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US: Super Typhoon Bavi Slams Guam, Northern Marianas 2

Super Typhoon Bavi made landfall Monday, July 6, passing directly over Rota in the Northern Mariana Islands around 8 a.m. local time, with sustained winds over 150 mph. Guam and nearby islands also reported major damage from the storm.

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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

Pope Francis Dies Aged 88

File photo - Pope Francis meets with Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark and his wife princess Mary during a private audience at the Vatican on November 8, 2018. - Pope Francis will celebrate his 10th anniversary of pontificate on March 13. -- 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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Pope Francis Dies Aged 88

Pope Francis Dies Aged 88

File photo - U2 front man Bono Vox meets pope Francis during a private audience at the Vatican on September 19, 2018. Bono said they ‘let the conversation go where it wanted to go,’ discussing ‘big themes,’ such as the future of commerce and how it might serve sustainable development goals. - Pope Francis will celebrate his 10th anniversary of pontificate on March 13. -- 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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Ex-U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Armitage dies

Ex-U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Armitage dies

Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage makes a speech at Keio University in Tokyo on June 8, 2018. A longtime Asia hand who had close connections with Japan, Armitage died on April 13, 2025, at the age of 79.

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CHINA-ZHEJIANG-RURAL GREEN REVIVAL PROGRAM-VILLAGES(CN)

CHINA-ZHEJIANG-RURAL GREEN REVIVAL PROGRAM-VILLAGES(CN)

(230611) -- HANGZHOU, June 11, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo taken on April 13, 2023 shows Yucun Village of Anji County, Huzhou City, east China's Zhejiang Province. Since 2003, Zhejiang, located in the Yangtze River Delta, has implemented a rural green revival program to overhaul the living environment of villages, which was granted the UN Environment Program's (UNEP) Champions of the Earth award in September 2018. For twenty years, the program has created thousands of beautiful villages, and fundamentally changed the face of the province's countryside. (Xinhua/Weng Xinyang)

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Golf: Hataoka 2 shots off lead after 3rd round of Lotte Championship

Golf: Hataoka 2 shots off lead after 3rd round of Lotte Championship

KAPOLEI, United States, April 13 Kyodo - Nasa Hataoka of Japan putts on the first hole during the third round of the Lotte Championship, an LPGA tour event in Hawaii, on April 13, 2018.

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CHINA-HEILONGJIANG-HARBIN-WETLAND CITY (CN)

CHINA-HEILONGJIANG-HARBIN-WETLAND CITY (CN)

(221113) -- HARBIN, Nov. 13, 2022 (Xinhua) -- This photo take on April 15, 2022 shows people enjoying themselves along the Songhua River in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. Through long-term protection and restoration efforts, Harbin is emerging as a wetland paradise. The city was certified as an "international wetland city" in 2018. Many ecological parks in the city have become ideal places for people to do exercises, such as hiking, cycling and roller skating, as well as other recreational activities. (Photo by Zhang Shu/Xinhua)

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Kawasaki Heavy train ready for operation in Washington

Kawasaki Heavy train ready for operation in Washington

A new train developed by Japan's Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. is introduced at a subway station near Washington on April 13, 2015, for a test-ride event, prior to the start of service the following day. The operator of the Washington subway system is expected to introduce up to 748 trains from the Japanese manufacturer by the end of 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kawasaki Heavy train ready for operation in Washington

Kawasaki Heavy train ready for operation in Washington

A new train developed by Japan's Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. is introduced at a subway station near Washington on April 13, 2015, for a test-ride event, prior to the start of service the following day. The operator of the Washington subway system is expected to introduce up to 748 trains from the Japanese manufacturer by the end of 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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SoftBank

SoftBank

File photo taken in April 2018 shows a building housing the head office of SoftBank Group Corp. in Tokyo. The company said on April 13, 2020, that it expects to suffer a net loss of 750 billion yen in fiscal 2019 due to a decrease in the value of its investments in companies due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pyongyang Teacher Training College

