MOSCOW (Reuters) - A long-stalled civilian nuclear cooperation agreement between Russia and the United States entered into force on Tuesday in a milestone for the reset in relations between the former Cold War foes. The so-called 123 Agreement came into force with an exchange of diplomatic notes ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - No deal in hand to supply civil nuclear technology to Pakistan on the pattern of India, said High Commissioner of Canada Randolph Mank. The energy crunch being faced by Pakistan was well known and the matter has been taken up at the forum of Friends of Democratic Pakistan (FoDP), ...

NEW YORK - An American expert has proposed that the US consider a conditions-based civilian nuclear deal with Pakistan as a way of bringing international recognition to the Pakistani nuclear weapons programme and bolstering cooperation in anti-terrorism and non-proliferation goals. "Nuclear ...

TEHRAN (Reuters/AFP) - Russia should keep its word on selling a missile defence system to Iran, an influential parliamentarian was quoted by Iranian media as saying Sunday. Moscow, which is under Western pressure to distance itself from Tehran, has not followed through on proposals to supply ...

A key aide to President Barack Obama has dismissed reports that the new US Administration has kept the nuclear deal with India on the back-burner. Mr Bruce Riedel, a former CIA official who co-chaired an inter-agency committee which formulated Mr Obama's Afghanistan-Pak policy, also did not see ...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said that the Indo-US nuclear deal is in the interest of the India, the US and the world at large. Singh made these comments at a reception hosted for him by the Indian community in Washington late Saturday. The news of the US House of Representatives passing the ...

Rejecting that it had covered up documents on stoppage of fuel supplies if India conducts a nuclear test, the US has said New Delhi's obligations are very clear as it had agreed to a moratorium on nuclear testing. "Certainly, India's obligations under the 123 agreement are very clear and ...

NEW DELHI (Agencies) - Japan's Foreign Minister on Tuesday said Tokyo needed assurance a crucial nuclear accord between India and the United States will strengthen disarmament efforts after key talks here on the issue. Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura and his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee ...

NEW YORK: - Portraying the U.S.-India nuclear deal as "far-too-generous", an influential American newspaper on Saturday cautioned President George W. Bush against attempts at rushing through the accord so that he could claim it as a foreign policy success before leaving his office. ...

WASHINGTON - With uncertainty persisting on the U.S.-India nuclear agreement, the State Department has asked lawmakers to keep even unclassified information "secret" out of fear that public disclosure could "torpedo" the deal. Lynne Weil, a spokesperson for the House Foreign ...