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  • FILE - In this Dec. 31, 2009 file photo, an elderly woman walks by a shrine in Tokyo after she made her last prayer for the year. Japan prides itself on the world's longest life expectancy but is struggling with a disturbing footnote to that statistic _ revelations that hundreds of people listed as its oldest citizens are either long dead or haven't been heard from for decades. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa, File)

    Mystery as Tokyo loses track of its centenarians

    Japanese authorities admitted Tuesday they'd lost track of a 113-year-old woman listed as Tokyo's oldest, days after police searched the home of the city's official oldest man _ only to find his long-dead, mummified body.


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    Mexicans voted for new governors and mayors across a third of the country Sunday in an election soured by drug-gang killings and intimidation and expected to hand the main opposition party sweeping gains.


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  • Pyongyang demands light-water reactors

    BEIJING — North Korea's nuclear envoy demanded yesterday that his country be given power-generating light-water reactors as a reward for eventually dismantling its atomic programs.


  • Pyongyang demands light-water reactors

    BEIJING — North Korea's nuclear envoy demanded yesterday that his country be given power-generating light-water reactors as a reward for eventually dismantling its atomic programs.


  • Official says U.S. atomic bombing 'couldn't be helped'

    TOKYO — Japan's defense minister yesterday said the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States during World War II was an inevitable way to end the war, drawing criticism from atomic bomb survivors.


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