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The Village Of Missing Toddler May Be Cursed After Earlier Tragedies

File photo dated April 5, 2015 - Flowers lay at a memorial stele made of stone that reads 'In commemoration of the victims of the plane accident on 24 March 2015' in English, German, Spanish and French, on Easter Sunday in Le Vernet, France, April 5, 2015. Germanwings flight 4U 9525 crashed near near the village of La Vernet in the French Alps, southern France on 24 March 2015, carrying around 150 passengers and crew on board. - Residents of the French countryside hamlet of Haut Vernet where two-year-old boy Emile went missing on Saturday today referring to their home as a cursed 'village of the damned' because of its links with disaster. In March 2015, Vernet was cordoned off following a horrific air crash in which 150 people died, including two babies. Germanwings Airbus A320 was deliberately brought down by co-pilot Andres Lubitz, who had previously been treated for suicidal tendencies. In 2008, local cafe manager Jeannette Grosos, who ran the Café du Moulin, was brutally killed by a customer. Photo by Geo

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The Village Of Missing Toddler May Be Cursed After Earlier Tragedies

File photo dated April 5, 2015 - Flowers lay at a memorial stele made of stone that reads 'In commemoration of the victims of the plane accident on 24 March 2015' in English, German, Spanish and French, on Easter Sunday in Le Vernet, France, April 5, 2015. Germanwings flight 4U 9525 crashed near near the village of La Vernet in the French Alps, southern France on 24 March 2015, carrying around 150 passengers and crew on board. - Residents of the French countryside hamlet of Haut Vernet where two-year-old boy Emile went missing on Saturday today referring to their home as a cursed 'village of the damned' because of its links with disaster. In March 2015, Vernet was cordoned off following a horrific air crash in which 150 people died, including two babies. Germanwings Airbus A320 was deliberately brought down by co-pilot Andres Lubitz, who had previously been treated for suicidal tendencies. In 2008, local cafe manager Jeannette Grosos, who ran the Café du Moulin, was brutally killed by a customer. Photo by Geo

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Australian volunteer forms blood bond with Chinese

STORY: Australian volunteer forms blood bond with Chinese DATELINE: March 5, 2023 LENGTH: 0:01:49 LOCATION: TIANJIN, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Peter Mecoy 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): PETER MECOY, Australian volunteer blood donor in Tianjin 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): PETER MECOY, Australian volunteer blood donor in Tianjin 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): PETER MECOY, Australian volunteer blood donor in Tianjin STORYLINE: Fifty-eight-year-old Peter Mecoy is an Australian expat living in north China's Tianjin. He has been volunteering to donate blood and platelets almost every 15 days since 2008. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): PETER MECOY, Australian volunteer blood donor in Tianjin "In China, my blood type is called 'panda blood.' It's Type A RhD-negative blood. Maybe my blood can help mothers delivering babies or aged people in surgery. I am happy to be helpful." Peter has donated blood and platelets more than 270 times, equivalent to more than 420,000 milliliters of blood in terms of therapeutic vol

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Suit filed to seek decommissioning of Hamaoka reactors

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Plaintiffs carrying banners calling for an end to nuclear power walk to the Shizuoka District Court in the city of Shizuoka on July 1, 2011, to file a lawsuit seeking the decommissioning of the reactors at the Hamaoka nuclear power plant in the prefecture. Located in a major active fault zone, Chubu Electric Power Co. suspended the plant's Nos. 3 to 5 reactors in May at the request of the central government in the wake of the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The Nos. 1 and 2 reactors at the Hamaoka plant were deactivated in 2008 for decommissioning.

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Luxury liner Queen Victoria arrives in Nagasaki port

NAGASAKI, Japan - Ocean liner the Queen Victoria, now on an around-the-world voyage, arrives in Japan's Nagasaki port on March 5, marking the first port call to a Japanese city since its maiden voyage in January 2008.

