For First Time in Years, Japan Boasts a Sumo Grand Champion

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HONG KONG — Sports fans in Japan had been living with a harsh reality for years: Sumo wrestling, a quintessential Japanese pastime that is increasingly dominated by foreign stars, lacked a native-born champion of the highest order.
That changed on Wednesday, when Kisenosato became the first Japanese athlete since 1998 to receive the sumo title of yokozuna, or grand champion. Yokozuna, a rare honor, is the highest of the sport’s 10 ranks.
The promotion, by the Japan Sumo Association, was a top news story in the country on Wednesday. At a train station in Ushiku, Kisenosato’s hometown northeast of Tokyo, banners read, “Celebrate the victory.”
“Many Japanese have been awaiting a Japanese yokozuna,” Koichi Hagiuda, deputy chief cabinet secretary for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, said at a news conference in Tokyo. “I hope he will do well so that his dignified character and ability are remembered by history.”
Kisenosato, who weighs about 385 pounds, becomes the fourth active yokozuna in professional sumo wrestling. The other three are Mongolian. The last Japanese yokozuna, Takanohana, retired in 2003 after losing a match.
Kisenosato had long been ranked one notch below yokozuna, and critics had wondered if he had the mental toughness to advance. A commentary in The Japan Times last year asked if he was “ destined to remain a perennial bridesmaid.”
“Many people have expected too much of him, which must have added huge pressure, and he must have been frustrated with himself,” Shuhei Mainoumi, a sumo analyst in Tokyo, said by telephone.
But after Kisenosato won his first championship title on Sunday, in his 73rd professional tournament, the Yokozuna Deliberation Council recommended that he be promoted.
At a Tokyo hotel on Wednesday, Kisenosato, 30, told officials from the Japan Sumo Association that he had accepted the designation with humility.
“I will devote myself and try not to disgrace the yokozuna name,” he said.
A 2015 survey by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry found that sumo wrestling was the most popular spectator sport in Japan, ahead of baseball, soccer, boxing and golf.
But sumo’s reputation has suffered in recent years because of a series of gambling and match-fixing scandals, and foreign wrestlers, mainly from Eastern Europe and Mongolia, have increasingly dominated its top ranks. Analysts say that Japan has lost its standing because its wrestling techniques are increasingly old-fashioned and because fewer young people are training for competitions.
Over the years, the Japan Sumo Association has sought to curb that trend by restricting the number of foreign wrestlers in each of the country’s 43 training stables — first to two, and later to one. But a 2013 report by the Daiwa Institute of Research, a think tank based in Tokyo, found that even though foreigners accounted for just 7 percent to 8 percent of Japan’s roughly 600 professional wrestlers, they made up 30 percent of the top-ranked ones.
“The number of Japanese wrestlers is not growing, that’s for sure,” Mr. Mainoumi said. “But if Kisenosato does well in upcoming tournaments, sumo might become popular again and attract new young wrestlers. I hope.”

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Automation allows manufacturer to leave China for U. S. production

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“Typically bicycle spokes are dropped into the hub one at a time by hand. This machine does it automatically and only in about thirty seconds,” said Arnold Kamler, owner of Bicycle Corporation of America, or BCA.
“Using the same amount of people, we can do about three times as many hubs in a day,” Kamler said.
A BCA employee and robot working together
BCA has been in his family since 1905.
The company has a factory in China, but Kamler recently moved ten percent of BCA’s business back to the U. S. Why? Wages for Chinese workers had soared out of sight.
Kamler bought an abandoned factory and created 140 jobs — a lifeline in this distressed industrial town. But the only way to make it work was investing in robots.
“We’re creating jobs with the automation and being able to be price-competitive with China now and it will get even better in the future,” he said.
$6 million of automation does the work of more than 100 workers.
As robots take human jobs, Europeans mull free money for all
Kamler was asked whether his employees see the robots as a future threat to their jobs.
Arnold Kamler
“We’re not replacing other jobs with these robots,” he said.
“What we’re doing is we’re adding more equipment that makes us more efficient.”
Production manager Albertus Jones sees the machines as co-workers.
“A lot of people have that misconception that automation decreases jobs. It’s just a different type of job, a more skilled job,” Jones said.
And without the robots, the human jobs wouldn’t exist, either.
A new model that could allow American manufacturing to ride high again.

