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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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Ivorian Kung Fu learner boosts China and Africa cultural exchanges

STORY: Ivorian Kung Fu learner boosts China and Africa cultural exchanges SHOOTING TIME: April 15, 2024 DATELINE: April 18, 2024 LENGTH: 0:03:41 LOCATION: Abidjan CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of Yanming learning Kong Fu in China 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (French): YANMING, Ivorian Shaolin disciple 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (French): YANMING, Ivorian Shaolin disciple 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (French): YANMING, Ivorian Shaolin disciple 5. SOUNDBITE 4 (French): YANMING, Ivorian Shaolin disciple 6. SOUNDBITE 5 (French): YANMING, Ivorian Shaolin disciple STORYLINE: Max Yollando, hailing from Cote d'Ivoire, discovered his true passion within the ancient walls of the famed Shaolin Temple in central China's Henan Province. Embracing the name Yanming given by his master, which stands for 'brightness and understanding,' he embarked on a six-year journey of Kung Fu mastery and cultural immersion. Since 2017, Yanming has been deeply engrossed in the rich traditions of the temple, dedicating himself to the study and practice of its revere

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First US Nuclear Sub Docks In South Korea Since 1981

Handout file photo dated June 15, 2017 shows the Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine USS Kentucky (SSBN 737) transits the Hood Canal as they return to their homeport following a strategic deterrent patrol.(A US submarine armed with nuclear weapons has docked in South Korea for the first time in four decades, amid escalating tensions with Pyongyang. The sub, identified by South Koran officials as the USS Kentucky, docked in Busan port on Tuesday July 18, 2023. In April, the US agreed to periodically deploy nuclear-armed subs to South Korea, to counter increasing aggression from North Korea. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Amanda R. Gray via ABACAPRESS.COM

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UN CHINESE LANGUAGE DAY-ACTIVITIES

(230420) -- BEIJING, April 20, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This combo photo shows children experiencing oracle bone script writing at the National Museum of Chinese Writing in Anyang, central China's Henan Province, Nov. 25, 2017 (upper, photo taken by Li Jianan), and Kenyan students writing Chinese calligraphy during an event celebrating the UN Chinese Language Day at the Confucius Institute at the University of Nairobi, in Nairobi, Kenya, April 18, 2023 (lower, photo taken by Han Xu). The UN Chinese Language Day is observed on April 20 every year since 2010, celebrating the language's contribution to the world while encouraging more people to learn it. (Xinhua)

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Japan, U.S. businesses chiefs meet in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan, April 18 Kyodo - Japan's Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Hiroshige Seko (R) and his U.S. counterpart, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, meet in Tokyo on April 18, 2017.

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Abe announces plan to dissolve lower house, postpones tax hike

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds a press conference at his office in Tokyo on Nov. 18, 2014. Abe said he will dissolve the lower house on Nov. 21 for a general election and postpone a planned consumption tax hike to 10 percent by 18 months to April 2017, citing the economic downturn following a tax increase the previous April.

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Abe announces plan to dissolve lower house, postpones tax hike

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds a press conference at his office in Tokyo on Nov. 18, 2014. Abe said he will dissolve the lower house on Nov. 21 for a general election and postpone a planned consumption tax hike to 10 percent by 18 months to April 2017, citing the economic downturn following a tax increase the previous April.

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Abe announces plan to dissolve lower house, postpones tax hike

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds a press conference at his office in Tokyo on Nov. 18, 2014. Abe said he will dissolve the lower house on Nov. 21 for a general election and postpone a planned consumption tax hike to 10 percent by 18 months to April 2017, citing the economic downturn following a tax increase the previous April.

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Abe announces plan to dissolve lower house, postpones tax hike

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds a press conference at his office in Tokyo on Nov. 18, 2014. Abe said he will dissolve the lower house on Nov. 21 for a general election and postpone a planned consumption tax hike to 10 percent by 18 months to April 2017, citing the economic downturn following a tax increase the previous April.

