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The panel that Japan created to deal with the ruined Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is formally asking both domestic and overseas nuclear experts and firms for how best to decommission the three melted-through reactors.

US President Barack Obama spoke on Thursday, the morning after he signed legislation to end the US government shutdown and to continue paying America’s bills.  The President made clear that the crisis had left “no winners” in Washington.

Rebel forces killed a regional Syrian Intelligence Chief in the eastern part of the country, according to state TV.  General Jameh Jameh was a veteran operative linked to bombings and terrorism outside Syria’s borders.

Cops clashed with Indigenous demonstrators in the northeastern territory of New Brunswick, in a violent protest over shale gas development, more commonly known as “fracking”.  Several police vehicles were torched and at least 40 people were arrested.

Looking for a way to help out as New South Wales battles terrible bushfires?  Think about the Australian Red Cross.
Meanwhile, one of the Kenyan Mall terrorists is identified as a man from far north of there – The US warns of another mall attack apparently in the works – Edward Snowden says he doesn’t have anymore secrets. 

Kenya announced an ambitious plan to place microchips in the horn of every rhinoceros in the country to try and stop poaching.  Wildlife officials hope to use the technology to track live animals, and to trace poached rhino horns and improve the chance of catching the poachers.

Greece's parliament stripped the official immunity of six lawmakers from the fascist Golden Dawn part.  The move paves the way for prosecutors to probe deeper into whether the party was involved in more criminal offenses.

Russia's foreign ministry is expressing “regret” after a diplomat from the Netherlands was beaten up in his Moscow apartment.  It’s the latest flare-up between the two countries in what’s supposed to be a year celebrating a friendship that goes back centuries.

A doctor who didn’t know he has the potentially lethal airborne disease tuberculosis had contact with 658 people, including family members, clinic staff and more than 600 patients, five of whom were children, according to Japanese health officials.

The US has managed to restart its government and avoid causing a global economic collapse because a handful of extremists couldn’t admit a mistake – Lawmakers in both houses passed a deal to fund the government and continue paying America’s bills.

Tons of water from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site are dumped – Russia recovers the biggest chunk from last February’s meteor blast – Malala’s latest honor puts alongside Nelson Mandela and Aung San Suu Kyii.

There appear to be no survivors among the 49 passengers and crew of a Lao Airlines turboprop that crashed in the Mekong River.  Six Australians were on board that plane, including a young family of four from Sydney.

Western nations are indicating some progress in talks aimed at curbing Iran’s nuclear ambitions.  Both the US and EU says the current talks ended on a positive note and each is studying an Iranian proposal.

Typhoon Wipha is currently off the northeastern coast of Japan’s main island Honshu and moving north.  But it left a trail of death and destruction including a killer mudslide that buried part of an island town.  So far, 13 bodies have been recovered.

Brazilian authorities say they want to interview fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden about the spying program that targeted Latin America's biggest country.  This comes as the journalist most closely associated with Snowden makes a surprising announcement.

Sicily is asking for help with the shocking number of asylum seekers crowding its shores – Muslim clerics rationalize the breaking of Islamic law and allowing people to eat dogs and cats – And a fighting bull gets loose with fatal results.

At least half a million Iraqi civilians were killed directly by the Iraq War, and by violence in the US occupation of Iraq from 2003 through 2011.  That’s the finding of a groundbreaking survey of nearly 2,000 Iraqi households about how they suffered during the war.

Protesters in Rome broke the funeral of convicted nazi war criminal Erich Priebke, a funeral that a notorious anti-semitic splinter catholic group attempted to have when the Roman Catholic church refused. 

If a major bond ratings agency fires a shot across America’s to warn it get its act together, but a small group of Tea Party conservative extremists in the US Congress are too dumb to hear it, does it make a sound?

At least ten people are dead after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck the central Philippines, collapsing buildings and cracking roads in and around Cebu City and across the strait on Bohol Island.