China has urged Iran to heed rising international concerns about its nuclear ambitions. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao Thursday, said Beijing hopes all relevant parties can peacefully settle the issue through "dialogue and consultation."

A South Korean official says North Korea is expected to give the first complete account of its nuclear programs in one or two weeks as part of an international disarmament agreement.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced Wednesday that his country had achieved a landmark, with 3,000 centrifuges fully working in its controversial uranium enrichment program.

A senior Israeli intelligence official says that if Iran’s nuclear ambitions aren't curbed it will have nuclear arms in two years.

The U.N. Security Council will implement a third set of sanctions if Iran fails to answer key questions on its nuclear program.

Representatives from six world powers meeting in London agreed Friday to push ahead with a third round of sanctions against Iran, unless it quickly shows greater transparency with regard to its nuclear research program.

Iranian officials and experts from the UN nuclear watchdog have completed a round of talks on Tehran's controversial nuclear program, Iran's IRNA news agency said.

A former U.S. secretary of state is urging his government to open talks with Iran over its nuclear programs. Henry Kissinger, who made the comments in a New Delhi, is regarded as a hardliner when it comes to U.S. security interests.

President Hosni Mubarak says Egypt is to build several nuclear power stations, relaunching a nuclear program frozen more than 20 years ago.

European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said a meeting in Rome with Iran's new top negotiator on Tehran's nuclear program was "constructive". A new round of talks is expected to be held by the end of November.

The United States' east Asian negotiator says he is confident that North Korea's nuclear program will be dismantled by the beginning of next year.

The EU's foreign policy chief will meet with Iran's top nuclear negotiator next week, two months after Iran reached an agreement with the UN nuclear watchdog, the local IRNA news agency said Tuesday.