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Lower house committee on abduction issue

Takuya Yokota, head of a group representing the families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea and whose sister Megumi was taken away in 1977 at age 13, holds a picture of their 88-year-old mother Sakie during a session of the House of Representatives special committee on addressing the abduction issue in Tokyo on May 28, 2024. Yokota urged the Japanese government to do everything possible to rescue all abductees while their parents are still alive.

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U.S. Congress passes stopgap funding bill on brink of government shutdown

STORY: U.S. Congress passes stopgap funding bill on brink of government shutdown DATELINE: Oct. 1, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:21 LOCATION: Washington D.C. CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of U.S. Senate voting on the bill 2. various of U.S. House of Representatives voting on the bill 3. various of exterior of the U.S. Capitol STORYLINE: The U.S. Senate on Saturday night approved a House-passed 45-day stopgap funding bill in a last-minute effort to avert a federal government shutdown. The upper chamber passed the stopgap funding measure in a vote of 88-9. Earlier that day, the House approved the bill in a vote of 335-91. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who has been struggling to gain support from hardliners in his own Republican Party on a funding bill, released the new plan Saturday morning, which would keep federal agencies funded at current levels until mid-November, and includes 16 billion U.S. dollars of funding for disaster relief. The new bill dropped steep spending cuts sought by conservati

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(1)80 lawmakers visit Yasukuni Shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Lawmakers, including former House of Representatives Speaker Tamisuke Watanuki (3rd from R), visit the war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on April 22 to mark the occasion of its annual spring festival as in past years, despite already testy relations with China. A nonpartisan parliamentarian group promoting worship at the shrine said 80 Diet members and 88 representatives of lawmakers belonging to the group visited the shrine. No incumbent Cabinet minister took part.

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Remains of 88 Chinese soldiers killed in Korean War returned to homeland

STORY: Remains of 88 Chinese soldiers killed in Korean War returned to homeland DATELINE: Sept. 16, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:03 LOCATION: SHENYANG, China CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: 1 various of the arrival the Y-20 transport aircraft 2 various of the ceremony held at the Taoxian International Airport 3 various of the handover ceremony held at the Incheon International Airport STORYLINE: The remains of 88 Chinese soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War were returned to China from South Korea on Friday. Escorted by two J-20 stealth fighter jets, a Y-20 transport aircraft carrying the remains and belongings of the fallen soldiers landed at the Taoxian International Airport in Shenyang, the capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province at 11 a.m. Earlier on the day, a ceremony was held at the Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul. During the ceremony, representatives of China and South Korea signed a handover document. It was the ninth such repatriation of martyrs' remains following a handover agreement

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Donald Rumsfeld Dies Aged 88

File photo dated February 2, 2005 of United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, center, arrives in the United States House of Representatives Chamber for United States President George W. Bush's State ofthe Union Address to a Joint Session of Congress in the Capitol in Washington, DC, USA. Donald Rumsfeld, the acerbic architect of the Iraq war and a master Washington power player who served as US secretary of defense for two presidents, has died at the age of 88. Photo by Luke Frazza/Pool via CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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(1)80 lawmakers visit Yasukuni Shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Lawmakers, including former House of Representatives Speaker Tamisuke Watanuki (3rd from R), visit the war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on April 22 to mark the occasion of its annual spring festival as in past years, despite already testy relations with China. A nonpartisan parliamentarian group promoting worship at the shrine said 80 Diet members and 88 representatives of lawmakers belonging to the group visited the shrine. No incumbent Cabinet minister took part. (Kyodo)

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Kozo Watanabe, ex-Japan lower house vice speaker, dies at 88

Kozo Watanabe, former Japanese vice speaker of the House of Representatives, seen in this photo taken in November 2006, died at the age of 88 on Aug. 23, 2020.

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Kozo Watanabe, ex-Japan lower house vice speaker, dies at 88

Kozo Watanabe, former Japanese vice speaker of the House of Representatives, seen in this photo taken in November 2012, died at the age of 88 on Aug. 23, 2020.

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Kozo Watanabe, ex-Japan lower house vice speaker, dies at 88

Kozo Watanabe, former Japanese vice speaker of the House of Representatives, seen in this photo taken in October 2011, died at the age of 88 on Aug. 23, 2020.