01 Jan: New COVID-19 variant growing rapidly in England 02 Jan: Man arrested on suspicion of manufacturing an explosive device 02 Jan: Coronavirus: BMJ urges NYT to correct vaccine ‘mixing’ article 03 Jan: Factbox: India approves AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine 04…
May 2019 News Round Up
News: Agent Orange: US to clean up toxic Vietnam War air base The U.S. has launched a $183 million clean-up campaign at a former air base in Vietnam that was used to store the toxic chemical Agent Orange. Source: http://time.com/5575064/us-agent-orange-clean-up-vietnam-bien-hoa/?amp=true…
April 2019 News Round Up
News: North Korea ‘preparing rocket launch’, images suggest North Korea may be preparing to launch a missile or rocket, satellite images of a facility near the capital Pyongyang suggest. The pictures are of a site known as Sanumdong – a…
February 2019 News Round Up
News: Salisbury poisoning: EU sanctions Russian suspects Russia has threatened “retaliatory measures” after the European Union slapped sanctions on senior members of its intelligence agency, the GRU. Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/21/uk/eu-sanctions-russia-skripal-suspects-gbr-intl/index.html Salisbury Novichok attack board game ‘beggars belief’ A Russian toymaker has…
January 2019 News Round Up
News: Russia condemns ‘Israeli’ air strikes on Syria Lebanon’s Foreign Ministry Wednesday condemned Israeli airstrikes against Syria carried out one day earlier, and said it filed a complaint to the United Nations accusing Israel of threatening the stability of the…
December 2018 News Round Up
News: North Korea ‘tests ultramodern tactical weapon’ North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has overseen the testing of a “newly developed ultramodern tactical weapon”, Pyongyang’s state media reported Friday, in a move that will raise the temperature over denuclearisation talks.…
November 2018 News Round Up
News: The end of INF: Another nuclear treaty bites the dust On October 20, US President Donald Trump announced that he intends to withdraw the United States from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) with Moscow. Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/inf-nuclear-treaty-bites-dust-181022104406151.html How…
October 2018 News Round Up
News: Monkeypox diagnosed in UK for first time The first ever case of monkeypox has been recorded in the UK. The rare viral infection was recorded on Friday in a Nigerian national staying at a naval base in Cornwall, Public…
August 2018 News Round Up
News: Plutonium is missing, but the government says nothing Two security experts from the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory drove to San Antonio, Texas, in March 2017 with a sensitive mission: to retrieve dangerous nuclear materials from a nonprofit…
July 2018 News Round Up
News: Ricin recovered from apartment in Cologne, Germany A homemade batch of the deadly toxin ricin was found in a Tunisian national’s apartment in Germany, prosecutors said Thursday. A written statement said a 29-year-old — identified only as Sief Allah…