The 9 countries armed with nukes as US set to resume weapons testing - IN FOCUS: There has been renewed focus on nuclear arsenals after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, James C Reynolds and Maryam Zakir-

Germany has asked for the assistance of the global chemical agency in investigating the alleged poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny with a banned toxic chemical, the Hague-based organisation said in a statement on Thursday.

“Latest: 8,300 students killed. 12 universities hit,” reads a news ticker at the bottom of the screen. “Authorities are still struggling to make sense of an attack on university campuses worldwide, which targeted some students and not others,” the newsreader says.

There will be no surviving a nuclear war. “Nuclear war,” said Pope Benedict XVI, “will have no victors—only victims.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday the world would have no future without a system of arms control, with the future of a nuclear weapons pact between Russia and the United States hanging in the balance.