Monday, January 1, 2024

Japan Issues Tsunami Warnings After Powerful Earthquake

 

 




                                   


SHAMIMA AKHTER



A 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck western Japan on Monday evening, setting off a tidal wave warning as far away as eastern Russia and prompting an advisory for residents to immediately clear Japan's affected coastal areas.


Tremors were felt at 4:10 p.m. According to the US Geographical Review (USGS), it is about 42 kilometers (26 mi) east of Anamizu in Ishikawa Prefecture at a depth of 10 kilometers (6 mi).


The Japan Meteorological Organization immediately issued a torrent warning along the coastal areas of western Japan, and major waves were responsible for causing chaos around the city more than 10 minutes after the incident.


Part of the initial report came from the city of Wajima in Ishikawa Prefecture, where a wave of about 1.2 meters (3.9 ft) was seen around 4:21 p.m., according to Japan's public broadcaster NHK. No immediate damage was estimated.


Authorities in the city of Suzu in Ishikawa told CNN that structures were damaged and injuries were reported. City police said some people were caught in damaged houses, according to NHK. No passes have been accounted for up to this point.


According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, a significant tidal wave warning was issued in the city of Noto in Ishikawa, with heights of around 5 meters expected.


According to a representative of the Ishikawa Prefecture Disaster Executive Agency, this was the main critical wave warning that began around 2011.


Under Japan's torrent advance notice framework, expected waves below 1-meter fall under "wave warning", while normal waves over 3 meters fall under "wave advance notice" and expected waves over 5 meters fall under "significant torrent advance notice".


In an earlier broadcast speech, Japan's Chief Bureau Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi encouraged people living in areas under a tidal wave advisory to clear to higher ground.


NHK's film shows cameras shaking enthusiastically as waves crash ashore in Ishikawa Prefecture.


Houses were also shaken by the quake, with pictures showing roofs and shaking structures.


Several administrations of Japan's Shinkansen projectile trains were suspended.

Virtual entertainment recordings have responded to the shake-up, with store aisles littered with products. A hug shot from inside a train shows signs of shaking severely with an earthquake on stage.


More than 32,500 homes in Ishikawa Prefecture were left without power, according to the Hokuriku Electric Power Organization.


Japan's Kansai Electric Power Organization said in an announcement at X that no irregularities were to blame at nearby nuclear plants.


According to the USGS, strong shaking was followed by the progression of severe delayed reactions.


A 6.2 magnitude aftershock at a depth of 10 kilometers (6 mi) struck at 4:18 p.m. Around 4 kilometers (2.4 mi) southwest of Anamizu as indicated by the USGS.


About 58 kilometers (about 36 miles) away, a magnitude 5.2 earthquake was recorded, and another magnitude 5.6 aftershock was detected closer to the underlying tremor, according to the USGS.


The country's climate agency warned that strong aftershocks could continue for the next three to seven days and advised against possible structure collapse and avalanches.


Japan's head of state, Fumio Kishida, said experts were trying to assess the potential damage in the affected areas.

"We immediately set up the State Leader's Response Office - Debacle Countermeasures Headquarters. Putting people's lives as a necessity, we are really stepping back to survey the damage - investing all the energy in the disaster response," the head of state wrote on X, earlier on Twitter. , Monday.


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Waves of less than one meter were estimated in various areas along Japan's west coast, including 80 cm waves in the city of Toyama, 40 cm waves in the ports of Kashiwazaki and Kanazawa, and 20 cm waves in Tobishima Island and Sado Island.


The South Korea Meteorological Agency said it was forecasting sea level changes in Gangneung, Yang, and Goseong in Gangwon Territory and the east coast region of Pohang.

A wave danger was similarly pronounced in the eastern Russian urban communities of Vladivostok, Nakhodka, and Sakhalin Island - as the region faces the Ocean of Japan - Russian state media TASS reported. No departures have been calculated up to this point.