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The Oscar nominations tell a time-old story of Hollywood’s obsession with its own world Was this Apple Tree Yard sex scene written by a sexually frustrated politician?

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January 25, 2017

The least surprising Academy Award nominations in recent memory were announced today in Los Angeles. The good news is that the OscarsSoWhite controversy is behind us, at least for this year. What we have in its place is OscarsSoPredictable. In its incestuous, self-regarding way, Hollywood loves Hollywood stories, which is why La Land has netted so many nominations – 14 in total, equalling the record shared by Titanic and All About Eve – and why it will score big on the night. It’s a diverting but shallow movie, reassuringly uncontroversial, which has coasted to glory on a wave of goodwill that will culminate at the Oscars ceremony.
There were a handful of surprises. A Best Actress nomination for Ruth Negga, for her quiet, understated performance as a black woman imprisoned for marrying a white man in 1950s Virginia in Loving , is very welcome. It is good also to see Mica Levi nominated for her adventurous score for Jackie and Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou in the running for their screenplay for The Lobster.
More controversially, Mel Gibson is a contender for Best Director for his violent war movie Hacksaw Ridge , which indicates that the industry has decided to forgive the drunken antisemitic outbursts, which seemed at one point to have ended his career for good.
But La Land is up for all the biggies – Best Picture, Best Director (Damian Chazelle), Best Actor (Ryan Gosling), Best Actress (Emma Stone), Best Original Screenplay (Chazelle). It could feasibly win them all except for Best Actor. I had hoped that the Best Actress award would go to Natalie Portman, who is brilliant as Jacqueline Kennedy in Jackie , but a clued-up colleague assured me recently that the La love is likely to dominate in that category too. Imagine that! All those trophies going to a candyfloss fantasy which tickles the eye but leaves the brain untroubled. La Land? Looks like more like Cloud-cuckoo-land to me.
Chazelle’s movie isn’t a Best Picture by any stretch of the imagination. But then Best Pictures so rarely are. The King’s Speech instead of The Social Network? My Fair Lady rather than Dr Strangelove? Argo over Amour? Argo over anything, come to that? That film, which won in 2013, was another beneficiary of the tendency for Academy voters to favour movies about their own kind, their own world. Movie-movies. (See also: Birdman , the 2015 winner.) That tendency will give La Land an extra push.
Its closest competitor, which still isn’t that close, will be Kenneth Lonergan’s intense drama Manchester By the Sea. Casey Affleck has the Best Actor prize sewn up for his brooding, minimalist turn as a grieving handyman saddled with his teenage nephew. It’s a deserving performance and Affleck must already be thinking about where in the house he’s going to put his statuette. At last count, he’d already scooped 16 awards for this film alone. I reckon someone’s going to be putting up a new shelf. A whole den or anteroom may be in order.
Another dead cert is Viola Davis for Best Supporting Actress in Fences , directed by her co-star Denzel Washington, which opens in the UK on 10 February.
Mahershala Ali should take the Best Supporting Actor award for playing the drug dealer who becomes a surprisingly tender mentor to a young Miami boy in Moonlight (out here on 17 February). Ali’s chief rival will be Jeff Bridges, who gives one of those grizzled-but-affectionate veteran performances as a good-hearted sheriff in Hell and High Water. Moonlight is to my mind one of the few genuinely great titles vying for Best Picture and would have been my choice by miles – except that I don’t have a vote.
That said, I did have a vote in the London Film Critics’ Circle Awards , which were announced last weekend. We made some choices of which I heartily approve, such as naming I, Daniel Blake Best British/Irish Film and giving the Best Actress award to Isabelle Huppert for Things to Come. She is up for an Oscar in that category for a very different film, Paul Verhoeven’s thriller Elle.
Then again, we also handed our Best Film prize to La Land. Oh well. You win some, you lose some. Unless you’re La Land , that is, in which case it’s win-win all the way.
The 89th Academy Awards ceremony will be held on 26 February.
After much anticipation, the BBC’s Apple Tree Yard , an adaptation of Louise Doughty’s novel, aired last night. Newspapers had whispered excitedly over its opening sex scenes – the Sun exclaimed that this would be “the most explicit bonkbuster yet” (whatever that means), as the first episode would have more than five minutes of graphic sex throughout, in locations as varied as a toilet and an alleyway.
But the most toe-curling scenes of all occurred in a grander location – Westminster Palace. Dr Yvonne Carmichael (Emily Watson) meets a tall, dark and handsome stranger after giving evidence on genomes to the government (as all politics nerds know, there is nothing sexier than a select committee meeting.) What follows feels like the erotic fanfiction of a political hack who has spent far too much time at the Houses of Parliament.
They “run into each other” in the canteen, and flirt in Westminster Hall. Yvonne is about to leave — then our politico stranger brings out the big guns. Yep, the alpha move of all Westminster workers and tour guides. Here it comes.
Pow. No mortal can resist the Chapel in the Crypt. As he runs off to get the keys, Yvonne’s loser husband Gary texts her.
Ugh, boring Gary, sat at home sniffling. You can just tell from a text like that Gary has never been to the Houses of Parliament. Gary refers to the whole palace as “Big Ben”. Gary’s never even heard of the Chapel in the Crypt.
Not like this bloody Keeper of the Keys.
So in they go to the chapel, handsome stranger smoothly remarking that you can get married in here, because, as he knows, weddings are basically porn to women (seeing as they don’t watch actual porn). The sexual tension is palpable as he deploys facts about royal peculiars, Oliver Cromwell’s horses and Lord Chamberlain.
Yvonne gets dust on her coat, and our man hands her a handkerchief, because he really knows what he’s doing.
If you’ve ever been to the Chapel in the Crypt, you know what’s coming next. “That’s not the best bit,” says the stranger, walking over to a cupboard at the back. Yes, here comes the pièce de résistance, the sexual cherry on top of this weird fucking cake. “You’ve come this far,” he says lightly, but he knows this is the point of no return: if Yvonne sees this next reveal she will surely be a lost woman.
They creep into the cupboard, where he shows here the back of the door. YES, IT’S THE TONY BENN EMILY WILDING DAVISON PLAQUE!!!!!!!!!!!!
In one fell swoop, this complete stranger has persuaded a beautiful woman to climb into a dark and secret broom cupboard with him, whilst he simultaneously shows off his feminist credentials. He even explains who this iconic feminist was to Yvonne. A man showing off a plaque, made by another man to commemorate a dead Suffragette, to a woman. I have literally never seen anything more feminist in my fucking life.
And then, of course, they bang, right in front of the plaque. Did Emily Wilding Davison die for this? Probably.
It brings a tear to one’s eye. Undoubtedly this is the perfect British politics geek’s sex scene, and I, for one, applaud the BBC for this brave and stunning work.

