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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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Turkish security forces capture 23 suspected IS members: minister

STORY: Turkish security forces capture 23 suspected IS members: minister SHOOTING TIME: Recent footage DATELINE: April 26, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:50 LOCATION: Ankara CATEGORY: MILITARY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the operations of Turkish security forces (courtesy of Turkish Interior Ministry) STORYLINE: Turkish security forces have apprehended 23 suspected members of the Islamic State (IS) group in recent operations, according to a statement by the country's Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya on Thursday. The police conducted simultaneous raids in several provinces, including Canakkale, Hatay, Konya, Sakarya, Tekirdag, Yalova, and Yozgat, Yerlikaya said on the social media platform X, without revealing the specific timing of these operations. Between June 1, 2023, and April 22, 2024, a total of 1422 operations were carried out against the IS group. As a result, 2,991 suspects were captured, according to the minister. The IS has conducted a series of deadly attacks in Türkiye since 2015, including the rec

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Tanzanian youth innovates solution digitizing education system

STORY: Tanzanian youth innovates solution digitizing education system DATELINE: April 23, 2023 LENGTH: 00:04:04 LOCATION: DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania CATEGORY: EDUCATION SHOTLIST 1. SOUNDBITE (English): DEOGRATIUS MOSHA, Co-founder, Mainstream Media Limited 2. various of Deogratius Mosha working 3. various of students studying STORYLINE: Deogratius Mosha is the co-founder of Mainstream Media Limited, a Tanzanian company founded in 2015 dealing with digital innovations and software development. At the age of 35, Mosha has already broken the glass ceiling by innovating Smart University Initiative, or SmartUni, a solution digitizing the education system at the university level. Mosha said the solution aims at reducing the use of paper and print handouts for both students and lecturers. SOUNDBITE (English): DEOGRATIUS MOSHA, Co-founder, Mainstream Media Limited "We did our research and we discovered that most of the students at the college substitute the cost of getting the studying materials with the cost o

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Britain's former nuke test site in Australia remains "devil's land"

MARALINGA, Australia, July 23 Kyodo - A monument marks ground zero at Britain's former nuclear test site in Maralinga, southern Australia, as seen on April 21, 2015. Aborigines call the site, used by Britain for nuclear tests in the 1950s to 1960s, the "devil's land."

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New commercial complex to open in Osaka

OSAKA, April 23 Kyodo - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on April 22, 2015, shows a new commercial complex, Morinomiya Q's Mall Base, which is to open on April 27 in the city of Osaka. The rooftop track will enable people to feel like they are running in the air while viewing Osaka Castle.

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Narita airport shows new departing passenger area

NARITA, Japan, April 28 Kyodo - Narita International Airport shows to the press on April 23, 2015, a new lobby with displays and equipment creating a Japanese atmosphere for departing passengers on international flights at its Terminal 2, before the official opening to the public the following day.

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Temporary kabuki theater planned in downtown Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Kabuki actors Nakamura Kankuro (R) and Nakamura Shichinosuke show at a press conference in Kyoto, western Japan, on Dec. 23, 2014, an artist's image of a makeshift playhouse to be set up in the precincts of Sensoji Temple in downtown Tokyo for the Heisei Nakamura-za company's kabuki performances in April-May 2015.

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Oita Pref. to open new museum next April

OITA, Japan - The Oita Prefectural Art Museum, designed by award-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, is unveiled to citizens on Nov. 23, 2014. The museum in Oita City, southwestern Japan is set to open in April 2015.

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KENYA-NAIROBI-CHINESE YOUTH

(220502) -- NAIROBI, May 2, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Yuan Wanfu talks with a local worker at a construction site in Nairobi, Kenya, April 23, 2022. Yuan Wanfu, 31, has worked with the China Road & Bridge Corporation branch in Kenya since September 2015 and is now the project manager for the East Ring Road expansion project in Nairobi. Yuan works with his Chinese and Kenyan colleagues at the construction site every afternoon to identify and resolve difficulties in the construction process as quickly as possible. Yuan is also involved in a variety of social welfare programs in addition to everyday work. He and his colleagues made numerous visits to schools and communities along the project, assisting in the construction of infrastructure needed. Like Yuan Wanfu, many Chinese young people working in Kenya have dedicated themselves to the Belt and Road Initiative. They are donating their knowledge and effort to East Africa's growth. (Xinhua/Long Lei)

