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Diplomats: Japanese wins test vote for IAEA head

Jun. 9, 2009
Diplomats say Japan's candidate has won an informal test vote meant to thin out the field of candidates to become head of the U.N. nuclear agency. The diplomats said Yukiya Amano received 20 votes from the International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-nation board....
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President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch