World
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War in Ukraine
3/25/2023 10:20:43 PM
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday he would deploy tactical nuclear weapons in neighbour and ally Belarus, bringing the arms to a country at the gates of the European Union.
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World
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Region
3/4/2023 11:50:13 AM
The UN nuclear watchdog chief said Saturday he had "constructive" meetings with Iranian officials in Tehran after the discovery of uranium particles enriched to near weapons-grade level.
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World
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War in Ukraine
2/24/2023 1:12:18 PM
China called Friday for urgent peace talks as it released its plan to end the war in Ukraine, but Western powers quickly rebuffed the proposals while warning against Beijing's closening ties to Moscow.
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World
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Region
2/22/2023 4:00:50 PM
Iran said Wednesday that International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors were in the country to clear up "ambiguities" about its uranium enrichment activities.
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World
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War in Ukraine
2/21/2023 8:44:40 PM
Russia said Tuesday it will respect the caps on nuclear weapons under the New START nuclear arms control treaty with the U.S. even after President Vladimir Putin suspended Moscow’s participation in the pact.
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World
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War in Ukraine
2/21/2023 5:05:00 PM
Russian President Vladimir Putin says that Russia is suspending its participation in a treaty aimed at keeping a lid on nuclear weapons expansion, while Washington bemoans the pullout but said ready to talk.
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World
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International
1/3/2023 5:54:33 PM
Washington and Seoul are planning an "effective coordinated" response if North Korea uses nuclear weapons, the White House warned on Tuesday.
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World
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War in Ukraine
12/7/2022 7:28:48 PM
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday hailed the annexation of Ukrainian territories as a major achievement and said his country's nuclear weapons serve as a tool of deterrence in the war that the Kremlin calls a "special military operation.''
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World
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War in Ukraine
11/14/2022 6:42:56 PM
US Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns was holding talks with his Russian counterpart Monday in Ankara to warn him about the consequences of using nuclear weapons, which Moscow has threatened to deploy in Ukraine.
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World
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International
11/14/2022 6:26:23 PM
Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping clashed Monday over Taiwan but found areas of common ground during the powers' first in-person summit in three years, including a joint warning against Russia using nuclear weapons in Ukraine.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/9/2022 12:44:33 PM
The world should confront climate change the way it does nuclear weapons, by agreeing to a non-proliferation treaty that stops further production of fossil fuels, a small island nation leader urged.
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World
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International
11/1/2022 9:20:24 PM
North Korea issued a veiled threat Tuesday to use nuclear weapons to get the U.S. and South Korea to ``pay the most horrible price in history,`` an escalation of its fiery rhetoric targeting the ongoing large-scale military drills between its rivals.
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World
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International
11/1/2022 8:34:55 PM
Sweden's new prime minister said Tuesday he was open to allowing nuclear weapons on Swedish soil once the country becomes a NATO member, a turnaround from the previous government's stance.
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World
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War in Ukraine
10/25/2022 9:39:20 PM
US President Joe Biden warned Russia on Tuesday against using a nuclear weapon in the war with Ukraine, saying such an escalation would be a grave error.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
10/18/2022 8:38:30 PM
They say that if a butterfly flutters its wings in Japan, the effect will be felt as far away as Mexico. In theory this is true. The impact of butterfly wing’s flap may be very faint in its immediate environment, but repetitive flaps create a cumulative and far-reaching effect.
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World
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War in Ukraine
10/13/2022 9:43:04 PM
Russian President Vladimir Putin would be crossing a ``very important line'' if he were to order the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warned Thursday, as both the military alliance and Russia are due to hold nuclear exercises in the next few days.
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World
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War in Ukraine
10/11/2022 5:29:10 PM
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday said Russia was striking Ukraine's infrastructure to make up for battlefield losses by its troops and vowed allies would "step up and sustain" support for Kyiv.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
10/5/2022 8:39:39 PM
All indications are that, far from winding down, the seven-month-old war in Ukraine is heading for greater escalation, at least in the short term, with the nightmarish scenario of nuclear weapons on the cards.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
10/1/2022 8:13:23 PM
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said Saturday that Russia should consider using low-yield nuclear weapons after Moscow's troops were forced out of a key town in eastern Ukraine.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
9/26/2022 10:33:37 AM
An overnight drone strike near the Ukrainian port of Odesa sparked a massive fire and explosion, the military said Monday, hours after the United States vowed to take decisive action and promised ``catastrophic consequences`` if Russia uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine.
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