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Japan choppers dump water on stricken atomic plantTokyo (AFP) March 17, 2011 Japanese military helicopters dumped tonnes of water Thursday onto the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant northeast of Tokyo in a bid to douse fuel rods and prevent a disastrous radiation release. Four twin-rotor CH-47 Chinooks of the Self-Defence Forces ran the first mission to empty large buckets that hold more than seven tonnes of water each onto the facility damaged by Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami. The operation aims to keep the fuel rods inside reactors and containment pools ... read more |
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  Japan disaster dead, missing at 14,650: police The official number of dead and missing after a devastating earthquake and tsunami that flattened Japan's northeast coast has hit 14,650, police said Thursday, a rise of nearly 1,000 in just a few hours. ... more | .. |
  Japan to start screening food for radioactivity Japan instructed local authorities on Thursday to start screening food for radioactivity after accidents at an earthquake-hit nuclear power plant sparked fears of wider contamination. ... more | .. |
 Foreigners flee Japan as warnings mount Airline tickets sold out Thursday and firms hired private jets to move staff out as foreign governments told their nationals to get out of Tokyo, fearing the nuclear crisis could escalate. ... more | .. |
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 Prince William stunned at Christchurch quake damage Prince William expressed his shock at the devastation in earthquake-hit Christchurch Thursday after traipsing in the rubble to inspect the stricken New Zealand city first-hand. ... more | .. |
Indonesian man escapes Aceh and Japan tsunamis An Indonesian man said Thursday that he had escaped both the 2004 tsunami in Aceh and last week's wave in Japan. ... more | .. |
  Mounting Japan crisis sparks warnings to leave Tokyo Alarm over Japan's nuclear crisis grew on Thursday as army helicopters water-bombed an overheating power plant and foreign governments urged citizens to leave Tokyo. ... more | .. |
Japanese baker picks up pieces after tsunami Hideo Chiba firmly believes that hard work can be uplifting. So the 70-year-old baker has busied himself with a smile, cleaning up his house and shop ravaged by the killer tsunami. ... more |
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S.Korea warns against panic-buying of iodide pills South Korean pharmacists issued an appeal Thursday cautioning against panic over Japan's crisis-hit nuclear plants, as callers flooded drug stores with requests for iodide pills. ... more | .. |
Chinese snap up salt amid Japan nuclear scare Chinese retailers on Thursday reported panic buying of salt, partly because shoppers believe it could help ward off the effects of potential radioactivity from Japan's crippled nuclear power plant. ... more | .. |
 Workers try to restore power at Japan nuclear plant Japanese engineers were Thursday focusing their efforts on restoring the power supply to a quake-damaged nuclear plant in an attempt to reactivate its cooling system and avert a meltdown. ... more | .. |
  Ethiopian dams on Nile stir river rivalry Ethiopia is pressing ahead with plans to build large dams on the Nile as upstream African states put pressure on a reluctant Egypt to share the waters of the world's longest river more equitably. ... more |
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  Russian police search office of outspoken activist Russian police on Wednesday searched the office of an environmental activist who led a high-profile campaign against building a highway through a forest near Moscow, she said. ... more | .. |
  Canada's unique wetlands under threat: report Canada must limit large-scale industrial activity in its boreal forest, the world's largest intact timberland, to preserve millions of lakes and rivers critical to forming Arctic sea ice, a new report said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Ex-first lady Manigat aims to lead quake-hit Haiti Soft-spoken former first lady Mirlande Manigat was an occupant of Haiti's presidential palace for just a few brief months before her husband Leslie was ousted in a 1988 coup. ... more | .. |
 Japan disaster: Insured losses at $12-25 bn Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami last week have resulted in insured losses of between $12 and $25 billion, risk assessment firm EQECAT said Wednesday. ... more |
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Geopolitical instability and AI drive transformation in EO market
'Western tech dominance fading' at Lisbon's Web Summit
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  Tibetan monastery sealed off after self-immolation A Tibetan Buddhist monastery in southwestern China remained sealed off by police on Thursday, local residents said, after a young monk set himself on fire and died, triggering protests there. ... more | .. |
 US warns citizens near Japan nuclear plant to leave US officials Wednesday warned citizens living within 50 miles (80 kilometers) of a crippled Japanese nuclear plant to evacuate or seek shelter, amid mounting concern of a catastrophic meltdown. ... more | .. |
 Japan disaster in numbers The following is a list of facts and figures about the devastating 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that battered Japan's northeast coast on March 11, sparking a nuclear emergency. ... more | .. |
 Iraq Shiite authority condemns Bahrain crackdown A leading Iraq-based Shiite Muslim authority on Wednesday condemned a deadly government crackdown on mainly Shiite protesters in Bahrain, saying the violence must stop immediately. ... more |
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 Unique Japan tsunami footage boon to scientists Vision of the disastrous tsunami rolling onto Japan after last week's massive 9.0-magnitude earthquake will provide valuable data to scientists for years to come, Australian experts said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  AIDS tests come to South Africa's schools A tiny prick made a drop of blood on Nkosi Minenhle's finger, as the 15-year-old underwent an HIV test in a mobile clinic set up on her high school grounds. ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong extends 'black' travel alert for Japan Hong Kong has widened its top-level black travel alert to three more Japanese prefectures after explosions at a nuclear plant in the quake-stricken country deepened concerns of a meltdown. ... more | .. |
  Study: More immigrant families are intact Children of immigrants are more likely to live in households with two married parents than children of natives in similar ethnic groups, U.S. sociologists say. ... more |
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Tiangong hosts dual crews after debris impact delays Shenzhou-20 return
Dust and Sand Movements Reshape Martian Slopes
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 Forgotten forage grass rediscovered A U.S. Department of Agriculture researcher says he has rediscovered a forage grass well suited to contemporary intensive rotational livestock grazing. ... more | .. |
 Study: Neanderthals had control of fire U.S. researchers say evidence shows Neanderthals in Europe achieved continuous control of fire as far back as 400,000 years ago. ... more | .. |
 Japan disaster survivors search for the missing Tomeko Sato spent two agonising days searching for her daughter after the giant waves crashed ashore. They are now looking for 10 missing relatives in the wasteland they once called home. ... more | .. |
 Haiti cholera epidemic to hit 800,000: study Up to 800,000 Haitians will contract cholera this year, double the estimates of UN agencies, a report published by The Lancet on Wednesday claimed. ... more |
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  Wheels Up for Extensive Survey of Arctic Ice Researchers and flight crew arrived in Thule, Greenland, on Monday, March 14, for the start of NASA's 2011 Operation IceBridge, an airborne mission to study changes in Arctic polar ice. This year's ... more | .. |
  Japan Quake May Have Shortened Earth Days And Moved Axis The March 11, magnitude 9.0 earthquake in Japan may have shortened the length of each Earth day and shifted its axis. But don't worry-you won't notice the difference. ... more | .. |
  Water For An Integrative Climate Paradigm International climate negotiations are deadlocked between the affluent global North and "developing" South, between political Left and Right, and between believers and deniers. Now, authors writing ... more | .. |
  Effects of sonar on whales studied A study by Scottish researchers says whales can be disturbed by naval sonar and are particularly sensitive to the man-made sounds. ... more |
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