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CHINA-CHONGQING-MIAO ETHNIC GROUP-CAIHUASHAN FESTIVAL (CN)

(240515) -- CHONGQING, May 15, 2024 (Xinhua) -- People from the Miao ethnic group celebrate the Caihuashan festival in Chiyou Jiuli Town of Pengshui Miao-Tujia Autonomous County, southwest China's Chongqing, May 15, 2024. The Caihuashan festival is a traditional Miao festival which derives from courtship rituals, where young people meet and make acquaintance by singing and dancing together. The festival celebrations have become increasingly popular in recent years with the development of local tourism and the promotion of Miao ethnic cultures. (Xinhua/Tang Yi)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-MIAO ETHNIC GROUP-CAIHUASHAN FESTIVAL (CN)

(240515) -- CHONGQING, May 15, 2024 (Xinhua) -- An aerial drone photo taken on May 15, 2024 shows people from the Miao ethnic group celebrating the Caihuashan festival in Chiyou Jiuli Town of Pengshui Miao-Tujia Autonomous County, southwest China's Chongqing. The Caihuashan festival is a traditional Miao festival which derives from courtship rituals, where young people meet and make acquaintance by singing and dancing together. The festival celebrations have become increasingly popular in recent years with the development of local tourism and the promotion of Miao ethnic cultures. (Xinhua/Tang Yi)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-MIAO ETHNIC GROUP-CAIHUASHAN FESTIVAL (CN)

(240515) -- CHONGQING, May 15, 2024 (Xinhua) -- People from the Miao ethnic group celebrate the Caihuashan festival in Chiyou Jiuli Town of Pengshui Miao-Tujia Autonomous County, southwest China's Chongqing, May 15, 2024. The Caihuashan festival is a traditional Miao festival which derives from courtship rituals, where young people meet and make acquaintance by singing and dancing together. The festival celebrations have become increasingly popular in recent years with the development of local tourism and the promotion of Miao ethnic cultures. (Xinhua/Tang Yi)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-MIAO ETHNIC GROUP-CAIHUASHAN FESTIVAL (CN)

(240515) -- CHONGQING, May 15, 2024 (Xinhua) -- People from the Miao ethnic group celebrate the Caihuashan festival in Chiyou Jiuli Town of Pengshui Miao-Tujia Autonomous County, southwest China's Chongqing, May 15, 2024. The Caihuashan festival is a traditional Miao festival which derives from courtship rituals, where young people meet and make acquaintance by singing and dancing together. The festival celebrations have become increasingly popular in recent years with the development of local tourism and the promotion of Miao ethnic cultures. (Xinhua/Tang Yi)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-MIAO ETHNIC GROUP-CAIHUASHAN FESTIVAL (CN)

(240515) -- CHONGQING, May 15, 2024 (Xinhua) -- An aerial drone photo taken on May 15, 2024 shows people from the Miao ethnic group celebrating the Caihuashan festival in Chiyou Jiuli Town of Pengshui Miao-Tujia Autonomous County, southwest China's Chongqing. The Caihuashan festival is a traditional Miao festival which derives from courtship rituals, where young people meet and make acquaintance by singing and dancing together. The festival celebrations have become increasingly popular in recent years with the development of local tourism and the promotion of Miao ethnic cultures. (Xinhua/Tang Yi)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-MIAO ETHNIC GROUP-CAIHUASHAN FESTIVAL (CN)

(240515) -- CHONGQING, May 15, 2024 (Xinhua) -- People from the Miao ethnic group celebrate the Caihuashan festival in Chiyou Jiuli Town of Pengshui Miao-Tujia Autonomous County, southwest China's Chongqing, May 15, 2024. The Caihuashan festival is a traditional Miao festival which derives from courtship rituals, where young people meet and make acquaintance by singing and dancing together. The festival celebrations have become increasingly popular in recent years with the development of local tourism and the promotion of Miao ethnic cultures. (Xinhua/Tang Yi)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-MIAO ETHNIC GROUP-CAIHUASHAN FESTIVAL (CN)

