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Magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes near Melbourne, tremors rattle southeast Australia

SYDNEY/MELBOURNE (Reuters) -A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck near Melbourne on Wednesday, Geoscience Australia said, one of the country's biggest quakes on record, causing damage to buildings in the country's second largest city and sending tremors throughout neighbouring states. The quake's epicentre was near the rural town of Mansfield in the state of Victoria, about 200 km (124 miles) northeast of Melbourne, and was at a depth of 10 km (six miles). An aftershock was rated 4.0. Images and video footage circulating on social media showed rubble blocking one of Melbourne's main streets, while people in northern parts of the city said on social media they had lost power and others said they were evacuated from buildings. The quake was felt as far away as the city of Adelaide, 800 km (500 miles) to the west in the state of South Australia, and Sydney, 900 km (600 miles) to the north in New South Wales state, although there were no reports of damage outside Melbourne and no reports of injuries. More than half of Australia's 25 million population lives in the southeast of the country from Adelaide to Melbourne to Sydney. We have had no reports of serious injuries, or worse, and that is very good news and we hope that good news will continue, Prime Minister Scott Morrison told reporters in Washington. It can be a very disturbing event, an earthquake of this nature. They are very rare events in Australia and as a result, I am sure people would have been quite distressed and disturbed. Quakes are relatively unusual in Australia's populated east due to its position in the middle of the Indo-Australian Tectonic Plate, according to Geoscience Australia. The quake on Wednesday measured higher than the country's deadliest tremor, a 5.6 in Newcastle in 1989, which resulted in 13 deaths. The mayor of Mansfield, Mark Holcombe, said he was in his home office on his farm when the quake struck and ran outside for safety. I have been in earthquakes overseas before and it seemed to go on longer than I have experienced before, Holcombe told the ABC. The other thing that surprised me was how noisy it was. It was a real rumbling like a big truck going past. He knew of no serious damage near the quake epicentre, although some residents reported problems with telecommunications. No tsunami threat was issued to the Australian mainland, islands or territories, the country's Bureau of Meteorology said in a statement. The quake presented a potential disruption for anti-lockdown protests expected in Melbourne on Wednesday, which would be the third day of unrest that has reached increasing levels of violence and police response. (Reporting by Byron Kaye and Renju Jose in Sydney, Sonali Paul in Melbourne and Shubham Kalia in Bengaluru; Editing by Michael Perry & Shri Navaratnam)

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Magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes near Melbourne, tremor...

SYDNEY/MELBOURNE, Sept 22 (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck near Melbourne on Wednesday, Geoscience Australia said, one of the country's biggest quakes on record, causing damage to buildings in the country's second largest city and sending tremors throughout neighbouring states.

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Beijing delays vote on extending anti-sanctions law to Hong Kong -SCMP

HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's top legislature has postponed a vote on extending an anti-sanctions law to Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post said on Friday, as global banks and other financial institutions fret over the impact it could have on their operations. Beijing was expected to formally approve the law for the Chinese-ruled city on Friday to counter actions by foreign governments amid escalating geopolitical tensions. The central government hopes to listen to further views on the matter, the newspaper cited a mainland source as saying. Financial firms have been closely watching a meeting this week of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, the highest body of China's parliament, for signs on how and when the legislation will be introduced in Hong Kong. Beijing introduced the law in mainland China in June under which individuals or entities involved in making or implementing discriminatory measures against Chinese citizens or entities could be put on a mainland anti-sanctions list. Under China's law, such individuals could then be denied entry into China or be expelled. Their assets in China may be seized or frozen. They could also be restricted from doing business with entities or people in China. The mainland law followed a series of sanctions by the United States on dozens of Hong Kong and mainland Chinese officials involved with a national security law Washington says is being used to crush dissent in the city, which Beijing denies. A deputy director of the State Council's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, Huang Liuquan, was expected to provide some clarity to Hong Kong officials when he visits the city next week, the South China Morning Post said earlier on Friday. Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday she did not have an explicit timetable for the law's implementation. (Reporting By Anne Marie Roantree; Editing by Michael Perry & Shri Navaratnam)

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Women triumphant in Tokyo as Biles spotlights mental health at Games

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Oil drops as Chinese lockdowns, U.S. unemployment data drains rally

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices fell more than 2% on Friday, with both contracts posting a loss on the week as concerns about Chinese cities in lockdown due to coronavirus outbreaks tempered a rally driven by strong import data from the world’s biggest crude importer.
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Brent fell $1.32, or 2.3%, to settle at $55.10 a barrel. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude settled down $1.21, or 2.3%, at $52.36 a barrel.
Both benchmarks, which hit their highest in nearly a year earlier in the week, posted their first weekly declines in three weeks, with Brent down 1.6% on the week and U.S. crude down about 0.4%.

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