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US: North Dakota Sees Powerful Winds Amid Tornado-Producing Storm

Severe weather swept across the upper Midwest on Friday, June 20, bringing powerful winds and leaving at least 3 dead in North Dakota as a tornado ripped through the area.

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Pope Francis Dies Aged 88

File photo - Pope Francis attends the weekly general audience at Saint Peter's square at the Vatican on February 11, 2015. -- Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM

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(SP)CHINA-HUNAN-ZHANGJIAJIE-DOWNHILL MOUNTAIN BIKING-TOURISM (CN)

(240519) -- CHANGSHA, May 19, 2024 (Xinhua) -- An aerial drone photo taken on April 11, 2024 shows a view of the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in Zhangjiajie, central China's Hunan Province. Zhangjiajie, located in the northwest of Hunan Province, is one of the World Natural Heritage sites in China. Its breathtaking natural landscapes have attracted tourists worldwide and have drawn extreme sports enthusiasts to prove their skills. Ye Zhengwu, a 25-year-old mountain biker, was born and raised in Zhangjiajie. He developed a passion for biking at a young age. In 2015, while studying in university, he first encountered downhill mountain biking and was deeply attracted to it. "As a child growing up in the mountains, I always love exploring mountains. Riding through the forests is a great pleasure for me," Ye said. According to him, the natural resources and challenging road conditions here are ideal for downhill mountain biking. "For me, it's truly a pleasure to engage in my favorite sport in my beloved hometo

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Steam locomotive train runs on bridge in Tottori Pref.

OSAKA, April 15 Kyodo - A special train, pulled by a steam locomotive, of Wakasa Railway Co. in Tottori Prefecture, Japan, runs on a bridge in the prefectural town of Yazu against the backdrop of cherry blossoms on April 11, 2015, during a one-day event.

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Steam locomotive train runs on bridge in Tottori Pref.

OSAKA, April 15 Kyodo - A special train, pulled by a steam locomotive, of Wakasa Railway Co. in Tottori Prefecture, Japan, runs on a bridge in the prefectural town of Yazu against the backdrop of cherry blossoms on April 11, 2015, during a one-day event.

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Kin of Sewol ferry disaster victims wrestle with police in Seoul

SEOUL, April 16 Kyodo - Bereaved families (foreground) of victims of the Sewol ferry disaster wrestle with riot police in Seoul on April 11, 2015. They tried to approach the Blue House presidential office, demanding a full account of the accident and raising of the sunken ship five days before the first anniversary of the tragedy in which over 300 people were dead or missing.

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Tanaka meets Pedro Martinez

NEW YORK, April 11 Kyodo - New York Yankees pitcher Masahiro Tanaka looks at Hall of Famer Pedro Martinez during pregame warmups at Yankee Stadium on April 10, 2015. Martinez said just days before Tanaka's opening day loss that he is not healthy after an injury-shortened first major league season.

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Season for arctic animals arrives

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Visitors look at a polar bear at Asahiyama Zoo in Asahikawa in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on Nov. 11, 2014, at the start of the zoo's wintertime operation lasting until April 7, 2015.

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Hello Kitty events in L.A.

LOS ANGELES, United States - Visitors wearing Hello Kitty headbands look at items related to the feline character displayed in the "Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty" exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum in downtown Los Angeles on Oct. 22, 2014. The first Hello Kitty exhibit in North America began Oct. 11 and runs until April 26, 2015, to commemorate the internationally celebrated character's 40th anniversary.

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Toshiba president Sasaki in interview

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. President Norio Sasaki speaks during an interview in Tokyo on April 14, 2011. He said the company may be forced to revise its plan to win orders to build 39 nuclear reactors around the world by fiscal 2015 following the nuclear power plant accident in Fukushima Prefecture triggered by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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Iran warns U.S., Europe not to link nuclear talks to internal issues

STORY: Iran warns U.S., Europe not to link nuclear talks to internal issues DATELINE: Oct. 11, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:00 LOCATION: Tehran CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of press conference of Iranian Foreign Ministry STORYLINE: Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani warned on Monday the United States and Europe not to associate Iran's recent internal problems with the nuclear talks. "We believe that the internal issues are related to the (Iranian) government and the people of Iran and we do not allow any other country to interfere in Iran's internal affairs," Kanaani said during his weekly press conference. "The positions and views of Iran (on nuclear talks) have been expressed many times, and we are ready to proceed in the same direction and reach a comprehensive agreement that will meet the interests of all parties," he added. The talks on the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), began in April 2021 in Vienna but were suspe

