Environment
Japan approves $9 bilion support for Fukushima plant operator
TOKYO - Japan's trade minister approved nearly $9 billion in additional support for Tokyo Electric Power Co on Monday to help compensate victims of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, but said the government would not inject taxpayers' money into the troubled utility unless it got adequate management say in return.
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Japan priest fights invisible demon: radiation
FUKUSHIMA - On the snowy fringes of Japan's Fukushima city, now notorious as a byword for nuclear crisis, Zen monk Koyu Abe offers prayers for the souls of thousands left dead or missing after the earthquake and tsunami nearly one year ago. | Video
Canada PM vows to ensure key oil pipeline is built
GUANGZHOU, China - Canada's prime minister on Friday made his strongest comments yet in support of a proposed pipeline from oil-rich Alberta to the Pacific coast, saying his government was committed to ensuring the controversial project went ahead.
La Nina seems to have peaked, set to decline: WMO
GENEVA - La Nina, a weather phenomenon usually linked to heavy rains and flooding in Asia-Pacific and South America and drought in Africa, seems to have reached its peak and is expected to fade between March and May, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Friday.
Insight: Poland's shale gas play takes on Russian power
LESNIOWICE, Poland - When Wieslaw Radzieciak took office as the mayor of Lesniowice in the gently-rolling farmland of southeastern Poland 26 years ago, the Soviet garrisons that dotted the county were a stark reminder of which superpower was in control.
Bungled conservation effort kills South African rhino
JOHANNESBURG - A group of animal conservationists in South Africa accidentally killed a rhinoceros they were attempting to make safe from poachers in a botched public relations event.
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