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US: Super Typhoon Bavi Slams Guam, Northern Marianas 2

Super Typhoon Bavi made landfall Monday, July 6, passing directly over Rota in the Northern Mariana Islands around 8 a.m. local time, with sustained winds over 150 mph. Guam and nearby islands also reported major damage from the storm.

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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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Niigata official meets press over iodine tablets scandal

NIIGATA, Japan - Yasumasa Mizusawa, a senior official in charge of pharmaceutical affairs of the Niigata prefectural government, meets reporters about a scandal over stable iodine tablets at the prefectural government office building in Niigata City on April 22, 2014. The prefecture failed to prepare the tablets for residents near the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station by the end of March 2013 as planned in preparation for emergencies but received the state subsidy.

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Wooden model for Taiho's statue

AKITA, Japan - Photo shows sculptor Toshio Kamada unveiling a wooden model he has carved for a statue of the late sumo great Taiho (1940-2013), whose real name was Koki Naya, in the village of Ogata in Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on April 22, 2014. After being cast by Kamada, the bronze statue of Taiho, who held sumo's highest rank of yokozuna, is expected to be donated around August 2014 to Poronaysk on the Russian Far Eastern island of Sakhalin, Taiho's birthplace.

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Wooden model for Taiho's statue

AKITA, Japan - Photo shows sculptor Toshio Kamada unveiling a wooden model he has carved for a statue of the late sumo great Taiho (1940-2013), whose real name was Koki Naya, in the village of Ogata in Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on April 22, 2014. After being cast by Kamada, the bronze statue of Taiho, who held sumo's highest rank of yokozuna, is expected to be donated around August 2014 to Poronaysk on the Russian Far Eastern island of Sakhalin, Taiho's birthplace.

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Delivery of M'bishi passenger jet to be delayed

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. President Teruaki Kawai speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 22, 2013. The company said the same day that delivery of Japan's first small passenger jet will be delayed for over a year to around the April-June quarter in 2017.

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Mt. Fuji chosen as Heritage site

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from Oshino, Yamanashi Prefecture, shows cherry blossoms at the foot of snow-capped Mt. Fuji on April 18, 2013. The World Heritage Committee of UNESCO on June 22, 2013, decided to inscribe Mt. Fuji on the World Heritage List.

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Making bags in quake-hit town to help recovery

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Akio Sato, who launched a factory to make leather bags in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, shows off its products on April 22, 2013, at the factory. With the launch, he hopes to create a new industry in the coastal fishing and farming town, hit hard by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and help speed its recovery.

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Wedding photos in Japan

SAPPORO, Japan - A newly married couple from Hong Kong pose for a photo at a historic mansion in Sapporo on April 22, 2013, The Sapporo city government in northern Japan is promoting wedding photo shoots for clients from Hong Kong and Taiwan.

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Boeing 787 Dreamliner

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Boeing 787 Dreamliner jets parked at Tokyo's Haneda airport on April 22, 2013. The transport ministry said it will allow Boeing 787 Dreamliners to resume operations on the night of April 26, 2013, after the jet was grounded worldwide for more than three months, despite the root cause of its battery problem remaining unknown.

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Air pollution in Manila

MANILA, Philippines - Buses and other vehicles emit heavy smoke as they travel the main EDSA highway in the Philippine capital Manila on April 22, 2013. The air quality in Metro Manila remains below the World Health Organization-set TSP and PM10 standard level over the past several years despite government efforts to improve it, although it is not considered to be at a level that is risky to human health.

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Kagawa joins celebrations as Man Utd clinch league title

MANCHESTER, Britain - Shinji Kagawa of Manchester United celebrates after an English Premier League soccer match against Aston Villa in Manchester on April 22, 2013. Manchester United won 3-0 to clinch the club's record 20th league title.

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Kagawa joins celebrations as Man Utd clinch league title

MANCHESTER, Britain - Shinji Kagawa (5th from R) of Manchester United celebrates with his teammates after an English Premier League soccer match against Aston Villa in Manchester on April 22, 2013. Manchester United won 3-0 to clinch the club's record 20th league title.

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Kagawa joins celebrations as Man Utd clinch league title

MANCHESTER, Britain - Shinji Kagawa (R) of Manchester United vies for the ball with Nathan Baker of Aston Villa during their English Premier League match in Manchester on April 22, 2013. Manchester United won 3-0 to clinch the club's record 20th league title.

