Sellafield nuclear plant cannot account for 30kg of plutonium which has “gone missing” from its site, it was reported today.

Libya will allow snap inspections to prove it has abandoned its nuclear weapons programme, Prime Minister Shokri Ghanem said today.

UNITED NATIONS Secretary- General Kofi Annan last night said he would order the organisation’s weapons inspectors and humanitarian staff to leave Iraq.

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair said yesterday he was confident of securing agreement on a new United Nations resolution on Iraq as international weapons inspectors prepared for talks on returning to Baghdad.

Tony Blair said today he was “confident” of securing agreement on a new United Nations resolution on Iraq as international weapons inspectors prepared for talks on returning to Baghdad.

The threat posed by Saddam Hussein’s programmes to develop weapons of mass destruction must be tackled “one way or another”, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said today.