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KENYA-NAIROBI-CHINESE YOUTH

(220502) -- NAIROBI, May 2, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Yuan Wanfu examines an engineering drawing at a construction site in Nairobi, Kenya, April 23, 2022. Yuan Wanfu, 31, has worked with the China Road & Bridge Corporation branch in Kenya since September 2015 and is now the project manager for the East Ring Road expansion project in Nairobi. Yuan works with his Chinese and Kenyan colleagues at the construction site every afternoon to identify and resolve difficulties in the construction process as quickly as possible. Yuan is also involved in a variety of social welfare programs in addition to everyday work. He and his colleagues made numerous visits to schools and communities along the project, assisting in the construction of infrastructure needed. Like Yuan Wanfu, many Chinese young people working in Kenya have dedicated themselves to the Belt and Road Initiative. They are donating their knowledge and effort to East Africa's growth. (Xinhua/Long Lei)

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KENYA-NAIROBI-CHINESE YOUTH

(220502) -- NAIROBI, May 2, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Yuan Wanfu checks the flatness of road basement layer at a construction site in Nairobi, Kenya, April 23, 2022. Yuan Wanfu, 31, has worked with the China Road & Bridge Corporation branch in Kenya since September 2015 and is now the project manager for the East Ring Road expansion project in Nairobi. Yuan works with his Chinese and Kenyan colleagues at the construction site every afternoon to identify and resolve difficulties in the construction process as quickly as possible. Yuan is also involved in a variety of social welfare programs in addition to everyday work. He and his colleagues made numerous visits to schools and communities along the project, assisting in the construction of infrastructure needed. Like Yuan Wanfu, many Chinese young people working in Kenya have dedicated themselves to the Belt and Road Initiative. They are donating their knowledge and effort to East Africa's growth. (Xinhua/Long Lei)

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KENYA-NAIROBI-CHINESE YOUTH

(220502) -- NAIROBI, May 2, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Yuan Wanfu talks with his colleagues at a construction site in Nairobi, Kenya, April 23, 2022. Yuan Wanfu, 31, has worked with the China Road & Bridge Corporation branch in Kenya since September 2015 and is now the project manager for the East Ring Road expansion project in Nairobi. Yuan works with his Chinese and Kenyan colleagues at the construction site every afternoon to identify and resolve difficulties in the construction process as quickly as possible. Yuan is also involved in a variety of social welfare programs in addition to everyday work. He and his colleagues made numerous visits to schools and communities along the project, assisting in the construction of infrastructure needed. Like Yuan Wanfu, many Chinese young people working in Kenya have dedicated themselves to the Belt and Road Initiative. They are donating their knowledge and effort to East Africa's growth. (Xinhua/Long Lei)

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Uehara in Swinging Skirts Classic 1st round

Ayako Uehara putts on the 9th hole during the first round of the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic at the Lake Merced Golf Club in Daly City, California, on April 23, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Froman confident of U.S.-Japan trade agreement

U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman (L) gives a lecture on a Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal in Washington on April 23, 2015. Froman showed confidence that the United States and Japan can close the remaining gap, but he does not expect a final settlement at their summit on April 28. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's Nishikori cruises into Barcelona quarterfinals

World No. 5 Kei Nishikori of Japan plays a backhand shot against Santiago Giraldo of Colombia during their third-round match at the Barcelona Open tennis tournament in Barcelona, Spain, on April 23, 2015. Nishikori won 6-2, 6-1 to advance to the quarterfinals. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nepal marks 1st quake anniversary

People who lost their homes due to a magnitude 7.8 quake that struck Nepal in April 2015, continue to live in tents in Kathmandu a year after the disaster on April 23, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ospreys to be deployed for relief goods transportation

File photo taken Aug. 23, 2015, at an exercise area in Shizuoka Prefecture, west of Tokyo, shows Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft. Four MV-22 Ospreys, deployed at the U.S. Marine Corps' Air Station Futenma in Okinawa, will be involved on April 18, 2016, in transporting relief materials to the earthquake-damaged southwestern Japan prefecture of Kumamoto. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese climber receives Nepalese permit to climb Mt. Everest

