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BRAZIL-RIO GRANDE DO SUL-FLOOD-AFTERMATH

(230912) -- RIO GRANDE DO SUL, Sept. 12, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Sept. 11, 2023 shows a building destroyed by the flood in the city of Arroio do Meio, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. A total of 44 people were killed and 46 others missing after an extratropical cyclone hit southern Brazil last week, said the Civil Defense agency on Sunday. (Photo by Claudia Martini/Xinhua)

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BRAZIL-RIO GRANDE DO SUL-FLOOD-AFTERMATH

(230912) -- RIO GRANDE DO SUL, Sept. 12, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Sept. 11, 2023 shows buildings destroyed by the flood in the city of Arroio do Meio, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. A total of 44 people were killed and 46 others missing after an extratropical cyclone hit southern Brazil last week, said the Civil Defense agency on Sunday. (Photo by Claudia Martini/Xinhua)

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BRAZIL-RIO GRANDE DO SUL-FLOOD-AFTERMATH

(230912) -- RIO GRANDE DO SUL, Sept. 12, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Children affected by the flood talk with each other at a gymnasium which is adapted as a shelter in the city of Arroio do Meio, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on Sept. 11, 2023. A total of 44 people were killed and 46 others missing after an extratropical cyclone hit southern Brazil last week, said the Civil Defense agency on Sunday. (Photo by Claudia Martini/Xinhua)

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BRAZIL-RIO GRANDE DO SUL-FLOOD-AFTERMATH

(230912) -- RIO GRANDE DO SUL, Sept. 12, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A woman affected by the flood stays at a gymnasium which is adapted as a shelter in the city of Arroio do Meio, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on Sept. 11, 2023. A total of 44 people were killed and 46 others missing after an extratropical cyclone hit southern Brazil last week, said the Civil Defense agency on Sunday. (Photo by Claudia Martini/Xinhua)

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BRAZIL-RIO GRANDE DO SUL-FLOOD-AFTERMATH

(230912) -- RIO GRANDE DO SUL, Sept. 12, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Municipal staff clean up the street in the city of Arroio do Meio, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on Sept. 11, 2023. A total of 44 people were killed and 46 others missing after an extratropical cyclone hit southern Brazil last week, said the Civil Defense agency on Sunday. (Photo by Claudia Martini/Xinhua)

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BRAZIL-RIO GRANDE DO SUL-FLOOD-AFTERMATH

(230912) -- RIO GRANDE DO SUL, Sept. 12, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Sept. 11, 2023 shows a building destroyed by the flood in the city of Arroio do Meio, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. A total of 44 people were killed and 46 others missing after an extratropical cyclone hit southern Brazil last week, said the Civil Defense agency on Sunday. (Photo by Claudia Martini/Xinhua)

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BRAZIL-RIO GRANDE DO SUL-FLOOD-AFTERMATH

(230911) -- RIO GRANDE DO SUL, Sept. 11, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Buildings are destroyed by flood at the city of Colinas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on Sept. 10, 2023. A total of 44 people were killed and 46 others missing after an extratropical cyclone hit southern Brazil last week, said the Civil Defense agency on Sunday. (Photo by Claudia Martini/Xinhua)

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BRAZIL-RIO GRANDE DO SUL-FLOOD-AFTERMATH

(230911) -- RIO GRANDE DO SUL, Sept. 11, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A house is destroyed by flood at the city of Colinas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on Sept. 10, 2023. A total of 44 people were killed and 46 others missing after an extratropical cyclone hit southern Brazil last week, said the Civil Defense agency on Sunday. (Photo by Claudia Martini/Xinhua)

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BRAZIL-RIO GRANDE DO SUL-FLOOD-AFTERMATH

(230911) -- RIO GRANDE DO SUL, Sept. 11, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Rescuers search for missing people at the city of Colinas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on Sept. 10, 2023. A total of 44 people were killed and 46 others missing after an extratropical cyclone hit southern Brazil last week, said the Civil Defense agency on Sunday. (Photo by Claudia Martini/Xinhua)

