[Breaking News] Crude-oil futures gain after Libya vote at UN

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明天熊熊会stampede。
ddd 发表于 2011-3-17 21:33

本次OE看来要杀熊

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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Japanese engineers on Saturday brought electricity to the Fukushima nuclear plant for the first time since a huge earthquake and tsunami crippled it a week ago.

While workers at the plant must still lay cable inside the plant and conquer a number of delicate engineering challenges before cooling systems can be restarted, their success in connecting the plant to the nation’s power grid was a rare piece of good news after a week in which the nation has grappled with its worst catastrophe since World War II.

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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, his army closing in on the rebel stronghold of Benghazi, faced Friday a growing threat of air strikes as Britain, France and others moved to avert further bloodshed in the struggle for control of the North African nation.

Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron was reportedly on his way late Friday to Paris for emergency talks with France, Spain, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the Arab League aimed at what he called “doing the right thing for the people of Libya.”

France’s Foreign Minister Alain Juppe separately told reporters everything was now in place to launch strikes to establish a no-fly zone over Libya, as fighters and bombers from France, Britain and the United Arab Emirates gathered at nearby Italian air bases.

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France's Sarkozy: French planes in action in Libya

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Sarkozy: French planes preventing Benghazi attack.

The war game has started!

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TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) – Japan’s government warned Sunday that the number of people dead or missing as a result of Japan’s earthquake and tsunami nine days ago exceeded 20,000, and reports say that Tokyo Electric Power Co. has cooling functions at two of its crippled nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi power-generating complex up and running.

The government said more than 8,000 people are confirmed dead and more than 12,000 remain missing. Police say 15,000 people may have been killed in a single prefecture, Miyagi, according to reports. The BBC reported that 400,000 people are living in temporary shelters during cold weather with little to eat.

Tepco /quotes/comstock/11i!tkecf (TKECF 13.95, +0.95, +7.31%)   /quotes/comstock/64e!9501 (JP:9501 948.00, +150.00, +18.80%) , the nuclear facility’s operator, said the cooling systems at Reactors 5 and 6 were running and that the temperatures in the pools used to cool spent fuel were close to normal, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Officials were spraying water from fire engines to cool Reactor 4 at the crippled facility. And nuclear-safety officials had said Sunday that the pressure in Reactor 3 had spiked, possibly forcing the plant’s operator to vent radioactive gas into the air. But the pressure later stabilized and the venting plan was canceled, reports say.
Engineers to restore power at plant

Engineers at Japan's quake-damaged Fukushima nuclear-power station have successfully attached a power cable to the outside of the plant in the first step to stop the spread of radiation. Video courtesy of Sky News.

Bloomberg reported that the company hadn’t yet updated the status of its plan to restore power at reactors 1 and 2.

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中新网3月20日电 综合报道，在德国斯特加特的美军非洲司令部发言人费德勒(Kenneth Fidler)透露称，19架美国战机参与了20日黎明时分对利比亚的空袭，其中包括3架 B2 隐形轰炸机。

　　美国参谋长联席会议主席马伦20日表示，对利比亚的初期军事行动是“成功的”，利比亚领导人卡扎菲的军队“不再向班加西前进”。

　　利比亚当地时间19日晚，法国、英国和美国等国的战机或舰艇向利比亚有关目标实施了军事打击。

　　美军参谋部主任威廉·戈特尼19日在五角大楼举行的新闻发布会上说，部署在地中海的美军和英军军舰与潜艇当天向利比亚发射了110枚至112枚 “战斧”巡航导弹，袭击了利比亚的20多处防空设施。这次军事行动名为“奥德赛黎明”，除了美国与英国，参与行动的还有法国、加拿大和意大利。