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Kagawa joins celebrations as Man Utd clinch 20th title

MANCHESTER, Britain - Shinji Kagawa (front, L) of Manchester United celebrates with his teammates after an English Premier League soccer match against Aston Villa in Manchester on April 22, 2013. Manchester United won 3-0 to clinch the club's record 20th league title.

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Kagawa joins celebrations as Man Utd clinch 20th title

MANCHESTER, Britain - Shinji Kagawa (C) of Manchester United congratulates Robin van Persie (20) after the Dutchman scored a hat-trick during the first half of an English Premier League soccer match against Aston Villa in Manchester on April 22, 2013. Manchester United won 3-0 to clinch the club's record 20th league title.

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Kagawa joins celebrations as Man Utd clinch 20th title

MANCHESTER, Britain - Shinji Kagawa (4th from R) of Manchester United celebrates with his teammates after an English Premier League soccer match against Aston Villa in Manchester on April 22, 2013. Manchester United won 3-0 to clinch the club's record 20th league title.

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Kagawa joins celebrations as Man Utd clinch league title

MANCHESTER, Britain - Shinji Kagawa (5th from R) of Manchester United celebrates with his teammates after an English Premier League soccer match against Aston Villa in Manchester on April 22, 2013. Manchester United won 3-0 to clinch the club's record 20th league title.

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Kagawa joins celebrations as Man Utd clinch league title

MANCHESTER, Britain - Shinji Kagawa of Manchester United dribbles during the second half of an English Premier League match against Aston Villa in Manchester on April 22, 2013. Manchester United won 3-0 to clinch the club's record 20th league title.

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Crested ibis chicks

NIIGATA, Japan - Photo taken on April 22, 2013, shows veterinarian Yoshinori Kaneko feeding the biggest of four crested ibis chicks born in the wild but being raised at the Sado Japanese Crested Ibis Conservation Center on Sado Island in Niigata Prefecture.

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Capybara triplets

FUKUOKA, Japan - Fubuki, a 4-year-old capybara, feeds her litter at Uminonakamichi Seaside Park in the city of Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on April 22, 2013. The three babies of the Latin American-originated rodent were born on April 14, 2013.

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Crested ibis chicks

NIIGATA, Japan - Photo taken on April 22, 2013, shows the smallest of four crested ibis chicks born in the wild but being raised at the Sado Japanese Crested Ibis Conservation Center on Sado Island in Niigata Prefecture.

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Capybara triplets

FUKUOKA, Japan - Fubuki, a 4-year-old capybara, is pictured with her litter at Uminonakamichi Seaside Park in the city of Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on April 22, 2013. The three babies of the Latin American-originated rodent were born on April 14, 2013.

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Top U.S. uniformed officer in China

BEIJING, China - Gen. Martin Dempsey (L), chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States, and Gen. Fang Fenghui, chief of the General Staff of the People's Liberation Army of China, shake hands during a joint press conference after their meeting in Beijing on April 22, 2013. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Sichuan quake

YA'AN, China - A woman grieves during a funeral for a quake victim in the Lushan county area of Ya'an in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan, on April 22, 2013, following a magnitude-7.0 earthquake two days before.

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Top U.S. uniformed officer in China

BEIJING, China - Gen. Martin Dempsey (L), chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States, and Gen. Fang Fenghui, chief of the General Staff of the People's Liberation Army of China, hold a joint press conference after their meeting in Beijing on April 22, 2013. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Sichuan quake

YA'AN, China - A quake relief vehicle is seen at a main street in the Lushan county area of Ya'an in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan, on April 22, 2013, following a magnitude-7.0 earthquake two days before.

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Sichuan quake

YA'AN, China - A temporary medical service is set up at a shelter in the Lushan county area of Ya'an in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan, on April 22, 2013, following a magnitude-7.0 earthquake two days before.

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Sichuan quake

YA'AN, China - Children hold signboards reading "No water, no food," "No place to live" and "Nobody cares" in the Lushan county area of Ya'an in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan, on April 22, 2013, following a magnitude-7.0 earthquake two days before.

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Pyongyang scene

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Workers are engaged in work to improve a roadside area near Pyongyang airport in North Korea on April 22, 2013.

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Sichuan quake

YA'AN, China - A woman holds a baby near their tent in the Lushan county area of Ya'an in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan, on April 22, 2013, following a magnitude-7.0 earthquake two days before.

