Evacuees return to Japan volcano
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About 60 ex-residents of a Japanese island return to homes they fled after a volcanic eruption in 2000.
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Braving near freezing temperatures, thousands of residents of northern Japan camped outside tonight, unnerved by aftershocks from the nation&#39;s deadliest earthquake in a decade
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Most of the 2,000 people forced to evacuate after a 22,000-gallon railroad tanker leaked chemicals into a creek and sewer system were permitted to return home Friday.
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US deserter and former Army Sgt. Charles Jenkins arrived Tuesday on a remote Japanese island, where he said he hoped to &quot;live my remaining days with my wife and children.
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Scientists tracking renewed earthquake activity at Mount St Helens are warning that a second eruption may be brewing. Officials evacuated a visitor centre at the Johnston Ridge Observatory about five miles from the volcano&#39;s crater as a safety precaution.
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U.N. relief workers are returning to Ivory Coast two weeks after widespread protests forced about 9,000 other foreigners to evacuate, the United Nations said Wednesday.
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Thousands of people in Malaysian Borneo are returning home after being prompted to flee by false reports of a tsunami.
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Rescue workers dug  desperately for survivors on Sunday as residents returned to  ruined homes on Indonesia&#039;s densely populated island of Java a  day after a powerful earthquake killed nearly 3,300.
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Rescuers were searching through rubble for survivors Thursday after Japan&#39;s deadliest typhoon in a decade triggered floods and landslides that killed at least 31 people and left 39 missing.
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TOKYO, Japan -- Rescuers are trying to free a young girl trapped in a van beneath a landslide following Japan&#39;s deadliest earthquake in a decade.
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KASHIWAZAKI, Japan  - Nearly 8,000 people spent an anxious night in evacuation centers in northwestern Japan after a strong earthquake flattened hundreds of houses and killed at least seven people.
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Japan resumed rescue efforts at first light on Monday as aftershocks rattled the area where the country&#39;s deadliest earthquake in nine years killed at least 23
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KASHIWAZAKI, Japan  - More than 12,000 people huddled in evacuation centers in northwest Japan on Tuesday after an earthquake flattened homes, killing nine elderly people, injuring around 1,000 and triggering a leak of contaminated water from a nuclear plant.
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Japanese officials returned Monday from Pyongyang with what they were told are the cremated remains of Megumi Yokota, who according to North Korea committed suicide after being abducted to the reclusive state in 1977.
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Japan's majestic peak is also home to tons of discarded trash. FUJIKAWAGUCHI, Japan -- If you look up from the forests at the foot of Japan's Mount Fuji, the volcano's graceful slopes rise into the distance and peak in a nearly symmetrical, snowcapped cone.
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FUJIKAWAGUCHI, Japan -- If you look up from the forests at the foot of Japan's Mount Fuji, the volcano's graceful slopes rise into the distance and peak in a nearly symmetrical, snowcapped cone.
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The first batch of Japanese troops has returned home from Iraq to emotional family reunions as the officially pacifist nation wrapped up its most significant military operation since World War II.