ILEA000670460: Tunnel workers, state to settle damages suits over lung disease

AFGHANISTAN-KABUL-ROAD CONSTRUCTION

(240429) -- KABUL, April 29, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Workers work at the construction site of a road in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, April 29, 2024. Afghan caretaker government's Acting Deputy Prime Minister on Economic Affairs Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar has inaugurated three essential road projects in Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul, the state-run Bakhtar news agency reported. Launched on Saturday and implemented by the Kabul municipality, the projects at a cost of 950 million afghanis (over 13 million U.S. dollars) are intended to reduce the traffic chaos in the city with some 6 million population. (Photo by Saifurahman Safi/Xinhua)

FRANCE-POLITICS-GOVERNMENT-OLYMPICS

The Crous residences, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, that will host public servants (healthcare workers, firefighters, law enforcement, civil security) during the Olympic Games, the day of the visit of Minister Sylvie Retailleau and Minister Prisca Thevenot. In Paris, 29 April, 2024.

Japan's fertility rate drops for 7th straight year

STORY: Japan's fertility rate drops for 7th straight year DATELINE: June 3, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:49 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of children in Japan STORYLINE: Japan's fertility fell to a record low of 1.26 in 2022, declining for the seventh consecutive year, government data showed Friday. According to data released by the health ministry, the average number of children born per woman during her lifetime was 1.26 last year, down 0.05 points from the final figure for 2021 and on par with a record low marked in 2005. By prefecture, Tokyo had the lowest fertility rate at 1.04, followed by Miyagi at 1.09 and Hokkaido at 1.12, while Okinawa reported the highest fertility rate at 1.70, followed by 1.63 in Miyazaki and 1.6 in Tottori. The number of babies born in 2022 was also a record low at 770,747, down 40,875 from the year before, marking the first time the number dipped below 800,000. The latest statistics come a day after Prime Minister Fumio Kishida released a draft

JAPAN-TOKYO-ABE'S FUNERAL

(220928) -- TOKYO, Sept. 28, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Wan Gang (L), representative of the Chinese government and vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, shakes hands with former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's wife Akie Abe during the appreciation ceremony hosted by the Japanese government and Abe's family in Tokyo, Japan, Sept. 27, 2022. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

JAPAN-TOKYO-ABE'S FUNERAL

(220928) -- TOKYO, Sept. 28, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Wan Gang (R), representative of the Chinese government and vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during the appreciation ceremony hosted by the Japanese government and former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's family in Tokyo, Japan, Sept. 27, 2022. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)