Sept 18 (Reuters) - TOP STORIES
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BEIJING/TOKYO - Anti-Japan protests reignited across China
on Tuesday, the emotional anniversary marking Tokyo's occupation
of its giant neighbour, escalating a maritime dispute which has
forced major Japanese brandname firms to suspend business there.
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KABUL - Afghan militants claimed responsibility on Tuesday
for a suicide bomb attack on a minivan carrying foreign workers
that killed 12 people saying it was retaliation for a film
mocking the Prophet Mohammad.
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WASHINGTON - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney
dismissed supporters of President Barack Obama - almost half of
U.S. voters - as people who live off government handouts and do
not "care for their lives," in a potentially damaging video.
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CHENGDU, China - A former police chief who revealed China's
biggest political scandal in two decades admitted defection and
did not contest charges of taking bribes and illegal
surveillance at his two-day trial ending Tuesday, a court
official said.
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CHICAGO - Chicago Teachers Union delegates will meet on
Tuesday to decide whether to end a strike that has closed the
nation's third-largest school district for more than a week and
prompted Mayor Rahm Emanuel to seek a court order to stop it.
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LONDON - British author Salman Rushdie's memoir of more than
nine years in hiding after Iran's supreme leader issued a death
sentence against him hits the shelves on Tuesday, ending the
wait for his account of a furore that has echoes across the
world today.
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BOSTON - Microsoft Corp warned a newly discovered bug in its
Internet Explorer web browser makes PCs vulnerable to attack by
hackers and urged customers to download a piece of security
software to mitigate the risk of infection.
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YANGON - Myanmar pardoned more than 500 prisoners on Monday
in an amnesty that included at least 80 political detainees,
according to activists, a step that could strengthen the former
military state's growing bonds with Washington.
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CINCINNATI/GENEVA - President Barack Obama on Monday said
the United States was challenging Chinese auto and auto-parts
subsidies that threatened American jobs as he campaigned in
Ohio, an auto manufacturing state that could be decisive in the
November presidential election.
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VIENNA - Power lines to Iran's most controversial nuclear
enrichment plant were blown up a month ago, according to its
atomic energy chief, who alleged on Monday that the U.N. nuclear
watchdog may have been infiltrated by "terrorists and
saboteurs".
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NEW YORK - Occupy Wall Street celebrated its one-year
anniversary on Monday with a day of demonstrations that resulted
in nearly 150 arrests but failed to produce the turnout or
fervor that first propelled the movement into the national
conversation.