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TOKYO – As mourners, some weeping, piled Japanese comics, flowers and other mementoes at the scene of a deadly stabbing rampage, the government Monday sought to impose tighter controls over large knives and provide better security in public places. News that the attacker had posted Internet messages saying he intended …

DUBLIN, Ireland – People both for and against a stronger European Union stepped up campaigning Wednesday before a national referendum that could determine the fate of the EU’s charter for reform. But many voters said they were still confused by the issue. As many as 2.8 million Irish citizens will …

HAGERSTOWN, Md. – A Hagerstown woman who filed suit against Wal-Mart is asking for damages for herself and her son, who, she says, was born prematurely after she fell in a store. Radhia Haj-Mabrouk contends in the suit filed Tuesday in Washington County Circuit Court that she slipped on water …