News: CNN

Sunday, December 31, 2023

US sinks 3 Houthi assault boats as shooters attempted to board compartment transport in Red Sea

 




MITHILA RAHMAN TUSI


US helicopters sank three boats conveying Houthi shooters who went after a holder transport that was traveling the Red Ocean, the US military said Sunday.


A US warship likewise destroyed two long-range rockets terminated from Yemen, the US Headquarters (CENTCOM) said in an explanation.


It expressed that at 6:30 a.m. neighborhood time, the Maersk Hangzhou, a Singapore-hailed, Denmark-claimed and - worked compartment transport gave a subsequent misery call after prior revealing that it was hit by a rocket.

Illustrative: A Maersk compartment transport close to Sir Abu Nuair island off Dubai on June 4, 2022. (Karim SAHIB/AFP)

US helicopters sank three boats conveying Houthi shooters who went after a compartment transport that was traveling the Red Ocean, the US military said Sunday.


A US warship likewise killed two long range rockets terminated from Yemen, the US Headquarters (CENTCOM) said in an explanation.


It expressed that at 6:30 a.m. nearby time, the Maersk Hangzhou, a Singapore-hailed, Denmark-claimed and - worked compartment transport gave a subsequent trouble call after prior revealing that it was hit by a rocket.


The boat flagged that it was enduring an onslaught by "four Iranian-supported Houthi little boats" CENTCOM posted on X, previously Twitter.

It said the boats terminated little arms at the Maersk Hangzhou, drew closer to inside 20 meters of the vessel, and attempted to board it. An agreement set out security group returned fire at the Houthis.


Helicopters from the USS Eisenhower and USS Seriously answered the misery call and "gave verbal calls to the little boats." Notwithstanding, the little boats then, at that point, terminated at the helicopters with little arms.


"The US Naval force helicopters returned fire justifiably, sinking three of the four little boats, and killing the teams. The fourth boat escaped the region. There was no harm to US staff or hardware," the assertion said.


On Saturday night, the USS Seriously killed two enemy of boat long range rockets terminated from Yemen as it answered a call for help from the Maersk Hangzhou, CENTCOM said. The compartment transport revealed at the time that it was hit by a rocket, however was as yet fit for sailing and without any wounds to those installed.

The limited Bab el-Mandeb Waterway interfaces the Bay of Aden to the Red Ocean and afterward the Suez Channel. The critical shipping lane joins markets in Asia and Europe. The reality of the assaults, a few of which have harmed vessels, drove various delivery organizations to arrange their vessels to hold set up and not enter the waterway until the security circumstance gotten to the next level. A few significant transporters were sending their boats around Africa and the Cape of Good Expectation, adding time and expenses for the excursions.


To resolve the issue, the US started Activity Flourishing Watchman, a worldwide maritime assurance power to monitor ships traveling the Red Ocean. Transporting organization Maersk, which had additionally rerouted its boats, declared last week that it would get back to involving the Red Ocean considering the insurance flotilla.


War broke out when Hamas-drove psychological oppressors filled Israel from the land, air, and ocean in a shock attack on October 7, severely killing a larger number of than 1,200 individuals and holding onto nearly 240 prisoners.


In light of the assault, the deadliest in the nation's set of experiences, Israel promised to take out Hamas from Gaza and end its 16-year rule and sent off an airborne mission and ensuing ground activity.

The Hamas-run wellbeing service in Gaza expresses that north of 21,000 individuals have been a killed in the Palestinian area in the conflict. Figures gave by Hamas can't be freely confirmed and incorporate the two regular citizens and fear agents killed in Gaza, including as an outcome of dread gatherings' own rocket fizzles.


Those passings have ignited far and wide displeasure in the Center East and gave a driving force to assaults by equipped gatherings across the locale that are against Israel.


Since Activity Flourishing Watchman was reported by the US a little more than 10 days prior, 1,200 vendor ships have gone through the Red Ocean district, and none has been hit by robot or rocket strikes, Bad habit Adm. Brad Cooper, commandant of US maritime powers in the Center East, said in a Related Press interview before Saturday's episode.


