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Posted: December 3, 2012 at 4:28 a.m.
Police and firefighters gather at the exit of the Sasago Tunnel on the Chuo Expressway in Otsuki, Yamanashi prefecture, Japan, on Sunday morning. Parts of the tunnel collapsed early Sunday, trapping an unknown number of vehicles. At least nine people died.
QUOTE OF THE DAY “We are in a country without courts of law and a president with all the powers in his hands. This is a clear-cut dictatorial climate.” Negad Borai, an Egyptian private law firm director and rights activist Article, 1A
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