NUKE WARS

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South Korea fired warning shots at North's patrol boat: Seoul
Mar 09, 2022 (AFP)
The North Korean patrol boat crossed the de facto maritime border off the west coast of the peninsula early Tuesday while chasing a vessel that was heading sout...
South Korea chooses new president with inequality key concern
Mar 09, 2022 (AFP)
Polling booths opened at 6 am (2100 GMT) and record early voting indicates turnout will be high after a campaign dominated by mud-slinging between liberal Lee J...
Putin nuclear threats 'extremely dangerous', 'blackmail': ICAN
Mar 09, 2022 (AFP)
"This is one of the scariest moments really when it comes to nuclear weapons," Beatrice Fihn, who leads the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, t...
High-risk Russian strategy targets Ukraine's nuclear plants
Mar 08, 2022 (AFP)
After advancing Russian forces seized Ukraine's defunct nuclear plant at Chernobyl and the still-operational reactors at Zaporizhzhia, their sights could be on ...
South Korea votes in tight presidential race with inequality top concern
Mar 07, 2022 (AFP)
Official figures showed high turnout of about 65 percent by 2 pm (0500 GMT), after record early voting, following a campaign dominated by mud-slinging between t...
US fails to get China to back UN text against NKorea
Mar 07, 2022 (AFP)
North Korean state media said Pyongyang carried out a test Saturday for what it said was a reconnaissance satellite, but which analysts said was a thinly veiled...
South Korea says it has repatriated North Korean crew
Mar 07, 2022 (AFP)
The crew members told authorities they had crossed the maritime border due to a "navigation error and mechanical problem" and asked to return to the North, the ...
Russia wants 'equal rights' in Iran nuclear deal
Mar 07, 2022 (AFP)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Saturday that, before backing the Iran nuclear deal, Moscow wants written assurances from Washington that Western sa...
Iran, UN nuclear watchdog agree way forward but Russia may delay deal
Mar 05, 2022 (AFP)
The announcement came shortly before Russia said it would seek guarantees from the United States before it backs the deal, potentially scuppering hopes an agree...
IAEA chief in Iran for talks seen as key to nuclear deal
Mar 05, 2022 (AFP)
The visit by International Atomic Energy Agency head Rafael Grossi comes after Britain, one of the parties to parallel talks on the deal in Vienna, indicated th...
North Korea fires ballistic missile ahead of South's election
Mar 05, 2022 (AFP)
From hypersonic to medium-range ballistic missiles, Pyongyang test-fired a string of weaponry in January and last week launched what it claimed was a component ...
Ukraine's Zelensky accuses Russia of 'nuclear terror' after plant attack
Mar 04, 2022 (AFP)
Ukraine's emergency services said it had regained access to the facility after accusing the Russian military of initially blocking rescuers from reaching the bl...
Outrage as Russians attack Ukrainian nuclear plant
Mar 04, 2022 (AFP)
The shelling of the plant at Zaporizhzhia triggered an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, and came as President Vladimir Putin intensified a crackdow...
US says Iran nuclear deal 'close' but not certain
Mar 04, 2022 (AFP)
Negotiators meeting in Vienna to try and salvage the 2015 nuclear deal, which is meant to prevent Tehran from acquiring an atomic bomb, have made "significant p...
Russia's Lavrov accuses West of fixating on 'nuclear war'
Mar 03, 2022 (AFP)
"It's clear that World War Three can only be a nuclear war," Lavrov said in an online interview with Russian and foreign media. "I would like to point out that ...
War of words over Ukraine at UN as nuclear fears grow
Mar 03, 2022 (AFP)
A day after the UN General Assembly in New York issued a powerful rebuke of Russia with a 141-5 vote to deplore its invasion and demand an immediate withdrawal,...
UN nuclear watchdog chief to travel to Iran on Saturday
Mar 03, 2022 (AFP)
Director General Rafael Grossi will then hold a press conference on his return to Vienna, an agency spokesman said. The announcement comes a day after Grossi vo...
In Israel, Germany's Scholz says Iran deal 'cannot be postponed'
Mar 02, 2022 (AFP)
Scholz's visit, which included a ceremony at Jerusalem's Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem accompanied by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, comes amid the geo...
UN nuclear watchdog will 'never abandon' Iran probe
Mar 02, 2022 (AFP)
Iran has said the closure of the probe is necessary in order to clinch a deal to revive the 2015 deal with world powers on its nuclear programme. However, on We...
UN nuclear watchdog weighs up Russia condemnation
Mar 02, 2022 (AFP)
Ukraine has four active nuclear power plants, providing about half the country's electricity, as well as stores of nuclear waste such as the one at Chernobyl, a...
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