Iran agrees to new nuclear talks

For the first time in additional than a year, Iran has agreed to talks with earth powers over its nuclear power agenda.

European Union foreign rule chief Catherine Ashton told reporters in Brussels on Friday that she received an affirmative reply from Iranian nuclear negotiator Said Jalili to a standing invite to talks sometime after Nov. 10 "in a place and on a date suitable to both sides," according to news agencies.

Ashton describe the letter as "a significant move" and said diplomats were now attempt to pinpoint a place and time for negotiations on ways to decide the standoff over Iran's nuclear program, which the West suspects is aimed at producing arsenal and Iran says is solely for civilian purpose.

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Analysis: Terrorism alerts reflect evolving threat

U.S. and British attentive about probable Terrorist attacks in Europe highlight anxiety that growing numbers of militant are going from the West to distant war zones for training in answer to Al Qaeda's online call for violence.

The instant trigger for Sunday's travel alerts was cleverness about a plot against European targets allegedly originating with a group of persons in mountainous northern Pakistan, some of them supposed to be European citizens.

Little details of the conspiracy are known. But the plot come into view to be of the kind that Western officials believe poses the most important danger today -- the use of so-called self-radicalized militants with no preceding record of radicalism.

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