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2008/08/28 21:40
Former Post and Telecommunications Minister Hideo Watanabe and Upper House lawmaker Yumiko Himei have reportedly left the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan to form a new political party.
Police arrested an 18-year-old male college student on suspicion of sneaking into a daycare center in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, and stealing 44 pairs of children's underwear.
South Korea plans to introduce a new system to monitor the whereabouts of sex offenders beginning next month.
A Tokyo man arrested on suspicion of owning 51 poisonous snakes without proper authorization told police he purchased the reptiles from foreigners including Middle Eastern seamen.
Police arrested a 21-year-old male suspected of breaking into a middle school in Yokohama and stealing six pairs of students' sneakers.
A 38-year-old member of the Maritime Self-Defense Force was arrested on suspicion of luring a 17-year-old girl into prostitution.
A family of three narrowly escaped after their vehicle was swept away by a flash flood in Arizona.
KDDI on Thursday unveiled its latest cell phone model Urbano targeting middle-aged users.
Illinois Senator Barack Obama was formally nominated as the Democratic Party's presidential candidate at the party's national convention in Denver.
Two people died and six others were hurt in a fire at a house in Hokkaido Prefecture early Thursday.
South Korean authorities have arrested a North Korean woman suspected of posing as a defector and spying for her country.
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