The world’s first legally-binding treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons opened for signature today at United Nations Headquarters in New York at a ceremony at which speakers from international organizations, governments and civil society hailed this milestone in achieving a world free of such arsenals as well as the work that remains to be done. Un.org

North Korea has this year repeatedly provoked worldwide outrage with a series of nuclear tests and missile launches, prompting condemnation and threats from despot Kim Jong-un’s Western rivals. And it has now been revealed the campaign of terror is partly thanks to China, who have been supplying North Korea with a key ingredient. Express.co.uk

Russia and Paraguay have signed an agreement on cooperation for peaceful use of nuclear power. The document was signed yesterday, in Vienna, during the 61st International Atomic Energy Agency General Conference, by Alexey Likhachov, director-general of Rosatom, and César Cardozo Román, minister and executive secretary of the National Radiological and Nuclear Control Agency (Autoridad Reguladora Radiológica y Nuclear, ARRN) of Paraguay. World-nuclear-news.org

The head of Russian nuclear power giant Rosatom Alexei Likhachev said Tuesday that construction work had begun at Akkuyu in Turkey, a southern city on the Mediterranean Sea that will house the country’s first nuclear power plant. Nuclearstreet.com