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On June 1, the same video was shared on TikTok with caption references to Libya in hashtags (here). “Libyan authorities are active in wide areas in Libya, so Libyan armed forces launched a security campaign days ago, to fight trafficking gangs and drugs trade and human beings,” the BBC presenter reported. “Libyan authorities found thousands of illegal immigrants arrested in the houses and farms of the traffickers. Libyan authorities decided to deport them, there were Egyptians among those immigrants.”VERDICTMiscaptioned. The video shows the deportation to Egypt of migrants found living illegally in Libya, with no evidence that the migrants are on their way to Italy.
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VIENNA, March 24 (Reuters) - Most of the roughly 2.5 tons of natural uranium ore concentrate (UOC) recently declared missing from a site in Libya have been found at that site, the U.N. nuclear watchdog told member states on Friday in a statement seen by Reuters. The International Atomic Energy Agency informed member states in a similar confidential statement on March 15 first reported by Reuters that 10 drums containing the UOC had gone missing from a Libyan site not under government control. "During the (inspection), Agency inspectors observed that drums that had not been present at the declared location at the time of the previous (inspection) had since been brought back and left in close proximity to the declared location," it said. "Agency inspectors confirmed that these drums contained UOC and witnessed their transfer back to within the declared location for storage," the statement added. Reporting by Francois Murphy; Editing by Leslie Adler and Alistair BellOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Explainer: Everything to know about nuclear fuel uranium
  + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
Here is everything you need to know about uranium and its usage as a nuclear fuel. WHAT IS URANIUM USED FOR? The radioactive metal is the most widely used fuel for nuclear energy due to its abundance and the relative ease of splitting its atoms. It is also used in treating cancer, for naval propulsion, and in nuclear weapons. HOW MUCH URANIUM IS NEEDED FOR A NUCLEAR WEAPONThe amount of uranium that went missing contains enough of the U-235 isotope to build a first-generation nuclear bomb if enriched to over 90%, according to Dr. Edwin Lyman from the Union of Concerned Scientists.
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