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US Navy Shoots Down Its Own F/A-18 In Red Sea Fight

Handout photo dated November 18, 2018 shows an F/A-18E Super Hornet assigned to the Knighthawks of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 136 launches from the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) in the Mediterranean Sea. A U.S. Navy cruiser shot down a Navy F/A-18 fighter jet over the Red Sea early Sunday morning, U.S. Central Command said. The F/A-18 was shot by weapons from the guided-missile cruiser the USS Gettysburg after taking off from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier on Dec. 22. Both Navy aviators were able to eject from the fighter jet and were recovered safely. One of the two sustained minor injuries, according to CENTCOM. The USS Gettysburg “mistakenly fired on” the F/A-18, CENTCOM said. The shoot down happened amid a weekend of military action against the Houthis, a militant Yemeni nationalist group that controls much of Yemen, including the capital. American and British aircraft have been bombing targets in Sana’a since Saturday. The incident is under investigation. U.S. Na

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Australian road deaths hit 5-year high

STORY: Australian road deaths hit 5-year high SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 18, 2023 DATELINE: Dec. 19, 2023 LENGTH: 0:00:57 LOCATION: Canberra CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of traffic 2. various of a wrecked car on the street 3. various of Fire and Rescue on the road STORYLINE: Australian road deaths hit a five-year high in 2023, the nation's peak automotive body has said. According to data released by the Australian Automobile Association (AAA) on Monday, there have been 1,253 deaths on Australian roads in 2023 - an increase of 6 percent from 2022. It marks the highest road toll in Australia in a 12-month span since 1,270 people were killed in the 12 months to the end of March 2018. Michael Bradley, managing director of the AAA, used the release of the statistics to call for federal, state and territory governments to improve data transparency on road deaths. "Month after month, road deaths keep rising, and we lack the information needed to identify the reasons for this deadly trend and to

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Egypt's incumbent President Sisi wins presidential election

STORY: Egypt's incumbent President Sisi wins presidential election SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 18, 2023/ Recent footage DATELINE: Dec. 18, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:28 LOCATION: Cairo CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the press conference 2. various of Egyptians casting their votes (Recent footage) STORYLINE: Egypt's National Election Authority (NEA) on Monday declared incumbent President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi winner of the nation's presidential elections. Sisi has secured a third consecutive term, after winning the elections both with an overwhelming majority in 2014 and 2018. Voting in Egypt took place on Dec. 10-12. Egyptians abroad cast their votes from Dec. 1 to Dec. 3 at 137 embassies and consulates in 121 countries. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Cairo. (XHTV)

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Nobel laureate researcher Shinya Yamanaka

KYOTO, Japan, Dec. 19 Kyodo - Nobel laureate researcher Shinya Yamanaka, who heads Kyoto University's Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, speaks at a press conference in Kyoto on Dec. 18, 2018.

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Japan banks aim to begin 24-hour money transfer service in 2018

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuyuki Hirano, chairman of the Japanese Bankers Association, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2014. Hirano said that financial institutions operating in Japan aim to start a 24-hour, 365-day online money transfer service in 2018.

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Softbank logo

Photo taken Dec. 18, 2018, shows SoftBank Group Corp.'s headquarters building in Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Softbank logo

Photo taken Dec. 18, 2018, shows logo of SoftBank Group Corp. at its headquarters in Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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CORRECTED: Nobel laureate researcher Shinya Yamanaka

Nobel laureate researcher Shinya Yamanaka, who heads Kyoto University's Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, speaks at a press conference in Kyoto on Dec. 18, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese novelist, poet Yoko Tawada

Japanese novelist and poet Yoko Tawada speaks at an party in Berlin celebrating her winning of the Japan Foundation Awards on Dec. 18, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rugby: England coach Eddie Jones

England rugby coach Eddie Jones gives an interview in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nobel laureate researcher Shinya Yamanaka

