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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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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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Randy Johnson throws ceremonial 1st pitch

SEATTLE, United States - Randy Johnson, former Major League Baseball pitcher who won the Cy Young Award five times, throws the ceremonial first pitch at the home opening game of the Seattle Mariners against the Oakland Athletics at Safeco Field in Seattle on April 12, 2010.

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Mariners play opening game

SEATTLE, United States - Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki is introduced before his team's opening game against the Oakland Athletics at Safeco Field in Seattle on April 12, 2010. Ichiro was hitless at four bats as the Mariners lost 4-0 to the Athletics.

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Ichiro receives Golden Glove, Silver Slugger trophies

SEATTLE, United States - Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki poses with his 2009 Golden Glove and Silver Slugger trophies before his team's home opening game against the Oakland Athletics at Safeco Field in Seattle on April 12, 2010.

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Hatoyama promises Obama end-of-May settlement on base issue

WASHINGTON, United States - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama speaks to reporters in Washington on April 12, 2010, after holding informal talks with U.S. President Barack Obama during a working dinner for the Nuclear Security Summit.

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Japan, China to constitute core of E. Asian community: Hatoyama

WASHINGTON, United States - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (3rd from R) and Chinese President Hu Jintao (2nd from L) sit down to talks in Washington on April 12, 2010. The two leaders met on the sidelines of the two-day Nuclear Security Summit that began the same day. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Randy Johnson throws ceremonial 1st pitch

SEATTLE, United States - Randy Johnson, former Major League Baseball pitcher who won the Cy Young Award five times, throws the ceremonial first pitch at the home opening game of the Seattle Mariners against the Oakland Athletics at Safeco Field in Seattle on April 12, 2010.

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Hatoyama promises Obama end-of-May settlement on base issue

WASHINGTON, United States - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama speaks to reporters in Washington on April 12, 2010, after holding informal talks with U.S. President Barack Obama during a working dinner for the Nuclear Security Summit.

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Japan, China to constitute core of E. Asian community: Hatoyama

WASHINGTON, United States - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (L) and Chinese President Hu Jintao shake hands prior to their talks in Washington on April 12, 2010. The two leaders met on the sidelines of the two-day Nuclear Security Summit that began the same day. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Hatoyama arrives in Washington to attend nuke summit

WASHINGTON, United States - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama arrives at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on April 12, 2010, to attend a two-day Nuclear Security Summit to be hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Japanese astronauts play musical instruments together

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese astronauts Soichi Noguci (L in back) and Naoko Yamazaki (R in back) at the International Space Station talk to Moeka Kusuda, a six-grader at an elementary school, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo during a video chat event on April 12, 2010. Two Cabinet ministers and six schoolchildren took part in the event during which Noguchi and Yamazaki played musical instruments together.

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World's 1st second-generation eel breeding under way in Japan

MINAMIISE, Japan - A worker at the Japanese governmental Fisheries Research Agency feeds baby eels under fluorescent blue light at its institute in Minamiise, Mie Prefecture, on April 12, 2010. The agency has succeeded in breeding second-generation cultivated eels for the first time in the world.

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Rome mayor visits Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno (2nd from L) visits the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on April 12, 2010. The mayor came to the atomic-bombed city together with 10 high school students from the Italian capital under its peace program.

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World's 1st second-generation eel breeding under way in Japan

MINAMIISE, Japan - Baby eels swim in a pool at an institute of the Japanese governmental Fisheries Research Agency in Minamiise, Mie Prefecture, on April 12, 2010. The agency has succeeded in breeding second-generation cultivated eels for the first time in the world.

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Interim Kyrgyz gov't deputy chief Atambayev

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan - Almazbek Atambayev, deputy head of the interim Kyrgyz government, speaks at a press conference in Bishkek on April 12, 2010. Atambayev, a former prime minister, said the temporary authorities are preparing to launch an operation aimed at detaining fleeing President Kurmanbek Bakiyev.

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Ginowan mayor seeks early Futemma base closure

NAHA, Japan - Ginowan Mayor Yoichi Iha (R) talks about the city's hosting of the U.S. Marine Corps Futemma Air Station (in distance) to members of a House of Representatives committee at a park in the city in Okinawa Prefecture on April 12, 2010. Iha repeated a call for the closure of the base on the 14th anniversary of the original Japan-U.S. agreement for that end.

