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Two Dead as Wildfires Rage Near Turkish Resort of Izmir

( A fire truck is seen near a wildfire in the Odemis district of Izmir, T??rkiye. Izmir Governor Suleyman Elban said on Thursday that the wildfire erupted on Wednesday afternoon in the Cesme district, a popular coastal tourist destination. The blaze has been taken under control, but the inland district of Odemis remains uncontrolled, he added. According to Elban, the fires were caused by faults in electricity distribution lines and there are no signs of sabotage. Mustafa Kaya/Handout via Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.CO

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Two Dead as Wildfires Rage Near Turkish Resort of Izmir

( An ambulance is seen near a wildfire in the Odemis district of Izmir, T??rkiye. Izmir Governor Suleyman Elban said on Thursday that the wildfire erupted on Wednesday afternoon in the Cesme district, a popular coastal tourist destination. The blaze has been taken under control, but the inland district of Odemis remains uncontrolled, he added. According to Elban, the fires were caused by faults in electricity distribution lines and there are no signs of sabotage. Mustafa Kaya/Handout via Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.CO

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Two Dead as Wildfires Rage Near Turkish Resort of Izmir

( This photo taken on July 3, 2025 shows a wildfire in the Odemis district of Izmir, T??rkiye. Izmir Governor Suleyman Elban said on Thursday that the wildfire erupted on Wednesday afternoon in the Cesme district, a popular coastal tourist destination. The blaze has been taken under control, but the inland district of Odemis remains uncontrolled, he added. According to Elban, the fires were caused by faults in electricity distribution lines and there are no signs of sabotage. Mustafa Kaya/Handout via Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.CO

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Two Dead as Wildfires Rage Near Turkish Resort of Izmir

( This photo taken on July 2, 2025 shows a wildfire in the Odemis district of Izmir, T??rkiye. Izmir Governor Suleyman Elban said on Thursday that the wildfire erupted on Wednesday afternoon in the Cesme district, a popular coastal tourist destination. The blaze has been taken under control, but the inland district of Odemis remains uncontrolled, he added. According to Elban, the fires were caused by faults in electricity distribution lines and there are no signs of sabotage. Mustafa Kaya/Handout via Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.CO

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Two Dead as Wildfires Rage Near Turkish Resort of Izmir

( People and emergency vehicles are pictured near a wildfire in the Odemis district of Izmir, T??rkiye, on July 3, 2025. Izmir Governor Suleyman Elban said on Thursday that the wildfire erupted on Wednesday afternoon in the Cesme district, a popular coastal tourist destination. The blaze has been taken under control, but the inland district of Odemis remains uncontrolled, he added. According to Elban, the fires were caused by faults in electricity distribution lines and there are no signs of sabotage. Mustafa Kaya/Handout via Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.CO

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Cyber attack disrupts fuel stations across Iran: media

STORY: Cyber attack disrupts fuel stations across Iran: media SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 18, 2023 DATELINE: Dec. 19, 2023 LENGTH: 0:01:05 LOCATION: Tehran CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of fuel stations and traffic in Iran STORYLINE: Supply services at a majority of fuel stations across Iran were interrupted Monday due to technical faults, Shana News Agency affiliated with the Iranian Oil Ministry reported. "The technical malfunction at some of the country's fuel stations was caused by enemies' conspiracies to impact Iranian people's welfare," Shana quoted a statement by the National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company (NIORDC) as saying. The statement said experts and specialized working groups were working to resolve the problem, adding that all disrupted fuel stations would return to normal in a few hours. According to the NIORDC, fuel at the country's petrol stations "will be supplied offline until further notice." Jalil Salari, head of NIORDC, told local media that the supply disruption

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IRAN-CYBER ATTACK-FUEL STATIONS-DISRUPTION

(231218) -- TEHRAN, Dec. 18, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Vehicles are seen at a gas station in Tehran, Iran, Dec. 18, 2023. Supply services at a majority of fuel stations across Iran were interrupted Monday due to technical faults, Shana News Agency affiliated with the Iranian Oil Ministry reported. Israeli media said the gas station shutdown across Iran was a result of a cyberattack by an Israel-linked hacker group dubbed "Gonjeshke Darande" or "Predatory Sparrow." In 2022, the group claimed to have hacked a major steel company in southwestern Iran. (Xinhua/Shadati)

