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U.N. Security Council meeting over Gaza peace plan

The U.N. Security Council convenes a meeting at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Nov. 17, 2025. The Security Council adopted a U.S.-drafted resolution endorsing the peace plan for Gaza during the meeting.

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U.N. Security Council meeting over Gaza peace plan

The U.N. Security Council convenes a meeting at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Nov. 17, 2025. The Security Council adopted a U.S.-drafted resolution endorsing the peace plan for Gaza during the meeting.

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U.N. Security Council meeting on Gaza peace plan

The U.N. Security Council convenes a meeting at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Nov. 17, 2025. The Security Council adopted a U.S.-drafted resolution endorsing the peace plan for Gaza during the meeting.

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US President Joe Biden delivers a nationwide address from the Oval Office

US President Joe Biden delivers remarks during a nationwide address from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 24 July 2024. President Biden’s is addressing the nation for the first time since ending his re-election campaign and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris.

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US President Joe Biden delivers a nationwide address from the Oval Office

US President Joe Biden delivers remarks during a nationwide address from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 24 July 2024. President Biden’s is addressing the nation for the first time since ending his re-election campaign and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris.

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US President Joe Biden delivers a nationwide address from the Oval Office

US President Joe Biden delivers remarks during a nationwide address from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 24 July 2024. President Biden’s is addressing the nation for the first time since ending his re-election campaign and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris.

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US President Joe Biden delivers a nationwide address from the Oval Office

US President Joe Biden, with family members, delivers remarks during a nationwide address from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 24 July 2024. President Biden’s is addressing the nation for the first time since ending his re-election campaign and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris.

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US President Joe Biden delivers a nationwide address from the Oval Office

US President Joe Biden delivers remarks during a nationwide address from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 24 July 2024. President Biden’s is addressing the nation for the first time since ending his re-election campaign and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris.

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US President Joe Biden delivers a nationwide address from the Oval Office

US President Joe Biden, with family members, delivers remarks during a nationwide address from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 24 July 2024. President Biden’s is addressing the nation for the first time since ending his re-election campaign and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris.

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US President Joe Biden delivers a nationwide address from the Oval Office

US President Joe Biden, with family members, delivers remarks during a nationwide address from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 24 July 2024. President Biden’s is addressing the nation for the first time since ending his re-election campaign and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris.

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US President Joe Biden delivers a nationwide address from the Oval Office

The Oval Office in the West Wing as US President Joe Biden delivers remarks during a nationwide address from the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 24 July 2024. President Biden’s is addressing the nation for the first time since ending his re-election campaign and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris.

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US President Joe Biden delivers a nationwide address from the Oval Office

US President Joe Biden delivers remarks during a nationwide address from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 24 July 2024. President Biden’s is addressing the nation for the first time since ending his re-election campaign and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris.

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FILE-U.S.-WASHINGTON, D.C.-MITCH MCCONNELL-TRUMP-ENDORSING

(240306) -- WASHINGTON, March 6, 2024 (Xinhua) -- File photo taken on Feb. 28, 2024 shows Mitch McConnell outside the Senate Chamber of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., the United States. Mitch McConnell, the outgoing Republican leader in the Senate, said on March 6 that he will support former President Donald Trump for the presidency, following years of strained relations, which worsened after Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot. (Photo by Aaron Schwartz/Xinhua)

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FILE-U.S.-WASHINGTON, D.C.-MITCH MCCONNELL-TRUMP-ENDORSING

(240306) -- WASHINGTON, March 6, 2024 (Xinhua) -- File photo taken on Feb. 28, 2024 shows Mitch McConnell (Front) outside the Senate Chamber of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., the United States. Mitch McConnell, the outgoing Republican leader in the Senate, said on March 6 that he will support former President Donald Trump for the presidency, following years of strained relations, which worsened after Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot. (Photo by Aaron Schwartz/Xinhua)

