Talks to resolve the North Korea nuclear issue are expected to resume later this month as the process of dismantling the country's nuclear facilities moves a step further. The United Nations nuclear watchdog has approved sending experts to North Korea to monitor the shutdown.

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran has slowed the expansion of its nuclear enrichment capabilities.

A Russian nuclear expert said Monday that, with as many centrifuges as the head of the international nuclear watchdog says Iran has, it would take Iran five to 10 years to create a bomb.

Russia's upper house of parliament ratified Friday an agreement regulating the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project (ITER), being built in France with Russia's participation, aimed at eventually generating power by nuclear fusion.

North Korea says it will start implementing a nuclear disarmament deal, now that a months-long dispute over funds frozen at a Macau bank has been resolved.

European Union foreign-policy chief and Iran's top nuclear negotiator have described their latest talks as constructive and agreed to meet again in three weeks to further discuss Iran's contentious nuclear program.

North Korea is prepared to resume six-party talks on its nuclear program in early July, a top South Korean negotiator at the talks said Friday.

The head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani, is expected to meet today with Muhammad el-Baradei, chief of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency.

On June 20th Iran refused to rule out using oil supplies as a weapon in the standoff with the United States over its nuclear programme, saying Washington never had excluded attacking the Islamic country.

Ukraine intends to join an international uranium enrichment center being established by Russia and Kazakhstan in the near future, Ukraine's Fuel and Energy Ministry said Tuesday.

The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill to establish an international nuclear fuel bank in a non-nuclear country in view of Iran's and North Korea's continuing atomic research.

South Korea's foreign minister said Tuesday North Korea's $25 million unfrozen from a Macao bank had been transferred home after a lengthy delay, clearing the way for Pyongyang to close a nuclear reactor.