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Sichuan quake

YA'AN, China - A woman take properties from her damaged home in the Lushan county area of Ya'an in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan, on April 22, 2013, following a magnitude-7.0 earthquake two days before.

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Pyongyang scene

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Workers unload earth and sand from a truck to improve a roadside area of a trunk route near Pyongyang airport in North Korea on April 22, 2013.

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Sichuan quake

YA'AN, China - Survivors line up for food supplies in the Lushan county area of Ya'an in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan, on April 22, 2013, following a magnitude-7.0 earthquake two days before.

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Sichuan quake

YA'AN, China - Survivors try to clean rubble near their damaged home in the Lushan county area of Ya'an in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan, on April 22, 2013, following a magnitude-7.0 earthquake two days before.

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Pyongyang scene

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Women in traditional Korean dresses assemble near portraits of North Korean founder Kim Il Sung and former leader Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang on April 22, 2013.

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Sichuan quake

YA'AN, China - A woman prepares a meal near her collapsed home in the Lushan county area of Ya'an in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan, on April 22, 2013, following a magnitude-7.0 earthquake two days before.

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Sichuan quake

YA'AN, China - Survivors rest at a handmade tent near their damaged home in the Lushan county area of Ya'an in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan, on April 22, 2013, following a magnitude-7.0 earthquake two days before.

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Quarantine dogs

NAGOYA, Japan - Male beagle dogs Little Man (L) and Hunter are shown to reporters at the Central Japan International Airport, or Centrair, near Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on April 22, 2013. It's the canines' job to sniff out meat, fruit and other products that must be quarantined from airplane passengers' luggage.

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Pyongyang scene

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Soldiers and workers are engaged in civil engineering work in Pyongyang, North Korea, on April 22, 2013.

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WHO on bird flu in China

BEIJING, China - Keiji Fukuda, assistant director general for health security and environment of the World Health Organization, speaks during a press conference in Beijing on April 22, 2013. The top WHO influenza expert said the Geneva-based organization and Chinese health authorities have yet to see evidence of person-to-person transmission of a new strain of avian influenza that struck in some parts of China.

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NPT conference

GENEVA, Switzerland - The Second Session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Review Conference of Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty parties begins at the United Nations office in Geneva, Switzerland, on April 22, 2013.

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UAE foreign minister in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates (R) and Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida shake hands before their meeting in Tokyo on April 22, 2013.

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Fight against malaria

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Astrid of Belgium (R), special representative to the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on April 22, 2013, ahead of World Malaria Day. At left is Fatoumata Nafo-Traore, executive director of the initiative launched in 1998 by the World Health Organization, the U.N. Children's Fund and other entities.

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Mitsubishi Motors to trim domestic production

OSAKA, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Mitsubishi Motors Corp.'s Mizushima plant in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, western Japan, on April 22, 2013. The automaker said the same day it will trim its annual domestic production capacity by around 20 percent, consolidating four production lines at the main factory into two around December 2013.

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IAEA on Fukushima plant

TOKYO, Japan - Juan Carlos Lentijo, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency Division of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology, heads to a press conference in Tokyo on April 22, 2013. A team of IAEA experts led by Lentijo called on Japan to make efforts to enhance its management over the radioactive water accumulating at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, calling it "the most challenging issue" in the short term.

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IAEA on Fukushima plant

TOKYO, Japan - Juan Carlos Lentijo, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency Division of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on April 22, 2013. A team of IAEA experts led by Lentijo called on Japan to make efforts to enhance its management over the radioactive water accumulating at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, calling it "the most challenging issue" in the short term.

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IAEA on Fukushima plant

TOKYO, Japan - Juan Carlos Lentijo, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency Division of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on April 22, 2013. A team of IAEA experts led by Lentijo called on Japan to make efforts to enhance its management over the radioactive water accumulating at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, calling it "the most challenging issue" in the short term.

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Kabukiza Gallery

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a studio to offer visitors the opportunity to be photographed wearing Kabuki costumes at Kabukiza Tower, a building adjacent to the reconstructed Kabukiza Theatre in Tokyo's Chuo Ward, on April 22, 2013. A press preview was held the same day of a gallery showcasing elaborate Kabuki costumes, props and other items at the same building.

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Mitsubishi Motors to trim domestic production

OSAKA, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Mitsubishi Motors Corp.'s Mizushima plant in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, western Japan, on April 22, 2013. The automaker said the same day it will trim its annual domestic production capacity by around 20 percent, consolidating four production lines at the main factory into two around December 2013.