Japanese mountaineer Nobukazu Kuriki (2nd from L) shows a Nepalese government permit to climb Mt. Everest in Kathmandu on Aug. 23, 2015. He was the first climber to obtain a permit for the Nepalese side of the mountain since a devastating earthquake hit the Himalayan country last April. (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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Human Rights Watch member discusses Islamic State insurgency

Peter Bouckaert, emergency director at Human Rights Watch, an international nongovernmental organization, talks about how to cope with the Islamic State militant group during an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on April 23, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nikkei closes at 15-year high

A monitor in Tokyo shows the Nikkei Stock Average closing at 20,809.42 -- the highest level since April 12, 2000 -- on June 23, 2015. The Nikkei rose 1.87 percent on buying stirred by expectations that Greece can avert default. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Woman in news: Director of film depicting people in tsunami-hit town

Haruko Konishi talks in Tokyo on April 23, 2015, about her first documentary film depicting the grit and pride of people in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, where some 1,300 residents were killed or went missing in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that ravaged the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-commander of MSDF's minesweeping unit gives interview

Taosa Ochiai, who was the commander of the dispatch unit Overseas Minesweeper Force of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force to the Persian Gulf in 1991, speaks in an interview in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, on April 23, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tanaka preparing for 1st start since late April

Masahiro Tanaka of the New York Yankees throws a bullpen session, with pitching coach Larry Rothschild looking on, in Oakland, California, on May 31, 2015. Tanaka will return from the disabled list and pitch against the Seattle Mariners on June 3, his first start since April 23. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Maiko" entertainment girls attend Nepal charity event

"Maiko," or traditional female apprentice entertainers clad in kimono serve tea in a charity event in Akita, northeastern Japan, on May 23, 2015, in support of Nepal, which was struck by a destructive earthquake in late April. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Maiko" entertainment girls attend Nepal charity event

"Maiko," or traditional female apprentice entertainers clad in kimono serve tea in a charity event in Akita, northeastern Japan, on May 23, 2015, in support of Nepal, which was struck by a destructive earthquake in late April. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Buddhist practitioners' school on Mt. Koya

A student of Koyasan Senshugakuin, a Buddhist practitioners' school, arranges flowers in a flower arrangement class at the Buddhist practitioners' school on Mt. Koya, western Japan, on April 23, 2015. In addition to flower arrangement, Japanese tea ceremony and calligraphy are also included in the curriculum to deepen one's cultural understanding. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Staff member of lower house explains Diet building

Masaki Kameya, a staff member of the House of Representatives, gives information on the Diet building in Tokyo to visitors on April 23, 2015. Tours of the national Diet building have been gaining popularity among tourists and school trip participants. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Immigrants await ferry for mainland on Lampedusa island

Refugees and illegal immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa wait for a ferry bound for the Italian mainland on April 23, 2015, on Lampedusa, the largest island of the Italian Pelagie Islands in the Mediterranean Sea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Immigrants board ferry for mainland on Lampedusa island

Refugees and illegal immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa board a ferry bound for the Italian mainland on April 23, 2015, on Lampedusa, the largest island of the Italian Pelagie Islands in the Mediterranean Sea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Uehara in Swinging Skirts Classic 1st round

Ayako Uehara putts on the 9th hole during the first round of the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic at the Lake Merced Golf Club in Daly City, the United States, on April 23, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.N. disarmament chief speaks ahead of NPT review confab

U.N. High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Angela Kane says in an interview with Kyodo News in New York on April 23, 2015, that nonnuclear arms states "must be given the impression that there actually is a way to bring down the numbers" of nuclear weapons and that these arms "are not here forever." She spoke ahead of a U.N. conference to review the operation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty from April 27. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Newly opened bookstore cafe "Story Story" in Tokyo's Shinjuku

A woman operates a Kobo eReader while eating at "Story Story," a bookstore cafe also selling sundries, in Tokyo on April 23, 2015. The bookstore cafe was opened inside Odakyu department store's Shinjuku main store on April 24. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Newly opened bookstore cafe "Story Story" in Tokyo's Shinjuku

