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Destroyed elementary school building in Iran

MINAB, Iran, May 7 Kyodo - Video taken on May 6, 2026, shows the wreckage of an elementary school building in the Minab region in southern Iran, following a deadly U.S. strike at the outset of the U.S.-Israel war against Iran in late February. The death toll from the attack was put at over 150 by Iranian authorities, including at least 120 children. (Kyodo)

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U.S. strike on Iran school

Photo taken on May 6, 2026, shows the burned hands of a child following a deadly U.S. strike on an elementary school building in the Minab region in southern Iran at the outset of the U.S.-Israel war against Iran in late February. The death toll from the attack was put at over 150 by Iranian authorities, including at least 120 children.

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U.S. strike on Iran school

Photo taken on May 6, 2026, shows toys, books and a stuffed doll that belonged to a deceased child following a deadly U.S. strike on an elementary school building in the Minab region in southern Iran at the outset of the U.S.-Israel war against Iran in late February. The death toll from the attack was put at over 150 by Iranian authorities, including at least 120 children.

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Destroyed elementary school building in Iran

Photo taken on May 6, 2026, shows the wreckage of an elementary school building in the Minab region in southern Iran, following a deadly U.S. strike at the outset of the U.S.-Israel war against Iran in late February. The death toll from the attack was put at over 150 by Iranian authorities, including at least 120 children.

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Destroyed elementary school building in Iran

Photo taken on May 6, 2026, shows photos of deceased children at the wreckage of an elementary school building in the Minab region in southern Iran, following a deadly U.S. strike at the outset of the U.S.-Israel war against Iran in late February. The death toll from the attack was put at over 150 by Iranian authorities, including at least 120 children.

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Destroyed elementary school building in Iran

Photo taken on May 6, 2026, shows photos of deceased children at the wreckage of an elementary school building in the Minab region in southern Iran, following a deadly U.S. strike at the outset of the U.S.-Israel war against Iran in late February. The death toll from the attack was put at over 150 by Iranian authorities, including at least 120 children.

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Destroyed elementary school building in Iran

Photo taken on May 6, 2026, shows the wreckage of an elementary school building in the Minab region in southern Iran, following a deadly U.S. strike at the outset of the U.S.-Israel war against Iran in late February. The death toll from the attack was put at over 150 by Iranian authorities, including at least 120 children.

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Destroyed elementary school building in Iran

Photo taken on May 6, 2026, shows the wreckage of an elementary school building in the Minab region in southern Iran, following a deadly U.S. strike at the outset of the U.S.-Israel war against Iran in late February. The death toll from the attack was put at over 150 by Iranian authorities, including at least 120 children.

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Japan: Colorful Balloons Released to Mark 14th Anniversary of 2011 Earthquake

Japan marked 14th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami on Tuesday, March 11. At former Arahama Elementary School in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, whose building was damaged in the natural disaster, the commemoration event "HOPE FOR project" was held where people released colorful balloons after observing a moment of silence at 2:46 p.m., the time of the 2011 earthquake.

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CHINA-GUANGXI-DAHUA-WATER SUPPLY-DEVELOPMENT (CN)

(230321) --DAHUA, March 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Nov. 24, 2014 shows pupils washing and cooking rice with rainwater stored in plastic buckets at Bahao elementary school in Bansheng Township, Dahua Yao Autonomous County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Situated at the center of the Karst landforms in west Guangxi, Dahua Yao Autonomous County had suffered from severe water deficit for ages. Since 2012, local government has been managing the water deficit through various measures like building water tanks or reservoirs to collect water or constructing water supply projects which could divert river water onto mountain areas to ease water shortage and provide safe drinking water for local people. Afters years of efforts, safe and convenient water supply is no longer a problem for the over 200,000 rural population in Dahua. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang)

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CHINA-GUANGXI-DAHUA-WATER SUPPLY-DEVELOPMENT (CN)

(230321) --DAHUA, March 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on March 20, 2023 shows a girl washing her bowl with tap water at Bahao elementary school in Bansheng Township, Dahua Yao Autonomous County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Situated at the center of the Karst landforms in west Guangxi, Dahua Yao Autonomous County had suffered from severe water deficit for ages. Since 2012, local government has been managing the water deficit through various measures like building water tanks or reservoirs to collect water or constructing water supply projects which could divert river water onto mountain areas to ease water shortage and provide safe drinking water for local people. Afters years of efforts, safe and convenient water supply is no longer a problem for the over 200,000 rural population in Dahua. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang)

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Ex-school turns to 'holy site' for anime fans

OTSU, Japan - This photo taken in July 2010 shows a former elementary school building in the town of Toyosato, Shiga Prefecture, which turned into a ''holy site'' for fans of Japanese animation ''Keion!'' as it is believed as the model of the school in the story, attracting hordes of pilgrims lately. ''Keion!'' (Light Music!) is a TV series featuring a group of high school girls who join a school band.

