Foreign Minister Taro Kono of Japan got a scathing reaction from the international community over his call to not be taken in by North Korea's latest charm offensive. Asahi.com Cyprus says it will lodge protests over the construction of Turkey’s first nuclear power plant a few dozen kilometers from the east Mediterranean island nation. Washingtonpost.com Russia's Rosatom has completed concreting the foundation of unit 1 of the Rooppur nuclear power plant in Bangladesh. ASE Group, a subsidiary of the Russian state nuclear corporation, said today the project to build the Asian country's first nuclear power unit was on schedule. World-nuclear-news.org Nuclear energy is not coming to Turkey quickly. ahvalnews2.com
