‘determination and the commitment’ of the negotiators who hammered out the deal, as well as the ‘courage of the leaders’Read More

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama heralded a nuclear deal with Iran today as an opportunity worth seizing and warned Congress he would veto any legislation that prevented its successful implementation. Obama, speaking at the White House, said every pathway for Iran to get a nuclear weapon was cut off underRead More

VIENNA: The international arms embargo against Iran will remain for five years under the deal on Tehran’s nuclear programme, but deliveries would be possible with special permission of the UN Security Council, Russia’s foreign minister said today. ‘There was a compromise reached between Iran and Western colleagues which we supported…Read More

WASHINGTON: The first needle-free Ebola vaccine that can be inhaled protects non-human primates against the deadly virus and may advance to human clinical trials soon, scientists say. Aerosolised delivery has never before been tested for an Ebola vaccine or any other viral hemorrhagic fever vaccine. The new vaccine was developedRead More

New Delhi: As opposition attacked it over Amit Shah’s reported comment that it will take 25 years for the promised ‘acche din’ to come, the BJP on Tuesday termed the report as “baseless” and said the party president had stated that it will take these many years to restore IndiaRead More

New Delhi: In a surprise move, hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani has decided against attending the Eid Milan being hosted by the Pakistan High Commission here on July 21 over the Kashmir issue being “ignored” at Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s meeting with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi inRead More