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new design and Yoshi Yigaswara. Accord

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in Hong Kong has handed down convictions

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and fines to six people over

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a fund to support pro democracy

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protesters. They include a ninety

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year old Catholic cardinal and a popular

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singer who are prominent activists.

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Cardinal Joseph Zen and five

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others were found guilty of not

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properly registering the 612

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humanitarian relief fund. It

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helps pay medical and legal fees

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for arrested protesters beginning

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in twenty nineteen. The

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fund shut down in twenty twenty

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one. Zen and four others,

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including pop singer Denise

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Ho, were trustees of the fund.

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They were each fined about five hundred

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dollars The fund's secretary was

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fined about three hundred dollars. They

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were found to have violated the society's

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ordinance It requires organizations

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established in Hong Kong to register.

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Police arrested Zen Ho and

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two others in May under a Beijing

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imposed National Security Law

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on suspicion of colluding with foreign

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forces. They were later released

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to unveil The

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arrests triggered international criticism.

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The detainments were seen as a display

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of authorities determination to

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crack down on the pro democracy movement.

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People

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in Ukraine are digging their heels in,

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but the reality of the harsh hardships

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that come from Russian attacks on lifesaving

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infrastructure is setting

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in. Many areas are still

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recovering from attacks that knocked out

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power, and a community fresh

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off of victory is now in mourning.

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HRISON was hit by the strongest bombardment

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since it was a recap by Ukrainian

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troops. Some of the neighborhoods struck

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this time had reportedly never

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been targeted. witnesses

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told the Associated Press, five

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people died. A day

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before, strikes on the capital

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knocked out power to roughly sixty

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percent of Kiev. Russian

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officials admitted to attacks on military

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infrastructure but denied having

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the civilian targets. US

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Think Tank, the Institute for the Study

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of War, said it was an attempt to

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break Ukrainian wills. The

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leaders in Kiev say they will not

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weaken and are rebuilding. The

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electricity situation remains difficult

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in almost all regions. We are

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little by little recovering from the blackout.

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The head of the International Atomic Energy

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Agency is keeping an eye on nuclear

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plants disconnected amid

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the fighting. The UN watch dog

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says power was restored to

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the Zaparija nuclear plant.

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Three others were separately placed in

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shutdown mode and are relying

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on backup generators. Search

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crews are still coming through piles of

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rubble in Indonesia's West

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Java province, Monday's

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five point six magnitude earthquake

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coupled buildings and triggered avalanches

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of dirt and debris. Hopes

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are dwindling of finding any more

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survivors. The

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country's national disaster agency has

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so far confirmed three hundred

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ten deaths. About two thousand

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people were injured. and more than

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thirty thousand displaced. Over

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twenty two thousand houses and buildings

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have been badly damaged. Indonesian

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president, Joko Widodo, visited

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the Hard Hit District of Chiyanjur on

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Thursday.

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Thirty

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nine people are still missing in this particular

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location. So the search

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and rescue operation will be our priority

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for now. We will concentrate

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on that.

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Hundreds of rescuers

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and five dogs were deployed

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to the site of a major landslide where

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most of the missing people are believed to

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be located. Rain

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and ongoing tremors are delaying

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work and preventing the use

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of heavy machinery. Philippine

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president Ferdinand Marcos junior

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has approved the temporary removal

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of tariffs on imported

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electric vehicles. Duties

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on EV parts and components will

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also be significantly lowered.

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The decision was made on Thursday at

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an economic panel chaired by

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Marcos. The president is

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issuing an executive order

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or e o to slash

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tariffs on imported EVs to

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zero for five years. They're

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currently up to thirty percent.

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The

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EU aims to expand market

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sources and encourage consumers

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to consider acquiring EVs

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improve energy security by reducing

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dependence on imported fuel and

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promote the growth of the domestic EV

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industry

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ecosystem.

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The use of e vehicles

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has been spreading across Southeast

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Asia. According to the Asian

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Development Bank, The market in the ASEAN

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region was worth around five hundred

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million dollars last year. It's

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projected to grow to two point

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seven billion dollars by twenty

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twenty seven. Earlier

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this year, Thailand's Transportation Authority

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issued permits to new city

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bus operators in Bangkok on

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the condition that they use electric

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buses. And many of the country's

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symbolic took took are also

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turning to electric power as

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the battle against pollution gathers

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speed. A

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Chinese court has upheld the

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life sentence for a Japanese

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man convicted on drug

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charges. SAKURAji

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Takuma was detained in twenty

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thirteen at a Chinese airport.

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Officials said they found more than

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three kilograms of stimulates in his

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suitcase. The seventy nine year

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old is a former city assembly

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man in Japan. He appealed

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for the twenty nineteen lower court

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decision against him. This ruling

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means the life sentence is final.

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But SAKaraki's lawyer says,

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he'll keep working to ensure his client

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returns to Japan. Tsukuba

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maintains that he was not aware of

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the suitcase held illegal drugs.

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He says he was given the bag by

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a Nigerian acquaintance, but

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the court says SAKERAVI was

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aware of the risk.

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Japan's

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government says the country needs the ability

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to carry out military counter

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strikes. It says Japan's

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current defense system is too

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limited to handle a ballistic

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missile attack by an enemy

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country. The

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government presented the view for the first

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time in a meeting on Friday between

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the liberal Democratic Party and its

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coalition partner, corps Meadeau.

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The meeting was held to discuss how

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to boost Japan's defense capability.

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Defense

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against missile attacks and the ability

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to fight back are major topics

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for discussion on Japan's post war

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security strategy.

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The

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government says if many

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ballistic missiles were fired simultaneously

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at Japan, it would be

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hard to shoot them all down with the

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current defense system. It said Japan

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needs the ability to fight back

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by attacking missile launch

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bases. A draft planned

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by the government says the counter

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strikes would be limited to military

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targets and would be carried out

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based on international humanitarian

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law. The two parties are

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set to hold more talks on the

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issue. A Japanese

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court has cleared a former high ranking

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finance ministry, bureaucrat, of

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liability for compensation

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over the twenty eighteen suicide

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of a subordinate official he

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allegedly pressured to falsify

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official documents. The

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Osaka District Court on Friday

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dismissed a claim for damages filed

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by the official's widow, Akagi

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Masako. Her husband

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tooshiya took his own life after

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he was forced to tamper with documents.

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They were related to the sale of state

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owned land at well below

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market value. It

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became the site of Moritomo Gakuen School

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The deal was controversial because then

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prime minister Abe Shinzo's wife

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was named honorary principal. Former

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Finance Minister, Bureausgrad, Sagawa

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Nobusa, led the department that

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signed off on the land sale

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he allegedly ordered the false vacations.

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The court found he was

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not personal He was not

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personally liable following

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precedent that says the government holds

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responsibility for the actions public

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servants take at work. The

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plaintiff says she plans to

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appeal. I

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want to know why my

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husband died. AND WHAT

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HAPPENED. AND I DON'T

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WANT THIS KIND OF THING TO HAPPEN AGAIN.

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Reporter:

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AKAGNY HAD

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ALSO SUED THE GOVERNMENT but the

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trial abruptly ended last December

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when it agreed to pay damages

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in full. As a

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result, no one had to explain under

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oath what led up to her

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husband's death. Tokyo

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Labor Authorities have

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delivered a win to Uber

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eats delivery workers.

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They were locked in a dispute over

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efforts to unionize. When

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workers with the popular food delivery

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app banded together to demand better

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conditions, the company

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rejected their claims outright. It

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said they are not employees.

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So the union went to

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Tokyo's labor relations commission.

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Two years later, mediators sided

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with the delivery workers. They called

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the role indispensable and

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said even if a staff can choose

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when or where to work, The company

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provides direction and supervision.

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Don

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Thai, this order, which says Uber

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Eats has to negotiate with our

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union, will empower our workers. This

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is the first

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judgment to say delivery workers

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who get jobs through apps are

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covered by the Labor Union Act.

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The operator of Uber

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Eats said it's disappointed with the

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decision and will consider

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how to respond.

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It's time now for world

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weather Firefighters are dealing with

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a massive wildfire in

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central Chile. For more details, we

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turn to our meteorologist, Sacamori.

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Oh,

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there are tinderbox conditions will

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continue to grip central chili,

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a massive fire is occurring. Take a

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look at this footage. A

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huge fire broke out in Chile's

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Val Perazo region earlier

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this week, where Thirtieth said the

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blaze consumed over forty

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hectares of horse near people's

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homes. Both firefighters with emergency

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vehicles and residents with

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buckets worked hard to bring the fires

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under control pine temperatures as

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well as strong winds make the fires

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extremely difficult to

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handle. Dry weather will

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continue to grip parts of the chili and

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also temperatures will remain on

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the hot side. So, unfortunately,

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the conditions will remain quite

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bad in terms of wildfires.

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San Diego will be looking dry

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conditions for the next several days and

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temperatures are nearly three degrees

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than normal for this Namibia. And

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parts of the Buenos Aires region

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experienced a high with thirty seven degrees

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on Thursday making it a

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new November record remaining

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hot into the next several days. Temperatures

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will be over five degrees higher

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than normal. It wears iris

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at least into next week,

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but rain is in the forecast next

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Tuesday. Meanwhile, Saturday

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is going to be wet for many places

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off Japan because a couple of low

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pressure systems will affect the country.

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One here will affect the south, the other one

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will affect the north mainly

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with strong wind high waves.

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And then as we go into next

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week, we will see lot colder

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conditions plus snowy

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conditions. This is a forecast from mix

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Tuesday into Friday, a lot

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of snow will pound the northwestern flank

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of Japan, so heavy snow is

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on the menu. and temperatures will be

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near below freezing. Sapporo's

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high will be generally warmer than

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normal into the early next

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week. However, as we own to

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Thursday, it's gonna be dropping to zero

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degrees, so make sure that

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you winterize

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your vehicles. That's it

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for me. Stay

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safe.

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That's

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all

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for now. And Yoshogaswarra

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in Tokyo from all of us at NHK

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News Center.

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Thanks for joining us.