WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said he had formally founded a political party and would contest a seat in the Australian senate.
The operator of Japan’s crippled nuclear plant has admitted for the first time that radioactive groundwater has leaked out into the Pacific Ocean.
The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), on Monday admitted that radioactive groundwater had leaked out to Pacific Ocean, fueling fears of contamination. Earlier this month TEPCO said groundwater samples taken at the Fukushima showed levels of possibly cancer-causing caesium-134
The Obama administration had appealed a ruling of a federal judge who called the practice “religiously and culturally abhorrent.”
A team of Russian experts made the assessment after visited Khan al-Assal, near Aleppo, where Syria claimed rebels had used chemical weapons.
Chemical weapons were "clearly" used in Syria — but most likely by Syrian rebels, not the Syrian army, according to Moscow's ambassador to the United Nations. A team of Russian experts made the assessment after visited Khan al-Assal, near Aleppo, where Syria claimed rebels had used chemical weapons in a March attack,
Aso said bankers did not speak English well enough to understand the complex financial instruments that undid other major global players.
Japan can thank a poor grasp of English among the country's bankers for the country's weathering the 2008 global credit crisis virtually unscathed, according to Finance Minister Taro Aso. Aso said senior Japanese bankers did not speak English well enough to understand the complex financial instruments that brought the other major global players
He boarded a flight bound for Russia, yet Russia’s foreign minister insisted that he had not crossed the Russian border.
Russia has called U.S. claims that it aided Edward Snowden, the fugitive National Security Agency whistleblower, "unfounded and unacceptable." Though Snowdon boarded a flight from Hong Kong to Moscow on Sunday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov insisted Tuesday that
Environmentalists accuse poachers of poisoning two critically-endangered Sumatran elephants found dead in Indonesia’s Tesso Nilo national park.
Two critically-endangered Sumatran elephants have been found dead in Indonesia's Tesso Nilo national park, with environmentalists accusing poachers of poisoning them. Three elephants have now been found dead in Tesso Nilo, on Sumatra island, in the past month. The Riau chapter of the World Wildlife Fund said the carcasses of a male, aged
