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    At least 3 dead, 7 missing in Japan's 7.2 quake (AP)

    A resident looks at a road damaged by a powerful earthquake in Oshu, in Iwate prefecture (state), Saturday, June 14, 2008. The 7.0-magnitude earthquake rocked rural areas of northern Japan on Saturday, killing at least two people, triggering landslides and reportedly knocking down a bridge. News reports said dozens of people were injured. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)AP - A 7.2-magnitude earthquake ripped across mountains and rice fields in northern Japan on Saturday, killing at least three people as it sheared off hillsides, jolted buildings and shook nuclear power plants. At least seven people were missing.


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    Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:20:34 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Bush meeting with pro-American leader of France (AP)

    U.S. President George W. Bush, right, is welcomed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy for a dinner at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Friday June 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy energetically greeted President Bush on Saturday for private talks, the latest sign of the warming in U.S.-European relations that Bush has touted all week in his travels abroad.


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    Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:45:51 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    U.S. general questions Pakistan plan for militants (Reuters)

    In this file photo, U.S General Dan McNeill, head of NATO's International Security Assistance Force, speaks during an interview in Kabul October 27, 2007. The U.S. general who recently handed over command of NATO troops in Afghanistan cast doubt on Friday on the ability of Pakistan's Frontier Corps paramilitary force to combat Islamist militants. (Omar Sobhani/Reuters)Reuters - The U.S. general who recently handed over command of NATO troops in Afghanistan cast doubt on Friday on the ability of Pakistan's Frontier Corps paramilitary force to combat Islamist militants.


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    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:32:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Zimbabwe's Mugabe says war vets ready to fight (Reuters)

    Zimbabwean war veterans lead a march in support of President Robert Mugabe in Harare, November 30, 2007. Mugabe says liberation war veterans are ready to take up arms to prevent the opposition winning a June 27 presidential run-off. (Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters)Reuters - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe said on Friday liberation war veterans would take up arms if he loses a June 27 presidential run-off vote.


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    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:24:08 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Cuba deports American fugitive on sex charges (AP)
    AP - Cuba on Friday turned over to U.S. authorities an American fugitive sought on charges of sexual abuse of a minor and possession of child pornography. -- read full article
    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:17:53 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Israel OKs 1,300 east Jerusalem homes (AP)

    Tear gas is seen in the air as Israeli soldiers stand behind a fence while a Palestinian protester holds up a flag, during a demonstration against Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah, Friday, June 13, 2008. Israel says the barrier is necessary for security while Palestinians call it a land grab. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)AP - Israel announced plans Friday to build 1,300 more homes in east Jerusalem, further angering Palestinians who warned ongoing construction threatens efforts to work out a peace deal by the end of the year.


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    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:23:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    China said discouraging tourist travel to France (AP)
    AP - France seems to be falling off the itinerary of Chinese tourists, in a display of China's pique at French support for protesting Tibetans and angry demonstrations against the Olympic torch on the streets of Paris. -- read full article
    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:41:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Scientists: 115-year-old's brain worked perfectly (AP)

    Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, who died at age 115 in 2005, is seen in this  May 26, 2004 photo at de Westerkim, home for the elderly, in Hoogeveen, Netherlands. Scientists say that Henrikje van Andel-Schipper's mind was probably as good as it seemed: a post-mortem analysis of her brain revealed few signs of Alzheimer's or other diseases commonly associated with a decline in mental ability in old age. 'This is the first (extremely old) brain that did not have these problems,' Professor Gert Holstege of Groningen University said, whose findings will be published in the August edition of Neurobiology of Aging. Van Andel was the oldest living person in the world at the time of her death in 2005, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. (AP Photos/ Francois Wieringa, File)AP - A Dutch woman who was the oldest person in the world when she died at age 115 in 2005 appeared sharp right up to the end, joking that pickled herring was the secret to her longevity.


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    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:18:30 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    May's combat deaths in Afghanistan outnumber Iraq (AP)

    United States Defense Secretary Robert Gates speaks during a media conference after a  meeting of NATO defense ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Friday June 13, 2008. NATO nations have agreed to broaden their peacekeeping mission in Kosovo to include training for the newly independent nation's security forces. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)AP - It's a grim gauge of U.S. wars going in opposite directions: American and allied combat deaths in Afghanistan passed the toll in Iraq for the first time last month.


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    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:14:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Bush says West must stand with Afghanistan (AP)

    U.S. President George Bush delivers a speech at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in Paris, Friday, June 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)AP - President Bush said Friday that just as the United States helped Europe rebuild after World War II, the two powers must now stand with newborn democracies like Afghanistan and Iraq and reach out to people yearning for liberty, especially in the Middle East.


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    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:15:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Ireland rejects European Union reform treaty (AP)

    Election officials count the ballots for the Lisbon Treaty referendum in Dublin. Irish voters have dealt a stunning blow to Europe's grand reform plans by rejecting a new EU treaty, plunging the bloc into a fresh period of institutional crisis.(AFP/Peter Muhly)AP - Ireland's voters have rejected the European Union reform treaty, a blueprint for modernizing the 27-nation bloc that cannot become law without Irish approval, electoral officials said Friday.


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    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:09:08 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Zimbabwe leader warns of violence if he loses vote (AP)

    Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, beneath a portrait of himself, addresses  youth  members of his ruling ZANU PF party in Harare, Friday June 13, 2008.  Zimbabwe's welfare minister ordered independent aid groups to stop field work last week, prompting charges that  Mugabe was using food as a political weapon before a June 27 presidential runoff. (AP Photo)AP - President Robert Mugabe said Friday that his supporters are ready to fight if the opposition wins an upcoming presidential runoff election, hardening the rhetoric of a campaign that already has seen widespread violence against government opponents.


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    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:42:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Australia's acting prime minister meets Dalai Lama (AFP)

    Australia's acting prime minister met the Dalai Lama, seen here, on Friday despite a warning from Beijing of its strong opposition to any support for the Tibetan spiritual leader(AFP/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - Australia's acting prime minister met the Dalai Lama on Friday despite a warning from Beijing of its strong opposition to any support for the Tibetan spiritual leader.


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    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:34:19 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    China, Taiwan sign historic deals on travel (AFP)

    Chinese women hold a AFP - China and Taiwan signed historic agreements on Friday that from next month will see thousands more people travel every day between the two rivals.


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    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:47:31 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    UN-contracted driver slain in Somalia (AP)
    AP - The United Nations' food agency says Somali gunmen have shot and killed one of its drivers in southern Somalia. -- read full article
    Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:26:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
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