THE head of the UN nuclear monitoring agency angrily criticised Israel yesterday for bombing an alleged Syrian nuclear facility, and chastised the US for withholding information on the site.

The head of the United Nations nuclear monitoring agency, Mohamed ElBaradei today criticised the US for not giving his organisation intelligence information sooner on what Washington says was a nuclear reactor in Syria.

Poland and the United States today opened formal talks on Washington’s contentious request to place part of a new missile defence system in the eastern European nation.

Poland and the United States were today opening their first formal talks on Washington’s contentious plans for missile defence, the US Embassy said.