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BARACK Obama has called the leaders of France and Britain to coordinate Libya strategy after the UN Security Council backed military action against Muammar Gaddafi’s forces. The council meeting voted to permit “all necessary measures” […] […]

YAMAGATA, JAPAN—Smoke billowed from a building at Japan’s crippled nuclear power plant Friday as emergency crews worked to reconnect electricity to cooling systems and spray more water on overheating nuclear fuel at the tsunami-ravaged facility. […] […]

TOBRUK, LIBYA—The U.N. Security Council authorized “all necessary measures” to stop Moammar Gadhafi in Libya — including strikes by sea and air — hours after he vowed in harrowing terms to launch a final assault […] […]

OTTAWA — Canada is poised to send in fighter jets to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya, defence sources told The Canadian Press. Six CF-18 fighter-bombers are being readied at Canadian Forces Base Bagotville, Que. […] […]

CAIRO—Protesters against Moammar Gaddafi in the eastern city of Benghazi cheered and let off fireworks on Friday after a UN Security Council vote authorizing a no-fly zone over Libya, live footage showed. A crowd of […] […]

JAPAN’S effort to bring its nuclear crisis and feared meltdown under control could take weeks, a senior US nuclear expert has warned. The warning came as the Group of Seven countries agreed to a joint […] […]

PAKISTAN has demanded an apology and explanation from the US over a drone strike in a tribal region, which officials said killed 35 people. “The government of Pakistan strongly condemns the drone strike which has […] […]

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia—Malaysian police say a ship smuggling equipment that possibly could be used to make nuclear weapons had been headed to Iran. National police chief Ismail Omar told The Associated Press on Friday the […] […]

TEHRAN, Iran—Iran has recalled its ambassador from Bahrain to protest crackdowns on mainly Shiite protesters in the tiny Gulf kingdom, Iranian state media reported Thursday. State TV said Iran’s ambassador in Manama, Mahdi Aghajafari, was […] […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States on Wednesday authorized the first evacuations of Americans out of Japan, taking a tougher stand on the deepening nuclear crisis and warning U.S. citizens to defer all nonessential travel […] […]