(240515) -- CHONGQING, May 15, 2024 (Xinhua) -- People from the Miao ethnic group celebrate the Caihuashan festival in Chiyou Jiuli Town of Pengshui Miao-Tujia Autonomous County, southwest China's Chongqing, May 15, 2024. The Caihuashan festival is a traditional Miao festival which derives from courtship rituals, where young people meet and make acquaintance by singing and dancing together. The festival celebrations have become increasingly popular in recent years with the development of local tourism and the promotion of Miao ethnic cultures. (Xinhua/Tang Yi)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-MIAO ETHNIC GROUP-CAIHUASHAN FESTIVAL (CN)

(240515) -- CHONGQING, May 15, 2024 (Xinhua) -- An aerial drone photo taken on May 15, 2024 shows people from the Miao ethnic group celebrating the Caihuashan festival in Chiyou Jiuli Town of Pengshui Miao-Tujia Autonomous County, southwest China's Chongqing. The Caihuashan festival is a traditional Miao festival which derives from courtship rituals, where young people meet and make acquaintance by singing and dancing together. The festival celebrations have become increasingly popular in recent years with the development of local tourism and the promotion of Miao ethnic cultures. (Xinhua/Tang Yi)

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Policeman suspected of shooting acquaintance to death

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers examine an apartment house in Kokubunji, Tokyo, on Aug. 21 where Hidekazu Tomono, 40, of the Tachikawa Police Station of the Metropolitan Police Department, and his 32-year-old female acquaintance were found dead. Police suspect Tomono shot the woman to death with his handgun and committed suicide by shooting himself with the same gun.

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3 years since quake-tsunami disasters

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Photo taken in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on the morning of March 11, 2014, the third anniversary of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, shows a woman praying at the site where the residence of her male acquaintance used to stand before it was swept away in the tsunami. The man was killed in the disaster.

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China artist Ai Weiwei banned from his company's court case

BEIJING, China - Chinese artist and rights advocate Ai Weiwei talks on the phone with an acquaintance at his home in Beijing on June 20, 2012. Ai was barred the same day from attending the first hearing of a court case over tax fraud charges filed against him.

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'Memories of Sadako'

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo shows ''Memories of Sadako,'' the English version of a Japanese picture book on A-bomb victim Sadako Sasaki of Hiroshima, who died at the age of 12, 10 years after the bombing. The English version published in December 2010 depicts Sadako's life in a hospital as the author Kiyo Okura, who died in 2008, stayed in the same hospital room with Sadako for about three months. It was translated by Okura's acquaintance Keiko Miyamoto and others.

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Human arm-like yam

OSAKA, Japan - Yoshitaka Daikoku shows a Japanese yam that looks like a human arm to children at a kindergarten where he works in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on Dec. 9, 2010. He received the yam from an acquaintance.

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Strategy minister under fire

TOKYO, Japan - National strategy minister Satoshi Arai (C) is surrounded by reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 9, 2010. Arai, who assumed the post the previous day, is under fire as his supporters' group was found to have registered his acquaintance's home as the group's office.

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Sumo champ Asashoryu chided over drunken behavior

TOKYO, Japan - Sumo grand champion Asashoryu speaks to reporters at the Ryogoku Kokugikan gymnasium in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2010. The Japan Sumo Association took the Mongolian yokozuna to task for his violent behavior toward an acquaintance of his in a recent scuffle.

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Sumo champ Asashoryu chided over drunken behavior

TOKYO, Japan - Sumo grand champion Asashoryu enters the Ryogoku Kokugikan gymnasium in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2010. The Japan Sumo Association took the Mongolian yokozuna to task for his violent behavior toward an acquaintance of his in a recent scuffle.

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Ichiro practices at Giants training field

KAWASAKI, Japan - Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki (L) speaks to an acquaintance's child before his workout at an indoor training field of the Yomiuri Giants in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Dec. 17, 2009. Ichiro worked out for about one hour, sharing the field with members of the Giants.

