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International

Egypt successfully installs first nuclear device

Egypt witnessed the installation of the first nuclear device, as the Nuclear Power Plants Authority announced that the Egyptian Nuclear Power Plants Authority Board chair, Amged El-Wakeel, had given the green light to begin the installation. Al-Wakeel gave permission to begin installing the reactor core trap at 2 p.m., the same time Egyptian armed forces declared war on Israel and won with the help of Russia and Soviet weapons 50 […]

today7 October 2023

International

Israel had details of Syrian nuclear site 5 years before bombing it

The Israeli military yesterday released intelligence documents kept secret for two decades which show Tel Aviv had warned in 2002 against Syria launching a military nuclear programme, local media reported. According to the documents, the Israeli occupation attacked and destroyed a site in the Syrian city of Deir Ez-Zor in 2007 in what was called  'Operation Outside the Box'. The site, the document stated, was razed to the ground, along with Syria's nuclear programme, while Israeli forces incurred no […]

today7 September 2022

International

Iran may accept EU nuclear deal proposal, wants assurances

Iran has stated that it wants assurances and guarantees that no future US president would rescind the nuclear deal should it accept the European Union (EU) proposal to return to the deal, news agency IRNA reported Friday. The EU announced on Monday that it had put forward a "final text" following four days of indirect talks between US and Iranian officials in Vienna, Reuters reported. A senior EU official confirmed that no more changes […]

today14 August 2022

International News

UN chief urges US to remove Iran sanctions as agreed in 2015

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appealed to US President Joe Biden's administration to lift or waive all sanctions on Iran as agreed under a 2015 deal aimed at stopping Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon. In a report to the UN Security Council, Guterres also urged the United States to "extend the waivers with regard to the trade in oil with the Islamic Republic of Iran, and fully renew waivers […]

today30 June 2021

Local

SAFCEI calls out gov over pursuit of nuclear energy

Tomorrow will be four years since the Western Cape High Court found the government's one-trillion rand nuclear deal and associated energy procurement processes to be "illegal and unconstitutional". The Southern African Faith Communities' Environment Institute says the deal would have bankrupted the country. Safcei's Executive Director, Francesca de Gasparis, says it is however concerning that on the fourth anniversary of the ruling against the corrupt nuclear deal, the SA government […]

today25 April 2021

International News

UN report warns against N Korea’s ‘miniaturised’ nuclear devices

North Korea is pressing on with its nuclear weapons programme, and several countries believe it has "probably developed miniaturised nuclear devices to fit into the warheads of its ballistic missiles," according to a confidential UN report. The report by an independent panel of experts monitoring UN sanctions said the countries, which it did not identify, believed North Korea's past six nuclear tests had likely helped it develop miniaturised nuclear devices. […]

today4 August 2020

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