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BRAZIL-RIO GRANDE DO SUL-FLOOD-AFTERMATH

(230911) -- RIO GRANDE DO SUL, Sept. 11, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Rescuers search for missing people at the city of Colinas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on Sept. 10, 2023. A total of 44 people were killed and 46 others missing after an extratropical cyclone hit southern Brazil last week, said the Civil Defense agency on Sunday. (Photo by Claudia Martini/Xinhua)

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BRAZIL-RIO GRANDE DO SUL-FLOOD-AFTERMATH

(230911) -- RIO GRANDE DO SUL, Sept. 11, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Buildings are destroyed by flood at the city of Colinas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on Sept. 10, 2023. A total of 44 people were killed and 46 others missing after an extratropical cyclone hit southern Brazil last week, said the Civil Defense agency on Sunday. (Photo by Claudia Martini/Xinhua)

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BRAZIL-RIO GRANDE DO SUL-FLOOD-AFTERMATH

(230911) -- RIO GRANDE DO SUL, Sept. 11, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A house is destroyed by flood at the city of Colinas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on Sept. 10, 2023. A total of 44 people were killed and 46 others missing after an extratropical cyclone hit southern Brazil last week, said the Civil Defense agency on Sunday. (Photo by Claudia Martini/Xinhua)

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BRAZIL-RIO GRANDE DO SUL-FLOOD-AFTERMATH

(230911) -- RIO GRANDE DO SUL, Sept. 11, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Rescuers search for missing people at the city of Colinas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on Sept. 10, 2023. A total of 44 people were killed and 46 others missing after an extratropical cyclone hit southern Brazil last week, said the Civil Defense agency on Sunday. (Photo by Claudia Martini/Xinhua)

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BRAZIL-RIO GRANDE DO SUL-FLOOD-AFTERMATH

(230911) -- RIO GRANDE DO SUL, Sept. 11, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A rescuer searches for missing people at the city of Colinas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on Sept. 10, 2023. A total of 44 people were killed and 46 others missing after an extratropical cyclone hit southern Brazil last week, said the Civil Defense agency on Sunday. (Photo by Claudia Martini/Xinhua)

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BRAZIL-RIO GRANDE DO SUL-FLOOD-AFTERMATH

(230911) -- RIO GRANDE DO SUL, Sept. 11, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A man walks with a ladder on a road destroyed by flood at the city of Colinas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on Sept. 10, 2023. A total of 44 people were killed and 46 others missing after an extratropical cyclone hit southern Brazil last week, said the Civil Defense agency on Sunday. (Photo by Claudia Martini/Xinhua)

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BRAZIL-RIO GRANDE DO SUL-FLOOD-AFTERMATH

(230911) -- RIO GRANDE DO SUL, Sept. 11, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A road is destroyed by flood at the city of Colinas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on Sept. 10, 2023. A total of 44 people were killed and 46 others missing after an extratropical cyclone hit southern Brazil last week, said the Civil Defense agency on Sunday. (Photo by Claudia Martini/Xinhua)

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BRAZIL-RIO GRANDE DO SUL-FLOOD-AFTERMATH

(230911) -- RIO GRANDE DO SUL, Sept. 11, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Rescuers remove gas cylinders from the debris at the city of Colinas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on Sept. 10, 2023. A total of 44 people were killed and 46 others missing after an extratropical cyclone hit southern Brazil last week, said the Civil Defense agency on Sunday. (Photo by Claudia Martini/Xinhua)

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Flood-related deaths rise to 26 in east Afghanistan

STORY: Flood-related deaths rise to 26 in east Afghanistan DATELINE: July 24, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:27 LOCATION: Kabul CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the flood-affected area in Wardak province, Afghanistan 2. various of muddy street 3. various of damaged houses STORYLINE: The number of flood-related casualties has increased to 26 deaths, with 44 people injured in east Afghanistan's Wardak province, said Shafiullah Rahimi, spokesman for the Natural Disaster Management Authority on Sunday. "A total of 26 people were killed, 44 others injured, and 36 more people went missing in rainstorms and flooding that swept through parts of eastern Wardak province late Saturday," Rahimi told reporters. Rahimi confirmed that the rainstorms and flash floods had also claimed four lives in the Paghman district outside Kabul and another in the eastern Khost province over the past three days. At least 250 cattle have been killed, 400 houses were partially or utterly destroyed, and dozens of acres of land were subme

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Fukushima police comb debris in coastal areas

NAMIE, Japan - Fukushima prefectural police officers comb through debris in the town of Namie on Nov. 11, 2014, 44 months after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, in search of missing victims' remains. As of Nov. 10, 2,593 people were unaccounted for in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, according to the National Police Agency.

