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Russia wants to collaborate with Colombia over civil nuclear energy, the Russian minister of foreign affairs said Tuesday, after meeting with his Colombian counterpart in Moscow.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has defended his country's sale of weapons in Latin America, saying that the sales had increased in recent years but still trailed US sales in the region.
The man Iran's president has named to be defense minister is wanted in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires, and his nomination drew an outcry Friday from Argentina and Jewish groups.
Brazil is expecting a visit this year by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and will question him over Tehran's nuclear program, an aide to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Shanghai (China), July 26 (EFE).- Brazil and China today inaugurated the Top China program, the first academic initiative for university exchange between the two countries, which will move a hundred students between the Asian and Latin American giants each year.
The United States may have overestimated Iran's influence in Latin America, described for months as worrisome by Obama administration officials, lawmakers and experts, the State Department said.
Iran's growing influence in Latin America is a "potential risk" to the region, the newly-appointed head of the US Southern Command, General Douglas Fraser has warned.
Tehran, 23 June (EFE).- Today Tehran is trying to catch its breath after eleven days of riots and protests in opposition to the results of the June 12 elections, denounced as fraudulent by the opposition.
Washington, 22 June (EFE).- Reza Cyrus Pahlavi, the son of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, deposed by the Iranian Revolution in 1979, today expressed his confidence that “it is time for Iran" to overthrow the Islamic regime, after years of failed attempts.
Venezuela and Bolivia are supplying Iran with uranium for its nuclear program, according to a secret Israeli government report obtained Monday by The Associated Press.
Javier Ponce, Ecuador's Defense Minister, will travel to Russia to launch an agreement for military assistance, according to a statement provided Wednesday to AFP by a source from within.
Venezuela has confirmed its offer to let Russia station planes in their base on the island of La Orchila in the Venezuelan Caribbean, an agreement that tightens cooperation between both countries in the area of defense.