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First 100 days: What executive actions has Trump taken?

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January 25, 2017

One of the first ways a new president is able to exercise political power is through unilateral executive orders.
While legislative efforts take time, a swipe of the pen from the White House can often enact broad changes in government policy and practice.
President Donald Trump has wasted little time in taking advantage of this privilege.
Given his predecessor’s reliance on executive orders to circumvent Congress in the later days of his presidency, he has a broad range of areas in which to flex his muscle.
Here’s a look at some of what Mr Trump has done so far:
On his second full working day, the president signed two orders to advance construction of two controversial pipelines — the Keystone XL and Dakota Access.
Mr Trump told reporters the terms of both deals would be renegotiated, and using American steel was a requirement.
Keystone, a 1,179-mile (1,897km) pipeline running from Canada to US refineries in the Gulf Coast, was halted by President Barack Obama in 2015 due to concerns over the message it would send about climate change.
The second pipeline was halted last year as the Army looked at other routes, amid huge protests by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe at a North Dakota site.
Keystone XL pipeline: Why is it so disputed?
Dakota Pipeline: What’s behind the controversy?
In one of his first actions as president, Mr Trump issued a multi-paragraph directive to the Department of Health and Human Services and other federal agencies involved in managing the nation’s healthcare system.
The order states that agencies must «waive, defer, grant exemptions from, or delay» any portions of the Affordable Care Act that creates financial burden on states, individuals or healthcare providers.
Although the order technically does not authorise any powers the executive agencies do not already have, it’s viewed as a clear signal that the Trump administration will be rolling back Obama-era healthcare regulations wherever possible.
Can Obamacare be repealed?
What’s called the Mexico City policy, first implemented in 1984 under Republican President Ronald Reagan, prevents foreign non-governmental organisations that receive any US cash from «providing counselling or referrals for abortion or advocating for access to abortion services in their country».
The ban, derided as a «global gag rule» by its critics, has been the subject of a political tug-of-war ever since its inception, with every Democratic president rescinding the measure, and every Republican bringing it back.
Anti-abortion activists expected Mr Trump to act quickly on this — and he didn’t disappoint them.
Trump’s order on abortion policy: What does it mean?
On Mr Trump’s first full workday in the White House he issued a directive to federal agencies to halt any new government hiring.
He told reporters who had gathered for the signing that the freeze would not affect military spending.
The directive is part of Mr Trump’s effort to reduce government debts and decrease the size of the federal workforce.
During his campaign, he frequently railed against government bureaucracy, and vowed to «drain the swamp» of corrupt governance.
Has the federal workforce really ‘dramatically increased’?
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, once viewed as the crown jewel of Barack Obama’s international trade policy, was a regular punching bag for Mr Trump on the campaign trail (although he at times seemed uncertain about what nations were actually involved).
The deal was never approved by Congress so it had yet to go into effect in the US.
Therefore the formal «withdrawal» is more akin to a decision on the part of the US to end ongoing international negotiations and let the deal wither and die.
TPP: What is it and why does it matter?

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Al Qaeda-linked group claims deadly hotel attack in Somalia

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Last Updated Jan 25, 2017 5:05 AM EST
Dozens of people, including lawmakers, were thought to have been staying at Mogadishu’s Dayah hotel at the time of the morning attack, said Capt. Mohamed Hussein.
Heavy gunfire could still be heard inside the hotel, Hussein said.
Somali Security Minister Abdirizak Umar told reporters at the scene of the attack that the “preliminary casualty figure” was 15 people dead, including four members of the country’s security forces and 11 civilians, and more than 50 others wounded.
According to the Reuters news agency, Umar said the attack included two bomb blasts, not just the initial one at the gate.
Somalia’s homegrown Islamic extremist group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack via its online radio, Andalus, saying its fighters succeeded in entering the hotel and an “operation is ongoing now.”
Residents carry an injured man wounded during a complex attack targeting a Mogadishu hotel Jan. 25, 2017.
Al-Shabab frequently targets hotels and other public places often visited by government officials and foreigners. Al Qaeda’s East African affiliate is fighting to impose a strict version of Islam in the Horn of Africa nation.
In June, gunmen stormed the Nasa-Hablod hotel , killing at least 14 people. Two weeks before that, gunmen killed 15, including two members of parliament, at the Ambassador hotel.
Despite being ousted from most of its key strongholds, al-Shabab continues to carry out deadly guerrilla attacks across large parts of south and central Somalia.
U. S. warplanes struck an al-Shabab training camp in Somalia over the weekend, killing over 150 fighters. The U. S. is claiming this as a big victo…
In March, 2016, the Pentagon said a U. S. airstrike hit an al-Shabab training camp in Somalia as militants prepared to launch a large-scale attack.
CBS News correspondent David Martin said, according to Pentagon officials, the fighters were in the final stages of planning an attack against the African Union Mission in Somalia, which includes U. S. personnel.
Earlier this month, a bomb explosion at a restaurant in Mogadishu killed three, and a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at a security checkpoint near Mogadishu’s international airport, killing at least three. That blast occurred a few hundred yards from the main base of the African Union peacekeeping mission.
Al-Shabab’s assaults have threatened this nation’s attempts to rebuild from decades of chaos. The presidential election, a key step toward recovery, already has been delayed several times because of security and other concerns.

