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An Iranian official said Friday that the country’s Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant is highly safe, the official IRNA news agency reporte An Iranian man stands after swimming at seaside near the Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran, Aug. 20, 2010. Nuclear fuel is going be loaded to Bushehr nuclear power …
With the spread of an samonella outbreak, the number of people sicked by the disease has risen to more than 1,000, authorities said on Friday. Eggs are seen at a supermarket in New York, the United States, Aug. 20, 2010. A U.S. egg company has extended a nationwide food recall to 380 …
Details of 100 million Facebook users have been gathered and published online, according to BBC News on Thursday. Stephanie Endicott and Marcus Smallegan, first-year students at George Washington University, display a photograph of themselves on their Facebook website, in Washington November 25, 2007. A security consultant, Ron Bowles, used a code to collect …
An Israeli F-16A fighter jet crashed in the West Bank on Sunday afternoon, killing a son of late Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon who died in the 2003 Columbia spaceship tragedy, said the Israeli army. Israeli soldiers search for the debris of the crashed F-16A plane of Israeli Air Forces in the southern Hebron hills, the [...]
To initiate talks with six major powers on global issues, Iran handed over its new package of proposals on Wednesday. Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki (1st R) meets with the four ambassadors of China, Russia, France and Germany, the British charge d’affaires, and the Swiss envoy representing the United States, in Teheran, Iran, Sept. 9, [...]
The global economic outlook is still gloomy and no early recovery from the current recession can be expected, a United Nations report said on Monday. Despite some “green shoots” of economic recovery, “the economic winter is far from over,” said the Trade and Development Report 2009, released by the UN Conference on Trade and Development [...]
American General Motors (GM) and China’s state-owned automaker FAW Group Corp. (FAW) announced Sunday a two billion yuan (about 293 million U.S. dollars) joint venture to make light-duty trucks and vans. The General Motors logo is seen outside its headquarters at the Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan August 25, 2009. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) “Our new joint [...]
Researchers have discovered an HIV infection in a Cameroonian woman which is clearly linked to a gorilla strain as against the previous research that showed the HIV, the main source of human infections, originated from a virus in chimpanzees, according to media reports Monday. A mountain gorilla, a member of the Mubare gorilla group, searches [...]
Former Philippine president Corazon “Cory” Aquino died early Saturday morning at age 76 after battling colon cancer for over a year, her family said. “Our mother peacefully passed away at 3:18 a.m., Aug. 1, 2009, of cardio-respiratory arrest,” the senator said in a statement. “She would have wanted to thank each and every one of [...]