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US: Brush Fire Erupts In Del Mar Heights, San Diego 3

A brush fire erupted in the Del Mar Heights neighborhood in San Diego on Tuesday morning, June 25. The fire near Mira Montana Drive off Del Mar Heights Road prompted the mandatory evacuation of 2,500 residents from the area. The fire's forward progress was stopped by about 5:30 p.m. and all evacuation orders and warnings have been lifted by 7:20 p.m.

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Turkish currency hits historic low against U.S. dollar

STORY: Turkish currency hits historic low against U.S. dollar SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 11, 2024 DATELINE: Jan. 12, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:10 LOCATION: ISTANBUL, Türkiye CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Istanbul city in Türkiye 2. various of exchange office 3. various of Turkish Central Bank, Turkish lira 4. various of people walking on street in Istanbul, Türkiye STORYLINE: The Turkish currency hit an all-time low against the U.S. dollar on Thursday, trading at over 30 liras per dollar. One dollar was traded at 30.01 liras at 10:25 a.m. local time (0725 GMT). The Turkish currency has lost over 37 percent of its value since last year and depreciated by 1.6 percent against the dollar in the first 10 days of 2024. Murat Sagman, an economist and portfolio manager, recalled that it was only in 2013 that a dollar was worth 2 liras. Economist Duran Bulbul warned that the dollar exchange rate may move towards 40 liras soon, under such challenges as high inflation. "The greenback will first smash th

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Croatia enters eurozone, Schengen area

STORY: Croatia enters eurozone, Schengen area DATELINE: Jan. 2, 2023 LENGTH: 0:03:11 LOCATION: Zagreb CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): URSULA VON DER LEYEN, European Commission President 2. SOUNDBITE 2 (Croatian): ANDREJ PLENKOVIC, Croatian Prime Minister 3. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): URSULA VON DER LEYEN, European Commission President STORYLINE: Croatia entered the eurozone and the European Union's (EU) border-free Schengen area on New Year's Day. This was the first time a European country joined both the eurozone and the Schengen area on the same day, an important milestone for Croatia, an EU member since 2013. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): URSULA VON DER LEYEN, European Commission President "This is the day of joy and pride for the Croatian people. It is a testimony of your amazing journey, of your hard work and your determination. It is a day of celebration not only for Croatians but for all European citizens and from now on our internal borders can be crossed freely, without controls like

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Aging Japanese seek return of Takeshima from S. Korea

MATSUE, Japan - Shoza Yawata, 84, shows materials he has collected regarding the ownership of a group of islets in the Sea of Japan, called Takeshima by Japan and Dokdo by South Korea, in the town of Okinoshima, Shimane Prefecture, on Jan. 22, 2013. Yawata's father and brother were among 11 men who became the last Japanese to travel to Takeshima to harvest seaweed in May 1954, one month before South Korea started stationing security personnel on the islets.

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Leprosy patient in Indonesia

SUMBERGLAGAH VILLAGE, Indonesia - This Nov. 23, 2013 photo shows Sutarip, 23, a leprosy patient, sitting on his bed at a leprosy hospital in the village of Sumberglagah in Indonesia's East Java Province. His disease caused him to be exiled from his family and community, live in a forest for two years, and eat rat, cat and snake to survive. He was evacuated on Jan. 11, 2014.

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Toyota to compete in 2014 Dakar Rally

NAGOYA, Japan - Members of Toyota Auto Body Co.'s Dakar Rally team pose with two Toyota Land Cruiser 200 sports utility vehicles in the city of Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, on Dec. 11. 2013. The Toyota Motor Corp. subsidiary will take part in the roughly 5,500-kilometer off-road race that runs through Argentina, Bolivia and Chile from Jan. 4-18.

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Japan, Central Europe foreign ministers

NEW DELHI, India - Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (C) and his counterparts from four Central European countries -- Jan Kohout of the Czech Republic (far L), Miroslav Lajcak of Slovakia (2nd from L), Janos Martonyi of Hungary (2nd from R) and Radoslaw Sikorski of Poland (far R), pose for photos in New Delhi, India, on Nov. 11, 2013. Japan and the group known as the Visegrad Four, or Visegrad Group, held talks in the Indian capital on the sidelines of the Asia-Europe Meeting.

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'Kumamon,' popular mascot for Kumamoto

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows ''Kumamon,'' the official black bear mascot for the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto, when it visited the Kyodo News headquarters in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2013. Sales of products featuring Kumamon swelled to at least 29.36 billion yen in 2012, about 11 times more than those of the previous year, local officials said Feb. 20, 2013.

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'Kumamon,' popular mascot for Kumamoto

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows ''Kumamon,'' the official black bear mascot for the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto, when it visited the Kyodo News headquarters in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2013. Sales of products featuring Kumamon swelled to at least 29.36 billion yen in 2012, about 11 times more than those of the previous year, local officials said Feb. 20, 2013.

