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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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Erdogan Meets DEM Party Delegation Amid Renewed Hopes For Kurdish Peace Process - Ankara

Handout photo shows the meeting between pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) members Pervin Buldan, Sırrı Süreyya Önder and AKP Chairman and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.A KP Deputy Chairman Efkan Ala and Intelligence Organization Director Ibrahim Kalın also attended the meeting which was held at the Presidential Complex and lasted 1 hour and 25 minutes. This marked the first direct contact between Erdogan and pro-Kurdish party representatives since June 12, 2012, when he was prime minister. DEM Party said it will make a statement about the meeting at a later stage, on April 10, 2025 in Ankara, Turkey. Photo by DEM Party Press Office via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Erdogan Meets DEM Party Delegation Amid Renewed Hopes For Kurdish Peace Process - Ankara

Handout photo shows the meeting between pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) members Pervin Buldan, Sırrı Süreyya Önder and AKP Chairman and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.A KP Deputy Chairman Efkan Ala and Intelligence Organization Director Ibrahim Kalın also attended the meeting which was held at the Presidential Complex and lasted 1 hour and 25 minutes. This marked the first direct contact between Erdogan and pro-Kurdish party representatives since June 12, 2012, when he was prime minister. DEM Party said it will make a statement about the meeting at a later stage, on April 10, 2025 in Ankara, Turkey. Photo by DEM Party Press Office via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Erdogan Meets DEM Party Delegation Amid Renewed Hopes For Kurdish Peace Process - Ankara

Handout photo shows the meeting between pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) members Pervin Buldan, Sırrı Süreyya Önder and AKP Chairman and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.A KP Deputy Chairman Efkan Ala and Intelligence Organization Director Ibrahim Kalın also attended the meeting which was held at the Presidential Complex and lasted 1 hour and 25 minutes. This marked the first direct contact between Erdogan and pro-Kurdish party representatives since June 12, 2012, when he was prime minister. DEM Party said it will make a statement about the meeting at a later stage, on April 10, 2025 in Ankara, Turkey. Photo by DEM Party Press Office via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Erdogan Meets DEM Party Delegation Amid Renewed Hopes For Kurdish Peace Process - Ankara

Handout photo shows the meeting between pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) members Pervin Buldan, Sırrı Süreyya Önder and AKP Chairman and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.A KP Deputy Chairman Efkan Ala and Intelligence Organization Director Ibrahim Kalın also attended the meeting which was held at the Presidential Complex and lasted 1 hour and 25 minutes. This marked the first direct contact between Erdogan and pro-Kurdish party representatives since June 12, 2012, when he was prime minister. DEM Party said it will make a statement about the meeting at a later stage, on April 10, 2025 in Ankara, Turkey. Photo by DEM Party Press Office via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Erdogan Meets DEM Party Delegation Amid Renewed Hopes For Kurdish Peace Process - Ankara

Handout photo shows the meeting between pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) members Pervin Buldan, Sırrı Süreyya Önder and AKP Chairman and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.A KP Deputy Chairman Efkan Ala and Intelligence Organization Director Ibrahim Kalın also attended the meeting which was held at the Presidential Complex and lasted 1 hour and 25 minutes. This marked the first direct contact between Erdogan and pro-Kurdish party representatives since June 12, 2012, when he was prime minister. DEM Party said it will make a statement about the meeting at a later stage, on April 10, 2025 in Ankara, Turkey. Photo by DEM Party Press Office via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Erdogan Meets DEM Party Delegation Amid Renewed Hopes For Kurdish Peace Process - Ankara

Handout photo shows the meeting between pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) members Pervin Buldan, Sırrı Süreyya Önder and AKP Chairman and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.A KP Deputy Chairman Efkan Ala and Intelligence Organization Director Ibrahim Kalın also attended the meeting which was held at the Presidential Complex and lasted 1 hour and 25 minutes. This marked the first direct contact between Erdogan and pro-Kurdish party representatives since June 12, 2012, when he was prime minister. DEM Party said it will make a statement about the meeting at a later stage, on April 10, 2025 in Ankara, Turkey. Photo by DEM Party Press Office via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Erdogan Meets DEM Party Delegation Amid Renewed Hopes For Kurdish Peace Process - Ankara

