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World in brief: December 6, 2019

SOUTH KOREA: President Moon Jae In said yesterday that China’s “positive role” was essential to keep denuclearisation talks with the North alive.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi was visiting Seoul to promote co-operation against “unilateralism” and “forcible politics” emanating from Washington.
The talks have stalled due to disagreements between the United States and North Korea. President Donald Trump said yesterday he had a “great relationship” with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, but then referred to him as “rocket man” — prompting the North to “diagnose” him with “a relapse of the dotage of a dotard.”

RUSSIA: Nuclear fuel company TVEL said yesterday that it had to halt joint research with Iran after the latter resumed uranium enrichment.
Uranium enrichment at the Fordo facility is technologically incompatible with planned production of radioactive isotopes for medical purposes, it said.
Iran is enriching uranium beyond agreed levels in response to the US decision to abandon a six-party deal on its nuclear programme signed in 2015.

SPAIN: The Ecological Transition Ministry has unveiled an app it says will help officials clamp down on the illegal timber trade.
A new kit includes a guide to protected species, tools to obtain wood samples and an app that can help identify such species. It was unveiled at the United Nations-sponsored COP-25 climate change summit yesterday.
Tropical timber trafficking accounts for 80 per cent of smuggled wild plants and animals.

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