Pyongyang Teacher Training College

Students at North Korea's Pyongyang Teacher Training College wear 3-D virtual reality goggles during a class on April 13, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pyongyang Teacher Training College

Pyongyang Teacher Training College

A student at North Korea's Pyongyang Teacher Training College speaks to virtual students during a training program powered by artificial intelligence on April 13, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Carp streamers in Japan

Carp streamers in Japan

Carp streamers flutter over the Toyohira River at the Jozankei hot spring resort in Sapporo on April 13, 2018. Carp streamers are a symbol of the May 5th Children's Day national holiday in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pyongyang Teacher Training College

Pyongyang Teacher Training College

Students at North Korea's Pyongyang Teacher Training College look at a map projected on sand during a class on April 13, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Golf: Hataoka 2 shots off lead after 3rd round of Lotte Championship

Golf: Hataoka 2 shots off lead after 3rd round of Lotte Championship

Nasa Hataoka of Japan putts on the first hole during the third round of the Lotte Championship, an LPGA tour event in Hawaii, on April 13, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Boston Marathon winner Kawauchi throws ceremonial pitch before Red Sox game

Boston Marathon winner Kawauchi throws ceremonial pitch before Red Sox game

Yuki Kawauchi, winner of 2018 Boston Marathon, throws a ceremonial first pitch before a game between the Boston Red Sox and the Baltimore Orioles at Fenway Park on April 13, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Thailand's New Year festival

Thailand's New Year festival

A woman in traditional Thai clothing sprays water at others in central Bangkok on April 13, 2018, as Thailand started the Songkran annual water festival. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Thailand's New Year festival

Thailand's New Year festival

People look excited in Bangkok on April 13, 2018, as Thailand started the Songkran Festival, or its annual water festival. (Photo by Yasushi Ukigaya) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo Detention House

Tokyo Detention House

Photo taken on April 13, 2018, shows the Tokyo Detention House. One of Japan's seven execution chambers is housed in the facility, located in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo Detention House

Tokyo Detention House

Photo taken on April 13, 2018, shows the Tokyo Detention House. One of Japan's seven execution chambers is housed in the facility, located in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo Detention House

Tokyo Detention House

Photo taken on April 13, 2018, shows the Tokyo Detention House. One of Japan's seven execution chambers is housed in the facility, located in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo Detention House

Tokyo Detention House

Photo taken on April 13, 2018, shows the Tokyo Detention House. One of Japan's seven execution chambers is housed in the facility, located in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo Detention House

Tokyo Detention House

Photo taken on April 13, 2018, shows the Tokyo Detention House. One of Japan's seven execution chambers is housed in the facility, located in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo Detention House

Tokyo Detention House

Photo taken on April 13, 2018, shows the Tokyo Detention House. One of Japan's seven execution chambers is housed in the facility, located in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo Detention House

Tokyo Detention House

Photo taken on April 13, 2018, shows the Tokyo Detention House. One of Japan's seven execution chambers is housed in the facility, located in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo Detention House

Tokyo Detention House

Photo taken on April 13, 2018, shows the Tokyo Detention House. One of Japan's seven execution chambers is housed in the facility, located in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo Detention House

Tokyo Detention House

Photo taken on April 13, 2018, shows the Tokyo Detention House. One of Japan's seven execution chambers is housed in the facility, located in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pyongyang college

Pyongyang college

Combined photo shows the same wall at North Korea's Pyongyang Teacher Training College. In the top photo taken April 13, 2018, the wall features a panel about nuclear testing and intercontinental ballistic missile test launches, while in the bottom photo taken Sept. 7 it displays a painting. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Thailand's New Year festival

Thailand's New Year festival

People clad in traditional Thai clothing spray water at each other in Bangkok on April 13, 2018, as Thailand started the Songkran Festival, or its annual water festival. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo detention center

Tokyo detention center

Photo taken April 13, 2018, shows a detention center in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo detention center

Tokyo detention center

Photo taken April 13, 2018, shows a detention center in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo detention center

Tokyo detention center

Photo taken April 13, 2018, shows a detention center in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Families of Japanese abductees

Families of Japanese abductees

Sakie Yokota (R), whose daughter Megumi was abducted in 1977 at age 13, shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) at a meeting in Tokyo on April 22, 2018, with other families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Families of Japanese abductees

Families of Japanese abductees

Sakie Yokota (R), whose daughter Megumi was abducted in 1977 at age 13, and Shigeo Iizuka, head of a group representing families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea, speaks at a meeting in Tokyo on April 22, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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PM Abe speaks about Japanese abduction by North Korea

PM Abe speaks about Japanese abduction by North Korea

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) meets with Sakie Yokota (R), whose daughter Megumi was abducted to North Korea in 1977 at age 13, and Shigeo Iizuka (2nd from R), the head of a group representing families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea, in Tokyo on April 22, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. think tank senior fellow Schoff

U.S. think tank senior fellow Schoff

James Schoff, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace talks during an interview in his office in Washington on April 13, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Naval drill in Taiwan

Naval drill in Taiwan

Photo shows a naval ship partaking in a military exercise off Suao, northeastern Taiwan, on April 13, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Baseball: Dodgers' Maeda

Baseball: Dodgers' Maeda

Kenta Maeda of the Los Angeles Dodgers leaves the mound during the six inning of the team's 13-4 win over the San Diego Padres at Petco Park in San Diego, California, on April 18, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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JPMorgan Chase headquarters

JPMorgan Chase headquarters

People walk past JPMorgan Chase & Co. headquarters in New York on April 13, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Cars in Pyongyang

Cars in Pyongyang

Photo taken April 13, 2018, shows vehicles waiting for a traffic light to change in Pyongyang. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Panels on N. Korea's nuclear and missile developmen

Panels on N. Korea's nuclear and missile developmen

Photo taken on April 13, 2018, in Pyongyang, shows panels in Pyongyang Teacher Training College about North Korea's nuclear and missile programs. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Top finance bureaucrat under fire

Top finance bureaucrat under fire

Junichi Fukuda, the top bureaucrat of the elite Finance Ministry of Japan, leaves the ministry in Tokyo on April 13, 2018, as he came under fire over an allegation that he sexually harassed a female reporter. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-Cambodia National Rescue Party President Rainsy

Ex-Cambodia National Rescue Party President Rainsy

Sam Rainsy, former president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, speaks at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on April 13, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan-Bhutan talks

Japan-Bhutan talks

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono (L) and his Bhutanese counterpart Damcho Dorji shake hands in the former residence of the late Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida in Oiso, near Tokyo, on April 13, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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N. Korea-China talks

N. Korea-China talks

Song Tao, head of the International Liaison Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, arrives at Pyongyang International Airport on April 13, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: German Bundesliga

Football: German Bundesliga

Cologne's Yuya Osako (13) and Hertha Berlin's Valentino Lazaro (20) vie for the ball in the first half of Hertha's 2-1 win in a Bundesliga match in Berlin on April 14, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Golf: Hataoka 2 shots off lead after 3rd round of Lotte Championship

Golf: Hataoka 2 shots off lead after 3rd round of Lotte Championship

Nasa Hataoka of Japan hits a chip shot on the 18th hole during the third round of the Lotte Championship, an LPGA tour event in Hawaii, on April 13, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Angeles' Ohtani

Angeles' Ohtani

Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels hits a double to left during the second inning of a 5-4 win over the Kansas City Royals in Kansas City, Missouri on April 13, 2018 (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Angeles' Ohtani

Angeles' Ohtani

Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels hits a single to center during the eighth inning of a 5-4 win over the Kansas City Royals in Kansas City, Missouri on April 13, 2018 (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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