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Ex-school turns to 'holy site' for anime fans

OTSU, Japan - Male fans of animated TV series ''Keion!'' (Light Music!) in school uniforms for high school girls visit a former building of Toyosato Elementary School, which is believed to be the model for the school in ''Keion!,'' in the town of Toyosato, Shiga Prefecture, in July 2010. ''Keion!'' (Light Music!) is a TV series featuring a group of high school girls who join a school band and the building recently is attracting hordes of anime fans who make a pilgrimage to the site.

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Panel proposes preservation of tsunami-hit school

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - File photo taken on Jan. 22, 2014, shows a classroom of Kadonowaki Elementary School in the northeastern Japan city of Ishinomaki that was hit by the March 2011 tsunami and fire. An expert panel proposed on Dec. 22, 2014, that the school building be preserved in its current state to hand down the legacy of the disaster.

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Tsunami-hit school building sought to be kept as 'relic'

SENDAI, Japan - High school student Sonomi Sato appeals for the preservation of the damaged building of Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, as an earthquake relic at a gathering in Tokyo on Dec. 6, 2014. Sato's younger sister Mizuho, killed in the March 2011 tsunami, was a student at the elementary school.

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Competitors in floor wiping race in Ehime Pref.

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Competitors race in the "Z-1 Grand Prix" floor wiping competition held at the former Uwa Elementary School building in Seiyo, Ehime Prefecture, Japan, on Oct. 12, 2014.

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Grade school boy poses before award-winning drawing

FUKUOKA, Japan - Shinnosuke Takagi, a fifth grader at an elementary school in Chikushino, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, pose in front of his drawing (upper R) at the Fukuoka city office building on Oct. 5, 2014. He won a prize at an exhibition of drawings by Japanese, Chinese and South Korean preschool and elementary school pupils to promote understanding among the three countries.

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Students leave new building of tsunami-hit school

SENDAI, Japan - Students walk home from Nagatoro Elementary School's new building in Watari Town, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 18, 2014. The original building was damaged by the earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan in March 2011.

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Pupils study in new building of tsunami-hit school

SENDAI, Japan - Pupils study in a classroom in Nagatoro Elementary School's new building in Watari Town, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 18, 2014. The original building was damaged by the earthquake and tsunami that hit the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku in March 2011.

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Kuroyanagi visits Philippine cyclone-hit area

TACLOBAN CITY, Philippines - Japanese television personality Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (far R), a UNICEF goodwill ambassador, washes her hands with pupils as part of hygiene education at an elementary school on Leyte Island in the central Philippines on June 18, 2014. The school building was heavily damaged by Cyclone Haiyan in November 2013.

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World Cup trophy comes to quake-hit city

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Visitors poses for photos with the World Cup trophy at the municipal Takata Elementary School in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on April 12, 2014, where the trophy arrived on its world tour. The trophy left Brazil last September on a tour to promote the World Cup soccer finals in that country. Students at Prefectural Takata High School, whose building was completely destroyed by the 2011 great quake and tsunami, asked the event promoter to send the trophy to the city.

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World Cup trophy comes to quake-hit city

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Students at Prefectural Takata High School pose with the World Cup trophy at the municipal Takata Elementary School in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on April 12, 2014. The trophy arrived there on its world tour to promote the World Cup soccer finals in that country. Students of Takata high, whose building was completely destroyed by the 2011 great quake and tsunami, asked the event promoter to send the trophy to the city.

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Disaster-hit school in Ishinomaki, Japan

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - The remains of Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, remain deserted on Feb. 25, 2014. At the school, 84 students, teachers and staff members died in the March 2011 tsunami. There has not been any discussion on whether to preserve or demolish the school building (Photo taken in long exposure mode with fisheye lens).

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Tsunami-, fire-ravaged school in Ishinomaki left as it is

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - The inside of Kadowaki Elementary School in the coastal city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, remains in disorder on Jan. 22, 2014, as desks and walls have been covered with mud since a powerful earthquake and the ensuing tsunami and fire devastated the building in March 2011. The city government disclosed the site to members of the media.

