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IN BRIEF
Tropical storm
barrages Japan
TOKYO — The death toll from a
tropical storm in Japan rose to 12
Thursday after searchers found sev
eral more victims.
TVopical storm Meari has plowed
through a wide swath of Japan
since Sunday, causing floods, trig
gering deadly landslides and forcing
about 10,000 people to flee their
homes for shelters. Seventeen peo
ple were missing and at least 70 oth
ers had been injured.
Intruders in China
embassy seek asylum
BEIJING — Forty-four men, omen
and children using ladders clam
bered over a spiked fence around
the Canadian Embassy on Wednes
day in what appeared to be the
biggest recent bid for asylum.
The group, which reportedly in
cluded two former political prison
ers as well as North Koreans, was
an embarrassing reminder of the
dismal conditions in North Korea,
officially China’s ally.
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Two sentenced to death
in USS Cole attack
SAN'A, Yemen — A Saudi suspect
ed of being an associate of Osama bin
Laden and a Yemeni militant were
sentenced to death by firing squad
Wednesday for the bombing of the
USS Cole four years ago, the first con
victions in the al-Qaida terror attack
that killed 17 American sailors. The
judge ordered four other Yemenis
jailed for five to 10 years.
White House: Guard
never disciplined Bush
WASHINGTON — President Bush
never was disciplined while serving
in the Texas Air National Guard, nev
er failed a physical and never asked
his father or family friends for help to
get him into the guard during the
Vietnam War, the White House said
Wednesday. The White House an
swers came in response to a dozen
questions submitted by The Associat
ed Press in light of new records de
tailing Bush’s Guard service and alle
gations that have surfaced this
election season.
Pilot completes first
stage of space flight
MOJAVE, Calif. — Ignoring a
warning to abort the flight, a test pilot
took a stubby-looking rocket plane
on a corkscrewing, white-knuckle
ride past the edge of the atmosphere
Wednesday, completing the first
stage of a quest to win a $10 million
prize. At nearly three times the speed
of sound SpaceShipOne reached an
altitude of 64 miles over the Mojave
Desert.
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