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Luxury liner Queen Victoria arrives in Nagasaki port

NAGASAKI, Japan - Ocean liner the Queen Victoria, now on an around-the-world voyage, arrives in Japan's Nagasaki port on March 5, marking the first port call to a Japanese city since its maiden voyage in January 2008.

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Luxury liner Queen Victoria arrives in Nagasaki port

NAGASAKI, Japan - Photo taken March 5 from a Kyodo News helicopter shows ocean liner the Queen Victoria, now on an around-the-world voyage, moored at Japan's Nagasaki port in Nagasaki Prefecture. The liner arrived at the port earlier in the day, marking the first port call to a Japanese city since its maiden voyage in January 2008.

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Luxury liner Queen Victoria arrives in Nagasaki port

NAGASAKI, Japan - Photo taken March 5 from a Kyodo News helicopter shows ocean liner the Queen Victoria, now on an around-the-world voyage, moored at Japan's Nagasaki port, Nagasaki Prefecture. The liner arrived at the port earlier in the day, marking the first port call to a Japanese city since its maiden voyage in January 2008.

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Yuko Oga

Yuko Oga, basketball player (photo taken on March 5, 2008)

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CHINA-BEIJING-CENTRAL AXIS (CN)

(221005) -- BEIJING, Oct. 5, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Combo photo shows citizens exercising at the square of the Bell and Drum Towers in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 18, 2022 (up, photo taken by Chen Zhonghao) and the square of the Bell and Drum Towers under renovation in Beijing, capital of China, on March 25, 2014 (down, photo taken by Li Hui). Chinese authorities have planned to recommend the Beijing Central Axis as China's 2024 world cultural heritage application project, according to the National Cultural Heritage Administration. The Beijing Central Axis is 7.8 kilometers long, starting from the Yongding Gate in the south of the city and ending with the Drum Tower and Bell Tower in the north. Most of the major old-city buildings of Beijing are along this axis. The central axis is the backbone of old Beijing, representing the highest achievement in the planning, design and construction of an ancient capital of Eastern civilization. The axis was extended in 2003 as the city prepared for the 2008 Olympic Games

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Luxury liner Queen Victoria arrives in Nagasaki port

NAGASAKI, Japan - Ocean liner the Queen Victoria, now on an around-the-world voyage, arrives in Japan's Nagasaki port on March 5, marking the first port call to a Japanese city since its maiden voyage in January 2008. (Kyodo)

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Luxury liner Queen Victoria arrives in Nagasaki port

NAGASAKI, Japan - Photo taken March 5 from a Kyodo News helicopter shows ocean liner the Queen Victoria, now on an around-the-world voyage, moored at Japan's Nagasaki port in Nagasaki Prefecture. The liner arrived at the port earlier in the day, marking the first port call to a Japanese city since its maiden voyage in January 2008. (Kyodo)

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Luxury liner Queen Victoria arrives in Nagasaki port

NAGASAKI, Japan - Ocean liner the Queen Victoria, now on an around-the-world voyage, arrives in Japan's Nagasaki port on March 5, marking the first port call to a Japanese city since its maiden voyage in January 2008. (Kyodo)

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Luxury liner Queen Victoria arrives in Nagasaki port

NAGASAKI, Japan - Photo taken March 5 from a Kyodo News helicopter shows ocean liner the Queen Victoria, now on an around-the-world voyage, moored at Japan's Nagasaki port, Nagasaki Prefecture. The liner arrived at the port earlier in the day, marking the first port call to a Japanese city since its maiden voyage in January 2008. (Kyodo)

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Suit filed to seek decommissioning of Hamaoka reactors

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Plaintiffs carrying banners calling for an end to nuclear power walk to the Shizuoka District Court in the city of Shizuoka on July 1, 2011, to file a lawsuit seeking the decommissioning of the reactors at the Hamaoka nuclear power plant in the prefecture. Located in a major active fault zone, Chubu Electric Power Co. suspended the plant's Nos. 3 to 5 reactors in May at the request of the central government in the wake of the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The Nos. 1 and 2 reactors at the Hamaoka plant were deactivated in 2008 for decommissioning. (Kyodo)