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Donald Trump: 'We will build Mexico border wall'

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January 25, 2017

Donald Trump has said a «big day» is planned on national security, including an announcement to build a wall on the border between the US and Mexico.
The new US president is expected to sign several executive orders regarding immigration and border security over the next few days.
They are likely to include the «extreme vetting» of people coming from seven predominantly Muslim countries in the Middle East and Africa.
This would restrict refugee access.
Mr Trump tweeted: «Big day planned on national security tomorrow. Among many other things, we will build the wall! »
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Building a 2,000-mile wall along the Mexican border was one of his key proposals during the presidential election campaign.
During his election campaign, Mr Trump said Mexico would pay for the wall, which he said would cost about $8bn (£6.4bn).
He has since said the US would recoup the costs from its neighbour at a later date.
But Mexico’s president and senior officials have said that they will not pay for the wall, despite Mr Trump’s campaign pledge.
There will also be measures that force so-called sanctuary cities in the US to co-operate with the authorities on deporting illegal immigrants.
«Sanctuary cities» are places that don’t arrest or detain immigrants living in the country illegally.
Later this week, Mr Trump is expected to announce immigration restrictions from seven African and Middle Eastern countries, including Syria, Yemen, and Iraq.
He is also likely to halt access to the country for some refugees — until the vetting process can be made more rigorous.
The BBC’s David Willis in Washington says immigration and humanitarian organisations are likely to be outraged by the measures.
Trita Parsi, from the National Iranian American Council, said: «Donald Trump is making good on the most shameful and discriminatory promises he made on the campaign trail.
«He called for a Muslim ban and is now taking the first steps to implement one. This will not stand. The American people are better than this. »
What executive actions has Trump taken?
The Mexican wall that already exists
Mexico will pay US back for wall — Trump
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But one of Mr Trump’s advisers on the transition team at the Department of Homeland Security, James Carafano, said the new measures should not be seen as anti-Muslim.
«The constitution and the law gives the executive lots of authority in terms of issuing visas,» said Mr Carafano, who is from the conservative think-tank the Heritage Foundation in Washington.
«If they’re based on security concerns, of course they have nothing to do with a person’s actual religion, it’s based on that they’re conflict zones or that there are security concerns coming out of that country. »
BBC North America editor Jon Sopel said: «Throughout this week the new president has been making a series of down payments on his most high profile election pledges.
«On Monday and Tuesday, jobs and trade; today, border security. »
The US President also took to Twitter to express his concern about the level of violence in Chicago.
He threatened to «send in the Feds» — federal authorities — if the city did not «fix the horrible carnage» taking place.
Local media has said that more than 40 people have been murdered and 228 shot so far in 2017.
The Chicago Police Department said it was «more than willing to work» with federal agencies to «boost federal prosecution rates for gun crimes» in the city.
Meanwhile, the Dutch government has said it will set up an international fund to counter the effects of Mr Trump’s ban on US funding for abortions in developing countries.
The Dutch development minister, Lilianne Ploumen, said withdrawing funding would not result in fewer abortions, but would increase dangerous abortion practices and cause more maternal deaths.

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Knights of Malta head quits amid row over condom programme

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January 25, 2017

The head of the Knights of Malta has resigned after becoming embroiled in a public dispute with the Pope over a condom distribution programme.
Grand master Matthew Festing, 67, had refused to cooperate with a Vatican inquiry into why he sacked the ancient Catholic order’s grand chancellor.
Albrecht von Boeselager was dismissed over the condom programme last month.
It followed revelations that the Knights’ charity branch had distributed thousands of condoms in Myanmar.
The Roman Catholic Church forbids the use of artificial contraception, although the Pope advocates tolerance in how this is enforced.
Pope Francis asked Mr Festing to step down at a meeting on Tuesday.
«The Pope asked him to resign and he agreed,» a Knights of Malta spokesman said.
He added that the next step was a formality in which the group’s Sovereign Council would have to sign off on the unusual resignation.
The 900-year-old order will be run by its number two, or grand commander, until a new head is elected.
Mr Boeselager has said he did not know about the condom distribution programme, which was an anti-HIV and family planning initiative, and stopped it when he learned of its existence.
The Sovereign Order of Malta traces its history to the 11th Century, with the establishment of an infirmary in Jerusalem that cared for pilgrims of all faiths.
The lay religious order of the Roman Catholic Church now has 13,500 members and 100,000 staff and volunteers, who provide healthcare in hospitals and clinics around the world.
The Order of Malta enjoys many of the privileges of a nation state. It issues its own stamps, passports and licence plates — and holds diplomatic relations with 106 states, the Holy See included.
Though the order sounds like a masculine institution, the Knights are not exclusively male. As of 2013, women made up about 30% of its members — known as the Dames.
The group is reportedly keen to shed its aristocratic image, and to attract new talent to continue its humanitarian work.
The BBC’s David Willey gave his impressions of the Knights’ headquarters during the order’s 900th anniversary .
The order had previously called the Pope’s review a legally «irrelevant» move aimed at limiting its sovereignty.
Pope Francis appointed a five-member commission to investigate the sacking in December, amid evidence that his own envoy to the group, conservative Cardinal Raymond Burke, had helped engineer it without his blessing.
The order said it had been an attempt to discredit members of the commission, but the Vatican ordered and ordered the leaders of the Knights of Malta to cooperate with the inquiry.
The papal commission was due to deliver its findings to the Pope at the end of the month.