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'Kumamon,' popular mascot for Kumamoto

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows ''Kumamon,'' the official black bear mascot for the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto, when it visited the Kyodo News headquarters in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2013. Sales of products featuring Kumamon swelled to at least 29.36 billion yen in 2012, about 11 times more than those of the previous year, local officials said Feb. 20, 2013.

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Mickelson at Phoenix Open

SCOTTSDALE, United States - Phil Mickelson of the United States plays a shot in the first round of the Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Jan. 31, 2013. Mickelson took the lead with an 11-under 60 to match the tournament record and his career best.

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Japan minister in Singapore

SINGAPORE, Singapore - Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (R) and Singaporean Foreign Minister K. Shanmugam shake hands before their meeting in Singapore on Jan. 11, 2013. Kishida is on a tour to Southeast Asian nations and Australia.

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Roland founder

HAMAMATSU, Japan - Ikutaro Kakehashi, 82-year-old founder of Japanese electronic music instruments maker Roland Corp., answers reporters' questions in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Jan. 11, 2013, after he was named a recipient of a technical Grammy award for contributing to the development of MIDI technology.

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Darvish attends Fans Fest

ARLINGTON, United States - Texas Rangers right-hander Yu Darvish signs autographs while taking part in the annual Fan Fest awards banquet in Arlington, Texas, on Jan. 11, 2013.

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Dreamliner in trouble

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Photo shows an All Nippon Airways Co. Boeing 787 Dreamliner at Matsuyama Airport in Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 11, 2013, after a cockpit windshield cracked while the plane was flying earlier in the day from Tokyo to Matsuyama. Nobody was injured in the incident.

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Japan minister in Singapore

SINGAPORE, Singapore - Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (L) and Singaporean Foreign Minister K. Shanmugam meet in Singapore on Jan. 11, 2013. Kishida is on a tour to Southeast Asian nations and Australia.

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Dreamliner in trouble

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Photo shows a crack in a cockpit windshield of an All Nippon Airways Co. Boeing 787 Dreamliner at Matsuyama Airport in Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 11, 2013. The windshield cracked while the plane was flying earlier in the day from Tokyo to Matsuyama. Nobody was injured in the incident.

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Abe meets Nobel laureates

KOBE, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (front) visits a laboratory belonging to Riken, a company that deals with the research of induced pluripotent stem cells in Kobe, western Japan, on Jan. 11, 2013. At left is Shinya Yamanaka, who won the 2012 Nobel Prize in medicine for the research of iPS cells. At center is Ryoji Noyori, Riken president and Nobel Prize in chemistry laureate. (Pool photo)

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Abe meets Hashimoto

OSAKA, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) and Toru Hashimoto, acting leader of the Japan Restoration Party, the second-largest opposition party, shake hands before their meeting in Osaka, western Japan, on Jan. 11, 2013. Abe received the party's support ahead of putting through an extra budget for the current fiscal year to finance stimulus measures. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Abe Cabinet OKs stimulus package

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds a press conference at his office in Tokyo on Jan. 11, 2013, announcing a stimulus package worth 20.2 trillion yen. Abe's Cabinet endorsed a stimulus package earlier in the day entailing the biggest government spending since fiscal 2009 in an attempt to add around 2 percentage points to Japan's gross domestic product growth in real terms and create at least 600,000 jobs.

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Head of Hiroshima peace museum

OSAKA, Japan - File photo shows Steven Leeper, an American who heads the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation, which operates the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. The center said on Jan. 11, 2013, that Leeper, 65, will step down at the end of March, citing his age.

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Search for missing 2011 tsunami victims

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Police officers comb through sand on a beach in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on Jan. 11, 2013, during a search for people still listed as missing after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Japanese police and coast guard officers conducted the first full-scale search of the year in Miyagi and Iwate prefectures the same day to look for 2,485 people who remain unaccounted for after the disaster devastated northeastern Japan.

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TEPCO in Fukushima

NARAHA, Japan - (From R) Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Naomi Hirose, Vice President Yoshiyuki Ishizaki and Chairman Kazuhiko Shimokobe attend a press conference after their meeting at the utility's new office in Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture, on Jan. 11, 2013. Ishizaki, head of the new Fukushima office of TEPCO, pledged to work fast on implementing measures aimed at helping residents affected by the 2011 nuclear disaster, such as compensation and cleaning up radioactive contamination.

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Search for missing 2011 tsunami victims

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Police officers comb through sand on a beach in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on Jan. 11, 2013, during a search for people still listed as missing after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Japanese police and coast guard officers conducted the first full-scale search of the year in Miyagi and Iwate prefectures the same day to look for 2,485 people who remain unaccounted for after the disaster devastated northeastern Japan.

