A powerful aftershock that rocked an area of Japan still reeling from last month’s earthquake and tsunami disaster killed three people and injured around 100, officials said.
The Fire and Disaster Management Agency said a 63-year-old woman in Yamagata prefecture died after her respirator failed when the power was knocked out by the 7.1 magnitude tremor.
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The ambassadors of Saudi Arabia, Oman and Qatar to Yemen met with Yemeni opposition leaders on Wednesday to "hear what the Yemenis want", an opposition leader told Gulf News as tens of thousands of Yemenis continued to protest in the city of Taiz.
The envoys also met with President Ali Abdullah Saleh and Vice-President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi as US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates arrived in Riyadh on Wednesday for talks with Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz on several topics, including the Yemen crisis and military ties.
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Western powers have destroyed nearly a third of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's military power since launching a military campaign against him last month, NATO officials said on Tuesday.
The area around the Libyan city of Misrata - the only major town in western Libya where a revolt against Gaddafi that began seven weeks ago has not been crushed - was the number one priority of NATO air strikes for now, they said.
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A man who claimed there was a bomb on an Emirates airline plane walked free from court despite admitting to being drunk on an aircraft, it was reported on Monday.
Ronald Fowles shouted "you are all going to die" before being hauled off the plane, which was scheduled to fly to Dubai from Heathrow Airport in January.
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Dubai’s real estate watchdog is carrying out a financial review of about 90,000 real estate units due to be delivered over the next five years to assess their viability, its CEO said Wednesday.
“We are reviewing more than 90,000 units that will come to the market from today to 2016,” Marwan Bin Ghalaita said on the sidelines of a meeting in Dubai.
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