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Medical journals warn of ‘growing’ nuclear weapon threat

More than 100 medical journals across the world issued a rare joint call on Thursday for urgent action to eliminate nuclear weapons, warning that the threat of nuclear catastrophe was “great and growing”. The call comes with Russia repeatedly issuing thinly veiled warnings that Moscow could use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, as well as repeated North Korean missile tests and stalling efforts towards non-proliferation. An editorial published in numerous medical journals called on health professionals […]

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Seven decades of tensions between the two Koreas

SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North and South Korea held their first talks for two years Tuesday, stirring hopes of a tentative rapprochement between the bitterly divided neighbors. Tensions soared last year as the North made rapid progress on its banned nuclear weapons programmes, while US President Donald Trump engaged in an increasingly bellicose verbal scrap with Pyongyang’s leader Kim Jong-Un. Here are some key moments in the decades-long standoff between the two Koreas: War […]

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US leads boycott of nuclear weapons ban talks

by Catherine TRIOMPHE Agence France Presse UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — More than 100 countries on Monday launched the first United Nations talks aimed at achieving a legally binding ban on nuclear weapons, as Washington led an international boycott of a process it deems unrealistic. Before the conference had even begun, the United States ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, spoke out to reject the proposal in the light of current global security threats. “As […]

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