Handout photo shows the meeting between pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) members Pervin Buldan, Sırrı Süreyya Önder and AKP Chairman and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.A KP Deputy Chairman Efkan Ala and Intelligence Organization Director Ibrahim Kalın also attended the meeting which was held at the Presidential Complex and lasted 1 hour and 25 minutes. This marked the first direct contact between Erdogan and pro-Kurdish party representatives since June 12, 2012, when he was prime minister. DEM Party said it will make a statement about the meeting at a later stage, on April 10, 2025 in Ankara, Turkey. Photo by DEM Party Press Office via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Erdogan Meets DEM Party Delegation Amid Renewed Hopes For Kurdish Peace Process - Ankara

Handout photo shows the meeting between pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) members Pervin Buldan, Sırrı Süreyya Önder and AKP Chairman and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.A KP Deputy Chairman Efkan Ala and Intelligence Organization Director Ibrahim Kalın also attended the meeting which was held at the Presidential Complex and lasted 1 hour and 25 minutes. This marked the first direct contact between Erdogan and pro-Kurdish party representatives since June 12, 2012, when he was prime minister. DEM Party said it will make a statement about the meeting at a later stage, on April 10, 2025 in Ankara, Turkey. Photo by DEM Party Press Office via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Support rate for Japan's Kishida cabinet hits fresh low: poll

STORY: Support rate for Japan's Kishida cabinet hits fresh low: poll SHOOTING TIME: Earlier footage DATELINE: April 12, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:04 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Kishida cabinet and prime minister's office of Japan (source: Prime minister's office of Japan) 2. various of the prime minister's office STORYLINE: The support rate for the cabinet led by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida dropped to 16.6 pct in April, marking a new low for the administration, according to the latest Jiji Press opinion poll. The approval rate dropped by 1.4 percentage points from the previous month, a fresh low for the administration since its launch in October 2021, while the disapproval rate climbed 2.0 percentage points to 59.4 percent, the survey showed Thursday. The reading breached the previous low of 16.9 percent marked in February, sinking to the worst level since the return of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to power in December 2012, Jiji Press said. Punish

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Compulsory education extended in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - New first-year pupils attend class at a primary school in Pyongyang on April 1, 2014. The duration of primary school education was extended to five years from four years in North Korea the same day, Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency reported. As a result of the change made in line with a decision at the Supreme People's Assembly, or parliament, in September 2012, the duration of compulsory education was extended to 12 years from 11 years.

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Compulsory education extended in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - New first-year pupils attend a primary school in Pyongyang on April 1, 2014. The duration of primary school education was extended to five years from four years in North Korea the same day, Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency reported. As a result of the change made in line with a decision at the Supreme People's Assembly, or parliament, in September 2012, the duration of compulsory education was extended to 12 years from 11 years.

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Compulsory education extended in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - New first-year pupils attend class at a primary school in Pyongyang on April 1, 2014. The duration of primary school education was extended to five years from four years in North Korea the same day, Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency reported. As a result of the change made in line with a decision at the Supreme People's Assembly, or parliament, in September 2012, the duration of compulsory education was extended to 12 years from 11 years.

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Compulsory education extended in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - New first-year pupils attend a primary school in Pyongyang on April 1, 2014. The duration of primary school education was extended to five years from four years in North Korea the same day, Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency reported. As a result of the change made in line with a decision at the Supreme People's Assembly, or parliament, in September 2012, the duration of compulsory education was extended to 12 years from 11 years.

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Compulsory education extended in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - New first-year pupils attend class at a primary school in Pyongyang on April 1, 2014. The duration of primary school education was extended to five years from four years in North Korea the same day, Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency reported. As a result of the change made in line with a decision at the Supreme People's Assembly, or parliament, in September 2012, the duration of compulsory education was extended to 12 years from 11 years.

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Compulsory education extended in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - New first-year pupils attend a primary school in Pyongyang on April 1, 2014. The duration of primary school education was extended to five years from four years in North Korea the same day, Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency reported. As a result of the change made in line with a decision at the Supreme People's Assembly, or parliament, in September 2012, the duration of compulsory education was extended to 12 years from 11 years.

