NucSec

Mystery nuclear 'leak' from Chinese power plant could spark 'disaster' – US raises alarm

Chinese nuclear plant 'is leaking and could turn into disaster'

Source country dailymail Monday, June 14, 2021 8:29:00 PM CEST | info

Entities: Xi Jinping[1]; Vladimir Putin[1];

Other categories: Reactors;

Problems at the power plant first came to light in late May when French firm Framatome reached out to US intelligence agencies to alert them of it, according to documents sent to the Department of Energy and seen by A follow-up memo sent on June 3 identified the issue as a 'fission gas leak' and.......

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Israel's new prime minister gets to work after Netanyahu era ends

New Israeli government gets to work after Netanyahu's ouster

Source country startribune Monday, June 14, 2021 6:43:00 PM CEST | info

Entities: Reuven Rivlin[1]; Naftali Bennett[1]; Yaïr Lapid[1]; Joseph Biden[1]; Donald Trump[1]; David Bittan[1]; Antony Blinken[1]; Narendra Modi[1];

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Yaïr Lapid said: "The outgoing administration took a terrible gamble in focusing only on the Republicans and abandoning Israel's bipartisan standing,"

Newly minted Prime Minister Naftali Bennett held a brief handover meeting in the afternoon with his predecessor, but without the formal ceremony that traditionally accompanies a change in government — a sign of Netanyahu's lingering anger and hostility toward the new government....

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The Latest: NATO: China is a constant security challenge

The Latest: Macron downplays NATO wording on China

Source country therepublic Monday, June 14, 2021 8:00:00 PM CEST | info

Entities: Mario Draghi[1]; Boris Johnson[1]; Emmanuel Macron[2]; Angela Merkel[1]; Jens Stoltenberg[2]; Alexander De Croo[2]; Vladimir Putin[4]; Joseph Biden[6]; Recep Tayyip Erdogan[6]; Donald Trump[2];

Other categories: International Terrorism;

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Emmanuel Macron said: “I think it is very important not to scatter our efforts and not to have biases in our relation to China. It’s much broader than the military topic: It’s economic, strategic, about values and technological”

BRUSSELS — French President Emmanuel Macron has downplayed NATO’s wording in declaring China a global security challenge, saying it “must not divert us from the heart of NATO’s tasks.” In a news conference Monday, Macron said: “I think it is very important not to scatter our efforts and not to have biases in our relation to China....

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Netanyahu Out of Power in Israel for First Time in 12 Years

News24.com | A 'new day' in Israel after Netanyahu unseated and Bennett takes charge

Source country news24 Monday, June 14, 2021 4:54:00 PM CEST | info

Entities: Naftali Bennett[2]; Yaïr Lapid[1]; Fawzi Barhoum[1]; Ben Kaspit[1]; Joseph Biden[1];

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Joseph Biden said (about Naftali Bennett) : "I look forward to working with Prime Minister Bennett to strengthen all aspects of the close and enduring relationship between our two nations. Israel has no better friend than the United States"

Naftali Bennett said: "time has come for different leaders, from all parts of the population, to stop, to stop this madness"

Ben Kaspit said: "This morning is the dawn of a new day,"

Ben Kaspit said: "It is a morning of hard, sometimes Sisyphean work, to rebuild the ruins. Netanyahu and Bibi-ism were not defeated by the left or by the right, but by sanity, or at least by the yearning for sanity," "The wish of many Israelis to live in quiet, without incitement, without hatred - and mainly, without the endless lies that Netanyahu's legacy bequeathed to us"

The watershed moment in Israeli politics saw an ideologically disparate eight-party bloc, ranging from right to left to Arab Islamic conservatives, band together to unseat the bombastic veteran known as Bibi by a wafer-thin margin of 60 votes to 59 in parliament on Sunday....

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Many European leaders still see Russia as the principal concern.

NATO recognises China as a 'security challenge' for the first time

Source country euronews-en Monday, June 14, 2021 8:49:00 PM CEST | info

Entities: Emmanuel Macron[1]; Angela Merkel[1]; Joseph Biden[1]; Jens Stoltenberg[1];

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Jens Stoltenberg said: "We're not entering a new Cold War and China is not our adversary, not our enemy... we need to address together, as an alliance, the challenges that the rise of China poses to our security,"

The transatlantic military alliance NATO has for the first time described China as presenting a "serious challenge". It claimed Beijing was working to undermine the global order and expressed concern about how fast the country is developing nuclear missiles. NATO leaders were meeting in Brussels on Monday....

