Topic: War and Peace News - on March 12, 2011 at 5:58:00 PM CET
The state television also said the Arab League had decided to open channels of communication with a Libyan rebel council based in Benghazi. The League said the council represented the Libyan people, the channel reported.
Retreating Libyan rebels win Arab League boost
Libyan rebels beat a further retreat on Saturday under air strikes and shellfire from Moamer Kadhafi's forces, even as an Arab League decision to back a no-fly zone boosted their uprising.
Having abandoned an operation to recapture the oil town of Ras Lanuf, the outgunned anti-regime fighters struggled to set up a new defensive line 30 kilometres (about 20 miles) further east along a coastal road towards Brega.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 12, 2011 at 5:46:00 PM CET
Arab League 'backs Libya no-fly zone' - The Arab League asks the UN Security Council to impose a no-fly zone over Libya
The Arab League has backed the idea of a no-fly zone over Libya, reports say, as rebels continue to be pushed back by Colonel Gaddafi's forces.
A special meeting in Cairo voted to ask the UN Security Council to impose the policy, diplomats told news agencies.
The UK and France have pushed for the idea, but have failed so far to win firm backing from the EU or Nato.
bbc.co.uk bloomberg.com Arab League to officially request UN impose no-fly zone on Libya [haaretz] telegraph.co.uk Arab_League#List_of_member_states [wiki] arableagueonline.org
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Topic: nuclear power - on March 12, 2011 at 5:01:00 PM CET
Meltdown fear after nuclear plant blast
A nuclear reactor damaged by Japan's biggest earthquake may be starting to melt down, local nuclear authorities have warned.
There was a large explosion inside a concrete reactor building at the Fukushima No. 1 power station about 220 kilometres north of Tokyo after the reactor's cooling system failed.
Smoke was seen billowing from the plant last night, four people were injured and radioactivity had risen 20-fold.
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Topic: NATURE - on March 12, 2011 at 4:37:00 PM CET
In quake zone, mortifying scenes of epic devastation
Kilometers from the ocean's edge, weary, mud-spattered survivors wandered streets strewn with fallen trees, crumpled cars, even small airplanes. Relics of lives now destroyed were everywhere — half a piano, a textbook, a soiled red sleeping bag.
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Topic: nuclear power - on March 12, 2011 at 4:15:00 PM CET
Americans in Japan alerted to nuclear evacuation
The US embassy in Tokyo alerted US citizens in Japan Saturday of an evacuation order around a stricken nuclear power plant, the State Department said.
The embassy's message warned Americans living or traveling to Fukushima Prefecture that Japan's Nuclear Industrial Safety Agency "has recommended that people who live within 20 kilometers (12 miles) of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in Okumacho evacuate the area immediately."
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Topic: NATURE - on March 12, 2011 at 4:10:00 PM CET
Minami-Sanriku Machi - 10,000 people are missing Google Earth coordinates
Fuji TV: 10,000 people missing in tsunami-hit town of Minami-Sanriku, Miyagi prefecture (population: 17,800)
Fuji News Network [fnn-news.com]
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elpais.com -- NHK reports that 5,000 homes in Rikuzentakada City, Iwate Prefecture, have been flooded. In Arahama, 2,700 homes are missing. ---Positions of the Nuclear Power Plants near Fukushima
bbs.keyhole.com [kmz] ----Fukushima 3D map in Google Earth
maplandia.com -----Fukushima Google Satellite Map
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Japan raced to avert a nuclear meltdown today by flooding a nuclear reactor with seawater after Friday's massive earthquake left more than 600 people dead and thousands more missing. Towns in the country's northeast coast were literally wiped away by an ensuing tsunami, leaving countless people seeking shelter in the aftermath of the quake, which measured 8.9 on the Richter scale and was the country's strongest recorded quake. -- Lloyd Young 44 photos total) boston.com
Photos: Scenes from the earthquake
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Topic: nuclear power - on March 12, 2011 at 3:04:00 PM CET
Japanese authorities are making plans to distribute iodine to residents near the Fukushima nuclear plant. This helps to protect against radiation poisoning of the thyroid gland.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 12, 2011 at 2:55:00 PM CET
Arab League chief calls for Libya no-fly zone
Arab League chief Amr Moussa called for a no-fly zone over Libya in an interview with a German magazine on Saturday, ahead of the group meeting in Cairo on Saturday to discuss the proposal.
"I am speaking of a humanitarian action," he said in comments to Der Spiegel released on Saturday. "It is about assisting the Libyan people with a no-fly zone in their struggle for freedom against an increasingly inhuman regime."
reuters.com Youssef bin Alawi bin Abdullah, the Omani foreign minister, has called for "Arab intervention" in Libya in his opening remarks at the Arab League meeting
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Topic: nuclear power - on March 12, 2011 at 1:24:00 PM CET
Japan's nuclear power operator has chequered past
The company at the centre ofa nuclear reactor crisis following the biggest earthquake inJapan's recorded history has had a rocky past in an industryplagued by scandal.
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Topic: nuclear power - on March 12, 2011 at 12:45:00 PM CET
The density of the radiation amount did not increase following the explosion. The earlier reported figure, 1050, was actually inaccurate.
The radiation level actually decreased, he claims, after the explosion.
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Topic: nuclear power - on March 12, 2011 at 11:07:00 AM CET
Japan earthquake live report
News, emergency information, live reaction
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Topic: nuclear power - on March 12, 2011 at 9:38:00 AM CET
Explosion im AKW Fukushima
In dem japanischen Atomkraftwerk Fukushima I hat sich heute nach Angaben der Nachrichtenagentur Jiji eine Explosion ereignet. Auf TV-Bildern war eine weiße Rauchwolke über dem Gebäudekomplex zu sehen, das von dem schweren Erdbeben gestern beschädigt worden war.
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