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Hacked Emails Expose Bashar al-Assad and Wife (Files)

Syrian head of state Bashar al-Assad and London-born wife Asma al-Assad appear to live in a surreal psychological bubble, insulated from the grotesque violence that has claimed the lives of 8,000 Syrians, according to a cache of some 3,000 alleged emails and documents obtained by Syrian activists and published by the Guardian issue dated March 15, 2012. File photo : French President Nicolas Sarkozy (C) and his wife Carla Bruni Sarkozy (2nd from L) show Syrian President Bashar El Assad (R) and his wife Asma (1st from L) gifts, such as 'Earth Seen from Above' book at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France on December 9, 2010, on the first day of the 3-days working visit of the Syrian presidential couple in France. Photo by Balkis Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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CHINA-CHONGQING-ALL-WOMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL TEAM (CN)

(230309) -- CHONGQING, March 9, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Yan Ni, leader of an all-woman archaeological team, conducts preliminary restoration of a pottery article at the site of a relics excavation project in Fuling District, southwest China's Chongqing, Oct. 19, 2022. Established in 2012, the all-woman team has carried out more than 10 excavation projects and organized field work on over 10 cultural relic investigation and exploration projects over the past decade. TO GO WITH "Across China: All-woman team dedicated to archaeological work in China's Chongqing" (Xinhua/Tang Yi)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-ALL-WOMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL TEAM (CN)

(230309) -- CHONGQING, March 9, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Yan Ni (4th L), leader of an all-woman archaeological team, conducts a archeological skill training program in Wulong District, southwest China's Chongqing, March 6, 2023. Established in 2012, the all-woman team has carried out more than 10 excavation projects and organized field work on over 10 cultural relic investigation and exploration projects over the past decade. TO GO WITH "Across China: All-woman team dedicated to archaeological work in China's Chongqing" (Xinhua/Tang Yi)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-ALL-WOMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL TEAM (CN)

(230309) -- CHONGQING, March 9, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Yan Ni (1st R), leader of an all-woman archaeological team, processes unearthed pottery shards at the site of a relics excavation project in Fuling District, southwest China's Chongqing, Oct. 19, 2022. Established in 2012, the all-woman team has carried out more than 10 excavation projects and organized field work on over 10 cultural relic investigation and exploration projects over the past decade. TO GO WITH "Across China: All-woman team dedicated to archaeological work in China's Chongqing" (Xinhua/Tang Yi)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-ALL-WOMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL TEAM (CN)

(230309) -- CHONGQING, March 9, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Yan Ni (L), leader of an all-woman archaeological team, supervises her colleagues at the site of a relics excavation project in Fuling District, southwest China's Chongqing, May 24, 2022. Established in 2012, the all-woman team has carried out more than 10 excavation projects and organized field work on over 10 cultural relic investigation and exploration projects over the past decade. TO GO WITH "Across China: All-woman team dedicated to archaeological work in China's Chongqing" (Xinhua/Tang Yi)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-ALL-WOMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL TEAM (CN)

(230309) -- CHONGQING, March 9, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Zhu Xuelian, a member of an all-woman archaeological team, measures an unearthed article at the site of a relics excavation project in Fuling District, southwest China's Chongqing, Oct. 19, 2022. Established in 2012, the all-woman team has carried out more than 10 excavation projects and organized field work on over 10 cultural relic investigation and exploration projects over the past decade. TO GO WITH "Across China: All-woman team dedicated to archaeological work in China's Chongqing" (Xinhua/Tang Yi)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-ALL-WOMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL TEAM (CN)

(230309) -- CHONGQING, March 9, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Yan Ni, leader of an all-woman archaeological team, processes unearthed pottery shards at the site of a relics excavation project in Fuling District, southwest China's Chongqing, May 24, 2022. Established in 2012, the all-woman team has carried out more than 10 excavation projects and organized field work on over 10 cultural relic investigation and exploration projects over the past decade. TO GO WITH "Across China: All-woman team dedicated to archaeological work in China's Chongqing" (Xinhua/Tang Yi)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-ALL-WOMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL TEAM (CN)

(230309) -- CHONGQING, March 9, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Yan Ni (L, back), leader of an all-woman archaeological team, supervises her colleagues at the site of a relics excavation project in Fuling District, southwest China's Chongqing, May 24, 2022. Established in 2012, the all-woman team has carried out more than 10 excavation projects and organized field work on over 10 cultural relic investigation and exploration projects over the past decade. TO GO WITH "Across China: All-woman team dedicated to archaeological work in China's Chongqing" (Xinhua/Tang Yi)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-ALL-WOMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL TEAM (CN)

