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Diplomats: Iran expands nuke technology

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 22nd

By GEORGE JAHNAssociated Press VIENNA (AP) - Iran is moving ahead to update a program the West fears could be used to make nuclear weapons, diplomats said Wednesday, despite high-level diplomacy aimed at stopping it from doing so. Three diplomats said Tehran now has installed close to 700 high-tech

Slow pokes: Acupuncture helps hypothermic turtles

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 21st

By RODRIQUE NGOWIAssociated Press QUINCY, Mass. (AP) - Two endangered sea turtles that are shells of their former selves after getting stranded on Cape Cod during a cold spell are getting some help easing back into the wild - from an acupuncturist. Dexter and Fletcher Moon, juvenile Kemp's

Slow pokes: Acupuncture helps hypothermic turtles

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 21st

Jury finds 3 guilty of weapons plant break-in

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 8th

By ERIK SCHELZIGAssociated Press KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - An 83-year-old nun and two fellow protesters were convicted Wednesday of interfering with national security when they broke into a nuclear weapons facility in Tennessee and defaced a uranium processing plant. It took a jury about 2 ½ hours to

Nuclear protester trial gets underway this week

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 6th

By ERIK SCHELZIGAssociated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - An octogenarian nun and two codefendants used bolt cutters to cut through fences and spent about two hours inside a Tennessee national security plant that has had a hand in making, maintaining or dismantling parts of every nuclear weapon in

Trinidad PM says Jack Warner quits Cabinet post

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 22nd

By TONY FRASERAssociated Press PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) - Ex-world soccer powerbroker Jack Warner resigned as national security minister of Trinidad & Tobago some 48 hours after a regional soccer group's ethics panel accused him and another top former official of enriching themselves

APNewsBreak: Diplomats: Iran ups nuke technology

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 17th

By GEORGE JAHNAssociated Press VIENNA (AP) - Technicians upgrading Iran's main uranium enrichment facility have tripled their installations of high-tech machines that could be used in a nuclear weapons program to more than 600 in the last three months, diplomats said Wednesday. They say the

Defiant Iran inaugurates 2 nuclear-linked projects

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 9th

By ALI AKBAR DAREINIAssociated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran announced two key nuclear-related projects on Tuesday that expand the country's ability to extract and process uranium, which can be enriched for reactor fuel but also potentially for atomic weapons. The development came just days

Iran, 6 powers meet for nuclear talks

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 4th

By GEORGE JAHNAssociated Press ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) - Iran and world powers trying to curb Iran's nuclear progress are coming to the negotiating table this week with the window shrinking on diplomacy. Tehran is moving closer to the ability to make atomic arms, and that risks the threat of

US restraint in Syria could aid Iran nuclear talks

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 2nd

By LARA JAKESAP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's reluctance to give military aid to Syrian rebels may be explained, in part, in three words: Iranian nuclear weapons. For the first time in years, the United States has seen a glimmer of hope in persuading Iran