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Japan OKs Iraq Troop Extension

TOKYO – Japan‘s ruling party approved a plan Thursday to extend the country’s military deployment in Iraq for one year, Kyodo News agency reported. The plan was set to be approved later in the day by the Cabinet after the government gets the go-ahead from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s …

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Man Uses Live Cannonball as Toy

Things most guys can have around the house: baseballs, basketballs, footballs, softballs. Things guys most definitely shouldn’t have around the house: cannonballs. A collector in McKinney, Texas, kept an antique cannonball that he’d bought from the trunk of a man’s car at a gun show in his apartment as a …

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Shiites Protest Sunni Comments

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Angry Shiites marched Wednesday and set fire to the offices of a secular politician after a Sunni Arab guest criticized Iraq’s Shiite religious leaders during an Al-Jazeera talk show. The station’s Baghdad correspondent also resigned in protest of the remarks by Fadel al-Rubaei, a Sunni politician living …

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