(230309) -- CHONGQING, March 9, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Yan Ni, leader of an all-woman archaeological team, conducts preliminary restoration of a pottery article at the site of a relics excavation project in Fuling District, southwest China's Chongqing, Oct. 19, 2022. Established in 2012, the all-woman team has carried out more than 10 excavation projects and organized field work on over 10 cultural relic investigation and exploration projects over the past decade. TO GO WITH "Across China: All-woman team dedicated to archaeological work in China's Chongqing" (Xinhua/Tang Yi)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-ALL-WOMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL TEAM (CN)

(230309) -- CHONGQING, March 9, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Yan Ni, leader of an all-woman archaeological team, is seen at the site of a relics protection project in Wulong District, southwest China's Chongqing, March 6, 2023. Established in 2012, the all-woman team has carried out more than 10 excavation projects and organized field work on over 10 cultural relic investigation and exploration projects over the past decade. TO GO WITH "Across China: All-woman team dedicated to archaeological work in China's Chongqing" (Xinhua/Tang Yi)

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Kite-flying in Gaza to show solidarity with Japan

KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA STRIP, March 9 Kyodo - Children fly kites at an event held in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, on March 9, 2015, to show solidarity with people affected by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The kite-flying event has been held around the same time every year since 2012.

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Vets reopen clinic away from home in Fukushima

KORIYAMA, Japan - Veterinarian Michiko Watanabe examines a cat found in the evacuation zone set after the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, on Jan. 9, 2014 at her animal clinic in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture. Together with her vet husband, Watanabe reopened the clinic in April 2012, a year after they evacuated their hometown near the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant following the March 2011 disaster.

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Sony posts 1st net profit in 5 yrs

TOKYO, Japan - Sony Corp. Chief Financial Officer Masaru Kato speaks during a press conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo on May 9, 2013. Sony posted a group net profit of 43.03 billion yen for fiscal 2012 ended in March 2013, returning to the black for the first time in five years, citing sales of assets and the benefit of a weaker yen.

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Sony posts 1st net profit in 5 yrs

TOKYO, Japan - Sony Corp. Chief Financial Officer Masaru Kato (2nd from front in left row) speaks during a press conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo on May 9, 2013. Sony posted a group net profit of 43.03 billion yen for fiscal 2012 ended in March 2013, returning to the black for the first time in five years, citing sales of assets and the benefit of a weaker yen.

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Students from quake-hit Tohoku visit Ground Zero in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - Tsubasa Sugeno (L), a university student hailing from Nihonmatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, and Lee Ielpi, president of the September 11th Families' Association, trace together names of Japanese victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks engraved on the stone monument at the World Trade Center site in New York on Aug. 13, 2012. Students hailing from the prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, which were severely hit by the 2011 March earthquake and tsunami disasters, visited the site and met the bereaved families of the 9/11 victims.

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Students from quake-hit Tohoku visit Ground Zero in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - Ayaka Ogawa (L), who graduated from a senior high school in Iwate Prefecture, and Lee Ielpi, president of the September 11th Families' Association, trace together names of Japanese victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks engraved on the stone monument at the World Trade Center site in New York on Aug. 13, 2012. Students hailing from the prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, which were severely hit by the 2011 March earthquake and tsunami disasters, visited the site and met the bereaved families of the 9/11 victims.

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On-demand bus service for evacuees

KAMAISHI, Japan - Takenori Noda (R), mayor of Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, and Soichiro Okudaira, an executive of Toyota Motor Corp., shake hands after concluding an agreement in Kamaishi on Aug. 9, 2012, to jointly test an on-demand bus system linking temporary housing units in the city affected by the 2011 great earthquake and tsunami with its downtown area from October 2012 until March 2015.

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Sharp to slash 5,000 jobs

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Takashi Okuda speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 2, 2012. Okuda said Sharp will slash 5,000 jobs, or 9 percent of its global workforce, by the end of March 2013 to turn around its business, hit hard by a slump in its television business.

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Sharp to slash 5,000 jobs

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Takashi Okuda speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 2, 2012. Okuda said Sharp will slash 5,000 jobs, or 9 percent of its global workforce, by the end of March 2013 to turn around its business, hit hard by a slump in its television business.

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Sharp to slash 5,000 jobs

TOKYO, Japan - Sharp Corp. President Takashi Okuda speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 2, 2012. Okuda said Sharp will slash 5,000 jobs, or 9 percent of its global workforce, by the end of March 2013 to turn around its business, hit hard by a slump in its television business.

