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An avalanche at a Japanese ski resort killed at least seven students and one teacher who were part of a mountaineering class on a field trip. Heavy snow fell overnight, with more than a foot piling up near the highlands of Nasu, about 90 miles north of Tokyo. Some 60 students and 10 teachers from seven different rural high schools made the trip, part of a three-day expedition to a closed ski resort. About 40 people were injured. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the government would do all it could to help with rescue efforts, and helicopters, as well as Japan’s Self Defense Forces, were sent to the area to help. The class had originally planned to climb to the top of Mount Chausu, but because of the risk posed by the new snow, teachers decided to climb at a lower elevation. The region had been under an avalanche advisory, with an unusual amount of snow falling this late in the spring, making for dangerous conditions. Police are now investigating if there was negligence on part of the school.
A court in Moscow has jailed Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, for 15 days for resisting police orders during Sunday’s anti-government protests, and fined him the equivalent of about $350 for organizing the protests. Navalny was among hundreds of protesters arrested Sunday in connection with the nationwide demonstrations. Navalny was found guilty last month of embezzlement and handed a five-year suspended sentence—a verdict that could bar him from seeking the presidency in next year’s election. He has denied the charges against him. My colleague Julia Ioffe, who is in Moscow, reported on why Sunday’s protests were different:
What was most remarkable, though, was that the protests happened not just in protest-loving Moscow, but in over 90 cities across the country.
