European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 2, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                              June 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition paces Iran to share info on past activities answers to suspicious nuke actions seen As Way to avoid sanctions by George Jahn the associated press Spain Iran has pledged to end years of Stonewall ing and provide answers on past suspicious activities to the nuclear monitoring Agency prob ing its atomic an official said in a move being seen As an at tempt to avoid new Sanc the which the offi Cial said was made thurs Day by top iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani to eur foreign policy chief Javier Falls Short of the Concession sought by the International Community a prom ise to freeze Iran uranium enrich ment Iran refuses to consider such a freeze but the Security coun Rijani cil insists on and past meetings Between the two men have made Little Progress on resolving the Larijani overture and the decision by Solana to treat the iranian offer seriously reflected Mutual recognition that the talks needed to Advance on other is sues or face the risk of Secretary of state condole Ezza in route to Madrid a bilateral visit not connected to the signalled that while Washington was willing to be it continued to insist that Iran cease where weve been flexible is on How we get to Rice told she said she saw no evidence that thursdays talks in Madrid produced any but noted that the two negotiators had agreed to met again in two the United states wants the sus pension to be leaving Iran unable to develop weapons but theoretically Able to operate nuclear Power stations with uranium processed elsewhere by the Nult Stepi pro Cess of manufacturing Uncle Rig tits groups urge Iran to release scholars Terri action Al human rights groups urged Iran to immediately release four iranian american scholars and activists being held on suspicion of the Call came thursday As the United states repeated Deni als the four Are spies or employees of the government state department spokesman Tom Casey also said there had been no iranian response to re quests for Access to the prison ers by Swiss diplomats who rep resent interests in later the state department warned citizens against travelling to accusing islamic authorities there of a disturbing pattern of ment of the four detained scholars and activists Are Haleh Esfandi director of the Middle East program at the w to based Woodrow Wilson Ter for scholars Kian t Kish with George Sards society Institute journalist Par Naz Azima from the radio Farda and Ali a peace activist and founding Board member at the University of Irvine Center for citizen j from fhe associated press a already uranium is called the fuel the Issue is that any iranian civilian nuclear program really cant have the fuel Cycle attached to or the ability to perfect that Rice some thing that could be worked out once Iran sat Down for detailed what we cant do is to have negotiations take place while the iranians continue to perfect their nuclear technology and use those negotiations As for possibly Covert work on a Putin missile test was response to Sites by Vladimir i Sachenko the associated press Moscow president Vladimir Putin said thursday that russian test firing of new missiles this week was a response to plans to build missile de sense Sites across and suggested Washington is pursuing an imperialist policy that has triggered a new arms in a Clear reference to the United Putin harshly criticized diktat and imperialism in Glo bal affairs and warned that rus Sia will keep strengthening its Mil itary potential to maintain a Glo bal strategic it want us who initiated a new round of arms Putin said when asked about russian missile tests this week at a news conference in in White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe indicated that Moscow tests Only underscore the Contention that the missile defense system is not aimed at Putin described the tests of a new ballistic missile capable of carrying multiple nuclear War Heads and a new cruise missile As part of the russian response to russian minister Britain is politicizing poisoning Moscow russian foreign minister on Friday accused Brit Ain of politicizing the investigation into the poisoning death of a former Kab warning it would Strain relations Between the two Sergey Lavrov told reporters that instead of a professional in were seeing an attempt to turn the criminal Case into some sort of a political its having an Impact on the bilateral Lavrov Britain Crown prosecution service accused a former Kab  of killing Alexander Litvinenko and formally requested his sex Russia has saying it could prosecute Andrei Lugovoy at Home if Britain presented enough Lavrova remarks follow Lugo Vois statement thursday claim ing he had evidence that British intelligence services had a hand in the slaying claims Likely to further damage relations be tween the a renegade Mem Ber of the russian secret services hated by Many former col died in a London Hospi Tal in november after being Poi soned with radioactive Poloni from the associated press the planned deployment of new military bases and missile de sense Sites in Exso Viet satellites in Eastern he assailed the United states arid other nato members for fail ing to ratify an amended version of the 1990 conventional forces in Europe which limits the deployment of heavy nonnuclear weapons around the Putin and other russian officials have repeatedly rejected assurances that the planned missile defense installations Are meant to counter a potential threat from nations such As Iran and pose no danger to he reaffirmed his warning that Russia would opt out of the cafe treaty altogether if nato nations fail to ratify its amended either you ratify the treaty and Start observing or we will opt out of Putin Dmitry presidential press russian president Vladimir during a meeting of and cultural figures wednesday in the Kremlin in chinese school drops required pregnancy test Beijing a vocational school in far Western China has decided to scrap a new Rule re Quiring All female students to take pregnancy amid con Cerns the tests would violate the girls state Media reported the headmaster at the agriculture vocational school in capital of the heavily Muslim Xin Jiang said school officials wanted to limit the number of unwanted pregnancies among Stu 80 percent of whom Are girls Between the Ages of 16 and according to the Xinhua news last the school ruled that All female students must take a pregnancy test As part of their annual Xinhua report Japan rec pulls Slaw after two find Glass Tokyo Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan pulled four cab Bage products from 228 stores in Tokyo and neighbouring areas after two customers damaged their Teeth on Glass found in their ithe company said Fri pfc received the complaints thursday the company said in a one a said he chipped his tooth on the and the a said she lost a company spokesman Kiyotaka Mura an internal investigation has determined that the Glass came from a thermometer that broke earlier this week in a refrigerator for Cut cabbage at a factory near the statement latest Community rights clashes in India kill 4 India clashes be tween rival communities left four dead Friday in the Western Indi an state of taking the death toll from Days of violence in the Region Over demands for More affirmative measures from the government to officials the clashes Between Meena Community and the Gujjar in Lai Sot Village of Dausa District came despite an order to police that they shoot protesters on said Madhukar the areas top government four people died in the fight three of them Gupta the Gujjar have been staging violent protests since de manding their Community offi Cial classification at the Bottom of India Complex social in order to receive government jobs and University spots reserved for such from the associated press