Day: June 19, 2011

Workers at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have been cleared to open the the No. 2 reactor building’s airlock to ease sauna-like conditions inside, the plant’s owner said Sunday.

Applauding budget-cutting measures taken by Greece’s government in the face of intense public pressure, European finance ministers announced Monday that Athens is on track to receive fresh loans in mid-July.

Tens of thousands of protesters converged on central Madrid Sunday as the so-called May 15 movement pushing for political and social change in Spain again took to the streets.

Syria’s president plans to address his nation Monday, his third such nationally televised speech since popular unrest started to boil over more than three months ago, state-run media reports.

Hundreds of military police raided a slum in northern Rio de Janeiro this weekend, seizing dozens of vehicles and hundreds of bundles of marijuana, state-run media reported Sunday.

Thousands of people in southern Chile were told they could return home Sunday, some two weeks after a volcanic eruption forced them to flee.