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“Many people” were trapped inside a shopping mall damaged in a major earthquake in southwestern Japan, emergency services said.
Emergency workers were racing to find people and extinguish fires after the 6.8-magnitude quake struck the southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto.
NYTimes – World “Many people” were trapped inside a shopping mall damaged in a major earthquake in southwestern Japan, emergency services said.
NYTimes – World “Many people” were trapped inside a shopping mall damaged in a major earthquake in southwestern Japan, emergency services said.
Sky News – World A major 6.8-magnitude earthquake has hit Japan injuring at least 50 people, trapping shoppers inside a shopping centre and leaving 40,000 homes without power.
BBC News – World Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians harvesting olives in the occupied West Bank and assaulted European diplomats, a French mayor and a Catholic archbishop, witnesses and officials said. Several Palestinians, a US journalist and a Washington Post journalist were reported injured, and a diplomatic vehicle was damaged. Belgium and other governments condemned the violence, which occurred amid a surge in settler attacks during the olive harvest.
NYTimes – World Pope Leo XIV has returned to the Vatican after being discharged from Rome's Gemelli Hospital on Saturday, four days after undergoing lung cancer surgery. Doctors removed part of his right lung to extract a cancerous tumour and reported continued improvement. The Vatican had initially estimated a weeklong hospital stay and cancelled his audiences through Tuesday.
BBC News – World A Mexican judge sentenced three Mexican men to 158 years and nine months in prison each for the 2024 murders of Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson and their American friend Carter Rhoad. The surfers were killed during a surfing trip in Mexico's Baja California in what was described as an apparent botched robbery. The men were found guilty a week before sentencing.
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