Iran's foreign minister says there is a new atmosphere in talks centered on his country's controversial nuclear program. In remarks to reporters at the United Nations, Manouchehr Mottaki said there have been "positive and constructive" developments in talks with the six major powers, raising hopes a diplomatic solution could be on the horizon.

The presidents of Russia and the United States issued a joint address on Tuesday to participants of the fourth meeting of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism, underway in Madrid.

Today, I’d like to speak to you about Iran. I want to address two questions many of you are asking. Is war with Iran inevitable? And can we avoid the other stark alternative – an Iran armed with nuclear weapons?

The chief U.S. envoy to the North Korea nuclear talks says he hopes the isolated Communist regime will be completely nuclear free by the end of 2008.

A team of experts in North Korea to oversee the disabling of its atomic facilities said they were satisfied with progress as the reclusive country prepares to host the US envoy to nuclear talks.

Six countries mediating in a longstanding nuclear dispute with Iran will gather in Paris on Saturday to discuss new tougher sanctions against the country, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday.

Experts from Russia, China, Japan and South Korea will visit North Korea on November 27-29 to observe the progress on disabling the country's nuclear program, a Russian Foreign Ministry source said on Friday.

Iran's chief nuclear negotiator says he will hold talks with the European Union foreign policy chief on November 30 over the country's atomic work, which the West fears is a cover to build an atomic bomb.

After Iran answers all questions about its past atomic programs it expects the U.N. Security Council to close the file on its nuclear activities.

Participants in six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear program may soon announce the next round of negotiations, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman told a press conference on Thursday.

India to start talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency which demands the country to give an overview of much of New Delhi's civilian nuclear program.

Talks on sanctions over Iran's nuclear program that were planned for next week have been postponed, officials were trying to set a new date, Britain's Foreign Office said Friday.