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Abe to dissolve lower house

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) shakes hands with Natsuo Yamaguchi, leader of the Komeito party, which forms the ruling coalition with Abe's Liberal Democratic Party, ahead of their talks at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 18, 2014. Abe told a meeting of the LDP the same day that he will dissolve the lower house and plans to hold a general election on Dec. 14 and postpone a planned consumption tax hike by 18 months to April 2017, a senior LDP lawmaker said.

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Abe to dissolve lower house

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 18, 2014, shows the Japanese Diet in Tokyo. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told a meeting of his Liberal Democratic Party the same day that he will dissolve the lower house and plans to hold a general election on Dec. 14 and postpone a planned consumption tax hike by 18 months to April 2017, a senior LDP lawmaker said.

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Abe to dissolve lower house

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) holds talks with Natsuo Yamaguchi, leader of the Komeito party, which forms the ruling coalition with Abe's Liberal Democratic Party, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 18, 2014. Abe told a meeting of the LDP the same day that he will dissolve the lower house and plans to hold a general election on Dec. 14 and postpone a planned consumption tax hike by 18 months to April 2017, a senior LDP lawmaker said.

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Abe to dissolve lower house

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) sits down with Natsuo Yamaguchi, leader of the Komeito party, which forms the ruling coalition with Abe's Liberal Democratic Party, ahead of their talks at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 18, 2014. Abe told a meeting of the LDP the same day that he will dissolve the lower house and plans to hold a general election on Dec. 14 and postpone a planned consumption tax hike by 18 months to April 2017, a senior LDP lawmaker said.

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CHINA-HEBEI-XIONG'AN NEW AREA-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY (CN)

(220331) -- XIONG'AN, March 31, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A man tries a fitness facility in Xiong'an New Area, north China's Hebei Province, March 18, 2022. Dubbed China's youngest city and a "city of the future," Xiong'an New Area marks its fifth anniversary on Friday. China announced plans to establish Xiong'an New Area on April 1, 2017, to relieve Beijing of functions non-essential to its role as the national capital and advance the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. By the end of 2021, construction has begun on 177 key projects in Xiong'an, with a total investment of 618.4 billion yuan (97.2 billion U.S. dollars). Sixty of them have been completed. So far, the major roads to the city, the main streets in the city, the Ecological Corridor, and the urban water system have taken shape. (Xinhua/Zhu Xudong)

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CHINA-HEBEI-XIONG'AN NEW AREA-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY (CN)

(220331) -- XIONG'AN, March 31, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on March 18, 2022 shows a wireless charging pile at a charging station in Xiong'an New Area, north China's Hebei Province. Dubbed China's youngest city and a "city of the future," Xiong'an New Area marks its fifth anniversary on Friday. China announced plans to establish Xiong'an New Area on April 1, 2017, to relieve Beijing of functions non-essential to its role as the national capital and advance the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. By the end of 2021, construction has begun on 177 key projects in Xiong'an, with a total investment of 618.4 billion yuan (97.2 billion U.S. dollars). Sixty of them have been completed. So far, the major roads to the city, the main streets in the city, the Ecological Corridor, and the urban water system have taken shape. (Xinhua/Zhu Xudong)

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CHINA-HEBEI-XIONG'AN NEW AREA-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY (CN)

(220331) -- XIONG'AN, March 31, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on March 18, 2022 shows a carbon emission supervision platform in Xiong'an New Area, north China's Hebei Province. Dubbed China's youngest city and a "city of the future," Xiong'an New Area marks its fifth anniversary on Friday. China announced plans to establish Xiong'an New Area on April 1, 2017, to relieve Beijing of functions non-essential to its role as the national capital and advance the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. By the end of 2021, construction has begun on 177 key projects in Xiong'an, with a total investment of 618.4 billion yuan (97.2 billion U.S. dollars). Sixty of them have been completed. So far, the major roads to the city, the main streets in the city, the Ecological Corridor, and the urban water system have taken shape. (Xinhua/Zhu Xudong)

