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Jan 2024
30m 54s

All 379 passengers escape Japan Airlines...

Bbc World Service
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Five people died on the other coastguard plane at Tokyo's Haneda Airport which was preparing to deliver aid to areas hit by Monday's earthquake. Also: Fury in Somalia as Ethiopia strikes a port access deal which effectively recognises breakaway Somaliland, and the sixteen year old World Championship darts sensation everyone is talking about in the UK.

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