Japanese government convenes emergency session after body ...
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TOKYO The Japanese government has convened an emergency session. This, after a report that a body believed to be Asian was discovered in Iraq.
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The Bolivian government is holding emergency talks over the severe flooding in much of the country.
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TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was hospitalized for stress and exhaustion Thursday, a day after announcing his resignation, as his party scrambled to find a replacement amid growing calls for a general election.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was admitted to hospital today with exhaustion, a day after his abrupt decision to resign threw Japanâs political situation into disarray.
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The French government convoked Monday an emergency meeting over the release of two French journalists still held in hostage in Iraq, after parliamentary deputy Didier Julia&#39;s failure to secure their release.
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Japan's government rushed to clean up a damaging political scandal Friday, pushing bills to fix pension system errors through parliament's lower house and replacing a Cabinet minister who committed suicide.
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Japan has resumed rescue efforts following the country&#39;s deadliest earthquake in nine years. Saturday&#39;s quake and its aftershocks left 24 people dead and over 2,000 injured.
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The largest faction in Japan&#39;s ruling party plunged into a crisis over a funding scandal on Monday as speculation mounted that prosecutors were about to question a former prime minister who had led the group.
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Japan's outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whisked to a hospital a day after he resigned for exhaustion and psychological anguish, is the latest high-profile figure to seek treatment over work-related duress in a nation known for its stressed-out laborers.
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Nearly one million people across Japan have taken part in drills to prepare for a major earthquake, in an annual exercise joined for the first time by US and South Korean authorities.
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Japan's PM Yasuo Fukuda calls on sumo wrestling officials to take action, after the death of a trainee.
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Japan's government extends the parliamentary session in an effort to win approval of a controversial navy bill.
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The French government convoked Monday an emergency meeting over the release of two French journalists still held in hostage in Iraq, after parliamentary deputy Didier Julia's failure to secure their release.
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Japan's prime minister was treated at a hospital for exhaustion Thursday, a day after he announced he would quit amid failure at the ballot box and a political brawl over the country's aid to U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan.
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Japanese leader Shinzo Abe is admitted to hospital, a day after announcing his decision to step down.
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Japan sought international and Iraqi help  for a Japanese man held hostage in Iraq on Thursday, less than  24 hours before a deadline set by his captors to behead him  unless Japan withdraws its troops.
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World leaders including the prime ministers of Australia and Japan are heading to Jakarta for an emergency summit on the tsumami catastrophe, an event sure to pose huge security headaches in a country where ...