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FILE-U.S.-WASHINGTON, D.C.-MITCH MCCONNELL-TRUMP-ENDORSING

(240306) -- WASHINGTON, March 6, 2024 (Xinhua) -- File photo taken on Feb. 28, 2024 shows Mitch McConnell (2nd L) outside the Senate Chamber of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., the United States. Mitch McConnell, the outgoing Republican leader in the Senate, said on March 6 that he will support former President Donald Trump for the presidency, following years of strained relations, which worsened after Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot. (Photo by Aaron Schwartz/Xinhua)

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Florida Governor DeSantis suspends presidential race, endorses Trump

STORY: Florida Governor DeSantis suspends presidential race, endorses Trump SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 21, 2024 DATELINE: Jan. 22, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:56 LOCATION: Washington D.C. CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE (English): RON DESANTIS, U.S. Florida Governor (campaign video from Ron DeSantis's X account) STORYLINE: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Sunday dropped out of the 2024 presidential race just two days before the New Hampshire primary, and endorsed former President Donald Trump. "We don't have a clear path to victory," DeSantis said in a video posted on X, formerly known as Twitter. In the video, DeSantis said he was endorsing Trump because it had "become clear" that "a majority of Republican primary voters want to give Donald Trump another chance." DeSantis's announcement came just a few days after the 30-percentage-point loss to Trump in the Iowa caucuses. Trump was leading with 51 percent, and DeSantis came in second with 21 percent. SOUNDBITE (English): RON DESANTIS, U.S. Florida Governor

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Court orders Okinawa gov. to approve work to relocate key U.S. base

NAHA, Japan, Dec. 20 Kyodo - A Japanese court ordered Wednesday the Okinawa governor to approve a modified plan for landfill work to relocate a key U.S. base within the southern island prefecture, endorsing the central government's attempt to push forward the delayed plan mired in controversy and court battles. (Kyodo)

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Pro-Palestine Rally - Sacramento

NO FILM, NO VIDEO, NO TV, NO DOCUMENTARY - Demonstrators show support for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip during the 2023 CA, USA Democratic Party November endorsing convention on Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023, at SAFE Credit Union Convention Center in Sacramento, CA, USA. Photo by Paul Kitagaki Jr./The Sacramento Bee/TNS/ABACAPRESS.COM

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UN chief refutes allegations of justifying Hamas attacks

STORY: UN chief refutes allegations of justifying Hamas attacks DATELINE: Oct. 26, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:41 LOCATION: UN Headquarters CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres 2. SOUNDBITE (English): ANTONIO GUTERRES, UN Secretary-General 3. various of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres STORYLINE: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday strongly refuted the "false" assertion made by senior Israeli diplomats, who accused him of endorsing the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in a statement he presented to the Security Council. Addressing Tuesday's debate at the Security Council on the worsening crisis in Israel and Palestine, the UN chief said that although nothing could justify the "appalling" attacks by Hamas on Oct. 7 which triggered the siege and bombardment of Gaza, it is important to recognize they "did not happen in a vacuum" and did not justify the collective punishment of Palestinians. Following Guterres' briefing on Tuesday, Israel's permanent representative

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UN-GUTERRES-PRESS BRIEFING

(231025) -- UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 25, 2023 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks at a press briefing outside the Security Council Chamber at the UN headquarters in New York, on Oct. 25, 2023. Guterres on Wednesday strongly refuted the "false" assertion made by senior Israeli diplomats, who accused him of endorsing the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in a statement he presented to the Security Council. (Xinhua/Xie E)

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UN-GUTERRES-PRESS BRIEFING

(231025) -- UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 25, 2023 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks at a press briefing outside the Security Council Chamber at the UN headquarters in New York, on Oct. 25, 2023. Guterres on Wednesday strongly refuted the "false" assertion made by senior Israeli diplomats, who accused him of endorsing the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in a statement he presented to the Security Council. (Xinhua/Xie E)

