People urged to evacuate as typhoon heads to Japan

Japan: Hundreds of thousands of people in Japan were warned to leave their homes on Tuesday as an approaching typhoon brought heavy rain and fears of landslides and flash flooding. Authorities in the central city of Nagoya advised 400,000 residents to evacuate because of worries that rivers might burst their banks, Jiji Press news agency said.

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‘French, UK mercenaries caught in Libya’

Libya: Spokesman for Libya’s fugitive ruler Muammar Gaddafi has claimed that the loyalists of the fallen regime have arrested 17 “mercenaries”-some British and French-in the stronghold of Bani Walid.”A group was captured in Bani Walid consisting of 17 mercenaries.

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