International Glance
Images captured by an underwater robot on Saturday showed massive deposits believed to be melted nuclear fuel covering the floor of a damaged reactor at Japan’s destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant.
The robot found large amounts of solidified lava-like rocks and lumps in layers as thick as 1m on the bottom inside a main structure called the pedestal that sits underneath the core inside the primary containment vessel of Fukushima’s Unit 3 reactor, said the plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co.
Fukushima: robot images show massive deposits thought to be melted nuclear fuel
Mystery deepens after African teens vanish from U.S. robotics fair
Six African high school students who vanished from an international robotics fair in Washington remained missing — sort of — Sunday as investigators tried to determine where they are and whether their own families conspired in their disappearance.
The Burundi team attended the three-day FIRST Global Challenge that kicked off July 16. The event was supposed to be a celebration of global community and science, and it brought together competitors from more than 150 nations.
Israeli embassy shooting in Jordan leaves one man dead, another injured
At least one person has been killed and another injured during a shooting at the Israeli embassy in Jordan Sunday evening, according to multiple reports.The shooting happened in the Rabiyeh neighborhood of the country's capital of Amman, which left a Jordanian man dead and an Israeli man in serious condition, Sky News reported.
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Yemen crisis 'an absolute shame on humanity'
International human rights organisation CARE has denounced the humanitarian crisis in war-torn Yemen, which is also suffering from a cholera epidemic, as "an absolute shame on humanity".
Wolfgang Jamann, the head of the NGO, raised alarm over the country's deteriorating situation since March 2015 when Saudi-led forces launched a military operation in support of the government against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
The Latest: Amid bloodshed, Israel sends troops to West Bank
Israel's military has sent more troops to the West Bank and placed forces on high alert a day after a Palestinian stabbed to death three members of an Israeli family and Israeli-Palestinian clashes erupted over tensions at the Holy Land's most contested shrine.
The father of the 20-year-old Palestinian assailant says Saturday he believes his son was upset over the loss of Palestinian lives and wanted to protect the "honor" of the Jerusalem holy site.
U.S. Expected to Announce Ban on Tourist Travel to North Korea
American citizens are expected to be banned soon from traveling to North Korea, travel agencies said Friday, a move confirmed by one U.S. official.
It was not immediately clear whether there would be exemptions to the travel restrictions. This comes a month after the death of Otto Warmbier, a U.S. college student who passed away after falling into a coma while imprisoned in North Korea.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson previously floated the idea of travel restrictions to the reclusive nation during testimony last month before the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Hundreds of German Catholic choir boys abused
Priests and teachers physically or sexually abused more than 500 boys at a Catholic choir school in Germany between 1945 and 1992, according to a report.
Allegations in Tuesday's report involving the Domspatzen choir at the Regensburg Cathedral Sparrows school were among a spate of revelations of abuse by Roman Catholic clergy in Germany that emerged in 2010.
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