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Reconstruction still far off

Photo taken April 18, 2015, shows temporary housing in the disaster-hit coastal city of Kamaishi in northeastern Japan. Many people are still living in the accommodation more than 1,500 days after the earthquake and tsunami tragedy struck on March 11, 2011. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Reconstruction still far off

Photo taken April 18, 2015, shows temporary housing in the disaster-hit coastal town of Onagawa in northeastern Japan. Many people are still living in the accommodation more than 1,500 days after the earthquake and tsunami tragedy struck on March 11, 2011. The population of the town has fallen 32 percent in four years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Reconstruction still far off

Photo taken April 18, 2015, shows carp streamers fluttering from cherry blossom trees in the disaster-hit coastal city of Kamaishi in northeastern Japan. Many people are still staying in nearby temporary housing, more than 1,500 days after the earthquake and tsunami tragedy struck on March 11, 2011. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Reconstruction still far off

Photo taken April 18, 2015, shows temporary housing in the disaster-hit coastal city of Kamaishi in northeastern Japan. Many people are still living in the accommodation more than 1,500 days after the earthquake and tsunami tragedy struck on March 11, 2011. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Steam locomotive train runs on bridge in Tottori Pref.

A special train, pulled by a steam locomotive, of Wakasa Railway Co. in Tottori Prefecture, Japan, runs on a bridge in the prefectural town of Yazu against the backdrop of cherry blossoms on April 11, 2015, during a one-day event. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Matsuyama finishes 5th in Masters Golf Tournament

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan putts for an eagle on the 13th hole during the final round of the 2015 Masters Golf Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, the United States on April 12, 2015. He finished in fifth place at 11-under par. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Matsuyama finishes 5th in Masters Golf Tournament

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan acknowledges the crowd after making an eagle putt on the 13th hole during the final round of the 2015 Masters Golf Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, the United States on April 12, 2015. He finished in fifth place at 11-under par. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Exhibition of Eugene Smith's Minamata photos underway in Tokyo

Takeshi Ishikawa stands in front of his photos focusing on prominent photographer W. Eugene Smith, who covered the issue of Minamata disease in the early 1970s, at a Tokyo gallery on March 17, 2015. Ishikawa said he hopes visitors to the photo exhibition through April 11 "will share what Eugene observed and experienced in Minamata." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Masuda wins N.Y. ballet competition for 2nd straight year

Japanese ballet dancer Itsuku Masuda celebrates as he won the top prize for the second year in a row at the New York finals of the 2016 Youth America Grand Prix competition on April 29. Masuda, 13, from the city of Kyoto, came first in the males aged 12 to 14 division, following his victory in 2015 in the 9 to 11-year-old division. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Freed man swears innocence in girl's fire death as retrial begins

File photo taken Oct. 26, 2015, shows Tatsuhiro Boku (R) embracing his mother in Osaka, after being released from prison, where Boku and his de facto wife Keiko Aoki were serving life sentences for allegedly lighting a fire that killed Aoki's 11-year-old daughter in Osaka in 1995. Boku declared his innocence as a retrial to exonerate him began in the Osaka District Court on April 28, 2016. The court is expected to pronounce both Boku and Aoki not guilty in early August. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Drone delivers books in rural Japan area

Students of a junior high school in Semboku in Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan, pose for a photo with books and a drone that delivered them on April 11, 2016. The city conducted a test that day to have the drone fly the books about 1.2 kilometers from an elementary school to the junior high school, after Japan designated the rural community in August 2015 as a special zone where the use of drones for public purposes will be promoted as part of its regional area revitalization program. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Drone delivers books in rural Japan area

A drone carries three books, including "The Little Prince" by French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery, at a junior high school in Semboku in Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on April 11, 2016. The city conducted a test that day to have the drone fly the books about 1.2 kilometers from an elementary school to the junior high school, after Japan designated the rural community in August 2015 as a special zone where the use of drones for public purposes will be promoted as part of its regional area revitalization program. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Drone delivers books in rural Japan area

