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Daegu High School cheerleaders of South Korea practice for the Far East cheerleading tournament at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020. (FRANCINE IMRIE)
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DODEA-Pacific cancels more events in Korea and Japan over coronavirus concerns

Pacific area Defense Department schools canceled more events Friday, a day after pulling the plug on Far East winter sports tournaments due to concerns over potential exposure to the new coronavirus.
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Get off base and enjoy fun events on Okinawa

There's some great events coming up, so get off base and check them out!

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The cruise ship Diamond Princess is docked at Yokohama Port, near Tokyo, Friday, Feb. 7, 2020. AP
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US Army Japan says seven aboard Yokohama cruise ship will undergo additional quarantine at home

Seven people associated with U.S. Army Japan who spent two weeks potentially exposed to the new coronavirus on a cruise ship in Yokohama must spend another 14 days quarantined at home, officials said Tuesday.
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Perfect weekend in Kanazawa, Ishikawa

A brisk shinkansen ride from Tokyo through the bamboo-covered hills and rice paddies will bring you to Kanazawa, a charming coastal town often compared to Kyoto and referred to as the hidden pearl of the Japan Sea.
Lt. Gen. H. Stacy Clardy, III Marine Expeditionary Force Commanding General presents an award to Maj. William Easter, the theatre security cooperation officer with III MEF, in the Battle Cabin room of the III MEF headquarters building, Camp Courtney, Okinawa, Japan, Feb. 14, 2020. Easter was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps medal for saving the life of a drowning pregnant woman. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Hannah Hall)
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U.S. Marine awarded Navy and Marine Corps medal to III MEF Marine for heroic act

Maj. William Easter, the theatre security cooperation officer with III Marine Expeditionary Force, was awarded the Navy and Marines Corps medal for saving a drowning pregnant woman caught in a rip current.
U.S. Army Sgt. Roger McCall, 153rd Military Police Company, reads an edition of Stars and Stripes while in the Green Zone, Baghdad, Oct. 18, 2007. (SGT. BRENDAN MACKIE/U.S. ARMY NATIONAL GUARD)
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Veterans point to value of Stars and Stripes amid proposal to strip funding from news organization

Many veterans are speaking out about the importance of Stars and Stripes as a news source for troops in light of the Pentagon’s decision this week to gut the historic news agency of its annual funding to free up more money for what it considers to be crucial warfighting expenses.

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Chinese student pleads guilty to taking pictures of Navy base in Florida
Lyuyou Liao appeared in U.S. District Court in Key West, two months after military police caught him using his cellphone to take photos after breaching the guarded property at the Navy's Truman Annex downtown.
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How a bizarre, monster fish hoodwinked researchers and reeled in a wave of citizen scientists
A woman in Denmark has a chunk of a massive creature in her freezer, next to her peas. In New Zealand, a fisherman has pieces of the giant in a bottle of vodka. And in Alaska, a bush pilot hops in his seaplane to hunt down samples of the colossus, known to some as an enormous 4,000-pound floating head.
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Israeli police shoot, kill alleged stabbing attacker
Israeli police said officers shot and killed a man Saturday after he allegedly tried to stab a soldier outside Jerusalem's Old City.
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New Orleans agency: Second person in days struck, killed by Mardi Gras float
A person was struck and killed by a Mardi Gras float during a raucous Saturday night street parade in New Orleans, the second person in days killed along a parade route in this year's Carnival season, authorities said.
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Pakistan says five militants killed in shootout; two arrested
Militant groups in northwest Pakistan are often interlinked with those across the border in Afghanistan. Reining in terror in Pakistan is critical, as the U.S. is setting the stage for signing a peace deal with the Afghan Taliban next week.
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Grissom Air Museum seeks help on Cold War-era bomber exhibit
The aircraft museum at northern Indiana's Grissom Air Reserve Base is seeking $100,000 boost from local government toward a building to protect and display one of the few surviving Cold War-era B-58 Hustler bombers.
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