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No casualties reported in Russian city of Orsk after dam breach

STORY: No casualties reported in Russian city of Orsk after dam breach SHOOTING TIME: April 6, 2024 DATELINE: April 6, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:57 LOCATION: Moscow CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the rescue (Source: EMERCOM of Russia) STORYLINE: No injuries or fatalities were reported in the wake of a dam breach in the city of Orsk, Russia's Orenburg Oblast, which led to significant flooding and the submersion of homes, local authorities said on Saturday. The mayor's office in Orsk earlier said that the dam, which was designed to protect the city from the Ural River, had failed, affecting 4,258 homes and 10,987 residents. A mass evacuation is currently underway from the old city, where several settlements now find themselves underwater. Six temporary accommodation points have been established to assist those evacuated from the flooded areas. The regional government, via its Telegram channel, announced that 94 individuals, including 40 children, have been moved to temporary shelters from the

Death toll rises to 64 in strong Japan quakes as aftershocks hinder rescue

STORY: Death toll rises to 64 in strong Japan quakes as aftershocks hinder rescue SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 3, 2024 DATELINE: Jan. 3, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:02 LOCATION: ISHIKAWA, Japan CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: 1. STANDUP (English): ZHANG XIAOYU, Xinhua correspondent 2. various of commercial street in Japan's Ishikawa STORYLINE: STANDUP (English): ZHANG XIAOYU, Xinhua correspondent "I'm Xinhua correspondent Zhang Xiaoyu, now in Nanao city, central Japanese prefecture of Ishikawa. This is a commercial street with a long history. We can see many houses were damaged here. Some even collapsed. We can see the rubbles on the ground. Some locals say many residents have sought shelter in the local communication center." A series of strong earthquakes, with a major one of preliminary 7.6 magnitude, occurred on Monday in Ishikawa prefecture of Japan. The death toll has risen to 64 in Ishikawa as of Wednesday noon. Injuries are reported in the prefectures of Ishikawa, Niigata, Fukui, Toyama, and Gifu. The Japan Meteorol

Men Found on Boat in North East Japan Say they came From N. Korea

AKITA, Japan,-Nov. 24 Kyodo - A boat carrying eight men claiming to be fishermen from North Korea has washed ashore in the north eastern Japan prefecture of Akita, police said Friday. The police received a call from a resident in the city of Yurihonjo around 11:30 p.m. Thursday about suspicious men at the seaside. They later found the men on the wooden boat at a nearby marina. The men had no life-threatening injuries and appeared to speak Korean, the police said. They have been taken into protective custody. Hachiro Okonogi, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, told reporters after a Cabinet meeting that the men have said they were fishing before the boat broke down and washed ashore. In November 2015 a wooden boat drifted ashore in the city of Noshiro in Akita and skeletal remains of two men were found inside the vessel and nearby.

Diner opens in nuclear disaster-hit city for returning evacuees

A diner called "Odaka no Hirugohan" (Lunch at Odaka) opens in the Odaka district of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Dec. 8, 2015, in support of start-ups in the area once evacuated due to the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster and for residents planning to move back. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Obama hot-spring residents celebrate Obama's victory in election

NAGASAKI, Japan - Residents and tourists at the Obama hot-spring area in the city of Unzen, Nagasaki Prefecture, celebrate after Illinois Sen. Barack Obama won the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 4. (Kyodo)

Nobel laureate Oe believes military order behind mass suicides

OSAKA, Japan - Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kenzaburo Oe arrives at the Osaka District Court on Nov. 9 to testify in a hearing on a suit filed against him. Yutaka Umezawa, 90, who was the garrison commander on Zamami Island in the Okinawa island chain during World War II, is seeking to halt the publication of three books by Oe which Umezawa argues wrongly state that military officers on Zamami and Tokashiki islands in Okinawa Prefecture ordered civilians to commit mass suicide in 1945 during the Battle of Okinawa. (Kyodo)

Court rules against suspending Hamaoka reactors over quake fear

SHIZUOKA, Japan - The Shizuoka District Court (photo) rules Oct. 26 against suspending the operation of reactors at Chubu Electric Power Co.'s nuclear power plant in Hamaoka, Shizuoka Prefecture. The ruling ignored residents' argument they may face radiation exposure due to potential damage to the plant that a massive earthquake in the Tokai region could cause. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

Peruvian man sentenced to life over murder of Hiroshima girl

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Jose Manuel Torres Yagi leaves the Kaita Police Station in Hiroshima Prefecture July 4 for the Hiroshima District Court. Later in the day, he was sentenced to life in prison for sexually assaulting and killing Airi Kinoshita, 7, on Nov. 22. (Kyodo)

Students affected by Niigata quakes given mufflers

NAGAOKA, Japan - Japanese junior high school students in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, who were affected by the Oct. 23 earthquakes in the prefecture, are presented with hand-made mufflers on Jan. 8 by a group of foreigners and Japanese youths who lost their parents in wars and earthquakes overseas and in the Great Hanshin Earthquake. (Kyodo)

(2)Nagaoka, Oguni residents move into temporary housing

NIIGATA, Japan - A woman resident of Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, whose house was destroyed by the Oct. 23 quakes, moves into a just-completed temporary housing unit from her shelter on Nov. 24. (Kyodo)

(4) Life returns to Uonuma's Ryuko distirct

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