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2nd lay judge trial gives man 4 1/2 years for attempted murder

SAITAMA, Japan - Four of six lay judges at the second trial involving such judges under Japan's new criminal trial system answer questions from reporters on Aug. 12 at a press conference at the Saitama prefectural government building after they gave an unsuspended sentence of four-and-a-half years to a man who attempted to kill a male acquaintance in Saitama Prefecture.

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2nd lay judge trial gives man 4 1/2 years for attempted murder

SAITAMA, Japan - Three lay judges, including Kenji Kikuchi (2nd from R), and Michihiko Sassa (far R), a substitute candidate for lay judges, at the second trial involving such judges under Japan's new criminal trial system on Aug. 12 attend a press conference at the Saitama District Court after the trial. They gave an unsuspended sentence of four-and-a-half years to a man who attempted to kill a male acquaintance in the prefecture. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Chile apex court rules Fujimori should not be extradited to Peru

SANTIAGO, Chile - Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, who is under house arrest in Chile, talks over the cell phone with an acquaintance July 11 after Chile's Supreme Court decided earlier in the day that Fujimori should not be extradited to Peru. Fujimori, indicted in Peru on more than 20 counts of corruption and human rights violations, was arrested by Chilean police on Nov. 7, 2005.

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Man arrested for killing acquaintance at hospital

NAGOYA, Japan - Tadashi Aizawa, 75, who is suspected of murdering a 61-year-old female patient at a hospital, has been found in a lodge (in photo) in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, police said Oct. 1.

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Nakatani aide allegedly operated adult business

KOCHI, Japan - Police sent to prosecutors Feb. 3 papers on an aide to former Defense Agency chief and House of Representatives member Gen Nakatani in connection with an adult-entertainment business in the city of Kochi, western Japan. The secretary, whose name was withheld, allegedly operated ''Twilight,'' a restaurant and show lounge, under the name of an acquaintance in violation of the Law Regulating Adult Entertainment Businesses.

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(5)5 returnees arrive in hometowns in Fukui, Niigata

KASHIWAZAKI, Japan - Kaoru Hasuike (L), who was abducted to North Korea in 1978, hugs an acquaintance in front of his family's home in his hometown of Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, on Oct. 17 during a temporary visit to Japan.

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Man who allegedly murdered to fake own death kills himself

KANIE, Japan - Reporters flock to Kanie Police Station in Kanie, Aichi Prefecture, on a report that Kiyoshi Hasegawa, 53, committed suicide early June 28 in a police cell, two days after being arrested on suspicion of murdering an acquaintance by means of a traffic collision in an attempt to fake his own death and collect life insurance money.

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Man gets 18-year prison term for abduction, murder

People queue for a lottery to gain admission to the trial of Masato Okazaki, 25, whom the Nara District Court sentenced Oct. 19 to 18 years in prison for the May 1997 abduction and murder of a 13-year-old girl in western Japan. Presiding Judge Masayoshi Suzuki sentenced Okazaki for killing Michiyo Urakubo, an acquaintance of the defendant, on May 4 last year.

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Wakayama poisoning case hearing draws crowds

People line up to draw lots for admission to a hearing at the Wakayama District Court, western Japan, on Oct. 13 at which Masumi Hayashi, 37, denied allegations she attempted to murder a 35-year-old acquaintance with arsenic in September last year and swindled insurance companies out of 1.6 million yen. Her husband Kenji, 53, denied insurance fraud and attempted insurance fraud charges.

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Arrested ex-Tokyo Olympic exec may have been asked to favor Kadokawa

Haruyuki Takahashi, a former Tokyo Olympic organizing committee executive arrested in a bribery case involving a sponsorship contract for a clothes retailer, may also have been asked to favor publishing company Kadokawa Corp., a source familiar with the matter said Saturday. The publishing company gave 70 million yen ($500,000) to an entity run by his acquaintance and prosecutors are looking into why the money was paid and whether all or part of the amount was transferred to anyone, the source said. The sum given to the entity was described as a consulting fee after the publisher became a sponsor for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics in April 2019, which enabled it to publish the Summer Games' official guidebooks and records. According to the source, the acquaintance may have asked Takahashi to help Kadokawa be chosen as a sponsor.

