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Fukushima disaster: Tepco admits late meltdown announcement
The operator of the Fukushima nuclear power plant hit by a tsunami in 2011 has admitted that it should have announced sooner that there was a nuclear meltdown at the site. The Tokyo Electric Power Company denied the meltdown for two months. The company now says the public declaration should have been done within days of the...
Cyclone Winston: Fears for isolated Fiji communities as death toll
The death toll in Fiji has jumped to 42 amid fears for remote areas and islands yet to be reached by relief teams, days after a devastating cyclone. Cyclone Winston, thought to be one of the strongest storms to hit the Southern Hemisphere, left 8,500 sheltering in evacuation centres. Teams are still being deployed. Officials...
Two teenage girls dead after shooting at high school in Arizona
TWO female students were shot and killed on Friday at a high school in a Phoenix suburb but the danger at the campus was over, police said. Glendale Officer Tracey Breeden said both 15-year-olds were shot once and a weapon was found near the bodies at Independence high school in Glendale. She did not say who fired the shots and...