Japan stands at a crossroads over its reliance on nuclear power as the country marks the second anniversary of one of the world’s worst atomic disasters. On March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake triggered a devastating tsunami that struck Japan’s northeast coast, killing more than 20,000 and leaving at least 150,000 homeless.
Read MoreJorge Arreaza, son-in-law of Hugo Chavez, has been named the interim vice president of Venezuela by the interim president, Nicolas Maduro. The 39-year-old husband of Chavez’s eldest daughter Rosa Virginia, he has worked in the communications field since 2001, and by 2011 rose to become the minister of Science and Technology under Chavez.
Read MoreFormer Cuban president, Fidel Castro, the current senior advisor to his brother, President Raul Castro, commented today on the loss last Tuesday of Hugo Chavez, 58, who he considered Cuba’s top ally.
Read MoreVenezuelans will have new presidentiial elections on April 14 to replace Hugo Chavez who died on Tuesday. The date chosen by the electoral council is the same date that Chavez returned triumphant to Caracas after the short-lived US supported coup against him in 2002. The candidates will be interim president Nicolas Maduro and opposition leader Henrique Capriles.
Read MoreNicolas Maduro was sworn in yesterday as interim president of Venezuela before the National Assembly, the same day as the funeral of President Hugo Chavez, who died after a nearly two-year fight against cancer. Maduro then asked the board of elections to call a new presidential election, which they did on Saturday, setting the date for April 14, 2013.
Read MorePalestinians react towards the expected visit of the US President Barack Obama to the Occupied Palestinian Territories, in the meantime protests in support of the Palestinian prisoners organized all over the West Bank, these stories and more, coming up, stay tuned.
Read MoreAt the funeral of Hugo Chavez today, acting Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro said that he wants good relations with the United States, but ones based on respect for sovereignty, reported the dpa news service. The only foreign speaker at the funeral was the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
Read MoreMillions are gathering in Caracas to mourn the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, including more than 30 world leaders.
Read MoreOfficial delegations from over 50 countries, as well as thousands of Venezuelans, are now concentrated around the Caracas Military Academy, where at noon the official funeral of President Hugo Chavez begins, reported dpa news.Also to take place on Friday is the swearing in of Nicolas Maduro as the interim president.
Read MoreSpanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo urged Angel Carromero today to go to court if he has “new evidence” on the accident in which Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya died, and for which he was sentenced in October as the driver.
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