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Ginowan mayor seeks early Futemma base closure

NAHA, Japan - Ginowan Mayor Yoichi Iha speaks at a press conference in the city in Okinawa Prefecture on April 12, 2010. Iha repeated a call for the closure of the controversial U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in the city on the 14th anniversary of the original Japan-U.S. agreement for that end.

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Pro-Thaksin rallies continue

BANGKOK, Thailand - Supporters of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra stage a rally in Bangkok on April 12, 2010. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva lashed out at antigovernment demonstrators the same day saying ''terrorists'' were hiding among them.

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Pro-Thaksin rallies continue

BANGKOK, Thailand - Supporters of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra stage a rally in Bangkok on April 12, 2010. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva lashed out at antigovernment demonstrators the same day saying ''terrorists'' were hiding among them.

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Sharp to launch 3-D TVs in summer

TOKYO, Japan - Masafumi Matsumoto, executive vice president of Sharp Corp., announces a plan to launch three-dimensional liquid crystal display televisions at a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo on April 12, 2010. Matsumoto said the Japanese electronics maker will start to sell the products in the summer.

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Sharp to launch 3-D TVs in summer

TOKYO, Japan - This photo shows a demo image displayed on a three-dimensional television that Sharp Corp. unveiled April 12, 2010 ahead of the planned release in the summer. Objects seen through special 3-D glasses look clear while others are blurred.

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Sharp to launch 3-D TVs in summer

TOKYO, Japan - Sales promoters of Sharp Corp. promote a three-dimensional television that the Japanese electronics maker unveiled at a hotel in Tokyo on April 12, 2010. Sharp said it will launch the products in the summer.

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Doraemon cartoonist museum groundbreaking ceremony

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Masako Fujimoto, the widow of ''manga'' cartoon artist Fujiko F. Fujio who created the feline robot series ''Doraemon,'' participates in a groundbreaking ceremony for a museum dedicated to the cartoonist in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on April 12, 2010. The three-story museum is scheduled to open in September 2011.

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Hatoyama leaves for Washington to attend nuke summit

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama waves as he leaves Tokyo's Haneda airport on April 12, 2010, for Washington to attend a summit on nuclear security to be hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama.

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Astronaut Noguchi addresses university students

TOKYO, Japan - Screen shows an image of Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi, recorded from the International Space Station, during an entrance ceremony for the University of Tokyo at the Nippon Budokan gymnasium in Tokyo on April 12, 2010. Noguchi, a graduate of the university, congratulated some 3,200 new students who entered Japan's most prestigious school.

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Hatoyama speaks to reporters before leaving for Washington

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 12, 2010, before leaving for Washington to attend a summit meeting on nuclear security to be hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama.

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Hatoyama speaks to reporters before leaving for Washington

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 12, 2010, before leaving for Washington to attend a summit meeting on nuclear security to be hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama.

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50 people demonstrate to demand truth of Ghanaian man's death

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese wife of a Ghanaian man who died suddenly while being deported from Japan last month, and some 50 people supporting her stage a demonstration in Tokyo's Roppongi district on April 12, 2010, to demand the Japanese government fully investigate the case. The 48-year-old wife said she believes the death of her 45-year-old husband was caused by violence by Japanese immigration officials who accompanied him aboard a flight to Cairo from Narita airport on March 22 when he was being deported for illegally staying in Japan.

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University of Tokyo students at entrance ceremony

TOKYO, Japan - An entrance ceremony for the University of Tokyo, Japan's most prestigious university, is held at the Nippon Budokan gymnasium in Tokyo on April 12, 2010. Some 3,200 new students attended the event.

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Ginkau-ji's renovation completed

KYOTO, Japan - Tourists visit the Ginkakuji (Silver Pavilion), a Zen temple in Kyoto's Sakyo Ward constructed in 1489, amid rain on April 12, 2010, as a ceremony to mark the completion of extensive restoration work took place. The restoration work, which started in February 2008, was the first in some 30 years.

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Okamoto to replace Torihara as head of Tokyo Gas on April 1

TOKYO, Japan - Tsuyoshi Okamoto (file photo), vice president of Tokyo Gas Co., will replace Mitsunori Torihara as president on April 1, the company said on Jan. 12, 2010. Torihara, 66, will be appointed chairman after serving as president for four years.