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Abolished schools find new role as renovated residences

NAGANO, Japan - Photo taken Sept. 25, 2013, shows a residential complex that was formerly a three-story elementary school building in Sakae, Nagano Prefecture. The structure was renovated after closure and turned into an apartment facility in the spring of 2013.

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A-bombed Nagasaki school

NAGASAKI, Japan - Matsuyoshi Ikeda, who working as a volunteer guide, talks about efforts to preserve relics of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki as he stands in front of the remaining section of the former school building of Shiroyama Elementary School in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, on June 22, 2013. The surviving section of the old building, along with three other sets of A-bomb remains in the city, will shortly be given cultural heritage status by the government.

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American IT entrepreneur dreams of energizing rural Japan

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Carl Sundberg (C) talks with staff members of his company Smart Technology Partners on Jan. 23, 2013 at its data center set up in the building of a former elementary school in Aizumisato, Fukushima Prefecture. Sundberg opened the data center as part of a project to invigorate rural Japan by reusing abandoned school buildings for an information technology business and creating new jobs. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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2 years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Photos show an elementary school in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (top), the day after the massive earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan, and the same school on Feb. 27, 2013. The building is expected to be demolished and the school merged with another nearby.

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Modernism award given to Japanese school building

NEW YORK, United States - Yoshiaki Hanada, professor at Kobe Design University, explains about the restoration of Hizuchi Elementary School in western Japan, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on Nov. 13, 2012. The city of Yahatahama in Ehime Prefecture and six experts who worked to restore the municipal school, including Hanada, received the 2012 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize from the World Monuments Fund, a U.S. organization working to preserve buildings with historical and cultural value.

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111-year-old school building

OSAKA, Japan - A girl (C) replies during an entrance ceremony in the 111-year-old wooden building housing Fukiya Elementary School in Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, as the sole entrant in April 2011, while six senior pupils sat around her. The school is to close in spring 2012.

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111-year-old school building

OSAKA, Japan - Pupils clean a corridor at the 111-year-old wooden building housing the Fukiya Elementary School in Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, in December 2011. The school is to close in spring 2012.

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111-year-old school building

OSAKA, Japan - Pupils play in the snow in front of the 111-year-old wooden building housing Fukiya Elementary School in Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, in February 2012. The school is to close this spring.

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111-year-old school building

OSAKA, Japan - A woman who used to teach at Fukiya Elementary School touches the keyboard of an organ, which has been there since the school's foundation, in the school's 111-year-old wooden building in Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, in October 2011. The school is to close in spring 2012.

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111-year-old school building

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken in August 2011 shows a woodblock print calendar, which has been created every year by pupils of Fukiya Elementary School in Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, with their parents. The school with its 111-year-old wooden building is to close in spring 2012.

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111-year-old school building

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows pupils' faces through a hole in the hall of the second floor of the 111-year-old wooden building housing Fukiya Elementary School in Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, in December 2011. The school is to close in spring 2012.

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Radiation-tainted crushed stones used in Fukushima school

NIHONMATSU, Japan - Photo taken on Jan. 18, 2012, shows an elementary school building in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, where radiation-contaminated gravel and crushed stones shipped from a quarry in the evacuation zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have been used in work to strengthen earthquake resistance.

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Radiation-tainted crushed stones used in Fukushima school

NIHONMATSU, Japan - Photo taken on Jan. 18, 2012, shows an elementary school building in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, where radiation-contaminated gravel and crushed stones shipped from a quarry in the evacuation zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have been used in work to strengthen earthquake resistance.

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Quake-hit schools begin classes at temporary building

OTSUCHI, Japan - Photo taken on Sept. 20, 2011 shows paper cranes made and presented by elementary school children in Shizuoka Prefecture hanging outside a classroom of a temporary school building in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture. The building has been constructed for pupils and students of four elementary schools and a junior high school in the town that were put out of use by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Rebels accused of burning schools, martial law in Aceh slammed

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - Pupils at an elementary school look at the ruins of their burnt school building in Banda Aceh, the capital of the restive Indonesian province of Aceh, on May 20. Military and ppolice officers have claimed that almost 200 schools in Aceh were burnt down by the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM), which has so far not responded to the allegations.

