Mohamed ElBaradei, Egypt’s former vice-president, will be sued for a "betrayal of trust" over his decision to quit the army-backed government.
Egypt’s transition has stumbled after the choice of Mohamed ElBaradei as interim prime minister was thrown into doubt by Islamist objections.
Egypt’s opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei has warned of chaos in Egypt if parliamentary polls go ahead in April.
Egypt’s worst violence since President Mohamed Morsi was elected has forced the army to deploy tanks in Cairo, as hundreds were injured in protests.
Egyptian security forces have stormed the offices of pro-democracy groups that they say are fomenting protests with the help of foreign funding.
Six Egyptian presidential candidates have called on the ruling military to hand over power to an elected president by the end of April.
Egyptian media on Monday accused "anti-revolutionaries" of trying to trigger sectarian conflict.
HIV prevention, the mainstay of the response to the HIV epidemic, is in danger of falling off the global agenda.
The timetable of President Hosni Mubarak’s departure lies with the Egyptian people but his early exit could raise electoral complications.
Western leaders fear Muslim Brotherhood, but on the streets its influence may be limited.
International community urged to shun Egypt’s president.
Thousands of Egyptians rallied in central Cairo on Tuesday in the biggest demonstration so far in an uprising against President Hosni Mubarak.
Activists geared up for the biggest protests yet on Friday to end Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s three-decade rule.
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/ 31 October 2009
Iran has told the UN it wants fresh fuel for a reactor in Tehran before it agrees to ship most of its enriched uranium stocks to Russia and France.
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/ 30 September 2009
Iran broke a transparency law of the UN nuclear watchdog by failing to disclose much earlier a nuclear plant, Mohamed ElBaradei said.
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/ 25 September 2009
Iran has told the UN nuclear watchdog that it has a second uranium enrichment plant under construction, diplomats said on Friday.
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/ 19 September 2009
The UN nuclear inspection agency believes that Iran has ”sufficient information” to make a nuclear weapon and had ”probably tested” a key component.
The UN’s nuclear watchdog reported on Saturday that Iran was continuing its uranium enrichment programme in defiance of the UN security council.
Western powers are urging the UN nuclear watchdog to reveal all the information it has that suggests Tehran is pursuing atomic weapons, diplomats said
The nuclear watchdog chief on Thursday angrily rejected Israeli accusations of bias in a probe by his agency into allegations of a Syrian atomic site.
Governors of the UN nuclear watchdog failed to agree on a successor to Mohamed ElBaradei on Friday, opening the field to new candidates.
The UN atomic watchdog was to hold a crunch ballot on Friday to elect its new chief, a day after the candidates failed to win a clear lead.
The United States on Monday promised strong diplomacy with Iran, Syria and North Korea to help the United Nations nuclear watchdog.
The United Nations atomic watchdog will take its first look at Iran’s nuclear programme since the change of president in the United States.
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/ 21 September 2008
SA and Japan have both set their sights on the top job at the International Atomic Energy Agency, when the current chief Mohamed ElBaradei steps down.
Israel carried out a large-scale military exercise earlier this month as a warning to Iran, Pentagon sources confirmed on Friday.
A United Nations nuclear watchdog team will visit Syria on June 22 to 24 to pursue an investigation into United States intelligence alleging that Damascus secretly built an atomic reactor, the agency’s chief said on Monday. The alleged reactor site was destroyed in an Israeli air raid last September and Washington handed over intelligence to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
The United Nations nuclear watchdog chief said on Friday United States allegations that Syria secretly built a nuclear reactor with North Korean help would be investigated. ”The agency will treat this information with the seriousness it deserves and will investigate the veracity of the information,” said Mohamed ElBaradei, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
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/ 22 January 2008
World powers said they would have to overcome key differences on Tuesday to agree on a new sanctions resolution against Iran that aims to ratchet up pressure on Tehran to curb sensitive nuclear work. The West has been engaged in a diplomatic showdown with Iran over its nuclear programme since 2002.
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/ 14 January 2008
United States President George Bush on Sunday ratcheted up rhetoric over Iran, lambasting it as ”the world’s leading sponsor of state terror”, and urging America’s closest Arab allies to confront it ”before it is too late”. ”Iran’s actions threaten the security of nations everywhere,” he declared in Abu Dhabi.
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/ 11 January 2008
United States President George Bush arrived in Kuwait on Friday to rally the support of Arab allies against what he calls the Iranian "threat" after making a bold prediction for Middle East peace. Bush flew in aboard <i>Air Force One</i> after his first presidential trip to the Holy Land, where he said he believed a peace treaty would be signed within a year.
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/ 11 January 2008
Doubts intensified on Thursday night over the nature of an alleged aggressive confrontation by Iranian patrol boats and American warships in the Persian Gulf on Sunday, after Pentagon officials admitted that they could not confirm that a threat to blow up the US ships had been made directly by the Iranian crews involved in the incident.