Japanese candidates kick off campaign with focus on economy, nuclear power
TOKYO - Leaders of Japan's major political parties kicked off campaigning Tuesday for this month's parliamentary elections in nuclear crisis-hit Fukushima prefecture, where more than 100,000 people...
View ArticleProtesters clash with police over re-opening of smelly pig processing plant...
SANTIAGO, Chile — Chilean protesters have clashed with riot police in the country’s north over the re-opening of a foul-smelling pig processing plant. The Freirina plant in the Atacama region is one...
View ArticleMayor: From building codes to evacuation zones, NYC is working on storm,...
NEW YORK — The city will work on upgrading building codes and evacuation-zone maps, hardening power and transportation networks and making sure hospitals are better prepared for extreme weather after...
View ArticleGovernment and Industry Still Denying Science at Fukushima
When the Fukushima-1 reactor complex in Japan went into radioactive apoplexy on March 11, 2011, the Japanese government and the Tokyo Electric Power Co. — like the Russians at Chernobyl before them —...
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Procrastinators' guide to the fiscal cliff: Obama, Congress could delay past Dec. 31 deadline WASHINGTON (AP) — The dealmakers who warn that a year-end plunge off the "fiscal cliff" would be...
View ArticleNews Summary: Japan scientists took utility money
CONFLICT OF INTEREST?: Influential Japanese scientists who help set national radiation exposure limits have for...
View ArticleNews Summary: Japan scientists in charge of nuclear policy took money from...
CONFLICT OF INTEREST?: Influential Japanese scientists who help set national radiation exposure limits have for years had trips paid for by the country’s nuclear plant operators to attend overseas...
View ArticleMiddle East beginning to embrace solar energy
Wally Santana, File - AP Photo FILE - In this March 24, 2011 file photo, a young evacuee is screened at a shelter for leaked radiation from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant in Fukushima, Fukushima...
View ArticleFukushima safety scientists paid by nuclear operators
Influential Japanese scientists who help set national radiation exposure limits have for years had trips paid for by the country's nuclear plant operators to attend overseas meetings of the world's...
View ArticleJapan scientists took utility money
Posted on December 6, 2012 at 6:54 am by Associated Press in Japan Comments() | E-mail | Print Members of a women's association shout slogans during a rally to protest against restarting the Ohi...
View Article>AP Exclusive: Japan scientists took utility money
TOKYO (AP) — Influential Japanese scientists who help set national radiation exposure limits have for years had trips paid for by the country's nuclear plant operators to attend overseas meetings of...
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TOKYO -- Influential Japanese scientists who help set national radiation exposure limits have for years had trips paid for by the country's nuclear plant operators to attend overseas meetings of the...
View ArticleJapanese scientists took utility money
TOKYO Influential Japanese scientists who help set national radiation exposure limits have for years had trips paid for by the country's nuclear plant operators to attend overseas meetings of the...
View ArticleAP Exclusive: Japan scientists assessing radiation risks took travel money...
TOKYO - Influential Japanese scientists who help set national radiation exposure limits have for years had trips paid for by the country's nuclear plant operators to attend overseas meetings of the...
View ArticleAP Exclusive: Japan scientists took utility money
TOKYO -- Influential Japanese scientists who help set national radiation exposure limits have for years had trips paid for by the country's nuclear plant operators to attend overseas meetings of the...
View ArticleAP Exclusive: Scientists assessing radiation risks took travel money from...
TOKYO — Influential scientists who help set Japan’s radiation exposure limits have for years had trips paid for by the country’s nuclear plant operators to attend overseas meetings of the world’s top...
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Fiscal lull seen for Germany GARCHING, Germany -- Germany's economy is slowing and will probably stagnate in 2013, the country's central bank said Friday, sharply cutting its growth forecast....
View ArticleJapanese Quake Stirs On-Air Alarm, but No Damage to Nuclear Plants Is Reported
TOKYO — It was perhaps the surest sign that Japan remains unnerved by last year’s devastating earthquake and tsunami. After a large quake on Friday hit near the same area stricken last year,...
View ArticleTsunami warning lifted after 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck Japanese coast
TOKYO — A strong earthquake Friday struck the same Japanese coast devastated by last year's massive quake and tsunami, generating small waves but no immediate reports of heavy damage. Several people...
View ArticleTsunami warning after earthquake hits off Japanese coast
A strong earthquake centred off the coast of northeastern Japan shook buildings as far as Tokyo and led to a tsunami warning for coastal areas of the...
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