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US: North Dakota Sees Powerful Winds Amid Tornado-Producing Storm

Severe weather swept across the upper Midwest on Friday, June 20, bringing powerful winds and leaving at least 3 dead in North Dakota as a tornado ripped through the area.

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Tiny nature reserve for rare birds in downtown Xiamen

STORY: Tiny nature reserve for rare birds in downtown Xiamen SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 27, 2024 DATELINE: Jan. 30, 2024 LENGTH: 0:01:29 LOCATION: XIAMEN, China CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of Wuyuan Bay Nature Reserve 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): CAI LIBO, Director of Xiamen Nature Reserve Affairs Center 3. various of Wuyuan Bay Nature Reserve STORYLINE: Xiamen, a coastal eastern Chinese metropolis, may have one of the world's smallest nature reserves for one single endangered bird species. The distinguished visitor to the reserve is called Merops philippinus, or Blue-tailed Bee-eater. Admired by many as one of the most beautiful birds in the world for its fancy feathers, the species is under Class II state protection in China. Set up in 2011, the Wuyuan Bay Nature Reserve for the Blue-tailed Bee-eater welcomes its big moment every April to late October when the birds stop by during migration and dig caves on the cliffs to lay and hatch their eggs. Surrounded by over-10-story buildings just 200 to 3

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Architect Charged In Long Island Serial Killer Case - Long Island

After thirteen years of enigmas and stalemate due to the corruption of a Long Island police department, Rex Heuermann, a 59-year-old architect, was finally arrested in mid-July in Manhattan, accused of at least four murders of prostitutes. The mystery surrounding this serial killer could only be solved by appointing a new team of outstanding investigators - FILE - Victim Maureen Brainard Barnes one of the 10 bodies found on Long Island, with police working on the theory that a single serial killer may be in the New York area in the New York area on April 16, 2011. Photo Police dept/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Architect Charged In Long Island Serial Killer Case - Long Island

After thirteen years of enigmas and stalemate due to the corruption of a Long Island police department, Rex Heuermann, a 59-year-old architect, was finally arrested in mid-July in Manhattan, accused of at least four murders of prostitutes. The mystery surrounding this serial killer could only be solved by appointing a new team of outstanding investigators - FILE - Victim Megan Waterman one of the 10 bodies found on Long Island, with police working on the theory that a single serial killer may be in the New York area on April 16, 2011. Photo Police dept/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Architect Charged In Long Island Serial Killer Case - Long Island

After thirteen years of enigmas and stalemate due to the corruption of a Long Island police department, Rex Heuermann, a 59-year-old architect, was finally arrested in mid-July in Manhattan, accused of at least four murders of prostitutes. The mystery surrounding this serial killer could only be solved by appointing a new team of outstanding investigators - FILE - Victim Amber Lynn Costello one of the 10 bodies found on Long Island, with police working on the theory that a single serial killer may be in the New York area on April 16, 2011. Photo Police dept/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Architect Charged In Long Island Serial Killer Case - Long Island

After thirteen years of enigmas and stalemate due to the corruption of a Long Island police department, Rex Heuermann, a 59-year-old architect, was finally arrested in mid-July in Manhattan, accused of at least four murders of prostitutes. The mystery surrounding this serial killer could only be solved by appointing a new team of outstanding investigators - FILE - Victim Melissa Barthelemy one of the 10 bodies found on Long Island, with police working on the theory that a single serial killer may be in the New York area on April 16, 2011. Photo Police dept/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Architect Charged In Long Island Serial Killer Case - Long Island

After thirteen years of enigmas and stalemate due to the corruption of a Long Island police department, Rex Heuermann, a 59-year-old architect, was finally arrested in mid-July in Manhattan, accused of at least four murders of prostitutes. The mystery surrounding this serial killer could only be solved by appointing a new team of outstanding investigators - FILE - Shannon Gilbert disapeared from december 2010 and could be one of the 10 bodies found on Long Island, with police working on the theory that a single serial killer may be in the New York area. in the New York area on April 16, 2011. Photo Police dept/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Architect Charged In Long Island Serial Killer Case - Long Island

