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Pope Francis’ fascination with the devil took on remarkable new twists Tuesday, with a well-known exorcist insisting Francis helped “liberate” a Mexican man possessed by four different demons despite the Vatican’s insistence that no such papal exorcism took place. The case concerns a 43-year-old ...
Kazuhiro Shiraishi, 66, is a guest-house manager in the Izu-kogen Highlands, a famous resort area on the Izu Peninsula of Shizuoka Prefecture. Looking out onto the Pacific Ocean, and just 90 minutes by train from Tokyo, Izu has a warm climate all year round ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Guitarist Dustin Wong hesitates for a split second. It’s a pause that would go unnoticed during most other sets, but Wong has spent the last 40 minutes seemingly in a trance while playing guitar and looping the notes via an array of pedals in ...
Tim Duncan saves the day as the Spurs hold off the Grizzlies in overtime
Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency will visit Fukushima Prefecture for five days starting July 22 to support decontamination efforts. The experts will be provided with local radiation data, tour disaster-hit areas and support Fukushima’s compilation of radiation maps, and radioactive decontamination and ...
A possible solution to the increasing amount of radioactive water inside the crisis-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant could be to pump groundwater into the sea before it flows into the reactor buildings, as planned by the plant operator, the head of international ...
The International Atomic Energy Agency urges Tokyo Electric to improve "essential systems" at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant as the utility struggles with leaks and blackouts.
A team of nuclear experts formed by the International Atomic Energy Agency on Monday started its activities in Japan to review the country’s ongoing efforts to scrap the crippled reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. It is the first IAEA mission ...
Two years after the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, the herculean task of decommissioning the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant is the subject of growing international involvement.
It is a testament to Yukiya Amano’s success as head of the U.N. atomic agency that, unlike his appointment in 2009, securing a second term was a formality. Succeeding Nobel Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei, the Japanese career diplomat had big shoes to fill and ...
The International Atomic Energy Agency began its regular board meeting Monday in Vienna with the re-election of Director General Yukiya Amano and how to respond to North Korea’s third nuclear test last month high on the agenda. No country on the 35-member Board of ...
South Korea has big plans to become a major nuclear energy player, but they are unfolding at a time when the global industry is under intense scrutiny after the 2011 Fukushima disaster. And its ambitions have not been helped by a series of domestic ...
The International Atomic Energy Agency plans to propose a multinational mission to decommission the Fukushima No. 1 plant's wrecked nuclear reactors, a challenge that will take decades.