Saudi Arabia's first nuclear reactor nearly finished, sparking fears over safeguards
Riyadh has so far resisted international watchdog’s requests to accept a strict inspection regime
Riyadh has so far resisted international watchdog’s requests to accept a strict inspection regime
Saudi Arabia is within months of completing its first nuclear reactor, new satellite images show, but it has yet to show any readiness to abide by safeguards that would prevent it making a bomb.
The reactor site is in the King Abdulaziz city for science and technology on the outskirts of Riyadh. The site was identified by Robert Kelley, a former director for nuclear inspections at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), who said it was very small 30-kilowatt research reactor, not far from completion.
“I would guess they could have it all done, with the roof in place and the electricity turned on, within a year,” said Kelley, who worked for more than three decades in research and engineering in the US nuclear weapons complex.
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If Trump closes U.S.-Mexico border, here's who will really feel the pain
· CBC News
Yesterday afternoon, Donald Trump was "100 per cent" ready to shut all, or part, of the U.S. border with Mexico to gain leverage in his ongoing fight with Congress over immigration and his dream of a wall.
A few hours later, during an evening speech at the National Republican Congressional Committee's annual spring dinner, he suggested that his threats are working so well that he won't be able to carry through with the plan.
"I really wanted to close it. But now Mexico is saying, 'No, no, no,'" he said. "And they've apprehended over 1,000 people at the southern border, their southern border. And they're bringing them back to their countries."
Poor eating habits killing millions globally, study says
One in five people across the world dies of causes linked with poor diet, a new study shows. Overconsumption of meat, salt and sugar is the main culprit, the experts behind the study say.
People across the world are eating too much of the wrong food and much too little of the healthy types, a study in the journal "The Lancet" says.
The study, released on Thursday, indicates that poor diet is responsible for more deaths than any other risk factor, including smoking. The largest killer in the 11 million global deaths attributed to poor diet every year is cardiovascular disease, which is often caused or made worse by obesity.
Pro-gun Bolsonaro fires up foreign hopes for Brazil defense market
With its high murder rate and huge armed forces, Brazil has long been in the cross-hairs of foreign weapons makers. Now they have a powerful champion: pro-gun President Jair Bolsonaro.
The right-wing former army captain, who relaxed gun ownership laws soon after taking power in January, has raised hopes among foreign firms that his next move will be easing investment restrictions on Brazil's 200 billion reais ($55 billion) defense sector.
"For many, many years nothing moved here for us and now there's really hope and optimism that this will change in the near future," Martin Neujahr of Swiss company RUAG Ammotec told AFP as he stood next to a bench displaying rows of gleaming high-precision bullets at a major defense expo in Rio de Janeiro this week.Carlos Ghosn rearrested on fresh charges, but vows he 'will not be broken'
BY SATOSHI SUGIYAMA
STAFF WRITER
In an extraordinary move, Tokyo prosecutors rearrested former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn, who had been released on bail, Thursday morning on suspicion of misappropriating the company’s money.
Ghosn was rearrested for alleged aggravated breach of trust, according to media reports.
His fourth arrest came less than 24 hours after he announced from a newly launched Twitter account that he was “getting ready to tell the truth about what’s happening,” and that he would hold a news conference in Tokyo on April 11.
Ethiopian Airlines crash report being released
By Helen Regan and Ben Westcott, CNN
The preliminary report finds that the Ethiopian Airlines crew "performed all procedures repeatedly provided by the manufacturer but were unable to control the aircraft," according to Ethiopian safety investigators in the capital Addis Ababa.
Ethiopian crew "followed all expected procedures without regaining control of aircraft" says source
From CNN's Robyn Kriel
The preliminary report into the Ethiopian Airlines crash has determined that “the crew followed all expected procedures without managing to take back control of the aircraft,” according to a Western diplomatic source briefed on the investigation.
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