Two planes collided on a runway in Tokyo inflicting a packed passenger jet to burst into flames. And the unsealing of court docket paperwork within the Jeffrey Epstein case might put some distinguished names within the highlight.
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5 folks lifeless in airplane runway collision in Japan
A Japan Airlines aircraft burst into flames at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Tuesday after colliding with a Japan coast guard plane upon touchdown. Five of the six folks on the coast guard aircraft died, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida confirmed in a information convention. Japan Airlines reported that every one 379 passengers and crew members on its aircraft evacuated safely. The Japanese coast guard aircraft concerned in Tuesday’s crash was heading to town of Niigata to ship reduction assist to residents affected by a lethal earthquake (extra on the quake under).
Who will probably be named within the ‘Epstein record’?
Hundreds of sealed court docket filings about Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and intercourse offender who hung himself inside a jail cell in 2019, might be made public as quickly as Tuesday following a choose’s ruling final month. The “record” is predicted to incorporate greater than 150 names, which might illuminate which distinguished figures continued to affiliate with Epstein and his former girlfriend and convicted confederate Ghislaine Maxwell after he was convicted in 2008 of procuring intercourse from a minor. No one moreover Epstein and Maxwell has been accused of legal wrongdoing within the case.
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The race to search out survivors of Japan earthquake
Aftershocks continued to rattle Japan on Tuesday after at the least 48 folks had been killed in a robust earthquake on the western coast that flattened buildings and triggered tsunami warnings. On Monday, the 7.6 quake rocked Ishikawa, about 180 miles west of Tokyo, the place all of the deaths to date have been reported. More than 100 aftershocks had been recorded since Monday afternoon as rescue crews searched the rubble for survivors. More than 1,000 troopers have been deployed by the Japanese army to the catastrophe zones to hitch rescue efforts, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida mentioned Tuesday.
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