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TEHRAN -- Iran has started producing uranium enriched at a 60-percent purity, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said on Friday.
"The 60-percent enrichment is currently underway at the Shahid Ahmadi Roshan nuclear facility" in central Iran's Natanz, Ali Akbar Salehi said in an interview with the semi-official Tasnim news agency.
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WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday called for de-escalating the tension with Moscow after authorizing multiple sanctions against Russia.
In his remarks at the White House, Biden detailed his phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this week, as well as his administration's approach to bilateral relations.
"I was clear with President Putin that we could have gone further, but I chose not to do so. I chose to be proportionate," Biden said, referring to the punitive actions against Russia that he authorized.
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PYONGYANG -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Thursday night denounced Japan's decision to discharge radioactive wastewater into sea as a "threat to human existence," reported the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
The Japanese government's decision, made in disregard of strong international opposition, would be "another disaster upon mankind suffering from malignant epidemic," the KCNA said in a commentary.
"This is an unpardonable criminal decision posing grave threat to health and security of mankind and ecological environment, which comes to be another clear instance showing Japan's shamelessness and gangster-like nature," said the KCNA.
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MOSCOW -- The Russian Foreign Ministry on Thursday asked Japan to "approach the important issue (of dealing with the Fukushima radioactive wastewater) with all responsibility."
"We have expressed serious concerns over the intention of the Japanese side (to discharge the Fukushima radioactive wastewater into the ocean)," the ministry's spokesperson Maria Zakharova told a briefing.
"We expect the Japanese government to demonstrate a proper degree of transparency and inform all countries concerned of its actions that may pose a radiation hazard," she said, adding that Russia is awaiting more detailed explanations. Enditem
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