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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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Heat wave in Japan

KOCHI, Japan - A child touches an ice pillar at Tosa Kuroshio Railway Co.'s Nakamura Station in Shimanto, Kochi Prefecture, on Aug. 13, 2013. Temperatures in the city reached 40 C for the fourth day in a row as a severe heat wave continued to engulf wide areas of Japan.

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Ex-yokozuna Akebono campaigns against gangsters

NAGOYA, Japan - Former yokozuna Akebono takes the role of a one-day police station chief in Nagoya on Oct. 21 to help campaign against gangsters in Nakamura Ward.

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Ehime governor says will make own judgment on Ikata reactor safety

Ehime Gov. Tokihiro Nakamura tells the press in his office in Matsuyama, western Japan, on July 23, 2015, that he will have an expert group confirm the safety of the No.3 reactor at Shikoku Electric Power Co.'s Ikata nuclear power station before making his own judgment on the advisability of restarting it. The Ikata No. 3 reactor passed the Nuclear Regulation Authority's safety test on July 15. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Bloodstains found at suspect's home linked to murder victim

Oshu Nakamura, suspected of fatally stabbing an 11-year-old boy, leaves a police station in the city of Iwade, Wakayama Prefecture, by police car to be sent to prosecutors on Feb. 8, 2015. Nakamura, 22, has denied killing or even knowing the boy, Toshi Morita. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Bloodstains found at suspect's home linked to murder victim

Oshu Nakamura, suspected of fatally stabbing an 11-year-old boy, leaves a police station in the city of Iwade, Wakayama Prefecture, by police car to be sent to prosecutors on Feb. 8, 2015. Nakamura, 22, has denied killing or even knowing the boy, Toshi Morita. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New station opens on Tokyo's iconic Yamanote loop line

Stationmaster Taka Nakamura speaks to journalists at Takanawa Gateway Station after its inauguration in Tokyo on March 14, 2020. The station became the first new stop on the capital's busy Yamanote line in nearly 50 years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-yokozuna Akebono campaigns against gangsters

NAGOYA, Japan - Former yokozuna Akebono takes the role of a one-day police station chief in Nagoya on Oct. 21 to help campaign against gangsters in Nakamura Ward. (Kyodo)