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Byline: [CREDIT]ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW The lower house of Russia's parliament on Wednesday gave its final approval to a bill revoking the ratification of a global nuclear test ban treaty, a [...]

Byline: JAMES GRIFFITHS; Staff HONG KONG -- North Korea sharply set back prospects for peace when it broke a 2018 moratorium on intercontinental ballistic missile testing last month by launching [...]

Byline: Michael Byers and Aaron Boley Lead Michael Byers holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law. Aaron Boley holds the Canada Research Chair in Planetary Astronomy. [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI, Staff Lead It felt like the world had reached its baggage limit on existential threats, but it seems there's always room to stuff in one more. In [...]

Byline: TOM HAWTHORN; Special to The Globe and Mail PAUL CÔTÉ / ENVIRONMENTALIST, OLYMPIAN AND BUSINESSMAN, 69 As a law student in Vancouver in the 1960s, Paul Côté immersed himself [...]

IRAN Iran needs to be firmly warned that harsher economic sanctions are pending, now that documentary evidence has been found that the Iranians are testing an essential component for a [...]

Byline: MARK MACKINNON NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION TOKYO -- When North Korea detonates nuclear devices and tests long- and mid-range missiles, Japan sees it as more than just a theoretical danger. This [...]

Byline: AP IN BRIEF Seoul -- A North Korean-flagged ship under close watch in Asian waters is believed to be heading toward Myanmar carrying small-arms cargo banned under a new [...]

Byline: AP IN BRIEF North Korea said readying missile to reach U.S. Seoul -- North Korea appears to be preparing to test an advanced missile designed to reach the United [...]

Byline: MARK MacKINNON PROLIFERATION N. Korea's latest nuclear play debuts with a twist BEIJING -- The crisis over North Korea's nuclear test this week is a road the world has [...]

DEFIANCE North Korea threatens to attack U.S. warships WASHINGTON -- North Korea threatened yesterday to attack U.S. warships cruising near its coasts in an escalation of tensions after threats by [...]

Byline: PAUL KORING PYONGYANG'S NUCLEAR CHALLENGE / ANALYSIS Obama must respond, but his options appear limited WASHINGTON -- Faced with a nuclear challenge from the defiant regime in North Korea, [...]

NUCLEAR NORTH KOREA China holds some cards North Korea's underground nuclear test is being interpreted as a challenge to President Barack Obama, but China is the only power that can [...]

NORTH KOREA U.S., China rush to defuse N. Korea's diplomacy bomb BEIJING -- With the push of a button - and the subsequent tremor felt hundreds of kilometres away - [...]

Byline: AFP IN BRIEF France to compensate victims of nuclear tests Paris -- France announced yesterday it will compensate 150,000 victims of nuclear testing carried out in the 1960s in [...]

Byline: The Canadian Press Saskatoon -- Canadian soldiers who participated in atomic weapons testing during the Cold War have filed a class-action lawsuit against the federal government. The lawsuit claims [...]

Byline: STEVEN CHASE OTTAWA -- French missile tests in the North Atlantic - the world's busiest oceanic airspace - have caused friction between Canada and France, with Ottawa appealing to [...]

Byline: HAYLEY MICK Canadian veterans who participated in atomic weapons tests during the Cold War are suing the Canadian government for compensation for illnesses they say were caused by exposure [...]

We're just leftovers? 'A cosmologist has created a mathematical model that he says shows space-time, contrary to common wisdom, did not begin with the Big Bang,' writes Phil Berardelli of [...]

Byline: AFP Tehran -- Iran said yesterday it had successfully launched its first rocket into space, at a time of mounting tension with the West over its nuclear program. It [...]

Byline: JEREMY PALTIEL Three weeks after the North Koreans tested a nuclear device, and two weeks after the United Nations Security Council voted unanimously to impose sanctions against them, it [...]

Byline: GEOFFREY YORK DANDONG, CHINA -- Mr. Li, a veteran 60-year-old Chinese businessman, sells $2-million to $3-million in goods to North Korea every year. And, despite sanctions that the White [...]

Byline: MAURICE STRONG The most surprising thing to me about world reaction to the announcement by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea that it had carried out an underground nuclear [...]

Byline: STEPHEN HANDELMAN NEW YORK -- When North Korea's nuclear ambitions first spilled over into a crisis with the West in 1993, Washington sent a quiet message to Beijing urging [...]

Byline: PAUL KORING WASHINGTON -- Using surprisingly tough language, China signalled its willingness yesterday to back a push by major Western powers to punish North Korea for its weekend nuclear [...]

Now that North Korea has conducted what it says was its first underground nuclear test, the ball has bounced into China's court. The Chinese created this mess and they are [...]

