Iran said it would open a new uranium enrichment facility and increase its production of highly enriched fissile material after the U.N. atomic agency member states declared Tehran had failed to comply with its nuclear nonproliferation obligations,

The World Bank's board has agreed to end a longstanding ban on funding nuclear energy projects in developing countries as part of a broader push to meet rising electricity needs, the bank's president Ajay Banga said on Wednesday.

The head of the United Nations atomic watchdog distanced himself from policies promoting diversity, equality and inclusion in the workplace even as he sought to promote the agency’s successful efforts in hiring more women.

The World Bank's board has agreed to end a longstanding ban on funding nuclear energy projects in developing countries as part of a broader push to meet rising electricity needs, the bank's president Ajay Banga says.

The EU urged Iran on Thursday to exercise “restraint” after Tehran vowed to build a new uranium enrichment facility in reaction to a UN nuclear watchdog resolution declaring it in breach of its obligations.

The United Nations nuclear watchdog said Iran’s rapidly increasing stockpile of uranium enriched to just below weapons grade cannot be allowed to continue without a firm international response.

Western nations are planning to table a resolution at an IAEA meeting that will find Iran in non-compliance with its so-called safeguards obligations for the first time in 20 years, a senior western diplomat said.