An Irish man has been charged in absentia for his alleged role in an Israeli spy operation in Egypt.

Egyptian authorities today said they have arrested an engineer from the country’s nuclear energy agency for spying for Israel.

A top Iranian official proposed today that France create a consortium to enrich Iran’s uranium, to satisfy international demands for outside monitoring of Tehran’s nuclear programme.

The International Atomic Energy Agency appears to be on the track of new nuclear cover-ups on the part of Iran, diplomats say.

The chief UN weapons inspector and Iraq tonight struck a tentative deal to allow the hunt for illegal, nuclear, chemical and biological weapons to resume.