Ireland: Penneys recalls popular item over serious health risk

Retail chain Penneys has issued an urgent recall of a popular item due to a serious health hazard. The recalled item is Primark DTR...

Australia: growing fears about fracking chemical spills in the Northern Territory

Scientists and indigenous communities are concerned about the increase of fracking chemical spills by gas companies in the Northern Territory. The most affected area...

Japan: NRA ignored local requests on “complex disasters” in evacuation plans

Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Agency (NRA) did not include “complex disasters”, a situation when nuclear accidents happen simultaneously with natural disasters, in its draft evacuation...

FMD outbreak in Slovakia: update

On March 25, the Slovak government confirmed a fourth case of foot and mouth disease (FMD) on a farm in the village of Lúč...

India: 5 children dead from mysterious disease in Jharkhand village

Five children have died of a mysterious disease in a Jharkhand village. The village is in Sahibganj district and has been gripped by the...

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