Nine Dead In Japanese Group Suicide Pacts
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Seven people - four young men and three young women - have been found slumped over dead in a van outside Tokyo. Four charcoal stoves were also in the van; investigators think the young people died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
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TOKYO - There are conflicting reports about whether a Japanese man taken hostage in Iraq last week has been killed by his captors.
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At least nine persons died and 13 injured on Wednesday evening when a suicide bomber rammed a car into a checkpoint south of Baghdad, a National Guard officer said.
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At least nine people are killed by a suicide car bombing in Kirkuk , while clashes kill others in Mosul.
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A scandal-tainted minister in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet committed suicide on Monday, compounding problems for the Japanese leader whose support has already slumped ahead of a July election.
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Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who leads a militant group affiliated with the al-Qaida network, on Tuesday claimed that his group is responsible for the murder of Japanese hostage Shosei
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A top psychologist says he is in no doubt a "sizeable suicide pact" surrounds a spate of deaths in County Armagh.
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Four young Japanese men have been found dead in a Tokyo apartment in what police say may be the latest in a series of Internet suicide pacts that have claimed dozens of lives in the past two years.
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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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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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The Iraqi militant group led by al-Qaida associate Abu Musab Zarqawi took credit on a Web site Tuesday for the beheading of a Japanese hostage, Kyodo reported.
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Nine people were found dead in two rented cars yesterday, with the windows sealed from the inside and charcoal burners at their feet, in what Japanese police are calling modern Japan&#39;s largest suicide pact.
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Nine soldiers are killed in a suicide bomb attack in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, the military says.
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Nine members of Islamic Jihad and a Hamas activist killed in a spate of Israeli air strikes on Gaza
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KASHIWAZAKI, Japan  - More than 12,000 people prepared for a second night in evacuation centers in northwest Japan on Tuesday after an earthquake the previous day killed nine people, injured more than 1,000 and triggered radioactive leaks from a nuclear plant.
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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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MORBID patterns are emerging as Japanese police investigate the deaths of nine young people in what look like the latest cases of &quot;net suicide&quot;, the wired way for lonely people at least to die in company.