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M5.2 earthquake hits off Japan's Fukushima Prefecture

A 5.2-magnitude earthquake jolted off the coast of Japan's Fukushima Prefecture at 16:31 local time on Sunday, with the epicenter recorded at a depth of 50 km.It came less than one day after a 7.3-ma

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Live: Carrie Lam speaks to media on latest issues

Carrie Lam, chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), holds a weekly briefing on the latest issues in Hong Kong.

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Latin America and Caribbean hit especially hard by COVID-19 pandemic

03:10 COVID-19's impact has been especially devastating to impoverished communities in Latin America and the Caribbean, where millions live in substandard housing and have battered hea

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6.2 magnitude earthquake rocks Japan near Hachinohe

A 6.2 magnitude earthquake on Sunday rocked the region near Hachinohe, Japan, the U.S. Geological Survey said.Reports indicate that the quake was detected around 9:00AM pacific time, with an epicente

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Thousands of cars stranded in snowstorm in central Japan

00:42 Nearly a thousand cars and vehicles were left stranded on a local highway in central Japan, after a devastating heavy snowstorm hit the region earlier in the week between the Nii

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6.3-magnitude quake hits Hindu Kush region: report

A 6.3-magnitude earthquake jolted Hindu Kush region in Afghanistan at a depth of 190 kilometers on Saturday, Xinhua reported, citing other media.

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Typhoon Bavi lands near China-DPRK border on Thursday morning

Typhoon Bavi, the eighth typhoon of this year, made landfall on the coast of North Pyongan province in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), a region near t

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Hong Kong postpones LegCo election due to COVID-19 outbreak

Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Carrie Lam on Friday announced the postponement of the 2020 Legislative Council (LegCo) General

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6.6-magnitude quake hits Tibet: CENC

A 6.6-magnitude earthquake jolted Nyima County of Nagqu City, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, at 4:07 a.m. Thursday, according to the China Earthquake Netwo

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Xinjiang, My Home | Mariyamgul, livestreaming saleswoman of cars in Kashgar

Mariyamgul, a girl in Kashgar, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, has turned from a green hand to a locally famous car sales livestreamer. Check out how she realized the transformati

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Nature at its finest: Gorgeous grasslands in N China

Some of the most beautiful grasslands in China are found in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region! There you will find dream landscapes featuring pale blue skies above the e

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China appoints adviser to Committee for Safeguarding National Security of HKSAR

China's State Council on Friday announced that Luo Huining was appointed as national security adviser to the Committee for Safeguarding National Security of the Hong K

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China's State Council appoints HKSAR immigration director

China's State Council on Thursday announced that Au Ka-wang was appointed director of the Immigration Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR)

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China's top legislature passes draft law on national security in HKSAR

The Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, on Tuesday passed a draft law on safeguarding national security in the Hon

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Urgent: Explosion heard from region near inter-Korean industrial complex: Yonhap

Explosion was heard from region near the inter-Korean industrial complex in the border town of Kaesong in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported T

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China's new-generation manned spaceship successfully lands

The re-entry capsule of China's experimental new-generation manned spaceship successfully landed in Dongfeng landing site in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Reg

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Impact felt in Brazil where income inequality is extreme

02:55 The measures to fight the COVID-19 pandemic are already hurting economies in Latin America.And these countries may be seeing only the beginning of the problem.Our correspondent P