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International
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Wednesday, 6 April, 2011
BENGHAZI — The International Criminal Court has evidence Muammar Gaddafi's government planned to put down protests by killing civilians before the uprising in Libya broke out, the ICC's prosecutor said yesterday.
Protests against the government that began on February 15 swiftly descended into civil
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Wednesday, 6 April, 2011
WASHINGTON — The FBI is questioning Libyans living in the US in a bid to identify spies or agents, and obtain information useful for the allied campaign, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday.
The intelligence-gathering campaign also aims to disclosing any potential revenge attacks planned or
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Wednesday, 6 April, 2011
TOKYO — The operator of Japan’s crippled nuclear power plant said yesterday it had found water with 5 million times the legal limit of radioactivity inside a reactor as it struggles for a fourth week to contain the world’s biggest nuclear disaster in quarter of a century.
Underlining the concern o
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Wednesday, 6 April, 2011
TOKYO — The operator of a stricken Japanese nuclear plant has offered “consolation” payments to 10 nearby municipalities whose residents have been forced to evacuate, the company said yesterday.
But in an illustration of public anger against Tokyo Electric Power, the utility at the centre of the w
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Wednesday, 6 April, 2011
PARIS — Japanese growth will be hit sharply by last month’s devastating earthquake but the economy should begin to pick up again in the third quarter as reconstruction kicks in, the OECD said yesterday.
The Paris-based Organisation for Economic Development and Co-operation said in a report that at
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Wednesday, 6 April, 2011
Tokyo — The Japanese government is to toughen inspections of fish and other marine products because of radioactive water leaking into the Pacific Ocean from a damaged nuclear power plant.
“The public has a strong interest in security and safety,” Fisheries Minister Michihiko Kano was quoted as say
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Wednesday, 6 April, 2011
BANGKOK — The European Union’s target to decarbonise its energy sector by 2050 would entail an increase in nuclear power use although Japan’s crisis might change the ultimate mix, the EU chief climate change negotiator said yesterday.
“The policy changes that might happen as a result of Fukushima
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Tuesday, 5 April, 2011
WASHINGTON — US President Barack Obama launched his bid for re-election in 2012 yesterday, capitalizing on better news on the economy and pushing ahead of Republicans who are struggling to find a candidate.
Obama, a Democrat who won a sweeping victory over Republican Senator John McCain in 2008 wit
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Tuesday, 5 April, 2011
MILAN — A tax fraud case against Italian Prime Minister Silvio resumed yesterday, but he did not attend court and won't be in the dock tomorrow when he goes on trial for illicit relations with an underage teenager.
Yesterday's case centres on accusations Berlusconi's companies deliberately overpai
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Tuesday, 5 April, 2011
WASHINGTON — The US Supreme Court yesterday rejected three appeals by Guantanamo detainees protesting their indefinite detention.
The highest US court did not decide three other appeals, including one filed by ethnic Uighur Chinese who were arrested in Afghanistan in 2001, and are still being held
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