India’s government spice board has launched factory inspections of two top companies in the wake of foreign bans following accusations some products were tainted with pesticides, media reports said Tuesday. India is a key spice producer making up some 12 percent of global exports, totalling $4.25 billion last year, according to the Global Trade Research […]
SEOUL, May 15 (UPI) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected a new tactical missile system and called for an “epochal change” in war preparations, state media reported Wednesday, as the authoritarian regime continues to ramp up production of weapons that may be intended for sale to Russia. Kim “acquainted himself with the tactical […]
A team of experts from the UN nuclear agency inspected the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Wednesday, for a review of its discharge of treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific. The International Atomic Energy Agency inspection was part of a four-day visit to Japan that started on Tuesday, its second since the water […]
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius is in Norway to get a first-hand look at the NATO operations on Norway’s border with Russia. The minister arrived in the town of Kirkenes on Wednesday, the second day of his trip to Scandinavia, and plans to visit a border post manned by NATO-member forces. Up until Russia started […]