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Nuclear watchdog chief announces breakthrough on Iran monitoring

·September 10, 2025·1 min read

“Indispensable” monitoring by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) ended in June, agency chief Rafael Grossi said, when Israel and US-backed airstrikes targeted Iran’s nuclear power installations. At the time, the Iranian authorities confirmed that the Natanz enrichment site had been “impacted” without affecting existing radiation levels, the top IAEA...

Strike on Chernobyl: ‘No room for complacency’ says atomic energy watchdog

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·February 15, 2025·1 min read

Russia has denied any responsibility for the attack. The head of the UN-backed international atomic energy watchdog, IAEA – which has a team based at the former Soviet nuclear site in Ukraine – issued a statement confirming that the strike had caused a fire, describing it as “a deeply concerning incident...

Syria: Chemical weapons watchdog hits reset button in Damascus, following productive meetings

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·February 8, 2025·2 min read

In a press release on Saturday the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said Director-General Fernando Arias and his team had met interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa and caretaker Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani, at their invitation – drawing a line under “11 years of obstruction” by the Assad...

Ukraine’s nuclear security situation ‘highly challenging’, warns UN atomic watchdog

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·November 7, 2024·2 min read

Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) – which is also Europe’s biggest nuclear energy facility – has been under Russian control since shortly after it launched a full-scale military campaign in February 2022. In recent days, an IAEA expert team crossed the frontline to replace colleagues at the Zaporizhzhya plant who...

World News in Brief: Delivering on health at COP28, aid for north Darfur, food standards watchdog turns 60

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·November 27, 2023·3 min read

That’s the message from UN health agency WHO, which said on Monday that negotiators at the upcoming meeting must recognize their responsibility “for the health of populations worldwide”. “Leaders must deliver in Dubai, providing the strong health outcomes their peoples expect and their economies urgently need,” said WHO chief Tedros...