Category: World

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has for the first time released images of the country’s uranium enrichment facility as he orders an increase in the number of nuclear weapons. This is the first such statement since 2010. Experts say the move could be aimed at pressuring the US and influencing elections. South Korea’s Unification Ministry strongly condemned these steps, calling them a threat to international peace.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the use on Russian territory of long-range weapons supplied to Ukraine would mean NATO’s direct involvement in the war.

A repeating tone – blip, blip, blip – is the audible reminder that we are in one of the most hazardous nuclear sites in the world: Sellafield. That sound – pulsing from speakers inside the cavernous fuel-handling plant – is a signal that everything is functioning as it should. That is comforting because Sellafield, in…