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1 year after killer typhoon in Philippines

TACLOBAN CITY, Philippines - A man (L) prays for his 1-year-old son, who is among the victims of super typhoon Haiyan, at a cemetery in Tacloban City on the central Philippine island of Leyte on Nov. 8, 2014, a year after the disaster that killed at least 6,300 people and left more than 1,000 missing.

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Search operations resume at Mt. Ontake

OTAKI, Japan - Rescue workers prepare for search operations in the central Japan village of Otaki on Oct. 10, 2014, for eight missing people following the deadly eruption of Mt. Ontake, which has claimed 55 lives so far. More than 500 workers will be deployed as an approaching typhoon may hinder their work again.

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Search operations resume at Mt. Ontake

OTAKI, Japan - Rescue workers board a helicopter in the central Japan village of Otaki on Oct. 10, 2014, to resume search operations for eight missing people following the deadly eruption of Mt. Ontake, which has claimed 55 lives so far. More than 500 workers will be deployed as an approaching typhoon may hinder their work again.

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Hiroshima city partially lifts evacuation advisories, orders

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Rescue workers continue searching for two missing people in the mudslide-hit western Japan city of Hiroshima on Aug. 31, 2014. The municipal government lifted evacuation advisories and orders issued for about 106,000 people.

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Police look for missing tsunami victims in coastal zone

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Police officers comb a coastal area in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, in search of more than 1,000 missing people in the northeastern Japanese prefecture on Aug. 11, 2014, three years and five months since the 2011 devastating earthquake and tsunami.

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Search on typhoon-hit island

OSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the search for the missing, which resumed Oct. 21, 2013, on the island of Izu Oshima, south of Tokyo. Typhoon Wipha on Oct. 16 brought torrential rain to the island, causing mudslides that destroyed houses and buried residents alive. According to police and local authorities, 27 people have been confirmed dead.

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Search on typhoon-hit island

OSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the search for the missing, which resumed Oct. 21, 2013, on the island of Izu Oshima, south of Tokyo. Typhoon Wipha on Oct. 16 brought torrential rain to the island, causing mudslides that destroyed houses and buried residents alive. According to police and local authorities, 27 people have been confirmed dead.

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Search on typhoon-hit island

OSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the search for the missing, which resumed Oct. 21, 2013, on the island of Izu Oshima, south of Tokyo. Typhoon Wipha on Oct. 16 brought torrential rain to the island, causing mudslides that destroyed houses and buried residents alive. According to police and local authorities, 27 people have been confirmed dead.

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Search on typhoon-hit island

OSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the search for the missing, which resumed Oct. 21, 2013, on the island of Izu Oshima, south of Tokyo. Typhoon Wipha on Oct. 16 brought torrential rain to the island, causing mudslides that destroyed houses and buried residents alive. According to police and local authorities, 27 people have been confirmed dead.

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Search on typhoon-hit island

OSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the search for the missing, which resumed Oct. 21, 2013, on the island of Izu Oshima, south of Tokyo. Typhoon Wipha on Oct. 16 brought torrential rain to the island, causing mudslides that destroyed houses and buried residents alive. According to police and local authorities, 27 people have been confirmed dead.

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Search on typhoon-hit island

OSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the search for the missing, which resumed Oct. 21, 2013, on the island of Izu Oshima, south of Tokyo. Typhoon Wipha on Oct. 16 brought torrential rain to the island, causing mudslides that destroyed houses and buried residents alive. According to police and local authorities, 27 people have been confirmed dead.