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IRAN-CYBER ATTACK-FUEL STATIONS-DISRUPTION

(231218) -- TEHRAN, Dec. 18, 2023 (Xinhua) -- People line up to fuel motorcycles at a gas station in Tehran, Iran, Dec. 18, 2023. Supply services at a majority of fuel stations across Iran were interrupted Monday due to technical faults, Shana News Agency affiliated with the Iranian Oil Ministry reported. Israeli media said the gas station shutdown across Iran was a result of a cyberattack by an Israel-linked hacker group dubbed "Gonjeshke Darande" or "Predatory Sparrow." In 2022, the group claimed to have hacked a major steel company in southwestern Iran. (Xinhua/Shadati)

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IRAN-CYBER ATTACK-FUEL STATIONS-DISRUPTION

(231218) -- TEHRAN, Dec. 18, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Vehicles line up at a gas station in Tehran, Iran, Dec. 18, 2023. Supply services at a majority of fuel stations across Iran were interrupted Monday due to technical faults, Shana News Agency affiliated with the Iranian Oil Ministry reported. Israeli media said the gas station shutdown across Iran was a result of a cyberattack by an Israel-linked hacker group dubbed "Gonjeshke Darande" or "Predatory Sparrow." In 2022, the group claimed to have hacked a major steel company in southwestern Iran. (Xinhua/Shadati)

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IRAN-CYBER ATTACK-FUEL STATIONS-DISRUPTION

(231218) -- TEHRAN, Dec. 18, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Vehicles line up at a gas station in Tehran, Iran, Dec. 18, 2023. Supply services at a majority of fuel stations across Iran were interrupted Monday due to technical faults, Shana News Agency affiliated with the Iranian Oil Ministry reported. Israeli media said the gas station shutdown across Iran was a result of a cyberattack by an Israel-linked hacker group dubbed "Gonjeshke Darande" or "Predatory Sparrow." In 2022, the group claimed to have hacked a major steel company in southwestern Iran. (Xinhua/Shadati)

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IRAN-CYBER ATTACK-FUEL STATIONS-DISRUPTION

(231218) -- TEHRAN, Dec. 18, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Vehicles are seen at a gas station in Tehran, Iran, Dec. 18, 2023. Supply services at a majority of fuel stations across Iran were interrupted Monday due to technical faults, Shana News Agency affiliated with the Iranian Oil Ministry reported. Israeli media said the gas station shutdown across Iran was a result of a cyberattack by an Israel-linked hacker group dubbed "Gonjeshke Darande" or "Predatory Sparrow." In 2022, the group claimed to have hacked a major steel company in southwestern Iran. (Xinhua/Shadati)

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Tokyo Electric launches new study on Niigata undersea faults

NIIGATA, Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Co., which saw its key Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata Prefecture crippled by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake last month, sends a seismic research ship out to sea on Aug. 27 to study undersea faults off Niigata and determine the structural safety of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant. The study involves an area of 140 km by 50 km off the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa coast. The research ship is seen heading out to sea from the port of Niigata in the morning of Aug. 27.

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KEPCO delays plan to file report on faults at Mihama plant

NAGOYA, Japan - Buildings housing the No. 1 to 3 reactors (from F) at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s nuclear power plant in Mihama, Fukui Prefecture, western Japan, are shown in this file photo taken in May 2013. The utility known as KEPCO has abandoned its initial plan to compile a report within April 2014 on its additional research to ascertain whether fault lines under the premises of the plant are active or not.

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Fault investigation at reactor site

TSURUGA, Japan - A team of experts appointed by the Nuclear Regulation Authority examines a fault in the town of Mihama, Fukui Prefecture, on July 17, 2013. They started the two-day investigation into the activity of some geologic faults running beneath the Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor in the prefecture. (Pool photo)

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Fault investigation at reactor site

TSURUGA, Japan - A team of experts appointed by the Nuclear Regulation Authority examines a fault in the town of Mihama, Fukui Prefecture, on July 17, 2013. They started the two-day investigation into the activity of some geologic faults running beneath the Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor in the prefecture. (Pool photo)

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Fault investigation at reactor site

TSURUGA, Japan - A team of experts appointed by the Nuclear Regulation Authority examines a fault in the town of Mihama, Fukui Prefecture, on July 17, 2013. They started the two-day investigation into the activity of some geologic faults running beneath the Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor in the prefecture. (Pool photo)

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Fault investigation at reactor site

TSURUGA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, on July 17, 2013, the day a team of experts appointed by the Nuclear Regulation Authority started a two-day investigation into the activity of some geologic faults running beneath the reactor.