Since the activity began, the Houthis have moved forward their utilization of against transport long range rockets, Cooper said. "We are clear-peered toward that the Houthi careless assaults will probably proceed," he said.


He said extra nations are supposed to sign on. Denmark was the most recent, reporting Friday it intends to send a frigate to the mission that Safeguard Secretary Lloyd Austin declared during a visit to Bahrain, where the Naval force's fifth Armada is based, saying that "this is a worldwide test that requests aggregate activity."

Right now there are five warships from the US, France, and the Assembled Realm watching the waters of the southern Red Ocean and the western Bay of Aden, said Cooper, who heads the fifth Armada. Since the activity began, the boats have killed a sum of 17 robots and four enemy of boat long range rockets, he said.


Only two days prior, the USS Bricklayer, a Naval force destroyer, brought down a robot and hostile to transport long range rocket that was terminated by the Houthis, as per US Headquarters. The US said the 22nd assault on global delivery by the Houthis since October 19 made no harm any of the 18 boats nearby or any detailed wounds.


"I expect before very long we will get extra nations," Cooper said, taking note of Denmark's new declaration.


The US has said that in excess of 20 countries are partaking, however some of those countries have not recognized it openly.


On Saturday, Austin examined the progressing unlawful Houthi assaults in a call with The Netherlands' Safeguard Pastor Kajsa Ollongren, as per the Pentagon. Both censured the assaults as unsuitable and "significantly weakening" to worldwide request and worldwide trade, with Austin focusing on that they comprise "a huge global issue that requests aggregate activity."


Cooper said the alliance is in direct correspondence with business boats to give direction on "moving and the prescribed procedures to abstain from being gone after," and working intimately with the delivery business to facilitate security.

A global team was set up in April 2022 to work on oceanic security in the area. In any case, Cooper said Activity Flourishing Watchman has more ships and a tenacious presence to help vessels.


The delivery organization Maersk had declared before that it had chosen to re-course transports that had been stopped for quite a long time outside the waterway and Red Ocean, and send them around Africa all things being equal. Then, at that point, Maersk reported on December 25 that it planned to continue sending ships through the waterway, referring to the activity. Cooper said another delivery organization had likewise continued utilizing the course.


The Times of Israel

Friday, December 29, 2023

Ohio state Cotton Bowl: Game update

 






M.AMINUR RAHMAN


first quarter

Ohio State 3, Missouri 0


Missouri won the pregame coin toss and chose to concede the final piece.


Devin Brown, in his most memorable career start for the Buckeyes at quarterback, took the field yet Ohio State had to dropkick his most memorable one. Jesse Mirko arrived and delivered a 53-yard boot to the Missouri 29.



The Tigers dropped a 38-yard kick to the Ohio State 48 to return the Buckeyes to their 10.

                                 

12-yard runs by Emeka Egbuka and Trevion Henderson led the mud-colored Buckeyes to the OSU40 on two-of-three carries.


Backed by a couple false start penalties, Mirco stuck the Tigers back at their 10 after a 61-yard dropkick.

After a targeting penalty, Missouri had to dropkick from the 17, giving the Buckeyes the ball at the 47 after a 43-yard boot.


Henderson got the key play approach for the Buckeyes and he brought it 20 yards down the right sideline before another 7-yard rush to the Tigers 26.


The Buckeyes were quick to focus on the board with Jayden Handling's 44-yard field goal for a 3-0 lead with 3:12 left in the quarter. The drive covered 27 yards in five plays over 2:35.

The Tigers drop-kicked their previous 47 to the Buckeyes, who took over at their 9 after a 44-yard kick.


Henderson then hustled to center for no gain to end the quarter.


In the second quarter

   Ohio State 3, Missouri 0


Henderson opened the second quarter with a rush up the middle for 6 yards after taking an immediate snap from Focus. Brown was then sacked for a 7-on-7 deficit at the OSU 8, where the Buckeyes had to dropkick.


Mirko then, at that point, sent a 44-yarder to the Missouri 48, where the Tigers began their most memorable possession of the next quarter.



Facing a fourth-and-1 from the OSU43, the Tigers collected the key down by showing quarterback Brady Cook over the center for a 5 gain.


Ohio State's defense then, at that point, sacked Cook twice, setting up a Missouri dropkick from the OSU45. The Buckeyes then, at that point, took over after a 40-yard kick at their 5.


First-year recruit Lincoln Kienholz then, at the time, took over at quarterback for the Buckeyes while Clay sat out with a lower-body injury.

Ohio State went back to 10 of their previous drop-kicking Tigers. Mirko was credited with a 59-yarder from the OSU endzone to the Missouri 32.


Cook started the drive with a 12-yard run to the UM44. He directed the Tigers to the OSU48 where the Buckeyes intercepted a dropkick.


Kienholz and the Buckeyes then took over after a 37-yard dropkick to the Missouri 11.



Ohio State has to dropkick after going to OSU15. Mirko connected on a 50-yard run to the Missouri 23 with just over three minutes to go in the half.


Once again the Tigers had to dropkick and after the Buckeyes needed an illegal block on the backside, Ohio State started at its 7 after a 49-yard dropkick and a 7-yard penalty.


With the Buckeyes stopped inside the 5, Missouri needed an unsportsmanlike direct penalty to give the Ohio Express a first down at its 17.

Xavier Johnson then, at the time, included a 17-yard rush down the right sideline to the OSU34. That's where the drive slows down. Mirko then returned the Tigers' 21 on a 45-yard dropkick.


Missouri ended the half with a deficit from their 47 to the Buckeyes, trailing 3-0.


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Thursday, December 28, 2023

Maine's top political race official has removed Trump from the required 2024 ballot forms





 MOUSUMI RAHMAN MOU


Maine's top political race official has dropped former President Donald Trump from the state's 2024 mandatory voting form in a surprising choice in light of the Fourteenth Amendment's "rebellious boycott."


Maine Secretary of State Shana Howells has shut down the upcoming potential lure of her choice in state court, which Trump's group said it plans to file.

The choice makes Maine the second state to remove Trump from office after the Colorado High Court recently issued its own shocking decision to remove him from voting forms. The improvement is a huge victory for Trump's faultfinders, who cited the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol as trying to implement an established system that was intended to protect the country from the hostility of the majority regime rebels. .


Kreis, a leftist, made the choice Thursday in the wake of recently conducting a regulatory hearing on Trump's qualifications for office. A bipartisan gathering of previous state legislators has documented tests against Trump.


"I don't come to this resolution lightly," Kries composed. "Majority rule government is sacrosanct… I am cautious that no Secretary of State has ever denied access to an official up-and-coming voter form in terms of segment three of the Fourteenth Amendment. I am extra cautious, in any case, before any official competitor revolts." Never participated."

Ratified after the nationwide conflict, the Fourteenth Amendment states that American officials who "participate in insurrection" cannot hold future office. In any case, the measure is questionable and does not say how the boycott should be implemented.


Most legal experts agree that the US High Court will settle the matter for the entire country.


In any case, the power that Trump's faultfinders asserted after the Colorado administration expanded the Maine choice. Before Colorado, a few different states, such as Michigan and Minnesota, had dismissed comparable efforts.


In an announcement Thursday, Trump's crusade representative Steven Cheung accused Howells of being a "harmful liberal" who has now "chosen to meddle in government political competition."

"Blue state leftists are suspending the social liberties of American voters by wildly and unnaturally attempting to immediately remove President Trump's name from voting forms," Cheung said.


In his choice, Howells argued that he had a valid commitment to stick to the Fourteenth Amendment's sedition restrictions and exclude Trump from the required voting forms.


"It begins most importantly with the promise I made to uphold the Constitution, and my obligation under Maine's political race regulations ... to ensure that up-and-comers who appear on the required polling forms are equipped for the jobs they are seeking," she said. .


To illustrate his point, Kreis wrote that the challengers presented incontrovertible evidence that the Jan. 6 uprising "was ordered by Trump — and that the U.S. Constitution "does not tolerate attacks on the foundations of our administration."


