Japan shoplifter dies after two-beer heist
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Japanese police arrested a supermarket manager on Wednesday on suspicion of beating a man to death for stealing two cans of beer.
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Great news for beer and milk lovers: A liquor shop owner in Japan's largest dairy farming region has stopped crying about local spilt milk and started making beer from it instead.
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The actor Heath Ledger was found dead this afternoon in an apartment building in SoHo, according to the New York City police.
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Japanese police are investigating two cases of suspected group suicide, after several people were found dead in parked cars outside the capital, Tokyo.
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Two people died and more than 20 others were injured when a bomb exploded at a Sungai Kolok bar Thursday night in Southern Thailand, The Nation reports.
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severed head of a man found in Baghdad were of Koda. Newspapers reported his killing. Japan on October 23, killing at least 36 people and forcing 100,000 from their homes.
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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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Two men are arrested by police after a man dies outside a bar in a County Antrim village.
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TOKYO  - Japanese actor Tetsuro Tamba,   best known internationally for playing dapper spymaster Tiger   Tanaka in the 1967 James Bond picture "You Only Live Twice,"   has died in Tokyo. He was 84.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A decapitated body wrapped in an American flag and found in an insurgent-controlled section of Baghdad was that of a Japanese man kidnapped by Islamic militants, a Japanese official said Sunday.
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A partially covered van, in which seven young men and women were found dead, is seen at a police station in Chichibu, north of Tokyo, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2004.
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Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura announces that Japanese govenment has confirmed that a depapitated body found in Iraq is that of Japanese hostage Shosei Koda during an emergency news conference in Tokyo Sunday, Oct. 31, 2004.
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U.N. peacekeepers and Haitian police on Tuesday killed a suspected gang leader wanted in the kidnap-slaying of a French businessman.
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A JAPANESE hostage abducted in Iraq has been killed, the Kyodo news agency reported last night. A body found near the town of Tikrit was identified as that of Shosei Koda, a 24-year-old
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An anti-nuclear protester has died in France after being run over by a train carrying nuclear waste from France to Germany. The 21-year-old man had chained himself to train tracks near the northeast city of
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A man carrying a knife burst into a public elementary school in western Japan on Monday and stabbed at least three adults, police said. Kyodo News reported that one of the victims died.
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KIEL, Wis. - Robbing a store apparently caused this suspect to work up a thirst. A 46-year-old man accused of robbing a Dollar General store at knifepoint Saturday was arrested about 15 minutes later at a bar less than a mile away. Police said he was taken into custody without incident.