By Kiyoshi Takenaka WAJIMA, Japan (Reuters) – On a chilly Friday morning in the quake-hit Japanese town of Wajima, Aydin Muhammet and his employees served steaming bowls of soup and rice in front of a community centre for evacuees. The Turkish national’s 10-man volunteer team from the construction company he owns in central Japan has …
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By Rocky Swift, Kaori Kaneko and Daniel Leussink TOKYO (Reuters) -Crews at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport began clearing the charred wreck of a Japan Airlines plane from a runway on Friday, as investigators sought to retrieve its cockpit voice recorder to discover what caused its deadly collision with a Coast Guard aircraft. The Japan Airlines (JAL) …
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By Mariko Katsumura TOKYO (Reuters) -Crews at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Friday started clearing the charred wreckage of a Japan Airlines (JAL) plane that collided with a Coast Guard turboprop on the runway on Tuesday. Below is a timeline of events surrounding the collision. All 379 people on board the Airbus A350 jet escaped, but …
By Nicoco Chan and Liz Lee HARBIN, China (Reuters) – China’s annual Ice and Snow Festival, with its fairy-tale ice sculptures, opened on Friday attracting throngs of tourists who shuffled carefully over the slippy ice and snow and dragged their children in sledges around the park. This year the ice park spans 810,000 sq metres …
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MANILA (Reuters) -The Philippines remains open to diplomatic discussions with China and believes the two nations can achieve a resolution to disputes over the South China Sea through peaceful dialogue, its national security adviser said in a statement on Friday. Eduardo Ano’s remarks came after a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson on Thursday called recent joint …
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By Jeff Mason and Josh Smith WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) -Russia recently used short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) sourced from North Korea to conduct multiple strikes against Ukraine, the White House said on Thursday, citing newly declassified intelligence. National security spokesperson John Kirby told reporters the United States will raise the development with the United Nations Security Council. …
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WAJIMA, Japan (Reuters) – Thousands of rescuers pressed on in a search for survivors of a New Year’s Day earthquake that killed at least 84 people in Japan, hoping to save as many as possible despite a three day survival window that ended on Thursday afternoon. “We must continue putting all of our efforts into …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – The “ice city” of Harbin, the snowy capital of northeast China’s Heilongjiang province, attracted a record number of visitors over the New Year holiday, many of them drawn by the grand and intricate ice sculptures of its annual Ice and Snow Festival. The towering ice structures, illuminated in a dazzling array of …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – The powerful earthquake that hit Japan’s western coast on New Year’s Day has underscored the country’s exposure to natural disasters, casting fresh doubt over a push to bring its nuclear capacity back online. Nuclear power plants dot the coast of mountainous Japan, which is prone to earthquakes and tsunamis due to its …
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By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepal and India signed a power trade agreement on Thursday for Kathmandu to export 10,000 megawatts (MW) of hydroelectricity to India over the next 10 years, officials said, in a deal they hope will draw investment to the cash-strapped Himalayan nation. Nepal’s rivers, cascading from the Himalayas, have the …
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