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US: Brush Fire Erupts In Del Mar Heights, San Diego 3

A brush fire erupted in the Del Mar Heights neighborhood in San Diego on Tuesday morning, June 25. The fire near Mira Montana Drive off Del Mar Heights Road prompted the mandatory evacuation of 2,500 residents from the area. The fire's forward progress was stopped by about 5:30 p.m. and all evacuation orders and warnings have been lifted by 7:20 p.m.

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JAL Dreamliner arrives at Narita

NARITA, Japan - Photo shows a Japan Airlines Co. Boeing 787 Dreamliner after arriving at Narita airport near Tokyo on May 19, 2013. The jet had been parked at Boston's Logan International Airport after a fire broke out from a battery on the aircraft at the airport on Jan. 7, 2013, local time.

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JAL Dreamliner arrives at Narita

NARITA, Japan - Photo shows a Japan Airlines Co. Boeing 787 Dreamliner after arriving at Narita airport near Tokyo on May 19, 2013. The jet had been parked at Boston's Logan International Airport after a fire broke out from a battery on the aircraft at the airport on Jan. 7, 2013, local time.

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Funeral for sumo legend Taiho

TOKYO, Japan - Yokozuna Hakuho attends the funeral of former yokozuna Taiho in Tokyo on Jan. 31, 2013. Taiho, whose 32 tournament championships are the most in sumo history, died at the age of 72 of heart disease on Jan. 19, 2013. (Pool photo)

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Funeral for sumo legend Taiho

TOKYO, Japan - Portraits of former yokozuna Taiho are displayed at an altar during his funeral in Tokyo on Jan. 31, 2013. Taiho, whose 32 tournament championships are the most in sumo history, died at the age of 72 of heart disease on Jan. 19, 2013. (Pool photo)

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Counterguerilla drill in Seoul

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean children touch guns that have been used by North Korean agents, during an exhibition of the weapons in Seoul on Jan. 19, 2013. The South Korean military held the exhibition to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the 1968 incident in which the military and North Korean agents had a gun battle near the Blue House official residence of the South Korean president in Seoul.

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Snow-covered 'gassho-zukuri' houses lit up

SHIRAKAWA, Japan - Houses with thatched and steeply slanting roofs, built in the style known as gassho-zukuri, are lit up for tourists in the snow-blanketed village of Shirakawa in Gifu Prefecture on Jan. 19, 2013. The area has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Sumo legend Taiho dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows sekiwake Taiho (C, front) and his supporters after he earned his first championship at the Kyushu tournament in November 1960. Taiho, who was later promoted to yokozuna and whose 32 tournament championships are the most in sumo history, died of heart disease at the age of 72 on Jan. 19, 2013.

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Algeria hostage crisis

PARIS, France - Koichi Kawana, president of Japanese engineering company JGC Corp., arrives in Paris on Jan. 19, 2013, en route to Algeria to deal with a hostage crisis involving JGC staff. A total of 17 Japanese nationals were working at a gas plant in southeastern Algeria for JGC when Islamist militants seized the facility on Jan. 16.

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Snow-covered 'gassho-zukuri' houses lit up

SHIRAKAWA, Japan - Houses with thatched and steeply slanting roofs, built in the style known as gassho-zukuri, are lit up for tourists in the snow-blanketed village of Shirakawa in Gifu Prefecture on Jan. 19, 2013. The area has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Snow-covered 'gassho-zukuri' houses lit up

SHIRAKAWA, Japan - Houses with thatched and steeply slanting roofs, built in the style known as gassho-zukuri, are lit up for tourists in the snow-blanketed village of Shirakawa in Gifu Prefecture on Jan. 19, 2013. The area has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Algeria hostage crisis

PARIS, France - Koichi Kawana, president of Japanese engineering company JGC Corp., arrives in Paris on Jan. 19, 2013, en route to Algeria to deal with a hostage crisis involving JGC staff. A total of 17 Japanese nationals were working at a gas plant in southeastern Algeria for JGC when Islamist militants seized the facility on Jan. 16.

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S. Korean pop star Rain

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean pop star Rain (C) is surrounded by fans during a South Korean military event in Seoul on Jan. 19, 2013. Rain was punished by the military earlier in the month for a disciplinary offense by dating actress Kim Tae Hee.

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Ski run in Roppongi

TOKYO, Japan - A freestyle skier gets ready to run down a roughly 15-meter slope installed at Roppongi Hills Arena in Tokyo on Jan. 19, 2013, during an event hosted by the Tokyo metropolitan government to promote the city's bid for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games.

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S. Korean pop star Rain

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean pop star Rain salutes during a South Korean military event in Seoul on Jan. 19, 2013. Rain was punished by the military earlier in the month for a disciplinary offense by dating actress Kim Tae Hee.

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Mercury poisoning treaty

GENEVA, Switzerland - Japanese government representatives applaud after negotiators agreed, in accordance with Japan's proposal, to name a new international treaty on regulating mercury trading as the "Minamata Convention," at the United Nations in Geneva on Jan. 19, 2013. Minamata is a city in Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture that has given its name to a mercury-poisoning disease that was caused by the discharge of mercury-laced wastewater by a local chemical plant.

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Sumo legend Taiho dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan in October 2009 shows former yokozuna Taiho. Taiho, whose 32 tournament championships are the most in sumo history, died of heart disease at the age of 72 on Jan. 19, 2013.

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Myanmar Development Cooperation Forum

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar - The first Myanmar Development and Cooperation Forum begins in the capital Naypyitaw on Jan. 19, 2013.

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Russian Orthodox Epiphany

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - People take a dip in a section of Amur Bay, from which ice has been removed in the Russian Far East city of Vladivostok on Jan. 19, 2013, to celebrate the Russian Orthodox Epiphany.

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Myanmar Development Cooperation Forum

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar - Myanmar President Thein Sein gives an opening speech at the first Myanmar Development and Cooperation Forum in the capital Naypyitaw on Jan. 19, 2013.

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Mercury poisoning treaty

GENEVA, Switzerland - Government-level talks are held at the United Nations in Geneva on Jan. 19, 2013, on the draft of a new international treaty to regulate mercury trading to help prevent environmental pollution and health damage from the toxic substance.