The Nuclear Regulatory Commission released Tuesday about 3,000 pages of transcripts of conversations recorded in its operations center after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, conversations that underscore the difficulty the agency had in responding to the nuclear crisis that was unfolding halfway around the world.
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A U.S .drone strike killed five suspected insurgents Thursday morning in Pakistan's tribal region along the Afghan border, intelligence officials said.
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A U.S. envoy will meet with North Korean officials next week for first time since Kim Jong Il’s death to test that nation’s willingness to abandon its nuclear program, the State Department said Monday.
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The U.S. intelligence community has found no evidence to suggest North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is dead, a senior U.S. official said Friday following posts on China's version of Twitter that claimed Kim had been assassinated while in Beijing.
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A Singapore court is expected to rule Friday on whether to extradite to the United States four people accused of a conspiracy in which electronic components from a U.S. company were smuggled to Iran and ended up in explosives in Iraq.
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