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Russia said on Sunday that it plans to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, a seemingly tit-for-tat response to the UK’s announcement last week that it would supply Ukraine with armour-piercing shells made from depleted uranium. Although the rounds contain trace amounts of radioactivity, Russia has falsely claimed the ammunition…

UN inspectors visiting southern Libya found drums containing natural uranium reported missing earlier this month in the chaos-stricken country, the UN nuclear watchdog said Saturday. The International Atomic Energy Agency said earlier this month that some 2.5 tons of natural uranium stored at a site in the southern town of…

Russia's defence ministry said on Friday that the use of depleted uranium shells in Ukraine would harm Ukrainian troops, the wider population and negatively affect the country's agriculture sector for decades or even centuries.

Britain said it would supply armour piercing munitions containing depleted uranium to Ukraine to help destroy Russian tanks, a step President Vladimir Putin said would force a response from Moscow as the weapons had "a nuclear component".

Uranium is used as fuel in nuclear power plants to create electricity. Producing nuclear energy has extremely low greenhouse gas emissions, making it an attractive form of clean energy.

European diplomats from Germany, France, and Britain, met last week in Oslo with the Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri-Kani, sources in the German Foreign Ministry confirmed to Asharq Al-Awsat. They indicated the talks focused on asking Tehran to explain the origin of highly enriched uranium particles found by the…

A team from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) arrived Tuesday in southern Libya to inspect a natural uranium storage site containing 6,400 barrels, Fawasel media reported. The site said the IAEA team arrived in Sabha airport in southern Libya coming from Vienna. “The team left Libya after completing the…

Armour-piercing ammunition emits low levels of radiation after exploding but is not considered a nuclear weapon.

Russia has issued a full-throated warning that the West risks further escalation in Ukraine after the British government announced it is providing depleted uranium munitions to Ukraine