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Japan to issue gravest Fukushima nuclear warning in two years: agency

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan will dramatically raise its warning about the severity of a toxic water leak at the Fukushima nuclear plant, its nuclear watchdog

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Syrian activists say gas attack near Damascus kills more than 200

AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian activists accused President Bashar al-Assad’s forces of launching a nerve gas attack on rebel-held districts near Damascus on Wednesday that they said killed more than 200

Philippines ferry Thomas Aquinas sinks at Cebu, 17 dead

At least 17 people have died and more than 500 people rescued after a ferry carrying about 700 people collided with a cargo ship in the Philippines. The ferry, MV

Noam Chomsky
CIA admits it spied on father of modern linguistics Noam Chomsky

WASHINGTON: The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has admitted to having amassed data on MIT linguistics professor and government critic Noam Chomsky during the 1970s, Foreign Policy magazine’s The Cable

‘We smuggled for our lives’

Two British women caught with $US1.5 million ($A1.66 million) worth of cocaine in Peru say they had loaded guns held to their heads and were told to smuggle the drugs

Norway PM Jens Stoltenberg works as secret taxi driver

Norwegian PM Jens Stoltenberg spent an afternoon working incognito as a taxi driver in Oslo, he has revealed. Mr Stoltenberg said he had wanted to hear from real Norwegian voters

Phillippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario
Philippines: Increase in US troops not permanent

Philippines: Philippine officials said Monday they will make sure that an increased presence of U.S. troops in the country does not become permanent and is meant to help the Philippines

Senator Ted Cruz
Cruz again raps Obama’s health care law

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Sen. Ted Cruz on Saturday continued his call for cutting off funding for President Barack Obama’s health care law and told conservative Christians that congressional lawmakers

Protesters in Tunisia
Tens of thousands rally to oust Tunisian government

TUNIS: Tens of thousands of Tunisians crowded the streets of downtown Tunis on Tuesday to demand the transitional government’s ouster, in the largest opposition protest since the country’s political crisis

Honduras Declares Emergency After Dengue Kills 16

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras: Honduras’ government has declared a state of emergency due to a dengue fever outbreak that has killed 16 people and sickened 12,000. Health Minister Salvador Pineda says Tuesday’s