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New commitments with Germany and several African nations bring Argentina's tally on science cooperation agreements to around 100.

A round-up of news from or about South Asia for the period 1–15 March 2008.

Jordan has announced a strategy to integrate nuclear power into its energy production and reduce the financial burden of fossil fuel.

Australia's use of an Argentinean nuclear reactor shows that emerging country technology can support research in the developed world.

Joking about the country's nuclear policy has resulted in a top Venezuelan scientist being stripped of his post, reports Michael Hopkin.

The Uruguayan government has launched a campaign to change the public's negative image of atomic energy.

Colombia is to be the only Bolivarian country with a nuclear reactor in operation.

Six Gulf states will join forces to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

Eight of India's top nuclear scientists have publicly opposed new clauses in a nuclear-cooperation deal between India and the United States.

An International Energy Agency report says developing clean technologies could reduce global energy needs and greenhouse gas emissions.

Brazil has launched its first facility for enriching uranium to produce fuel for its nuclear power programme.

India and the US have signed a landmark agreement on nuclear technology along with other pledges to increase scientific cooperation.

A collaborative network for high energy physics between Europe and Latin America will launch in January 2006; its list of 115 grant-holders has been announced.

Brazil's uranium resources are huge and must be used for energy production, says the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology.

A deal on nuclear power technology made by the United States and India last week has raised concerns among some Indian researchers.

The Peruvian Institute of Nuclear Energy has just one-third the number of qualified scientists it needs to operate.

Brazil has denied accusations that it is refusing to accept surprise inspections of its nuclear facilities.

Tanzania is to start using nuclear power, after the country's parliament enacted a law last week permitting the use of uranium to produce energy.

The president of the Republic of Georgia has claimed that several nuclear physicists from Abkhazia, a breakaway region in the Caucasus, are working in Iran.