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Fault investigation at reactor site

TSURUGA, Japan - Photo shows the Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, on July 17, 2013, the day a team of experts appointed by the Nuclear Regulation Authority started a two-day investigation into the activity of some geologic faults running beneath the reactor.

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Probe into ANA's Boeing 787

TOKYO, Japan - Norihiro Goto, chairman of the Japan Transport Safety Board, holds a press conference in Tokyo on March 27, 2013. The Japanese transport authority looking into an incident on board an All Nippon Airways Co.'s Boeing 787 said no faults were found in the airplane's electric system after a lithium-ion battery overheated.

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Faults at Higashidori nuclear plant

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken Dec. 14, 2012, shows a panel of experts conducting a survey on a geologic fault called F-9 (marked with white dots) at Tohoku Electric Power Co.'s Higashidori atomic power plant in Aomori Prefecture. The panel agreed Dec. 20, 2012, that faults under the nuclear plant are likely to be active, rejecting earlier arguments by the utility.

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Faults at Higashidori nuclear plant

TOKYO, Japan - Kunihiko Shimazaki, a commissioner of the Nuclear Regulation Authority, holds a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 20, 2012. A panel of experts led by Shimazaki agreed the same day that geologic faults under Tohoku Electric Power Co.'s Higashidori atomic power plant in Aomori Prefecture are likely to be active, rejecting earlier arguments by the utility.

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Regulator suggests active faults beneath Higashidori plant

HIGASHIDORI, Japan - A research team of Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority examines a fault in a trench on the premises of the Higashidori nuclear power plant site in Aomori Prefecture on Dec. 14, 2012. NRA Commissioner Kunihiko Shimazaki said the same day that faults beneath the plant site could be active and dangerous. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Regulator suggests active faults beneath Higashidori plant

HIGASHIDORI, Japan - A research team of Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority examines a fault in a trench on the premises of the Higashidori nuclear power plant site in Aomori Prefecture on Dec. 14, 2012. NRA Commissioner Kunihiko Shimazaki said the same day that faults beneath the plant site could be active and dangerous. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Regulator suggests active faults beneath Higashidori plant

HIGASHIDORI, Japan - A research team of Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority examines a fault in a trench on the premises of the Higashidori nuclear power plant site in Aomori Prefecture on Dec. 14, 2012. NRA Commissioner Kunihiko Shimazaki said the same day that faults beneath the plant site could be active and dangerous. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Investigation at Tsuruga plant over active faults

TSURUGA, Japan - A team from the Nuclear Regulation Authority examines a ditch at Japan Atomic Power Co.'s Tsuruga plant in Fukui Prefecture on Dec. 1, 2012, as they started a field survey to check whether active faults are running directly underneath reactors at the plant.

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Investigation at Tsuruga plant over active faults

TSURUGA, Japan - A team from the Nuclear Regulation Authority examines faults at Japan Atomic Power Co.'s Tsuruga plant in Fukui Prefecture on Dec. 1, 2012, as they started a field survey to check whether active faults are running directly underneath reactors at the plant.

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Investigation at Tsuruga plant over active faults

TSURUGA, Japan - A team from the Nuclear Regulation Authority examines a ditch at Japan Atomic Power Co.'s Tsuruga plant in Fukui Prefecture on Dec. 1, 2012, as they started a field survey to check whether active faults are running directly underneath reactors at the plant.

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Investigation at Tsuruga plant over active faults

TSURUGA, Japan - Photo shows the No. 1 (L) and No. 2 reactor buildings at Japan Atomic Power Co.'s Tsuruga plant in Fukui Prefecture on Dec. 1, 2012. Experts appointed by the Nuclear Regulation Authority started a field survey the same day to check whether active faults are running directly underneath the reactors.

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Investigation at Tsuruga plant over active faults

TSURUGA, Japan - Kunihiko Shimazaki (far L), commissioner of the Nuclear Regulation Authority, and other experts from the nuclear regulatory body check samples from boring at Japan Atomic Power Co.'s Tsuruga plant in Fukui Prefecture on Dec. 1, 2012, as they started a field survey to check whether active faults are running directly underneath reactors at the plant.