After thirteen years of enigmas and stalemate due to the corruption of a Long Island police department, Rex Heuermann, a 59-year-old architect, was finally arrested in mid-July in Manhattan, accused of at least four murders of prostitutes. The mystery surrounding this serial killer could only be solved by appointing a new team of outstanding investigators - FILE - Crime scenes where they found additional remains that have yet to be identified as human during a search on Jones Beach Island on April 16, 2011 in Norfolk County, New York. It has been reported that police have two new bodies, bringing the total to 10 bodies found on Long Island, with police working on the theory that a single serial killer may be in the New York area. on April 16, 2011. Photo by JMP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Architect Charged In Long Island Serial Killer Case - Long Island

After thirteen years of enigmas and stalemate due to the corruption of a Long Island police department, Rex Heuermann, a 59-year-old architect, was finally arrested in mid-July in Manhattan, accused of at least four murders of prostitutes. The mystery surrounding this serial killer could only be solved by appointing a new team of outstanding investigators - FILE - Crime scenes where they found additional remains that have yet to be identified as human during a search on Jones Beach Island on April 16, 2011 in Norfolk County, New York. It has been reported that police have two new bodies, bringing the total to 10 bodies found on Long Island, with police working on the theory that a single serial killer may be in the New York area. on April 16, 2011. Photo by JMP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Architect Charged In Long Island Serial Killer Case - Long Island

After thirteen years of enigmas and stalemate due to the corruption of a Long Island police department, Rex Heuermann, a 59-year-old architect, was finally arrested in mid-July in Manhattan, accused of at least four murders of prostitutes. The mystery surrounding this serial killer could only be solved by appointing a new team of outstanding investigators - FILE - Crime scenes where they found additional remains that have yet to be identified as human during a search on Jones Beach Island on April 16, 2011 in Norfolk County, New York. It has been reported that police have two new bodies, bringing the total to 10 bodies found on Long Island, with police working on the theory that a single serial killer may be in the New York area. on April 16, 2011. Photo by JMP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Architect Charged In Long Island Serial Killer Case - Long Island

After thirteen years of enigmas and stalemate due to the corruption of a Long Island police department, Rex Heuermann, a 59-year-old architect, was finally arrested in mid-July in Manhattan, accused of at least four murders of prostitutes. The mystery surrounding this serial killer could only be solved by appointing a new team of outstanding investigators - FILE - Crime scenes where they found additional remains that have yet to be identified as human during a search on Jones Beach Island on April 16, 2011 in Norfolk County, New York. It has been reported that police have two new bodies, bringing the total to 10 bodies found on Long Island, with police working on the theory that a single serial killer may be in the New York area. on April 16, 2011. Photo by JMP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Architect Charged In Long Island Serial Killer Case - Long Island

After thirteen years of enigmas and stalemate due to the corruption of a Long Island police department, Rex Heuermann, a 59-year-old architect, was finally arrested in mid-July in Manhattan, accused of at least four murders of prostitutes. The mystery surrounding this serial killer could only be solved by appointing a new team of outstanding investigators - FILE - Crime scenes where they found additional remains that have yet to be identified as human during a search on Jones Beach Island on April 16, 2011 in Norfolk County, New York. It has been reported that police have two new bodies, bringing the total to 10 bodies found on Long Island, with police working on the theory that a single serial killer may be in the New York area. on April 16, 2011. Photo by JMP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Architect Charged In Long Island Serial Killer Case - Long Island

