Iran
Iran said yesterday an important goal had been reached in its quest for uranium enrichment, raising fears that it could have enough nuclear material for an atomic bomb within a year.
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North Korea
According to the US chief negotiator with North Korea, Christopher Hill, Pyongyang has agreed to declare and dismantle its nuclear weapons programme by the end of the year. North Korea’s top negotiator, Kim Gye Gwan, said he expected a “fruitful outcome” from the weekend talks in Geneva, which also covered the possible removal of Pyongyang from the list of governments that sponsor terrorism.
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Chronology
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Companies
French president Nicolas Sarkozy will confirm today the €90bn (£61bn) merger between energy groups Suez and Gaz de France, creating the world’s third-largest power company and a new French global champion.
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Fusion
A British-led team of scientists has won European Union approval to seek to make nuclear fusion, the physicist’s dream, a reality. The British-led team will use lasers to start fusion reactions that generate more energy than they consume and they have won the backing of an influ-ential EU science panel. The decision paves the way for a seven-year, £500 million programme to construct an experimental reactor based on a revolutionary technique that could make fusion a commercial reality within two decades.
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