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Prince Philip has decided to stop driving at the age of 97, less than a month after he was involved in a collision that left two women injured, Buckingham Palace said Saturday. Prosecutors said they would consider the decision as they decide whether to charge ...
Vale loses license to operate key Brazil dam after disaster that left hundreds dead or missing
Brazilian mining giant Vale on Wednesday lost its license to operate the Lanjeiras dam, vital to its biggest mine in southeastern Minas Gerais state, the firm said. The decision comes two weeks after another dam storing mining waste collapsed in the village of Brumadinho — ...
Three former JR Hokkaido officials found not guilty in data falsification case
The Sapporo Summary Court found three former senior officials of Hokkaido Railway Co. (JR Hokkaido) not guilty Wednesday in a case over the falsification of data on track inspections conducted after a freight train derailment in Hokkaido in 2013. Public prosecutors had demanded that the ...
Japan Times 1919: Tokyo gripped by dread disease
Spanish influenza again holds Tokyo in its deadly grip, favored by the changeable weather.
Deadly Brazilian dam burst likely due to liquefaction, like previous disaster
The collapse of a Brazilian dam controlled by miner Vale a week ago likely happened because parts of the structure, made of sand and dried mud, dissolved into liquid, a state regulator said in an interview, similar to what caused another deadly mining disaster ...
Deadly Brazil dam collapse raises fears of environmental woes from metal-laced slurry
Nearly a week after a dam storing mining waste collapsed in southeast Brazil, the human cost is clear, with nearly 350 killed or missing, but the environmental impact is still being evaluated. Authorities fear the mineral-laced slurry released by the collapse could eventually pollute the ...
Pilot's 'emotional breakdown' blamed for deadly Nepal plane crash last March
An "emotional breakdown" by the pilot caused a deadly plane crash in Nepal last March, a government investigation concluded, in the worst aviation accident in the Himalayan nation for decades. The March 12 flight from Dhaka crashed at Kathmandu airport and skidded into a football ...
Singapore actor's death while on military exercise highlights risks of mandatory conscription
A memorial service was held Sunday for a Singaporean actor and soldier who died from injuries at a military exercise, a case that has renewed scrutiny of the Southeast Asian nation's system of mandatory conscription. Reservist Aloysius Pang, 28, was taking part in military training ...
U.K.'s Prince Philip apologizes to woman injured in car crash
Britain's Prince Philip has said he is "deeply sorry" about the injury suffered by a woman in a car crash he was involved in over a week ago, according to a report in the Sunday Mirror. The newspaper published a copy of a letter written ...
Hope turns to anguish after Brazil dam collapse leaves hundreds dead or missing
Hope that loved ones had survived a tsunami of iron ore mine waste from a dam collapse in Brazil was turning to anguish and anger over the increasing likelihood that many of the hundreds of people missing had died. By Saturday night, when authorities called ...
High-speed road rage: Man clings to SUV at 110 kph in Massachusetts
State police say they were called to the Massachusetts Turnpike because a man was clinging to the hood of a moving SUV in an apparent road rage episode, some of which was caught on video. Massachusetts State Police were dispatched on Friday to Interstate 90 ...
A French man has been killed in an avalanche while skiing on a mountain, local police said Saturday. Marc-Olivier Gariou-Pouillas, 49, was skiing off-piste on Mount Ogenashi in the city of Myoko, Niigata Prefecture, about 200 kilometers north of Tokyo, on Friday afternoon when an ...