After thirteen years of enigmas and stalemate due to the corruption of a Long Island police department, Rex Heuermann, a 59-year-old architect, was finally arrested in mid-July in Manhattan, accused of at least four murders of prostitutes. The mystery surrounding this serial killer could only be solved by appointing a new team of outstanding investigators - FILE - Crime scenes where they found additional remains that have yet to be identified as human during a search on Jones Beach Island on April 16, 2011 in Norfolk County, New York. It has been reported that police have two new bodies, bringing the total to 10 bodies found on Long Island, with police working on the theory that a single serial killer may be in the New York area. on April 16, 2011. Photo by JMP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Architect Charged In Long Island Serial Killer Case - Long Island

After thirteen years of enigmas and stalemate due to the corruption of a Long Island police department, Rex Heuermann, a 59-year-old architect, was finally arrested in mid-July in Manhattan, accused of at least four murders of prostitutes. The mystery surrounding this serial killer could only be solved by appointing a new team of outstanding investigators - FILE - Crime scenes where they found additional remains that have yet to be identified as human during a search on Jones Beach Island on April 16, 2011 in Norfolk County, New York. It has been reported that police have two new bodies, bringing the total to 10 bodies found on Long Island, with police working on the theory that a single serial killer may be in the New York area. on April 16, 2011. Photo by JMP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Contrast of cemetery before and after 2011 quake

ONAGAWA, Japan - A cemetery damaged by a tsunami-swept train car (above) is photographed on April 7, 2011, in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The cemetery was restored later, as shown in the photo below taken on Sept. 10, 2014, with a railway station building under construction in the background.

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Taipei photo exhibition on quake, tsunami in Japan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - A man looks at a picture, taken by Japan's Sankei Shimbun, showing damage caused by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, at a news photo exhibition in Taipei on April 10, 2014. Photographs by 13 news organizations, members of the Japan Newspaper Publishers

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Japan media photos of 2011 disaster shown in Taipei

TAIPEI, Taiwan - People look at a Kahoku Shimpo newspaper photo of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster that struck northeastern Japan, on display in Taipei on April 10, 2014. About 90 photos of the disaster and its aftermath are being shown at Japan's Interchange Association -- its de facto embassy in Taipei in the absence of formal diplomatic relations -- until April 17.

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Taipei photo exhibition on quake, tsunami in Japan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - A visitor looks at a picture, taken by Japan's Niigata Nippo, showing damage caused by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, at a news photo exhibition in Taipei on April 10, 2014. Photographs by 13 news organizations, members of the Japan Newspaper Publishers

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Japan media photos of 2011 disaster shown in Taipei

TAIPEI, Taiwan - People look at a Fukushima Minyu Shimbun newspaper photo of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster that struck northeastern Japan, on display in Taipei on April 10, 2014. About 90 photos of the disaster and its aftermath are being shown at Japan's Interchange Association -- its de facto embassy in Taipei in the absence of formal diplomatic relations -- until April 17.

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Japan media photos of 2011 disaster shown in Taipei

TAIPEI, Taiwan - People view a Tokyo Shimbun newspaper photo of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster that struck Japan, on display in Taipei on April 10, 2014. About 90 photos of the disaster and its aftermath are being shown at Japan's Interchange Association -- its de facto embassy in Taipei in the absence of formal diplomatic relations -- until April 17.

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Japan media photos of 2011 disaster shown in Taipei

TAIPEI, Taiwan - People look at a Daily Tohoku Shimbun newspaper photo of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster that struck northeastern Japan, on display in Taipei on April 10, 2014. About 90 photos of the disaster and its aftermath are being shown at Japan's Interchange Association -- its de facto embassy in Taipei in the absence of formal diplomatic relations -- until April 17.

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Japan media photos of 2011 disaster shown in Taipei

TAIPEI, Taiwan - People look at an Iwate Nippo newspaper photo of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster that struck northeastern Japan, on display in Taipei on April 10, 2014. About 90 photos of the disaster and its aftermath are being shown at Japan's Interchange Association -- its de facto embassy in Taipei in the absence of formal diplomatic relations -- until April 17.

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos taken from Kyodo News helicopter show the Tairausuiso area of Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 10, 2011 (top), nearly a month after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on March 3, 2014 (bottom).

