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TOKYO – Japanese police raided the offices of a tour organizer Saturday on suspicion of negligence after eight senior citizens died of apparent hypothermia in cold, wet weather during a climbing tour of Japan’s northern mountains, officials said. The hikers, most of them in their 60s, were found dead Friday. …

DERA ISMAIL KHAN – Pakistani jets killed 12 suspected militants in South Waziristan on Thursday, a day after suspected U.S. missile strikes killed up to 45 insurgents in twin strikes in the stronghold of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, intelligence officials said. The convergence of U.S. and Pakistani interests against …

BAGHDAD – A bomb planted on a well-wisher’s car at a wedding celebration in Iraq on Wednesday killed two people and injured 18 others outside the house of the groom, a police lieutenant, authorities said. At least eight people died in other violence around the country. The wedding attack happened …