TOKYO — A Tokyo court on Tuesday held only the operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant responsible for paying damages to dozens of evacuees. The Tokyo High Court also slashed the amount to half of what the lower court had ordered and relieved the government of responsibility — a decision that plaintiffs and … Read more
About 400 U.S. citizens along with their eligible family members are expected to begin leaving Gaza in stages Thursday through the Rafah border crossing into Egypt, the only official exit point not controlled by Israel, according to a U.S. official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter. Injured Palestinians, along … Read more
KHERSON, Ukraine — As shelling from Russia’s warfare on Ukraine echoed overhead, dozens of evacuees on an island within the Dnieper River scurried onto the tops of army vans or into rafts to flee rising floodwaters attributable to a dam breach upstream. The unnerving bark of canines left behind additional soured the temper of these … Read more