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03 31st, 2010|
AFP - The United States promised Monday it would at least consider Japan’s ideas on a military base, which has been a growing thorn in relations between the two allies.
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AFP - Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada arrived Sunday in the United States for talks on a controversial US military base that has clouded relations between the close allies, officials said.
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AP - Japan is still seeking to move a contentious American military base off the southern island of Okinawa and will finalize its proposal for Washington by the end of March, the prime minister said Friday.
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AP - The independent Commission on Wartime Contracting wants to know whether American contractors in Iraq are adequately reducing the number of employees in the country as U.S. troops are withdrawn.
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AFP - A crew member went missing but three others were rescued on Wednesday as a US Navy radar plane supporting operations in Afghanistan ploughed into the Arabian Sea, the US Fifth Fleet said.
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Reuters - Colombian rebels on Tuesday freed a government soldier who was held hostage in the jungle for more than 12 years and symbolized those left behind in the war against Latin America’s oldest insurgency.
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AP - A high-ranking Army general won’t be formally reprimanded after urging troops to lobby to keep the ban on openly gay military service.