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Mountain Torrents Leaves 10 Dead and 33 Missing - China

Rescuers set up a temporary passage in Jiuzhuanggou Village of Mapo Town, Yuzhong County of northwest China's Gansu Province, August 8, 2025. Rescue efforts are underway after continuous heavy rainfall triggered mountain torrents in Yuzhong County, northwest China's Gansu Province, leaving 10 dead and 33 missing as of 6:50 p.m. Friday, local authorities said. Torrential rain began pounding Yuzhong, which is under the jurisdiction of the provincial capital city of Lanzhou, and other areas of Lanzhou on Thursday evening, with the maximum precipitation reaching 220.2 mm by noon Friday. Several townships in Yuzhong have been seriously affected. Search and rescue efforts for the missing, infrastructure repairs, and the evacuation and resettlement of affected residents are underway. Photo by Liu Kun/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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39 killed, 9 injured in east China building fire

STORY: 39 killed, 9 injured in east China building fire SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 25, 2024 DATELINE: Jan. 25, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:26 LOCATION: XINYU, China CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): XU HONG, Mayor of Xinyu City STORYLINE: Thirty-nine people were killed and nine others injured after a building fire broke out Wednesday afternoon in the city of Xinyu in east China's Jiangxi Province, local authorities said. The fire broke out from the building at around 3 p.m. in the Yushui District of Xinyu, said the local fire response emergency headquarters. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): XU HONG, Mayor of Xinyu City "The fire was put out at 6:50 p.m. Wednesday, and the rescue operations concluded at 8:50 p.m.. 39 people were killed and nine others injured. Among the injured, eight are in stable condition, while another one is being rescued." The fire started at the basement of a six-story commercial and residential brick-concrete structure. The flame quickly spread to shops on the first and second floors. A pr

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Russia launches Progress MS-24 cargo spaceship into orbit

STORY: Russia launches Progress MS-24 cargo spaceship into orbit DATELINE: Aug. 23, 2023 LENGTH: 0:00:31 LOCATION: VLADIVOSTOK, Russia CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the launch of the Progress MS-24 cargo spaceship (Source: Roscosmos) STORYLINE: A Soyuz-2.1a rocket carrying the Progress MS-24 cargo spacecraft blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, sending it into orbit. The rocket lifted off at 4:08 a.m. Moscow time (0108 GMT) and sent the spacecraft into orbit nine minutes later, Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos said. Progress MS-24 will perform a two-day autonomous flight to the International Space Station (ISS), where it is expected to dock with the Zvezda service module of the space outpost on Friday at 6:50 a.m. Moscow time (0350 GMT). The cargo spaceship will deliver about 2.5 tons of supplies to the ISS, including more than 1.5 tons of various equipment and materials, half a ton of fuel to refuel the station, 420 kilograms of drinking

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(EyesonSci)CHINA-SHANXI-TAIYUAN-SATELLITES-LAUNCH (CN)

(230330) -- TAIYUAN, March 30, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A Long March-2D rocket carrying satellites of the PIESAT-1 constellation blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province, March 30, 2023. China launched a Long March-2D carrier rocket on Thursday evening to place new remote-sensing satellites in space. The satellites of the PIESAT-1 constellation were lifted at 6:50 p.m. (Beijing Time) on Thursday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China's Shanxi Province, and then entered the preset orbit. (Photo by Zheng Bin/Xinhua)

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(EyesonSci)CHINA-SHANXI-TAIYUAN-SATELLITES-LAUNCH (CN)

(230330) -- TAIYUAN, March 30, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A Long March-2D rocket carrying satellites of the PIESAT-1 constellation blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province, March 30, 2023. China launched a Long March-2D carrier rocket on Thursday evening to place new remote-sensing satellites in space. The satellites of the PIESAT-1 constellation were lifted at 6:50 p.m. (Beijing Time) on Thursday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China's Shanxi Province, and then entered the preset orbit. (Photo by Zheng Bin/Xinhua)

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(EyesonSci)CHINA-SHANXI-TAIYUAN-SATELLITES-LAUNCH (CN)

(230330) -- TAIYUAN, March 30, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A Long March-2D rocket carrying satellites of the PIESAT-1 constellation blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province, March 30, 2023. China launched a Long March-2D carrier rocket on Thursday evening to place new remote-sensing satellites in space. The satellites of the PIESAT-1 constellation were lifted at 6:50 p.m. (Beijing Time) on Thursday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China's Shanxi Province, and then entered the preset orbit. (Photo by Zheng Bin/Xinhua)

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(EyesonSci)CHINA-SHANXI-TAIYUAN-SATELLITES-LAUNCH (CN)

(230330) -- TAIYUAN, March 30, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A Long March-2D rocket carrying satellites of the PIESAT-1 constellation blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province, March 30, 2023. China launched a Long March-2D carrier rocket on Thursday evening to place new remote-sensing satellites in space. The satellites of the PIESAT-1 constellation were lifted at 6:50 p.m. (Beijing Time) on Thursday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China's Shanxi Province, and then entered the preset orbit. (Photo by Zheng Bin/Xinhua)

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Mt. Fuji and sunrise on New Year's Day

ABOARD PLANE - The first sunrise of 2002 is seen on the right of Mt. Fuji, southwest of Tokyo, during an All Nippon Airways sightseeing flight at 6:50 a.m. on Jan. 1.

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Mount Oyama on Miyake Island erupts

MIYAKE, Japan - Mount Oyama on Miyakejima, a small volcanic island some 180 kilometers south of Tokyo, erupted at around 6:43 p.m. on July 8 after confirming that white smoke was billowing out of the mountain. The aerial photo was taken in the morning of July 9 by a helicopter chartered by Kyodo News. According to the Meteorological Agency, the mountain erupted only once, with smoke billowing 800 meters above the crater, and a small amount of volcanic ash was confirmed to have spewed out from the crater, but the smoke disappeared at around 6:50 p.m.

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Mt. Fuji and sunrise on New Year's Day

ABOARD PLANE - The first sunrise of 2002 is seen on the right of Mt. Fuji, southwest of Tokyo, during an All Nippon Airways sightseeing flight at 6:50 a.m. on Jan. 1.

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Mount Oyama on Miyake Island erupts

MIYAKE, Japan - Mount Oyama on Miyakejima, a small volcanic island some 180 kilometers south of Tokyo, erupted at around 6:43 p.m. on July 8 after confirming that white smoke was billowing out of the mountain. The aerial photo was taken in the morning of July 9 by a helicopter chartered by Kyodo News. According to the Meteorological Agency, the mountain erupted only once, with smoke billowing 800 meters above the crater, and a small amount of volcanic ash was confirmed to have spewed out from the crater, but the smoke disappeared at around 6:50 p.m.