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11th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

A man looks for the name of an acquaintance at a cenotaph that lists the names of the 3,695 people who were killed in the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster at the Ishinomaki Minamihama Tsunami Memorial Park in the Miyagi Prefecture city of Ishinomaki, northeastern Japan, on March 11, 2022.

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11th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

A man looks for the name of an acquaintance at a cenotaph that lists the names of the 3,695 people who were killed in the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster at the Ishinomaki Minamihama Tsunami Memorial Park in the Miyagi Prefecture city of Ishinomaki, northeastern Japan, on March 11, 2022.

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7 People Killed At Colorado Party - USA

NO FILM, NO VIDEO, NO TV, NO DOCUMENTARY - Ricardo Caballeros was an acquaintance with the family members that were killed early Sunday morning, May 9, 2021 at the trailer park in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He brought flowers to lay at the base of the trailer on Monday, May 10, 2021. Photo by Jerilee Bennett/Colorado Springs Gazette/TNS/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou Extradition Hearing - Vancouver

Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei, walk down the street with an acquaintance after leaving B.C. Supreme Court during a lunch break at her extradition hearing, in Vancouver, BC, Canada, Thursday, April 1, 2021. Photo by Rich Lam/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM (Credit:Lam Richard/CP/ABACA/Kyodo News Images)

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Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou Extradition Hearing - Vancouver

Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei, walk down the street with an acquaintance after leaving B.C. Supreme Court during a lunch break at her extradition hearing, in Vancouver, BC, Canada, Thursday, April 1, 2021. Photo by Rich Lam/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM (Credit:Lam Richard/CP/ABACA/Kyodo News Images)

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Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou Extradition Hearing - Vancouver

Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei, leaves B.C. Supreme Court with an acquaintance during a lunch break at her extradition hearing, in Vancouver, BC, Canada, Thursday, April 1, 2021. Photo by Rich Lam/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM (Credit:Lam Richard/CP/ABACA/Kyodo News Images)

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Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou Extradition Hearing - Vancouver

Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei, walks with an acquaintance after leaving B.C. Supreme Court during a lunch break at her extradition hearing, in Vancouver, BC, Canada, Thursday, April 1, 2021. Photo by Rich Lam/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM (Credit:Lam Richard/CP/ABACA/Kyodo News Images)

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Japanese may have been killed by acquaintance

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Russian investigators said March 20 that Takashi Furukawa (in file photo), a 24-year-old Japanese student found dead in his apartment in Vladivostok in Russia's Far East, may well have been killed by an acquaintance.

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Woman gets 14 years for killing girl over 'snubbing'

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsuko Yamada (file photo) is sentenced to 14 years in prison by the Tokyo District Court on Dec. 5 for killing Haruna Wakayama, a 2-year-old daughter of an acquaintance she allegedly thought had snubbed her.

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(5)5 returnees arrive in hometowns in Fukui, Niigata

KASHIWAZAKI, Japan - Kaoru Hasuike (L), who was abducted to North Korea in 1978, hugs an acquaintance in front of his family's home in his hometown of Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, on Oct. 17 during a temporary visit to Japan. (Kyodo)

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OLD ACQUAINTANCE

OLD ACQUAINTANCE WARNER BROS BETTE DAVIS, MIRIAM HOKINS Date: 1943

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Court to retry man convicted of 1985 murder in Kumamoto

Koki Miyata, who served a 13-year prison term, attends a press conference in a wheelchair in the southwestern Japan city of Kumamoto on June 30, 2016, after the Kumamoto District Court decided to retry the 83-year-old, who confessed he killed a 59-year-old acquaintance in 1985. The court said "doubts have been raised" over the credibility of his initial confessions, pointing to "contradictions" found between what he said and evidence presented by Miyata's defense team. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Court to retry man convicted of 1985 murder in Kumamoto