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos taken from Kyodo News helicopter show a coastal area of Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, on April 10, 2011 (L), nearly a month after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on Feb. 27, 2014 (R).

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Higashimatsushima to launch tsunami tracking system

SENDAI, Japan - Hideo Abe, mayor of Higashimatsushima in Miyagi Prefecture, explains on Feb. 10, 2014, a new system to keep track of tsunami in real-time through surveillance cameras set up along the city's coastline and on top of the city hall. The northeastern Japan city, affected by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, plans to start operating the system in April.

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2 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter show the Akahama area in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on April 10, 2011 (L), about a month after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, and about two and a half years later on Sept. 6, 2013 (R). A pleasure boat that was washed up on the roof of an inn (upper in the former) by the tsunami was dismantled, but the town government of Otsuchi now plans to restore it to preserve the memory of the disaster.

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2 years after quake

OTSUCHI, Japan - Photos show an area in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on April 10, 2011 (L), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 4, 2013, with a shipyard having been reconstructed and the pleasure boat Hamayuri that was washed up on the roof of an inn having been removed.

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2 years after quake

KAMAISHI, Japan - Aerial photos taken by Kyodo News show the area around Kamaishi port in Iwate Prefecture on April 10, 2011 (L), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 1, 2013, with the large cargo vessel having been removed.

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in the city of Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 10, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 4, 2012 (bottom).

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 10, 2011 (L), after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 3, 2012 (R). Many of the buildings damaged by the tsunami have been removed.

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on April 10, 2011 (L), after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 3, 2012 (R).

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Tsunami-damaged vehicles

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken April 10, 2012, shows vehicles damaged by the March 2011 tsunami at a temporary storage site in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture. More than 37,000 vehicles are still being kept in temporary storage by municipalities after being badly damaged in the disaster in the worst-affected prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, according to a recent Kyodo News survey.

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UNESCO honors children's newspaper

PARIS, France - Francesco Bandarin (rear C), assistant director general for culture at the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, poses for photos with Japanese children at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris on April 2, 2012, as the U.N. body honors the Fight Shimbun wall newspaper written by children in a northeastern Japanese city hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. In the front (from R) are first editor Risa Yoshida, 8, and her sister Mahiro, 4. In the center is second editor Satoko Oyama, 10, with her sister Kanako, 13, (rear L). To the right of Bandarin is coordinator and musician Misa Jonouchi.

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Elementary school soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show Okawa Elementary School in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 3, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same school on March 3, 2012 (bottom). At the school, 74 of the 108 students and 10 of the 13 teachers died or went missing in the disaster.

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Yamamoto soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show an area in the town of Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 10, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 5, 2012 (bottom). The bath tub of a house, the rest of which was destroyed by the tsunami, remained.

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S. Koreans in Japan start voter registration

TOKYO, Japan - South Koreans living in Japan apply for voter registration for elections in their country at the South Korean Embassy's consular division in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Nov. 13, 2011, as a legal revision in 2009 has enabled expatriates 19 years old or older to cast ballots. The registration process began the same day at 10 diplomatic missions in Japan ahead of the general election scheduled in April 2012.

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Kirin's beer-flavored drink logs 10 bil.-unit sales

TOKYO, Japan - Kirin Brewery Co. President Koichi Matsuzawa (L) and comedian Tomomitsu Yamaguchi (R) attend an event in Tokyo on Oct. 25, 2011 to commemorate cumulative sales of Kirin's Nodogoshi Nama brand of beer-flavored drink surpassing 10 billion units in terms of 350-milliliter cans since its launch in April 2005. Yamaguchi appears in the product's TV commercials.