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Police search historic Shiga school over complaint

OTSU, Japan - Police search the historic Toyosato Elementary School building in the town of Toyosato in Shiga Prefecture on Dec. 25 after receiving a complaint from local residents that the town mayor attempted to demolish the school in violation of a court order. The art deco school, built in 1937, was designed by American architect William Merrell Vories (1880-1964), who was also a prominent missionary and entrepreneur.

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(1)Historic school in Shiga Pref. to be preserved

TOYOSATO, Japan - People seeking to preserve the 65-year-old Toyosato Elementary School building in Shiga Prefecture designed by American architect William Merrell Vories (1880-1964) rejoice in Toyosato on Dec. 24 after Toyosato Mayor Wasaburo Ono reportedly said he is thinking of preserving the building. Residents of the town have registered their opposition to demolition of the school.

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(2)Historic school in Shiga Pref. to be preserved

TOYOSATO, Japan - Photo taken on Dec. 24 shows the 65-year-old Toyosato Elementary School building in Shiga Prefecture designed by American architect William Merrell Vories (1880-1964). The school, earmarked for demolition by the town's mayor, is to be preserved.

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(1)Residents accuse town mayor of damaging historic school

OTSU, Japan - Two persons representing the residents of the town of Toyosato, Shiga Prefecture, arrive at the prefectural police headquarters Dec. 24 to file a complaint against town mayor Wasaburo Ono, accusing him of damaging a historic elementary school building after a district court issued an injunction against demolishing the structure. The 65-year-old Toyosato Elementary School building was designed by American architect William Merrell Vories (1880-1964).

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(2)Residents accuse town mayor of damaging historic school

OTSU, Japan - Photo taken on Dec. 20 shows that guards watching as workers prepare for the demolition of the 65-year-old Toyosato Elementary School building designed by American architect William Merrell Vories (1880-1964). Residents of the town of Toyosato, Shiga Prefecture, have registered their opposition to the demolition.

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School for international volunteer workers to open

OKAYAMA, Japan - Photo taken Sept. 4 shows the building of a new training center for international volunteer workers in the town of Tetta, Okayama Prefecture, which will be formally opened Sept. 8. The school to be run by a group affiliated with the Association of Medical Doctors in Asia (AMDA), will train personnel in emergency relief operations with AMDA's in-house medical doctors and volunteers serving as instructors. The school was converted from a closed-down municipal elementary school.

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Construction of temporary school begins in Ikeda

OSAKA, Japan - Work begins July 12 on construction of a temporary school building for pupils at Ikeda Elementary School in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, where a man stabbed eight children dead on June 8. A prefabricated structure will be built about 500 meters from the present school building, which will be demolished and replaced by a new school.

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Children's Diet calls for better human relations

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (R) delivers a speech before elementary pupils and junior high school students taking part in the second day of a two-day mock Diet session at the House of Councillors building in Tokyo on Aug. 3. Participants at the ''Children's Diet'' adopted a declaration calling for efforts to create better human relations and a cleaner environment.

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(ZhejiangPictorial)CHINA-ZHEJIANG-COMMON PROSPERITY (CN)

(220609) -- HANGZHOU, June 9, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Elementary school students pose for a photo after skiing training in Anji County of Huzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Jan. 9, 2022. In June 2021, China's central authorities issued a guideline on building Zhejiang into demonstration zone for achieving common prosperity. Under the guideline, the province will strive to achieve common prosperity by 2035, with its per capita gross domestic product and the income of urban and rural residents reaching the standard for developed countries. As an economic powerhouse in east China, Zhejiang Province has drawn up detailed plans to achieve common prosperity. As per estimates, labor remuneration will account for more than 50 percent of its GDP by 2025, and the ratio of residents' per capita disposable income to per capita GDP will continue to increase during the period. The province will explore breakthroughs to build a high-quality employment and entrepreneurship system, improve the quality of social security

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U.S.-WASHINGTON, D.C.-TEXAS-MASS SHOOTING

(220525) -- WASHINGTON, May 25, 2022 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. flag flies at half-staff on top of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., the United States, on May 24, 2022. At least 19 children and two adults were killed in a shooting at Robb Elementary School in the town of Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday. (Photo by Ting Shen/Xinhua)

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U.S.-WASHINGTON, D.C.-TEXAS-MASS SHOOTING

(220525) -- WASHINGTON, May 25, 2022 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. flag flies at half-staff on top of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., the United States, on May 24, 2022. At least 19 children and two adults were killed in a shooting at Robb Elementary School in the town of Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday. (Photo by Ting Shen/Xinhua)