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Thursday, November 6, 2014
Malaysia Airlines announced it is waiting for flight MH370 to be officially declared lost. It’s a necessary step so that compensation for next-of-kin can be distributed. "We don't have a final date but once we have an official loss recorded we can work with the next of kin on the full compensation payments for those families," Malaysia Airlines director Hugh Dunleavy said.
Japan’s TEPCO announced it had completed removal of spent fuel rods from the storage pool in the reactor 4 building. Unlike reactors 1, 2, and 3, reactor 4 did not suffer a meltdown because it was offline undergoing inspection at the time of the catastrophe. Unfortunately, radiation levels are still high in those reactors, which is prohibiting active removal of fuel there.
Not only does South Korea possess the highest suicide rates for adults and a higher than average rate for adolescents in the OECD, the nation’s children have the lowest level of happiness, too. According the survey, which was self-identifying, the primary reason for the low quality of life was extreme academic stress. Song Joon-heon, head of children’s welfare policies for the Ministry of Health and Welfare said, “In 2011, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child recommended that we correct the obsession with competition in the South Korean education system. In response to this survey, we will select the imbalance of academic work and leisure activity as an important item on our agenda.”
American Kenneth Bae has now completed two of his fifteen years in a North Korean labor camp, punishment for what the DPRK said hostile acts against the state. “It is an anniversary our family did not want to have to celebrate. While Kenneth remains a prisoner in North Korea, our lives are also held captive; filled with unspeakable heartache and anxiety” said the family in a statement released as it renewed appeals to let him go.
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