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独社民党の首相候補にシュルツ前欧州議会議長メルケル氏の対抗馬

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【1月25日 AFP】ドイツの中道左派、社会民主党（ SPD ）は24日、9月に行われる議会選挙の首相候補にマルティン・シュルツ（ Martin Schulz ）前欧州議会（ European Parliament ）議長（61）を擁立することを決めた。大連立を組む保守、キリスト教民主・社会同盟（ CDU/CSU ）のアンゲラ・メルケル（ Angela Merkel ）首相の対抗馬となる。
SPDの党首を務めるジグマル・ガブリエル（ Sigmar Gabriel ）副首相が同日これに先立ち、党首を辞任すると電撃的に表明。シュルツ氏に党首ポストを譲ると明らかにしていた。
ガブリエル氏は首都ベルリン（ Berlin ）で党の幹部会後に行った記者会見で、自らが首相候補として勝利する可能性は低いと認め、シュルツ氏の方が「（勝利する）可能性が高く、ふさわしい候補だ」と語った。突然の発表に記者団からも驚きの声が漏れた。
欧州議会議長の5年の任期を先週終えたばかりのシュルツ氏も記者会見に同席し、指名を「誇りと謙虚さをもって」受諾したと述べた。
シュルツ氏の首相候補への選出は29日の形式的な党内投票を経て正式に承認される。
メルケル首相率いるCDU/CSUは政党支持率ではSPDを引き離しているが、最近の世論調査によると、知名度が抜群のシュルツ氏とメルケル首相の個人としての支持率は伯仲している。(c)AFP/Deborah COLE

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В Киеве с отколовшейся льдины сняли 30 рыбаков — видео

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January 25, 2017

Сотрудники ГосЧС сняли с оторванной льдины на реке Днепр 30 рыбаков. Происшествие случилось возле острова Великий. Погибших и пострадавших нет, от медицинской помощи рыбаки отказались, сообщает пресс-служба ГосЧС.
«Благодаря слаженным действиям столичных спасателей удалось спасти 30 человек, которые находились на оторванной льдине на ориентировочной расстоянии 40-50 метров от берега», — сказано в сообщении ГосЧС.
Известно, что на месте происшествия было задействовано два отделения водолазно-спасательной службы и два отделения пожарно-спасательных подразделений общей численностью 22 человека личного состава.
Напомним, ранее в Одесской области под лед провалилось четыре человека .

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Japan launches first military communications satellite

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Jan. 25 (UPI) — Japan has launched its first military communications satellite, which will be positioned in orbit 22,000 miles above the Earth.
The launch of the Kirameki-2 satellite comes amid tensions with China in the East China Sea over conflicting claims of sovereignty over an island and tension with North Korea over Pyongyang’s nuclear program.
Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported the launch took place Tuesday at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Tanegashima Space Center.
The launch was conducted by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and the space agency using a H-IIA Launch Vehicle.
Two other Kirameki X-band satellites will be launched at a later date. One of those is the Kiramei-1, whose launch had been delayed because of damage sustained during its transportation to a launch site in French Guiana, the report said.