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SNIPPET: "South African police say they have arrested four men in the capital, Pretoria, for attempting to sell what they describe as an industrial nuclear device to undercover officers. The men - all South Africans - were arrested Friday at a Pretoria gas station, where they attempted to sell the device for about $6 million. Police say Interpol was also involved in the operation."

Border guards seized a British lorry on its way to make a delivery to the Iranian military - after discovering it was packed with radioactive material that could be used to build a dirty bomb. The lorry set off from Kent on its way to Tehran but was stopped by officials at a checkpoint on Bulgaria's northernborder with Romania after a scanner indicated radiation levels 200 times above normal. The lorry was impounded and the Bulgarian Nuclear Regulatory Agency (NPA) was called out. On board they found ten lead-lined boxes addressed to the Iranian Ministry of Defence. Inside each box...

AN international hunt is under way for up to 130lb of radioactive material — suitable for use in a terrorist “dirty bomb” — that brokers are trying to sell to the highest bidder in southeast Asia. Police and intelligence officials from Thailand and several western powers are helping to track down the caesium-137, which is said to be stored in neighbouring Laos. The search follows the arrest in Bangkok on June 13 of a Thai headmaster, Narong Penanam, 44, who tried to sell 62lb of the material for £150,000 to undercover Thai police working with American agents. Western officials and...