The United States has asked the Chinese government to do more to stop Chinese companies helping Iran with its nuclear programme and missile technology. Read the full story

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says Iran is “moving closer” to having the potential to create nuclear weapons. It is one of the first times Moscow has publicly recognised that Iran might be moving towards a nuclear weapon. Read the full story

Apartheid-era documents declassified by South Africa have revealed the nation was offered nuclear weapons by Israel in 1975. Read the full story

The U.S. is negotiating with Egypt a proposal to make the Middle East a region free of nuclear weapons, as the U.S. seeks to prevent Iran from derailing a monthlong U.N. conference on nuclear nonproliferation that begins Monday. Read the full story

Iran’s foreign minister warns the UN Security Council that penalizing a state “for a crime it has not committed” just to appease two powers will undermine the body’s status. Read the full story

A senior Turkish diplomat says the United States has stored tactical nuclear weapons in Istanbul. Read the full story

President Obama stated he was now convinced that “the current course they’re on would provide them with nuclear weapons capabilities,” though he gave no timeline. Read the full story

A recently published report by the Central Intelligence Agency says Iran is still working on building a nuclear weapon despite some technical setbacks and international resistance — and the Pentagon say it’s still concerned about Iran’s ambitions. Read the full story

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has once again dismissed sanctions as a proper solution to the Iranian nuclear issue. Read the full story

North Korea says it will not abandon its nuclear weapons unless the United States ends its hostile policy in the troubled peninsula. The official Korean Central News Agency said on Friday that Pyongyang will keep its nuclear arsenal unless the US changes its hostile policies. Read the full story

The West has long been suspicous of Iran’s nuclear program. SPIEGEL has obtained new documents on secret tests and leadership structures that call into question Tehran’s claims to be exclusively interested in the peaceful use of the technology. Read the full story

French President Nicolas Sarkozy assessed that Israel “would not stand by while Iran develops nuclear weapons,” Al Hayat quoted sources close to the French leader on Saturday. Read the full story