TOKYO/FUKUSHIMA: Workers racing against time are building a wall of steel and enclosing materials in the sea Saturday, just outside the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant to prevent radioactive water seeping into the Pacific Ocean.
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Pre-election violence claims 9 lives in Nigeria
ABUJA: At least nine people were killed in a bomb blast at Nigeria’s electoral commission office and an attack on post storing polling materials on the eve of parliamentary polls, officials said here.
Read More »17 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes in three days
JERUSALEM/GAZA: At least 17 Palestinians, six of them civilians, have been killed in the Israeli pounding of the Hamas controlled Gaza Strip since Thursday in the bloodiest escalation since the two sides agreed to an informal ceasefire more than two years ago.
Read More »Sexual harassment row at Yale University
LONDON: Yale University, which has taught five US presidents and 18 Nobel Laureates, is now facing a sexual harassment scandal, it was reported here.
Read More »4 killed in strongest aftershock in Japan
TOKYO/FUKUSHIMA: At least four people were killed and 140 injured in the most powerful aftershock that jolted Japan since the devastating March 11 quake and tsunami, heightening concerns over the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant where engineers battled hard to tackle an atomic crisis.
Read More »50 militants killed in Pak tribal belt
ISLAMABAD: Backed by fighter jets and artillery, Pakistan security forces attacked Taliban hideouts in the country’s restive tribal belt, killing at least 50 militants while losing four of their own men, officials said today.
Read More »Massacre victims found as Ivory Coast standoff continues
ABIDJAN(IVORY COAST): The Ivory Coast’s internationally recognised President, Mr Alassane Ouattara enforced a blockade today around his rival Mr Laurent Gbagbo’s Abidjan residence, as the UN said it had found more than 100 bodies in the west of the country.
Read More »Massive earthquake jolts Japan again
TOKYO/FUKUSHIMA: Japan’s quake-devastated northeast was shaken again by a massive 7.4 magnitude temblor, triggering a tsunami alert, as engineers at the troubled Fukushima nuclear facility pumped in nitrogen into a reactor in their desperate bid to prevent another hydrogen blast.
Read More »Gaddafi paid millions to US firms to polish his global image
BOSTON: The Libya’s strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was spending over USD 3 million annually to mount a secret media campaign and PR effort to spruce up his global image as a statesman and a reformer, confidential documents show.
Read More »Hopes fade for 150 Libya boat people lost at sea
ITALY: The search goes on for some 150 African refugees fleeing Libya, whose boat capsized in the middle of the Mediterranean in stormy weather, a day after 53 survivors were plucked from the sea.
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