A drone carries three books, including "The Little Prince" by French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery, at a junior high school in Semboku in Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on April 11, 2016. The city conducted a test that day to have the drone fly the books about 1.2 kilometers from an elementary school to the junior high school, after Japan designated the rural community in August 2015 as a special zone where the use of drones for public purposes will be promoted as part of its regional area revitalization program. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe looks for best outcome in ruling bloc's tax talks

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters at his office in Tokyo on Dec. 11, 2015, before leaving for India. Abe voiced hope that the two-party ruling coalition will come up with the best outcome in talks on alleviation measures over the planned consumption tax rate hike in April 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Penguins at Hokkaido zoo

Visitors to the Asahiyama Zoo in Asahikawa in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido observe penguins on Nov. 11, 2015. The zoo the same day started its winter season operation, which will run until April 7, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Laos-China friendship monument in Ton Pheung

A Laos-China friendship monument is seen in Ton Pheung in the northern Laotian province of Bokeo on the border with China on April 11, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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China's presence growing in northern Laos via special economic zone

Chinatown in Ton Pheung, Bokeo Province, northern Laos, is shown in this photo taken on April 11, 2015. China's presence is growing in Laos due to a special economic zone where Chinese companies have built casinos, hotels and other tourist facilities. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan to host G-7 foreign ministers' meet in Hiroshima next April 10-11

(From L) Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and Hiroshima Gov. Hidehiko Yuzaki give a toast at an event in Tokyo on July 23, 2015. Kishida said the same day next year's meeting of Group of Seven foreign ministers in Hiroshima will be held on April 10 to 11. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chinese department store closed in Tianjin amid economic slowdown

Citizens look at a department store in Tianjin, northern China, on April 11, 2015, closed amid the country's economic slowdown. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Quake expert reports after field survey in quake-hit Nepal

Nobuo Takai, an associate professor at Hokkaido University's Laboratory of Urban Disaster Protection Planning, gives a lecture in Sapporo on May 11, 2015, after conducting a field research in Nepal devastated by the April 25 quake. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New H.K. bank eyes $3 bil. deposit assets in 5 years after launch

Tsutomu Nakajima, CEO of Nippon Wealth Ltd. affiliated with Japan's Shinsei Bank Ltd., says in Tokyo on April 24, 2015, that the Hong Kong-based new wealth management services bank for individual customers will aim at attaining 400 billion yen (about $3.3 billion) in deposit assets in five years after its launch on May 11. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Silent prayer offered to police officer who died in tsunami-hit police car

Masahito Kanetaka, director general of the National Police Agency, offers flowers and a silent prayer in front of the wreckage of a police car in the town of Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture on April 24, 2015. One police officer was found dead and the other remains missing after the car was swept away by tsunami triggered by a huge quake on March 11, 2011. They were helping residents to evacuate. ==Kyodo

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Photo showing man, possibly first Japanese to live in U.S., found

Janice Hodson, curator of the New Bedford Free Public Library in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, shows a photo of a man who could be Nakahama Manjiro (L), the first Japanese known to have lived in the United States, with a Caucasian man, who could be William Whitfield, on April 11, 2015. Whitfield was the skipper of a U.S. whaling ship that rescued Nakahama, better known as John Manjiro, and a few other fisherman colleagues when their fishing boat became stranded on an uninhabited isle in the Pacific Ocean in 1841. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chief negotiators resume talks on Pacific free trade deal

Koji Tsuruoka, Japan's chief negotiator for a Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal, speaks to reporters in a suburb of Washington on April 23, 2015 before resuming talks with his counterparts from the other 11 participating nations. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Museum shows key info on Japanese emigrants to Hawaii

The Museum of Japanese Emigration to Hawaii in Suo-Oshima, Yamaguchi Prefecture, seen in this photo taken on April 11, 2015, displays important documents and other reference materials related to Japanese emigrants to Hawaii, including many from the western Japan town. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Yoshida in action in Premier League match

Southampton's Maya Yoshida (R) heads the ball in the first half of a Premier League match against Hull City at home on April 11, 2015. Southampton won 2-0. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hanover's Sakai, Hertha's Haraguchi clash in Bundesliga

Hanover's Japanese player Hiroki Sakai (L) controls the ball while compatriot Genki Haraguchi of Hertha Berlin chases him in the second half of a German Bundesliga match in Hanover on April 11, 2015. The match ended in a 1-1 draw. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Frankfurt's Hasebe in action against Bayern

Eintracht Frankfurt's Makoto Hasebe (L) and Bayern Munich's Thiago Alcantara compete for the ball in the first half of a German Bundesliga match in Munich on April 11, 2015. Bayern won 3-0. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Independent BCL club Fukushima Hopes' manager back to square one

Akinori Iwamura, a player-manager of the Fukushima Hopes, an independent Baseball Challenge League team, shakes hands with a fan in an autograph session in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 11, 2015, as the day's game was rained out. The former U.S. Major League Baseball player is determined to make a fresh start from the northeastern Japan prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-MLB all star Franco still swinging at 56

Former major league all star and former Chiba Lotte Marines player Julio Franco, a 56-year-old player-manager for the Ishikawa Million Stars in Japan's independent Baseball Challenge League, bats as a pinch hitter in a game against the Fukui Miracle Elephants on April 11, 2015, in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture. He hit a sacrifice fly in the ninth but his team lost 4-1. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Colts pull weighted sleds up ramps in horse racing test

Young horses pull heavily weighted steel sleds up ramps in a race qualification test at the Banei horse race track in Obihiro in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on April 11, 2015. A total of 185 horses aged 2 or 3 took part in the test. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese mayor views suicide pilots' photos at U.S. memorial museum

Mayor Kanpei Shimoide of Minamikyushu, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, looks at pictures of Japanese "kamikaze" pilots at the USS Battleship Missouri Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on April 11, 2015. He visited the ship for an exhibit of mementos left by the pilots on their suicide missions. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese visitors commemorate WWII suicide pilots in Pearl Harbor

Mayor Kanpei Shimoide (2nd from L) of Minamikyushu, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, joins other compatriots in commemorating World War II "kamikaze" pilots at the USS Battleship Missouri Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on April 11, 2015. They visited the ship for an exhibit of mementos left by the pilots on their suicide missions. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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China, S. Korea tourism ministers meet ahead of 3-way talks in Tokyo

China National Tourism Administration Chairman Li Jinzao (L) and South Korean Culture, Sports and Tourism Minister Kim Jong Deok shake hands at a Tokyo hotel on April 11, 2015, ahead of three-way talks involving their Japanese counterpart. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, S. Korea tourism ministers meet ahead of 3-way talks in Tokyo

Japan's Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Akihiro Ota (R) and South Korean Culture, Sports and Tourism Minister Kim Jong Deok shake hands at a Tokyo hotel on April 11, 2015, ahead of three-way talks involving their Chinese counterpart. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, S. Korea ministers meet on promoting tourism

Japan's Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Akihiro Ota (R) talks with South Korean Culture, Sports and Tourism Minister Kim Jong Deok at a Tokyo hotel on April 11, 2015, ahead of three-way talks involving their Chinese counterpart to promote tourism. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, China tourism ministers meet ahead of 3-way talks in Tokyo

Japanese tourism minister Akihiro Ota (R) shakes hands with Li Jinzao, chairman of the China National Tourism Administration, at a Tokyo hotel on April 11, 2015, ahead of a three-way meeting involving their South Korean counterpart. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Minamisanriku drum group dedicates performance at Mt. Koya

A Japanese drum group from the 2011 tsunami-hit Minamisanriku Town, Miyagi Prefecture, performs at Danjo Garan, the central area of Mt. Koya where major Buddhist services are conducted, in Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on April 11, 2015. A series of events to mark the 1,200th anniversary of the founding of the Mt. Koya monastery by Kobo Daishi are being held from April 2 to May 21. Koyasan Shingon Buddhist sect has donated 11 drums to the group, which lost their drums in the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Job seekers gather for joint interviews in Beijing by Japanese firms

Chinese job seekers gather at a session for interviews held jointly by Japanese companies at a university in Beijing on April 11, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo