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Floods, landslides hit central Japan months after major quake
Floods and landslides left one dead and at least six missing in central Japan, with rescue and recovery teams at work on Sunday in a remote peninsula already devastated by a major earthquake earlier this year.Another three people were missing who had been working for the land ministry to restore a road in Wajima, local ministry official Yoshiyuki Tokuhashi told AFP. Japan's Kyodo News reported four more people were missing in Wajima after a river flood washed away four houses.
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A historic but dilapidated Illinois prison will close while replacement is built, despite objections
When film star James Stewart went on location in 1948 at Stateville prison's notorious roundhouse while portraying a Chicago newspaper reporter whose work freed a wrongly convicted killer in “Call Northside 777,” the lockup had already been standing nearly a quarter of a century. Now, 76 years and hundreds of millions of dollars of neglected repairs later, the Illinois prison home of infamous killers Leopold and Loeb and Richard Speck, and the site of John Wayne Gacy's execution, is shutting down. The Illinois Department of Corrections already has begun transferring inmates from the facility in the Chicago suburb of Crest Hill, a contentious decision bolstered by a federal court order last month.
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Ukraine wants to fire Western long-range weapons into Russia. But the battlefield gain is not clear-cut
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