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Iran criticised in new UN report
The International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran is continuing to enrich uranium in defiance of a UN Security Council resolution. In its latest report, the UN watchdog says it has been unable to clear up questions about a possible military dimension to Iran's nuclear work.
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North Korea bans UN weapons monitors
Vienna - North Korea barred UN monitoring throughout its Yongbyon nuclear complex on in a significant step towards scrapping a deal with five powers to scrap its atomic bomb programme, diplomats said. ''The monitors were told that as of today, they are out, no more access permitted to any facilities in Yongbyon.'' The Yongbyon complex includes the reprocessing plant where bomb-grade plutonium can be extracted from spent fuel rods,...
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Traditional lightbulbs banned by EU
The high energy filament bulbs are being phased out in order to improve energy efficiency and meet climate change targets. The switchover, which will affect all of the European Union's 500 million citizens, was first ordered at a Brussels summit last year as part of an ambitious energy policy to fight climate change.
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