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Thousands of people have fled northeast Japan's exclusion zone around the crippled nuclear power plant. Thousands more Japanese lost their homes in last week's earthquake and tsunami.

The uncertainty that has gripped Japan in the days since its nuclear crisis began is erupting into public and official anger over the lack of reliable safety information.

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan seemed to be speaking for his entire country Tuesday when he met with executives from the Tokyo Electric Power Co. "What the hell is going on?" Kan demanded, according to a report from Japan's Kyodo news agency.

From Sky News: "The Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi will fall to government forces within 48 hours, Saif Gaddafi has said in a television interview." Saif Gadhafi, the son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, spoke with France's Euronews.

Sharp increases in the costs of food and energy sent wholesale prices up 1.6 percent in February from January, the Bureau of Labor Statistics just reported.

It was the largest one-month increase since a 1.9 percent rise in June 2009, BLS says.

The driving forces:

-- Food costs went up 3.9 percent, the largest one-month rise since November 1974, The Associated Press says.

-- Energy costs rose 3.3 percent.

For the year ended Feb. 28, wholesale prices rose 5.6 percent.

"Officials say an American CIA contractor detained [in Pakistan] on suspicion of murder has been released after families of the two Pakistanis he killed pardoned him in exchange for compensation," The Associated Press reports. "Raymond Allen Davis has been in jail since Jan. 27, seriously straining ties between Pakistan and the United States."