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No go-ahead from Turkey on NATO mission in Aegean: diplomats
Mar 01, 2016 (AFP)
NATO vessels deployed in the Aegean Sea to help stop the flow of migrants into Europe have not yet started operating in Turkish waters and are waiting for the g...
Former TEPCO bosses indicted over Fukushima disaster
Feb 29, 2016 (AFP)
Three former executives of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant operator were indicted Monday over the 2011 atomic accident, in what will be the first criminal ...
Screening truffles for radioactivity 30 years from Chernobyl
Feb 29, 2016 (SPX)
Some forest mushrooms, such as wild porcini, can accumulate dangerous levels of radioactivity from the soils they grow in. But until now it was unclear if the s...
Aid finally getting to Fiji cyclone victims
Feb 26, 2016 (AFP)
Humanitarian aid was finally reaching isolated communities in Fiji devastated by super-cyclone Winston, officials said Friday, with the government estimating th...
Nuclear water: Fukushima still faces contamination crisis
Feb 25, 2016 (AFP)
Fish market vendor Satoshi Nakano knows which fish caught in the radiation tainted sea off the Fukushima coast should be kept away from dinner tables. Yet five ...
MH370 lawsuits gain pace as two-year deadline nears
Feb 25, 2016 (AFP)
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 next-of-kin have begun filing a slew of lawsuits over the plane's disappearance as a two-year deadline approaches on March 8, wit...
Brazil police charge seven in Samarco mine deaths: reports
Feb 23, 2016 (AFP)
Brazilian police charged six executives and another suspect Tuesday over the deaths of 19 people when a wastewater dam collapsed at an iron ore mine last year, ...
More Austrian troops to deal with migrant inflow
Feb 21, 2016 (AFP)
Austria said Sunday it is beefing up the army at its borders to deal with the inflow of migrants, with 450 more troops from Monday and military police on standb...
Contested waters in NATO's new Aegean migrant mission
Feb 21, 2016 (AFP)
In its new mission in the Aegean to help Europe tackle its worst migration crisis in 60 years, NATO is wading into one of the world's most contested seas. The A...
Taiwan vows new safety laws after quake disaster
Feb 19, 2016 (AFP)
Taiwan's premier pledged Friday to change safety laws after more than 100 people were killed when an earthquake toppled an apartment complex thought to have bee...
Enabling human-robot rescue teams
Feb 18, 2016 (SPX)
Autonomous robots performing a joint task send each other continual updates: "I've passed through a door and am turning 90 degrees right." "After advancing 2 fe...
El Faro captain sought route change before sinking
Feb 17, 2016 (AFP)
The captain of the doomed El Faro asked his bosses if he could change his route the day before the US cargo ship sank near the Bahamas, it has emerged. The ship...
Turkish warplanes enter Greek airspace ahead of NATO migration operation
Feb 15, 2016 (AFP)
Turkish warplanes repeatedly entered Greek airspace on Monday, the state ANA news agency said, as NATO prepared to deploy ships to the Aegean Sea against migran...
Australian hospital refuses to return asylum baby to Nauru
Feb 14, 2016 (AFP)
An Australian hospital has refused to return an asylum-seeker baby to detention in Nauru, as momentum built across the country on Sunday against offshore Pacifi...
Refugee crisis 'a near existential' threat to Europe: Kerry
Feb 13, 2016 (AFP)
The mass influx of refugees and other migrants into Europe spells a "near existential threat" to the continent, US Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday. ...
Characterizing the smell of death may help rescue workers at disaster sites
Feb 12, 2016 (SPX)
Rescue workers searching for disaster survivors could use the smell of decomposition to decide what kind of rescue dogs to work with in the hopes of improving t...
Taiwan to seize assets of collapsed building developer
Feb 12, 2016 (AFP)
Almost a million dollars in assets belonging to the developer and three associates of a building in Taiwan felled by an earthquake will be seized, a court ruled...
Erdogan threatens to send refugees to EU as NATO steps in
Feb 11, 2016 (AFP)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday threatened to send the millions of refugees in Turkey to European Union (EU) member states, as NATO agreed to...
NATO sends warships on Aegean migrant mission
Feb 11, 2016 (AFP)
NATO launched Thursday an unprecedented naval mission in the Aegean Sea to tackle people smugglers taking refugees and migrants from Turkey to Greece, Secretary...
Taiwan developer grilled over collapse of quake building
Feb 10, 2016 (AFP)
Taiwan prosecutors Wednesday questioned the developer of an apartment complex that collapsed during an earthquake as prosecutors detailed flaws in the construct...
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