Rescuers and residents search for survivors trapped under a collapsed bridge in India's city of Kolkata which has killed at least 14 people.
The UN war crimes court at The Hague (ICTY) said he bore no individual responsibility for the crimes.
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An underground ice wall has been activated around Japan's Fukushima nuclear reactors, five years after a deadly earthquake and tsunami wreaked nationwide havoc.
The aim of the barrier is to contain spills of radioactive water leaking into the Pacific Ocean.
According to Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the plant's operator, a cooling liquid will be passed through underground pipes to freeze the ground and create a wall around the four reactors damaged in the 2011 disaster.
NRA approves #TEPCO's plan to freeze underground walls of soil at #Fukushima plant - https://t.co/2icgO8cIQo pic.twitter.com/3lpRqPAH9j- The Mainichi (@themainichi) March 30, 2016
Japan's Nuclear Regulation Agency (NRA) finally gave the green light after more than two years analysing the safety of the 270 million-euro project.
The first phase of the "wall" flanks the west of the plant and is expected to take a month and a half to become operational.
Stage two will cover the north and south sides of the plant, protecting around 95 percent of the total perimetre.
Its launch comes in the same week the Fukushima District Public Prosecutor's Office announced it will not indict TEPCO for breaking an environmental law by allowing contaminated water to be discharged into the sea.
Hungary is in mourning after the loss of one of its most prominent writers.
Auschwitz survivor Imre Kertesz died at his home in Budapest after a long illness.
Imre Kert'esz has died. A Holocaust survivor who revisited his experiences in his writing: https://t.co/mEHDlXVrHD pic.twitter.com/ENPWHidyLL- The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) March 31, 2016
The 86-year-old became the first Hungarian national to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2002.
The judges said his work portrayed the Nazi death camps as the "ultimate truth" about how low human beings can fall.
"I'm a controversial writer. It doesn't matter whether I get the Nobel Prize or a refusal letter from a book publisher. It doesn't matter. I would have still written the novel anyway." Kertesz told reporters.
Sad to learn passing of Imre #Kert'esz, witness of the lowest point of humanity, tireless defender of #literature and #NobelPrize laureate- Martin Schulz (@MartinSchulz) March 31, 2016
Born in Budapest in in 1929, Kertesz was interned in the camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
His novel "Fatelessness" is a semi-autobiographical account of his experiences during and after the war.
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