Mar 14 Responders Rush to Aid Japan Victims, Evacuees By Talea Miller Tens of thousands of rescue workers are descending on Japan's northeast coast following the devastating earthquake and tsunami Friday that killed at least 10,000, according to a recent Associated Press estimate. More than half a million people have been evacuated… Continue reading
Mar 14 Aid for Victims of Japan’s Disaster The Japan Red Cross is working around the clock to provide food, shelter and medical services to the many people injured and displaced by Friday's earthquake and tsunami. Continue reading
Mar 14 Gadhafi Forces Launch Fresh Airstrikes, Fierce Fighting in Brega By News Desk 2:15 p.m. ET | As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met in Paris with Group of Eight foreign ministers, France and Britain called again for increasing pressure on Libya's Moammar Gadhafi and a no-fly zone over the country. British Prime… Continue reading
Mar 14 World Week Ahead: Japan’s Nuclear Threat; Pressure on Libya By Larisa Epatko Japan's triple whammy -- earthquake, tsunami and a possible nuclear disaster, which Prime Minister Naoto Kan called the worst crisis since World War II -- will dominate the week. Continue reading
Mar 13 Watch Newly released video of the Tsunami and the search for survivors in Japan Video from Iwate prefecture shows the wave rolling over a seawall, inundating a large city. In another video report, three elderly people are rescued from a car 20 hours after the disaster. Continue watching
Mar 13 Watch The Aftermath of the Tsunami in Sendai, Japan Aerial footage reveals the wreckage of Sendai, Japan. Continue watching
Mar 13 Death Toll Climbs in Japan as Nuclear Threat Grows By News Desk People evacuate by boat down a road flooded by tsunami waves in the Japanese city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi prefecture on Saturday, a day after a massive quake and tsunami hit the region. Photo by Jiji Press/AFP/Getty Images The death… Continue reading
Mar 12 Arab League Backs No-Fly Zone in Libya On Saturday, the 22-nation Arab League asked the U.N. Security Council to implement a no-fly zone in Libya to prevent Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's forces from more air attacks on the Libyan people. Never noted for moving decisively, the League's… Continue reading
Mar 12 Explosion Rocks Japanese Nuclear Power Plant in Quake’s Aftermath By News Desk Updated 4:15 p.m. ET | In a last-ditch effort to avert a nuclear meltdown, officials in Japan flooded a nuclear reactor with seawater on Saturday, the New York Times reported. Japan's chief cabinet secretary, Yukio Edano, said Tokyo Electric… Continue reading
Mar 11 8.9-Magnitude Earthquake Triggers Tsunami in Japan, Hundreds Killed By Francine Uenuma By: Francine Uenuma and news desk Updated 10:13 p.m. ET | After 2 Disasters, Officials Scramble to Prevent More at Nuclear Plants Thousands of residents have been evacuated as workers struggled to get nuclear… Continue reading