As if things couldn't get any more complex, another fire broke out again at reactor #4 at the earthquake-tsunami stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant and experts believe this could prove more serious than explosions at two other reactors. Tokyo Electric Power Co., the power operator said, flames were no longer visible after 30 minutes, but due to high radiation levels at the reactor, workers have been unable to pour water into the pool storing the spent fuel rods to keep them cool.
After a third blast at nuclear reactor #3 at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan and a fire at a fourth reactor, several U.S. experts have described the nuclear emergency unfolding in Japan as "catastrophic". There is great concern that the containment vessel at reactor #2 has been breached, causing the release of radioactive gases and similarly, anxiety that the fire at reactor #4 could be just as dangerous.
Around 6:14 a.m. Japan time, the third explosion in a series of blasts damaged # 2 reactor at Japan's Fukushima plant. There is uncertainty as to what caused this third blast. But there are early reports that the latest explosion amounted to a different and more critical problem than the previous two blasts that occurred at reactors # 1 and # 3, on Saturday and Monday.
A second jury will today get to determine the fate of Grammy-award winner and reggae star Buju Banton after four days of testimony in which prosecutors painted him as a drug dealer and the defense countered with claims that it was the singer’s “big talking”, and not any illegal act, that has landed him in trouble.
Various reports in Singapore media have said that Chinese companies are mass producing fake rice made, in part, out of plastic, according to one online publication Very Vietnam.
Jury selection will begin again today in a Tampa court house in the retrial of Grammy-nominated singer, Buju Banton, five months after a previous jury failed to reach a verdict on federal drug trafficking charges that could put him in prison for life.
Egypt's Hosni Mubarak resigned as president and handed control to the military on Friday after 29 years in power, bowing to a historic 18-day wave of pro-democracy demonstrations by hundreds of thousands. "The people ousted the president," chanted a crowd of tens of thousands outside his presidential palace in Cairo.
On Thursday, Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) announced that popular musician Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly will face off against the front-runner, former first lady Mirlande Manigat, 70, in the runoff elections on March 20.
The plot to control Haiti has gone from the absurd to the ridiculous. The return of Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier to Haiti in the midst of a flawed election is truly shocking.
Haiti’s ruling Inite (Unity) party has not yet officially announced whether its candidate Jude Célestin will remain in the presidential race, but media reports have already indicated that he is about to drop out.
While Amnesty International is applauding the recent arrest of former president Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haitian authorities are being urged to investigate alleged human rights violations committed by the former tyrant, also known as 'Baby Doc'.
Duvalier, who has been accused of presiding over numerous human rights violations during his rule from...
Former president Jean-Claude Duvalier, who is believed to have stolen millions from government coffers during his rule, unexpectedly returned to Haiti on Sunday, throwing an already chaotic situation into even greater chaos.
The unexpected arrival of "Baby Doc", as he is also know, comes at a time when there is...
A Guyanese man, one of four, who was part of a failed bomb plot to blow up the John F. Kennedy (JFK) International Airport in New York in 2006, was on Thursday sentenced to 15 years in jail.
Today marks the one year anniversary of the catastrophic earthquake that struck Haiti. Nearly a quarter of a million lives were lost, more than three hundred thousand people were injured and more than a million people were left homeless.
As Haiti struggles to recover and rebuild one year later after a major earthquake claimed the lives of over 300,000 people on January 12, 2010, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday that the cholera outbreak which has killed 3,600 persons over the last few months, has not yet peaked.
If the U.S. prosecutor has his way, four-time Grammy nominated reggae artiste, Buju Banton, will face additional charges when he is retried next month in a Tampa Court.
Still angry over the results of the first round of the November 28th presidential elections, Haitians marked their country’s 207 years of independence from France this weekend with protests and demands for President René Préval to step down immediately.
A Florida International University (FIU) baseball star was charged with the rape of two women in the Bahamas last week, police said. The athlete, Garrett Wittels, 20 years, has been released on $10,000 bail, Bahamas Police Department Press Officer Sgt. Chrislyn Skippings told CNN.
Allen Stanford, the once flamboyant Texas billionaire accused of running a $7 billion Ponzi scheme and defrauding thousands of investors in Antigua, is seeking a delay of his trial for at least two more years. His trial was scheduled to begin on January 24, 2011.
The Jamaica government remains tight-lipped about diplomatic cables that have revealed an alleged alliance between don Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke and Mayor of Kingston Desmond McKenzie who tried to dissuade US officials from seeking the extradition of the wanted man.
Dr. Ralph Gonsalves led his United Labor Party (ULP) to victory for a third time in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, but barely so, with the party winning eight of the fifteen seats in the House of Assembly. The opposition New Democratic Party (NDP) more than doubled its share to seven seats from three.
With a three-day window opening today for candidates to formally lodge complaints in Haiti’s disputed elections, the United Nations and its partners have called on all concerned to use these legal means and to urge their supporters to avoid further violence.
Thousands of demonstrators continue to protest the outcome of Haiti's election, as calls for calm and an end to violence went unheeded. Yesterday, they set fire to the headquarters of the ruling Inite party, and attacked several shops, a post of the UN peacekeeping mission MINUSTAH, and a radio station owned by a Senate candidate with the ruling candidate, Carlos Lebon. It is reported that four have died so far as a result of the violence.
Haiti's deadly cholera outbreak which has killed more than 1,800 people so far, has been traced back to Nepalese U.N. peacekeepers whose toilets contaminated a river, a new report revealed.
The State yesterday admitted it had no defense to a lawsuit brought by a Trinidad woman, who was stripped and searched in full view of motorists during a roadblock exercise more than nine years ago.
