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A robot has begun a 2-week mission to retrieve melted fuel from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant

Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — An extendable robot has begun a two-week mission to retrieve the first sample of melted fuel debris from inside one of three damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Highly radioactive fuel and other materials in the reactors melted when a massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011 damaged

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At least 19 killed and more feared buried in Israeli airstrike on Gaza humanitarian zone targeting Hamas militants

By Mohammed Tawfeeq, Kareem Khadder and Irene Nasser, CNN (CNN) — An overnight Israeli airstrike on an area that Israel itself had designated as a humanitarian zone for displaced people in southern Gaza has killed and injured dozens of Palestinians, according to local officials in the besieged enclave. Israel said the operation targeted Hamas fighters

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Colorado man dies on Colorado River trip; 7th fatality at Grand Canyon National Park since July 31

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say there has been another fatality at Grand Canyon National Park. Park officials said Monday that 59-year-old Patrick Horton of Salida, Colorado was on the 10th day of a non-commercial river trip along the Colorado River and was discovered dead by members of his party Saturday morning.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang in a photo released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on September 10

North Korea’s Kim Jong Un says country to increase number of nuclear weapons ‘exponentially,’ state media reports

By Reuters SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the country is now implementing a nuclear force construction policy to increase the number of nuclear weapons “exponentially,” state media KCNA said on Tuesday. In a speech on North Korea’s founding anniversary on Monday, Kim said the country must more thoroughly prepare its “nuclear capability and its readiness

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