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G7 closes ranks to shore up quake-hit markets (AFP)
maart 18, 2011by latadmin
AFP – Japan and its economic allies on Friday intervened jointly in world currency markets for the first time in a decade to calm turmoil sparked by a huge...
A week after quake, Japan’s leader vows to rebuild (AP)
maart 18, 2011by latadmin
AP – Sirens wailed Friday along a devastated coastline to mark exactly one week since an earthquake and tsunami triggered a nuclear emergency, and the government...
Tibetan monastery sealed off after monk dies (AFP)
maart 17, 2011by latadmin
AFP – A Tibetan Buddhist monastery in southwestern China was tightly sealed off by police on Thursday, local residents said, after a young monk set himself on fire...
Choppers douse crippled Japan reactor with water (AP)
maart 17, 2011by latadmin
AP – Emergency workers frantic to regain control of Japan’s dangerously overheated nuclear complex turned to increasingly elaborate methods Thursday to cool...
Dalai Lama rejects pleas to reconsider retirement (AFP)
maart 17, 2011by latadmin
AFP – The Dalai Lama rejected on Thursday calls from his followers and the Tibetan parliament-in-exile urging him to reconsider his decision to retire as political...
Merkel vows ‘measured’ nuclear exit, switch to renewables (AFP)
maart 17, 2011by latadmin
AFP – Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed Thursday that Germany would speed up the transition to renewable energy as Europe’s top economy mulled a “measured...
Up to 50 Somali pirates seize Indonesian ship (AFP)
maart 17, 2011by latadmin
AFP – An unusually large group of 30 to 50 Somali pirates seized an Indonesian vessel and used it in a failed bid to hijack a second ship on Thursday, the EU naval...
US Navy delivers protective suits to Japan (AFP)
maart 17, 2011by latadmin
AFP – The US Navy delivered special protective suits and masks to Japan on Thursday to help workers struggling to contain damage at the crippled Fukushima nuclear...
Obama to make statement about Japan at 3:30 pm EST (Reuters)
maart 17, 2011by latadmin
Reuters – President Barack Obama will make a statement about Japan at 3:30 p.m. EST on Thursday, the White House said.
