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Top court repeals order for registry of surrogate-born twins

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 7 Kyodo - Japanese TV personality Aki Mukai (L) and former professional wrestler Nobuhiko Takada are pictured during a press conference on April 11, 2007, after the Supreme Court repealed in March a lower court ruling ordering a Tokyo ward office to accept on its registry twins born to the couple through an American surrogate mother. The decision by the top court finalized Shinagawa Ward's rejection to register the 2003 births of the boys.(Kyodo)

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UK: Widespread Flooding Hits Greater Manchester Forcing Hundreds To Evacuate 4

Heavy rain caused severe flooding across Greater Manchester on New Year's Day forcing at least 13,000 people to evacuate. Emergency services declared a major incident.

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Top court repeals order for registry of surrogate-born twins

TOKYO, Japan - Files photos show TV personality Aki Mukai (L) and former professional wrestler Nobuhiko Takada. The Supreme Court on March 23 repealed a lower court ruling ordering a Tokyo ward office to accept on its registry twins born to the couple through an American surrogate mother. The decision by the top court's No. 2 petty bench finalizes Shinagawa Ward's rejection to register the births of the boys, now aged 3.

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Hiroshima girl dies from strangulation

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A housewife with her granddaughter places flowers Nov. 23 at the site in Hiroshima city's Aki Ward, where a 7-year-old girl believed to have been murdered was found inside a cardboard box the previous day.

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7-year-old girl found in cardboard box dies in suspected murder

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Police investigators check the site in Hiroshima's Aki Ward, where a 7-year-old girl was found inside a cardboard box on Nov. 22 and was declared dead later at a hospital in a suspected murder case. Police said they suspect the girl, identified as Airi Kinoshita from the same ward, was killed on her way home from elementary school as she went missing after leaving school alone for home.

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(1)Aides to LDP Diet member Sakai held over undeclared donations

TOKYO, Japan - Officials from the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office enter the home of Aki Shionoya, a state-paid policy secretary of Takanori Sakai, a ruling Liberal Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives, in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on March 4. Shionoya and another aide to Sakai were arrested on suspicion of failing to list in official documents donations worth more than 10 million yen a year for four to five years until around 2001.

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Aides to LDP Diet member Sakai held over undeclared donations

TOKYO, Japan - Officials from the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office enter the home of Aki Shionoya, a state-paid policy secretary of Takanori Sakai, a ruling Liberal Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives, in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on March 4. Shionoya and another aide to Sakai were arrested on suspicion of failing to list in official documents donations worth more than 10 million yen a year for four to five years until around 2001. (Kyodo)

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Top court repeals order for registry of surrogate-born twins

TOKYO, Japan - Files photos show TV personality Aki Mukai (L) and former professional wrestler Nobuhiko Takada. The Supreme Court on March 23 repealed a lower court ruling ordering a Tokyo ward office to accept on its registry twins born to the couple through an American surrogate mother. The decision by the top court's No. 2 petty bench finalizes Shinagawa Ward's rejection to register the births of the boys, now aged 3. (Kyodo)

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Hiroshima girl dies from strangulation

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A housewife with her granddaughter places flowers Nov. 23 at the site in Hiroshima city's Aki Ward, where a 7-year-old girl believed to have been murdered was found inside a cardboard box the previous day. (Kyodo)

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7-year-old girl found in cardboard box dies in suspected murder

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Police investigators check the site in Hiroshima's Aki Ward, where a 7-year-old girl was found inside a cardboard box on Nov. 22 and was declared dead later at a hospital in a suspected murder case. Police said they suspect the girl, identified as Airi Kinoshita from the same ward, was killed on her way home from elementary school as she went missing after leaving school alone for home. (Kyodo)

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Torrential rains in western Japan

Volunteer workers relay sandbags in Aki Ward in Hiroshima on July 12, 2018, following deadly torrential rains that hit a wide area of western Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Torrential rain in western Japan

Officials use a drone to facilitate their search and rescue operation in an area of Hiroshima city's Aki Ward on July 10, 2018, following torrential rain that hit a wide area of western Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo