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Attempt to eliminate two teams from Major League Baseball

Seppuku (切腹, lit. 'cutting [the] belly'), also called harakiri (腹切り, lit. 'abdomen/belly cutting', a native Japanese kun reading), is a form of Japanese ritualistic suicide by disembowelment. It was originally reserved for samurai in their code of honour…

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The law will eliminate criminal charges for sex workers who engage in prostitution while continuing to allow those who purchase sex services to be charged.

quartet of Austrian nurses convicted of serial murders

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India shocked by Himalayan border clash in which unarmed troops fought in the dark