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Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates addresses journalists during a news conference Monday, March 14 2011, at the Sao Bento palace, the premier's official residence, in Lisbon. Market pressure on Portugal, viewed as at risk of needing a bailout like Greece and Ireland due to its unsustainably high borrowing costs, eased following a European agreement over the weekend on a package of measures.
photo: AP / Armando Franca
Moody's cuts Portugal's rating
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Moody's has cut Portugal's long-term debt rating by two steps, citing a weaker growth outlook, risks to the government's deficit- reduction plans and a possible need to recapitalise its banks. The rating was downgraded to A3, four steps from so-called junk status, according to Moody's, with the outlook on the grade "negative". Portugal is trying to...
In this citizen journalism photo acquired by the AP via 14 February Media Committee a citizen journalism web site in Bahrain, shows smoke and flames after clashes, between protesters and security forces in Pearl Square Manama on Wednesday March 16, 2011. Soldiers and riot police used tear gas and armored vehicles to drive out hundreds of anti-government protesters occupying a landmark square in Bahrain's capital, a day after emergency rule was imposed in the violence-wracked Gulf kingdom.
photo: AP / 14 February Media Committee
Bahrain storms into protesters' camp in capital
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REEM KHALIFA Associated Press= MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Soldiers and riot police used tear gas and armored vehicles to drive out hundreds of anti-government protesters occupying a landmark square in Bahrain's capital, a day after emergency rule was imposed in the violence-wracked Gulf kingdom. Demonstrators said at least two people were killed. The...
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, gestures, as she takes an unannounced walk through Tahrir Square, Wednesday March 16, 2011, in Cairo. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday toured Cairo's Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the popular uprising that toppled Egypt's longtime autocratic leader last month. Surrounded by a heavy contingent of U.S. and Egyptian security guards, Clinton smiled, waved and shook hands with the Egyptian citizens who thronged her during her unscheduled 15-minute stroll through the square.
photo: AP / Pau J Richards, Pool
Clinton tours Tahrir Square in push for reform
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Click photo to enlarge US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton leaves a press conference with Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil el-Arabi, not pictured, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, March 15, 2011. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was pressing Egypt's transitional leaders Tuesday to follow through on pledges for democratic reform after the...
Fire department officials wait for arriving residents evacuated from areas surrounding the Fukushima nuclear facilities damaged in Friday's massive earthquake are checked for radiation exposure Sunday, March 13, 2011, Koriyama city, Fukushima prefecture, Japan.
photo: AP / Wally Santana
A cloud of nuclear mistrust spreads around the world
read more The Independent
It is unprecedented: four atomic reactors in dire trouble at once, three threatening meltdown from overheating, and a fourth hit by a fire in its storage pond for radioactive spent fuel. All day yesterday, dire reports continued to circulate about the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, faced with disaster after Japan's tsunami knocked out its cooling...
Officials wearing clothing to protect against radiation work in a center to scan residents who have been within 20 kilometers of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant damaged by Friday's earthquake Tuesday, March 15, 2011, in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
photo: AP / Gregory Bull
Fukushima workers withdraw after radiation spikes
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Continue reading the main story Japan Earthquake Japan quake Live In pictures Q&A;: Fukushima explained Health risks 'low'...
Soldiers board a helicopter in Guerima, in the eastern province of Vichada, Colombia, Wednesday March 9, 2011. Suspected leftist rebels released early Tuesday, 22 of 23 Colombian contractors abducted while doing exploratory work in the remote jungle region for the Canadian oil company Talisman.
photo: AP / William Fernando Martinez
Colombia Farc 'drug boss' Oliver Solarte killed
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Continue reading the main story Related Stories Santos hails Farc 'turning point' Colombia's president on talking to Farc Farc 'likely to survive Jojoy death' Colombia's armed forces say they have killed a Farc rebel leader who acted as the group's main contact with Mexico's...
A boy with symptoms of cholera waits for treatment at the St Catherine hospital in Cite Soleil in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010. Doctors and aid groups are rushing to set up cholera treatment centers across Haiti's capital as officials warn that the disease's encroachment into the city will bring a surge in cases. Cholera has killed more than 580 people across the country according to the Haiti's health ministry.
photo: AP / Ramon Espinosa
Haiti cholera 'far worse than expected', experts fear
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By Michelle Roberts Health reporter, BBC News Continue reading the main story Related Stories Haiti cholera challenge 'failed' Why is Haiti still struggling? The cholera epidemic affecting Haiti looks set to be far worse than officials had thought, experts fear. Rather than affecting a predicted 400,000 people, the diarrhoeal disease could strike...
Los Angeles County Fire Dept. rescue team members search for survivors in a damaged house in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, northern Japan, Tuesday, March 15, 2011, four days after a powerful earthquake-triggered tsunami hit Japan's east coast.
photo: AP / Shizuo Kambayashi
New fire hits Japan nuclear plant
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Are you in Japan? Have...
In this image taken from Libya State TV, broadcast Tuesday March 15, 2011, showing Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, as he faces a jubilant crowd, and shown on state TV. Gadhafi's forces are reported to have overwhelmed rebels in the strategic eastern Libyan city of Ajdabiya, earlier Tuesday, hammering them with airstrikes, missiles, tanks and artillery.
photo: AP / Libya State TV
Libyan government forces overwhelm rebels in Ajdabiya
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Libyan troops loyal to Moammar Kadafi mount a punishing assault to capture the last obstacle on the coastal highway to Benghazi, sending opposition fighters who had vowed to fight to the death fleeing. Share By David Zucchino and Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times...
Japan Self-Defense Force's members conduct search operation in Otsuchi, Iwate, northern Japan Tuesday, March 15, 2011 following Friday's massive earthquake and the ensuing tsunami.
photo: AP / Yomiuri Shimbun, Yoichi Hayashi
Japan jolted by new earthquakes as fears of radiation exposure take hold
read more The Los Angeles Times
Earthquakes of magnitude 6.1 and 6.2 strike areas south of Tokyo. As Japan holds it breath over radiation leaks at the Fukushima nuclear complex, the latest quakes raise fears about another nuclear facility. But the International Atomic Energy Agency says the Hamaoka plant is operating normally....
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Michelle Obama's Let's Move Campaign Is Helping Bullies read more
The Daily Beast
by Paul Campos Info...
Four explosions, two fires, and a cloud of nuclear mistrust spreads around the world read more
The Independent
It is unprecedented: four atomic reactors in dire trouble at once, three threatening meltdown...
Fear biggest danger for thousands read more
The Australian
AFTER past nuclear accidents, fear has proved to be as big a killer as radiation - especially...
 
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Expedition 26 Crew and Capsule Land Safely In Kazakhstan read more
In a March 15, 2011 photo provided by NASA, Russian search and rescue personnel secure their helicopters shortly after arriving at Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on ahead of Wednesday's planned landing of the Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft with Expedition 26 commander Scott Kelly and flight engineers Oleg Skripochka and Alexander Kaleri. Astronaut Kellyand cosmonauts Skripochka and Kaleri will be returning from almost six months onboard the International Space Station, where they served as members of the Expedition 25 and 26 crews
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photo: AP / NASA, Bill Ingalls
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Murder charge adds to saga of Rockefeller impostor read more
Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, who calls himself Clark Rockefeller, appears at Suffolk Superior Court Monday, Dec. 1, 2008. Sitting next to him is defense attorney Jeffrey Denner, left. Rockefeller will get back about half of the gold coins and cash seized by federal authorities after he was arrested for allegedly kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter, Reigh Boss, during a supervised visit in Boston in July. Prosecutors agreed to turn over 160 gold coins _ worth about $140,000 _ and $6,480 in cash so he can pay for his defense.
Breitbart
In this Aug. 5, 2008 file photo, Christian Gerhartsreiter is shown during... LOS ANGELES (AP) - A new chapter in the strange saga of a man who claimed to be a member of the storied Rockefeller family has opened with the filing of a murder charge in...
photo: AP / Ted Fitzgerald, Pool
Crime   Justice   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Christian Gerhartsreiter
Japan's nuclear crisis stirs German politics read more
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and the governor of the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Stefan Mappus, left, arrive for a news conference in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, March 15, 2011. Germany will take seven of its 17 nuclear reactors offline for three months while the country reconsiders plans to extend the life of its atomic power plants in the wake of events in Japan, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday. (
The Associated Press
BERLIN (AP) -- Explosions at nuclear reactors half a world away have put German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a tight political spot - increasing the risk that upcoming regional elections could undermine the authority of one of Europe's most important...
photo: AP / Michael Sohn
Germany   Japan   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: 2011 Japanese nuclear incidents
Japan's neighbors monitor shipments for radiation read more
A worker stands in front of containers at the newly-opened Yangshan deep water port in Shanghai, China in this Dec. 10, 2005 file photo. China's trade surplus with the United States fell in January as U.S. demand for Chinese goods weakened amid fears of a possible recession, while the surplus with Europe surged by 42 percent, according to data reported Thursday February 21, 2008.