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Leisure fishing boat overturns off Shizuoka, 1 dead, 5 missing

TOKYO, Japan - A leisure fishing boat with 15 people aboard overturned in stormy seas off Shizuoka Prefecture, leaving one dead, one in critical condition and five missing.

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3 more, including 4-yr-old boy, listed as suspected abductees

TOKYO, Japan - Three more people have been added to the list of those who may have been kidnapped by North Korean agents, a private organization investigating the abduction issue said June 27. The photo released by the Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea shows Shinya Matsuoka, who was only 4 years old when he went missing in March 1989 in Tokushima Prefecture.

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3 more, including 4-yr-old boy, listed as suspected abductees

TOKYO, Japan - Three more people have been added to the list of those who may have been kidnapped by North Korean agents, a private organization investigating the abduction issue said June 27. The photo released by the Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea shows Hiroshi Sasaki, who disappeared from Kanagawa Prefecture in April 1981 when he was 21.

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3 more, including 4-yr-old boy, listed as suspected abductees

TOKYO, Japan - Three more people have been added to the list of those who may have been kidnapped by North Korean agents, a private organization investigating the abduction issue said June 27. The photo released by the Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea shows Toshiko Sekiya, from Chiba Prefecture, who went missing in July 1974 at age 17.

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(3)2 die, 2 missing as Niigata, Fukushima caught in heavy rain

SANJO, Japan - A woman comes out of a rubber boat after being rescued from her stranded house in Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture, on July 13. Heavy rain hit Niigata and Fukushima prefectures, leaving two people dead, one injured and two missing. About 16,700 households were ordered or advised to evacuate in Niigata, while ground troops were sent in for disaster prevention efforts.

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(1)Group adds two more to list of would-be abductees

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiro Araki, who heads the Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea (COMJAN), speaks to reporters in Tokyo on March 10. The group added two people -- Koichi Kawashima, who went missing from Yokohama in 1982 at age 23, and Masateru Maegami, who disappeared from Hokkaido in 1977 at age 20 -- to its list of those it believes highly likely to have been abducted by North Korea.

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(4)Typhoon rakes Japan, 3 dead, 3 missing in wake

TOKYO, Japan - Stranded passengers wait in the departure lounge of Haneda airport in Tokyo on Aug. 9 for resumption of flights disrupted by a strong typhoon that lashed wide areas of Japan. Typhoon Etau left at least three people dead, three missing and 52 injured.

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(6)Abduction investigation group releases list of 44 people

TOKYO, Japan - Photos of some of the 44 missing people disclosed Feb. 10 by the Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea (COMJAN), a group formed to look into cases of possible abductions of Japanese by North Korea. Mitsuo Hidaka (L) and Mariko Tanabe (R).

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(1)Abduction investigation group releases list of 44 people

TOKYO, Japan - Photos of some of the 44 missing people disclosed Feb. 10 by the Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea (COMJAN), a group formed to look into cases of possible abductions of Japanese by North Korea. (From L to R, top) are Shinichi Mizushima, Katsumi Nakamura, Masuichi Sato, Hajime Sonoda, (from L to R, bottom) Shigeo Hirayama, Shuichi Nakajima, Yoshimasa Tsukagoshi and Yoshikazu Saida.

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(5)Abduction investigation group releases list of 44 people

TOKYO, Japan - Photos of some of the 44 missing people disclosed Feb. 10 by the Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea (COMJAN), a group formed to look into cases of possible abductions of Japanese by North Korea. (From L to R, top) Kumiko Kato, Toshiko Sonoda, Sachiko Hatano, Toshiaki Tamai, (from L to R, bottom) Toshiyuki Adachi, Junko Imazu, Yoshinori Kimoto and Koji Wada.

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(3)Abduction investigation group releases list of 44 people

TOKYO, Japan - Photos of some of the 44 missing people disclosed Feb. 10 by the Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea (COMJAN), a group formed to look into cases of possible abductions of Japanese by North Korea. (From L to R, top) Seiko Inoue, Teruko Kase, Yoko Mori, Susumu Nagaga, (from L to R, bottom) Yoshiaki Maruyama, Yukie Yoshida, Nobuo Hidaka and Hideaki Sakamoto.

