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Assad seeks to curb prayer protests

Apr 15, 2011
Japan orders compensation for nuke evacuees

Apr 15, 2011

TEPCO to give money to residents unable to return to homes near nuclear plant TOKYO (AP) ― Japan’s government Friday ordered the operator of a tsunami-damaged nuclear plant leaking radiation to pay about $12,000 to each household forced to evacuate from the area. Tens of thousands of residents unable to return to their homes near the nuclear plant are bereft of their livelihoods and possessions...
Number of bodies found Mexico state rises to 122

Apr 15, 2011

Mexican army soldiers patrol the streets in Ciudad Mier, Tamaulipas State, Mexico. (AP-Yonhap News) MEXICO CITY (AP) _ Mexican investigators found a clandestine grave with six bodies in Tamaulipas state, bringing to 122 the number of bodies found in pits in a region near the U.S. border that is wracked by battling drug cartels, authorities said Wednesday. Tamaulipas state Interior Secretary Mor...
Western, Arab nations say Gadhafi must go

Apr 14, 2011
Spent fuel rods add to trouble at nuke plant

Apr 14, 2011

High radioactivity in water may be result of damage to fuel rods and debris TOKYO (AP) ― The operator of Japan’s tsunami-flooded nuclear power complex was seeking ways Thursday to pull damaged spent fuel rods out of a storage pool at one of its reactors, citing surging radiation and elevated temperatures as worrisome signs. The troubling signals at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex come as ...
Experts call for nuclear crisis ratings reform

Apr 13, 2011
Indonesian clinic touts smoking as cancer cure

Apr 13, 2011

JAKARTA (AFP) ― An Indonesian woman exhales cigarette smoke into the mouth of a gaunt, naked patient at a Jakarta clinic, where tobacco is openly touted as a cancer cure. The Western patient is suffering from emphysema, a condition she developed from decades of smoking. Along with cancer and autism, it’s just one of the ailments the Griya Balur clinic claims it can cure with cigarettes. “I miss...
Train running late? Blame high copper prices

Apr 13, 2011
Chernobyl tours offered 25 years after blast

Apr 13, 2011

Abandoned town, reactor building lure hundreds of visitors a week to site of 1986 disaster CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) ― For the visitor, Chernobyl makes heavy demands on the imagination ― much of what’s important can be seen only in the mind’s eye. From the outside, the building where a reactor blew up April 26, 1986, in the world’s worst nuclear disaster mostly looks like an ordinary, dull indust...
Egypt detains ex-president’s sons in probe

Apr 13, 2011

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Cairo (AP) ― Egyptian prosecutors ordered the detention of the former president’s powerful sons for 15 days allegations of corruption and the abuse of their authority are investigated, state television said early Wednesday. The move, the most dramatic in a series of investigations against top regime officials, comes just hours after former President Hosni Mubarak, 82, was hospit...
#Mubarak, two sons detained for 15 days

Apr 13, 2011

Detentions authorized as part of inquiry into use of force against protesters CAIRO (AFP) -- Egypt’s ex-president Hosni Mubarak has been placed in detention for 15 days, prosecutors said Wednesday shortly after state media reported his two sons had also been detained. In a statement on the public prosecutor’s Facebook page, a spokesman said the prosecutor Abdel Maguid Mahmoud authorized the det...
Japan says nuclear crisis stabilizing

Apr 13, 2011
Ivory Coast generals pledge loyalty to Ouattara

Apr 13, 2011

Fighters still prowl streets even after Gbagbo was arrested by forces backing Ouattara ABIDJAN (AP) ― Five generals pledged their loyalty to President Alassane Ouattara on Tuesday following the capture of the country’s strongman leader after a four-month standoff, as French and Ivorian forces worked to eliminate the last pockets of resistance. Ouattara’s spokesman Patrick Achi confirmed that th...
Tajik Muslims to ban text message divorces

Apr 13, 2011

(MCT) DUSHANBE, Tajikistan (AP) _ Tajik religious authorities say divorce by text message will soon be banned, as they seek to stamp out the practice in the mainly Muslim Central Asian nation. State religious affairs committee head Abdurakhim Kholikov said Monday that sending SMSs with the ``triple talaq,'' a Muslim ritual whereby a husband can end a marriage by reciting the term for divorce th...
Woman ticketed in France for wearing face veil

Apr 12, 2011

PARIS (AP)– A woman has been ticketed in a suburban Paris shopping center for wearing a face veil, in the first reported sanction under a new ban on the garments, police said Tuesday. Another woman in another Paris suburb was stopped for wearing a veil, but was let go with a warning. The inconsistent response illustrates the challenge for towns with a large Muslim community in enforcing a law t...