The Wichita Eagle
BEIJING - Japan's neighbors have ordered strengthened radiation monitoring of shipments from Japan, but said they don't foresee their countries having any immediate effects of contamination from the Japanese nuclear crisis. China's General...
photo: AP / Eugene Hoshiko, File
Disaster   Japan   Photos   Trade   Wikipedia: 2011 Japanese nuclear incidents
Gaddafi tells West to stay out of Libya read more
A pro-Gadhafi fighter is seen during a government-organized visit for foreign media in front of a damaged police station in Bin Jawwad, 350 miles (560 kilometers) southeast of the capital Tripoli, in Libya Saturday, March 12, 2011.
Al Jazeera
Muammar Gaddafi has denounced backers of plans for a no-fly zone over his country and urged Libyans to take up arms and prepare to confront a possible invasion by Western powers. Addressing selected supporters late on Tuesday, Gaddafi called the...
photo: AP / Ben Curtis
Africa   Libya   Photos   UN   Wikipedia: 2011 Libyan uprising
Iraqi Delay Hinders U.S. Planning read more
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks to reporters in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
BAGHDAD -- Iraq's long delay in finalizing its government has complicated the Obama administration's drive to set up a small army of diplomats and contractors here after the end of the year, when the last American troops are supposed to leave. The...
photo: AP / Nabil al-Jurani
Iraq   Military   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Iraq withdrawal benchmarks
Offer to send experts on Chernobyl crisis read more
Tokyo Electric Co. employees in charge of public relations, in blue uniform, explain the situation of Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex during a press conference Wednesday, March 16, 2011 in Tokyo, Japan. The outer housing of the containment vessel at the No. 4 unit at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex erupted in flames early Wednesday, said a spokesman for the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co.
Irish Times
DANIEL McLAUGHLIN UKRAINE:�UKRAINE HAS offered to send atomic power experts who dealt with the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl accident to Japan to help handle the crisis at its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. A huge explosion tore apart the...
photo: AP / Eugene Hoshiko
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Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates addresses journalists during a news conference Monday, March 14 2011, at the Sao Bento palace, the premier's official residence, in Lisbon. Market pressure on Portugal, viewed as at risk of needing a bailout like Greece and Ireland due to its unsustainably high borrowing costs, eased following a European agreement over the weekend on a package of measures.
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Real Madrid's Karim Benzema
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Shell fuel tanker's are seen, inside the Shell Fuel Terminal, in Jarrow, north east England, Friday June 13, 2008. A union representing drivers of fuel tankers says hundreds of them who deliver to Royal Dutch Shell gas stations across Britain will strike over pay.
Sci / Tech / Health
Fire department officials wait for arriving residents evacuated from areas surrounding the Fukushima nuclear facilities damaged in Friday's massive earthquake are checked for radiation exposure Sunday, March 13, 2011, Koriyama city, Fukushima prefecture, Japan.
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Tibetan Parliament in exile discussing about His Holiness the Dalai Lama's decision to retire from political leadership, Dharamshala, India
Sport
Former Pakistan cricket captain Wasim Akram arrives for a meeting with Indian Premier League team Kolkata Knight Riders owner and Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan in Mumbai, India, Sunday, Aug.30, 2009. Akram is one of the leading contenders for the job of the coach of the Knight Riders.
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INDIA
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Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama-Dharamshala, India
Politics
President Barack Obama speaking in Jacksonville, Florida
Sport
Serbia's Novak Djokovic watches his backhand return to Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic during their quarterfinal match at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011.
Business
Sugar - Commodity
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A German engineer of Cairos Technologies tests the new Adidas ball "Pelias 2" with a micro-chip inside at National Satium in Lima, Peru on Monday, Sept 12, 2005. FIFA intend to experiment with new technology at the upcoming World U17 champs. The ball is going to be fitted with a micro-chip and the referee will wear some sort of device that will send him a signal every time the ball goes out of play or over the goal line. If successfull will be used at next years world cup.
Politics
Alejandrina Garcia, one of the founding members of the "Ladies in White" opposition group, speaks in her home in Matanzas, Cuba, Friday, Jan.28, 2011.
Sport
Britain's Tiffany Ofili, right, clears a hurdle on her way to win a women's 60m hurdles semi final next to Russia's Aleksandra Antonova during the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Paris, Friday, March 4, 2011.
Business
A view of Talicud in Samal Island, Philippines is seen from the middle of the waters of Davao Gulf on April 25, 2009.
Sci / Tech / Health
A boy with symptoms of cholera waits for treatment at the St Catherine hospital in Cite Soleil in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010. Doctors and aid groups are rushing to set up cholera treatment centers across Haiti's capital as officials warn that the disease's encroachment into the city will bring a surge in cases. Cholera has killed more than 580 people across the country according to the Haiti's health ministry.
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