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A tsunami warning has been issued for the central and northern coasts of California and Oregon, the National Weather Service said.

The British government has offered Japan any assistance it may need after the massive earthquake and tsunami that smashed into the country, according to UK foreign secretary, William Hague.

The Chinese government officially expressed support to quake-hit Japan on Friday and offered assistance in relief efforts, but the Chinese people's response to the tragedy that hit their neighbors and rivals was mixed.

European Union (EU) leaders have demanded that Moammar Gaddafi must give up power in Libya.

A massive 8.9 earthquake struck Japan on Friday triggering a reportedly 33-feet high (10 meters) tsunami that swept away cars, planes, homes and even some smaller buildings along the country's northeastern coast.

As forces loyal to Moammar Gaddafi appear to be retaking strategic Libyan away from increasingly demoralized rebel factions, a U.S. intelligence official has predicted that Gaddafi will emerge victorious from this brutal conflict.

The Japanese government has declared a state of atomic power emergency after a powerful 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck off Japan's northeastern coast Friday, spawning a tsunami as high as 10 metres.

A fire broke out at a nuclear power plant in Japan's Miyagi Prefecture following a powerful earthquake that hit northeastern Japan while authorities have detected no abnormalities such as radiation leakage at nuclear plants, latest reports from the Mainichi Daily News says.

Some facts issued by NOAA to better read the signs of an incoming tsunami.

Four nuclear power plants closest to Friday's powerful 8.9-magnitude earthquake that struck off Japan's northeastern coast have been safely shut down, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said.

A tsunami warning has been issued by NOAA's National Weather Service to the following countries with the estimated time of arrival at forecast points.

a timeline of some of the most devastating earthquakes which have hit Japan since 1900.

Around 20 countries and numerous Pacific islands have been issued Tsunami warning after Japan's massive 8.9 Richter scale earthquakes, the National Weather Service said.

Nuclear power facilities across Japan are not damaged and there was no radiation leakage, Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan told media persons in Tokyo.

Japan has issued tsunami warning after a massive 8.8 magnitude offshore quake on Friday, with reports of 'numerous' injuries and ships being washed ashore by waves, AP reported

French police have arrested the chief of the Basque separatist group, ETA, in northwest France near the Belgian border, according to reports on Spain’s national radio.

Anonymous is giving the U.S. military until Monday to improve its treatment of Bradley Manning, the U.S. army private accused of leaking secrets to Wikileaks, or it will post the personal information of the guards and commanders at the base where he is being held.

A journalist working for the British newspaper Guardian is missing in Libya and has not been heard from since Sunday.

The president of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, has urged Moammar Qaddafi to immediately cease all acts of violence against his people, according to S.A. Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she plans to meet with Libyan rebel leaders in the U.S. and when she travels next week to France, Tunisia and Egypt.

As Congressman Peter King conducts hearings on Islamic radicalization in the U.S., the nation’s growing Muslim community is coming under the microscope.

According to various media reports, French President Nicholas Sarkozy will propose to European Union (EU) leaders that they coordinate targeted air strikes on Moammar Gaddafi’s command headquarters in Libya to prevent his forces from carrying out more destruction against rebel forces.

Police physically removed more than a dozen demonstrators at an entrance to the Assembly chamber in the Wisconsin capitol building on Thursday ahead of vote in that chamber of a bill that would remove collective bargaining rights from public state employee unions.

The government of Bangladesh said it is increasing efforts to help rescue thousands of its citizens who remain trapped in Libya.

In a sign that forces loyal to Moammar Gaddafi may finally be gaining the upper hand in the crisis in Libya, rebel groups have been forced out of the strategic oil port of Ras Lanuf (300 miles east of Tripoli) fleeing relentless barrage of attacks from government forces.

The House Committee on Homeland Security has begun the first of a series of hearings, with the first on Thursday on The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and that Community's Response.

France said it has recognized the National Libyan Council (NLC), the leadership of rebels fighting against Moammar Gaddafi, as the legitimate government in the country, ahead of European Union (EU) talks on the conflict today and tomorrow.

The beleaguered president of Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh proposed plans to change the constitution and to move the ruling government into more of a parliamentary system.

The king of Morocco, King Mohammed VI, has vowed to enact comprehensive political and constitutional reforms, including the bestowal of real power onto a popularly elected prime minister, rather than a royal appointee.