"The record shows that Mr. Trump, over a period of time and coming full circle on January 6, 2021, has used a misleading story of political extortion to galvanize his allies and instruct the State House to avoid confirmation of the 2020 political race. And a quiet exchange of power. ,” by Crys. "I similarly assume that Mr. Trump knew about the potential for brutality and supported its use in the first place because he both empowered it with incendiary speech and took no proactive steps to stop it.


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Israel warns of Lebanon line threat: "The hour glass is running out for a political settlement"

 




MITHILA RAHMAN TUSI


Israeli government serving Benny Gantz, one of three men who created the country's Crisis Warfare Bureau, is taking steps to increase Israeli military activity along the Israel-Lebanon line, where Hezbollah insurgents are closing in on northern Israel.


"I need to share with the world: the situation on the northern border needs to change," Gantz said in a public interview late Wednesday, adding that occupiers of the line network who were vacated by the war should return to them. house


"The hourglass is running out for a political settlement. Given the opportunity for the world and the Lebanese administration to stop firing into Israel and not try to isolate Hezbollah from the border, the IDF (Israel Guard Powers) will. As such," Gantz said.

IDF representative Daniel Hagari said that Israeli forces had "high regard" for expanding the war in the north but that "the main task is to return the occupiers home with a sense of security, and that will take time."


Israel's estranged pastor, Eli Cohen, visited Israel's northern line on Wednesday and said that Hezbollah should consider the 2006 ceasefire approaching the gathering to withdraw from the border region or that Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah "should understand that he has come directly," according to the Associated Press. reported


"We will work to take advantage of strategic choices," Cohen said. "If it doesn't work, all options are on the table."


The Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah has been firing rockets and big guns and has consistently sent drones to Lebanon's border with Israel on behalf of Hamas since the conflict began on October 7.

Israel additionally entered Lebanon, killing north of 150 people there, mainly Hezbollah aggressors, as indicated by the AFP news agency. Fewer than 20 have become regular citizens, and three of them have been writers, AFP reports.


On the Israeli side of the Lebanon line, nine fighters and four civilians were killed in the attack, according to AFP.


During this period, Israeli forces conducted short-term sieges of areas across Gaza, killing many people. 21,000 people have been killed so far north of the threat, according to Hamas-run forces, and 85% of the population has been displaced.

Palestinians fleeing increased Israeli operations in the focal Gaza have topped the covers near the line with Egypt, and the United Nations Assistance Office has said extreme fighting in the region is hampering its ability to deliver aid.


The United Nations said the World Food Program had figured out how to contact nearly half a million people with food bundles between December 23 and 26, yet UNRWA, the agency working inside the Gaza Strip, said Thursday that 40% of people there are currently at risk. starvation


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Wednesday, December 27, 2023

A Colorado conservative faction has petitioned the US Supreme Court to boycott Trump's voting forms

 




M.AMINUR RAHMAN


Colorado conservatives followed the state's high court choice Wednesday that found former President Donald Trump ineligible for the administration, an expected preliminary step in a face-off at the nation's highest court over the significance of a 155-year-old protected system. "Banning from Office People Who Participated in the Coup."


The primary effect of the temptation is to extend a stay of the 4-3 decision by Colorado's highest court, which would have put his choice on hold until Jan. 4, the day before the state's required voting forms are expected in the printers, completing a coveted task for the U.S. Supreme Court. Trump himself has said that he actually plans to take this decision to the nation's most prominent court.

U.S. The High Court has never ruled on Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, which was added after the nationwide conflict to prevent former Confederates from returning to government. It stated that anyone who made a firm commitment to "support" the Constitution and later "participated in rebellion" against it could not hold public office.


The Colorado High Court ruled that the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, applies to BEST as it hopes to stop the recognition of President Biden's victory in the 2020 official political decision. It was the first time in history that the system was used to intercept the mission of a government competitor.


"The Colorado High Court excluded the original conservative petitioner from essential and common voting forms, a very basic step in steering the American majority rule system," lawyers for the party wrote Wednesday.

