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Argentina bounced back from the chaos of their opening defeat in the Olympic men's football to beat Iraq 3-1 on Saturday, while Spain and Japan became the first teams through to the quarter-finals. Two-time gold medallists Argentina began their campaign at the Games with a 2-1 defeat by Morocco on Wednesday in Saint-Etienne in a match marred by ...
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The foreign ministers of the United States, Japan, Australia and India expressed on Monday "serious concern" over the situation in the South China Sea in a veiled rebuke to Beijing. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his counterparts in the so-called Quad grouping issued a joint statement calling for a "free and open" Pacific after talks in ...
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earthquake Japan Tokyo Tsunamis
A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 shook southern Japan on Thursday, but no major damage was reported, and only relatively minor tsunami waves lashed the coast. The quake hit at 4:42 PM (7:42 GMT) off Kyushu at a depth of 25 kilometers (16 miles), the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. The USGS had initially reported two ...
par This Is Beirut, 09/08 11:52 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
earthquake Japan Kishida Natural disaster
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday cancelled a trip to Central Asia after earthquake scientists warned the country should prepare for a possible "megaquake." The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued the advisory on Thursday after eight people were injured by a tremor of magnitude 7.1 in the south. Kishida was due Friday to travel ...
par This Is Beirut, 14/08 14:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Japan's unpopular Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is set to quit after announcing on Wednesday he will not seek re-election as party chief. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party, which has governed almost uninterrupted since 1945, is due to hold a leadership contest next month, with the winner to become prime minister. "In this (party) presidential ...
par This Is Beirut, 15/08 13:29 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
earthquake Japan tsunami Warning
Japan lifted on Thursday a warning that a "megaquake" potentially causing colossal damage and loss of life could strike, with the government telling people to "go back to normal." The week-old alert that such a catastrophe might hit the archipelago of 125 million people prompted thousands to cancel holidays and stock up on essentials, emptying ...
par This Is Beirut, 27/08 11:44 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Airspace Incursion China Japan Phillipines
Japan slammed on Tuesday what it called the first confirmed incursion by a Chinese military aircraft into its airspace as a "serious violation" of its sovereignty, saying Beijing was becoming "increasingly active." China's growing economic and military clout in the Asia-Pacific region and its assertiveness in territorial disputes has rattled the ...
par This Is Beirut, 30/08 05:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Typhoon Shanshan slowly barrelled up the Japanese archipelago on Friday, dumping torrential rains and causing transport havoc as its reported death toll reached five. The typhoon, one of the strongest to hit Japan in decades, had weakened by early morning, though gusts were still reaching 126 kilometers (78 miles) per hour. Even before making ...
par This Is Beirut, 21/09 12:06 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
One person has died and at least seven others are missing in Japan, where the authorities ordered the evacuation of more than 60,000 residents in the centre of the country on Saturday due to flooding caused by heavy rain. A dozen rivers in the region, on the west coast of central Japan, had burst their banks by 11:00 am (0200 GMT), land ministry ...
par This Is Beirut, 26/09 13:56 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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French Polynesia said a Chinese intercontinental ballistic missile launched into the Pacific landed near its exclusive economic zone, as Beijing's first such tests in four decades drew a chorus of protests. China had announced the rare trial on Wednesday, saying that the missile was carrying a dummy warhead. The launch sparked protests from ...
par This Is Beirut, 26/09 13:59 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Australia China Japan New Zealand Taiwan Strait
A Japanese warship cruised through the Taiwan Strait for the first time to assert its freedom of navigation, local media said Thursday, a week after a Chinese aircraft carrier sailed between two Japanese islands near Taiwan. Japan's top government spokesman Yoshimasa Hayashi declined to comment on the reports at a regular briefing because they ...
