TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan stopped highly radioactive water leaking into the sea on Wednesday from a crippled nuclear plant, a breakthrough in the battle to contain the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl, but contaminated water was still be pumped into the ocean. Analysts said the damaged reactors, whose fuel rods operator Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) [...]
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – The head of Libya’s rebel army has condemned NATO for its slow chain of command in ordering air strikes to protect civilians, saying the alliance was “letting the people of Misrata die every day.” The besieged city of Misrata, the only big population center in western Libya where a revolt against [...]
ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Ivory Coast’s Laurent Gbagbo was negotiating the terms of his departure on Tuesday following a fierce assault by forces loyal to his rival and backed by U.N. and French helicopter air strikes. But Gbagbo, who has refused to cede power after a U.N. certified election showed he lost to rival Alassane Ouattara, [...]
SANAA (Reuters) – Yemen’s president urged the opposition to join talks in Saudi Arabia to try to end weeks of turmoil and violence in which at least three more people were killed on Tuesday. Faced with mass demonstrations demanding an end to his 32-year rule, President Ali Abdullah Saleh is clinging to power in the [...]
TOKYO (Reuters) – The operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant said it had reduced the flow of highly radioactive water out of a reactor, a possible sign of progress in an almost month-long battle to contain the world’s biggest nuclear disaster in quarter of a century. Samples of the water used to cool [...]