A top US diplomat will travel to China and Indonesia next week to discuss Iran's feared nuclear ambitions, climate change and democratic reform in Asia, officials said Friday. William Burns, the undersecretary of state for political affairs, will raise these and other issues on his visit to Beijing from December 8-9 and Indonesia from December 10-11, State Department spokesman ...

A US envoy held one-on-one talks with Iran's top nuclear negotiator for the first time Thursday on the sidelines of a crucial meeting with five other world powers hoping to convince Tehran to freeze its atomic drive. The talks between William Burns, the senior US official leading Washington's delegation, and Iran's top negotiator Saeed Jalili were the ...

William Burns, the senior US official leading Washington's delegation at crunch nuclear talks here, on Thursday held a direct meeting with Iran's top negotiator Saeed Jalili, a US spokesman said. "On the margins of the meeting, Under Secretary Burns, who is heading our delegation, met with his Iranian counterpart," US State Department deputy spokesman Robert Wood told reporters ...