Voting ends in 2nd round of Iran's parliamentary election

STORY: Voting ends in 2nd round of Iran's parliamentary election SHOOTING TIME: May 10, 2024 DATELINE: May 11, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:13 LOCATION: Tehran CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of people in polling stations 2. various of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei voting STORYLINE: Voting in the second round of Iran's 12th parliamentary election ended at 10:00 p.m. local time (1830 GMT) Friday after 14 straight hours, according to the official news agency IRNA. The election was held at nearly 11,500 polling stations in 22 constituencies in 15 provinces and 47 counties. The voting, initially scheduled to end at 6:00 p.m. local time, was extended thrice. A total of 90 candidates competed for the remaining 45 positions in the Iranian parliament in the runoff, as 245 seats have already been decided in the first round held on March 1. Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei voted at a polling station in Tehran minutes after the voting began at 8:00 a.m. local time. In an address to reporters

China's COMAC airplanes arrive in Laos for static display, demonstration flight

STORY: China's COMAC airplanes arrive in Laos for static display, demonstration flight SHOOTING TIME: March 4, 2024 DATELINE: March 5, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:23 LOCATION: Vientiane CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the COMAC airplanes STORYLINE: Chinese airplanes C919 and ARJ21 developed by the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd. (COMAC) on Monday arrived in Laos for a static display and demonstration flight. The two jetliners flew from Singapore to Vietnam, and then to Laos, after finishing the Singapore Airshow 2024 where they made their first airshow appearances outside China. Managing Director of Lao Airlines, Khamla Phommavanh, said "I am happy and honored to attend today's displays of C919 and ARJ21." He noted that the two jetliners are high-standard aircraft with international safety standards, coupled with a comfortable interior and durable exterior design. ARJ21-700 is a twin-engine jet with a maximum of 90 seats while the C919 is a narrow-body passenger aircraft with a maxim

Mitsubishi model on show at Farnborough

Mitsubishi model on show at Farnborough

FARNBOROUGH, Britain - Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. shows to the press a full-scale model of the cabin of the Mitsubishi Regional Jet during the Farnborough Air Show in Farnborough, Britain, on July 11, 2012. The Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. unit plans to deliver the first of the small passenger planes with 70-90 seats by the end of 2015.

Freedom Movement celebrates landslide victory in Slovenia's election

STORY: Freedom Movement celebrates landslide victory in Slovenia's election DATELINE: April 25, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:44 LOCATION: Ljubljana CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1 various of the media center 2 various of Prime Minister Janez Jansa delivering a speech 3 various of the media center 4 various of Robert Golob giving a speech 5 various of polling stations STORYLINE: Freedom Movement (FM), a new center-left party, recorded a landslide victory at Slovenia's general election on Sunday, defeating the center-right Slovenian Democratic Party led by Prime Minister Janez Jansa. FM, led by Robert Golob, received 34.53 percent of the vote and will hold 41 out of 90 seats in parliament, which is the highest number of seats that any party has held since Slovenia's independence in 1991, according to the preliminary result from the State Election Commission. The Slovenian Democratic Party got 23.54 percent of the vote and 27 seats. Only three other parties also passed the 4-percent threshold for parliament,