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14 March 2011 Last updated at 05:11 ET A second explosion has hit a Japanese nuclear plant that was damaged in Friday’s earthquake, but officials said the reactor core was still intact. A huge column of smoke billowed from Fukushima Daiichi’s reactor 3, two days after a blast hit reactor 1. The latest explosion, said [...]

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11 March 2011 Last updated at 09:58 ET Japan’s most powerful earthquake since records began has struck the north-east coast, triggering a massive tsunami. Cars, ships and buildings were swept away by a wall of water after the 8.9-magnitude quake, which struck about 400km (250 miles) north-east of Tokyo. A state of emergency has been [...]

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28 February 2011 Last updated at 04:15 ET A Ukrainian nurse described by a US diplomat as a “voluptuous blonde” confidante of Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi has flown home to Kiev. Galyna Kolotnytska returned to Kiev on Sunday morning on a plane with 185 other Ukrainian evacuees, including other medics, Ukrainian media reported. Neighbours [...]

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