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TOKYO -- Isao Takahata, co-founder of the prestigious Japanese animator Studio Ghibli that stuck to a hand-drawn manga look in the face of digital filmmaking, has died. He was 82.Takahata started Ghibli with Oscar-winning animator Hayao Miyazaki in 1985, hoping to create Japan s Disney. He directed Grave of the Fireflies, a tragic tale about wartime childhood, and produced some of the studio s films, including Miyazaki s 1984 Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, which tells the horror of environmental disaster through a story about a princess.Takahata died Thursday of lung cancer at a Tokyo hospital, according to a studio statement Friday.He was fully aware how the floati
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Militants set off a car bomb and stormed the entrance to an airport in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday in a failed attempt to enter the air field used by Afghan and international forces, authorities said. Eight insurgents died in the ensuing gun battle.The Taliban claimed responsibility for the assault, part of an upswing in violence in the nearly 9-year-old war.Using li
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Britain s Prince William has completed his first mission as a Royal Air Force search-and-rescue helicopter co-pilot, plucking a stricken worker from an offshore gas rig, his office said Tuesday.The 28-year-old, who is second-in-line to the British throne, was among the crew of a Sea King helicopter called to a rig in Morecambe Bay, off the coast of northwestern England, on Saturday.William s office said the crew flew through squally winds and mild turbulence to collect the rig worker, who had a suspected heart attack, and transport him to a waiting ambulance. Prince William is pleased finally to be ab
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Novak Djokovic won his men s-record 23rd Grand Slam title on Sunday with a 7-6 1 , 6-3, 7
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Three days after a similar trial by India, Pakistan on Wednesday test-fired a missile that could potentially carry a nuclear bomb to any part of its arch-foe s territory.Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif told reporters at Gwadur coastal town, close to where the missile landed Wednesday morning, that the Ghauri-II missile s range was 1,250 miles. It was the first official confirmation that Pakistan had tested an u
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CHARLEROI, Belgium -- Two female officers were attacked and wounded by a man wielding a machete and shouting Allahu Akhbar outside the main police station in the Belgian city of Charleroi on Saturday, police said.The assailant was shot by a third officer and later died of his wounds, authorities said. The attacker s identity and motive were not immediately known, Belgian Prime Minister
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yeezy government s National Security Council on Sunday.Michel told RTL television in an interview that he has also asked the independent OCAM agency to immediately assess whether there is an increased threat to Belgian internal security. Belgium has been on high alert in the wake of the March 22 suicide bombings claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, that killed 32 people in Brussels.Charleroi police spokesman David Quinaux said Saturday s attacker carried the weapon in a sports bag, and pulled it out as he arrived at a security checkpoint outside police headquarters in the southern Belgian city just before 4 p.m. One of the two officers, both of whom were described as experienced law enforcement officers, received several deep slashing cuts to the face, Quinaux sai Gcbh Israel Arrests 10 Hamas Leaders
The level of insurgency in postwar Iraq wouldn t be so high if the U.S.-led coalition had been able to invade from
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