Fukushima worker accidentally switches off cooling pumps, backup kicks in
TOKYO (Reuters) – The operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said on Monday that pumps used to inject water to cool damaged reactors were hit by a power failure, but a backup system kicked in immediately.
China warns U.S., Japan, Australia not to gang up in sea disputes
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China said on Monday the United States, Australia and Japan should not use their alliance as an excuse to intervene in territorial disputes in the East China Sea and South China Sea, and urged them to refrain from inflaming regiona…
Libya, Somalia raids show U.S. reach, problems
TRIPOLI/MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Two U.S. raids in Africa show the United States is pressuring al Qaeda, officials said on Sunday, though a failure in Somalia and an angry response in Libya also highlighted Washington’s problems.
U.S., Britain push Congo to prosecute soldiers over Minova rapes
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – The United States and Britain pushed Democratic Republic of Congo officials to prosecute soldiers accused of raping some 130 women and girls in Congo’s volatile east, U.N. Security Council envoys said duri…
U.N. peacekeepers in Congo focus on new armed groups
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – After an aggressive new U.N. brigade in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo scored a military victory over M23 rebels and forced them back to peace talks, U.N. peacekeepers are now turning their focus to …
Destruction of Syrian chemical weapons begins: mission
BEIRUT (Reuters) – International experts began overseeing the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal on Sunday, said an official from the mission that has averted a U.S. strike but could rob President Bashar al-Assad of his most feared weapon….
Clashes across Egypt kill 51, more protests called
CAIRO (Reuters) – At least 51 people were killed in clashes in Egyptian cities on Sunday, security sources said, after opponents and supporters of deposed president Mohamad Mursi took to the streets in one of the bloodiest days since the army seized po…
New York case offers insight into secret war against Somali militants
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – For years before Saturday’s unsuccessful raid in Somalia to capture a top al Shabaab militant, Washington had waged a secret law enforcement and spy war against the group, which claimed responsibility for last month’s deadly assa…
Netanyahu faces ridicule from Iranians online over “jeans” comment
DUBAI (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have sought to win over Iranians in an interview with British Persian-language television, but a casual assertion that they were banned from wearing jeans won only gentle ridicule from som…
Suicide bomb attacks on Iraqi school, Shi’ite pilgrims, kill 29
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – A suicide bomber drove a truck packed with explosives into the playground of a primary school in northern Iraq and blew himself up, killing 14 children and their headmaster on Sunday, police and medical sources said.
