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Anya Savenok, 9, who was born physically affected due to high radiation according to doctors, plays in her home in the village of Strakholissya, just outside the 30 km (19 miles) exclusion zone around the closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant April 1, 2006. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

A fisherman tries to catch fish through the hole in the frozen Pripyat river in the 30 km (19 miles) exclusion zone around the closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant April 1, 2006. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

Thirty eight mental patients burn to death in their beds as giant blaze rips through Moscow psychiatric hospital 38 patients and three staff were in the building when fire started One nurse managed to escape the blaze, bringing two patients out Fire started in a wing housing special...

Italian marines under anti-terrorism probe, death penalty possible Italian marines Salvatore Girone (L) and Massimiliano Latorre (C) arrive with Italian Navy Chief of Staff Admiral Luigi Pinelli Mantelli at Ciampino airport in Rome, December 22, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Alessandro Bianchi By...

Combination picture of Chief of the Central Administrative Department of the Workers' Party of Korea, Jang Song-thaek (L) in Beijing on August 17, 2012 and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's aunt, Kim Kyong-hui in Pyongyang, in this picture released by KCNA December 26, 2011. REUTERS/China Daily...

The Pyongyang power couple behind dynastic dictator Kim Then Vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea Kim Jong-un (L), president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea Kim Yong-nam (2nd L) and other high level officials of the...

Iranian scientist freed by U.S., reaches Oman MUSCAT | Fri Apr 26, 2013 3:34am EDT (Reuters) - An Iranian scientist held for more than a year in California on charges of violating U.S. sanctions arrived in Muscat on Friday, after being freed in what the Omani foreign ministry said was a...

Thursday April 25, 2013 GE13: Cops find second device at blast site of BN ceramah By CHRISTOPHER TAN and TAN SIN CHOW [email protected] <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/MeGGg0P80oI?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="560"></iframe> NIBONG TEBAL...

Three men held over explosion in Nibong Tebal APRIL 25, 2013 NIBONG TEBAL, April 25 – Three men aged between 25 and 41 have been arrested in connection with an explosion behind the Barisan Nasional’s (BN) Nibong Tebal operations centre here on Tuesday night. The suspects were held in George...

Thursday, April 25, 2013 | Last updated at 22:36 PM Police: Home-made bomb used Police checking the scene of the explosion which rocked the Nibong Tebal Barisan Nasional operations centre in Jawi on Tuesday. Pic by Asman Ibrahim BN OPERATIONS CENTRE BLAST: Improvised Explosive Device...

Accident at China's Baosteel plant kills two, injures 13 SHANGHAI | Mon Dec 17, 2012 8:36pm EST (Reuters) - Two workers were killed and 13 injured when a furnace at a steel plant owned by Baoshan Iron & Steel (Baosteel) fell, spilling molten iron, the third fatal incident at a Baosteel plant...

South Korean sailors freed by Somali pirates after 19 months The pirates freed the vessel after seven months but kept the four Koreans captive (AFP/File, Mohamed Dahir) SEOUL | Sat Dec 1, 2012 5:52am EST (Reuters) - Four South Korean sailors abducted by Somali pirates 19 months ago were...