Key words : rescue effort
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Rescue efforts continue in Turkey and Greece after a powerful earthquake hit the Aegean Sea on Friday.
The governments of the two countries say the magnitude 7.0 tremor and ensuing tsunami have left at least 41 people dead.
Thirty-nine of the deaths were in Turkey and two in Greece. More than 900 people -- at least 896 in Turkey and 19 in Greece -- have been injured.
Rescue teams have been searching for survivors at nine sites in the western Turkish province of Izmir, where 17 buildings have collapsed. Local media report that about 180 people are still missing.
Reuters news agency says a man was rescued from the rubble 33 hours after the quake.
The US Geological Survey says at least eight aftershocks of magnitude 4 and higher have struck near the epicenter.
Key words : final weekend
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US President Donald Trump and his democratic rival, Joe Biden, have been campaigning in battleground states in the final weekend before the election.
Trump held rallies at four locations in the state of Pennsylvania on Saturday.
He told his supporters that a vote for Biden would be a vote against fracking and would send the state into poverty. He touted his defense of Pennsylvania's energy industry and attacked Biden for his support of renewable energy.
Meanwhile, Biden toured the state of Michigan, where he held rallies for the first time with his old boss, former president Barack Obama.
Obama told the crowd, "We will elect a man who loves our country and who cares about you and will fight for every one of us."
He referred to Biden as his friend and the next president of the United States.
Biden hit out at Trump for being divisive, saying he was tearing the country apart. He called on Americans to stand up for democracy.
Election day is Tuesday.
Key words : seven arrested
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Seven pro-democracy politicians have been arrested in Hong Kong on charges including acts of contempt against the territory's assembly.
On Sunday morning, Hong Kong police arrested seven incumbent and former members of the Legislative Council, including the head of the Democratic Party, Wu Chi-wai. The charges are related to a Council meeting in May. Police allege that they also obstructed the duties of Council officials.
Scuffles broke out on May 8 between pro-democracy lawmakers and pro-Beijing members, as they deliberated on a bill to outlaw insulting China's national anthem.
The police have not ruled out the possibility of further arrests.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam is expected to deliver a policy speech this month, after talks with Chinese government officials in Beijing this week.
Observers say the latest move is aimed at keeping the pro-democracy camp in check before full-fledged deliberations on the policy speech at the legislature.
The pro-democracy camp has condemned the arrests, saying lawmakers are being deprived of their right to fight in the legislature.
Key words : thailand student
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Some university students in Thailand have staged a protest at a graduation ceremony attended by King Maha Vajiralongkorn.
Thammasat University in Bangkok has a reputation for producing many politicians and legal experts. But it's also known as a hotbed for political activism. Many students have assumed organizing roles in the ongoing protests demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and reforms to the monarchy.
Students started protesting more than five hours before the King arrived on campus on Saturday. Some pretended to receive degrees from life-size cutouts of notable critics of the monarchy. Others distributed leaflets with a QR code that accessed a video criticizing the monarchy when scanned.
A 23-year-old graduating senior who helped organize the protest said he and other students were demonstrating as a way to peacefully demand reform, adding that he hopes the monarchy will listen to the calls for change.
Pro-democracy protests have been taking place around the country for weeks. Recently, royalist groups have also started staging demonstrations.
Key words : police in Japan
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Police in Japan have arrested a Vietnamese national on suspicion of illegally butchering a pig in his apartment in Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo.
Tran Xuan Cong was arrested on Sunday. Police suspect he butchered a pig in the bathroom without the necessary permit between July and August.
The 29-year-old former technical trainee has already been indicted for violating the immigration control law. He was apprehended last month after police were tipped off about sales of pork and pears.
Police say the suspect's smartphone contained images of him cutting a pig to pieces in the bathroom.
The man reportedly told the police that he bought the pig via social media and he and his friends ate it after cutting it up with knives and other tools.
Police say messages left on his phone suggest his intention to sell the meat. Police are looking at the possibility that he planned to resell it.
Earlier, four Vietnamese were arrested in Gunma Prefecture, also on suspicion of illegally butchering a pig.
Police plan to investigate whether the incidents are linked to a series of thefts of livestock in the Kanto region, including Gunma and Saitama.
Key words : health ministry 80 percent
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A survey by Japan's health ministry shows that more than 80 percent of "dementia cafes" across the country remain closed because of the coronavirus pandemic.
There are about 7,000 such places in Japan, where people with dementia and their families gather and seek advice.
Municipalities say that as of the end of August, 83 percent of about 6,000 such sites that they had information about had not resumed operations due to the pandemic.
Many operators said they could not reopen as they had been using elder-care facilities as the cafes' sites, but these had become unavailable because of the infection risks.
Others said many of the cafe visitors were over 80, and that gatherings involving food and drinks had to be avoided due to the risks.
Twenty-three percent of municipalities said the shutdown of the cafes has affected users and their families.
They cited cases where users had no places to go, and tended to confine themselves to home. In some cases, dementia symptoms appeared to have worsened.
Tohoku Fukushi University Associate Professor Yabuki Tomoyuki said that with dementia cafes closed, there could be instances of diagnosis being delayed or the dementia worsening.
He pointed out the need to keep the functions of such places operating through means such as visits, letters and telephone calls.
Key words : french president expressed understanding
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French President Emmanuel Macron has expressed understanding for Muslims who were offended by cartoon depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. But he maintained that it is his role to defend freedom of expression.
Macron made the remarks on Saturday in an interview with Qatar-based television network Al Jazeera. The conversation lasted almost an hour.
The interview comes amid growing anger over earlier comments by Macron about such cartoons. The French president said he would uphold freedom of speech following last month's killing of a schoolteacher who showed caricatures of the prophet to students.
During the interview, Macron noted that social media posts claiming that he supported the insulting caricatures of the prophet were false.
He also stressed that the cartoons were published by newspapers not affiliated with the government.
Macron said he understands and respects the anger. But he added that the issue did not justify physical violence, and that he would always defend freedom of expression in his country.
In a rare move, the French presidential office has posted video of the interview on its website in a bid to ease the uproar.
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