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(2)Abduction investigation group releases list of 44 people

TOKYO, Japan - Photos of some of the 44 missing people disclosed Feb. 10 by the Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea (COMJAN), a group formed to look into cases of possible abductions of Japanese by North Korea. (From L to R, top) Haruo Yamashita, Kiyofumi Takano, Takashi Makishi, Kiyomitsu Tajima, (from L to R, bottom) Takashi Gima, Noriyuki Fuse, Kenji Yamada and Koichi Kawashima.

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4 missing after trawler, freighter collide

KANAZAWA, Japan - Photo shows the 44-ton Shotoku Maru No. 1., a Japanese fishing boat. It sank Sept. 27 carrying six people, after colliding with the Cambodian-registered freighter Sea Rose in the Sea of Japan off Ishikawa Prefecture earlier in the day. The skipper and three other of its crew are missing.

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Kin of abductees demand information on all 11

TOKYO, Japan - Kayoko Arimoto (standing), the mother of Keiko Arimoto, one of 11 Japanese that Japan alleges were abducted by North Korean agents, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 17 with other relatives of the 11 missing people. The relatives demanded that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi return from his landmark visit to North Korea with information on all the 11 people, not just one or two.

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(1)Death toll up to 120 in Air China jet crash, 8 missing

PUSAN, South Korea - A sniffer dog searches for eight missing passengers in the wreckage of an Air China Boeing 767 on the outskirts of Pusan, South Korea on April 16. The passenger plane from Beijing with 166 people aboard crashed April 15 while approaching Kimhae airport.

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Hawaiians hand messages to Ehime Maru relatives

HONOLULU, United States - A group of relatives of the nine Japanese who went missing after a submarine rammed their ship receive a sheet bearing messages from about 300 Hawaiian people at a hotel on the island of Oahu on March 10. The messages were written in a traditional Hawaiian ceremony held as a gesture of solace for the relatives. The missing were aboard the Ehime Maru fisheries training ship that was struck by the U.S. submarine Greeneville on Feb. 9.

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Chinese woman finds biological parents after 35 years

STORY: Chinese woman finds biological parents after 35 years DATELINE: March 28, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:44 LOCATION: HAIKOU, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: various of Ms. Li talking to her biological parents through videoSOUNDBITE (Chinese): MS. LI STORYLINE: Police in Haikou, the capital of south China's Hainan Province, helped a woman find her biological parents after 35 years. The woman went missing at a railway station in Beijing in 1987 when she was only one year old. She found her biological parents through a nationwide DNA database. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): MS. LI "I was an adopted child. I always know that and I always want to find my biological parents. My adoptive parents keep the clothes I wore when I went missing. They support me to look for my biological parents and tell me I should find them because there will be more people loving me in this world. So I was very excited when I got the call from the police." Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Haikou, China. (XHTV)

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(5)Abduction investigation group releases list of 44 people

TOKYO, Japan - Photos of some of the 44 missing people disclosed Feb. 10 by the Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea (COMJAN), a group formed to look into cases of possible abductions of Japanese by North Korea. (From L to R, top) Kumiko Kato, Toshiko Sonoda, Sachiko Hatano, Toshiaki Tamai, (from L to R, bottom) Toshiyuki Adachi, Junko Imazu, Yoshinori Kimoto and Koji Wada. (Kyodo)

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Fukushima police comb debris in coastal areas

NAMIE, Japan - Fukushima prefectural police officers comb through debris in the town of Namie on Nov. 11, 2014, 44 months after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, in search of missing victims' remains. As of Nov. 10, 2,593 people were unaccounted for in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, according to the National Police Agency. (Kyodo)

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(6)Abduction investigation group releases list of 44 people

TOKYO, Japan - Photos of some of the 44 missing people disclosed Feb. 10 by the Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea (COMJAN), a group formed to look into cases of possible abductions of Japanese by North Korea. Mitsuo Hidaka (L) and Mariko Tanabe (R). (Kyodo)