9 Die in Japan Suicides Tied to Web
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In Japan, nine people were found asphyxiated in two cars in pacts the police said were facilitated by Internet suicide sites.
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Japanese police said on Tuesday they were investigating a suspected group suicide involving seven people who met through the Internet, the latest in a rash of suicides linked to the Web.
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CHATROOM users who incited a Midland man to kill himself live on the internet will not face prosecution.   Detectives were considering criminal charges against web users who encouraged Kevin Whitrick to hang himself at his home in Wellington, Shropshire, on March 21.
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TOKYO -- Nine bodies were found in two parked cars yesterday with charcoal stoves at their feet and the windows sealed from inside in what is believed to be Japan's largest group suicide.
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There is a disturbing trend in South Korea: people using the Web to trade tips about suicide and, in some cases, to form suicide pacts.
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On Sept. 22, a 34-year-old mother of two posted an Internet notice looking for companions for a group suicide. On Oct. 5, the police found her and three other women barely
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A man used an Internet chat room to try to set up a mass suicide on Valentine's Day involving more than two dozen women across the United States and Canada, authorities said.
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Three men who met on an Internet site  that matches up criminals were arrested after battering a woman  to death and abandoning her body in a forest, police and  Japanese media said on Monday.
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An executive allegedly involved in a bid-rigging scam that has been linked to the suicide of Japan's agriculture minister leaped to his death Tuesday, officials said. The deaths have added to the pressure on a government struggling against a series of scandals.
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The number of Japanese who killed  themselves edged down last year but stayed above 30,000 as it  has for nearly a decade, with suicides among the elderly rising  to account for more than a third of the total, police said on  Thursday.
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Mass suicide is suspected after Japanese police find seven people dead in a van in mountains near Tokyo.
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Officials said more than 14,000 people were killed in nine countries in southern Asia and Africa after massive tsunami waves smashed coastlines Sunday morning. A breakdown of the toll so far:
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Japan set a target on Friday for cutting its suicide rate, one of the highest among industrial nations, by more than 20 percent over the next decade.
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Internet providers are asked to help with the growing problem of teenage suicides in Northern Ireland.
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Nine people were found dead on Tuesday in two rented cars with the windows sealed and charcoal burners at their feet in pacts that the police said were facilitated by Internet suicide sites.
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More than 10,000 people  huddled in evacuation centers in northwest Japan on Tuesday  after an earthquake flattened homes, killing nine people,  injuring more than 900 and triggering a leak of contaminated  water from a nuclear plant.
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PEOPLE WHO who lose their web connection suffer from withdrawal and feelings of loss, frustration, and disconnectedness, according to a report released by Yahoo.