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Kyodo news summary -2-+(Japan Economic Newswire Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)TOKYO, April 10_(Kyodo) _ ---------- Academic confab on Northeast Asian security gets under way in Tokyo TOKYO - An international academic conference on Northeast Asian security got under way Monday in Tokyo, with some chief negotiators to the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear ambitions scheduled to take part. Participants of the 17th Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue, involving the same six countries as those in the multilateral nuclear talks, are to tackle their main agenda items on Monday and Tuesday. ---------- N. Korea requests additional fertilizer aid from S. Korea SEOUL - North Korea has requested that South Korea provide an additional 300,000 tons of fertilizer aid, South Korea's Unification Ministry said Monday. The North Korean request would be on the dialogue table when officials from the two Koreas meet for the 18th ministerial talks on April 21-24 in Pyongyang. ---------- 93 injured after ferry apparently collides with whale off Kagoshima KAGOSHIMA, Japan - A high-speed ferry collided with an unidentified object, possibly a whale, in waters off Kagoshima Prefecture on Sunday evening, leaving 93 people injured with 36 of them hospitalized, the ferry's operator said Monday. The Toppy-4 ferry, with 109 passengers and five crew aboard, was heading from Yaku Island to Kagoshima when the incident occurred 3 kilometers west of Cape Sata at 6:05 p.m., Japan Coast Guard officials said. The ferry was traveling at 80 km per hour. ---------- Nepal rebels lend support to parties' bid to end autocracy KATHMANDU - Nepal's seven main political parties have received support from the warring Maoist rebels for their campaign to end King Gyanendra's rule and restore democracy. The parties, agitating over the seizure of executive powers by the king last year, on Sunday concluded a four-day general strike to protest the royal regime when the insurgents' support came in. |