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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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XINHUA PHOTOS OF THE DAY

(240405) -- BEIJING, April 5, 2024 (Xinhua) -- An aerial drone photo taken on April 4, 2024 shows boats sailing during the Maoshan boat fair in Xinghua City of east China's Jiangsu Province. The Maoshan boat fair was held on Thursday, which marks the Qingming Festival, or Tomb-Sweeping Day. The fair was listed as a national intangible cultural heritage in 2014. (Photo by Zhou Shegen/Xinhua)

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XINHUA PHOTOS OF THE DAY

(240405) -- BEIJING, April 5, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Shi Rongsheng wipes his tears at the Chinese People's Volunteers (CPV) martyrs' cemetery in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province, April 3, 2024. Shi Rongsheng, 76, is a villager from Shijianfang Village, Bazhou, north China's Hebei Province. This Qingming Festival, he went to Shenyang in northeast China's Liaoning Province, to pay tributes to his father, Shi Wanzhong, whom he had never met. The senior Shi was a CPV soldier killed during the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea (1950-1953). Since 2014, the remains of 938 CPV soldiers including the senior Shi have been repatriated and buried in China. This exercise has lasted ten years. Through artifact identification, social investigations, military history research, and DNA comparisons, the remains of senior Shi were confirmed in this January. "The state helped me confirmed my father's remains, which fulfilled my mother's last wish." Shi Rongsheng burst into joyful tears upon receiving the new

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XINHUA-PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2023-WORLD NEWS

(240105) -- BEIJING, Jan. 5, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Liu Yimenghan, a member of Dream Building Service Association (DBSA), a non-governmental organization founded in 2014, donates books to students while promoting the habit of reading at a school in the Mathare slums in Nairobi, Kenya, April 19, 2023. (Xinhua/Li Yahui)

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Thousands Of US Troops Reach Red Sea After Iran Tensions

Handout photo dated April 15, 2014 shows aviation Boatswain's Mate Airman Michael Gable, from Peachtree City, Ga., directs an MH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter off the flight deck of the multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5) during flight operations. More than 3,000 United States military personnel have arrived in the Red Sea aboard two warships, part of a beefed up response from Washington after tanker seizures by Iran, the US Navy said Monday. The US sailors and Marines entered the Red Sea on Sunday after transiting through the Suez Canal in a pre-announced deployment, the US Navy's Fifth Fleet said in a statement. They arrived on board the USS Bataan and USS Carter Hall warships, providing "greater flexibility and maritime capability" to the Fifth Fleet, the statement from the Bahrain-based command added. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Mark Hays via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Coco Lee Passed Away

BEIJING, CHINA - APRIL 20, 2014 - Coco Lee performs at the 2014 Beijing International Auto Show in Beijing, China, April 20, 2014. On the evening of July 5, 2023, famous singer Coco Lee's sister Li Silin posted on social media that she committed suicide at home on July 2 due to depression, and passed away on July 5 after being hospitalized in a coma.

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Coco Lee Passed Away

BEIJING, CHINA - APRIL 20, 2014 - Coco Lee performs at the 2014 Beijing International Auto Show in Beijing, China, April 20, 2014. On the evening of July 5, 2023, famous singer Coco Lee's sister Li Silin posted on social media that she committed suicide at home on July 2 due to depression, and passed away on July 5 after being hospitalized in a coma.

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Coco Lee Passed Away

BEIJING, CHINA - APRIL 20, 2014 - Coco Lee performs at the 2014 Beijing International Auto Show in Beijing, China, April 20, 2014. On the evening of July 5, 2023, famous singer Coco Lee's sister Li Silin posted on social media that she committed suicide at home on July 2 due to depression, and passed away on July 5 after being hospitalized in a coma.

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Coco Lee Passed Away

BEIJING, CHINA - APRIL 20, 2014 - Coco Lee performs at the 2014 Beijing International Auto Show in Beijing, China, April 20, 2014. On the evening of July 5, 2023, famous singer Coco Lee's sister Li Silin posted on social media that she committed suicide at home on July 2 due to depression, and passed away on July 5 after being hospitalized in a coma.

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Coco Lee Passed Away

BEIJING, CHINA - APRIL 20, 2014 - Coco Lee performs at the 2014 Beijing International Auto Show in Beijing, China, April 20, 2014. On the evening of July 5, 2023, famous singer Coco Lee's sister Li Silin posted on social media that she committed suicide at home on July 2 due to depression, and passed away on July 5 after being hospitalized in a coma.

