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Citing unnamed US officials, Wall Street Journal reports White House seeking conference on non-binding agreement emerging from 1995 UN review of Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Initiative could raise new tensions between President Obama, Prime Minister Netanyahu US officials are in talks with Egypt over a plan to make the Middle East a nuclear-free zone, part of an effort to block the Iranian nuclear program, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. Citing unnamed US officials, the newspaper said the White House wanted to build on a non-binding agreement that emerged from a 1995 UN review of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). That agreement...

WASHINGTON, April 13 (UPI) -- All 47 countries pledged to secure vulnerable nuclear material in four years, U.S. President Barack Obama said at the end of the first Nuclear Security Summit. The goal of the two-day summit was "not simply to talk but to take action ... to commit to meaningful steps" to secure nuclear materials and prevent them from falling into terrorists' hands, Obama said Tuesday after the afternoon plenary session. "We have a mutual interest in security these nuclear materials," Obama said. "We have embraced our shared responsibility (to) solve problems." The time line is both bold and...

THE risk of an unsecured nuclear weapon falling into the hands of al-Qa'ida or other terrorist organisations posed the greatest threat to global security, US President Barack Obama warned yesterday. Mr Obama said he knew al-Qa'ida was trying to obtain a nuclear weapon and would have no compunction about using one to cause devastation. The President issued his warning before today's start of a two-day summit of 47 countries that he is hosting in Washington. The Nuclear Security Summit, the first of its kind, is meant to focus on ways to secure supplies of plutonium and highly enriched uranium that...