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World news brief highlights: suicides, floods, bomb, arrests
AP reports a 26 year old Tokyo student set himself afire at a Nikko temple. In Congo a crowd stampede in Bukavu killed 27 and injured 101. Dublin saw a time bomb damage the O Connell Monument. Moscow dissidents fear arrests signal broader crackdown. In New Zealand a helicopter rescue saved two Australian climbers stranded near Mt Annan after 30 days in blizzard conditions.
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TOKYO
Nikko
Masahiro Nakadai
Tokyo—Metropolitan University
Dublin
Ireland
O'Connell
Daniel O'Connell
Auckland
New Zealand
Mel Cain
Mt. Annan
Cain
Helen Spiers
Suzanne