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A strong earthquake and tsunami on March 2011, damaged the Fukushima Daiichi plant’s cooling systems, causing three of its reactors to meltdown and driving thousands of residents from their homes.

Ambassador Kamboj told the UNSC meeting that the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan is dire and that India's objective is to establish long-term peace, security and stability in the country.

So far this year 71 women have been killed in Turkey, including seven on Feb. 27 — the highest known number of such killings there on a single day.

The speech is expected to trumpet achievements on infrastructure, student debt etc with Biden saying that he had done "more over three years than most presidents have in eight."

The Huthis began attacking ships in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea last November, a campaign they say is intended to signal solidarity with Palestinians.

Biden last week first raised the idea of establishing a “maritime corridor,” saying the U.S. was working with allies on how it might provide assistance from the sea to those in Gaza.

In the days after Joslin's disappearance last month, local media reported that neighbours had accused her mother of selling her for just over $1,000. The girl, Joslin Smith, has still not been found.

Thursday’s (March 7, 2024) drills involved frontline artillery units, whose weapons place Seoul, the South Korean capital, in their striking range, the North’s official Korean Central News Agency said.

Ottawa police chief Eric Stubbs said the deceased are Sri Lankan nationals who recently came to Canada.

It can either try to annihilate Hamas, which would mean almost certain death for the estimated 100 hostages still held in Gaza, or it can cut a deal that would allow the militants to claim a historic victory.

Madrid state prosecutor's office accused the 64-year-old Italian of having deprived Spain's treasury of over one million euros in earnings from image rights in 2014 and 2015.

The conflict has uprooted more than 10 million people either to safer areas inside Sudan or to neighboring countries, according to U.N. agencies.

A collapse in foreign exchange reserves saw months of food and fuel shortages along with street protests that forced the ouster of President Ranil Wickremesinghe's predecessor in 2022.

The 60-year-old former world chess champion has been a longtime opponent of President Vladimir Putin and has repeatedly spoken out against Russia's military offensive in Ukraine.

The attack against the truffle hunters was one of the deadliest strikes by the Islamic State group in the area in more than a year.

Kyiv has appealed to its Western allies to help bolster its air defences to fend off systematic Russian aerial attacks on key infrastructure throughout the two-year invasion.

Haley leaves the 2024 presidential contest having made history as the first woman to win a Republican primary. She beat Trump in the District of Columbia on Sunday and Vermont on Tuesday.

The International Organization for Migration said the total number of deaths among migrants in 2023 was nearly 20% more than the previous year.

The full extent of the damage to the Liberian-owned ship remained unclear, but the crew abandoned the ship and deployed lifeboats.

Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said the right to abort remained "in danger" worldwide, with our "freedoms in essence threatened... at the mercy of decision makers".