Koki Miyata, who served a 13-year prison term, attends a press conference in a wheelchair in the southwestern Japan city of Kumamoto on June 30, 2016, after the Kumamoto District Court decided to retry the 83-year-old, who confessed he killed a 59-year-old acquaintance in 1985. The court said "doubts have been raised" over the credibility of his initial confessions, pointing to "contradictions" found between what he said and evidence presented by Miyata's defense team. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Brazilian woman arrested as 2 boys die in jet ski accident in Japan

Fabio Akira Oishi, 35, a Brazilian resident of Japan, meets the press on June 13, 2016, at a hospital in Ichinomiya, Aichi Prefecture, after sustaining serious injuries and losing his two sons in a collision between a jet ski and an inflatable boat carrying him and his children on a river the previous day. A Brazilian woman, who is an acquaintance of Oishi's and was riding the jet ski, was arrested. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's Fukada receives Un Certain Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival

Japanese film director Koji Fukada receives the Un Certain Jury Prize for his film "Fuchi Ni Tatsu" (Harmonium), a thriller about a man just released from prison who causes havoc in the family life of an old acquaintance, at the 69th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, on May 21, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hakuho's coach arrested over violence

Sumo's grand champion Hakuho is surrounded by reporters at his Miyagino stable in Tokyo after his coach is arrested for alleged violence against an acquaintance. Coach Kumagatani, whose real name is Kazuyuki Yamamura, allegedly hit the acquaintance in the back with an aluminum bat about a dozen times in late July, requiring him to receive two weeks of treatment, according to police. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hakuho's coach arrested over violence

Kumagatani, coach at sumo grand champion Hakuho's Miyagino stable, is arrested in Tokyo on Sept. 2, 2015. The 45-year-old, whose real name is Kazuyuki Yamamura, allegedly hit an acquaintance in the back with an aluminum bat about a dozen times in late July, requiring him to receive two weeks of treatment, according to police. Kumagatani has admitted to the charges. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hakuho's coach arrested over violence

Sumo's grand champion Hakuho is surrounded by reporters at his Miyagino stable in Tokyo after his coach is arrested for alleged violence against an acquaintance. Coach Kumagatani, whose real name is Kazuyuki Yamamura, allegedly hit the acquaintance in the back with an aluminum bat about a dozen times in late July, requiring him to receive two weeks of treatment, according to police. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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LDP to look into reported shady stock deal by lawmaker

Undated photo shows Takaya Muto, a ruling Liberal Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives. The party said Aug. 19, 2015, it will look into an allegation, reported by a weekly magazine, that Muto proposed a dubious stock transaction to an acquaintance. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Yakuza-affiliated man nabbed for alleged attempted murder with Japanese sword

A Japanese sword confiscated by police from Kosuke Hata, a senior member of a group affiliated with the Kudo-kai yakuza syndicate in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, is shown to the press on Oct. 28, 2015, at a police station in the southwestern Japan city. Hata was arrested the same day on suspicion of attempting to kill an acquaintance by stabbing him with the sword on Jan. 30. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Policeman suspected of shooting acquaintance to death

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers examine an apartment house in Kokubunji, Tokyo, on Aug. 21 where Hidekazu Tomono, 40, of the Tachikawa Police Station of the Metropolitan Police Department, and his 32-year-old female acquaintance were found dead. Police suspect Tomono shot the woman to death with his handgun and committed suicide by shooting himself with the same gun. (Kyodo)

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Chile apex court rules Fujimori should not be extradited to Peru

SANTIAGO, Chile - Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, who is under house arrest in Chile, talks over the cell phone with an acquaintance July 11 after Chile's Supreme Court decided earlier in the day that Fujimori should not be extradited to Peru. Fujimori, indicted in Peru on more than 20 counts of corruption and human rights violations, was arrested by Chilean police on Nov. 7, 2005. (Kyodo)