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...most inspired political acts of 2006 occurred on Oct. 8, when newly elected Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stepped off a plane in Beijing. Relations between China and Japan were at their lowest ebb in decades, largely because Abe's predecessor Junichiro Koizumi had repeatedly visited the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan's war dead, including 14 Class-A war criminals. Abe's momentous trip to China broke a political stalemate between Asia's two leading powers and portended closer economic and diplomatic ties between these historical rivals...
...Chiarelli returned to Iraq last January as commander of the Multinational Corps - in layman's terms, the general in charge of combat operations. Within weeks the Shi'ites were up in arms again, after the bombing of the al-Ashkari Shrine in Samarra. This time, the target of their rage was the Sunni community, not U.S. forces. Shi'ite militias are blamed for much of the killings in Iraq's civil...
...A.The bombing of the Golden Mosque [the Ashkariya Shrine in Samarra] in February - that changed everything. That was the most seminal moment of my entire two years here. That probably surpassed the elections in having an effect on the people. That's where we saw the rise in sectarian violence. There were other moments, like the delay in forming the government [after the Dec. 2005 elections]. We didn't have a government until June. That created a real angst in the community, as they watched this process play out. And it allowed the militias to grow without interference...
Happy trails to the 100,000 people who visit the Branson, Mo., shrine to the western royal couple. Displays include the actor-singer's golden palomino, Trigger, mounted on its hind legs...
...Surrounded by sharpshooters perched in olive groves, the pontiff delivered mass at the Shrine of Mary in western Turkey Wednesday, and said: "I turn to ... the little flock of Christ living in [Turkey's] midst to offer a word of encouragement and to manifest the affection of the whole church...