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Iran says it will increase its enrichment of uranium to 60% purity - its highest figure ever - bringing it closer to the levels needed for a nuclear weapon.

A truck driver who was under the influence of drugs and sleep deprived when he drove into four police officers has been sentenced to 22 years in prison.

Clean water supplies are running short on the Caribbean island of St Vincent after ash from a volcanic eruption contaminated reservoirs.

Prosecutors in Italy are urging the World Health Organisation to assist them in their investigations into Italy's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

At least 20 people have been killed after a bus overturned in Egypt while trying to pass a truck.

Japan will release more than one million tonnes of radioactive water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean.

Egypt has filed a multi-million pound compensation claim against the owner of the container ship that blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week.

A fifth of the UK’s energy comes from nuclear but opposition to the power source persists.

A senior MP says parliament's email system is less secure than Google's Gmail as he claimed to have been the victim of Chinese "psy-ops".

The sale of live wild mammals at food markets should be suspended as an emergency measure, the World Health Organisation has said.