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Key chain containing radioactive material

CHIBA, Japan - Photo shows a key chain confiscated by the Chiba prefectural police which contains a glow-in-the-dark material that emits radiation around 12 times greater than the legal limit. Police said on Sept. 27, 2011, they sent papers to prosecutors in April concerning a 15-year-old boy suspected of violating laws meant to prevent radiation hazards. The boy allegedly sold the key chains via the Internet at prices ranging from 3,000 to 10,000 yen after purchasing 30 of them online for 1,000 yen each from July to October 2010.

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Hawaiian-style spa park in Fukushima

IWAKI, Japan - Joban Kosan Co. President Kazuhiko Saito (C) and hula dancers attend a press conference in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 10, 2011. Saito said Spa Resort Hawaiians, a Hawaiian-style spa leisure complex in Iwaki, will partly reopen in October after suspending business following the massive earthquake in March and another quake in April.

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Engineers, researchers help disaster survivors

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Disaster evacuees use computers installed at a facility in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on April 10, 2011. Engineers from information technology companies and researchers from universities have cooperated to help survivors of the March 11 quake and tsunami access online information such as on daily life and employment.

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New Hiroshima mayor visits Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (R) and Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (L) hold a press conference in the Nagasaki city office on May 10, 2011. Matsui visited Nagasaki in southwestern Japan for the first time since being elected mayor of the western Japan city in April. The mayors of the two atomic-bombed cities agreed during their talks to deepen cooperation in efforts to realize a world free of nuclear weapons.

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Stranded ship in Kamaishi

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on April 10, 2011, shows a ship washed ashore by the March 11 tsunami in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture.

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SDF members clean photo albums retrieved

SENDAI, Japan - In the town of Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 10, 2011, members of the Ground Self-Defense Force clean up photo albums retrieved from areas devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami during a search for missing people.

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Public hospital in tsunami-hit area reopens

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - An elderly patient receives an examination at a makeshift facility of Shizugawa public hospital, a central hospital in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, an area devastated by the March 11, 2011, tsunami, on April 18. The hospital, which lost 70 of its around 300 inpatients and workers in the disaster, fully reopened at prefab facilities the same day. The hospital is using the prefab units and equipment donated by an Israeli medical aid team that finished its operations in Minamisanriku on April 10.

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Peruvian presidential candidate Fujimori

LIMA, Peru - Keiko Fujimori (C) celebrates in Lima on April 10, 2011, after it was confirmed she would progress to the June presidential runoff election against Ollanta Humala. Fujimori is the eldest daughter of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, who is serving time in prison for misappropriation during his tenure.

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Brain-dead boy's organs to be transplanted

TOKYO, Japan - Juntaro Ashikari, an official of the Japan Organ Transplant Network, speaks during a press conference at the health ministry in Tokyo on April 12, 2011, on planned transplantations of organs of a boy aged between 10 and 14 who was declared brain-dead with family consent for the first time in Japan the same day. The network is the only entity certified as an intermediary for organ transplants in Japan.

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Brain-dead boy's organs to be transplanted

OSAKA, Japan - File photo taken in August 2010 shows Osaka University Hospital in Suita, Osaka Prefecture. A boy aged between 10 and 14 was declared brain-dead with family consent for the first time in Japan on April 12, 2011. The boy's heart is set to be transplanted to a male patient aged under 20 at the Osaka hospital.

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Ishikawa at Masters

AUGUSTA, United States - Japan's Ryo Ishikawa tees off on the first hole during the final round of the Masters golf tournament at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia on April 10, 2011. Charl Schwartzel of South Africa won the tournament while Ishikawa finished tied for 20th, his best finish in a major tournament outside Japan.

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Schwartzel wins Masters

AUGUSTA, United States - Charl Schwartzel of South Africa clenches his fist after winning the Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia on April 10, 2011. Schwartzel shot a 274 total, 14-under, to claim the Green Jacket.

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Matsui hits 1st homer with A's

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota - Hideki Matsui (L) hits his first home run of the season with the Oakland Athletics off Scott Baker (R) of the Minnesota Twins during the fourth inning of a game at Target Field in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on April 10, 2011. The Athletics beat the Twins 5-3.