WASHINGTON – The Obama administration's decision to suspend $800 million in aid to the Pakistan's military signals a tougher U.S. line with a critical but sometimes unreliable partner in the fight against terrorism
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The following lists the impact of the earthquake and tsunami that rocked the northeast coast of Japan on March 11 and the subsequent crisis at a nuclear power plant. (
DEATH TOLL
A total of 12,009 people were confirmed dead by Japan's National Police Agency as of 9 p.m. EDT Saturday, while...
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Link RemovedEvacuees rest at a shelter after being transferred from an elder care facility in Kesennuma, northern Japan. Photograph: Masami Kawakita/AP
Of all the grim headlines to have emerged from Japan in recent weeks, this one on the Kyodo newswire was particularly disturbing: "Up to 1,000...
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A pair of pandas that arrived from China a few weeks ago made their first public appearance at a zoo in Tokyo on Friday, providing a little light relief for victims of the tsunami that hit the country in March.
About 300 people who were forced from their...
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Electricity has been restored to three reactors at the Japanese nuclear plant wrecked by fire and explosions after the 11 March quake and tsunami.
However the cooling systems are not yet operating, and the UN nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, says the situation remains "very serious".
Some workers...
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20:00 JST March 19: One of six tsunami-crippled nuclear reactors appeared to stabilize on Saturday as Japan raced to restore power to the stricken power plant to cool it and prevent a greater catastrophe. Engineers reported some rare success after fire trucks...
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BEIJING - The earthquake and tsunami that devastated northern Japan may help temporarily ease Japan's strained relations with China, allowing the Asian rivals for the moment to look past lingering territorial, economic, military and historical disputes.
When news of the disaster spread Friday...
Link Removed Sailors aboard the US 7th Fleet command ship USS Blue Ridge move pallets of humanitarian relief supplies across the ship's flight deck during an underway replenishment in the South China Sea on Saturday, March 12.
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More than 200,000 people have been ordered out of an area within a 12-mile radius of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, where two reactors have gone into partial meltdown.
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The "Bin Laden Hunter" was arrested in the mountainous regions of Pakistan with a 40 inch sword, a pistol, and night vision goggles. He was deported by Pakistani authorities. His goal: to hunt and capture Osama Bin Laden. Like Bin Laden, he is also on dialysis.
Is he insane?
Faulkner says...
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