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US: Fire Erupts at Four-Story Apartment in Holyoke, MA

A massive fire erupted at a four-story apartment building on High Street in Holyoke, MA, on Tuesday, December 2, displacing dozens of residents. According to reports, there were no injuries, and the cause of the blaze remains under investigation.

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Taiwan: Typhoon Krathon Slams Into Southwestern Coast 5

Typhoon Krathon made landfall in Kaohsiung, southwestern Taiwan, on Thursday, October 3, as a Category 1 storm. Due to the typhoon, all domestic flights and over 230 international flights were cancelled, and financial markets were closed. So far, two deaths have been reported.

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Office for Japan-N. Korea sports exchange

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Ma Chol Su (L), a former director of Asian affairs at the North Korean Foreign Ministry, and Japanese lawmaker Antonio Inoki shake hands after they signed an agreement on the opening of an office to facilitate exchanges between Japan and North Korea through sports in Pyongyang on Nov. 4, 2013. Ma serves as secretary general of a friendship association between the two countries.

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Japan, N. Korea may talk in Jakarta over Soga family reunion

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Mitoji Yabunaka, who heads the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, arrives in Jakarta for talks between Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi and her North Korean counterpart, Paek Nam Sun. Yabunaka may meet Ma Chol Su, chief of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Department, to discuss the possibility of a family reunion in Indonesia for repatriated Japanese abductee Hitomi Soga and her family members who remain in North Korea as a preparatory meeting prior to the foreign ministers' talks.

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(2)Japan, N. Korea start 1st talks since 2000

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Hitoshi Tanaka, chief of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, sits at the table for talks with Ma Chol Su, chief of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Bureau at the start of government-level talks at the People's Palace of Culture in central Pyongyang on Aug. 25.

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(3)Japan, N. Korea start 1st talks since 2000

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Ma Chol Su, chief of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Bureau sits at the table to begin two-day talks with Hitoshi Tanaka, chief of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, at the People's Palace of Culture in central Pyongyang on Aug. 25.

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Japan, N. Korea start 1st talks since 2000

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Hitoshi Tanaka (L), chief of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, and Ma Chol Su, chief of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Bureau, shake hands at the start of government-level talks at the People's Palace of Culture in central Pyongyang on Aug. 25.

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Japan, N. Korea may talk in Jakarta over Soga family reunion

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Mitoji Yabunaka, who heads the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, arrives in Jakarta for talks between Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi and her North Korean counterpart, Paek Nam Sun. Yabunaka may meet Ma Chol Su, chief of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Department, to discuss the possibility of a family reunion in Indonesia for repatriated Japanese abductee Hitomi Soga and her family members who remain in North Korea as a preparatory meeting prior to the foreign ministers' talks. (Kyodo)

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(3)Japan, N. Korea start 1st talks since 2000

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Ma Chol Su, chief of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Bureau sits at the table to begin two-day talks with Hitoshi Tanaka, chief of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, at the People's Palace of Culture in central Pyongyang on Aug. 25. (Kyodo)