China’s largest natural uranium production project starts construction

CGTN

China’s largest natural uranium production project started construction on Friday in Ordos in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, according to China Atomic Energy Authority (CAEA).

Part of CAEA’s nuclear industry development plan, the project is being developed by China National Nuclear Corporation. It will become a natural uranium production base with the highest standards, featuring green, economical, intelligent and efficient operations.

Dozens of bodies discovered after ‘massacre’

Al Jazeera

Israeli forces are accused of deliberately targeting displaced Palestinians in Gaza City where dozens of bodies have been recovered after attacks in the city’s Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood.

Director-General of the Gaza Government Media Office Ismail al-Thawabta has accused Israeli forces of carrying out a “planned massacre” in Gaza City.

A new arms race in Europe? US long-range weapons in Germany

DW

The US wants to install long-range weapons in Germany for the first time since the 1990s. Parties on both the right and left are warning of a new arms race.

For the first time since the 1990s, the United States wants to install long-range weapons in Germany. The agreement was reached at the most recent NATO summit in Washington. “We know that there has been an incredible arms buildup in Russia, with weapons that threaten European territory,” German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in Washington.

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 grounded after failure dooms batch of Starlink satellites

Japan Times

SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket was grounded by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday after one broke apart in space and doomed its payload of Starlink satellites, the first failure in more than seven years of a rocket relied upon by the global space industry.

Roughly an hour after Falcon 9 lifted off from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Thursday night, the rocket’s second stage failed to reignite and deployed its 20 Starlink satellites on a shallow orbital path where they will reenter Earth’s atmosphere and burn up.