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Investigation at Tsuruga plant over active faults

TSURUGA, Japan - Kunihiko Shimazaki, commissioner of the Nuclear Regulation Authority, checks samples from boring at Japan Atomic Power Co.'s Tsuruga plant in Fukui Prefecture on Dec. 1, 2012, as the team from the nuclear regulatory body started a field survey to check whether active faults are running directly underneath reactors at the plant.

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Investigation at Tsuruga plant over active faults

TSURUGA, Japan - Kunihiko Shimazaki (R facing), commissioner of the Nuclear Regulation Authority, speaks at Japan Atomic Power Co.'s Tsuruga plant in Fukui Prefecture on Dec. 1, 2012, as a field survey began to check whether active faults are running directly underneath reactors at the plant.

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Higashidori nuclear plant in Aomori

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in May 2011 shows Tohoku Electric Power Co.'s Higashidori nuclear power plant (front) in Aomori Prefecture. There are active faults under the single-reactor plant, according to a study released Oct. 24, 2011, which called for a review of the seismic safety of the plant.

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Fukushima scraps 'pluthermal' project plan over scandal

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Fukushima Gov. Eisaku Sato (standing) addresses a prefectural assembly session in Fukushima on Sept 26. He said he has withdrawn his approval of a Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) ''pluthermal'' power-generation project in the prefecture because of the power company's cover-up of nuclear reactor faults.

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(2)More cover-ups of nuclear plant faults revealed

NAGOYA, Japan - Noriaki Gomi, deputy head of Tohoku Electric Power Co.'s Tokyo branch office, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 20 on a case of cover-up of faults at one of its nuclear power plants.

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(1)More cover-ups of nuclear plant faults revealed

NAGOYA, Japan - Hiroshi Terasawa, vice president of Chubu Electric Power Co., prepares to leave after a news conference Sept. 20, where he revealed two cases of cover-ups of damage at the company's Hamaoka nuclear power station.

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Tokyo Electric launches new study on Niigata undersea faults

NIIGATA, Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Co., which saw its key Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata Prefecture crippled by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake last month, sends a seismic research ship out to sea on Aug. 27 to study undersea faults off Niigata and determine the structural safety of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant. The study involves an area of 140 km by 50 km off the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa coast. The research ship is seen heading out to sea from the port of Niigata in the morning of Aug. 27. (Kyodo)

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Fukushima scraps 'pluthermal' project plan over scandal

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Fukushima Gov. Eisaku Sato (standing) addresses a prefectural assembly session in Fukushima on Sept 26. He said he has withdrawn his approval of a Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) ''pluthermal'' power-generation project in the prefecture because of the power company's cover-up of nuclear reactor faults. (Kyodo)

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THE NATURAL VISION STUDIOS LTD located in Grove Place, Acton

THE NATURAL VISION STUDIOS LTD located in Grove Place, Acton, London Producing 3D glasses 'No spectacles leave the factory without strict examination - here lenses are checked for faults.' THE NATURAL VISION STUDIOS LTD located in Grove Place, Acton, London Producing 3D glasses 'No spectacles leave the factory without strict examination - here lenses are checked for faults.'

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Experts say faults under Japan nuclear plant may be active

Yutaka Kanai, executive vice president of Hokuriku Electric Power Co., speaks to reporters in Tokyo on May 13, 2015, after hearing discussions by a panel of geological experts under the Nuclear Regulation Authority. Four outside experts of the five-member panel said it is possible the fault running right under the No. 1 reactor at the company's two-unit plant in Shika, Ishikawa Prefecture, is active. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Higashidori nuclear plant in Aomori

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in May 2011 shows Tohoku Electric Power Co.'s Higashidori nuclear power plant (front) in Aomori Prefecture. There are active faults under the single-reactor plant, according to a study released Oct. 24, 2011, which called for a review of the seismic safety of the plant. (Kyodo)

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(2)More cover-ups of nuclear plant faults revealed

NAGOYA, Japan - Noriaki Gomi, deputy head of Tohoku Electric Power Co.'s Tokyo branch office, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 20 on a case of cover-up of faults at one of its nuclear power plants. (Kyodo)

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(1)More cover-ups of nuclear plant faults revealed

NAGOYA, Japan - Hiroshi Terasawa, vice president of Chubu Electric Power Co., prepares to leave after a news conference Sept. 20, where he revealed two cases of cover-ups of damage at the company's Hamaoka nuclear power station. (Kyodo)