Briefly

UNITED STATES

Biden says Trump won't go peacefully

US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he was not confident about a peaceful transfer of power in the United States if Republican Donald Trump loses the Nov 5 presidential election. "If Trump loses, I'm not confident at all," Biden told CBS News after he was asked if he expected a peaceful transfer of power in 2025. "He means what he says. We don't take him seriously. He means it." Trump had falsely claimed he won the 2020 election against Biden and was convicted of 34 felony charges over hush money payment to deceive voters in 2016. His Democratic rival, Vice-President Kamala Harris, has a 51-48 percent lead over him in the latest NPR/PBS News/Marist survey and has edged ahead by 0.5 percentage points in the RealClearPolitics nationwide average of polls.

Helicopter crash at military base kills 1

A helicopter crash at a military base in Alabama killed one person and injured another on Wednesday, officials said. An AH-64 Apache helicopter crashed during routine flight training on Fort Novosel Army base, said a statement from the US Army Aviation Center of Excellence and Fort Novosel. Officials said the male instructor died at the scene, and a US Army student pilot sustained minor injuries and was airlifted for medical treatment.

JAPAN

Powerful quake hits country's southwest

A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 shook southwestern Japan on Thursday, prompting the Japan Meteorological Agency to issue its Nankai Trough Earthquake Extra Information for the first time. The quake hit at 4:43 pm off Kyushu at a depth of 25 kilometers, the United States Geological Survey said. The JMA has issued an alert warning about a possible massive earthquake around the Nankai Trough. Experts have warned for years that such a quake could cause a huge loss of life and property across a wide swathe of central and western Japan.

Agencies - Xinhua