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Compulsory education extended in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - New first-year pupils attend class at a primary school in Pyongyang on April 1, 2014. The duration of primary school education was extended to five years from four years in North Korea the same day, Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency reported. As a result of the change made in line with a decision at the Supreme People's Assembly, or parliament, in September 2012, the duration of compulsory education was extended to 12 years from 11 years.

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Osaka's Obachaaan goes major

OSAKA, Japan - The Obachaaan, an entertainment group of 12 women, pose for photos in Osaka on April 1, 2014, during an event to celebrate the release the same day of their 2012 debut single "The Theme of Obachaaan" as a ringtone by major record label Toy's Factory. If the ringtone sells well, the song by the women, whose average age is the mid-60s, could go on sale at music stores nationwide.

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N. Korea launches rocket

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows a North Korean rocket unveiled in Tongchang-ri in April 2012. North Korea launched a rocket on Dec. 12, 2012. Japan, the United States and other countries suspect the launch is a covert test of long-range missile technology in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

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N. Korea launches rocket

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows a North Korean rocket unveiled in Tongchang-ri in April 2012. North Korea launched a rocket on Dec. 12, 2012. Japan, the United States and other countries suspect the launch is a covert test of long-range missile technology in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

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Weymouth

LONDON, Britain - Photo taken April 12, 2012, shows the sea off Weymouth, southwest England, the venue for the sailing competition at the 2012 Olympic Games.

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ADB eyes beefing up fund for low-income nations

MANILA, Philippines - Asian Development Bank President Haruhiko Kuroda speaks during a press conference at the head office of the ADB in Manila on April 27, 2012. Kuroda said the ADB plans to increase its fund for assisting low-income nations in the Asia-Pacific region with low-interest loans by a record $12 billion over four years from 2013

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Cherry blossoms and train

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in the night of April 12, 2012, shows a train and lit-up cherry blossoms, and their reflections on a rice paddy, in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture.

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Palestinian Foreign Minister in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki holds a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on April 12, 2012.

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Maruti Suzuki launches Ertiga in India

NEW DELHI, India - Shinzo Nakanishi, CEO and managing director of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd., an Indian unit of Japan's Suzuki Motor Corp., stands beside the Ertiga seven-seat hatchback in New Delhi on April 12, 2012, at a launch ceremony for the car.

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Kyoto, Shiga governors visit Oi

OI, Japan - Kyoto Gov. Keiji Yamada (L) answers reporters' questions with Shiga Gov. Yukiko Kada (2nd from L) in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, on April 12, 2012, after the governors inspected Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power complex in the town.

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Scene from Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, North Korea - A man points to the sky in reaction to an airplane-like sound in Pyongyang on April 12, 2012. North Korea launched a rocket the following day, with the launch reported to have failed.

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Bahraini king in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa (L) and Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito chat during a reception held at the State Guest House in Tokyo on April 12, 2012. (Pool photo)

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Bahraini king in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa (C) and Japanese Emperor Akihito (R) chat during a luncheon at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on April 12, 2012. (Pool photo)

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Meeting on whether to reactivate Oi reactors

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (L) speaks at a meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 12, 2012. The meeting, attended by Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura (R), industry minister Yukio Edano and nuclear disaster minister Goshi Hosono, was their fifth to consider whether two idled reactors at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture should be the first since the Fukushima nuclear crisis to be restarted after periodic checks.

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U.S. Navy ship off Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - Photo from a plane chartered by Kyodo News shows the U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser Shiloh about 60 kilometers northeast of Miyako Island, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 12, 2012.

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Mitsubishi UFJ Trust President Wakabayashi

TOKYO, Japan - Tatsuo Wakabayashi, president of Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corp., speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on April 12, 2012.

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Toyota's Lexus RX SUV

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo taken in Nagoya on April 12, 2012, shows the new RX sport utility vehicle of Toyota Motor Corp.'s Lexus luxury division. The automaker began selling the redesigned model the same day.

