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Jul 29, 2026 - World

Rescuers pulling people from the wreckage in southern Japan in a haunting repeat of disaster that struck 10 years ago‘Race against time’: Japan earthquake death toll rises as rescue teams search for missing“There was a voice coming from the collapsed house, and I could see a hand,” Tomohide Nagata, a volunteer firefighter, told the Kumamoto Nichinichi Shimbun. “One of our senior members crawled in and pulled him out. He was bleeding from the head, but I’m so glad he survived.”Nagata had heard a noise coming from one completely flattened home in the rural town of Hikawa, close to the epicentre of Tuesday’s 6.8-magnitude earthquake in southern Japan. The town was one of the areas hardest hit, with numerous older houses collapsing. Terrified of the ongoing aftershocks, many residents spent Tuesday night in their cars outside Hikawa’s town hall, where staff distributed food and drinks. Continue reading...

Jul 29, 2026 - World

Israeli authorities said Wednesday they arrested a civilian who served in a "classified unit" during his military service on charges of spying for Iran.

Jul 29, 2026 - World

Soldiers and emergency workers are combing through a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses looking for trapped survivors Wednesday after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 18 people in southwestern Japan

Jul 29, 2026 - World

Ukraine says its forces have hit two of Russia’s major oil refineries in their latest long-range strikes

Jul 29, 2026 - World

Iran on Wednesday sharply criticized the joint U.S.-Saudi airstrikes against its allied militias in Iraq.