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UN-GUTERRES-PRESS BRIEFING

(231025) -- UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 25, 2023 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks at a press briefing outside the Security Council Chamber at the UN headquarters in New York, on Oct. 25, 2023. Guterres on Wednesday strongly refuted the "false" assertion made by senior Israeli diplomats, who accused him of endorsing the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in a statement he presented to the Security Council. (Xinhua/Xie E)

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Erdogan's foreign policy shift stems from financial considerations: expert

STORY: Erdogan's foreign policy shift stems from financial considerations: expert DATELINE: Sept. 29, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:59 LOCATION: Ankara CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Turkish flags 2. various of Turkish lira and U.S. dollar 3. Various of shipping trade in Türkiye 4. SOUNDBITE (English): BATU COSKUN, Ankara-based independent political affairs analyst STORYLINE: Batu Coskun, an independent political affairs analyst based in Ankara, said that the foreign policy change stems from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's goal of averting exacerbating economic woes at home. Official data showed that Türkiye's annual inflation rate rose to 58.94 percent in August. Experts have noted that Erdogan, following his election victory in May, has embarked on a foreign policy shift aimed at improving relations with the West, a move that coincides with his country's pursuit of external financing. During the July NATO Summit in Lithuania, Erdogan took the spotlight by endorsing Sweden's entry into the mi

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Nepal Presidential Election nomination filing

Former Prime Minister and Chairman of Communist Party of Nepal- Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) KP Sharma Oli speaks to media at Federal Parliament premises after endorsing the candidature of Subash Chandra Nembwang from his party for the post of President. Nepal is set to hold the elections for President on 9th of March this year.

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Watanabe launches 'Your Party' ahead of general election

TOKYO, Japan - Former Cabinet minister Yoshimi Watanabe speaks about the launch of the new political party ''Minna no To'' (party for everyone) during a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 8. The party will field 13 candidates in the Aug. 30 House of Representatives election, while endorsing two new independent candidates.

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Diet approves Shirakawa's nomination for BOJ chief

TOKYO, Japan - Both houses of the Japanese Diet on April 9 approved the nomination of acting Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa for the central bank chief, paving the way for him to assume the top post at the BOJ later in the day. Photo shows members of the House of Representatives, where the ruling camp holds a majority, endorsing his nomination after the opposition-controlled House of Councillors approved it earlier in the day.

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Debate on nuke arms, deterrence should not be suppressed: Abe

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks in the Diet in reply to Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa on Nov. 8. Abe indicated that discussions on nuclear arms and deterrence should not be stifled, implicitly endorsing controversial calls by some of his Cabinet and party leadership for debate on whether Japan should go nuclear. The premier said that recent controversial remarks by Foreign Minister Taro Aso were ''comments concerning debate regarding nuclear arms, not statements that Japan should possess nuclear arms.''

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Former power utility chief Nakaima to run for Okinawa governor

NAHA, Japan - Hirokazu Nakaima, a former Okinawa Electric Power Co. chairman, announces his candidacy for the Nov. 19 Okinawa gubernatorial election at a press conference in Naha on Sept. 5. Nakaima is backed by the Liberal Democratic Party and the New Komeito party, and local businesses are also endorsing him.

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LDP won't endorse rebels even if coalition fails to win majority

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) leaves the office of Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Tsutomu Takebe (R) after talks on adjustment of candidates to be fielded by the party in the Sept. 11 general election. Takebe said later that LDP will not endorse party members who voted against postal privatization bills even if the LDP-led ruling coalition fails to win a majority in the election. He was referring to a practice of endorsing candidates as a party's official candidates after they won in an election.

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Oxfam protests against Olympic ''sweatshop'' sportswear

SYDNEY, Australia - Members of Oxfam Community Aid Abroad stage a ''sew-in'' demonstration in Sydney's business district on June 1 featuring masked machinists representing garment workers. The Australian arm of Oxfam International, a charity organization which seeks to alleviate poverty and suffering, said that the Olympics movement is evading its social responsibility by endorsing sportswear produced in sweatshop conditions by millions of exploited workers around the world.

