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SYDNEY -- The bodies of Sydney hostage siege victims, lawyer Katrina Dawson and cafe manager Tori Johnson, have been returned to their families.
The families began organizing the funerals on Friday and they are expected to be held before Christmas Day next week. ( Australia-Hostage Siege-Victims' Bodies)
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TOKYO -- Japan and the United States announced Friday that they will delay the revision of their defense guidelines planned in the end of this year until the first half of 2015 so as to keep in step with Japan's legislation over the right to collective self- defense, according to local media.
The guideline revision is expected to come in May or later in 2015 as the government here is likely to submit relevant security legislation to a Diet session after nationwide local election slated for April, Japan's Kyodo News quoted a government official as saying. (Japan-US-Defense Guidelines Delay)
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SEOUL -- South Korea's constitutional court ruled Friday that a minor political party, which has been considered as a blind follower of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), should be dismissed.
All five lawmakers of the left-leaning Unified Progressive Party (UPP) will lose their parliamentary seats, according to the nationally televised ruling read by Chief Justice Park Han-cheol. (South Korea-Party-Disband)
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SYDNEY -- The hunger strike by an asylum seeker being held in an Australian detention center entered his 49th day without food on Friday.
He has now given detention center medical staff orders which were communicated via an interpreter that he not be fed if he loses consciousness.
He stopped eating on Nov. 1 after being refused refugee status. (Australia-Asylum Seeker-Hunger Strike)
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NEW DELHI -- India's main opposition Congress chief Sonia Gandhi has been admitted to a hospital in the Indian capital, sources said Friday.
"Gandhi was rushed to the hospital in the national capital late Thursday night. She is being treated for a lower respiratory tract infection there. However, her condition is stable now," the sources said. (India-Sonia Gandhi-Hospotalization)
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SYDNEY -- Eight children aged 18 months to 15 years old were found stabbed to death on Friday in an Australian home.
A police spokesman said all were found in a suburban home in the Queensland city of Cairns in northern Australia. (Australia- Children-Stabbing)
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JAKARTA -- One person was missing and 9 others were hurt in the volcano eruption of Mount Gamalama in Indonesia, an official said here Friday.
Four of the 9 were serious injured, Sutopo Purno Nugroho, spokesman of the national disaster management agency, said. ( Indonesia-Volcano Eruption-Injuries) Enditem
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