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Kiev - Worn out from protesting the results of the Nov. 21 election, many of Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko's supporters began to leave Kiev's Independence Square on Thursday. "We have won and now it's time to go home and help Yushchenko's campaign," Oksana Shtor, a 35-year-old teacher from the city of Dubno, told the Associated Press as protesters began dismantling some of the tents that have housed them. The road to the new election was cleared Wednesday when Ukraine's parliament adopted a package of electoral and constitutional reforms that the pro-Russian Yanukovych and pro-Western Yushchenko camps had negotiated Columbus, Ohio- A man opened fire in an Ohio nightclub Wednesday night, killing a heavy metal guitarist and three others before a police officer shot him to death. The unidentified man climbed onto the stage at the Alrosa Villa just as the band Damageplan was opening its show, firing several shots at guitarist Dimebag Darrell Abbott. Tokyo - Japan's cabinet decided Thursday to extend the country's deployment of non-combat troops in Iraq by one more year. The main opposition Democratic Party of Japan had called for the troops to return home after their year-long original mission expires on Tuesday. Opinion polls show many Japanese citizens support bringing the troops home as well.