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Coco Lee Passed Away

BEIJING, CHINA - APRIL 20, 2014 - Coco Lee performs at the 2014 Beijing International Auto Show in Beijing, China, April 20, 2014. On the evening of July 5, 2023, famous singer Coco Lee's sister Li Silin posted on social media that she committed suicide at home on July 2 due to depression, and passed away on July 5 after being hospitalized in a coma.

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Coco Lee Passed Away

BEIJING, CHINA - APRIL 20, 2014 - Coco Lee performs at the 2014 Beijing International Auto Show in Beijing, China, April 20, 2014. On the evening of July 5, 2023, famous singer Coco Lee's sister Li Silin posted on social media that she committed suicide at home on July 2 due to depression, and passed away on July 5 after being hospitalized in a coma.

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Coco Lee Passed Away

BEIJING, CHINA - APRIL 20, 2014 - Coco Lee performs at the 2014 Beijing International Auto Show in Beijing, China, April 20, 2014. On the evening of July 5, 2023, famous singer Coco Lee's sister Li Silin posted on social media that she committed suicide at home on July 2 due to depression, and passed away on July 5 after being hospitalized in a coma.

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Coco Lee Passed Away

BEIJING, CHINA - APRIL 20, 2014 - Coco Lee performs at the 2014 Beijing International Auto Show in Beijing, China, April 20, 2014. On the evening of July 5, 2023, famous singer Coco Lee's sister Li Silin posted on social media that she committed suicide at home on July 2 due to depression, and passed away on July 5 after being hospitalized in a coma.

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Coco Lee Passed Away

BEIJING, CHINA - APRIL 20, 2014 - Coco Lee performs at the 2014 Beijing International Auto Show in Beijing, China, April 20, 2014. On the evening of July 5, 2023, famous singer Coco Lee's sister Li Silin posted on social media that she committed suicide at home on July 2 due to depression, and passed away on July 5 after being hospitalized in a coma.

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Coco Lee Passed Away

BEIJING, CHINA - APRIL 20, 2014 - Coco Lee performs at the 2014 Beijing International Auto Show in Beijing, China, April 20, 2014. On the evening of July 5, 2023, famous singer Coco Lee's sister Li Silin posted on social media that she committed suicide at home on July 2 due to depression, and passed away on July 5 after being hospitalized in a coma.

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Coco Lee Passed Away

BEIJING, CHINA - APRIL 20, 2014 - Coco Lee performs at the 2014 Beijing International Auto Show in Beijing, China, April 20, 2014. On the evening of July 5, 2023, famous singer Coco Lee's sister Li Silin posted on social media that she committed suicide at home on July 2 due to depression, and passed away on July 5 after being hospitalized in a coma.

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Coco Lee Passed Away

BEIJING, CHINA - APRIL 20, 2014 - Coco Lee performs at the 2014 Beijing International Auto Show in Beijing, China, April 20, 2014. On the evening of July 5, 2023, famous singer Coco Lee's sister Li Silin posted on social media that she committed suicide at home on July 2 due to depression, and passed away on July 5 after being hospitalized in a coma.

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Coco Lee Passed Away

BEIJING, CHINA - APRIL 20, 2014 - Coco Lee performs at the 2014 Beijing International Auto Show in Beijing, China, April 20, 2014. On the evening of July 5, 2023, famous singer Coco Lee's sister Li Silin posted on social media that she committed suicide at home on July 2 due to depression, and passed away on July 5 after being hospitalized in a coma.

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Coco Lee Passed Away

BEIJING, CHINA - APRIL 20, 2014 - Coco Lee performs at the 2014 Beijing International Auto Show in Beijing, China, April 20, 2014. On the evening of July 5, 2023, famous singer Coco Lee's sister Li Silin posted on social media that she committed suicide at home on July 2 due to depression, and passed away on July 5 after being hospitalized in a coma.

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CHINA-LIAONING-SHENYANG-DISABLED MAN (CN)

(230521) -- SHENYANG, May 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This combo photo shows Zhao Qiang reading a book in Northeastern University on June 5, 2014 (L, photo taken by Xinhua journalist Yao Jianfeng) and reading at home on April 18, 2023 in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province. When Zhao Qiang was two years old, he developed a disease which gradually resulted a 23-centimeter disparity between two legs. He fixed a small stool on the sole of left foot at the suggestion of his family and adapted to walking with it. Zhao Qiang had to drop out early due to the disease but after hard work, he was admitted to Northeastern University, majoring in computer for continuing education. Zhao Qiang has worked for the disabled since 2008, bringing hope while caring for others. Early this year, he got married with his girlfriend. "Many of my dreams came true. I am content and happy," He said. (Xinhua/Yang Qing)

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Afghan presidential election

KABUL, Afghanistan - Former Afghan Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah speaks during a rally in Kabul on Feb. 2, 2014. Abdullah is running in the April 5, 2014, Afghan presidential election.

