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Problems still plague Japan a year later

Posted: 10 Mar 2012 04:05 PM PST


MINAMI-SOMA, Japan -- The doctors and nurses at Futaba Hospital pleaded for help as a radioactive plume wafted over their hospital. They had been ordered out but had no vehicles to evacuate the hundreds of patients in their care. After two days of ...

Remains of 167 found in Mexico

Posted: 10 Mar 2012 04:00 PM PST


MEXICO CITY -- Mexican authorities have found the remains of 167 people in a southern Mexican cave, and forensic experts believe the remains are at least 50 years old, according to a statement from Chiapas state prosecutors.
The statement released ...

Syria launches attack on rebels

Posted: 10 Mar 2012 04:00 PM PST


BEIRUT -- Syria launched a long-anticipated assault to crush the opposition in the rebellious north on Saturday, bombarding its main city with tank shells from all sides and clashing with rebel fighters struggling to hold back an invasion.
Preside ...

Japan tourism improving 1 year after tsunami, quake

Posted: 10 Mar 2012 11:43 PM PST


NEW YORK -- A year after a tsunami and earthquake devastated parts of Japan, officials say tourism to Tokyo and other areas unaffected by the disaster is on track to recover to pre-tsunami levels, with business travel leading the way.
In a confere ...

Pakistan says troops help West

Posted: 10 Mar 2012 04:18 PM PST


KALPANI BASE, Pakistan -- The wind was howling and the snow outside their bullet-pocked bunker lay knee-deep as the men of the 20th Lancer armored regiment bedded down for the night, nearly 8,000 feet up a mountain on one of the world's most inhosp ...

Israeli rockets kill 15 Gaza militants

Posted: 10 Mar 2012 04:00 PM PST


GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Israel pounded Gaza for the second day in a row Saturday, trading airstrikes and rocket fire with Palestinian militants and killing 15 of them as the deadliest Gaza violence in over a year showed no signs of abating.
Despi ...

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