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AP Photo People clean up the pieces of glasses shattered by a strong earthquake at an auto dealership in Karumai, Iwate prefecture on Thursday, July 24, 2008. A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 struck off the northern Japanese coast early Thursday, injuring at least 91 people, causing blackouts and landslides, officials said.
TOKYO A powerful earthquake rattled parts of northern Japan early Thursday, injuring more than 100 people, triggering landslides and cutting power to thousands of people, officials said.
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ANKARA, Turkey Turkish warplanes bombed 13 Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq, the military said Thursday.
TOKYO Japanese and Mongolian scientists have successfully recovered the complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur, a nature museum announced Thursday.
SINGAPORE North Korea's reclusive communist regime, long seen as a nuclear threat to the region, signed a nonaggression pact Thursday with Southeast Asia, in a largely symbolic move.
MANILA, Philippines Kidnappers have freed unharmed a retired U.S. Marine's 19-year-old daughter a day after snatching her, police said Thursday.
LONDON Motor racing boss Max Mosley won a landmark privacy-invasion lawsuit Thursday against a tabloid newspaper's claims he took part in a "Nazi" orgy.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand A family court judge in New Zealand has had enough with parents giving their children bizarre names here, and did something about it.
BELGRADE, Serbia Authorities are investigating who helped ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic assume the false identity that helped him elude capture for more than a decade.
MANILA, Philippines A homemade bomb ripped through a commuter bus in the southern Philippines on Thursday, wounding 27 people, police said.
MANILA, Philippines Communist rebels attacked a banana farm associated with Dole Foods Co. Thursday and a land mine hit a security vehicle rushing to intervene, killing one and wounding three others, the military said.
MATAMOROS, Mexico Hurricane Dolly toppled trees and sent billboards flying Wednesday in the Mexican city of Matamoros, and authorities south of the U.S. border warned of possible flooding.
TAIPEI, Taiwan Some Taiwanese lawmakers have called for boycotting the Beijing Olympics unless a dispute over the island's name is resolved.
SINGAPORE Asia-Pacific powers on Thursday announced an ambitious plan to pool their military and civilian resources for disaster responses in a region beset by cyclones, earthquakes and floods.
DONGSHA, Taiwan Concrete pilings designed to prevent an invasion no longer dot this tiny Taiwanese islet's shoreline. A formidable marine garrison also has vanished, replaced by laid-back coast guardsmen and marine biologists.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal convicted and fined an award-winning journalist euro7,000 (US$11,000) Thursday for publishing the name of a witness who testified anonymously in the trial of Kosovo's former prime minister.
NABLUS, West Bank Palestinian security says more than 20 Jewish settlers have attacked a Palestinian village in the West Bank, smashing cars and windows and cutting electricity wires.
CANBERRA, Australia Australia's prime minister, who has won applause for apologizing to Aborigines for past wrongs, has revived plans for a constitutional revision to recognize the country's indigenous people.
MEXICO CITY Mexico's transportation secretary says it has grounded two airlines for lacking proof they paid for fly rights in the country's air space.
BEIJING China has clamped down further on issuing business visas, government officials said Thursday, in the latest expansion of already-tight entry restrictions for next month's Olympic Games.
JERUSALEM Israel radio reports that Israel has given preliminary approval for the construction of a new Jewish settlement in the West Bank.
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