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Japan is reeling from the latest major earthquake to hit the country.Nineteen people are missing at an Aeon shopping centre and a paper factory after the 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit Kyushu island, an official said.The quake has also caused power cuts, damaged roads, collapsed a castle wall and destroyed a footbridge.Information is still coming out of Japan but here is what we know so far.The quake hit the Kumamoto prefecture on Kyushu island at 16:27 local time (07:27 GMT) on Tuesday, with hundreds of thousands of people being told to move to evacuation shelters.The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) reported the…

Watch: The moment quake hit JapanVideo shows locations across the region where a strong earthquake struck Japan’s Kyushu island on 28 July.1 hr agoAsia

Mancini reappointed Italy boss after Pirlo controversyRoberto Mancini is appointed Italy manager for a second time – just a day after Andrea Pirlo rules himself out of the running for the job and technical director Paolo Maldini resigns.2 hrs agoItaly

A key question in a Massachusetts murder trial is whether postpartum psychosis drove a mother to kill her three children.On Monday, a jury heard opening statements in the trial of Lindsay Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital. Both sides agree she strangled her children aged 5 and younger in 2023. But they disagree over whether she should be held criminally responsible.Clancy and her ex-husband, Patrick Clancy, filed lawsuits accusing her medical providers of failing to properly diagnose and treat her condition.Here’s what to know about the disorder.It’s estimated to afflict only 1 to 2 per…

Watch: Train derailed and buildings on fire after earthquakeAerial footage shows the aftermath of the earthquake in Kumamoto prefecture.1 hr ago

LIVETrump to meet Zelensky and Netanyahu separately at White House The world leaders are in Washington for Senator Lindsey Graham’s funeral.

LIVEWildfire fight is ‘David against Goliath’ says French fire service, as new heatwave hitsA major wildfire is burning around nine miles from the outskirts of Bordeaux – although officials say the city itself is not yet under threat.

LIVEMany people trapped inside Japanese shopping centre after earthquake, fire service saysA magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit inland on Kyushu island at 16:27 local time (07:27 GMT).

Universal PicturesLupita Nyong’o stars as Helen of Troy in Christopher Nolan’s The OdysseySir Christopher Nolan’s latest film, The Odyssey, may have won rave reviews from critics and done storming business at the box office – but one person is definitely not happy.Emily Wilson, the academic whose 2017 translation of Homer’s Odyssey was cited by the director as an influence on his adaptation of the poem, has written a scathing review of the movie.Published in the London Review of Books, Wilson said she “would be ashamed to have written any of this script”, describing the film’s narrative structure as “gimmicky.””The writing…

Getty ImagesFrance’s UN ambassador Jerome Bonnafont spoke at the UN Security Council in New York on Monday during an emergency meeting on the Ukraine-Russia warThe US delegation walked out of a UN Security Council meeting on Monday, in protest at comments made by France that compared Washington’s voting on human rights to that of authoritarian states.The diplomatic row was initially sparked last week, when the US joined North Korea and Russia in voting against extending Volker Turk’s term as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. After the vote on Friday, France’s UN mission criticised the US and compared it to…