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Sharp to slash 5,000 jobs in Japan, overseas

OSAKA, Japan - File photo taken July 26, 2012, shows the headquarters of Sharp Corp. in Osaka's Abeno Ward. The company will slash some 5,000 jobs, or 9 percent of its consolidated workforce, in and outside Japan by the end of March 2013 through early retirements and other means to turn its business around after being hit by a slump in its television business, sources close to the matter said Aug. 2, 2012.

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Oi reactor regains criticality

OI, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the No. 4 reactor (front) of the Oi nuclear power station in Fukui Prefecture on July 19, 2012. The reactor reached criticality that morning following its reactivation the night before by its operator, Kansai Electric Power Co. The reactor is the second to go back online after all of Japan's commercial reactors were taken offline for regular checks in the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis. The first to resume operation was the Oi plant's No. 3 reactor (back) which was brought to full operation on July 9.

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Oi reactor regains criticality

OI, Japan - Photo shows the No. 4 reactor (L) of the Oi nuclear power station in Fukui Prefecture on July 19, 2012. The reactor reached criticality that morning following its reactivation the night before by its operator, Kansai Electric Power Co. The reactor is the second to go back online, after all of Japan's commercial reactors were taken offline for regular checks in the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis. The first to resume operation was the Oi plant's No. 3 reactor (R) which was brought to full operation on July 9.

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2nd reactor restarted at Oi power plant

OI, Japan - Photo taken July 18, 2012, shows the No. 4 reactor building (L) at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture. The No. 4 reactor was restarted later, around 9 p.m., the same day, becoming only the second reactor to resume operation after being shut down for periodic checks since the Fukushima nuclear crisis began in March 2011. The building housing the No. 3 reactor, which the utility reactivated on July 1 and brought to full operation on July 9, can be seen to the right.

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2nd reactor restarted at Oi power plant

OI, Japan - Workers in the main control room reactivate the No. 4 reactor at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, around 9 p.m. on July 18, 2012. The No. 4 reactor became the second reactor to resume operation after being shut down for periodic checks since the Fukushima nuclear crisis began in March 2011. (Pool photo)

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2nd reactor restarted at Oi power plant

OI, Japan - Security guards stand near the entrance to Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, at 7:52 p.m. on July 18, 2012. The No. 4 reactor at the plant was reactivated around 9 p.m. the same day, becoming only the second reactor to resume operation after being shut down for periodic checks since the Fukushima nuclear crisis began in March 2011.

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Another reactor at Oi power plant reactivated

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on July 9, 2012, shows the No. 4 reactor building (front) at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture. The No. 4 reactor was reactivated around 9 p.m. on July 18, becoming only the second reactor to resume operation after being shut down for periodic checks since the Fukushima nuclear crisis began in March 2011. The building housing the No. 3 reactor, which the utility reactivated on July 1 and brought to full operation on July 9, stands just behind.

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Another reactor at Oi power plant reactivated

OI, Japan - Senior Vice Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Seishu Makino (front) attends a press conference in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, on the afternoon of July 18, 2012. The No. 4 reactor at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in the town was reactivated around 9 p.m. the same day, becoming only the second reactor to resume operation after being shut down for regular checks since the Fukushima nuclear crisis began in March 2011.

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Boy wins gov't award for quake memorial coin design

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a design by Taichi Kojima, 9, one of three designs chosen by Finance Ministry for coins commemorating the March 2011 quake and tsunami. Adults produced the other two designs unveiled by the Finance Ministry on May 29, 2012.

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After bomb explosion in Thailand

HAT YAI, Thailand - Workers clear a hotel in Hat Yai city in southern Thailand's Songkhla Province on April 9, 2012, after an explosion at the site on March 31.

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Quake charity concert in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - Japanese singer Tokiko Kato (front C) and around 300 members of choirs from Japan and the United States hold a charity concert in New York's Carnegie Hall on April 9, 2012, to help rebuild northeastern Japan following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Toyama gov. inspects temporary site for disaster debris

MORIOKA, Japan - Toyama Gov. Takakazu Ishii (R) inspects a facility at a temporary site for debris left by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in the town of Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, on April 9, 2012. Toyama Prefecture is considering accepting disaster debris from Iwate Prefecture.

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Toyama gov. inspects temporary site for disaster debris

MORIOKA, Japan - Toyama Gov. Takakazu Ishii (R) measures airborne radiation levels at a temporary site for debris left by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in the town of Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, on April 9, 2012. Toyama Prefecture is considering accepting disaster debris from Iwate Prefecture.