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Bahraini king in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (L) meets Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa (R) at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on April 12, 2012. (Pool photo)

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Sony President Hirai

TOKYO, Japan - Sony Corp. President Kazuo Hirai gives a press conference at the company's head office in Tokyo on April 12, 2012.

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71-yr-old dressage rider Hoketsu

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese dressage rider Hiroshi Hoketsu is pictured in Tokyo on April 12, 2012. Hoketsu, 71, secured a third equestrian Olympic appearance at the London Games.

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71-yr-old dressage rider Hoketsu

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese dressage rider Hiroshi Hoketsu smiles during a press conference in Tokyo on April 12, 2012. Hoketsu, 71, secured a third equestrian Olympic appearance at the London Games.

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Thaksin in Laos

VIENTIANE, Laos - Ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (C) waves to his Thai supporters in Vientiane, Laos, on April 12, 2012.

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Van hits pedestrians in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - Photo shows a road in Kyoto's Higashiyama Ward on April 12, 2012, about 30 minutes after a van rammed into pedestrians at the site, leaving more than a dozen people injured.

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Abbas in Japan

SENDAI, Japan - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (2nd from L) is welcomed by Isoo Sasaki (R), mayor of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, upon arriving at Sendai airport in the prefecture on April 12, 2012. After visiting the northeastern Japanese prefecture hit by the March 2011 quake and tsunami, Abbas headed to Tokyo later in the day for a meeting with Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda.

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Thaksin in Laos

VIENTIANE, Laos - Ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (C) is welcomed by his Thai supporters in Vientiane, Laos, on April 12, 2012.

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Abbas in Japan

SENDAI, Japan - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (C) arrives at Sendai airport, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 12, 2012. After visiting the northeastern Japanese prefecture hit by the March 2011 quake and tsunami, Abbas headed to Tokyo later in the day for a meeting with Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda.

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Ruling party wins S. Korea election

SEOUL, South Korea - Park Geun Hye, leader of South Korea's ruling Saenuri Party, smiles during a press conference in Seoul on April 12, 2012, after her party won in a legislative election.

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N. Korea plans rocket launch

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo shows no image projected on a large screen at a press center at a hotel in Pyongyang on the morning of April 12, 2012. North Korea apparently forwent launching the rocket that day, the first day of a five-day period during which it said it would go ahead with the launch.

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Bridge off Vladivostok

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Engineers work on a 3.1-kilometer bridge under construction to connect Russky Island, off Vladivostok, and the Russian mainland in the early hours of April 12, 2012. Russia plans to complete the bridge by the time it hosts an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum summit in the Far Eastern city in September 2012.

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Japan prepares for N. Korean rocket

NAHA, Japan - Photo shows an FPS-5, a radar system capable of monitoring ballistic missiles, at an Air Self-Defense Force base in Itoman, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 11, 2012. The installation, dubbed the Gamera radar, is being used to track a North Korean rocket. North Korea says it will launch a rocket carrying a satellite into space in five days from April 12, 2012.

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Japan prepares for N. Korean rocket

NAHA, Japan - Photo shows an FPS-5, a radar system capable of monitoring ballistic missiles, at an Air Self-Defense Force base in Itoman, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 11, 2012. The installation, dubbed the Gamera radar, is being used to track a North Korean rocket. North Korea says it will launch a rocket carrying a satellite into space in five days from April 12, 2012.

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Kim Jong Un likely to become general secretary

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un. The country's ruling Workers' Party of Korea was to convene a conference on April 11, 2012, just as Pyongyang said it is fueling a rocket that will purportedly carry a satellite into space as early as April 12. At the conference, whose opening had yet to be confirmed by the North's official media as of early afternoon, many observers expect new leader Kim Jong Un to be elected the party's general secretary.

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Honda's new Stepwagon

TOKYO, Japan - Honda Motor Co. unveils the new Stepwagon at its headquarters in Tokyo on April 5, 2012. The minivan will be put on sale April 12.

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S. Korea wary of North's satellite launch plan

SEOUL, South Korea - Members of a conservative group protest in Seoul on March 20, 2012, over North Korea's plan to launch a rocket carrying a satellite between April 12 and 16.