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Japan Earthquake Death Toll Rises to 55 With Search On for Those Still Trapped
2Jan By adminNo Comments
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Japan Earthquake Death Toll Rises to 55 With Search On for Those Still Trapped

Updated Jan. 2, 2024 11:42 am ETThe smoking ruins of what was a popular market for tourists and a seven-story building lying on its side testified to the destruction left by a New Year’s Day earthquake in Japan that killed at least 55 people.The city of Wajima in Ishikawa prefecture on the Japan Sea coast suffered some of the worst damage from the magnitude 7.6 quake. Japan’s military was mobilized along with police and fire units to deliver relief supplies and try to rescue those buried under homes and buildings.Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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All Passengers on Japan Airlines Jet Evacuated After Plane Collision
2Jan By adminNo Comments
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All Passengers on Japan Airlines Jet Evacuated After Plane Collision

Updated Jan. 2, 2024 7:04 am ETTOKYO—A Japan Coast Guard plane and a Japan Airlines passenger jet collided at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport but all 379 people on board the passenger jet were able to escape, Japan Airlines said.Five of the six people aboard the Coast Guard plane died in the crash, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said. He said they were planning to deliver relief supplies to people affected by an earthquake on the Japan Sea coast on New Year’s Day.Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Tsunami Warning Issued in Japan After Powerful Earthquake
1Jan By adminNo Comments
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Tsunami Warning Issued in Japan After Powerful Earthquake

TOKYO—A tsunami warning was in effect on the west coast of Japan after a powerful earthquake. Public broadcaster NHK said a tsunami slightly higher than one meter struck the Noto Peninsula on the Japan Sea coast of Japan and tsunamis of up to five meters were possible. NHK said the earthquake struck at around 4:10 p.m. Monday at the tip of the peninsula. The U.S. Geological Survey, in a preliminary estimate, said the earthquake had a magnitude of 7.5.Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Towering Waves Batter West Coast
30Dec By adminNo Comments
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Towering Waves Batter West Coast

Updated Dec. 29, 2023 6:13 pm ETPacific storms will continue to bring rain, flooding and towering waves to the West Coast Friday and into the weekend following evacuation warnings and injuries reported at beaches.Millions of people along the West Coast were under high-surf warnings and advisories Friday morning, according to the National Weather Service. Meteorologists and local leaders urged people to keep away from beaches and the shoreline. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Towering Waves Batter West Coast
29Dec By adminNo Comments
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Towering Waves Batter West Coast

Updated Dec. 29, 2023 11:05 am ETPacific storms will continue to bring rain, flooding and towering waves to the West Coast Friday and into the weekend following evacuation warnings and injuries reported at beaches.Millions of people along the West Coast were under high-surf warnings and advisories Friday morning, according to the National Weather Service. Meteorologists and local leaders urged people to stay off beaches, piers and other parts of the shoreline. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Biden’s New Forest Plan Will Backfire
22Dec By adminNo Comments
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Biden’s New Forest Plan Will Backfire

The Biden Administration gave its friends in the climate lobby an early Christmas gift on Tuesday by restricting logging on tens of millions of acres of national forests. The U.S. Forest Service is proposing, for the first time, to amend simultaneously all of its forest management plans to effectively ban logging on nearly 25 million acres of “old growth” forests. This is a land grab if there ever was one. The agency claims that conserving older trees will fight climate change since they suck up and store CO2. Not if they go up in smoke. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Financial Services Roundup: Market Talk
13Dec By adminNo Comments
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Financial Services Roundup: Market Talk

The latest Market Talks covering Financial Services. Exclusively on Dow Jones Newswires at 4:20 ET, 12:20 ET and 16:50 ET.0348 GMT – Australia’s comparatively drier weather should help protect insurer profitability due to lower catastrophe costs, say Morgan Stanley analysts in a note. With rainfall in Australian capital cities at 10-year lows in the year to date, IAG and Suncorp are being set up to over-earn in FY 2024, MS says. History shows that a 2%-3% change in domestic motor vehicle insurance loss ratios is possible from an increase or reduction in rainfall, although this will also depend on how well insurers manage pricing versus claims inflation, says MS. At the same time, a new government reinsurance pool should protect insurers from Cyclone Jasper, and help them come in below the...
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Israel Begins Pumping Seawater Into Hamas’s Gaza Tunnels
12Dec By adminNo Comments
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Israel Begins Pumping Seawater Into Hamas’s Gaza Tunnels

Updated Dec. 12, 2023 6:12 pm ETListen to article(2 minutes)Israel’s military has begun pumping seawater into Hamas’s vast complex of tunnels in Gaza, according to U.S. officials briefed on the Israeli military’s operations, part of an intensive effort to destroy the underground infrastructure that has underpinned the group’s operations.The move to flood the tunnels with water from the Mediterranean, which is in an early stage, is one of several techniques Israel is using to try to clear and destroy the tunnels.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Indonesia Volcano Eruption Kills 11 Hikers, Spews Ash Nearly 2 Miles High
4Dec By adminNo Comments
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Indonesia Volcano Eruption Kills 11 Hikers, Spews Ash Nearly 2 Miles High

Dozens of Indonesian hikers were crowded near the top of Mount Marapi late Sunday morning, snapping selfies and admiring one of the most celebrated views on Sumatra island.A few hours later the volcano erupted, spewing ash and scorching volcanic rocks that killed at least 11 of them and injured many others as they fled down its steep slopes. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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