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NRA makes new reactor safety regimen official
The Nuclear Regulation Authority officially approves new safety requirements for reactors aimed at preventing disasters like the catastrophe at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
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U.S. leader Barack Obama will Wednesday propose major cuts in American and Russian nuclear arsenals, making a pitch for his own place in history in an evocative open-air speech during his first visit as president to Berlin. Almost 50 years to the day since John Kennedy declared “Ich bin ein ...
Thousands of demonstrators flooded a square in Brazil’s economic hub of Sao Paulo on Tuesday evening for the latest in ...
If you have just seen a play that you privately think is drivel, will you keep silent when everyone around ...
The best advice for visitors to Britain — pack an umbrella — is more vital than ever. Weather scientists said Tuesday that a country that has been unusually soggy in recent years is not likely to dry out soon, and a warm Atlantic Ocean ...
Jack Lew was the senior budget adviser to Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. He was Obama’s chief of staff. Now he is Treasury secretary. But his most remarked-upon trait was his unusual signature, a series of eight connected loops that looked more like ...
A man stood still in Istanbul’s Taksim Square. Silent, staring straight ahead, he had not moved for hours. His peaceful action, on the square that police cleared of protesters Saturday and where the Turkish authorities have banned gatherings, was a new form of protest. ...
A mentally disabled woman charged with shoplifting a candy bar asked to be jailed because three people “had been mean to her” — then went on to tell authorities about her time spent in unfathomably cruel servitude, along with her young daughter, at the ...
The House approved legislation Tuesday that would ban abortions starting at 20 weeks of pregnancy, the most sweeping abortion restriction to pass any chamber of Congress in a decade. The vote was 228-196. While the measure is unlikely to become law — it faces ...
The U.S. government’s sweeping surveillance programs have disrupted more than 50 terrorist plots in the United States and abroad, including a plan to bomb the New York Stock Exchange, senior Obama administration officials testified Tuesday. The officials, appearing before a largely friendly House committee, ...
For the second time in less than a year, a Montreal mayor has stepped down amid corruption scandals ripping through Canada’s second-largest city. Interim Mayor Michael Applebaum came into office vowing to clean up government. He resigned Tuesday, a day after his arrest on ...
Mali, which lost half its territory last year to a rebel invasion, signed an accord Tuesday with Tuareg separatists who still control the country’s northernmost province, paving the way for the Malian military to return to the areas that remain under rebel control. The ...
Russia is on its way to sharply limiting the adoption of children by people from countries that allow same-sex marriage. Under a measure that passed its crucial second reading in the lower house of Parliament on Tuesday, Russia will prohibit adoption by foreign couples ...
Michael Hastings, the Rolling Stone journalist who triggered the 2010 downfall of U.S. Afghanistan commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal, died in a car crash Tuesday. Hastings, whose profile of McChrystal quoted the four-star general as criticizing President Barack Obama and his senior advisers, died in ...
An Italian who carried out a school bombing in 2012 that killed a teenager and wounded five others was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday, Italian media reports said. Giovanni Vantaggiato, a 69-year-old husband and father of two, set off a bomb made ...
He was drying off his freshly washed car. That’s what the Canadian man told the Mounties when they stopped him doing 180 kph on Highway 22 south of Black Diamond, Alberta, in Western Canada. The driver, a 67-year-old who lives in the area, appeared ...