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Japan’s damaged nuclear plant in Fukushima has been emitting radioactive iodine and caesium at levels approaching those seen in the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident in 1986. Austrian researchers have used a worldwide network of radiation detectors – designed to spot clandestine nuclear bomb tests – to show... 

Barisan Nasional’s apathy towards the use of the Internet was a major contributor to its losses in the recent general election, a new study revealed. The study by Zentrum Future Studies Malaysia, conducted from Feb 20 to March 5 and involving 1,500 respondents aged between 21 and 50, showed that the alternative media... 

Journalists were shown the ruined building in Col Gaddafi's Tripoli compound A missile strike on Libyan leader Col Gaddafi’s compound in Tripoli has destroyed a building which coalition officials said was a command centre. It comes as a coalition of countries including the US, UK and France continue strikes to... 

A French plane has fired the first shots in Libya as enforcement of the UN-mandated no-fly zone begins. The UK prime minister later confirmed British planes were also in action, while US media reports said the US had fired its first Cruise missiles. The action came hours after Western and Arab leaders met in Paris to agree... 

Lifting the Veil of Nuclear Catastrophe and Cover-up: A Doomsday Scenario Unfolds With Characteristic Foolishness Only after the last tree has been cut down… the last river has been poisoned… the last fish caught, only then will you find that money cannot be eaten. – Chief Seattle For there shall arise false mesiahs,... 

Fukushima, Japan— They risk explosions, fire and an invisible enemy — radiation that could kill quickly or decades later — as they race to avert disaster inside a dark, overheated nuclear plant. The 180 emergency workers at Japan’s crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi complex are emerging as public heroes in the wake... 

TOKYO – Japanese military helicopters dumped water on an overheating nuclear plant on Thursday while the United States expressed growing alarm about leaking radiation and said it was sending aircraft to help Americans leave the country. Engineers tried to run power from the main grid to start water pumps needed to... 

white smoke billows from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex in Okumamachi, Fukushima Wednesday morning, taken 30km away Japan’s crippled nuclear power plant faces a grave situation at the No. 4 reactor, which the government is monitoring closely, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said today. The first priority is... 

Japan ordered emergency workers to withdraw from its stricken nuclear power complex early today amid a surge in radiation. The evacuation temporarily suspended efforts to cool overheating reactors. Japanese self-defence forces were preparing to pour water on to the quake-crippled No. 3 reactor from a helicopter to try to... 

Cooling Nuke Waste Nuclear material submerged in water for cooling Japan’s nuclear disaster continues to unfold this morning, and as workers at the Fukushima Daiichi continue to pump seawater into the crippled reactors there a new threat is emerging: the spent fuel rods in the cooling pools at each reactor. While reactors...