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UNITED KINGDOM

Dubai ruler ordered to pay $730m in divorce

A British court on Tuesday ordered the ruler of Dubai to pay his ex-wife and their children close to 550 million pounds ($730 million), in one of the most expensive divorce settlements in British history. The High Court said Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum must pay 251.5 million pounds to his sixth wife, Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, and make ongoing payments for their children Al Jalila, 14, and Zayed, 9, underpinned by a bank guarantee of 290 million pounds.

MYANMAR

Over 80 missing after jade mine landslide

More than 80 people went missing in a jade mine landslide in Myanmar's Kachin state in the early hours of Wednesday, officials said. The landslide took place at around 4 am local time, burying nearly 100 people including jade scavengers and vendors, a Hpakant township police officer said. A search and rescue operation is underway. Deadly landslides are frequent in Kachin. A major fatal landslide occurred at a jade mining site in Hpakant in July last year, leaving 174 dead and 54 others injured.

JAPAN

$9.33b deal to help pay for ally's troops

Japan has agreed with the United States to pay 1.06 trillion yen ($9.33 billion) to share the upkeep of US forces stationed in Japan over five years from next April, Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said on Tuesday. That amounts to 211 billion yen a year, up from 201.7 billion yen for the current year ending March 2022. About 54,000 US military personnel are stationed in Japan. While in office, former US president Donald Trump called for Japan to pay more for US forces, saying the security treaty between the two countries dating back to 1951 was "unfair".

Agencies - Xinhua