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The facility had been offline since Japan pulled the plug on nuclear power after a colossal earthquake and tsunami sent three ...

Seeing large boulders—some weighing as much as a large truck—scattered along the rocky coastline of Pasuquin, Ilocos Norte, make people wonder how they ended up there. The enormous boulders—which sit ...

Japan switched on the world's biggest nuclear power plant again, its operator said, after an earlier attempt was quickly ...

BOULDERS, some weighing as much as a large truck, are scattered along the rocky coastline of Pasuquin town in Ilocos Norte. These enormous rocks, which sit on an uplifted reef platform far from the ...

True, the crossing opened. But the numbers allowed to cross in and out are very limited, in conditions of humiliation and ...

Japan yesterday switched on the world’s biggest nuclear power plant again, its operator said, after an earlier attempt was ...