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Heroic workers risk lives to avert meltdown

World NewsMar 17, 2011

FUKUSHIMA, Japan (AP) ― They risk explosions, fire and an invisible enemy ― radiation that could kill quickly or decades later ― as they race to avert disaster inside a dark, overheated nuclear plant...
Japan carmakers still hobbled after quake

World BusinessMar 17, 2011

TOYKO (AP) ― The Japanese auto industry remained largely hobbled Thursday, nearly a week after the country’s worst-ever earthquake laid waste to its industrial northeast, although some manufacturers ...
Bahrain curfew as uprising surges

World NewsMar 17, 2011

Sunni leaders desperate to hold on to power, Shiites calling for end to dynasty MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) ― Soldiers and riot police in Bahrain overran a protesters’ camp, imposed a 12-hour curfew and ch...
Cambodia sets age limit for foreign husbands

Mar 17, 2011

PHNOM PENH (AFP) - Male foreigners over the age of 50 have been outlawed from marrying Cambodian women in the country under new rules designed to crack down on sham marriages and human trafficking, ...
More governments advising citizens to leave Tokyo

World NewsMar 17, 2011

TOKYO (AP) _ Australia, Britain and Germany advised their citizens in Japan to consider leaving Tokyo and earthquake-affected areas, joining a growing number of governments and businesses telling the...
4 New York Times journalists missing in Libya

World NewsMar 17, 2011

NEW YORK (AP) _ Four New York Times journalists covering the fighting in Libya were reported missing Wednesday, and the newspaper held out hope that they were alive and in the custody of the Libyan g...
4 New York Times journalists missing in Libya

World NewsMar 17, 2011

NEW YORK (AP) _ Four New York Times journalists covering the fighting in Libya were reported missing Wednesday, and the newspaper held out hope that they were alive and in the custody of the Libyan g...
Japan helicopters dump water on nuclear plant

World NewsMar 17, 2011

TOKYO, March 17, 2011 (AFP) - Japanese military helicopters dumped water Thursday from huge buckets onto the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant in a bid to douse fuel rods, television images show...
Crisis deepens at quake-hit Japan nuclear plant

World NewsMar 16, 2011

TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's nuclear crisis deepened Wednesday with another fire at a quake-hit atomic power plant and a radiation spike there that forced the temporary evacuation of workers. Military heli...
Japanese emperor: I am praying for the nation

WorldMar 16, 2011

TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's Emperor Akihito said Wednesday he was praying for the safety of the people in the wake of last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami, in a rare public address on live televi...
Tokyo shares end 5.68 percent higher

World NewsMar 16, 2011

TOKYO (AFP) - Tokyo shares closed up 5.68 percent Wednesday on bargain hunting following a huge two-day selloff, as Japan scrambled to avoid a nuclear catastrophe.
Japan's neighbors monitor shipments for radiation

WorldMar 16, 2011

BEIJING (AP) _ Japan's neighbors have ordered strengthened radiation monitoring of shipments from Japan, but said they don't foresee their countries having any immediate effects of contamination from...
Radiation levels fall in Tokyo area: officials

World NewsMar 16, 2011

TOKYO (AFP) - The levels of radiation detected in Tokyo and neighboring Chiba fell back Tuesday after rising above normal levels possibly due to radiation emitted from a quake-hit nuclear power plant...
Japan: 70 pct of reactor fuel rods may be damaged

World NewsMar 16, 2011

TOKYO (AP) _ Japan's nuclear safety agency says 70 percent of the nuclear fuel rods in an earthquake-stricken reactor may have been damaged following an explosion. An agency spokesman, Minoru Ohgoda...
Nuclear catastrophe looms in Japan

World NewsMar 15, 2011

P.M. warns of high-level radiation leak following blasts at 2 more reactors Residents ordered to stay indoors and not to turn on ventilators SOMA, Japan (AP) -- Radiation leaked from a crippled nuc...