Tehran,( Riano) – Iran is working on a formula to swap its low enriched uranium for 20%-enriched material, the Iranian foreign minister said Wednesday.

“We are considering a swap mechanism. We are keeping it on the table,” Manouchehr Mottaki said.
He added that he was set for substantive dialogue with international mediators on the resolution of Iran’s [...]

New York – The United Nations refugee agency today reported that a sharp rise in violence in Somalia in January left nearly 260 civilians dead, in addition to uprooting over 80,000 and causing widespread destruction.
According to local sources, intense clashes between Government forces and militia groups fighting in the strife-torn central regions have also left [...]

NEW YORK – The United Nations is scaling up its assistance to victims of Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake, as the acting top envoy to the impoverished Caribbean nation has taken up his duties on the ground and has started the task of coordinating the relief effort.
The 7.0 magnitude tremors which struck Haiti – the Western Hemisphere’s [...]

NEW YORK – The United Nations is sending health care kits and other supplies for 30,000 victims of massive flooding in Kenya, where thousands of others are feared to be at risk if heavy rains persist.

Roads, bridges and other infrastructure including schools and businesses have been damaged in northern, central and western Kenya by the [...]

VANCOUVER – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative party has returned to power, winning 144 seats in the 308-member parliament. Eight Indian-Canadians have won seats. The party will not have a true majority as it fell short of the 155-mark needed for the majority. The party had held 126 seats in the dissolved House of [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Julie L. Myers, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), completed the repatriation of 1,046 cultural antiquities to the Government of Iraq that were seized in four separate investigations dating back to 2001.
The items, which included terra cotta cones inscribed in Cuneiform text, a praying god figurine [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a new report, Blood at the Crossroads: Making the case for a global arms trade treaty, Amnesty International reveals that the United Kingdom and Italian governments’ shoddy and weak oversight of their arms trades has allowed their arms to fall into the hands of al Qaeda fighters in Iraq.
As the United [...]

Thunder Bay – Joe Comuzzi, Member of Parliament for Thunder Bay—Superior North, on behalf of the Honourable Diane Finley, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, today announced support for the Thunder Bay Multicultural Association to help settle and integrate newcomers in northern Ontario.
Funding of $2 million will go toward providing settlement services such as language training, [...]

OTTAWA – The Conservative Canadian government is considering dissolving the current Parliament by September 5. A general election is being planned for October 14, according to sources.
There has been conflicts on issues between conservatives and liberals over the last few months.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been complaining about a dysfunctional Parliament and the need for [...]

SUVA – The need to serve the people more effectively and to answer their queries instantly has led the Ministry of Agriculture to implement an awareness campaign better known as ‘Care for Client’.
In an interview with the Department of Information early this morning the Acting Permanent Secretary for Agriculture Dr Richard Beyer said that this [...]