The United States Department of Justice building in Washington, DC. (AFP)

‘Really puzzling’: Myanmar’s uranium mystery

The United States claimed it foiled a plot by an alleged Yakuza boss to sell weapons-grade plutonium sourced by an ethnic armed group in Myanmar, but experts say the story doesn’t add up.

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