Hundreds rally in Okinawa over U.S. rape suspect
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About 300 women gathered on Japan's southern island of Okinawa on Tuesday to protest the suspected rape of a 14-year-old girl there by a U.S. Marine, calling for U.S. troops to leave, media reported.
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Thousands of UN staff as well as African nations rallied on Wednesday around UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, wounded by US allegations that he allowed corruption in the now-defunct Iraq oil-for-food program.
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Japanese authorities are investigating the alleged rape of a teenager by four US Marines in southwestern Japan last weekend, officials and media said Friday
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Senior Japanese officials expressed anger Tuesday after the arrest of a U.S. Marine accused of raping a 14-year-old girl on the southern island of Okinawa, with the prime minister calling the situation "unforgivable."
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VICENZA, Italy  - Thousands of Italians gathered under heavy police guard on Saturday to protest against the expansion of a U.S. military base that has aroused strong opposition and divided the center-left government.
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Hundreds of women rallied in Rome and Naples on Thursday to protest police interrogation of a woman after she underwent an abortion and to oppose a campaign push by some conservatives to change Italy's abortion law.
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Condemnations rang out from several corners in Japan today after a 38-year-old U.S. Marine was accused of raping a 14-year-old local girl in Okinawa. Police also released more details of the alleged crime, saying the Marine had offered to take the girl home on his motorcycle.
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U.S. military authorities held preliminary hearings Friday to determine whether four Marines who had been charged with raping a Japanese woman last year should be court-martialed.
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The Japanese navy was mobilized on  Wednesday for the first time in five years after an  unidentified submarine was spotted in waters off Japan.
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Hundreds of tribesmen gathered Tuesday near the area where suspected al-Qaida-linked militants are holding two Chinese engineers and demanding safe passage to their reputed leader, a former U.S. prisoner from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, officials and residents said.
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A U.S. Marine was arrested on suspicion of raping a 14-year-old Japanese girl on the southern island of Okinawa, police said on Monday, triggering anger from an area where the U.S. military presence is widely resented.
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Japan slammed U.S. military discipline as slack on Monday, and it plans to raise the issue with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice next week after a series of minor crimes following the arrest of a Marine for rape.
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Japanese conservative activists on Friday protested US congressional demands for a clear apology over wartime sexual slavery, saying the women were not slaves but just making money.
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An American man working for the U.S.  military was handed to Japanese prosecutors for questioning on  Saturday following his arrest on suspicion of raping a woman on  the island of Okinawa, a police spokesman said.
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Four U.S. Marines based in southwest Japan have been charged with raping a Japanese woman last October, a U.S. military spokesman said on Friday, days after the arrest of another Marine for suspected rape of a schoolgirl on the southern island of Okinawa.
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Top Japanese officials on Tuesday deplored the suspected rape of a 14-year-old girl by a U.S. Marine on the southern island of Okinawa, an episode with echoes of a 1995 incident that jolted the U.S.-Japan security alliance.
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After the arrest of a U.S. Marine accused of raping a 14-year-old girl on the southern island of Okinawa, Japanâs prime minister calls the situation âunforgivable.â