Renowned academics withdraw support for Vienna Wiesenthal Institute

Academics withdraw support for Holocaust center

Italy’s top security official: Algerian cell financing terror smashed with 17 arrests

Italy: 17 Algerians arrested in terrorism probe

Old Hebrew Bible, looted by Nazis, is returned to Vienna’s Jewish community in NYC ceremony

Hebrew Bible looted by Nazis being sent to Vienna

Old Hebrew Bible, stolen by Nazis, is returned to Vienna’s Jewish community in NYC ceremony

Hebrew Bible stolen by Nazis being sent to Vienna

Key members of Austrian Holocaust Institute abandon project after fight with Jewish community

Austrian Holocaust institute loses key members

Official: Tehran wants to buy fuel, suggesting it not ready to ship out its enriched uranium

Iran suggests it not ready to export uranium

Ahmadinejad pledges nuclear cooperation with West but Iran hedges on uranium enrichment deal

Iran lauds nuke ‘cooperation’ _ but hedges on deal

IAEA says it has received ‘initial response’ from Iran on plan to ship enriched uranium abroad

IAEA: First Iranian response on enrichment deal

Ahmadinejad says West, Iran now cooperating on nuclear issue on international scene

Ahmadinejad says West now cooperating with Iran

IAEA inspectors back from inspection of previously secret Iran enrichment site

IAEA team back from Iran inspection

VIENNA, Austria — A team of U.N. nuclear inspectors returned Thursday from a visit to a previously secret Iranian uranium enrichment site and their leader expressed satisfaction with the mission.

Nicole Hosp of Austria out for season after crash in season opener

SOELDEN, Austria — Former overall World Cup winner Nicole Hosp will miss the rest of the season after crashing and injuring her right knee in the opening race.

IAEA inspectors head to Iran to visit recently revealed nuclear facility

VIENNA — A team of U.N. inspectors is heading to Iran to visit a recently revealed nuclear site.

Iran says it will respond to UN draft plan on uranium enrichment next week

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran put off until next week a formal response to a U.N.-backed plan to ship much of its uranium to Russia for enrichment, the country’s nuclear envoy said Friday. The West sees the proposal as a way to curb Tehran’s alleged efforts to make nuclear weapons.

IAEA says Iran needs more time to consider nuclear proposal

VIENNA — The International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran needs more time to decide whether to back a plan that would ship most of the country’s uranium abroad for enrichment.

Iran’s nuclear envoy: Tehran will respond to UN draft plan on uranium enrichment next week

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran is still studying a U.N.-drafted plan to ship much of its uranium to Russia for further enrichment and will formally respond to the offer next week, Iran’s envoy to the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Friday.

Iran fails to accept UN plan to ship uranium abroad for enrichment, wants to buy nuclear fuel

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Friday failed to accept a U.N.-drafted plan that would ship most of the country’s uranium abroad for enrichment, saying instead it would prefer to buy the nuclear fuel it needs for a reactor that makes medical isotopes.

World awaits Iran’s decision on proposal to ship uranium abroad for enrichment

TEHRAN, Iran — The U.S. and its allies hoped to secure Iran’s approval Friday for a proposed deal that would ship most of the country’s uranium abroad for enrichment and ease Western fears about Iran’s potential to make a nuclear weapon.

Report: Iran’s deputy parliament speaker rejects draft nuclear deal to ship uranium abroad

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s deputy parliament speaker on Thursday dismissed an internationally backed draft plan to have Tehran ship its uranium abroad for enrichment, the official IRNA news agency reported.

E-mails: L.A. prosecutors wondered if Austria would be ‘friendly’ to Polanski extradition

GENEVA — Documents obtained by The Associated Press show American prosecutors closely monitored Roman Polanski in Austria and considered seeking his arrest there in the days before the director’s apprehension in Switzerland.

Iran negotiator backs deal to ship enriched uranium to Russia; unclear if Tehran will agree

VIENNA — A top Iranian negotiator praised a plan Wednesday that would ship most of his country’s uranium abroad for enrichment and limit its ability to build a nuclear weapon. There was no guarantee, however, that Tehran’s leaders would accept the idea.

Austrian parliament passes bill to rehabilitate deserters of Nazi Wehrmacht

VIENNA — Richard Wadani still remembers the sick feeling in his stomach the morning he left Hitler’s Wehrmacht in October 1944, knowing as he crawled through a tangle of barbed wire as dawn broke that one wrong move would cost him his life.

UN: Afghan drug trafficking routes fuel addiction and disease, benefit extremists

VIENNA — The smuggling of Afghan opiates is fueling addiction and drug use along trafficking routes from Iran to Central Asia as well as spreading diseases and funding insurgents, the U.N. warned Wednesday.

Diplomats: Iranian negotiators support deal to ship enriched uranium to Russia for processing

VIENNA — Iranian negotiators on Wednesday expressed support for a deal that — if accepted by their leaders — would delay Tehran’s ability to make nuclear weapons by sending most of its existing enriched uranium to Russia for processing, diplomats said.

US-Iran meet directly on enrichment issue, UN nuclear chief says he expects agreement.

VIENNA — American and Iranian negotiators met directly Tuesday to try to kick-start stalled talks meant to persuade Tehran to send most of its enriched uranium abroad — and thus delay its potential to make a nuclear weapon. The head of the U.N. nuclear agency said progress was slow but he expected a breakthrough.

Iran talks stall: Diplomats say Tehran does not want French involvement in enrichment

VIENNA — American and Iranian negotiators met directly Tuesday to try to kick-start stalled talks meant to persuade Tehran to send most of its enriched uranium abroad — and thus delay its potential to make a nuclear weapon.

UN nuke agency says Iran enrichment talks ‘constructive,’ off to a ‘good start’

VIENNA — Talks to persuade Iran to move most of its enriched uranium out of the country have gotten off to a “good start,” the head of the U.N. nuclear agency said Monday.