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The government puts a new plan in effect to save electricity that would entail a fine for companies that exceed the maximum amount, but there are questions as to just how to determine who was responsible.

電力使用制限令きょう発動 罰則あいまい、誰に責任?
 
Dominique Strauss-Kahn is released from house arrest, as there were inconsistencies in the testimony of the woman he allegedly sexually assaulted.

ストロスカーン前IMF専務理事、自宅軟禁を解かれる-被害女性の証言に矛盾
 
A foreign cargo ship and fishing boat collide, leaving one person in serious condition. Short one this time. In fact, the whole thing is quoted.

Quick note: ふ頭=埠頭 (wharf/pier/dock).

漁船転覆 1人意識不明の重体
 
The Japanese government decides to allow North Korean Olympic officials into the country for the Asia Olympic Conference, although as a general rule they don't allow North Korea officials into the country outside of special circumstances (video).

北朝鮮五輪関係者 入国へ調整
 
7 summer festival-goers are taken to a hospital after complaining of pain in their throat and eyes, possibly due to the source of a strange smell (video).

夏祭りで異臭 7人を搬送 大阪・羽曳野市
 
A guy hit another guy with his car and drove around with him on the hood for a few hundred meters before throwing him off (video). This type of story I don't think I've seen before. The quoted sentence isn't in the video.

ボンネットに男性乗せ…10km爆走、振り落とす
男は、車のボンネットに男性を乗せたまま十数キロ走り、振り落としました。
 
Prime Minister Kan proposed the nationalization of nuclear power plants, stating that should something go wrong the federal government would be better equipped to compensate people as one reason.

首相 原発国有化含め検討
 
The Austrian government decides to revise the lyrics of their national anthem to be more inclusive to women.

国歌も「男女同権」に 女性もたたえる歌詞に改正
 
According to reports, the FBI is now investigating whether News Corp reporters had hacked into the phones of victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Side note: 暴露 appears in this article, and in my opinion, this substituting a 常用漢字 for one that isn't is bad practice (it's originally 曝露), because now you've forced a reading and a meaning that wasn't originally there onto a character. 暴 is ボウ and means "violent"; 曝 is バク and means "expose".

UPDATE:米FBIも捜査開始―ニューズ・コープの電話盗聴疑惑
 
70 cows suspected of being contaminated with caesium are sent to market from 4 farms in Yamagata Pref.

県内4農家70頭出荷セシウム肉牛問題
 
Now here's something that (I would hope) doesn't happen every day: a 39-story skyscraper in Seoul, Korea, was evacuated for a while due to shaking. The cause? It seems to have been an aerobics class on the 12th floor.

韓国高層ビルで謎の揺れ、原因はエアロビか
 
Typhoon #6 has supposedly dumped the majority of its rain in the Koushin area and is headed southeast.

関東甲信、雨の峠越える…台風6号
 
I assume this is Tokyo... the police are planning on introducing one-way signs for bicycle paths because they're narrow, which leads to lots of accidents (video). The text is in the description.

「自転車の一方通行」標識を導入へ
 
After a bombing in Oslo, a 32-year-old man opened fire at a political youth gathering in northwestern Norway. Police suspect the two are related.

首都郊外で乱射事件=10人死亡、7人負傷−同時テロと断定・ノルウェー
 
More facts about the suspect in the shooting in northeast Norway that killed 85 (confirmed so far) come to light.

ノルウェーテロ:容疑者、反イスラムが動機か
 
President Obama announces sanctions against the yakuza as part of a policy against international crime organizations.

「ヤクザ」米国の制裁対象に オバマ政権が組織犯罪戦略
 
The discovery and analysis of new fossils have led a Chinese research team to hypothesize that archaeopteryx was not the first bird to have existed.

始祖鳥:鳥ではなく恐竜? 新種の化石分析、「最古の鳥類」覆す仮説
 
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This doesn't reflect well on Japan's immigration officers: for about the first half of the year, they let wanted criminals leave the country from Tokyo's Narita airport, and even missed the warning messages that were displayed when their ticket numbers came up.

入管、手配犯4人出国させる…警告表示も見逃す
 
The government decides on a basic reconstruction/revitalization plan following the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Still, the scale of temporary tax increases are left ambiguous due to objections within the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) (video).

政府、東日本大震災の復興基本方針決定 民主党内の強い反発で臨時増税の規模あいまいに
 
Recap of the day's events in the US Congress regarding the talks about raising the debt ceiling.

情報BOX:米債務上限問題をめぐる最新情勢(8月1日時点)
 
And here's the follow-up to yesterday's story.

米財政法が成立=大統領署名、デフォルト回避
 
The Kamaishi City fish market opens back up, but they're only expecting 1/10th of the usual haul. Still good news as far as the recovery from the earthquake/tsunami in March goes.

岩手県釜石市、魚市場が再開 水揚げは10分の1に
 
A team of researchers at Kyoto University succeed in having mice born from sperm made of iPS cells.

精子をiPSから作り、健常なマウス初の誕生
 
More vehicle recalls, this time Honda.

ホンダ 海外で「アコード」など249万台リコール
 
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