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13 Mar 11
PM visits Itamar victims' families: 'They shoot, we build'
Japan volcano resumes eruption amid earthquake and tsunami aftermath Lebanese opposition rallies against Hezbollah Egypt army says to rebuild torched church US jobless claims rising again Energy markets brace for shockwaves after Japan Another reactor at Fukushima nuke plant loses cooling functions Japan: Working under assumption of a partial meltdown Al-Qaida commander calls for Islamic rule in Libya Japan quake: Toll may cross 10,000 in Miyagi alone Japanese PM says country facing worst crisis since WWII Israel approves settlement construction Bahrain protests block road to finance district Libyan state television reported Sunday that forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi have retaken the oil town of Brega in eastern Libya, swiftly advancing on the poorly equipped and loosely organized rebels. The report could not immediately be verified. Libyan TV has issued faulty reports claiming territory in the past.
During his visit the prime minister said that "they shoot and we build. They say that the State of Israel was built on suffering, but we did not think the suffering would be so great. This criminal act caused all of us to come and say, enough."
The weather agency in Tokyo says a volcano in southern Japan is spewing ash and rock again as the country struggles with the aftermath of a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami in the north. The Meteorological Agency issued a warning Sunday saying that Shinmoedake volcano resumed activity after a couple of quiet weeks.
Opposition supporters began to gather Sunday for a mass rally marking the sixth anniversary of a popular uprising against Syrian troops in Lebanon, demanding the disarming of Hezbollah radicals. Thousands of Lebanese headed to Martyrs' Square in central Beirut early Sunday, waving Lebanese flags and the flags of the country's Christian and Sunni Muslim pro-Western political parties, AFP correspondents said.
Egypt's army will on Sunday begin rebuilding a church that was set ablaze last week, sparking deadly clashes between Muslims and Christians, a senior officer said. "The Egyptian armed forces will on Sunday start to rebuild the church in Sol in the province of Helwan," south of Cairo, General Adel al-Qorashi said.
US jobless claims have been at their lowest level in 3 years, but started rising again last week. Seasonally adjusted initial claims for jobless benefits was 397,000 in the week ending March 5th, an increase of 26,000 from the prior week’s revised figure. Americans applying for unemployment aid last week rose after news that the lowest level in nearly 3 years had been achieved a week earlier.
Fossil fuels may rise on Monday as energy will be in focus with investors more concerned about how Japan will replace lost electricity generation capacity than the negative impact of Friday's cataclysmic earthquake on the economy. But at the same time, volumes may remain small at the start of trade as the market might look for clearer direction after Friday's broad-based sell-off and await answers on how quickly Japan would be able to stabilize operations at its power plants and refineries.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Sunday another reactor of its quake-hit Fukushima nuclear power plants had lost its cooling functions, while at least 15 people at a nearby hospital were found to have been exposed to radioactivity. The utility supplier notified the government early Sunday morning that the No. 3 reactor at the No. 1 Fukushima plant had lost the ability to cool the reactor core. The reactor is now in the process of releasing radioactive steam, according to top government spokesman Yukio Edano.
Japan was fighting to contain what could be the world's worst nuclear disaster in 25 years after the cooling failed at a second reactor crippled by a quake which may have killed over 10,000. Strong aftershocks continued to shake Japan's main island as the desperate search pressed on for survivors from Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami.
An al-Qaida commander who escaped from a U.S. prison has urged Libyans to overthrow Moammar Gadhafi's regime and establish Islamic rule, the second time the terrorist network has addressed the uprising.
The toll from a magnitude-8.9 earthquake in Japan could exceed 10,000 in the hardest-hit prefecture of Miyagi alone, police said on Sunday, as other officials tried to reassure the public that reactors at two damaged nuclear power plants posed no immediate danger.
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said on Sunday he was confident that the nation could overcome the crisis caused by a massive earthquake and tsunami disaster, which he termed the biggest crisis Japan has faced since the end of World War Two.
Israel said Sunday it has approved hundreds of settler homes after five members of an Israeli family — including three children — were knifed to death as they slept in a West Bank settlement over the weekend. The attack and the government's response threatened to drive Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking even further out of reach. Israel, which blames the attack on Palestinian militants, is liable to set aside an emerging peace initiative it had planned to propose, while the planned construction of new settler homes only deepened Palestinian mistrust of Israel.
Riot police in Bahrain fired tear gas and rubber bullets at anti-government demonstrators blocking the highway into the capital's financial district Sunday and surrounded the protesters' main camp in the capital, eyewitnesses said.
The Last Generation News Network Report
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