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A French plane has fired the first shots in Libya as enforcement of the UN-mandated no-fly zone begins. The UK prime minister later confirmed British planes were also in action, while US media reports said the US had fired its first Cruise missiles. The action came hours after Western and Arab leaders met in Paris to agree how... 

Japan ordered emergency workers to withdraw from its stricken nuclear power complex early today amid a surge in radiation. The evacuation temporarily suspended efforts to cool overheating reactors. Japanese self-defence forces were preparing to pour water on to the quake-crippled No. 3 reactor from a helicopter to try to cool... 

Cooling Nuke Waste Nuclear material submerged in water for cooling Japan’s nuclear disaster continues to unfold this morning, and as workers at the Fukushima Daiichi continue to pump seawater into the crippled reactors there a new threat is emerging: the spent fuel rods in the cooling pools at each reactor. While reactors...