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Japan asks China to cover damage to patrol boats (AP)

September 27th, 2010

Anti-Japan protesters hold war flags of the Japanese Imperial Army with 'Japan get out' written on them during a demonstration near the Japanese Consulate in Hong Kong Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010. China has reiterated its demand for an apology from Japan over the detention of a Chinese fishing boat captain whose arrest plunged relations between the Asian neighbors to their lowest level in years. (AP Photo)AP - Japan asked China to pay for damage to Japanese patrol boats hit by a Chinese fishing vessel near disputed islands, as simmering tension between the two Asian neighbors…

Pentagon scrambles to assess Wikileaks damage (AP)

July 26th, 2010

An Afghan soldier stops a mini bus as a U.S. soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) checks its passengers during a search for the two missing U.S. Navy personnel at a joint check post with Afghan soldiers in Pul-e-alam, Logar province of Afghanistan on Sunday, July 25, 2010. The Taliban have offered to exchange the body of a U.S. Navy sailor they said was killed in an ambush two days ago in exchange for insurgent prisoners, an Afghan official said Sunday. (AP Photo)AP - The Pentagon said Monday it was trying to assess the damage caused by the Internet leak of some 91,000 classified documents on the Afghanistan war.


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Repeat of SKorea, US cyberattacks does no damage (AP)

July 8th, 2010

People attend a conference on cyber security. The United States is launching a program to detect cyberattacks on private US companies and government agencies running critical infrastructure such as the electricity grid and nuclear power plants, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.(AFP/File/Roslan Rahman)AP - Hundreds of computers that caused a wave of outages on U.S. and South Korean government websites last July launched new attacks on the same sites, but no major…

6.3 quake hits off Japanese coast; no damage seen (AP)

June 18th, 2010

AP - An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 has rattled northern Japan.

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Strong quake rocks eastern Indonesia; no damage (AP)

June 16th, 2010

AP - Several powerful earthquakes hit eastern Indonesia on Wednesday, triggering a brief tsunami warning and sending panicked residents fleeing from buildings to high ground. There were power blackouts in…

Mild tremor shakes Haiti but no damage reported (AP)

May 3rd, 2010

Spanish army soldier Omar San Carrion, top, jokes with Haitian children on the beach of Petit Goave, Haiti,  Monday, May 3, 2010. Some 150 Spanish soldiers will leave Haiti on Tuesday after finishing their humanitarian mission following the Jan. 12 earthquake. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)AP - People ran screaming from buildings Monday as a mild tremor rattled a Haitian capital still traumatized by the deadly Jan. 12 earthquake.


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Vatican goes into damage control mode over abuse (AP)

April 14th, 2010

FILE - In this April 7, 2010 file photo, Pope Benedict XVI, listens to his personal secretary Georg Gaenswein during the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican. The Vatican goes into full-fledged damage control mode in the priest sex abuse scandal ahead of the pope's first foreign trip since it erupted.  (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito, File)AP - The Vatican has gone into full-fledged damage control mode in the priest sex abuse scandal ahead of the pope’s first foreign trip since it erupted. Officials are promising…

Fiji cyclone damage overwhelming, leader says (AP)

March 16th, 2010

Map showing the path of Cyclone Tomas in Fiji. Fiji's government has declared a state of disaster as the first deaths were reported in the cyclone-ravaged Pacific nation where 17,000 people have fled to evacuation centres.(AFP/Graphic)AP - The South Pacific island nation of Fiji has suffered overwhelming damage from a powerful cyclone that battered its shores for more than three days, the prime minister said…

Pinera govt projects $30 billion in quake damage (AP)

March 12th, 2010

Chile's newly inaugurated President Sebastian Pinera, waves the the crowds after his swearing-in ceremony in Valparaiso, Chile, Thursday, March 11, 2010.(AP Photo/Aliosha Marquez)AP - Calling on Chileans to dry their tears and get to work to rebuild the nation, Sebastian Pinera is already setting an example.


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