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US, Russia envoys discuss Iran nuclear deal ahead of summit

US, Russia envoys discuss Iran nuclear deal ahead of summit

Source country therepublic Monday, June 14, 2021 8:53:00 PM CEST | info

Entities: Matthew Rojansky[1]; Vladimir Putin[1]; Joseph Biden[1]; Mikhaïl Oulianov[1];

Other categories: Enrichment;

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Mikhaïl Oulianov wrote: “Our dialogue in Vienna seems to be proof that the two countries can maintain businesslike cooperation on issues of common interest, non-proliferation in this particular case,”

VIENNA Delegations from Russia and the United States involved in nuclear negotiations with Iran held talks in Vienna on Monday, two days ahead of a summit meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The United States is not directly involved in the Vienna.......

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Risks Aplenty for Israel's Fragile New Government

Risks Aplenty for Israel's Fragile New Government

Source country naharnet-en Monday, June 14, 2021 4:56:00 PM CEST | info

Entities: David Ben-Gurion[1]; Yohanan Plesner[1]; Naftali Bennett[1]; Benjamin Netanyahu[1]; Joseph Biden[1]; Donald Trump[1];

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Yohanan Plesner said: "This government will have to refrain from surprising the U.S. administration on maneuvers in the West Bank, settlements and so on,"

Israel's new government, a fragile alliance spanning the political spectrum, is meant to endure until 2025 but it could be brought down quickly by divisive issues such as the Palestinian conflict, analysts said Monday. And that excludes any moves by Benjamin Netanyahu, a shrewd politician who is.......

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NATO declares China a global security challenge

NATO leaders declare China a global security challenge

Source country bostonglobe Monday, June 14, 2021 6:49:00 PM CEST | info

BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO leaders on Monday declared that China poses a constant security challenge and is working to undermine global order, and they said they’re worried about how fast the Chinese are developing nuclear missiles. In a summit statement, the leaders said that China’s goals and “assertive.......

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Global Nuclear Arsenals Grow as States Continue to Modernize

Global Nuclear Arsenals Grow as States Continue to Modernize

Source country homelandsecuritynewswire Monday, June 14, 2021 3:53:00 PM CEST | info

Entities: Dan Smith[1]; Hans M Kristensen[1];

Other categories: Treaties and Agreements;

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Hans M Kristensen said: “The overall number of warheads in global military stockpiles now appears to be increasing, a worrisome sign that the declining trend that has characterized global nuclear arsenals since the end of the cold war has stalled,”

Hans M Kristensen said: “Both Russia and the USA appear to be increasing the importance they attribute to nuclear weapons in their national security strategies,”

A new report finds that despite an overall decrease in the number of nuclear warheads in 2020, more have been deployed with operational forces. The nine nuclear-armed states together possessed an estimated 13 080 nuclear weapons at the start of 2021, a decrease from the 13 400 at the beginning of.......

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Israel's Lapid Vows to End 'Hostile' Relations Abroad

Israel's Lapid Vows to End 'Hostile' Relations Abroad

Source country naharnet-en Monday, June 14, 2021 4:56:00 PM CEST | info

Entities: Gaby Ashkenazi[1]; Emmanuel Macron[1]; Josep Borrell[1]; Barack Obama[1]; Yaïr Lapid[1]; Benjamin Netanyahu[1]; Donald Trump[1]; Antony Blinken[1];

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Yaïr Lapid said: "The management of the relationship with the Democratic Party in the United States was careless and dangerous," "I've warned against it more than once, but the outgoing government took a terrible gamble, reckless and dangerous, to focus exclusively on the Republican Party and abandon Israel's bipartisan standing"

Israel's new Foreign minister Yair Lapid on Monday vowed to improve relations with U.S. Democrats while ending "hostile" ties with Europe he accused Benjamin Netanyahu of cultivating. The centrist broker who forged an unlikely coalition deal to unseat the hawkish former prime minister told foreign.......

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