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Passenger ferry stranded off Hokkaido city

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a passenger ferry being towed by tugboats after it was stranded off a port in Tomakomai on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on July 2, 2024. The 8,901-ton Silver Breeze later arrived at a ferry terminal in Tomakomai, with all 119 passengers and 21 crew unhurt.

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2 killed, 10 injured as blast hits market area in SW Pakistan

STORY: 2 killed, 10 injured as blast hits market area in SW Pakistan SHOOTING TIME: April 7, 2024 DATELINE: April 9, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:39 LOCATION: Islamabad CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the bomb attack site STORYLINE: Two people were killed and 10 others injured when a bomb went off in a market area in Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province on Sunday night, officials said. The incident happened at about 9:40 p.m. local time (GMT 1640) when an improvised explosive device planted in a motorbike exploded in Khuzdar district of the province, police sources from the province told Xinhua. "A police vehicle that was on routine patrol in the district was apparently the target which was missed by a few seconds, as it barely crossed the area when the blast occurred," the sources added. The policemen escaped unhurt in the attack, but the civilians who were shopping for the forthcoming Islamic festival of Eid al-Fitr near the site were killed and injured in the attack. The injured victims, inclu

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6 killed, 3 injured as lorry rams into vehicles at police stop in southern Spain

STORY: 6 killed, 3 injured as lorry rams into vehicles at police stop in southern Spain SHOOTING TIME: March 19, 2024 DATELINE: March 20, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:03 LOCATION: Madrid CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the accident site STORYLINE: Six people were killed and three others seriously injured when a lorry rammed into several vehicles at a police stop on the AP-4 highway close to the southern Spanish city of Seville in the early hours of Tuesday. The incident happened at around 4:30 a.m. local time (0330 GMT) when the lorry smashed into several vehicles after appearing to run out of control, the Spanish Civil Guard reported. Among the dead were two civil guards and four civilians, whose cars were being checked. The driver of the lorry was unhurt and later tested negative for both alcohol and drugs. The cause of the accident is under investigation. An early hypothesis holds that the driver was either distracted or asleep at the wheel and did not see the police stop until the last

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Japan PM Kishida unhurt after cylindrical object thrown during campaigning

Photo taken on April 15, 2023, shows a cylindrical object left at the venue where Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was due to give a stump speech after it was thrown at him in the western Japan city of Wakayama on April 15, 2023. Kishida was unhurt in the incident while the man who threw it was apprehended.

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Japan PM Kishida unhurt after cylindrical object thrown during campaigning

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno meets the press at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 15, 2023, after a cylindrical object that exploded was thrown at Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during election campaigning at a fishing port in the western Japan city of Wakayama earlier the same day. Kishida was unhurt in the incident.

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Japan PM Kishida unhurt after cylindrical object thrown during campaigning

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno meets the press at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 15, 2023, after a cylindrical object that exploded was thrown at Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during election campaigning at a fishing port in the western Japan city of Wakayama earlier the same day. Kishida was unhurt in the incident.

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Japan PM Kishida unhurt after smoke bomb thrown during campaigning

People are shocked after what appeared to be a smoke bomb was thrown at Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida before he was due to make a stump speech at a fishing port in the western Japan city of Wakayama on April 15, 2023. Kishida was unhurt in the incident.

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Japan PM Kishida unhurt after smoke bomb thrown during campaigning

A man is subdued after throwing what appeared to be a smoke bomb at Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida before he was due to make a stump speech at a fishing port in the western Japan city of Wakayama on April 15, 2023. Kishida was unhurt in the incident.