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CHINA-HEBEI-XIONG'AN NEW AREA-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY (CN)

(220331) -- XIONG'AN, March 31, 2022 (Xinhua) -- An electric vehicle gets charged up via a robot at a charging station in Xiong'an New Area, north China's Hebei Province, March 18, 2022. Dubbed China's youngest city and a "city of the future," Xiong'an New Area marks its fifth anniversary on Friday. China announced plans to establish Xiong'an New Area on April 1, 2017, to relieve Beijing of functions non-essential to its role as the national capital and advance the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. By the end of 2021, construction has begun on 177 key projects in Xiong'an, with a total investment of 618.4 billion yuan (97.2 billion U.S. dollars). Sixty of them have been completed. So far, the major roads to the city, the main streets in the city, the Ecological Corridor, and the urban water system have taken shape. (Xinhua/Zhu Xudong)

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NASA Delays The James Webb Space Telescope Launch Again

★Handout photo dated April 25, 2017 of In this photo, NASA technicians lifted the telescope using a crane and moved it inside a clean room at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Once launched into space, the Webb telescopes 18-segmented gold mirror is specially designed to capture infrared light from the first galaxies that formed in the early universe, and will help the telescope peer inside dust clouds where stars and planetary systems are forming today. Last summer, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) set an October 31, 2021, launch date for the $ 10 billion James Webb Space Telescope, but it's having to delay the science observatory's trip into space once again. Thankfully, the launch might take place just a few weeks later, in November or early December. A rescheduled date is unlikely to be confirmed until later this summer or perhaps in the fall. The instr

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Debate between Abe, Okada

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd from R) shakes hands with Katsuya Okada, leader of the main opposition Democratic Party, after their debate at the Diet in Tokyo on May 18, 2016, in which they focused on a planned consumption tax hike in April 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan to require new cooling system for boiling water reactors

Photo taken April 29, 2017, shows Chubu Electric Power Co.'s Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture. Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority approved on Oct. 18 a revision of safety regulations to make mandatory the installation of new emergency cooling systems for boiling water reactors. The Hamaoka plant is among those affected by the rule change. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Aso, Pence likely to be at odds over U.S. calls for Japan-U.S. FTA

Photo taken April 18, 2017, shows Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso (L) and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence shaking hands in Tokyo before discussing economic cooperation. The two are likely to be at odds over U.S. calls to launch talks on a bilateral free trade agreement when they meet in Washington on Oct. 16. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Jewelers in Japan's Yamanashi area boosting sales in Asia

Kashi Nagayama, an official at Lucky Co., a jewelry maker in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, holds his company's products using 18-karat gold, in Kofu on April 5, 2017. Lucky has tripled its sales in China and Taiwan over the past few years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Argentine president to visit Japan from May 18-20

Photo taken in April 2016 shows Argentine President Mauricio Macri. The Japanese government said on April 25, 2017, that the president will pay a three-day official visit to Japan from May 18. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rugby: Sunwolves name side to face Highlanders

Sunwolves scrumhalf Fumiaki Tanaka (C) scores a try in the second half of their 24-12 win over the Japanese Top League All-Stars in Kitakyushu, Japan, on Feb. 18, 2017. Tanaka was named to the Sunwolves' team for a Super Rugby match against the Highlanders in Invercargill, New Zealand, on April 22. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe, Pence meet in Tokyo amid N. Korea tensions

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence hold talks at Abe's office in Tokyo on April 18, 2017. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe grilled over gov't land deal with nationalistic school operator

Photo taken Feb. 18, 2017 shows the construction site for a new elementary school in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his government have faced questioning in parliament over the sale of a plot of state-owned land to a nationalistic school operator for far below the appraised price. The plot is intended for the school slated to open in April, with Abe's wife Akie as its honorary principal. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe announces plan to dissolve lower house, postpones tax hike

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds a press conference at his office in Tokyo on Nov. 18, 2014. Abe said he will dissolve the lower house on Nov. 21 for a general election and postpone a planned consumption tax hike to 10 percent by 18 months to April 2017, citing the economic downturn following a tax increase the previous April. (Kyodo)

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Abe announces plan to dissolve lower house, postpones tax hike

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds a press conference at his office in Tokyo on Nov. 18, 2014. Abe said he will dissolve the lower house on Nov. 21 for a general election and postpone a planned consumption tax hike to 10 percent by 18 months to April 2017, citing the economic downturn following a tax increase the previous April. (Kyodo)

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Abe to dissolve lower house

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 18, 2014, shows the Japanese Diet in Tokyo. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told a meeting of his Liberal Democratic Party the same day that he will dissolve the lower house and plans to hold a general election on Dec. 14 and postpone a planned consumption tax hike by 18 months to April 2017, a senior LDP lawmaker said. (Kyodo)

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Abe to dissolve lower house

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) sits down with Natsuo Yamaguchi, leader of the Komeito party, which forms the ruling coalition with Abe's Liberal Democratic Party, ahead of their talks at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 18, 2014. Abe told a meeting of the LDP the same day that he will dissolve the lower house and plans to hold a general election on Dec. 14 and postpone a planned consumption tax hike by 18 months to April 2017, a senior LDP lawmaker said. (Kyodo)

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Jaroslav Hascak, Penta Investments

Czech-Slovak Penta financial group confirmed that its co-owner Hascak was accused, considers police raid in its seat demonstration of force in Bratislava, Slovakia, December 1, 2020. +++FILE PHOTO+++Partner of the Penta Investments Jaroslav Hascak speaks during the press conference on business results and plans, in Prague, Czech Republic, on April 18, 2018. Penta Investments group raised its operating profit by 19 percent to record-breaking Kc10.1bn in 2017, with its sales growing by 21 percent to Kc178bn, and the consolidated net profit reached Kc6.2bn, which is the second largest amount after 2016. (CTK Photo/Michal Kamaryt)

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Jaroslav Hascak, Penta Investments

Czech-Slovak Penta financial group confirmed that its co-owner Hascak was accused, considers police raid in its seat demonstration of force in Bratislava, Slovakia, December 1, 2020. +++FILE PHOTO+++Partner of the Penta Investments Jaroslav Hascak speaks during the press conference on business results and plans, in Prague, Czech Republic, on April 18, 2018. Penta Investments group raised its operating profit by 19 percent to record-breaking Kc10.1bn in 2017, with its sales growing by 21 percent to Kc178bn, and the consolidated net profit reached Kc6.2bn, which is the second largest amount after 2016. (CTK Photo/Michal Kamaryt)

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Nintendo Switch

File photo taken in January 2017 shows a Nintendo Co. Switch game console. Authorities in China's Guangdong Province said April 18, 2019, that they have given approval for Chinese technology giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. to sell the game console in the southern Chinese province. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Retina transplants via donor iPS cells

Photo taken Nov. 10, 2017, shows Masayo Takahashi, a researcher at the Japanese government-backed Riken institute. She said in Tokyo on April 18, 2019 that five patients suffering a severe eye disease were doing well a year after they received in 2017 the world's first transplant surgeries using induced pluripotent stem cells from donors. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Retina transplants via donor iPS cells

Masayo Takahashi, a researcher at the Japanese government-backed Riken institute, speaks at an academic conference in Tokyo on April 18, 2019. Five patients suffering a severe eye disease were doing well a year after they received in 2017 the world's first transplant surgeries using induced pluripotent stem cells from donors, she said. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. Commerce Secretary Ross

Photo taken on April 18, 2017, shows U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross at the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry in Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Emperor Akihito's temporary residence after abdication

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Dec. 18, 2017 shows the Takanawa residence in Tokyo, to which Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko will move temporarily from the Imperial Palace after his abdication on April 30, 2019. The imperial couple will move again within about 18 months from the residence to the Togu Palace on the Akasaka Estate, also in Tokyo, the current residence of Crown Prince Naruhito and his family. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Shigeaki Hinohara, Japan's centenarian doctor, dies at 105

Photo taken in April 2014 shows Shigeaki Hinohara, honorary head of St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo who continued practicing as a doctor after turning 100. Hinohara died from respiration failure on July 18, 2017, at age 105. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. Army facility still occupies land in central Tokyo

People march around Akasaka Press Center, a U.S. Army facility in the Roppongi district of central Tokyo, on the night of April 18, 2017, demanding the return of the around 27,000 hectares occupied by the facility. The Tokyo metropolitan government has been demanding the return of the land, which was seized by the United States after Japan's 1945 surrender in World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Baseball: Kiyomiya homers twice, Waseda wins Tokyo high school final

Highly touted slugger Kotaro Kiyomiya (R) celebrates with teammates after their Waseda Jitsugyo's 18-17 walk-off victory over Nichidai Daisan in the final of the spring Tokyo high school baseball tournament at Jingu Stadium on April 27, 2017. Kiyomiya hit two home runs in a rare night game for high school baseball. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Baseball: Chen throws 7 hitless innings in Marlins' win

Chen Wei-yin of the Miami Marlins pitches against the Seattle Mariners at Safeco Field in Seattle on April 18, 2017. Chen threw seven hitless innings, issuing two walks in the Marlins' 5-0 victory. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Baseball: Chen throws 7 hitless innings in Marlins' win

Chen Wei-yin of the Miami Marlins pitches against the Seattle Mariners at Safeco Field in Seattle on April 18, 2017. Chen threw seven hitless innings, issuing two walks in the Marlins' 5-0 victory. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Baseball: Aoki gets 2 hits in Astros' loss to Angels

Norichika Aoki hits a single in the seventh inning of the Houston Astros' 5-2 loss to the Los Angeles Angels at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas, on April 18, 2017. Aoki went 2-for-4. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Baseball: Aoki gets 2 hits in Astros' loss to Angels

Norichika Aoki hits a single in the fifth inning of the Houston Astros' 5-2 loss to the Los Angeles Angels at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas, on April 18, 2017. Aoki went 2-for-4. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Baseball: Darvish takes loss as A's beat Rangers

Texas Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish fields a grounder hit by Jed Lowrie of the Oakland Athletics in the first inning at Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California, on April 18, 2017. Darvish gave up four runs in 5-1/3 innings in the Rangers' 4-2 loss. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Baseball: Darvish takes loss as A's beat Rangers

Texas Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish (C) is pulled with one out in the sixth inning against the Oakland Athletics at Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California, on April 18, 2017. Darvish took his second loss of the season as the A's rallied to win 4-2. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Baseball: Darvish takes loss as A's beat Rangers

Texas Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish reacts after giving up a game-tying two-run home run to Adam Rosales of the Oakland Athletics in the sixth inning at Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California, on April 18, 2017. Darvish gave up four runs in 5-1/3 innings as the Athletics rallied to win 4-2. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Baseball: Darvish in Rangers-Athletics game

Yu Darvish of the Texas Rangers pitches against the Oakland Athletics at Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California, on April 18, 2017. He gave up four runs in 5-1/3 innings of work. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Baseball: Darvish in Rangers-Athletics game

Yu Darvish of the Texas Rangers pitches against the Oakland Athletics at Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California, on April 18, 2017. He gave up four runs in 5-1/3 innings of work. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Baseball: Darvish in Rangers-Athletics game

Yu Darvish of the Texas Rangers pitches against the Oakland Athletics at Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California, on April 18, 2017. He gave up four runs in 5-1/3 innings of work. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo