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Breach suspected at troubled Japanese power plant
Associated Press - Thu Mar 24, 2011
TOKYO - Two weeks after an earthquake and tsunami triggered a crisis at a nuclear plant, the facility is still not under control, and the government said Friday there is a suspected breach at a reactor. More»

New reactor fire as Japan works to contain threat
Associated Press - Mon Mar 14, 2011
SOMA, Japan - A new fire broke out at a nuclear reactor early Wednesday, a day after the power plant emitted a burst of radiation that panicked an already edgy Japan and left the government struggling to contain a spiraling crisis caused by last weeks earthquake and tsunami. More»

Meltdown alert at Japan reactor
BBC - Sun Mar 13, 2011
Technicians are battling to stabilise a third reactor at a quake-stricken Japanese nuclear plant that has been rocked by a second blast in three days. More»

Guatemalans sue U.S. government for infecting them with STDs
Yahoo! - Sun Mar 13, 2011
Guatemalan survivors of the experiments and the survivors of deceased test subjects are suing the US government. More»

Hydrogen explosion at stricken Japanese nuke plant
Associated Press - Sat Mar 12, 2011
TOKYO - Japans chief cabinet secretary says a hydrogen explosion has occurred at Unit 3 of Japans stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. More»

Partial Meltdowns Presumed at Crippled Reactors
New York Times - Sat Mar 12, 2011
TOKYO - Three days after a massive earthquake and tsunami, the Japanese authorities were still struggling Sunday to avoid full meltdowns at a plant with two stricken reactors on Japans coast. More»

Japan warns of second nuclear plant explosion
AFP - Sat Mar 12, 2011
Japans top government spokesman has warned of the risk of a second explosion at the quake-hit Fukushima nuclear plant, but said that reactor three could withstand it as reactor one did a day earlier. More»

Japan quake causes emergencies at 5 nuke reactors
Associated Press - Thu Mar 10, 2011
TOKYO - Japan declared states of emergency for five nuclear reactors at two power plants after the units lost cooling ability in the aftermath of Fridays powerful earthquake. More»

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange WILL be extradited to Sweden
The Daily Mail - Wed Feb 23, 2011
The founder of whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, will be extradited to Sweden to answer sex attack allegations, a judge has ruled. More»

Police sex files on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange are leaked online
The Daily Mail - Sat Feb 5, 2011
Swedish police documents on the Julian Assange sex cases have been leaked online. More»

WikiLeaks Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for Promoting Freedom of Speech
AlterNet - Tue Feb 1, 2011
Whistle-blower website WikiLeaks has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, Norwegian politician Snorre Valen, who was behind the nod, tells Reuters. More»

Global Spate of Mysterious Animal Deaths
Associated Press - Tue Jan 4, 2011
More and more animals are being found dead as the mysterious spate of mass bird and fish deaths has turned into a global phenomenon. More»

Interpol puts WikiLeaks founder on most-wanted list
CNN - Mon Nov 29, 2010
Interpol, at the request of a Swedish court looking into alleged sex crimes from earlier this year, has put WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on its most-wanted listed. More»

First of 33 trapped Chilean miners rescued
Reuters - Mon Oct 11, 2010
SAN JOSE MINE, Chile - Florencio Avalos, the first of 33 miners to be rescued, has surfaced after 69 days underground. More»

Dr David Kelly was on a hitlist, says UN weapons expert
The Daily Mail - Fri Aug 13, 2010
A leading UN weapons inspector last night added his voice to the growing clamour for a full inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly. More»

New questions over Dr Kelly's post-mortem after pathologist 'mixed up' two servicemen's remains
The Daily Mail - Thu Aug 5, 2010
The pathologist who carried out the post-mortem on weapons inspector Dr David Kelly is under investigation after mixing up two servicemens remains. More»

EU clears six types of GM maize for animal feed
AFP - Thu Jul 29, 2010
BRUSSELS - European regulators authorised on Wednesday the import of six types of genetically-modified maize for use in animal feed after governments were deadlocked over whether to ban or approve them. More»

Blast hits Russia's largest coal mine, 12 dead
Associated Press - Sat May 8, 2010
MOSCOW - Rescue workers scrambled Sunday to save 83 people trapped in Russias largest underground coal mine after two explosions killed at least 12 people and injured dozens more, officials said. More»

Iceland's volcanic ash halts flights across Europe
Associated Press - Wed Apr 14, 2010
LONDON - An ash cloud from Icelands spewing volcano halted air traffic across a wide swath of Europe on Thursday, grounding planes on a scale unseen since the 2001 terror attacks as authorities stopped all flights over Britain, Ireland and the Nordic countries. More»

CIA 'caused French village to go mad in the Fifties by spiking baguettes with LSD
Daily Mail, UK - Fri Mar 12, 2010
The CIA caused an entire French village to go mad nearly 60 years ago by spiking their baguettes with the mind-bending drug LSD, a new investigation claims. More»

David Kelly post mortem to be kept secret for 70 years as doctors accuse Lord Hutton of concealing vital information
Daily Mail, UK - Sun Jan 24, 2010
Vital evidence which could solve the mystery of the death of Government weapons inspector Dr David Kelly will be kept under wraps for up to 70 years. More»

85 elderly quake survivors await death in Haiti
Associated Press - Sat Jan 16, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The old lady crawls in the dirt, wailing for her pills. More»

7.0 quake hits Haiti; many casualties expected
Associated Press - Tue Jan 12, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A powerful earthquake struck Haitis capital on Tuesday with withering force, toppling everything from simple shacks to the ornate National Palace. More»

Big freeze kills at least 80 across Europe
AFP - Sun Dec 20, 2009
PARIS - The death toll from winter storms across Europe rose to at least 80 on Monday as transport chaos spread amid mounting anger over the three-day failure of Eurostar high-speed trains. More»

British UN scientist's death was 'not suicide', Gordon Brown is told
Daily Mail, UK - Sat Nov 14, 2009
Gordon Brown is being urged to intervene in an investigation into the mysterious death of British scientist Timothy Hampton. More»

Italian judge convicts 23 in CIA kidnap case
Associated Press - Tue Nov 3, 2009
MILAN - An Italian judge on Wednesday convicted 23 Americans in absentia of the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric from a Milan street, in a landmark case involving the CIAs extraordinary rendition program in the war on terrorism. More»

Three policemen injured and BBC in lockdown as hundreds protest over BNP leader's Question Time showdown
Daily Mail, UK - Wed Oct 21, 2009
Brandishing banners and holding scarlet flares, an angry mob of more than 1,000 protesters laid siege to the BBC last night. More»

Corazon Aquino, Philippines president, dead at 76
Associated Press - Thu Jul 30, 2009
MANILA, Philippines - Former President Corazon Aquino, who swept away a dictator with a "people power" revolt and then sustained democracy by fighting off seven coup attempts in six years, died on Saturday, her son said. More»

Brawl breaks out in South Korean parliament
Associated Press - Tue Jul 21, 2009
SEOUL, South Korea - Hundreds of competing lawmakers screamed and wrestled in South Koreas parliament Wednesday as a rivalry over contentious media reform bills descended into a brawl that sent at least one to a hospital. More»

13 doctors demand inquest into Dr David Kelly's death
Daily Mail, UK - Sun Jul 12, 2009
The death of Government scientist David Kelly returned to haunt Labour today as a group of doctors announced that they were mounting a legal challenge to overturn the finding of suicide. More»

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