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4 injured as blast hits police vehicle in SW Pakistan

STORY: 4 injured as blast hits police vehicle in SW Pakistan DATELINE: April 12, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:34 LOCATION: Islamabad CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the incident site STORYLINE: At least four people were injured when a blast went off in Pakistan's southwestern Quetta city, police and health officials said. A police vehicle was passing by when the explosion occurred in the Sariab Road area of Quetta, the provincial capital of the southwestern Balochistan province, police officials in the area said on Monday. Police said terrorists wanted to target a Station House officer in the bomb blast, who, however, remained unhurt in the incident. The explosive material was installed inside a pole beside the road to target the police vehicle, said the police. Security forces and rescue teams rushed to the site and shifted the injured to a nearby hospital immediately after the explosion. Security forces cordoned off the area and started a search operation. No group or individual has claimed the atta

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Pile driver falls onto house

CHIBA, Japan - A pile driver falls onto a house breaking a part of its roof and rooms in Yachiyo, Chiba Prefecture, on Oct. 15, 2009. A resident of the house was unhurt though she was inside when the accident occurred.

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Man hurls plastic bottles at ex-Taiwan Pres. Lee, Lee unhurt

NARITA, Japan - A man (C) who hurled two plastic bottles containing liquids at former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui at Narita airport June 9 is subdued by policemen. Lee was about to take a return flight home after an 11-day trip to Japan.

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Man hurls plastic bottles at ex-Taiwan Pres. Lee, Lee unhurt

NARITA, Japan - Former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui (C) is protected by policemen when a man hurled two plastic bottles containing liquids at him at Narita airport June 9. Lee was about to take a return flight home after an 11-day trip to Japan.

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Man locked in Schindler elevator at company office building

SENDAI, Japan - A man was trapped June 30 in a Schindler elevator (in photo) in a building housing the Swiss elevator manufacturer's branch office in the city of Sendai but he was rescued unhurt 40 minutes later, police said.

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(4)Colors handed to head of GSDF core unit

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi addresses a core unit of some 550 Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) noncombat troops to be sent to Iraq during a ceremony to present the colors to the unit held at the GSDF garrison in Asahikawa, central Hokkaido, on Feb. 1. ''I pray that all of you will return home unhurt,'' Koizumi said. (Pool photo)

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Knife-wielding man breaks into Asahi's Nagoya HQ

NAGOYA, Japan - Photographers take the picture of the receptionist desk at the Asahi Shimbun newspaper's Nagoya headquarters on Sept. 8 after a man armed with a knife broke into the office and threatened a female receptionist. Police quickly arrested the man and the woman was unhurt.

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Ship runs aground south of Tokyo

OSHIMA, Japan - The Bahamas-flagged ship Hual Europe is seen aground Oct. 2 near the Izu island chain south of Tokyo. All 24 Filipino crew members were unhurt. The ship ran aground the previous day as a powerful typhoon hit areas around Tokyo and northern Japan.

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Kidnap victim rescued unhurt

TOYAMA, Japan - Masashi Nagahara, 24, is seen through the window at the Toyama Police Station in Toyama Prefecture on the night of Jan. 22. Nagahara was rescued about 22 hours after he was kidnapped for ransom money by a knife-wielding man, who still remains at large.

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Giants pitcher Uehara unhurt in traffic accident

KAWASAKI, Japan - Photo shows the scene of a July 27 traffic accident, in Kawasaki's Nakahara Ward, involving Yomiuri Giants' star pitcher Koji Uehara. Uehara walked away unscathed, after a motorbike hit the side of his car. The owner of the bike, a 28-year-old male from Yokohama, suffered a broken leg and wrist. Police were questioning Uehara about the possibility that the second-year pitcher acted without due care and attention when he attempted a U-turn on a major road.

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Six-year-old girl rescued unhurt in long ordeal

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A six-year-old girl, who had been held a knife-wielding 17-year-old hijacker of a highway express bus, is rescued safe at a service area on the Sanyo Expressway in Higashi-Hiroshima early on May 4. The photo shows the girl being carried in the arms of a police officer. She had been taking her first bus trip alone to visit her grandmother.

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Light plane belly-lands at Nagasaki airport

NAGASAKI, Japan - A two-seat light plane is towed off the runway after making a belly landing at Nagasaki airport in Omura, Nagasaki Prefecture, on April 7. The two people aboard the Cessna T210N aircraft were unhurt, but the underside of the plane's fuselage and the propeller were damaged. The pilot said the landing wheels failed to come out.

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Light plane makes forced landing near U.S. powder dump

NAHA, Japan - Photo shows a light plane belonging to a group of Americans that made an emergency landing at the U.S. Kadena powder magazine site in Okinawa Prefecture on Dec. 9. All four aboard were unhurt. The emergency landing may have been prompted by engine trouble. The U.S. military is investigating the accident.

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Crew safe after ditching balloon in round-the-world try

British pilots Andy Elson and Colin Prescot of a British hot-air balloon are rescued March 7 in the Pacific Ocean by a Japanese Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) helicopter after abandoning their attempt to make the first nonstop circumnavigation of the world. The two were picked up unhurt shortly after the balloon landed some 80 kilometers south of Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture in central Japan. The photo shows the balloon drifting at the mercy of the wind after landing in the sea in a bad weather.

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Ship runs aground south of Tokyo

OSHIMA, Japan - The Bahamas-flagged ship Hual Europe is seen aground Oct. 2 near the Izu island chain south of Tokyo. All 24 Filipino crew members were unhurt. The ship ran aground the previous day as a powerful typhoon hit areas around Tokyo and northern Japan. (Kyodo)

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Crew safe after ditching balloon in round-the-world try-2

British pilots Andy Elson(L) and Colin Prescot(R) of a British hot-air balloon are rescued March 7 in the Pacific Ocean by a Japanese Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) helicopter after abandoning their attempt to make the first nonstop circumnavigation of the world. The two were picked up unhurt shortly after the balloon landed some 80 kilometers south of Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture in central Japan. The photo shows the balloon drifting at the mercy of the wind after landing in the sea in a bad weather. Date:3/8/99

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Car runs into convenience store in Japan resort town

An automobile runs into a convenience store in the hot spring resort town of Yugawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, on Jan. 8, 2016. Three shoppers were injured, while the car's 71-year-old driver was unhurt. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Man hurls plastic bottles at ex-Taiwan Pres. Lee, Lee unhurt

NARITA, Japan - A man (C) who hurled two plastic bottles containing liquids at former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui at Narita airport June 9 is subdued by policemen. Lee was about to take a return flight home after an 11-day trip to Japan. (Kyodo)

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Man hurls plastic bottles at ex-Taiwan Pres. Lee, Lee unhurt

NARITA, Japan - Former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui (C) is protected by policemen when a man hurled two plastic bottles containing liquids at him at Narita airport June 9. Lee was about to take a return flight home after an 11-day trip to Japan. (Kyodo)

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Cambodian-registered freighter ablaze

YOKOHAMA, Japan - The Cambodian-registered, 1,195-ton freighter Sakurakawa is in flames in the Pacific off Izu-Oshima Island some 120 kilometers south of Tokyo on Dec. 7. A crew of eight Chinese were rescued unhurt. Photo was provided by the regional office of the Japan Coast Guard. (Kyodo)

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Pile driver falls onto house

CHIBA, Japan - A pile driver falls onto a house breaking a part of its roof and rooms in Yachiyo, Chiba Prefecture, on Oct. 15, 2009. A resident of the house was unhurt though she was inside when the accident occurred. (Kyodo)

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Crew safe after ditching balloon in round-the-world try

British pilots Andy Elson and Colin Prescot of a British hot-air balloon are rescued March 7 in the Pacific Ocean by a Japanese Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) helicopter after abandoning their attempt to make the first nonstop circumnavigation of the world. The two were picked up unhurt shortly after the balloon landed some 80 kilometers south of Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture in central Japan. The photo shows the balloon drifting at the mercy of the wind after landing in the sea in a bad weather.

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Man arrested for allegedly pushing woman off station platform

A vehicle carrying a 28-year-old man, a suspect in an attempted murder case involving two women who were pushed from behind at a train platform, enters a police station in Osaka in the early hours of Dec. 13, 2016. One of the women fell onto the tracks but was unhurt after an incoming train stopped just before hitting her. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Man arrested for allegedly pushing woman off station platform

Photo taken Dec. 12, 2016, shows a platform at JR Shin-Imamiya Station in Osaka where a man allegedly pushed two women from behind, causing one of them to fall onto the tracks, the day before. She was unhurt after an incoming train stopped just before hitting her. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Man arrested for allegedly pushing woman off station platform

A vehicle carrying a 28-year-old man, a suspect in an attempted murder case involving two women who were pushed from behind at a train platform, enters a police station in Osaka in the early hours of Dec. 13, 2016. One of the women fell onto the tracks but was unhurt after an incoming train stopped just before hitting her. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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(4)Colors handed to head of GSDF core unit

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi addresses a core unit of some 550 Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) noncombat troops to be sent to Iraq during a ceremony to present the colors to the unit held at the GSDF garrison in Asahikawa, central Hokkaido, on Feb. 1. ''I pray that all of you will return home unhurt,'' Koizumi said. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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Knife-wielding man breaks into Asahi's Nagoya HQ

NAGOYA, Japan - Photographers take the picture of the receptionist desk at the Asahi Shimbun newspaper's Nagoya headquarters on Sept. 8 after a man armed with a knife broke into the office and threatened a female receptionist. Police quickly arrested the man and the woman was unhurt. (Kyodo)

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Kidnap victim rescued unhurt

TOYAMA, Japan - Masashi Nagahara, 24, is seen through the window at the Toyama Police Station in Toyama Prefecture on the night of Jan. 22. Nagahara was rescued about 22 hours after he was kidnapped for ransom money by a knife-wielding man, who still remains at large.

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Giants pitcher Uehara unhurt in traffic accident

KAWASAKI, Japan - Photo shows the scene of a July 27 traffic accident, in Kawasaki's Nakahara Ward, involving Yomiuri Giants' star pitcher Koji Uehara. Uehara walked away unscathed, after a motorbike hit the side of his car. The owner of the bike, a 28-year-old male from Yokohama, suffered a broken leg and wrist. Police were questioning Uehara about the possibility that the second-year pitcher acted without due care and attention when he attempted a U-turn on a major road.

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Six-year-old girl rescued unhurt in long ordeal

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A six-year-old girl, who had been held a knife-wielding 17-year-old hijacker of a highway express bus, is rescued safe at a service area on the Sanyo Expressway in Higashi-Hiroshima early on May 4. The photo shows the girl being carried in the arms of a police officer. She had been taking her first bus trip alone to visit her grandmother.

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Light plane belly-lands at Nagasaki airport

NAGASAKI, Japan - A two-seat light plane is towed off the runway after making a belly landing at Nagasaki airport in Omura, Nagasaki Prefecture, on April 7. The two people aboard the Cessna T210N aircraft were unhurt, but the underside of the plane's fuselage and the propeller were damaged. The pilot said the landing wheels failed to come out.

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Videotapes of kidnap suspect released

OSAKA, Japan - Police release three videotape shots Feb. 19 taken from a security camera that recorded a man suspected of having been involved in the December 1999 kidnapping of an 8-year-old girl using a photocopying machine at a convenience store in Osaka Prefecture. Sayaka Teranishi was forced into a car by her kidnapper on her way home from school and was held for about 42 hours before she was released unhurt near her home in Settsu, Osaka Prefecture.

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Police reveals kidnapping suspect's sketch

OSAKA, Japan - A sketch of the suspect in the kidnapping of an 8-year-old girl in Settsu, Osaka Prefecture in December 1999, is made public by police on Feb. 19. Sayaka Teranishi, a second grade pupil, told police she was forced into a car on her way home from school Dec. 20. She was held until the morning of Dec. 22 before she was released unhurt near her home in Settsu.

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Light plane makes forced landing near U.S. powder dump

NAHA, Japan - Photo shows a light plane belonging to a group of Americans that made an emergency landing at the U.S. Kadena powder magazine site in Okinawa Prefecture on Dec. 9. All four aboard were unhurt. The emergency landing may have been prompted by engine trouble. The U.S. military is investigating the accident.