'Europe ready to purchase Iranian heavy water'

The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Ali Akbar Salehi

Here is a round-up of global news developments:

  • Iran says European countries are planning to purchase 20 metric tons of its heavy water. According to Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi, the country has the capacity to produce 20 tons a year of the strategic product.
     
  • At least six Egyptian soldiers have been killed in a fresh bombing in the Sinai Peninsula. According to Egyptian security and hospital officials, a roadside bomb struck a military armored vehicle in the volatile region. No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack, which also wounded six other soldiers.
     
  • At least 16 bus passengers have been killed in a Taliban attack in northern Afghanistan. Officials say the militants also took dozens of passengers hostage after pulling them from several buses in Kunduz province. The Taliban have been at war with the Kabul government and the US-led foreign troops since 2001.
     
  • Doctors without Borders warns that some 100,000 Syrian civilians are trapped on the border with Turkey. Regional manager of the medical charity group, Pablo Marco, says the trapped civilians, who are now only a few kilometers away from the positions of Daesh terrorists, have nowhere to go.
     
  • Amnesty International slams Bahrain for doubling the prison term for prominent opposition figure Sheikh Ali Salman. The human rights group has described the verdict as a shocking attack on the right to freedom of expression. Amnesty says the regime is conducting the policy of harassing opposition politicians and activists.
     
  • Brazil’s Transparency Minister steps down after being accused of trying to derail an ongoing corruption probe before taking office. Fabiano Silveira is the second minister to resign in a week, after the government of acting president Michel Temer took office earlier this month. Planning Minister Romero Juca resigned last week.
     
  • Brazil’s suspended president calls her opponents 'the Oligarch' who are seeking to topple her popular government. Dilma Rousseff made the remarks in an address to a presentation ceremony of a book, which includes essays from dozens of lawyers, journalists and political scientists opposed to her suspension.
     
  • A major fire has broken out at a military ammunition depot in central India, killing at least 17 soldiers. Some 19 others have been wounded in the fire in the city of Pulgaon in Maha-rashtra state. Firefighters have largely controlled the blaze, but there are fears of secondary fires and explosions.

 


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