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Japan starts thyroid tests for Fukushima childrenTokyo (AFP) Oct 9, 2011 Japan's Fukushima prefecture on Sunday began health check-ups of 360,000 children amid worries that radiation from a crippled nuclear plant had exposed them to the risk of thyroid abnormalities. Many parents demanded the tests, drawing parallels with the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, after which locals reported thyroid disorders, a problem sometimes associated with radiation exposure. The screenings began after a recent unofficial survey reported that 10 out of 130 children evacuated from Fuk ... read more |
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  Attack on Chinese boats in Mekong River kills 11 Eleven Chinese were killed and two missing after their cargo boats were attacked in the golden triangle area of the Mekong River, state media said on Sunday. ... more | .. |
  NZealand PM demands oil slick answers Salvage crews were scrambling to off-load oil from a stranded container ship in New Zealand's pristine Bay of Plenty Sunday, as Prime Minister John Key demanded to know why the vessel hit a reef in calm waters. ... more | .. |
  Hurricane Jova takes aim at southwestern Mexico Hurricane Jova grew to a category two storm Sunday as it roiled the sea in the eastern Pacific, US meteorologists said, as the system remained on course to make landfall on the central-southwestern Mexican coast in the coming days. ... more | .. |
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 Twelve dead in China construction site accident At least 12 workers who were building an underground parking lot in northeastern China were killed when a concrete ceiling collapsed onto them, local authorities and state media said Sunday. ... more | .. |
 Quake hits Japan nuclear crisis zone, but plant stable A 5.5-magnitude earthquake hit Japan's Fukushima area on Monday, but a nuclear plant there that was crippled by a huge quake and tsunami in March remained stable, officials said. ... more | .. |
 Over 100 dead after Philippine typhoons Philippine authorities said Sunday the death toll from two typhoons that pummelled the country two weeks ago had reached 101, with tens of thousands of people still displaced by massive flooding. ... more | .. |
 Grief of Japan quake laid bare in new documentary Filming grieving survivors of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan often earned producer Takaharu Yasuoka a shocked and angry response. Now he wants audiences to react the same way. ... more |
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'No doubt' Canadian firm will be first to extract deep sea minerals: CEO
Tabletop particle blaster: How tiny nozzles and lasers could replace giant accelerators
Set it and forget it: Autonomous structures can be programmed to jump days in advance | .. |
  Syrian army defectors tell of regime ruthlessness When the Syrian army raided his village in the central province of Homs and began shooting at unarmed civilians, Amin knew it was time to join the growing ranks of soldiers defecting to the opposition. ... more | .. |
 Floods in Philippines could last a month: official Massive flooding in the Philippines brought about by back-to-back typhoons could last for a month even as the storms' death toll reached 95, the civil defence chief said on Saturday. ... more | .. |
  Ambitions in check on global climate deal With just weeks to go before UN talks on climate change open in South Africa, negotiators have shifted their goal from striking a historic deal to ensuring that the global system survives. ... more | .. |
  Cholera epidemic spreads in Central African Republic A cholera epidemic in the Central African Republic has claimed 16 victims, a health ministry spokesman said Saturday, as another source said it had reached the capital. ... more |
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 Climate talks inch ahead on aid despite discord Climate negotiators said Friday they made progress on laying out ways to help poor countries but deep differences remained on core issues ahead of a make-or-break talks in South Africa. ... more | .. |
 Bangkok's neighbours shoulder flood burden As Thailand battles to keep its worst floods in decades from swamping Bangkok, anger is growing among residents upriver who say their homes are being sacrificed to keep the capital dry. ... more | .. |
  China arrests 17,000 in major crime drive Chinese authorities arrested 17,000 suspects for offences including illegal food production, gambling, and drug trafficking in a nationwide crackdown, state media said Saturday. ... more | .. |
  Doubts remain over global future of sharks Doubts remain over the global future of sharks despite an international coalition's commitment toward conservation and try to halt what experts see as a steady slide toward extinction of numerous shark species. ... more |
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Iran FM warns Europe against 'strategic mistake' at IAEA; Iran obtained 'sensitive' Israeli intel
DOD is investigating Hegseth's staffers over Houthi-strikes chats
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  Autumn heatwave attracts hundreds of rare moths to Britain Record-breaking autumn temperatures attracted hundreds of rare moths to Britain in what experts have called the best migration of the insects in years. ... more | .. |
 UNHCR wants access to all Somali regions The head of the UN's refugee agency on Friday called for humanitarian workers to be given access to all parts of Somalia, where conflict and drought have left millions facing starvation. ... more | .. |
 Airlift for drought-stricken Pacific island New Zealand and Australia will Friday begin an airlift to help supply fresh water to the tiny drought-stricken Pacific nation of Tuvalu, which is under a state of emergency due to the crisis. ... more | .. |
 Cloud hangs over climate finance An impasse in global climate talks is casting a shadow on clean energy financing in the developing world, with growing doubts over a program that has funded billions of dollars in projects. ... more |
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  International bodies to probe crackdown on Bolivia protest Top international bodies have accepted a request to probe the violent police repression last month of indigenous people protesting the construction of a road in the Bolivian Amazon, officials said Friday. ... more | .. |
 Demonstrators in Bolivia resume march Hundreds of indigenous people protesting the construction of a road in Bolivia's Amazon basin region marched Sunday toward the capital, La Paz, their leaders said. ... more | .. |
 China hit by more self-immolation protests Two young men set themselves on fire Friday near a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in southwest China amid rumours that dozens of monks were ready to "sacrifice their lives", rights groups said. ... more | .. |
  Merkel, rights groups hail Nobel nod to women German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton led a chorus of praise from world leaders and rights groups for the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize Friday to three women who have fought for women's rights. ... more |
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Trump-Musk showdown threatens US space plans
Japanese company aborts Moon mission after assumed crash-landing
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 How the brain makes memories: Rhythmically! The brain learns through changes in the strength of its synapses - the connections between neurons - in response to stimuli. Now, in a discovery that challenges conventional wisdom on the brain mech ... more | .. |
 Alzheimer's might be transmissible in similar way as infectious prion diseases The brain damage that characterizes Alzheimer's disease may originate in a form similar to that of infectious prion diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob, ... more | .. |
 Keeping track of reality A structural variation in a part of the brain may explain why some people are better than others at distinguishing real events from those they might have imagined or been told about, researchers hav ... more | .. |
 The waste from the Japanese earthquake and tsunami On 11 March 2011 there was a legal vacuum in Japan concerning radioactive waste resulting from a nuclear disaster. Current waste management Law places technical and financial responsibility for wast ... more |
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  Rising CO2 levels at end of Ice Age not tied to Pacific Ocean At the end of the last Ice Age, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rose rapidly as the planet warmed; scientists have long hypothesized that the source was CO2 released from the deep ocean. But ... more | .. |
 Reefs recovered faster after mass extinction than first thought Harsh living conditions caused by major fluctuations in the carbon content and sea levels, overacidification and oxygen deficiency in the seas triggered the largest mass extinction of all time at th ... more | .. |
 The Climate Change Debate: Man Versus Nature The public discussion on climate change has become so polarized that some scientists don't even acknowledge there is a debate. Climate scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Gavin ... more | .. |
  Monkeys 'move and feel' virtual objects using only their brains In a first ever demonstration of a two-way interaction between a primate brain and a virtual body, two monkeys trained at the Duke University Center for Neuroengineering learned to employ brain acti ... more |
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