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Koreas - The United States is suspending food aid to North Korea, accusing it of breaking a promise to refrain from launching missiles.

Acting Assistant Secretary

N.Korea invites foreign experts to view launch

Koreas - North Korea has revealed that it invited foreign journalists and experts to witness preparations for its planned rocket launch next month.

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Workers are operating at the stricken Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant at Okuma town in Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan (AFP Photo / Yoshikazu Tsuno)

Radiation blowback: 10 times lethal level registered at Fukushima

Japan - A recent examination at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant has revealed radiation levels up to ten times the fatal

North Korea says it will go ahead with a plan to launch a rocket-powered satellite scheduled for next month. (File photo)

North Korea to go ahead with planned sat launch liftoff despite US warning

Koreas - North Korea says it will go ahead with a plan to launch a rocket-powered satellite scheduled

Temperature at no. 2 reactor rises to 80 degrees

Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Company says the reading of one of the thermometers in the number 2 reactor at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant

Japan's Imperial Household Agency says Emperor Akihito has been hospitalized for tests.

Emperor to have heart bypass operation

Japan - Emperor Akihito is expected to have surgery next Saturday to increase the blood supply to his heart.

This will be the Emperor's first operation since

The reactor of a nuclear plant in Fukushima, 5 miles away. Eleven months after the disaster, the situation is still not stabilized. Satoshi Oga / NBC / AP / SIPA

Fukushima: new heat stroke in a reactor

Japan - According to the Japanese channel NHK World, the temperature in the reactor vessel 2 of the Fukushima plant is picked up again, despite the "cold

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is escorted out for safety by body guards and police through a crowd of Aboriginal protesters following a ceremony to mark Australia's national day in Canberra, Australia, Thursday Jan. 26, 2012.

Australian Aborigines attack PM

Australia - Police have rescued Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard from angry Aboriginal protesters who were demonstrating on Australia Day against European settlers'

A Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force P-3C Orion surveillance plane flies over the disputed islands in the East China Sea, called the Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, Oct. 13, 2011.

Diaoyu is indisputable China territory

China - China has stressed it has "indisputable sovereignty" over the Diaoyu Islands after Japan announced a plan to name 39 uninhabited islands.

"Our determination

Rice shortage in Malaysia to increase

Malaysia - The Malaysia Economic Monitor has warned that millions of people in the Asian country could go hungry due to rice shortage, Press TV reports.

According

USA - China's state media has criticized the United States' major strategic shift into Asia-Pacific, accusing Washington of being a troublemaker responsible

US troops curfew extended in S. Korea

Korea - The US military has extended a troops curfew in South Korea until further notice, following two scandalous rape cases involving American soldiers.

The

NZ troops to leave Afghanistan in March

Afghanistan - New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has said the country's special forces will leave Afghanistan in March next year following eight years of

Japan - Nine months after Japan's nuclear disaster, Tokyo says dismantling the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant will

Kim Jong-killed? Speculation surrounds Dear Leader's death

Korea's - A cloud of mystery has shrouded the death of Kim Jong-il, as South Korean intelligence pokes holes in the official

Kim Jong-il is Dead F**k yeah!

Anytime I think of Kim Jong-il I always think of how he was characterized in the movie Team America: World Police & the characterization of Kim Jong-il in Team America: World Police

Korea's - North Korea's veteran leader Kim Jong-il has died at the age of 69. A tearful announcer at North Korea’s state television, dressed in black, said on

Noda declares cold shutdown of reactors

Japan - Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda says the crippled reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have been successfully brought to a state

Japan sea radiation higher than thought

Japan - Researchers say the radioactive substances released into the sea following the Fukushima nuclear power plant crisis is three times the initial estimate.

According

The European and United States stocks suffer renewed plunges as the dire Western economy continues to steal the investors' confidence.

On Thursday, the Wall Street

Fukushima radiation alarms doctors

Japan - Japanese doctors warn of public health problems caused by Fukushima radiation.

Scientists and doctors are calling for a new national policy in Japan that

N Korea slams US, S Korean war games

Korea's -
North Korea has condemned the latest joint military exercise between the South and the United States, saying the drill is a declaration of war.

The

Japan - Workers at Japan's Fukushima plant say the ground under the facility is cracking and radioactive steam is escaping through the fissures. They also

Radiation effect on children's thyroid glands

Japan - A survey shows that a small amount of radioactive iodine has been detected in the thyroid glands of hundreds of children in Fukushima Prefecture.

The

Voluntary evacuees demand TEPCO pay damages

Japan - Fukushima Prefecture residents who voluntarily evacuated after the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have demanded the plant operator

N Korea denies shelling near S Korea	11/08/2011 00:56
China navy carrier begins maiden voyage	10/08/2011 17:22
Markets slide on credit uncertainty	08/08/2011 15:15
China urges crackdown on "terrorists"	08/08/2011 08:51
Japan to fire top nuclear officials	04/08/2011 05:23
Radiation hits highest in Japan N-plant	01/08/2011 17:36
Cesium leveling out at the Fukushima reactor No.3	01/08/2011 08:40
Storm death toll hits 52 in Philippines	01/08/2011 03:54
Three killed in China's Xinjiang blast	31/07/2011 17:38
Full operation of cooling device begins	31/07/2011 14:28

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