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Stranded Australians surrounded by fires rescued

02:48 Australia's Navy has started to evacuate people trapped by bushfires on the country's south-eastern coast.An official has called it an "unprecedented mass relocation of civilians

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U.S. President Trump not expected to move U.S. embassy to Jerusalem

U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to break a campaign promise by not moving the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, local media reports said.

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U.S. President Trump not expected to move U.S. embassy to Jerusalem

U.S.PresidentDonaldTrumpisexpectedtobreakacampaignpromisebynotmovingtheU.S.embassyinIsraeltoJerusalem,localmediareportssaid.CitingaWhiteHouseofficialwhospokeonc

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Japan's Okinawa mayor re-elected, demands land after U.S. airbase shutdown

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party-backed incumbent Atsushi Sakima secured a second four-year term as the mayor of Ginowan City, Okinawa Prefecture, in a key election Sunday.

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Japan gov't pushes for base relocation as talks fail in Okinawa but may face legislative blockade

​Japan's central government on Tuesday maintained that it would continue with its plans to relocate a controversial U.S. marine base within Japan's southernmost prefecture of Okinawa, despite mounting opposition from both the island's locals and officials and following no headway being made on official talks on the stalled issue between central and local governments.

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Japan's Okinawa gov't orders halt to U.S. base relocation work

​The Okinawa prefectural government on Monday ordered the suspension of underwater work in a coastal area in Nago city in the Japan's southernmost island prefecture for a relocation site for the U.S. Futenma airbase, according to local report.

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A month later, life moves on in quake-struck Ludian

One month after a 6.5-magnitude earthquake jolted southwest China's Ludian, Yunnan Province, life for survivors goes on.