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Japan maglev train project being derailed by Shizuoka stalemate
Kyodo News, Published on 13/02/2024
» SHOZUOKA - The start date of the new high-speed maglev train that will run from Tokyo to Nagoya has become increasingly uncertain, as long-running environmental disputes with the Shizuoka prefectural government leave the project at a stalemate.
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Typhoon Haikui sweeps across Taiwan, weakens to a severe storm
AFP, Published on 04/09/2023
» TAITUNG, Taiwan: Taiwan woke up Monday to toppled trees, floods, and persistent rainfall after Typhoon Haikui made landfall on the island and swept overnight across its central mountain ranges.
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Body of missing actor Julian Sands identified by US police
AFP, Published on 28/06/2023
» LOS ANGELES - The body of missing British actor Julian Sands has been identified, California police said Tuesday, after human remains were found by hikers in mountains near Los Angeles at the weekend.
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Last days of an outback town
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 23/10/2022
» Sitting on a roof in a ghost town in the middle of the Australian outback, Mario Hartmann waited for the bulldozers to come.
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Coping with vast open space and sheep
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 09/10/2022
» The baas, bleats and bells were fading ever so slightly, and the shepherd's trained ear detected that his flock was veering off the path home, for this was the soundtrack of his life in the Rocky Mountains. "The sheep must be herded," he said in Spanish, as he quickly ascended a hill overlooking a meadow.
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'In the mouth of dragons': Melting glaciers threaten Pakistan's north
AFP, Published on 07/07/2022
» HASSANABAD (PAKISTAN) - As dawn broke over Javed Rahi's Pakistani mountain village, a loud boom shattered the silence and a torrent of water came cascading down from the melting glacier nearby, followed by a thick cloud of smoke.
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Myanmar police fire rubber bullets as UN envoy breaks ranks
AFP, Published on 27/02/2021
» YANGON: Police fired rubber bullets to disperse protesters in Yangon on Saturday, after Myanmar's ambassador to the United Nations broke ranks to make an emotional plea for action against the military junta.
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LatAm governments facing vaccine distribution challenges
AFP, Published on 26/11/2020
» MONTEVIDEO - Cash-strapped Latin American governments face severe geographical, economic and social challenges in trying to ensure life-saving Covid-19 vaccines are made available to vulnerable populations, experts say.
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New Oman ruler reaffirms neutral role
AFP, Published on 11/01/2020
» MUSCAT: Oman's new royal ruler pledged Saturday to follow the non-interference policy that made the kingdom a vital regional mediator under his late cousin Sultan Qaboos who reigned for half a century.
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Asia's Great Rivers: Climate crisis, pollution put billions at risk
AFP, Published on 10/01/2020
» HONG KONG - The year is 2100. The glaciers of the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region -- the world's "Third Pole" -- are vanishing as the planet warms, the ice that once fed the great rivers of Asia is all but lost, and with it much of the water needed to nurture and grow a continent.
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