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The Hindu
Blizzard pummels northern Japan
A blizzard struck northern Japan on Friday with authorities warning of avalanches, high waves, strong winds and traffic disruption. | The Japan Meteorological Agency expected the snowstorm to continue... (photo: WN / Janice Sabnal)

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The Times Of India
In Srinagar, students tell a different story
SRINAGAR: Some of the Kashmiri students from Meerut's Swami Vivekanand Subharti University, who have now returned home to an angry welcome by political outfits in the restive region, have said the sed... (photo: WN / Imran Nissar)

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The Columbus Dispatch
Popular butterflies give a lift to conservatory
Thursday March 6, 2014 8:27 AM | Comments: 0 Tweet | Someone who handles 20,000 butterflies a year understands: Their delicate appearances are deceiving. | “Several species are known... (photo: Creative Commons)

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Swissinfo
IBM China workers strike over terms in £1.37 billion Lenovo deal
| Reuters | Image Caption: | Visitors walk past the IBM booth at the 9th China International Software Product & Information Service Expo in Nanjing (reuters tickers) | March 6, 2014 - 14:15 | S... (photo: MK/WN)

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Police officers in bulletproof vests patrol the streets in the Konohana district of Osaka, western Japan, Monday, April 19, 1999. When members of Japan´s biggest underworld gang moved into the working-class neighborhood of Konohana two years ago, t

The Guardian
Membership of Japan's yakuza crime gangs falls to all-time low
Police say number of people in organised crime syndicates fell below 60,000 for first time on record last year | Members of the largest yakuza group, the Yamaguchi-gumi, ... (photo: AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
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Headlines India
Kenya eyes one lakh Indian tourists
Kolkata, March 6: Kenya, home to the famed Maasai Mara national reserve, plans to lure one lakh Indian tourists in the next two years with the focus on developing regiona... (photo: Public Domain / Slick-o-bot)
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A woman walks in front of an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, March 11, 2009.

Xinhua
Nikkei surges 1.59 pct to 5-week high on yen's retreat, gov't pension fund shift
TOKYO, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Tokyo stocks jumped Thursday, with the benchmark Nikkei stock index surging 1.59 percent as the yen' s depreciation spurred buying of currency-... (photo: AP / Itsuo Inouye)
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File - Former resident Susumu Ikeda walks past an overgrown garden during a visit to his home in the abandoned town of Namie, northeastern Japan, just outside the 20 kilometer exclusion zone around the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011.

Al Jazeera
Can Japan revive its nuclear ghost towns?
- It's from a distance that Naoki Kobayashi tries to manage the reformation of his town Namie, which sits empty 10km away from the leaking nuclear plant that has wr... (photo: AP / Greg Baker)
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Migrant workers in Dubai creek, UAE, November 2007

Newstrack India
'Saudi economy is dependent on Indian workers'
Tweet | New Delhi, March 6 (IANS) Enhanced strategic ties and defence cooperation will encourage Indians and Saudis to boost two-way investments, which are currently far ... (photo: WN / Guillaume Poulet-Mathis)
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Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers and Coalition Forces patrol in Barrmo, Washir district, Afghanistan, Sept. 19, 2013. The ANA and Coalition Forces conducted mounted and dismounted patrolling and engaged local nationals to prevent insurgency. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Demetrius L. Munnerlyn/Released)

San Francisco Chronicle
NATO airstrike kills 5 Afghan soldiers
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An early morning NATO airstrike in Afghanistan's eastern Logar province killed five Afghan soldiers on Thursday, the coalition and Afghan defe... (photo: USMC / Demetrius L. Munnerlyn)
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In the memory of soldiers who were martyred in World War I and Afghan war. 13514 names engraved on stones and Amar shaeed jawan jyoti lighted in memory of martyrs (shahid).Situated on the Rajpath in New Delhi, India Gate (originally called the All India War Memorial) is a monument built by Edwin Lutyens to commemorate the Indian soldiers who died in World War I and the Afghan Wars. The foundation stone was laid on 10 February 1921 by the Duke of Connaught. The names of the soldiers who died in these wars are inscribed on the walls. It was completed in 1931. Burning under it since 1971 is the Amar Jawan Jyoti (the flame of the immortal warrior), which marks the Unknown Soldier's Tomb

The Times Of India
India to have 4th highest number of billionaires by 2023: Report
NEW YORK: India is projected to be home to the fourth highest number of billionaires in the world by 2023, according to a report which said wealth creation will accelerat... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)
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Passersby look at a chart showing a sharp drop of Japanese stocks in front of a Tokyo brokerage Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008.

Business Day
Asian shares win reprieve, euro hobbled ahead of ECB
TOKYO — Asian shares enjoyed a reprieve on Thursday as diplomatic efforts moderated the crisis over Ukraine, while the euro came under pressure as investors speculate w... (photo: AP / Katsumi Kasahara)
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