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Japan snowfall: 1000 people stranded overnight in a 9-mile traffic jam

Reports of a traffic jam on the Kanetsu Expressway connecting Tokyo and Niigata prefectures began to surface on Wednesday. By early Thursday morning, officials had closed the highway entrance to remove the overcrowded station. Jam According to the country’s highway operator operator Nippon Expressway Company (NEXCO), a vehicle was stuck …

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China’s Chang-5 lunar probe successfully delivers lunar samples to Earth

Early Thursday morning, early in Beijing time, the country’s unmanned Change-5 mission returned to Earth taking samples of the country’s first moon, China’s state media Xinhua reported. These samples are the first collected by any country since the 1970s. According to China’s National Space Administration (CNSA), the returning capsule landed …

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