Radioactive Materials Seized in Central Russia
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Russian security services seized two containers filled with highly radioactive material at a scrap yard in central Russia, Interfax news agency said on Tuesday.
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German police have said they had found &quot;indications&quot; of a source of radioactivity in an apartment building in Hamburg used by Dmitry Kovtun, a contact of the poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.
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A large consignment of uranium - most of it highly enriched - has been flown to Russia from eastern Germany.
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Equipment which could be used in an illicit nuclear bomb programme has disappeared from previously monitored sites in Iraq, and radioactively contaminated items from there have been found abroad, the International Atomic Energy Agency has told the UN.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - Police have seized a load of  black market uranium and thorium taken from a secret mine in  the jungle in northern Brazil, an official said on Tuesday.
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Armed terrorists seized a school in Russia&#39;s North Ossetia region, bordering Chechnya, Wednesday, taking hundreds of hostages including some 200 children.
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9 September 2004 -- Russian police in St. Petersburg said today they found explosives, detonators, and a gun in a cinema which was closed for renovation.
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Russia is increasingly worried its nuclear material may fall into the wrong hands, and is working with the US to try to recover it from third countries, writes the BBC's Gordon Corera.
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Russia reports a radiation leak at a nuclear plant in the Urals, but says that nobody was hurt.
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Armed attackers have seized a school in town in southern Russia, and Russia&#39;s ITAR-TASS news agency says about 400 people, including 200 children, are being held.
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The signs say "KEEP OUT" and warn of radiation contamination, but the mushroom-pickers trudge right past them carrying their pails. Eighteen years after the reactor at Chernobyl in neighboring Ukraine exploded, spewing a cloud of radiation that blew north and contaminated 22 percent of this ex-Soviet republic, activists warn of a new threat facing Belarusians: the longing to return to normal life.
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BESLAN, Russia - Heavily armed militants who seized a school three days ago are holding at least 1,000 students, teachers and parents hostage inside the building, far more than previously thought, a released hostage and a regional official said.    Russian officials had said that about 350 people were being held by raiders who seized the school in the North Ossetian city of Beslan on Wednesday...
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Police investigating the death of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko are searching for radioactive substances.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency says several hundred tons of high explosive material have disappeared in Iraq. The agency says a lack of security has led to looting from several sites.
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One reactor at a Russian nuclear power  station was closed down after a malfunction, but there was no  leak of radiation at the site near the city of Saratov on the  Volga river, Russian news agencies reported on Friday.
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CHERBOURG, France, Oct 6  - Police threw a heavy escort around a shipment of plutonium from US weapons arsenals as it was offloaded from a ship and taken by military convoy to a nuclear recycling plant in western France on Wednesday despite protests
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Russian authorities say they have now found traces of explosives in the wreckage of both passenger aircraft that crashed Tuesday. Investigators say they found explosive residue in debris from an airliner that went down in the Tula region south of Moscow.