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By Nehad Ismail US Secretary of State John Kerry told a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in April that Iran can produce fissile material for an atomic weapon in two months. He later corrected himself, suggesting 6-12 months. In November 2011 the IAEA published a new report revealing an advanced Iranian design for a nuclear warhead developed with the help …

On Tuesday, Egyptian prosecutors submitted new evidence against the defendants in a trial of Al-Jazeera journalists, accused of having connections to the banned Muslim Brotherhood. The defendants’ lawyers have disputed the new evidence, which include audio tapes as well. In the trial’s last hearing, prosecutors aired video footage and showed random photographs which were not connected to the case. Authorities …