AP - The Bush administration said Monday it is open to a resumption of Russian talks with Iran over its nuclear program, but has no indication Tehran is ready to give up its uranium enrichment efforts.

AFP - Iran has upped the stakes in the standoff over its atomic programme, saying a Russian compromise proposal was no longer on the table and threatening to quit an international nuclear treaty.

AFP - Iran will never comply with any UN Security Council resolution ordering it to suspend uranium enrichment, foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi says.

AFP - Local media gave mixed reactions to a planned UN meeting on Iran's controversial nuclear programme, with one hardline paper urging abandonment of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and another advocating continued diplomacy.

Reuters - Interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will draw Israel's permanent borders by 2010 either via a treaty with the Palestinians or through unilateral pullouts in the occupied West Bank, the Jerusalem Post said on Thursday.

AFP - Australian Prime Minister John Howard is due to meet Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh Monday during a four-day visit to boost trade and deepen the strategic relationship between the two countries.

Reuters - China can expect its trading partners to lodge more complaints with the World Trade Organization aimed at getting Beijing to enforce global trade rules, a senior U.S. official said on Friday.

AFP - Japan and India signed an agreement to avoid double taxation, the first revision of their tax treaty since 1989, in a bid to boost slow-growing bilateral trade.

Reuters - Health officials from more than 100 countries have agreed to study widening a global tobacco control treaty to target advertising over the Internet and satellite television, the World Health Organization said on Friday.

AP - Veiled Iranian threats to quit the Nonproliferation Treaty conjure up the case of North Korea, which announced it had atomic weapons shortly after walking away from the treaty.

AP - Iran reaffirmed its commitment to a nuclear arms control treaty Sunday and urged a peaceful solution to the international crisis over concerns it is seeking to develop atomic weapons, a day after its hard-line president issued a veiled threat to withdraw from the pact.

AP - Iran's hard-line president threatened to revise his policy of working within international atomic frameworks, as diplomats in Europe said the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency had stripped most of its surveillance equipment from Iranian nuclear sites.

AFP - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned the Islamic republic could quit the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if forced by the West to limit its disputed nuclear program.

The president of Iran has said it is his country's right to develop nuclear energy, and threatened to "revise" its acceptance of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) if Western countries attempt to interfere with that right.

AP - Iran's president on Saturday rejected U.S. and European pressure to freeze the country's nuclear program and hinted that Iran may withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

President Ahmadinejad has hinted that Iran may withdraw from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Reuters - Tehran may reconsider its membership of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if it feels its enemies are using the accord to put unfair pressure on Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday.

AP - Iran has told the International Atomic Energy Agency to remove surveillance cameras and agency seals from sites and nuclear equipment that go beyond minimal commitments to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty by next week, the IAEA said Monday.