NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–2 April 2011 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today spoke by telephone with the President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai and expressed his sadness and shock to the head of State at the attack on the United Nations offices in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif that resulted in the death of three[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–2 April 2011 – The United Nations peacekeeping force in Côte d’Ivoire today reported that one of its patrols was attacked by forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo in a suburb of the city of Abidjan, sparking an exchange of gunfire during which five members of the former president’s forces[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 2, 2011 – UPDATE AS OF 12 P.M. EDT. Recovery efforts continue at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, as aid pours in from the international nuclear community in the form of technical expertise, protective equipment for workers, storage tanks for contaminated water and other measures. Today, Tokyo[Read More…]

Vienna, Austria–(ENEWSPF)–2 April 2011 UPDATE 12:00 UTC. Presentations: → Summary of Reactor Status, 2 April 2011, 12.00 UTC On Friday, 2 April 2011, the IAEA provided the following information on the current status of nuclear safety in Japan: 1.Current Situation Overall at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, the situation remains very[Read More…]

Landover, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–April 2, 2011.   Hello, everybody.  I’m speaking to you today from a UPS customer center in Landover, Maryland, where I came to talk about an issue that’s affecting families and businesses just like this one – the rising price of gas, and what we can do as a[Read More…]

DALLAS, April 1, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Southwest Airlines Flight 812, the scheduled 3:25 pm departure from Phoenixto Sacramento today, diverted to Yuma, Ariz due to loss of pressurization in the cabin. Upon safely landing in Yuma, the flight crew discovered a hole in the top of the aircraft. There are no reported Customer injuries. One of[Read More…]