IRAN-NUCLEAR-REPORT

VIENNA — Amid accelerated international efforts to reach a nuclear deal with Iran, the U.N. atomic agency reports that work on a key element — an assessment of allegations that Tehran worked on atomic arms — remains essentially stalled. 

GERMANY-G7-FINANCE

DRESDEN, Germany — Finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of Seven wealthy democracies are wrapping up three days of debate and discussion about how to get the global recovery moving faster. They also talked about joint efforts to prevent multinational corporations from avoiding taxes. 

RUSSIA-RUBLE ROLLERCOASTER

MOSCOW — Russia's ruble is on a roller-coaster. After being the world's second worst-performing currency against the dollar last year, it is among the best in 2015. That will help keep a leash on inflation, but it's a problem for local industries which had benefited from the currency's fall.

BRITAIN-EU RELATIONS

LONDON — The British people will get another chance to decide on their European future by the end of 2017, another milestone in a long-troubled relationship. The planned referendum on Britain's membership in the 28-country European Union following a renegotiation of some of the terms of the country's membership is a key element of the new Conservative government's program. 

With BRITAIN-EU, Cameron calls on Polish, German leaders.

RUSSIA-KREMLIN PROPAGANDA

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Deep inside a four-story marble building in St. Petersburg, hundreds of workers tap away at computers on the front lines of an information war, say those who have been inside. Known as "Kremlin trolls," the men and women work 12-hour shifts around the clock, flooding the Internet with propaganda aimed at stamping President Vladimir Putin's world vision on Russia, and the world. 

VATICAN-FINANCES

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican's financial watchdog agency said Friday it received 147 reports of suspicious financial transactions last year, a sign that tough new anti-money laundering norms are taking hold at its scandal-marred bank. The Financial Information Authority's annual report showed a slight decline in the number of suspicious reports received in 2014 compared to the 202 received in 2013. In 2012, when the Vatican's efforts at greater financial controls were in their infancy, only six suspicious transactions were reported.