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- 01/09/2009 02:00
TOKYO. Japan's Meteorological Agency says Typhoon Krovanh has slammed into the country's east coast bringing heavy rain and strong winds...
TOKYO. Japan's Meteorological Agency says Typhoon Krovanh has slammed into the country's east coast bringing heavy rain and strong winds. The typhoon dumped heavy rain in Tokyo and its environs Monday and is moving north. The typhoon disrupted train and flight schedules. Aviation officials say it grounded at least 59 flights at Tokyo's main international airport at Narita as well as the largely domestic Haneda airport.
LONDON.Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of west London on Monday for the annual Notting Hill Carnival, a celebration of Caribbean culture that has become Europe's biggest street party. Police estimated about 220,000 people turned up to dance, drink and eat jerk chicken on Sunday for the first of two days of partying, which passed off peacefully despite a string of arrests for low-level offences.
GEORGETOWN.Despite the result of a recent poll which suggested that almost half of the adult Guyanese population will support the president for a third term he will not run. President Bharrat Jagdeo’s constitutional two terms in office as Head of State comes to an end in 2011.
VATICAN CITY. Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the early retirement of a US bishop who has denounced nuns for sponsoring lectures by gay-rights advocates and directed priests to deny communion to abortion backers, the Vatican said yesterday. The brief announcement, keeping to Vatican tradition, did not say why the staunchly conservative Monsignor Joseph Martino, 63, Bishop of Scranton, Pennsylvania, had submitted his resignation. He took up the post in 2003.
NEW DELHI. India's space agency has abandoned the country's only satellite orbiting the moon after efforts to revive communication with it failed, an official said yesterday. Communications with the Chandrayaan-1 satellite, which has been orbiting the moon for nearly a year, snapped Saturday and scientists lost control of the satellite.
BAGHDAD. The son of the late leader of Iraq's largest Shiite political party on Monday took the reins of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council. The choice of Ammar al-Hakim to succeed his father, Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim was widely expected.
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