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Vienna, Sep 14 : Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano was Monday formally approved as next head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), paving the way for his succession to Mohamed ElBaradei from December. At the IAEA General Conference, Vienna member...
Tags: Yukiya Amano, Amano Named New IAEA, Japanese, IAEA General Conference, Vienna, director general, Mohamed ElBaradei, formally appoints, Austria
A former intelligence agency chief was sentenced to a suspended 34-month prison term Thursday for his role in a 2007 investment scam aimed at swindling the pro-Pyongyang group Chongryon out of ownership of its Tokyo headquarters. The Tokyo District Court...
Tags: Tokyo District Court, Yokohama District Court, Japan, Chongryon, Yukiya Amano
Vice President Joe Biden said Sunday that the Obama administration "misread the economy" when it forecast unemployment would peak at 8 percent if Congress enacted a $787 billion stimulus. Unemployment reached 9.5 percent last month. More Business China's...
Tags: Iranian, Joe Biden, Israel Aerospace Industries, Israeli, Ali Khamenei, Barack Obama, Mr. Obama, Asif Ali Zardari, United States, Yukiya Amano
I'm not going to be a 'soft' director-general or a 'tough' director-general." The UN Security Council has implemented three different sets of sanctions against Iran for not complying with resolutions demanding it suspend uranium enrichment.
Tags: Iran, Yukiya Amano, iran seeking, seeking nuclear, nuclear arms, IAEA, director general, International Atomic Energy Agency, sign iran
Japan has welcomed the appointment of one of its diplomats as head of the UN nuclear watchdog...The mayor of Hiroshima, the southwestern city that suffered the first nuclear attack in 1945, was also among those offering congratulatory messages on Friday.
Tags: Yukiya Amano, Japan, Ambassador Amano, Yokia Amano, Israel, nuclear watchdog, IAEA, israel welcomed, Hiroshima, iaea chief
Japanese envoy Yukiya Amano wins the required two-thirds majority to replace Mohamed ElBaradei as the next director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency...In the last round of polling for the top seat in March, Amano was unable to beat Abdul...
Tags: Yukiya Amano, Japanese, IAEA, International Atomic Energy Agency, thirds majority, Abdul Samad Minty, nuclear watchdog, Mohamed ElBaradei, diplomatic say, South Africa
A veteran Japanese diplomat emerged as the favorite to succeed Mohamed ElBaradei as head of the UN nuclear agency, as most agency board member nations backed him against four other candidates in an informal poll Tuesday. Yukiya Amano received 20 votes...
Tags: International Atomic Energy Agency, Nuclear Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano, straw poll, nuclear agency
Government sources. . . seem to prefer the Japanese candidate, Yukiya Amano, rather than South African candidate Abdul Samad Minty," Israeli daily The Jerusalem Post reported on Thursday. Thursday, as none of the contenders managed to win the required...
Tags: Yukiya Amano, nuclear watchdog, Abdul Samad Minty, Mohamed ElBaradei, IAEA
The Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency on Thursday failed to elect a new chief after three rounds of voting...Since ElBaradei will finish his term in November, the board has to elect a successor. Nominations for the post have...
Tags: Yukiya Amano, Abdul Samad Minty, Japan, IAEA, nuclear watchdog, South Africa, Mohamed ElBaradei, thirds majority
Formally, it is still a two-way race between men who are a study in contrasts...Minty's more outspoken and hands-on approach is backed by nonaligned board members that have often defended Iran in its claim to have a right to uranium enrichment, despite...
Tags: Mohamed ElBaradei, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iranians, IAEA, U.N., Yukiya Amano, Abdul Samad Minty, Russian-European