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Mariners vs. Yomiuri

TOKYO, Japan - Hisashi Iwakuma of the Seattle Mariners pitches in an exhibition game against the Yomiuri Giants at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo on March 26, 2012. The right-hander allowed six runs on 10 hits over four innings in his team's 9-3 loss.

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Mariners vs. Yomiuri

TOKYO, Japan - Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners throws to the home plate after fielding a fly ball from the Yomiuri Giants' Yoshiyuki Kamei during the fifth inning of an exhibition game at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo on March 26, 2012. The Mariners lost 9-3.

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Mariners vs. Yomiuri

TOKYO, Japan - Shuichi Murata of the Yomiuri Giants drives in two runs with a hit in the third inning of an exhibition game against the Seattle Mariners at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo on March 26, 2012. Yomiuri won 9-3.

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Kerry requested for visiting North by minister

NEW YORK, United States - U.S. Sen. John Kerry, a Democrat from Massachusetts and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, answers reporters' questions in New York on March 9, 2012, after meeting at a seminar North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho, the country's chief envoy to the six-party talks on the North's denuclearization. South Korea's former Unification Minister Lim Dong Won, who also attended the seminar, said on March 20 that Ho requested Kelly to visit North Korea and that Kelly expressed his intention to accept.

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Suntory win national c'ship final

TOKYO, Japan - Hirotoki Onozawa (C) of Suntory Sungoliath scores a try against Panasonic Wild Knights in the first half of the rugby national championship final at National Stadium in Tokyo on March 18, 2012. Suntory won 21-9.

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Suntory win national c'ship final

TOKYO, Japan - Suntory Sungoliath coach Eddie Jones (top) is tossed in the air by members of his team after their victory over Panasonic Wild Knights 21-9 in the rugby national championship final at National Stadium in Tokyo on March 18, 2012.

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Suntory win national c'ship final

TOKYO, Japan - Members of Suntory Sungoliath including Go Aruga (top) celebrate after winning the rugby national championship final 21-9 against Panasonic Wild Knights at National Stadium in Tokyo on March 18, 2012.

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Falklands 30 years after war

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - A tourist takes photos of penguins on the Falkland Islands on March 9, 2012, some 30 years after the 1982 Falklands War.

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Earthquake during soccer qualifier for London Olympics

TOKYO, Japan - A signboard at the National Stadium in Tokyo at 9:10 p.m. on March 14, 2012, gives information about an earthquake that occurred off the coast of Chiba Prefecture during Japan's final soccer qualifier in the Asia Group C final round for the London Olympics against Bahrain.

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Japan, Taiwan charity baseball

TOKYO, Japan - Fans at the stand hold a message reading, ''Japan and Taiwan are friends forever,'' during a baseball charity game in Tokyo on March 10, 2012. The message expresses Japanese people's gratitude for Taiwanese people's support following the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami. Japan defeated Taiwan 9-2 in the charity match commemorating the disaster.

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Japan, Taiwan charity baseball

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the Japan (R) and Taiwan (L) teams pose for photos after a baseball charity game in Tokyo on March 10, 2012. Japan defeated Taiwan 9-2 in the charity match commemorating the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011.

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Memorial service in Paris for tsunami victims

PARIS, Japan - A memorial service is held at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on March 9, 2012, for the victims of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami in Japan on March 11, 2011.

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Japan coach Zaccheroni

TOKYO, Japan - Japan national soccer team coach Alberto Zaccheroni is pictured while being asked questions by reporters in Tokyo on March 9, 2012. Japan were drawn the same day into Group B with Australia, Jordan, Oman and Iraq for the final round of qualifiers for the 2014 World Cup in a draw held at the Asian Football Confederation's headquarters in Kuala Lumpur.

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Ukraine parliament speaker in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Volodymyr Lytvyn (L), speaker of Ukraine's parliament, and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda shake hands at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on March 9, 2012.

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Bo at press conference

BEIJING, China - Bo Xilai (C), Communist Party chief of China's southwestern municipality of Chongqing, gives a press conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 9, 2012, during the 10-day National People's Congress, amid speculation his rise has been blocked by political scandal involving a former aide.

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Ukraine parliament speaker in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Volodymyr Lytvyn (L), speaker of Ukraine's parliament, and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda hold talks at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on March 9, 2012.

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Japanese products promoted in Myanmar

YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar officials look at motorcycles on display at an exhibition held at a hotel in Yangon, Myanmar, on March 9, 2012, by the Japan External Trade Organization to introduce Japanese products.