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2 men arrested for sending bomb threat to Tokyo college
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Police detain dozens in Hong Kong on 34th anniversary of Tiananmen Square massacre
It also became increasingly off-limits in Hong Kong since a sweeping national security law was imposed in June 2020, effectively barring anyone from holding memorial events. In Beijing, additional security was seen around Tiananmen Square, which has long …...
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Macron calls Polish PM an ‘extreme-right anti-Semite who bans LGBT people’
President Macron, how many times have you negotiated with Putin, what have you achieved? Have you stopped any of the actions that have taken place?” Morawiecki said at a press conference Monday. “One should not negotiate with criminals … Nobody negotiated…...
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Anti-vax protesters attempt to storm studio at BBC Television Centre
Read our privacy notice Thanks for signing up to theMorning Headlines email {{ #verifyErrors }} {{ message }} {{ /verifyErrors }} {{ ^verifyErrors }} Something went wrong. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }}Anti-vaccine protesters have attempted to…...
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As the new administrative reform minister, Taro Kono declares war on fax machines
After being tapped as administrative reform minister, Taro Kono has wasted little time in waging war on emblems of Japan’s bureaucratic red tape — first hanko personal seals and now the fax machine. Streamlining administrative work, eliminating vested int…...
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Tokyo test centers trade fax machines for computers with new coronavirus reporting system
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has started using a new system to gather, compile and report COVID-19 data that will allow test results to be sent in digitally rather than by fax. The Health Center Real-time Information-sharing System — or HER-SYS, as a…...
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Japanese decry boomer-era tech as hospitals file coronavirus cases by fax
Even with the coronavirus, we are writing by hand and faxing.”Japan’s stubborn reliance on the fax machine has sparked a Twitter tirade by a doctor, who railed against the legal requirement that hospitals complete paperwork on new coronavirus cases by han…...
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Students in Hong Kong used fax machines to fight Chinese censorship of Tiananmen Square
Hu’s death triggered a series of commemorations, student demonstrations, rallies, and occupations of one of China’s political and cultural landmarks, Tiananmen Square in Beijing. AdvertisementNow, 30 years after the events at Tiananmen Square, most people…...
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Federal judge says Trump’s use of emergency funds to build wall is unlawful
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Waterford police apologize for not helping baby locked in hot car
Waterford Township's police department released an apology on Thursday morning after a 911 dispatcher refused to send help when a 2-month-old baby was accidentally trapped in a hot car, according to a CBS News report. According to CBS News, Lacey Guyton w…...
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FBI questions Ted Malloch, Trump campaign figure and Farage ally
In the statement Malloch denied having any Russia contacts. Malloch said he had agreed with the special counsel’s office that he would appear before Mueller’s grand jury in Washington DC on 13 April. Mueller’s probe into whether or not the Trump campaign …...
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Global Anger and Dismay After Trump Slams Brakes on U.S. Climate Action
The world reacted with dismay and anger as President Donald Trump issued an executive order Tuesday that dismantled critical U.S. climate policies, betraying the country's international climate commitments. While world leaders, scientists, and policy make…...
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Verizon workers can now be fired if they fix copper phone lines
Verizon has told its field technicians in Pennsylvania that they can be fired if they try to fix broken copper phone lines. Instead, employees must try to replace copper lines with a device that connects to Verizon Wireless’s cell phone network. The wirel…...
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Dumped prime minister Tony Abbott resigned by fax: Laurie Oakes
A monarchist with a penchant for dames and knights, it is interesting that Mr Abbott chose to fax his notice of resignation rather than to visit Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove. Dumped prime minister Tony Abbott reportedly resigned from the nation's m…...
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Just the fax: internet activists go analog to fight Congress on cybersecurity bill
Internet activists determined to halt what they see as another ill-conceived Washington cybersecurity bill are hitting Congress where it hurts: right in the fax machine. The rationale, said Evan Greer of activist group Fight for the Future, is that Congre…...
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MH17 looting confirmed: Victims' phones answered by strangers, relatives say
Kiev: Grieving relatives of the MH17 crash victims have had chilling confirmation that their loved ones' possessions have been looted from the crash site. Relatives of victims in the Netherlands dialled the mobile phone numbers of crash victims and said t…...
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French inmate freed after fax runs out of ink
FRANCEA suspect in the 2011 lynching of a young DJ in a Paris suburb has been released because a fax machine ran out of ink, prosecutors confirmed on Thursday. Advertising Read moreThe man was reportedly freed because staff at a Paris court of appeal were…...
