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...retired detective from nearby Fukui City has patrolled the cliffs two or three times a day since 2004, wearing white gloves and a floppy sun hat, carrying binoculars to focus on three spots on the cliffs where suicides are most common. He has set up a nonprofit foundation to aid the work and says he has helped prevent 188 potential suicides. After he's talked them off the cliffs, Shige--a trained counselor--takes them to his small office, where two gas heaters keep a kettle boiling, ready to make the tea that accompanies his counseling sessions. For men, Shige...
...ruling March 14 alliance won a surprise majority in the country's hotly contested June 7 parliamentary elections, upsetting an opposition coalition led by the Shi'ite paramilitary group Hizballah. The pro-West, anti-Syria alliance's victory was lauded by the U.S., which had threatened to withhold financial aid to Lebanon if the Iran-backed opposition triumphed. Negotiations on the creation of a national-unity government are set to begin in the coming weeks, though Hizballah's insistence on retaining legislative-veto power is expected to be a source of contention...
...Washington Good News From Banks, For a Change In a potential sign of hope for the ailing U.S. economy, the Treasury Department agreed to let 10 large banks begin repaying $68 billion in federal aid they received under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). Having passed "stress tests," some large firms like Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase are expected to return the bailout money ahead of the original timetable set by the White House...
Earlier this year, several dozen aid agencies wrote to President Obama asking the Administration to overhaul its humanitarian goals and policies toward Iraq, including a new commitment to resettling vulnerable Iraqis in the U.S. The groups also asked the Administration to review its development goals in Iraq and increase aid for displaced people there and in neighboring countries...
...Administration appears to be listening. Scott Busby, director for human rights in the National Security Council's Office of Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights, said on Tuesday that the Administration is aware of the problems illustrated by the aid groups' report and is poised to embark on a review of the Federal Government's resettlement program. He cautioned, though, that some of the flaws in the resettlement program are fundamental structural problems that are going to take time to fix. "We will look at whatever the needs are and try to address them as quickly as we can," he said...