Byline: FRANK GAFFNEY JR. Did he or didn't he? At the moment, it is unclear whether North Korea's despot, Kim Jong-il, succeeded in doing what he claimed occurred on Monday [...]

Byline: WENRAN JIANG In defiance of warnings from the international community, Pyongyang carried out its long-threatened nuclear weapons test yesterday, setting off worldwide condemnation and concern over nuclear arms proliferation [...]

Byline: PAUL KORING WASHINGTON -- The world's major powers condemned North Korea yesterday for defiantly testing a nuclear bomb, but continued to struggle in their efforts to impose a meaningful [...]

Byline: STEPHEN HANDELMAN NEW YORK -- North Korea's reported nuclear test has left the world struggling once again with the carrot-and-stick tool kit of modern diplomacy. With the carrot option [...]

Byline: DAVID E. SANGER; New York Times Service with reports from Reuters and Colin Freeze WASHINGTON -- North Korea said early today that it had set off its first nuclear [...]

Byline: BURT HERMAN; Associated Press with reports from Colin Freeze and Agence-France Presse. SEOUL -- North Korea said early today it has performed its first-ever nuclear weapons test, setting off [...]

Byline: Associated Press SEOUL -- North Korea said early today that it has performed its first-ever nuclear weapons test. The country's official Korean Central News Agency said the test was [...]

Byline: ERIC TALMADGE; Associated Press BEIJING -- North Korea's main ally, China, joined Japan in sending a strong message yesterday that a nuclear test by the North 'cannot be tolerated,' [...]

Byline: ALAN FREEMAN WASHINGTON -- The UN Security Council warned North Korea that it faces unspecified consequences if it goes ahead with its stated plan to test a nuclear weapon, [...]

Byline: GEOFFREY YORK; With reports from Reuters, AP BEIJING -- North Korea sent shock waves through a six-country summit yesterday by announcing plans to conduct a nuclear test to prove [...]

Byline: GEOFFREY YORK,; With reports from Reuters, AP BEIJING -- North Korea sent shock waves through a six-country summit yesterday by announcing plans to conduct a nuclear test to prove [...]

Islamabad and Birmingham, England -- BY JOHN STACKHOUSE,Islamabad MADELAINE DROHAN,Birmingham, England ALAN FREEMAN,Birmingham, England Pakistan appeared ready last night to reject international appeals and launch its own round of nuclear [...]

UNITED NATIONS -- The General Assembly voted overwhelmingly yesterday to endorse a global treaty that would ban all nuclear test blasts. The action opens the door to signing by UN [...]

FOR sheer hypocrisy, nothing beats the great powers and nuclear testing. In January, France finished a series of six tests in the South Pacific, pronounced itself satisfied with its formidable [...]

Washington DC -- WASHINGTON U.S. officials offered varying views yesterday on whether Russia has conducted an underground nuclear test, breaking a four-year moratorium. U.S. Defence Secretary William Perry told lawmakers [...]

Washington DC -- WASHINGTON President Bill Clinton and French President Jacques Chirac pledged yesterday to work together for a nuclear test ban, soothing a rift over France&#39s recent nuclear tests. [...]

The French government said yesterday it&#39s ending its nuclear-weapons testing for good, after six underground blasts in the South Pacific that were deplored by most of its European allies and [...]

Paris FRANCE -- PARIS France drew more international protests yesterday when it staged the latest in a controversial series of nuclear weapons tests in the South Pacific. The underground explosion [...]

Byline: Kristen Ostling Ottawa ONT -- Paul Koring&#39s piece illustrates how, despite Foreign Affairs&#39 rhetoric that Canada &#34deplores&#34 France&#39s nuclear tests, in practice, Canada actually assists in France&#39s renewed nuclear-testing [...]

Paris FRANCE -- PARIS Beaujolais nouveau flowed at French bars yesterday in the traditional annual rush to savour the youthful, fruity red wine. But protests against French nuclear tests dampened [...]

Byline: MADELAINE DROHAN London ENGLAND -- BY MADELAINE DROHAN European Bureau LONDON Harriet MacKay and Jonathan Cohen wouldn&#39t describe themselves as activists but when the London couple gave a dinner [...]

Byline: MADELAINE DROHAN London ENGLAND -- BY MADELAINE DROHAN European Bureau and Canadian Press LONDON British Prime Minister John Major&#39s lonely defence yesterday of French nuclear testing in the South [...]

Byline: PAUL KORING Ottawa ONT -- BY PAUL KORING Parliamentary Bureau OTTAWA Canada refuelled and provided overflight clearance for a major French military airlift carrying troops and equipment for its [...]

Paris FRANCE -- PARIS France set off the third in its current series of nuclear tests in the south Pacific yesterday, leaving a further three blasts to go before the [...]