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“If there’s any symbolism at all to the timing, it is simply an indication that Russia does not care,” one Kremlin expert said....
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North and South Korea exchange faxes threatening to attack each other
AdvertisementBut my favorite aspect of this story by far isn't North Korea's fax threatening to launch a war at any moment. It's the fact that South Korea, on Friday, turned around and sent the North Koreans a threatening fax right back. "We've sent a rep…...
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World News: Latest International Headlines, Video, and Breaking Stories From Around The Globe
“If there’s any symbolism at all to the timing, it is simply an indication that Russia does not care,” one Kremlin expert said....
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Not the fax, ma'am : DoD out of cash to buy new machine
Sure enough, their fax machine is down … possibly until November. But when an agency accepts FOIA requests by a) fax, b) mail or c) a clunky online request portal that doesn’t play nice with other systems, suddenly that fax machine becomes a technical lin…...
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In Japan, the Fax Machine Is Anything but a Relic
TOKYO — Japan is renowned for its robots and bullet trains, and has some of the world’s fastest broadband networks. But it also remains firmly wedded to a pre-Internet technology — the fax machine — that in most other developed nations has joined answerin…...
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FBI, Secret Service investigate threatening fax sent to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee
Federal law enforcement agencies led by the U.S. Secret Service and the FBI are investigating the origins of a threatening and racially charged cartoon sent by fax to the White House and the Houston office of Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee depicting nooses and l…...
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Operation "Libya White Fax"
After observing the growing unrest and correspondingly violent crackdown in Libya, a group of hackers conceived and launched Operation Libya White Fax: while the internet and data connections are being throttled, cut off and censored, phone lines are stil…...
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Amid Digital Blackout, Anonymous Mass-Faxes WikiLeaks Cables To Egypt
Updated (twice) below with other activist efforts to offer Egyptians Internet access. So WikiLeaks' fans are using an analog tool to smuggle the secret-spilling site's latest scandals into the country: fax machines. Since Thursday night, Egypt has blocked…...
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US man killed by car as he helped ducks cross road in Rocklin
US man killed by car as he helped ducks cross road in RocklinBy Chloe Kim BBC NewsCBSA tribute has been set up for Casey Rivara in the Californian city of RocklinA California man who died after being hit by a car was seen helping a family of ducks cross t…...
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Many doctors get gifts, meals from opioid makers
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Deputies: Woman lied to investigators because date did not drive her home
GALEN, N.Y. (WHAM) - Deputies with the Wayne County Sheriff's Office said a Clyde woman lied to them about being blindfolded and raped because she was angry that her date did not give her a ride home. According to investigators, 27-year-old Jessica Gallag…...
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Japan hunts for person who faxed bomb threats to schools
Japan hunts for person who faxed bomb threats to schoolsBy Kelly Ng BBC NewsGetty ImagesFile picture of schoolchildren in TokyoJapanese police are on the hunt for a person who sent bomb and death threats to hundreds of schools, prompting hasty closures. T…...
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Compiling daily virus tally in Tokyo involves ‘3-day time lag’
The reports are faxed to the metropolitan government’s task force on combatting infectious diseases from 31 public health centers in Tokyo. The public health centers fax an A-4 size sheet for each new patient. After the 9 a.m. deadline, metropolitan offic…...
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India Kashmir: Fax machine fuels political crisis
India Kashmir: Fax machine fuels political crisisGetty ImagesOmar Abdullah (left) and Mehbooba Mufti (right) have staked a claim to form the government togetherA dramatic day involving a broken fax machine and frenetic tweets ended with the dissolution of…...
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Get your fax right: Bungling officials spark Japan nuclear scare
Officials at Tokyo Electric Power Company's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant sparked a scare by ticking the wrong box on a fax formBungling Japanese officials sparked a nuclear scare after a violent, late-night earthquake by ticking the wrong box on a fax…...
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Schools resort to phone and fax machine to restart classes in northern Ontario First Nations
It's not clear how far the $112 million dollars in federal funding announced for First Nations education during the pandemic will go toward addressing those needs. Principal Brad Battiston addresses First Nations youth at the Matawa Education Centre in Ma…...
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Japan losing patience over COVID-19 response – DW – 04/15/2020
Prime Minister Abe has been accused by critics of prioritizing the economy and the Olympic Games over the well-being of the Japanese public. The Japanese public appears to be losing patience with the government over its dithering response to the coronavir…...
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