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An official of the Nuclear Safety Commission in Japan informed that the nuclear threat has increased from 5 to 7, the highest number in the international scale. The official, whose name was not made public, revealed that the quantity of radiation being leaked by the Fukushima...

This Tuesday the former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was admitted to a hospital, according to the comments of a spokesman for the Egyptian military. Egyptian state television reported Mubarak suffered a heart attack while being interrogated over possible corruption charges....

After counting 68.7% of the votes in the polls, Ollanta Humala, leftist candidate, leads the election projections with 28.8%, followed by Congresswoman Keiko Fujimori (22.6%) who increased her difference with the former Finance Minister Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (21.6%). Former...

Peru will elect a new president this Sunday, the activity in the polls began at 08:00 (time in Ecuador), citizens will elect a Alan Garcia’s successor, 130 Congress members and 15 Andean Parliament representatives. The election proceeded without major incidents in the country at...

Six people were killed in a shooting at a mall in Alphen aan den Rijn (west of Holland) and at least 13 were injured when a man opened fire in the “Ridderhof” shopping center, located at the Dutch town of Alphen aan den Rijn (with 72 000 inhabitants, 46 kilometers from...

The Vienna Commission for the Nuclear Test Ban (Ctbto) informed that small traces of radioactive material leaked from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have spread through the north hemisphere of the planet. Over 30 radionuclide stations informed that the hazardous gases were...

  A new earthquake of 7.4 degrees hit the Japanese island, 60 miles from Sendai, today at 11h34 (local time). The alarm of a possible tsunami in Miyagi and in the Iwate Prefecture was discard in the northeast coast of Tokyo. TEPCO reports that it is reviewing the situation...

A former student of the school Tasso da Silveira, in the west suburb of Rio de Janeiro known as Realengo, opened fired inside the academy killing 13 people, 22 were seriously injured, and afterwards the crazy committed suicide. Coronel Evandro Bezerra, spokesman of the fire...

The coffin of the “Good Pope”, John Paul II will be placed on a bier covered with a white cloth in front of the monumental tomb of St. Peter, in the Vatican Grottoes, where it remains until the morning of May 1st, hours before the start of the beatification ceremony,...

Hundreds of people showed up today in the streets of Rome to defend democracy and protest against the measures taken by the Italian Government to support the prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, in different trials. The protesters, who shouted slogans such as “Silvio...