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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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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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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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Soon after disaster, a year later

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show JR Minami-Kesennuma Station in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 12, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11, 2011, quake and tsunami, and on March 4, 2012 (bottom), in which the roof and railway tracks have been removed.

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Site of 1996-1997 hostage crisis in Peru

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken April 22, 1997, shows the then residence of the Japanese ambassador in Lima, from which smoke is coming, after the Peruvian military forced their way in the same day to end a four-month hostage crisis that began on Dec. 17, 1996, and that claimed the lives of 17 people. A condominium is planned to be built on the site, Japanese embassy sources said Dec. 12, 2011.

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DeNA in negotiations to purchase Yokohama BayStars

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken April 12, 2011, shows spectators at a Central League season-opening game between the Yokohama BayStars and the Chunichi Dragons at Yokohama Stadium in Yokohama, home ground of the BayStars. Mobile-phone gaming company DeNA Co. said Oct. 19, 2011, it is in negotiations to purchase a baseball club, while sources familiar with the matter said the same day that Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings Inc. has reached a basic agreement with DeNA to sell its majority stake in the BayStars.

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Hulu cuts flat monthly rate

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows a woman pointing to the display on an iPad during a demonstration of the online video subscription service of U.S. provider Hulu in Tokyo on Sept. 1, 2011, when the provider launched the service in Japan in its first venture outside the United States. Hulu lowered its flat-rate service fee to 980 yen per month from 1,480 yen, effective on April 12, 2012, in a bid to lure more subscribers.

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Japan to cull livestock in no-go zone near Fukushima plant

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken on April 25, 2011, shows cows wandering without their owners within a designated no-entry zone in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, near the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Japan has decided to cull livestock and poultry in the no-entry zone within a 20-kilometer radius of the nuclear power plant due to difficulty in feeding them, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said May 12, 2011.

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1 year after quake in Qinghai, China

YUSHU, China - Children walk to their makeshift school in Yushu in China's Qinghai Province on April 12, 2011. The children are still living in tents around a year after a major earthquake struck the area.

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1 year after quake in Qinghai, China

YUSHU, China - Photo taken April 12, 2011, shows a tent village located in the town of Gyegu in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in China's Qinghai Province for people affected by a major earthquake that struck the area around a year earlier. The population of the tent village is increasing as some residents of the town have been losing their land under a government redevelopment project.

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1 year after quake in Qinghai, China

YUSHU, China - A woman carries a sack on April 12, 2011, through the rubble in the central part of Gyegu in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in China's Qinghai Province, where land has been flattened as part of a government redevelopment project following a major earthquake that struck the area a year earlier.

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Fukushima farmers reluctant to leave cows

IITATE, Japan - Cattle farmer Toyohiro Sato feeds cows in the village of Iitate in Fukushima Prefecture, which is largely within the 30-to-50 kilometers range from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, on April 12, 2011. The government plans to issue an evacuation directive to the village due to high radiation levels, leaving many farmers concerned about what to do with the 2,500 cows in the village. Sato, 29, said he has affection for the cows he has raised and he wished there is a way to take them with him.

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Ichiro against Blue Jays

SEATTLE, United States - The Seattle Mariners' Ichiro Suzuki runs to first after hitting a double during the eight inning of a game against the Toronto Blue Jays at Safeco Field in Seattle on April 12, 2011. Ichiro went 1-for-4, as the team won 3-2.

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Matsui against White Sox

CHICAGO, United States - Hideki Matsui of the Oakland Athletics hits a single in the ninth inning of a game against the Chicago White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago on April 12, 2011. Matsui recorded three hits in the team's 5-6 loss.

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Matsui against White Sox

CHICAGO, United States - Hideki Matsui of the Oakland Athletics hits an RBI single in the fifth inning of a game against the Chicago White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago on April 12, 2011. Matsui recorded three hits in the team's 5-6 loss.

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Matsui against White Sox

CHICAGO, United States - Hideki Matsui of the Oakland Athletics runs to first base after hitting a two-run double in the first inning of a game against the Chicago White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago on April 12, 2011. Matsui recorded three hits in the team's 5-6 loss.

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Matsui against White Sox

CHICAGO, United States - Hideki Matsui of the Oakland Athletics hits a two-run double in the first inning of a game against the Chicago White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago on April 12, 2011. Matsui recorded three hits in the team's 5-6 loss.

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Zurich-based violinist hopes to perform in quake-hit area

ZURICH, Switzerland - Andreas Janke, a concertmaster of Tonhalle Orchestra, poses for a photo in Zurich on April 12, 2011. The orchestra, as well as the Zurich Opera House Orchestra and Zurich Chamber Orchestra, jointly held a charity concert in Zurich on April 12, 2011, for Japan victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Janke, whose mother is Japanese, plans to perform in Sendai, an area hit by the disaster, in November.

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Zurich orchestras hold charity concert

ZURICH, Switzerland - Three Zurich-based orchestras -- Tonhalle Orchestra, the Zurich Opera House Orchestra and Zurich Chamber Orchestra -- hold a charity concert in Zurich on April 12, 2011, for Japan victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The event attracted some 1,700 people in the audience and raised more than $110,000.

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Brazil, China agree to enhance partnership

BEIJING, China - Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff (L) and Chinese President Hu Jintao shake hands at a signing ceremony in Beijing on April 12, 2011, after agreeing to enhance their strategic partnership in economic, trade and other areas.

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Brain-dead boy's organs to be transplanted

TOKYO, Japan - Juntaro Ashikari, an official of the Japan Organ Transplant Network, speaks during a press conference at the health ministry in Tokyo on April 12, 2011, on planned transplantations of organs of a boy aged between 10 and 14 who was declared brain-dead with family consent for the first time in Japan the same day. The network is the only entity certified as an intermediary for organ transplants in Japan.

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2 Koreas in volcano talks

SEOUL, South Korea - Photo taken April 12, 2011, shows the chief of the South Korean delegation (front) who arrived at South Korea's Munsan after holding talks with a North Korean team at the North Korean city Kaesong on a potential volcanic eruption at Mt. Paektu on the North's border with China. During the day's meeting, the two Koreas agreed to hold experts' talks in May in Pyongyang or a convenient location on the risk of such an eruption and to make an on-site survey of the mountain in mid-June, according to Yonhap News Agency.

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Japan raises nuclear accident severity level

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato (L) listens to explanations offered by an official of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (R) on April 12, 2011, in Fukushima. The government decided to raise the severity level of the accident at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, stricken by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, to the maximum 7 on an international scale, up from the previous 5 and matching that of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe.

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Japan raises nuclear accident severity level

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken April 12, 2011, shows employees of Tokyo Electric Power Co. holding a press conference at the company's head office in Tokyo. The government announced the same day that it had raised the severity level of the accident at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, run by Tokyo Electric and stricken by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, to the maximum 7 on an international scale, up from the previous 5 and matching that of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe.

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Panasonic president in India

MUMBAI, India - Fumio Otsubo, president of Panasonic Corp., speaks during a press conference in Mumbai, India, on the company's new televisions on April 12, 2011. The Japanese electronics giant is aiming to achieve 200 billion yen in sales in India in fiscal 2012.

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Prime Minister Kan in press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan listens to a question from a reporter during a press conference at his office in Tokyo on April 12, 2011, about a month after the March 11 massive earthquake and tsunami that struck northeastern Japan.

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Prime Minister Kan in press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan listens to a question from a reporter during a press conference at his office in Tokyo on April 12, 2011, about a month after the March 11 massive earthquake and tsunami that struck northeastern Japan.

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Prime Minister Kan in press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan speaks during a press conference at his office in Tokyo on April 12, 2011, about a month after the March 11 massive earthquake and tsunami that struck northeastern Japan.

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Cherry blossoms in tsunami-hit areas

WATARI, Japan - Photo taken April 12, 2011, shows cherry tree branches starting to bloom in the rubble in Watari, Miyagi Prefecture, an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Cherry blossoms in tsunami-hit areas

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken April 12, 2011, shows cherry tree branches starting to bloom in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Dead fish near destroyed train station

KESENNUMA, Japan - Photo taken April 12, 2011, shows a dead fish (front) lying near rail tracks of JR Minami Kesennuma Station destroyed by the March 11 tsunami.

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Cherry blossoms in tsunami-hit areas

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Photo taken April 12, 2011, shows a cherry tree branch starting to bloom in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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U.S. veterans visit Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - American veterans Richard Ellett (C), John Bankston (R) and Terry Brady, who are board members of the Radiated Veterans of America, lay a wreath at the Hypocenter Cenotaph in Nagasaki on April 12, 2011, for the victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing. Bankston (85) was in Nagasaki after the bombing as a member of the Allied Forces that occupied Japan that surrendered in World War II.

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Brain-dead boy's organs to be transplanted

OSAKA, Japan - File photo taken in August 2010 shows Osaka University Hospital in Suita, Osaka Prefecture. A boy aged between 10 and 14 was declared brain-dead with family consent for the first time in Japan on April 12, 2011. The boy's heart is set to be transplanted to a male patient aged under 20 at the Osaka hospital.

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Tsunami-destroyed train station

KESENNUMA, Japan - Photo taken April 12, 2011, shows JR Minami Kesennuma Station destroyed by the March 11 tsunami.

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Evacuees clean up, thank school used as shelter

HIGASHIMATSUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken April 12, 2011, shows a classroom of a junior high school in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, that has been used as a temporary shelter for victims of the March 11 tsunami. The classroom was clean and tidy as the evacuees, who will leave the facility soon, cleaned up.

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Radiation screening in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - A man measures radiation levels in front of a community center in the village of Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture on April 12, 2011. It read 5.89 microsieverts per hour at the height of 1 meter from the ground and 8.3 microsieverts per hour on the ground surface. The prefecture is where the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is located and the government has asked village leaders to have residents evacuate.

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Edano promotes produce from Fukushima

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano eats a tomato to promote farm produce from Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 12, 2011, at an exhibit in Tokyo. Shipments of some produce from Fukushima Prefecture have been restricted due to the release of radioactive particles from the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Edano promised that the food sold on the market is safe.

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Health minister eats Fukushima vegetables

TOKYO, Japan - Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Ritsuo Hosokawa eats dishes using vegetables from Fukushima Prefecture, where the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is located, to assure the safety of the products at a cafeteria in the building housing the health and other ministries in Tokyo on April 12, 2011. The cafeteria started on the day to use some vegetables from the prefecture, such as tomatoes and cucumbers, whose shipments are not restricted by the government in support of Fukushima farmers hit by radiation fears.

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Qake-triggered mudslide in Fukushima

IWAKI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a slope of a mountain where a mudslide, triggered by a strong earthquake, occurred in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 12, 2011. Three people were killed after three houses collapsed due to the mudslide in the city.

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Tohoku Shinkansen Line partially resumes service

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Passengers wait on a platform as a bullet train arrives at JR Fukushima Station on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line on April 12, 2011. East Japan Railway Co. resumed train runs between Nasushiobara Station in Tochigi Prefecture and Fukushima Station on the shinkansen line after suspending the service following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Japan raises nuclear accident severity level

TOKYO, Japan - Hidehiko Nishiyama, a spokesman for Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, speaks about the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station at a press conference in Tokyo on April 12, 2011. The government raised the severity level of the accident at the plant to the maximum 7 on an international scale, up from the current 5 and matching that of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe.

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Quake-triggered mudslide in Fukushima

IWAKI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a house (front) which collapsed and another house (back) which was submerged by a mudslide triggered by an earthquake in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 12, 2011. Three people were killed after three houses collapsed due to the mudslide.

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Doraemon cartoonist museum groundbreaking ceremony

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Masako Fujimoto, the widow of ''manga'' cartoon artist Fujiko F. Fujio who created the feline robot series ''Doraemon,'' participates in a groundbreaking ceremony for a museum dedicated to the cartoonist in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on April 12, 2010. The three-story museum is scheduled to open in September 2011.