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16 c a r i b b e a n t i m e s . a g Friday 15th April 2016 At least two dead after earthquake hits Japan TOKYO - At least two people were killed and 45 were injured by a powerful magnitude 6.5 earthquake that knocked over houses and buckled roads in southern Japan on Thursday. Both victims were from the hardest-hit town of Mashiki, about 9 miles east of Kumamoto city on the island of Kyushu, said Kumamoto prefecture disaster management official, Takayuki Matsushita. Earlier, the Japanese Red Cross Kumamoto hospital said it had admitted or treated 45 people on Thursday, including five with serious injuries. The quake struck at 9.26pm. There was no risk of a tsunami. “There was a kaboom and the whole house shook violently sideways,” Takahiko Morita, a resident of Mashiki, a town near the epicentre, said in a telephone interview with Japanese broadcaster NHK. “Furniture and bookshelves fell down, and books were all over the floor.” Morita said some houses and walls collapsed in his neighbourhood, and water supply had been cut off. Police in BRASILIA - The government in Brazil is seeking an injunction at the Supreme Court in an effort to prevent an impeachment vote against President Dilma Rousseff. Ms Rousseff, who says her opponents are plotting a “coup”, faces claims she manipulated government accounts. She has vowed to fight to “the last minute” despite the desertion of three allied parties ahead of Sunday’s vote. The Supreme Court is President Dilma Rousseff to gather for an extraordinary session. Brazilian media said a Rousseff-backed judge would rule. If the court refuses the injunction, the impeachment debate will start today. Then, if two-thirds of the lower house votes for impeachment, the motion will pass to the Senate. An impeachment vote would pave Kumamoto prefecture said they had received reports of a number of collapsed houses and people possibly trapped inside. Japan’s chief cabinet secretary, Yoshihide Suga, told a news conference that the damage was being assessed, but there were no abnormalities at nearby nuclear facilities. The epicentre was 74 miles northeast of the Sendai nuclear plant, the only one operating in the country. Kasumi Nakamura, an official in the village of Nishihara, said the rattling started modestly before becoming violent and lasted about 30 seconds. “Papers, files, flower vases and everything fell on the floor,” he told NHK. There were multiple aftershocks, the largest one reaching a 5.7-magnitude about 40 minutes later, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. The US Geological Survey measured the quake’s preliminary magnitude at 6.2 and said it was 14 miles deep. It said there was a low likelihood of casualties but some damage was possible. (The Guardian). Brazil seeks to block Rousseff impeachment vote the way for Ms Rousseff to be removed from office. Attorney General Jose Eduardo Cardozo filed Thursday’s injunction. (BBC).
Friday 15th April 2016 c a r i b b e a n t i m e s . a g 17 North Korea poised to make unprecedented missile test PYONGYANG - Pentagon officials are expecting North Korea to test fire an intermediate-range missile Friday morning, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports. The missile in question is a Musadan, which is road mobile and has enough range to reach the Aleutians and Guam. It’s never been tested before, so this is another step toward being able to threaten the United States with a nuclear weapon. Friday, April 15 marks the birthday of Kim Il-sung, the “Great Leader” who rule North Korea from 1948 until his death in 1994. On Saturday, North Korea said it ABUJA - A video released Wednesday appears to show some of the Nigerian schoolgirls who were kidnapped by the Boko Haram militant group two years ago alive. The Islamist militants sent the video, obtained by CNN, to negotiators as proof that the girls were alive, according to the broadcaster. CNN showed the video, which is believed to have been made in December, to Rifkatu Ayuba, whose 17-year-old daughter Saratu was among those taken. “My had successfully tested a new intercontinental ballistic rocket engine that will give it the ability to stage nuclear strikes on the U.S. The engine’s ground test, if true, would be a big step forward for the North’s nuclear weapons program, which saw its fourth atomic test earlier this year. But the North may still need a good deal of work before it can hit the U.S. mainland with nuclear missiles. South Korean officials say North Korea doesn’t yet have a reliable intercontinental ballistic missile, let alone the ability to arm it with a nuclear warhead. The test, announced by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency, Saratu!” she cried. “I felt like removing her from the screen,” she added. “If I could, I would have removed her from the screen.” Nigerian Information Minister Lai Mohammed told CNN the government was reviewing the video. Boko Haram kidnapped 276 girls from their school in Chibok, northeastern Nigeria, on the night of April 14, 2014. A number later escaped the militants, but 219 remain missing, prompting the launch of the “Bring Back is only the latest in a string of what Washington and its allies consider North Korean provocations, including last month’s launch of a medium-range ballistic missile that violated U.N. Security Council resolutions that prohibit any ballistic activities by North Korea. It was the North’s first medium-range missile launch since early 2014. (CBS News). Video shows some of Nigeria’s kidnapped girls alive Flash floods in Iran kill two TEHRAN - Iran’s state TV is reporting that heavy rains in Iran’s western and southwestern provinces has resulted in flash floods that killed two people. The Thursday television report says that the country’s crisis management committee held an emergency meeting to study the situation in affected areas. Iran’s railway authority canceled all trains scheduled for today to and from the southern part of the country. Flash floods have washed away cars and blocked roads between several cities and villages in Lorestan and Khuzestan provinces, the TV report said. (Fox News). Our Girls” campaign, which captured the world’s attention. Amnesty International said its activists were joining demonstrations in the Nigerian capital of Abuja on Thursday to call for the return of the girls, and thousands of other people abducted by Boko Haram. Last week, the Nigerian military said its soldiers rescued 11,595 civilians from the militants since Feb. 26. (USA TODAY).
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