AP A car bomb exploded outside a mosque Sunday, killing at least 37 people and wounding another 141 in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi — the third mass-casualty attack on the minority sect in the country this ...
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Kenta Maeda shook off worries about his form with five shutout innings as Japan beat China 5-2 in first-round Pool A of the World Baseball Classic on Sunday at Fukuoka Dome. Japan improved to 2-0 following a tough win over Brazil in Saturday evening’s ...
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YOKOHAMA – A 31-year-old Maritime Self-Defense Force member was arrested Wednesday after exposing himself in public at a rental video shop in Yokohama’s Konan Ward, in an apparent bid to escape being sent to a disaster-relief operation in Iwate Prefecture and engaging in further corpse retrievals at sea.
Hitoshi Kamiyama, a petty officer third class on the MSDF rescue ship Chiyoda, reportedly told police he thought he would not be dispatched to the tsunami-hit area if he was arrested.
