VIENNA (Reuters) - The incoming head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Friday he did not see any hard evidence Iran was trying to gain the ability to develop nuclear arms. "I don't see any evidence in IAEA official documents about this," Yukiya Amano told Reuters in his first direct comment on Iran's atomic program since his election, when asked whether he believed Tehran was seeking nuclear weapons capability. Current International Atomic Energy Agency head Mohamed ElBaradei said last month it was his "gut feeling" Iran was ...

Three African countries on Friday signed an accord to build a 10-billion-dollar trans-Saharan gas pipeline linking vast reserves in Nigeria to Europe. The project will convey gas destined for the European market more than 4,000 kilometres (2,485 miles) from the Niger Delta in Nigeria, via Niger and Algeria. The head of Nigeria's state oil company, Mohammed Barkindo, said the agreement "gives this project the official stamp of approval from the three governments, directing the national oil companies of these three countries to begin in earnest the definitional ...

BREAKING RANKS 44 DEMOCRATSin the House crossed party lines and voted against the climate change bill. The House has 256 Democrats, and one did not vote. 8 REPUBLICANS joined the other side in voting for the bill. The House has 178 Republicans, and two did not vote. INSIDE What NevadaÕs House members said in the floor debate. Page 2 WASHINGTON — The rowdy House floor debate on climate change provided one of those moments of political theater when it is hard to know ...

Nevada wonÕt be able to develop a viable solar energy industry without help from the federal government, which owns the vast majority of land in the state. The last thing the state needs is for potential solar developers to become discouraged by bureaucratic red tape in their quest to build renewable energy power plants on public land. That is why a joint announcement Monday in Las Vegas by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev ...