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EU avoiding ‘rash decisions’ on energy price rises

LUXEMBOURG, Luxembourg (AFP) - The impact of surging gas and electricity prices globally threatens the EU's energy market, but the bloc…

Nuclear option: Earth’s climate panacea or poison?

by Julien MIVIELLE Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) - For its supporters, nuclear energy is the world's best -- perhaps…

N.Korea leader’s sister demands South drop ‘hostile policies’: KCNA

SEOUL, South (AFP) -- The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Friday said it was "admirable"…

North Korea appears to have restarted nuclear reactor: UN agency

SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) -- Nuclear-armed North Korea appears to have restarted its plutonium-producing reprocessing reactor in a "deeply troubling"…

Iran says production of 60% enriched uranium ‘underway’

TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) -- Iran said Friday it has begun producing uranium at 60 percent purity, in another breach of…

Japan to release treated Fukushima water into the sea: PM

  TOKYO, Japan Japan's government on Tuesday approved a plan to release more than one million tons of treated water…

N. Korea says will ignore US contact unless Washington drops ‘hostile policy’: Yonhap

SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) -- North Korea said Thursday it will ignore attempts by the US to contact it, the…

Belarus launches nuclear plant despite Baltic outcry

MINSK, Belarus (AFP) — Belarus on Tuesday launched its controversial Russia-built nuclear power station despite safety concerns from neighbouring Baltic…

Japan to release treated Fukushima water into sea: reports

  TOKYO, Japan (AFP) -- Japan will release more than a million tonnes of treated radioactive water from the stricken…

North Korea flouting nuclear sanctions: UN report

SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) -- North Korea is violating international sanctions aimed at curbing its nuclear program by exceeding a…

Japan marks 75th anniversary of Hiroshima atomic bombing

by Philip FONG HIROSHIMA, Japan (AFP) -- Japan on Thursday marked 75 years since the world's first atomic bomb attack,…

75 years on, Japan bomb survivors make final pleas for abolition

  by Kyoko HASEGAWA Agence France Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) -- As Japan marks 75 years since the devastating attacks…

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