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Leading translators launch award through crowdfunding

TOKYO, Japan - Examples of foreign literature published in Japanese in 2014 that are eligible for nomination for the "Best Translation Award," newly established by several leading translators in Japan with money raised from crowdfunding, are shown on Jan. 5, 2015. Readers can nominate works for consideration via the award's website until Jan. 31 and the winner will be decided in April.

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5 mil. yen grant for Bunraku puppet show in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - A Bunraku puppet receives a document on a 5 million yen grant in Osaka on Aug. 26, 2014, as the first recipient of the grant from Arts Support Kansai, a body launched in April to support cultural and artistic activities in the Kansai region. Keihanshin Building Co. President Kenjiro Nakano has decided to donate 5 million yen to the body to support the Bunraku puppet show.

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Toyota posts record high operating profit for April-June

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. Managing Officer Takuo Sasaki briefs the press Aug. 5, 2014, on the automaker's financial results for the April-June quarter. Toyota group operating profit grew 4.4 percent from a year earlier to an all-time high of 692.73 billion yen for the quarter as brisk sales in North America more than offset a lackluster performance in Japan, where a sales tax hike April 1 triggered a sales decline.

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7 mil. visitors expected for rare opening of temple image

TOKYO, Japan - Monks at Zenkoji Temple and tourism officials in Nagano, central Japan, announce at a press conference in Tokyo on July 8, 2014, plans for a rare opening to the public next year of the principal image enshrined at the temple. They expect seven million visitors during the event scheduled for April 5 to May 31, 2015, held once every six years, compared with 6.73 million visitors during the previous opening in 2009.

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Mazda's MX-5 Miata sold out within 10 minutes in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - Mazda Motor Corp.'s 25th anniversary edition MX-5 Miata is photographed at an auto show in New York on April 16, 2014. The automaker sold all 100 units of the MX-5 Miata, known as the Roadster in Japan, in less than 10 minutes through subscription sale in New York on May 20.

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Visitors flock to Murakami Suigun Museum

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Visitors look at exhibited items at the Murakami Suigun Museum in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, on May 5, 2014. Some 7,500 people visited the museum during this year's Golden Week holidays from April 26 to May 6, 2014, an all-time high, according to the museum. The high figure was possibly due to the popularity of the 2014 bookstore grand prix-winning novel "Murakami kaizoku no musume" (Daughter of Murakami Pirates) by Ryo Wada.

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Novelist Junichi Watanabe dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in May 2006 shows novelist Junichi Watanabe during an interview at his office in Tokyo. Watanabe, known for love stories depicting extramarital affairs, died of prostate cancer on April 30, 2014, at his home in Tokyo, his family said May 5. He was 80.

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Novelist Junichi Watanabe dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in April 2003 shows novelist Junichi Watanabe during an interview after being awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon. Watanabe, known for love stories depicting extramarital affairs, died of prostate cancer on April 30, 2014, at his home in Tokyo, his family said May 5. He was 80.

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N. Korean table tennis team arrives in Japan

NARITA, Japan - A table tennis team from North Korea arrives at Narita International Airport near Tokyo on April 26, 2014, to take part in the 2014 World Team Table Tennis Championships in Tokyo. A total of 13 North Korean players and officials will take part in the April 28-May 5 championships.

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Nagasaki youth mission to observe anti-nuke meeting in NY

NAGASAKI, Japan - The Nagasaki Youth Delegation, comprising eight female university students, poses with Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (3rd from rear R) at Nagasaki University in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on April 5, 2014, ahead of its departure for New York on April 28 to join U.S. and European student groups in observing an international nuclear nonproliferation meeting.

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Nagasaki youth mission member speaks before leaving for NY

NAGASAKI, Japan - Sakura Arasaki speaks after being named a member of the Nagasaki Youth Delegation at Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on April 5, 2014. She is one of eight female university students on the mission scheduled to join U.S. and European student groups in observing an international nuclear nonproliferation meeting in New York.

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350 Carp streamers fly in Osaka Pref.

TONDABAYASHI, Japan - A total of 350 carp streamers fly over the Ishikawa river in Tondabayashi, Osaka Prefecture in western Japan, on April 22, 2014, ahead of the May 5 Children's Day.

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Small 4-blade wind-power generator in operation in Japan

NAGOYA, Japan - A small four-blade wind-power generator is seen in operation in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, in this photo taken on April 8, 2014. The blades, each about 2.5 meters long and 40 cm wide, flutter up and down on a 5-meter pole to produce 350 watts of electricity.

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Yankees' 5-game winning streak cooled off by Rays

ST. PETERSBURG, the United States - New York Yankees right fielder Ichiro Suzuki catches a fly by Tampa Bay Rays' Logan Forsythe in the eighth inning of their game at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, on April 18, 2014. The Yankees' five-game winning streak ended as the team lost 11-5.

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Kuroda, Yanks' 5-game hot streak cooled off by Rays

ST. PETERSBURG, the United States - New York Yankees starter Hiroki Kuroda leaves the mound during the sixth inning of a game against the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, on April 18, 2014. Kuroda allowed three earned runs on seven hits and two walks in 5-2/3 innings as the Yankees lost 11-5.

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Kuroda, Yanks' 5-game hot streak cooled off by Rays

ST. PETERSBURG, the United States - New York Yankees starter Hiroki Kuroda pitches against the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, on April 18, 2014. Kuroda allowed three earned runs on seven hits and two walks in 5-2/3 innings.

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Kuroda, Yanks' 5-game hot streak cooled off by Rays

ST. PETERSBURG, the United States - New York Yankees starter Hiroki Kuroda pitches against the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, on April 18, 2014. Kuroda allowed three earned runs on seven hits and two walks in 5-2/3 innings.

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Auto show in New York

NEW YORK, United States - Mazda Motor Corp. reveals a special edition of its MX-5 Miata roadster to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the car's launch, at a press preview of the New York International Auto Show on April 16, 2014.

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Presidential election held in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan - Officials of a presidential election board in Afghanistan count votes as monitoring group members look on in Kabul on April 5, 2014.

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Leading Afghan presidential candidate Abdulla meets press

KABUL, Afghanistan - Former Afghan Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah meets reporters in Kabul on April 5, 2014, as a candidate for the nation's presidential election held on the same day.

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Masters golf

AUGUSTA, United States - Bubba Watson of the United States tees off on the 15th hole of the third round of the Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, on April 12, 2014. Watson and Jordan Spieth tied for the lead at 5-under 211.

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Masters golf

AUGUSTA, United States - Jordan Spieth of the United States tees off on the 15th hole of the third round of the Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, on April 12, 2014. Spieth and Bubba Watson tied for the lead at 5-under 211.

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Japan gymnast Uchimura in air at Tokyo World Cup

TOKYO, Japan - London Olympics gymnastics champion Kohei Uchimura of Japan takes to the air during his floor exercise performance at the Tokyo World Cup competition on April 5, 2014.

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Medal winners at Tokyo World Cup gymnastics

TOKYO, Japan - London Olympics champion Kohei Uchimura (C), winner of the Tokyo World Cup gymnastics competition, is flanked by German runner-up Fabian Hambuechen (L) and fellow Japanese Ryohei Kato, who finished in third place, at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium in Tokyo on April 5, 2014.

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Japan gymnast Kato on pommel horse at Tokyo World Cup

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese gymnast Ryohei Kato performs his pommel horse routine during the Tokyo World Cup gymnastics competition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium in Tokyo on April 5, 2014.

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U.S. soldiers gather for dialogue with Hagel in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. soldiers gather for a dialogue session with U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel at Yokota Air Base in Tokyo on April 5, 2014, during his visit to Japan.

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'Mud Festival' held in Kochi

KOCHI, Japan - A young girl puts mud on a man's face during the "Doronko Matsuri" (Mud Festival) at the Wakamiya Hachimangu Shinto shrine in the city of Kochi on April 5, 2014. Participants of the festival wish for good health and a good harvest.

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Tsunami alert after Chile quake

SENDAI, Japan - City officials of Kesennuma in Miyagi Prefecture watch a television broadcast of information about tsunami at an evacuation center past 5:30 a.m. on April 3, 2014. A tsunami of up to 40 centimeters was observed in the early morning that day at a port on the Pacific coast of northeastern Japan's Iwate Prefecture following a magnitude 8.2 quake that hit Chile on April 1, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.