Middle-east Arab News Opinion | Asharq Al-awsat

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An aerial view shows Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO)’s tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and its contaminated water storage tanks (bottom) in Fukushima, in this photo taken by Kyodo August 20, 2013. (Reuters/Kyodo)

Japan nuke watchdog may raise leak to ‘serious’

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 21, 2013 | World

Tokyo, AP—The Japanese nuclear watchdog on Wednesday said they are taking the leakage of highly radioactive water at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant seriously, and proposed raising the rating to describe it from “an anomaly” to a “serious...

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A man walks over a bridge by the construction of Ethiopia’s Great Renaissance Dam in Guba Woreda, some 40 km (25 miles) from Ethiopia’s border with Sudan, June 28, 2013. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

African Development Bank continues investment in Egypt energy sector

by Sharif Yamani | Jul 5, 2013 | Business

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Khalid Al-Askari, energy section official at the African Development Bank (AfDB) in Egypt has said the bank was conducting studies on a Ethiopia–Sudan–Egypt electricity link project, following the success of an initial feasibility study for the...

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Dr Abdullah Aqlah Al-Hashem, GCC Assistant-Secretary General for humanitarian and environmental affairs. Source: Asharq Al-Awsat

GCC Environment Chief Talks to Asharq Al-Awsat

by Zaid Bin Kami | Feb 20, 2013 | Interviews

Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—With the erratic but steady progress of Iran’s nuclear program and the announcement of nuclear power projects in some other Gulf states, the issue of nuclear safety and environmental protection in the region is more important than ever....