They added: "If the Colorado High Court's choice is overturned, any voter in Colorado or any other ward will have the power to sue to remove any political challenger. Political races will still similarly go to court in political disputes over unspecified charges of sedition."


Either the Colorado GOP's greed or Trump's own greed, the US Supreme Court is supposed to take up the case. Assuming Trump closes the polls in Colorado, that would impact his mission because he won't have to worry about losing states he lost by focusing on 13 losses in 2020 to win recruiting schools in public political contests. Still, it could pave the way for courts or political race authorities to win other states off the ballot.


Sean Grimsley, a lawyer for the aggrieved parties trying to unseat Trump in Colorado, said in a legal digital recording last week that he believes the nation's most prominent court will rush to accept the case, as he hopes it will.


"I would obviously urge the fast pace of the event for a number of reasons, we have an imperative on Super Tuesday and we want feedback," Grimsley said.

More than a dozen states, including Colorado, have primaries scheduled to take place on Walk 5 - Super Tuesday.


So far, no other court has sided with individuals who have filed multiple claims to exclude Trump under Segment 3, nor has a political decision official been willing to unilaterally exclude him from a voting form without a court request.


The Colorado case was seen as one of the best likely to come out on top, however, in light of the fact that it had more than enough legitimate resources documented by the Washington, D.C.-based liberal gathering. All seven justices on the Colorado High Court were named liberals.


In any case, empirically established findings for the situation did not conveniently divide into rigid lines. Some unequivocally moderate legal scholars have been among the most vocal supporters of Trump's exclusion under Segment 3. They claim that the plain meaning of established language prevents him from running once more, just as clearly as if he had not met the archive's base age. 35 for administration.

About six of the aggrieved parties in the Colorado case are conservative or unaffiliated voters.


Trump has been blistering about the cases, referring to them as "political racial obstruction." He went ahead with it Wednesday as he cheered a decision earlier that day by the Michigan High Court, essentially putting him on the ballot in that state as a requirement.


"The people of Colorado have insulted our country by doing what they do well," Sean Hannity said on public broadcasting.


News: CBS

Tuesday, December 26, 2023

Russian maritime boat positioned in involved Crimea annihilated by Ukrainian powers

 





M.AMINUR RAHMAN


Description: A Ukrainian airstrike harmed a Russian maritime vessel positioned in involved Crimea, as affirmed by Russia's Guard Service on Tuesday. Notwithstanding, pictures and recordings coursing via online entertainment uncover that the "Novocherkassk" was totally obliterated, dispersed more than many meters.


A Russian maritime boat positioned in involved Crimea was harmed in an airstrike by Ukrainian powers, Russia's Guard Service affirmed Tuesday.

However, photographs and recordings shared via online entertainment show that "Novocherkassk" was obliterated

also, the destruction was spread many meters around.


The Ukrainian armed force says it has been as of late used to move weapons and fighters to the Zaporizhzhia area, which is halfway held by Russian powers.


In southeast Ukraine, troops have withdrawn from a city in the Donetsk district, Marinka. Ukraine's President Valery Zaluzhnyas remarked on claims made by Russia, that the Russian armed force had totally caught the town of Marinka. To which Zaluzhnyas said there isn't anything questionable about the reality, "This is a conflict, so the way that we have now withdrawn to the edges of Marinka and set up positions behind Marinka in certain areas isn't anything that can create any open clamor. Tragically, this is the very thing that war is like."


Ukraine keeps on covering its dead. On Tuesday the widow of a 31-year-old Ukrainian warrior was joined by family members and companions in the Ukrainian city of Irpin to grieve his demise.

The assemblage accumulated for the burial service of Yuriy Antonenko, 31, after he was killed in battling close to the city of Marinka.


The function was gone to by Irpin Chairman Oleksandr Markushyn, who said the city was facilitating three to four burial services each week.


Markushyn said the current second was a "defining moment" for Ukraine, depicting it as a battle for the nation's presence.



news source: Euronews

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