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Search for missing 2011 tsunami victims

SENDAI, Japan - Japan Coast Guard divers offer silent prayers facing the sea in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Jan. 11, 2013, ahead of conducting a search for people still listed as missing after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Japanese police and coast guard officers conducted the first full-scale search of the year in Miyagi and Iwate prefectures the same day to look for 2,485 people who remain unaccounted for after the disaster devastated northeastern Japan.

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Abe Cabinet OKs stimulus package

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd from L) attends a meeting of a government panel on reviving the Japanese economy, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Jan. 11, 2013. Abe's Cabinet endorsed a stimulus package the same day entailing the biggest government spending since fiscal 2009 in an attempt to add around 2 percentage points to Japan's gross domestic product growth in real terms and create at least 600,000 jobs.

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Search for missing 2011 tsunami victims

SENDAI, Japan - Japan Coast Guard divers prepare aboard a patrol vessel off Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Jan. 11, 2013, to search for people still listed as missing after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Japanese police and coast guard officers conducted the first full-scale search of the year in Miyagi and Iwate prefectures the same day to look for 2,485 people who remain unaccounted for after the disaster devastated northeastern Japan.

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Abe Cabinet OKs stimulus package

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) shakes hands with Finance Minister Taro Aso (C) after a press conference at his office in Tokyo on Jan. 11, 2013, to announce a stimulus package worth 20.2 trillion yen. Abe's Cabinet endorsed a stimulus package earlier in the day entailing the biggest government spending since fiscal 2009 in an attempt to add around 2 percentage points to Japan's gross domestic product growth in real terms and create at least 600,000 jobs. To the right is economic revival minister Akira Amari.

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Abe Cabinet OKs stimulus package

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds a press conference at his office in Tokyo on Jan. 11, 2013, announcing a stimulus package worth 20.2 trillion yen. Abe's Cabinet endorsed a stimulus package earlier in the day entailing the biggest government spending since fiscal 2009 in an attempt to add around 2 percentage points to Japan's gross domestic product growth in real terms and create at least 600,000 jobs.

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Riot police officers marching

TOKYO, Japan - Riot police officers march in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Jan. 11, 2013, during a training exercise organized by the Metropolitan Police Department.

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Riot police officers marching

TOKYO, Japan - Riot police officers march in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Jan. 11, 2013, during a training exercise organized by the Metropolitan Police Department.

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Icebreaker in Antarctica

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese icebreaker Shirase is blocked by sea ice off Japan's Showa Base in Antarctica on Jan. 8, 2013. Japan's science ministry said on Jan. 11 that the icebreaker had failed to dock at the Showa Base for the second year in a row due to snow and thick ice. (Pool photo by a Kyodo News reporter traveling with Japan's Antarctic expedition team)

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Nippon Sport Science wins Tokyo-Hakone ekiden

TOKYO, Japan - Nippon Sport Science University anchor Yuichi Taninaga crosses the finishing line in Tokyo's Otemachi business district on Jan. 3, 2013. Nippon Sport Science won the annual collegiate ekiden road relay -- a two-day, 217.9-kilometer round trip between Otemachi and the spa resort of Hakone in Kanagawa Prefecture -- for the first time in 30 years in a time of 11 hours, 13 minutes, 26 seconds for its 10th overall title.

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Nippon Sport Science wins Tokyo-Hakone ekiden

TOKYO, Japan - Nippon Sport Science University anchor Yuichi Taninaga celebrates after crossing the finishing line in Tokyo's Otemachi business district on Jan. 3, 2013. Nippon Sport Science won the annual collegiate ekiden road relay -- a two-day, 217.9-kilometer round trip between Otemachi and the spa resort of Hakone in Kanagawa Prefecture -- for the first time in 30 years in a time of 11 hours, 13 minutes, 26 seconds for its 10th overall title.

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Nippon Sport Science wins Tokyo-Hakone ekiden

TOKYO, Japan - Nippon Sport Science University anchor Yuichi Taninaga celebrates after crossing the finishing line in Tokyo's Otemachi business district on Jan. 3, 2013. Nippon Sport Science won the annual collegiate ekiden road relay -- a two-day, 217.9-kilometer round trip between Otemachi and the spa resort of Hakone in Kanagawa Prefecture -- for the first time in 30 years in a time of 11 hours, 13 minutes, 26 seconds for its 10th overall title.

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Nippon Sport Science wins Tokyo-Hakone ekiden

TOKYO, Japan - Nippon Sport Science University anchor Yuichi Taninaga crosses the finishing line in Tokyo's Otemachi business district on Jan. 3, 2013. Nippon Sport Science won the annual collegiate ekiden road relay -- a two-day, 217.9-kilometer round trip between Otemachi and the spa resort of Hakone in Kanagawa Prefecture -- for the first time in 30 years in a time of 11 hours, 13 minutes, 26 seconds for its 10th overall title.