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Australia: Record Flooding Batters Northern NSW After Heavy Rainfall 2

Flooding has battered cities and towns across the Mid-North Coast and the Hunter Region in northern New South Wales, leaving many residents stranded or forced to evacuate after days of heavy rainfall. In the city of Taree, the Manning River surpassed its 1929 record of six meters and was still rising as of Wednesday morning, May 21. Authorities have issued 13 emergency-level alerts.

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Australia: Record Flooding Batters Northern NSW After Heavy Rainfall 3

Flooding has battered cities and towns across the Mid-North Coast and the Hunter Region in northern New South Wales, leaving many residents stranded or forced to evacuate after days of heavy rainfall. In the city of Taree, the Manning River surpassed its 1929 record of six meters and was still rising as of Wednesday morning, May 21. Authorities have issued 13 emergency-level alerts.

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Steam loco ready to pull tourist train in Hokkaido

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - A steam locomotive at Hokkaido Railway Co.'s Asahikawa Station stands ready on June 7, 2014, to pull the "Norokko" three-car train that links the Furano and Biei tourist spots in Hokkaido, northern Japan.

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Wooden nameplates at Asahikawa Station

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Visitors look at a wall-like creation of wooden beams bearing the names of some 10,000 people at JR Asahikawa Station in Hokkaido on Oct. 10, 2010. The people donated for a project aimed at promoting wooden products in the city.

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Extra gasoline tax rates to expire for 1st time since 1974

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - A sign board at a gas station in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, shows it will reduce gasoline prices by 25.1 yen per liter from April 1 as the additional rates on gasoline tax and other road-related taxes are set to expire at midnight on March 31 for the first time since they were introduced as a provisional measure in 1974.

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1st group of main GSDF unit for Iraq to leave Japan

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Members of the first group of the main Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) contingent (L) are seen off by colleagues (R) at the GSDF station in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, on Feb. 2 before leaving Chitose base, southwest of Asahikawa, on Feb. 3 for the southern Iraqi city of Samawah for an Iraqi reconstruction mission.

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Extra gasoline tax rates to expire for 1st time since 1974

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - A sign board at a gas station in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, shows it will reduce gasoline prices by 25.1 yen per liter from April 1 as the additional rates on gasoline tax and other road-related taxes are set to expire at midnight on March 31 for the first time since they were introduced as a provisional measure in 1974. (Kyodo)

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Wooden nameplates at Asahikawa Station

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Visitors look at a wall-like creation of wooden beams bearing the names of some 10,000 people at JR Asahikawa Station in Hokkaido on Oct. 10, 2010. The people donated for a project aimed at promoting wooden products in the city. (Kyodo)

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Coronavirus surge in Japan

Few people walk in front of JR Asahikawa Station on the northernmost Japanese main island of Hokkaido on Dec. 12, 2020, as the city struggles to cope with a surge in coronavirus cases.

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Coronavirus surge in Japan

Few people walk in front of JR Asahikawa Station on the northernmost Japanese main island of Hokkaido on Dec. 12, 2020, as the city struggles to cope with a surge in coronavirus cases.

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1st group of main GSDF unit for Iraq to leave Japan

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Members of the first group of the main Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) contingent (L) are seen off by colleagues (R) at the GSDF station in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, on Feb. 2 before leaving Chitose base, southwest of Asahikawa, on Feb. 3 for the southern Iraqi city of Samawah for an Iraqi reconstruction mission. (Kyodo)