Photo taken April 23, 2015, shows examples of food and drink related to books at "Story Story," a bookstore cafe also selling sundries, in Tokyo. The bookstore cafe was opened inside Odakyu department store's Shinjuku main store on April 24. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Brooms next to books at Tokyo book cafe "Story Story"

Brooms and bowls are placed alongside books in a section selling household items in "Story Story," a bookstore cafe also selling sundries, in Tokyo on April 23, 2015. The bookstore cafe was opened inside Odakyu department store's Shinjuku main store on April 24. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ai Miyazato in 1st round of Swinging Skirts Classic

Ai Miyazato hits a tee shot on the 12th hole during the first round of the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic at the Lake Merced Golf Club in Daly City, California, on April 23, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Replica of "Gadget" exhibited at U.S. nuclear museum

A man looks at a replica of the "Gadget," the world's first atomic bomb tested at the Trinity Site, at the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History on April 23, 2015, in Albuquerque in the U.S. state of New Mexico. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Exhibit introducing young victim of A-bomb at U.S. museum

An exhibit introducing Sadako Sasaki, who died of leukemia at age 12 following her exposure to radiation from the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima when she was 2 years old, is seen at the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History in Albuquerque in the U.S. state of New Mexico on April 23, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Visitor views photos of Hiroshima, Nagasaki at U.S. museum

A visitor views photographs and other materials related to the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki exhibited at the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History in Albuquerque in the U.S. state of New Mexico on April 23, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's nuclear regulator visits safety center east of Tokyo

Satoru Tanaka (L), commissioner of Japan's Nuclear Regulatory Authority, listens to an instructor at the Integrated Support Center for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Nuclear Security in Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture, east of Tokyo, on April 23, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chinese "pingtan" musical storytelling team plays in west Japan city

Members of the Shanghai Pingtan Troupe perform in Kusatsu, Shiga Prefecture, western Japan, on April 23, 2015. Pingtan is a traditional Chinese performing art combining the play of three-stringed musical instruments and storytelling. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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National treasure Shiramizu Amida-do hall illuminated in Fukushima

Shiramizu Amida-do (Amitabha Hall), a Buddhist temple registered as a Japanese national treasure in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, is lit up on a trial basis as part of a tourism promotion campaign in the northeastern Japanese prefecture on April 23, 2015, two days before the start of official illumination through May 24. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kumamoto governor receives courtesy visit by Chinese mission head

Kumamoto Gov. Ikuo Kabashima (R) receives a courtesy call at his office in the southwestern Japanese city on April 23, 2015, by Lu Fengding, head of a mission sent to Japan by Chinese media and other organizations for the promotion of exchanges between the two countries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Former Korean "comfort woman" speaks in Tokyo on wartime sex slavery

Kim Bok Dong, a former Korean "comfort woman," speaks at a gathering in the parliament building in Tokyo on April 23, 2015, to discuss the question of wartime sex slavery allegedly by the Japanese military. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Cherry blossoms in full bloom at Hirosaki Castle

Tourists enjoy cherry blossoms in full bloom at Hirosaki Castle in Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan, on April 23, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Wartime Korean "comfort woman" urges Japan to settle sex slave issue

Kim Bok Dong (C), a former Korean "comfort woman," urges Japan to settle the problem of wartime sex slavery at a gathering held in the parliament building in Tokyo on April 23, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Yamato Museum marks 10th anniversary

A one-tenth scale model of the Imperial Japanese Navy's battleship Yamato is on display at the Yamato Museum in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, on April 23, 2015, the 10th anniversary of the museum's opening. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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China mission head speaks during visit to Kagoshima governor

Lu Fengding (2nd from R), head of a mission sent to Japan by Chinese media and other organizations for the promotion of exchanges between the two countries, speaks during a courtesy visit to Kagoshima Gov. Yuichiro Ito (far L) at his office in the southwestern Japanese city on April 23, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Honda unveils new Step WGN

Honda Motor Co. takes the wraps off its all-new Step WGN minivan at its headquarters in Tokyo on April 23, 2015, before putting it on the market the following day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo