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Strong quake hits Japan's northern island, no tsunami danger

10/5/2018, 1:55:44 AM
A strong earthquake on Friday jolted the same area of Japan's northernmost ... ✔ TOKYO (Reuters) - A strong earthquake on Friday jolted the same area of Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido that was hit by one of the country’s most powerful tremors last month ✔ 6 paralyzed Hokkaido, an island the size of Austria, killing dozens, triggering landslides and temporarily knocking power to all 5.3 million of its residents ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles



Crew recount terror of tsunami that dumped ferry in village

10/5/2018, 3:33:37 AM
WANI, Indonesia--The captain and crew sailing the Sabuk Nusantara ferry to new owners on the Indones ✔ WANI, Indonesia--The captain and crew sailing the Sabuk Nusantara ferry to new owners on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi got the task done and then some ✔ There is no doubt as a human being of course I'm panicking, said Imat ✔ And a few days ago there was looting around this area



BREAKING: Japan rocked by another ‘DAMAGING’ earthquake - Sapporo hit

10/5/2018, 12:45:18 AM
JAPAN has been hit by a powerful 5.2 magnitude earthquake which struck the northern island of Hokkaido. ✔ The earthquake struck 73 miles south east of Sapporo (Image: EXPRESS ) The earthquake struck 73 miles south east of Sapporo, Japan’s fifth largest city ✔ It is not known whether there has been any casualties or damage ✔ Around 1,000-1,500 earthquakes of this strength take place across the world each year



Many loved ones lost and uncounted in Indonesian disasters

10/5/2018, 1:52:18 AM
PALU, Indonesia (AP) — She lay inside a medical tent in the stifling midday heat, wincing in pain at the gashes and cuts that cover her body. But all Anisa Cornelia could think ab ✔ PALU, Indonesia (AP) She lay inside a medical tent in the stifling midday heat, wincing in pain at the gashes and cuts that cover her body ✔ When the water finally began to retreat, she found herself alone pinned between a metal fence and the stage of a soccer field



French say no more signs of life in Indonesia hotel rubble

10/5/2018, 2:44:47 AM
PALU, Indonesia (AP) — French rescuers said Friday they were unable to find the possible sign of life they detected a day earlier under the rubble of a hotel that collapsed in the ✔ Life is on hold for thousands living in tents and shelters in the Indonesian city hit by a powerful earthquake and tsunami, unsure when they'll be able to rebuild and spending hours each day often futilely trying to secure necessities such as fuel for generators



BREAKING: Japan ROCKED by earthquake weeks after shake killed dozens

10/5/2018, 12:44:39 AM
A STRONG earthquake has jolted the same area of Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido that was hit by one of the country's most powerful tremors last month. ✔ DS JOLT: Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido has been hit by another earthquake (Pic: DS) The size of the quake has been measured at a sizeable 5.3 magnitude



Ducks, geese shot with darts are still swimming at Boise park while culprit at large

10/5/2018, 3:55:35 AM
Several ducks and geese in an Idaho park are swimming with blow darts in their heads while the culprit who injured the animals remains at large. ✔ MOHD RASFAN, AFP/Getty Images Fullscreen In this image released by NASA, Expedition 56 Commander Drew Feustel of NASA is carried to a medical tent shortly after he, Expedition 56 Flight Engineer Richard Arnold of NASA, and Expedition 56 Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos landed in their Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Oct. 4, 2018



Japan August household spending jumps, signals steady recovery

10/5/2018, 12:13:40 AM
Japan's household spending unexpectedly jumped in August from a year earlie... ✔ Escalating global trade frictions also cloud the outlook for the export-reliant economy, which saw business confidence worsen in the three months to September ✔ A tightening job market has gradually increased household income and helped underpin household spending, which makes up roughly 50 percent of Japan’s economic activity ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles



Japan household spending posts biggest rise in three years, signals...

10/5/2018, 1:55:39 AM
Japan's household spending jumped in August at the fastest annual pace in t... ✔ Many analysts had expected spending to fall in August on the view that unusually hot weather and a string of typhoons were likely to discourage households from shopping or dining out ✔ A tightening job market has gradually increased household income and helped underpin household spending, which makes up roughly 50 percent of Japan’s economic activity ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles



Oregon vineyards face losses as smoke fears kill contracts

10/5/2018, 12:08:12 AM
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Some Oregon lawmakers and winery owners scrambled Thursday to help a dozen vineyard owners who face the prospect of tons of grapes withering on the vine after a ✔ It comes as climate change extends the wildfire season and makes blazes bigger and more destructive, worsening air quality and posing problems for businesses ✔ Some Oregon lawmakers and winery owners are scrambling to help a dozen vineyards owners who face having 2,000 tons of grapes wither on the vine, unsold, after a California winemaker abruptly cancelled contracts to buy them, claiming they were tainted from some from the summer's wildfires



Mexico's austere president-elect plays down aide's lavish wedding

10/5/2018, 1:55:40 AM
Mexico's famously austere President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Th... ✔ frivolity until I saw the cover of the Hola! Rafael Barajas, a political cartoonist for the leftist Jornada newspaper said on Twitter ✔ we will continue acting with integrity, with principles, with honesty and republican austerity ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles



Girl pulls 1,500-year-old sword from lake

10/5/2018, 12:55:22 AM
Eight-year-old Saga Vanecek found a pre-Viking-era relic while playing in a lake in Sweden. ✔ The sword was initially reported to be 1,000 years old, but experts at the local museum now believe it may date to around 1,500 years ago ✔ Then there was a handle and I went to tell my dad that it looked like a sword, Saga told the Sveriges Radio broadcaster ✔ The Jönköping county museum said that its investigation of the lake is unfinished and it could yet turn up more ancient items



14 Of The Most Deeply Tragic Things To Have Ever Happened To Chocolate

10/5/2018, 1:31:54 AM
Why do bad things happen to good chocolate? ✔ This chocolate that tragically came straight off the doughnut ✔ This brownie cheesecake where the dollops of brownie looked like something else entirely ✔ Haley Byrd @byrdinator I don’t think I’ve ever had a Kit Kat before, my boyfriend remarks before doing THIS 12:13 AM - 01 Jun 2018 Reply Retweet Favorite



I’ve a word or two to say about real star of Theresa May’s performance

10/5/2018, 1:12:41 AM
By common consent, this was the best speech of Theresa May’s career. It was the speech in which she struck all the right notes to unite the warring factions in her party, writes Tom Utley. ✔ By common consent, this was the best speech of Theresa May’s career ✔ It’s only a hunch, but I reckon her single contribution was the word ‘trailers’ (an odd thing to say, since the series is over), which I suspect she inserted because she didn’t want to pretend she’d seen the whole thing



Why the laundry industry is in a spin to save water

10/5/2018, 1:30:31 AM
Water shortages mean the laundry industry is adopting various technologies to reduce consumption. ✔ During a busy week in the summer months the business can process up to 77,000kg of uniforms, towels and linens, the company says, making water saving a prime business, as well as environmental, objective ✔ Follow Technology of Business editor Matthew Wall on Twitter and Facebook Click here for more Technology of Business features



A new form of Gallic hostility has emerged but Brexit must not be deterred

10/5/2018, 3:01:34 AM
THE Battle of Waterloo in 1815 largely ended French aggression towards Britain for more than two centuries. But now a new form of Gallic hostility has emerged, menacing our path to national indepen… ✔ THE Battle of Waterloo in 1815 largely ended French aggression towards Britain for more than two centuries ✔ The latest two polls put his approval ratings at just 28 and 29 per cent, even lower than those of his despised predecessor, the Socialist Francois Hollande, at the same point in his presidency



Immigrants cheer ruling that lets them keep protected status

10/5/2018, 12:08:11 AM
BOSTON (AP) — When Sudanese immigrant Hiwaida Elarabi learned the U.S. government was ending the temporary protected status that allowed her to live and work in the country legall ✔ He said he works in construction, has two U.S.-born children and doesn't understand the government's concern with the program because he and others pay taxes and pass background checks to qualify ✔ A judge on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018, blocked the Trump administration from ending protections that let immigrants from four countries live and work legally in the United States, saying the move would cause irreparable harm and great hardship



So polite, he even thanked the speaking clock!

10/5/2018, 1:51:45 AM
Author Andrew Roberts explores the upbringing and career of WInston Churchill in a new biography. He recalls Churchill's parents showing little interest in him as a child. ✔ ‘His oratorical style, which many had derided as ham-acting, was sublime now that the situation matched his rhetoric.’ After he became Prime Minister in May 1940, Churchill wrote to his wife: ‘There is only one man who can turn me out and that is Hitler.’ As it was, it was he who saw Hitler out



Brett Kavanaugh attacks backfire on Democrats, galvanize Republicans ahead of midterms

10/5/2018, 1:02:52 AM
Democrats’ attacks on Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh have fired up the Republican base, helping to erase Democrats’ advantage in voter enthusiasm and potentially giving the GOP an edge in several tight Senate races. ✔ Democrats’ attacks on Supreme Court nominee Brett M ✔ She entered the race as one of the most vulnerable Senate Democrats, running in a state that Mr. Trump won by a 36-point margin two years ago ✔ I’m hearing it on the phones as I’m talking to people as well



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