TOKYO, (APP/AFP) – The Japanese government will team up with experts in the United States and France to develop brand new technologies to collect melted fuel from crippled reactors at Fukushima, an official said Monday. Removal of the melted rods at the nuclear plant, which was wrecked by a tsunami five years ago, is one […]
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Japan, US, France to team up on Fukushima clean-up: official
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Five Mexican marines detained over man’s disappearance
MEXICO CITY, (APP/AFP) – Five Mexican marines have been detained in connection with the 2013 disappearance of a man in the northern state of Nuevo Leon, the navy said on Sunday. The troops were jailed in a military prison after a court charged them on March 8 and 9 with “forced disappearance” — a crime […]
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Indian army harassing Nagrota residents in Jammu
ISLAMABAD, (APP): A pro-India party National Conference (NC) has raised the complaints about harassment of citizens by Indian Army in the Indian Held territory. According to Kashmir Media Service (KMS), NC’s local President Devender Singh Rana told reporters in Jammu that the army was harassing the residents living along the ammunition depot in Nagrota area. […]
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In shadow of Ohio factories, Trump finds support
CLEVELAND, (APP/AFP) – Stephen Emmert lost his Ohio longshoreman job in the 1990s, the victim of industrial automation. As the Rust Belt state struggles to recover from economic decline,the ex-Democrat said only one presidential candidate can set things right: billionaire Donald Trump. Emmert knows that any path to victory for the Republican frontrunner will include […]
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French foreign, interior ministers to go to attack-hit I.Coast Tuesday: Paris
PARIS, (APP/AFP) – France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault and Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve will visit Ivory Coast on Tuesday in a show of solidarity with the country after an attack on a beach resort there left 16 dead, including a French national, an official said. “(The ministers) will travel to Abidjan to express their solidarity […]
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Chemical fire extinguisher leak kills eight in Thai bank
BANGKOK, (APP/AFP): Eight people died and seven were injured when they accidentally triggered a fire extinguisher system in the headquarters of a major Thai bank, releasing a suffocating cloud of chemicals, officials said Monday. The accident occurred late Sunday night in the basement of the Siam Commercial Bank (SCB), one of the country’s largest financial […]