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Diet endorses 2.5 tril. yen extra budget

TOKYO - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (R front) and Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa bow at the House of Councillors' plenary session in the Diet in Tokyo on Feb. 1 after the upper house approved the 2.5 trillion yen second extra budget for the current fiscal year. An electric board behind them shows 136 upper house members endorsing the budget, with 95 against it.

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Okinawa formally picks site for Ishigaki airport

NAHA, Japan - Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine (C) on April 26 announces that the Okinawa prefectural government has decided to pick a hilly area around Mt. Karadake in the eastern part of environmentally rich Ishigakijima Island as the site for a controversial new airport, endorsing a proposal made by an advisory panel earlier this month.

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Martin, East Timorese faction reps pose for photo

DILI, East Timor - United Nations Mission in East Timor head Ian Martin (C), pro-autonomy representative Domingos Soares (L) and pro-independence representative Leandro Isaac (R) pose for photographers in Dili on Aug. 9, after endorsing a code of conduct for political campaigning for the Aug. 30 referendum on autonomy or independence in the former Portuguese colony. Martin holds the symbols of the two groups to be used for illiterate voters.

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WHO Regional Committee for Europe convenes in Israel

STORY: WHO Regional Committee for Europe convenes in Israel DATELINE: Sept. 13, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:17 LOCATION: TEL AVIV, Israel CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. shots of Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe, giving a report on the work of the WHO Regional Office for Europe 2. shots of WHO representatives 3. shots of WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus delivering his keynote speech 4. shots of Israeli President Isaac Herzog speaking 5. shots of Hans Henri P. Kluge speaking STORYLINE: The annual session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for Europe kicked off in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv on Monday. The session, first held in person since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, is the premier meeting on public health in the European Region, discussing and endorsing regional policies, activities and financial plans to improve people's health and well-being, WHO noted. Representatives from 53 countries attended the meeting, according to WHO. Xinh

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UN-SECURITY COUNCIL-RECONFIGURATION OF AU MISSION IN SOMALIA-ENDORSING

(220331) -- UNITED NATIONS, March 31, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Representatives vote during a UN Security Council meeting at the UN headquarters in New York, on March 31, 2022. The UN Security Council on Thursday adopted a resolution to endorse the African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council's decision to reconfigure the AU peacekeeping mission in Somalia into the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia. (Loey Felipe/UN Photo/Handout via Xinhua)

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Capitol Fencing Press Conference - Washington

Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (Democrat of the District of Columbia) wears a button and protective mask endorsing statehood for the District of Columbia while speaking at a press conference regarding the temporary security fencing at the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C., U.S. on Thursday, March 25, 2021. Photo by Stefani Reynolds/CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM (Credit:Reynolds Stefani/CNP/ABACA/Kyodo News Images)

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Former power utility chief Nakaima to run for Okinawa governor

NAHA, Japan - Hirokazu Nakaima, a former Okinawa Electric Power Co. chairman, announces his candidacy for the Nov. 19 Okinawa gubernatorial election at a press conference in Naha on Sept. 5. Nakaima is backed by the Liberal Democratic Party and the New Komeito party, and local businesses are also endorsing him. (Kyodo)

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Debate on nuke arms, deterrence should not be suppressed: Abe

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks in the Diet in reply to Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa on Nov. 8. Abe indicated that discussions on nuclear arms and deterrence should not be stifled, implicitly endorsing controversial calls by some of his Cabinet and party leadership for debate on whether Japan should go nuclear. The premier said that recent controversial remarks by Foreign Minister Taro Aso were ''comments concerning debate regarding nuclear arms, not statements that Japan should possess nuclear arms.'' (Kyodo)

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Diet approves Shirakawa's nomination for BOJ chief

TOKYO, Japan - Both houses of the Japanese Diet on April 9 approved the nomination of acting Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa for the central bank chief, paving the way for him to assume the top post at the BOJ later in the day. Photo shows members of the House of Representatives, where the ruling camp holds a majority, endorsing his nomination after the opposition-controlled House of Councillors approved it earlier in the day. (Kyodo)

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High court upholds ruling endorsing restart of Sendai reactors

Lawyers hold banners, reading "An unjust decision" and "We will not give in," in front of the Fukuoka High Court's Miyazaki branch in the southwestern Japan city on April 6, 2016, to protest the court's decision to reject an appeal by local residents against a 2015 ruling that allowed the restart of two reactors at Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai nuclear plant. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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High court upholds ruling endorsing restart of Sendai reactors

A security guard stands in front of the Nos. 1 (L) and 2 reactors at Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Sendai nuclear plant in southwestern Japan on April 6, 2016. The Fukuoka High Court's Miyazaki branch rejected the same day an appeal by local residents against a 2015 ruling that allowed the restart of the two reactors. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Osaka high court endorses retrial for 1995 arson-murder

Lawyers hold banners outside the Osaka High Court on Oct. 23, 2015, to publicize a ruling endorsing a lower court decision to grant a retrial to a couple in an arson-murder case in Osaka in 1995 and deciding to suspend their life imprisonment sentences at the beginning of the following week. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. lawmakers to reconsider Pacific trade agenda

Photo taken June 11, 2015, shows a poster at a bus stop in Washington opposing the proposed Pacific free trade initiative. The U.S. House of Representatives decided on June 12 to carry over deliberations on a bill that is crucial to concluding a Trans-Pacific Partnership deal to the following week after endorsing only part of it. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-Okinawa official appointed Foreign Ministry adviser on base issue

Undated photo shows former Okinawa prefectural government official Susumu Matayoshi, who has been appointed by the Foreign Ministry as an adviser to help deal with the contentious relocation of a key U.S. military base in Okinawa. He headed the Okinawa governor's office under former Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima, who lost to current Gov. Takeshi Onaga in last November's election after endorsing the Japan-U.S. relocation plan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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LDP won't endorse rebels even if coalition fails to win majority

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) leaves the office of Liberal Democratic Party Secretary Tsutomu Takebe (R) after talks on adjustment of candidates to be fielded by the party in the Sept. 11 general election. Takebe said later that LDP will not endorse party members who voted against postal privatization bills even if the LDP-led ruling coalition fails to win a majority in the election. He was referring to a practice of endorsing candidates as a party's official candidates after they won in an election. (Kyodo)

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Diet endorses 2.5 tril. yen extra budget

TOKYO - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (R front) and Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa bow at the House of Councillors' plenary session in the Diet in Tokyo on Feb. 1 after the upper house approved the 2.5 trillion yen second extra budget for the current fiscal year. An electric board behind them shows 136 upper house members endorsing the budget, with 95 against it.

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Official campaigning kicks off for Tokyo assembly race

Natsuo Yamaguchi, leader of the central government coalition's junior partner Komeito, on June 23, 2017, gives a speech in front of Tokyo's Meguro station endorsing a candidate running on the party's ticket in the metropolitan assembly election, as official campaigning starts for the July 2 election. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Official campaigning kicks off for Tokyo assembly race

Kazuo Shii, leader of the Japanese Communist Party, on June 23, 2017, gives a speech in front of Tokyo's Shinjuku station endorsing a candidate running on his party's ticket in the metropolitan assembly election, as official campaigning starts for the July 2 election. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Official campaigning kicks off for Tokyo assembly race

Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui, leader of the opposition party Nippon Ishin no Kai, on June 23, 2017, gives a speech in front of Tokyo's JR Kamata station endorsing a candidate running for the party in the metropolitan assembly election, as official campaigning starts for the July 2 election. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Official campaigning kicks off for Tokyo assembly race

Toshihiro Nikai (front), secretary general of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party, arrives in front of Tokyo's JR Oji station. He was there to give a speech endorsing a candidate running on the LDP ticket in the metropolitan assembly election on June 23, 2017, as official campaigning starts for the July 2 election. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo