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Promo Studios in Tokyo. This is Nhk

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Newsline Don Ross be horror of. Japan's

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Prime minister has said, you will do his

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best to secure the return of all Japanese

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nationals abducted by North Korea. Issued a full

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meal has pledged to step up efforts to

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hold the summit with the leader of the

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North, Kim Jong own. To

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produce she as top leaders it

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is important for us you know

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to form a relationship first the

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so that we can speak frankly.

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There. I am determined

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to meet North Korean leader Kim

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Jong own skills any time and

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without conditions to sit through with

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young kids. See the alt. Key

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shit. I made the remarks at a

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rally organized by relatives are the victims.

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He said he will use various channels

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to try to bring about the summit.

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The leader of a relative's group said

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the abduction issue as a human rights

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and humanitarian matter it out of the

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situation is urgent as many of the

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relatives are elderly people. The group leader

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said only two parents are victims are

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still alive. One is ninety five years

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old, the other is eighty eight. Though.

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I urge the government to continue

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to negotiate with passion without wandering

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down the demand that our victim's

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be returned immediately. Do.

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For work I call on the North Korean

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leader to change his mind and return the

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victims and you their parents. The.

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Japanese government says a least seventeen

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citizens were abducted by North Korean

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agents in the nineteen seventies and

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Nineteen eighties. Five were returned in

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two thousand and two. The other

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twelve remain unaccounted for. North

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Korea said on Friday it's leader

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Kim Jong Il and oversaw test

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firing of controllable shells for an

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updated two hundred forty millimeter multiple

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rocket launchers system. South Korean media

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quotes observers as. They don't ya

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the maybe aiming to game economic

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benefits by exploiting such weapons to

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rush hour. North

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Korea's state newspaper wrote on Saturday

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that the launcher has an automatic

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fire combined control systems. It says

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all age shells fired in the

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test hit their targets. The paper

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also says the system will be

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deployed to North Korean Army units

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from this year's to Twenty Twenty

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Six. It says Tim discussed ways

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to further speed up what a

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paper called National Defense Economic Work

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instructed production of the cells to

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be raised to the highest level.

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South Korea's. Unification ministry said

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last year that the term

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National Defense Economic Work could

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be a reference to arms

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exports. Washington.

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Says Israel's you, some you

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are supplied weapons and Gaza

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may have been inconsistent with

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it's international humanitarian law obligations,

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but it has avoided meetings

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or conclusive assessments that could

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hope for shipment of the

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weapons. Divided Administration

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submitted a report to Congress on

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Fridays about Israel's military operations in

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Gaza. between January Twenty Twenty Three

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and April of this year, the

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two countries have an agreement under

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which the U Was can review

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it's provision of weapons if it

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confirms Israel has committed violations. In

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a Ford said it was reasonable

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to a says that Israeli security

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forces use you was weapons in

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ways innings insisted with established best

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practices. For mitigating civilian harm.

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but it added that it

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is difficult to assess Er

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reads conclusive findings on individual

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incidents and that the administration

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will continue to monitor the

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situation. Biden has already

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indicated the Us would hold off

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on providing ammunition and some weapons

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if Israel goes ahead with his

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plan, ground the operation in Rafah.

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Ukraine military says Russian troops have

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crossed the border into the eastern

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region of hard to of most

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likely to establish a buffer zone

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between the two countries. Original governor

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said on social media on Friday

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that the Russians have started a

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new stage of their offensive in

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Northern Hard To. The governor says

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an area near the border with

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Russia same under heavy shelling killing

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two civilians and official of the

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Ukrainian military is General staff told

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Nhk that Russian troops have entered.

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From the north and was one

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kilometer into the Regis. The official

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says the sale of the incursion

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suggests the objective is not to

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seize the city of Hard Give.

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They say it's to create a

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tend to mom and wide buffer

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zone along the border to prevent

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Ukrainian selling into Russian territory. Ukrainian

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President Volodymyr Zaleski told reporters

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that Russia has begun a

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new wave of counteroffensive actions

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in this direction. He says

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Ukraine was prepared for the

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attack and fought back with

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for days and artillery. Diplomatic.

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Sources in Tv say this is

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believed to be the first Russian

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incursions into the hard to of

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region since Ukrainian forces recaptured most

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of the territory in September. Twenty

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Twenty Two. Been

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While a senior White House official

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has announced that Washington is ramping

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up it's military assistance forties. It

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is possible that Russia will make further advances

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in the coming weeks. But we

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do not anticipate any major breakthroughs

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and overtime, the influx of Us

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assistance will enable Ukraine to stand

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these attacks over the course of

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Twenty Twenty Four. National.

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Security spokesperson John Kirby told reporters

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on Friday that President Biden has

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sides of the other four hundred

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billion dollar drawdown tagged as for

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Ukraine. He says it includes additional

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bonuses for Patriot, their defense system.

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The White House also said on

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Friday it had notified Congress others

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skirt sale of high Mobility artillery

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rocket systems or Hi Mars and

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related support to Ukraine for about

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thirty million dollars. It said the

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causeway funded by the government of

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Germany on behalf of Ukraine. Floods

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from heavy rains that his Afghanistan's

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northern boggle on Province Thursday and

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Friday have killed at least eighty

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five people. Video

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taken on Friday shows muddy water

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rushing into residential areas and violently

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engulfing buildings. Local authorities under the

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Tali Interim Government said hundreds of

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buildings were destroyed or washed away.

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The government and local officials had

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dispersed rescue teams to search for

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missing people. Heavy rains that hit

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the country last month killed at

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least seventy people and damn is

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more than two thousand buildings. Space.

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Weather experts say powerful solar

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flares over the next few

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days could disrupt communications satellites,

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Gps, and short radio around

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the world. The

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solar outbursts or Corrado mass

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ejections or expulsions a plasma

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and magnetic field from the

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outermost parts of the sun's

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atmosphere. The Us National Oceanic

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and Atmospheric Administration said the

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players are causing a severe

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geomagnetic storms. They could last

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through the weekend. It issued

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his second highest advisory for

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such sports. Japan's National Institute

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of Information and Communications Technology

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says of where's are unlikely

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to impact. Cellular phone services but

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it warns that Gps and certain

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types of radio communications could be

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affected in the coming days. When

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affect other players is that the

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Northern lights can be seen at

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low. Latitudes than usual. People

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around the world have been

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dating pictures of are rumors

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in their religious. Rice

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blessing has begun on Terrorist Daddy's

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in Central Japan's Note or Peninsula

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Coast where a powerful earthquake hit

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on New Years Day. More than

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sixty people from across the country

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took part in flooding as some

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of the repaired Daddy's on Saturday.

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Ciders your name is and my

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Dog consists of about one thousand

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Paddy's along the slope in was

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you must city that overlook the

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Sea of Japan. The area in

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Scala Prefecture has been designated as

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a National Scenic Spots. The

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earthquake extensively damaged the rice fields.

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The cause cracks and eighty percent

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of them The people planting are

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members of an ownership system for

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conserving the baddies. It was created

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to help deal with a shortage

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of farmers in the area. Members

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of the system pay fees to

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grow rice. For.

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You know any other sort of people from

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our I'm happy to take part in an

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event like this if it helps rebuilt the

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patties half. I'm

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glad I came here today. Volunteer

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workers including local high school

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students will participate next weekend.

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Those with a series for the solar. Thank

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you for joining us on and it's cases.