Nobel laureate researcher Shinya Yamanaka, who heads Kyoto University's Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, speaks at a press conference in Kyoto on Dec. 18, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Record foreign visitors to Japan

The Kaminarni Gate in Tokyo's Asakusa is crowded with foreign travelers on Dec. 18, 2018, as Japan marked an annual record of 30 million foreign visitors. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Record foreign visitors to Japan

A man from the Philippines plays with a ball-and-cup toy at the Nakamise shopping street in Tokyo's Asakusa on Dec. 18, 2018, as Japan marked an annual record of 30 million foreign visitors. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Lechon roast pig in Philippines

Lechon roasted pigs, a popular dish for Christmas in the Philippines, are sold at a store in Manila on Dec. 18, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Lechon roast pig in Philippines

Lechon roasted pigs, a popular dish for Christmas in the Philippines, are cut into pieces and sold at a shop in Manila on Dec. 18, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Lechon roast pig in Philippines

Lechon roasted pigs, a popular dish for Christmas in the Philippines, are cooked over charcoal in Manila on Dec. 18, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Lechon roast pig in Philippines

Men cut up lechon roasted pigs, a popular dish for Christmas in the Philippines, outside a store in Manila on Dec. 18, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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40th anniv. of Chinese reform

Chinese President Xi Jinping applauds at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Dec. 18, 2018, during a ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of the start of the country's reform and opening-up policy. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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40th anniv. of Chinese reform

Chinese President Xi Jinping (C) speaks at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Dec. 18, 2018, during a ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of the start of the country's reform and opening-up policy. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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40th anniv. of Chinese reform

A ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of the start of China's reform and opening-up policy is held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Dec. 18, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Record foreign visitors to Japan

A family from Singapore takes selfies at the Nakamise shopping street in Tokyo's Asakusa on Dec. 18, 2018, as Japan marked an annual record of 30 million foreign visitors. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Record foreign visitors to Japan

Women from Hong Kong take selfies at the Nakamise shopping street in Tokyo's Asakusa on Dec. 18, 2018, as Japan marked an annual record of 30 million foreign visitors. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Record foreign visitors to Japan

Tourists crowd the Nakamise shopping street in Tokyo's Asakusa on Dec. 18, 2018, as Japan marked an annual record of 30 million foreign visitors. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: Ienaga named J-League Player of Year

Kawasaki Frontale midfielder Akihiro Ienaga (Center R) leaves the J-League Awards ceremony in Yokohama on Dec. 18, 2018, at which he was named the Player of the Year. Seen behind Ienaga is Kawasaki teammate Kengo Nakamura, who was named in the Best Eleven. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: Ienaga named J-League Player of Year

Kawasaki Frontale midfielder Akihiro Ienaga holds up his trophy after being named the J-League's Player of the Year during a ceremony in Yokohama on Dec. 18, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: Ienaga named J-League Player of Year

Kawasaki Frontale midfielder Akihiro Ienaga makes a speech after being named the J-League's Player of the Year during a ceremony in Yokohama on Dec. 18, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: Ienaga named J-League Player of Year

Kawasaki Frontale midfielder Akihiro Ienaga makes a speech after being named the J-League's Player of the Year during a ceremony in Yokohama on Dec. 18, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Record foreign visitors to Japan

A ceremony is held at Kansai International Airport in Osaka Prefecture on Dec. 18, 2018, as Japan marked an all-time record of 30 million foreign visitors on an annual basis. Japan's tourist minister Keiichi Ishii is seen in center-left. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan MSDF vessel Izumo

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Dec. 18, 2018, shows the helicopter carrier Izumo anchored at the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's Yokosuka base in Kanagawa Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan MSDF vessel Izumo

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Dec. 18, 2018, shows the helicopter carrier Izumo anchored at the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's Yokosuka base in Kanagawa Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan MSDF vessel Izumo

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Dec. 18, 2018, shows the helicopter carrier Izumo anchored at the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's Yokosuka base in Kanagawa Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan MSDF vessel Izumo

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Dec. 18, 2018, shows the helicopter carrier Izumo anchored at the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's Yokosuka base in Kanagawa Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: Kashima at Club World Cup

Kashima Antlers coach Go Oiwa (L) and midfielder Shoma Doi attend a press conference in Abu Dhabi on Dec. 18, 2018, a day before the Japanese team's Club World Cup semifinal against Real Madrid. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: Kashima at Club World Cup

Kashima Antlers coach Go Oiwa speaks at a press conference in Abu Dhabi on Dec. 18, 2018, a day before the Japanese team's Club World Cup semifinal against Real Madrid. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: Kashima at Club World Cup

Kashima Antlers coach Go Oiwa speaks at a press conference in Abu Dhabi on Dec. 18, 2018, a day before the Japanese team's Club World Cup semifinal against Real Madrid. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: Kashima at Club World Cup

Kashima Antlers defender Atsuto Uchida (facing front) trains with his teammates in Abu Dhabi on Dec. 18, 2018, a day before the Japanese team's Club World Cup semifinal against Real Madrid. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: Kashima at Club World Cup

Kashima Antlers defender Atsuto Uchida (facing front) trains with his teammates in Abu Dhabi on Dec. 18, 2018, a day before the Japanese team's Club World Cup semifinal against Real Madrid. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: Kashima at Club World Cup

Kashima Antlers players train in Abu Dhabi on Dec. 18, 2018, a day before the Japanese team's Club World Cup semifinal against Real Madrid. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: Kashima at Club World Cup

Kashima Antlers players train in Abu Dhabi on Dec. 18, 2018, a day before the Japanese team's Club World Cup semifinal against Real Madrid. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan-Russia talks

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono (C) speaks during a meeting of the Japan-Russia Intergovernmental Committee on Trade and Economic Issues at the Iikura Guest House in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2018. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan-Russia talks

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono (3rd from R, R row) speaks during a meeting of the Japan-Russia Intergovernmental Committee on Trade and Economic Issues at the Iikura Guest House in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2018. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan-Russia talks

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono (C) speaks after a meeting of the Japan-Russia Intergovernmental Committee on Trade and Economic Issues at the Iikura Guest House in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2018. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan-Russia talks

Russian Economic Development Minister Maxim Oreshkin speaks during a press conference following a meeting of the Japan-Russia Intergovernmental Committee on Trade and Economic Issues at the Iikura Guest House in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2018. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan-Russia talks

Russian Economic Development Minister Maxim Oreshkin (3rd from L) speaks during a meeting of the Japan-Russia Intergovernmental Committee on Trade and Economic Issues at the Iikura Guest House in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2018. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Explosion in Sapporo, Japan

Photo taken Dec. 18, 2018, shows a man holding a window frame that fell from a building after an explosion that occurred in Sapporo, northern Japan, on Dec. 16. Forty-two people were injured when wooden buildings housing various businesses collapsed following the explosion and fire. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance office in Amsterdam

Photo taken Dec. 18, 2018, shows an office building of the alliance of Nissan Motor Co., Renault SA and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. in Amsterdam. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: Real Madrid at Club World Cup

Sergio Ramos (C) and Real Madrid teammates are pictured during training on Dec. 18, 2018 in Abu Dhabi, where they take on Kashima Antlers of Japan in the Club World Cup football semifinals the following day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Football: Real Madrid at Club World Cup

Real Madrid coach Santiago Solari attends a press conference in Abu Dhabi on Dec. 18, 2018, a day before his side's Club World Cup football semifinal against Kashima Antlers of Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan-Russia talks

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono (R) and Russian Economic Development Minister Maxim Oreshkin attend a joint press conference following a meeting of the Japan-Russia Intergovernmental Committee on Trade and Economic Issues at the Iikura Guest House in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2018. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan-Russia talks

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono (R) and Russian Economic Development Minister Maxim Oreshkin shake hands at the Iikura Guest House in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2018. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo