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Philippines: Tropical Depression Verbena Causes Flooding Across Negros

Tropical Depression Verbena made its fourth landfall in Vallehermoso, Negros Oriental, on Tuesday, November 25, causing severe flooding across several areas of the Visayas.

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AFGHANISTAN-WARDAK-DISASTER-FLOOD-AFTERMATH

(230724) -- WARDAK, July 24, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on July 23, 2023 shows a car destroyed by floods in Wardak province, Afghanistan. The number of flood-related casualties has increased to 26 deaths, with 44 people injured in east Afghanistan's Wardak province, said Shafiullah Rahimi, spokesman for the Natural Disaster Management Authority, on Sunday. (Photo by Saifurahman Safi/Xinhua)

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New bullet train car

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows the N700A (L), a new model of bullet train, before leaving Shin Osaka station for Tokyo station on Feb. 8, 2013, and the previous N700 model (R). A ceremony was held at both stations to mark the start of commercial operations of the N700A on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line. Although not very different in appearance from the previous model, the latest version employs a number of new technologies including a better brake system to cope with earthquakes.

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New bullet train car

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the N700A, a new model of bullet train, leaving Tokyo station for Shin Osaka station on Feb. 8, 2013. A ceremony was held at both stations to mark the start of commercial operations of the N700A on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line. Although not very different in appearance from the previous N700 model, the latest version employs a number of new technologies including a better brake system to cope with earthquakes.

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New bullet train car

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows the N700A, a new model of bullet train, leaving Shin Osaka station for Tokyo station on Feb. 8, 2013. A ceremony was held at both stations to mark the start of commercial operations of the N700A on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line. Although not very different in appearance from the previous N700 model, the latest version employs a number of new technologies including a better brake system to cope with earthquakes.

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"Super discount" car rentals

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a gasoline station that has started offering car rentals in Yokohama, near Tokyo. A growing number of gasoline stations, used car dealerships and auto repair shops around Japan have begun offering "super discount" car rentals, to compensate for falling sales due to the steady decline in car ownership.

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Toyota Aqua hybrid compact car

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo shows Toyota Motor Corp.'s Aqua hybrid compact car. The automaker said Feb. 1, 2012, the number of orders placed for the Aqua as of Jan. 31, 2012, was about 120,000, greatly exceeding its sales goal of 12,000 units a month. The car was released on Dec. 26, 2011.

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Cleaning up 'nail land mines' in Jakarta

JAKARTA, Indonesia - A member of a volunteer group working to remove ''nail land mines'' in Jakarta collects nails with a hand-made tool using a magnet on a street in the Indonesian capital on Jan. 17, 2012. As the number of vehicles continues to rise in Indonesia on the back of its buoyant economy, there has been an increase in the number of ''nail land mine'' cases, in which car tires go flat after being driven over nails believed to have been deliberately left by operators of tire repair businesses.

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Cars damaged by tsunami in Hitachi

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 12, 2011, shows passenger cars which were burned in a fire that broke out following the March 11 quake and tsunami at Hitachi Port in Ibaraki Prefecture. The price of autos, including that of Japanese cars, has been on the rise in the Chinese and U.S. markets since the disaster due to distribution shortages of some auto parts made in Japan and the decreasing number of car imports from Japan.

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Tokyo water not for infants

TOKYO, Japan - A customer buys a lot of bottled water in Tokyo on March 23, 2011, after the metropolitan government warned that infants should not drink tap water in Tokyo's 23 wards and five of its suburban cities following the detection of radioactive iodine exceeding the limit for them in water at a purification plant. The customer's face and number of the car have been obscured.

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Used car market in Beijing

BEIJING, China - People visit a used car market in Beijing on Dec. 19, 2010. The city government decided on Dec. 23, 2010, to limit the number of new auto registrations for 2011 to 240,000, about one third of the limit in 2010, to ease the traffic congestion in the city.

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Used car market in Beijing

BEIJING, China - People visit a used car market in Beijing on Dec. 19, 2010. The city government decided on Dec. 23, 2010, to limit the number of new auto registrations for 2011 to 240,000, about one third of the limit in 2010, to ease the traffic congestion in the city.