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Spain: Farmers Block Roads in Catalonia Over EU-Mercosur Trade Deal

Farmers in Catalonia blocked major roads on Thursday, January 8 in protest against the EU-Mercosur trade agreement. Protest organizers said the blockades would continue at least until Monday, as similar tractor protests were also reported in Galicia and other regions.

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Radio broadcasting in Japan

TOKYO, Japan, Nov. 14 Kyodo - Photo taken at an unidentified location shows family members in Japan spending time together while listening to the radio in 1928. Radio broadcasting began in Japan in 1925. (Kyodo)

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Australia: Record Flooding Batters Northern NSW After Heavy Rainfall 2

Flooding has battered cities and towns across the Mid-North Coast and the Hunter Region in northern New South Wales, leaving many residents stranded or forced to evacuate after days of heavy rainfall. In the city of Taree, the Manning River surpassed its 1929 record of six meters and was still rising as of Wednesday morning, May 21. Authorities have issued 13 emergency-level alerts.

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Australia: Record Flooding Batters Northern NSW After Heavy Rainfall 3

Flooding has battered cities and towns across the Mid-North Coast and the Hunter Region in northern New South Wales, leaving many residents stranded or forced to evacuate after days of heavy rainfall. In the city of Taree, the Manning River surpassed its 1929 record of six meters and was still rising as of Wednesday morning, May 21. Authorities have issued 13 emergency-level alerts.

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Indonesia: Overflowing Ciliwung River Causes Widespread Flooding In Jakarta

The Ciliwung River overflowed due to heavy rainfall, triggering flash floods in South and East Jakarta on Monday, March 3. Residents in Kampung Melayu Village, East Jakarta, were evacuated as floodwaters rose.

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Ireland: Man With Gun Reported At Dublin’s Connolly Station, Passengers Evacuated 2

Armed gardaí rushed to Connolly Station in Dublin on Wednesday evening, January 8, after passengers reported seeing a man with a shotgun traveling on an evening service into the city. The station was closed, and passengers were evacuated. A man in his 50s was arrested at the scene.

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NHK President Inaba

Nobuo Inaba, president of Japan's public broadcaster NHK, attends a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2024, to announce the resignation of an executive after a Chinese staffer referred to Japanese-controlled islands as China's territory in unscripted remarks in an overseas radio broadcast.

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Demonstration In Support Of Paul Watson - Paris

French TV and radio animator Nagui during a demonstration in support of the NGO Sea Shepherd Canadian Founder Paul Watson in Paris on September 4, 2024. US-Canadian Paul Watson, 73, was arrested on July 21, 2024 in Greenland under an Interpol “red notice” issued by Japan. A court hearing on his continued detention was due on September 4, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Demonstration In Support Of Paul Watson - Paris

French TV and radio animator Nagui during a demonstration in support of the NGO Sea Shepherd Canadian Founder Paul Watson in Paris on September 4, 2024. US-Canadian Paul Watson, 73, was arrested on July 21, 2024 in Greenland under an Interpol “red notice” issued by Japan. A court hearing on his continued detention was due on September 4, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Demonstration In Support Of Paul Watson - Paris

French TV and radio animator Nagui and French journalist Hugo Clement during a demonstration in support of the NGO Sea Shepherd Canadian Founder Paul Watson in Paris on September 4, 2024. US-Canadian Paul Watson, 73, was arrested on July 21, 2024 in Greenland under an Interpol “red notice” issued by Japan. A court hearing on his continued detention was due on September 4, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Demonstration In Support Of Paul Watson - Paris

French TV and radio animator Nagui during a demonstration in support of the NGO Sea Shepherd Canadian Founder Paul Watson in Paris on September 4, 2024. US-Canadian Paul Watson, 73, was arrested on July 21, 2024 in Greenland under an Interpol “red notice” issued by Japan. A court hearing on his continued detention was due on September 4, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Demonstration In Support Of Paul Watson - Paris

French TV and radio animator Nagui during a demonstration in support of the NGO Sea Shepherd Canadian Founder Paul Watson in Paris on September 4, 2024. US-Canadian Paul Watson, 73, was arrested on July 21, 2024 in Greenland under an Interpol “red notice” issued by Japan. A court hearing on his continued detention was due on September 4, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Demonstration In Support Of Paul Watson - Paris

French TV and radio animator Nagui during a demonstration in support of the NGO Sea Shepherd Canadian Founder Paul Watson in Paris on September 4, 2024. US-Canadian Paul Watson, 73, was arrested on July 21, 2024 in Greenland under an Interpol “red notice” issued by Japan. A court hearing on his continued detention was due on September 4, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Demonstration In Support Of Paul Watson - Paris

French TV and radio animator Nagui during a demonstration in support of the NGO Sea Shepherd Canadian Founder Paul Watson in Paris on September 4, 2024. US-Canadian Paul Watson, 73, was arrested on July 21, 2024 in Greenland under an Interpol “red notice” issued by Japan. A court hearing on his continued detention was due on September 4, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Demonstration In Support Of Paul Watson - Paris

French TV and radio animator Nagui during a demonstration in support of the NGO Sea Shepherd Canadian Founder Paul Watson in Paris on September 4, 2024. US-Canadian Paul Watson, 73, was arrested on July 21, 2024 in Greenland under an Interpol “red notice” issued by Japan. A court hearing on his continued detention was due on September 4, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Demonstration In Support Of Paul Watson - Paris

French TV and radio animator Nagui during a demonstration in support of the NGO Sea Shepherd Canadian Founder Paul Watson in Paris on September 4, 2024. US-Canadian Paul Watson, 73, was arrested on July 21, 2024 in Greenland under an Interpol “red notice” issued by Japan. A court hearing on his continued detention was due on September 4, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Demonstration In Support Of Paul Watson - Paris

French TV and radio animator Nagui during a demonstration in support of the NGO Sea Shepherd Canadian Founder Paul Watson in Paris on September 4, 2024. US-Canadian Paul Watson, 73, was arrested on July 21, 2024 in Greenland under an Interpol “red notice” issued by Japan. A court hearing on his continued detention was due on September 4, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Demonstration In Support Of Paul Watson - Paris

French TV and radio animator Nagui during a demonstration in support of the NGO Sea Shepherd Canadian Founder Paul Watson in Paris on September 4, 2024. US-Canadian Paul Watson, 73, was arrested on July 21, 2024 in Greenland under an Interpol “red notice” issued by Japan. A court hearing on his continued detention was due on September 4, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Demonstration In Support Of Paul Watson - Paris

French TV and radio animator Nagui and French journalist Hugo Clement during a demonstration in support of the NGO Sea Shepherd Canadian Founder Paul Watson in Paris on September 4, 2024. US-Canadian Paul Watson, 73, was arrested on July 21, 2024 in Greenland under an Interpol “red notice” issued by Japan. A court hearing on his continued detention was due on September 4, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Demonstration In Support Of Paul Watson - Paris

French TV and radio animator Nagui during a demonstration in support of the NGO Sea Shepherd Canadian Founder Paul Watson in Paris on September 4, 2024. US-Canadian Paul Watson, 73, was arrested on July 21, 2024 in Greenland under an Interpol “red notice” issued by Japan. A court hearing on his continued detention was due on September 4, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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UK: Flash Flooding Causes Travel Disuprions In Parts Of Yorkshire

Stormy weather brought heavy rains to West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire on Monday, May 6, causing flash flooding and travel disruptions. The MET office issued a yellow weather warning.

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Panasonic to sell video camera with 4K resolution

OSAKA, Japan - Panasonic Corp. unveils a new digital video camera with 4K ultra-high resolution in Osaka, western Japan, on Jan. 8, 2015. The product, capable of saving a smartphone-recorded video sent by radio, will be on sale from Jan. 23.

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People walk by landmark Akihabara building

TOKYO, Japan - People walk by the Radio Kaikan building, a symbol of Akihabara in Tokyo, on Jan. 4, 2015. The building houses shops for consumer electronics, computer game consoles and other items.

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U.S. forces start dismantling "Elephant Cage" antenna at Misawa base

MISAWA, Japan - A ceremony is held in front of an antenna array at the U.S. military's Misawa Airbase in Aomori Prefecture on Oct. 15, 2014, before the military began dismantling the aged facility, nicknamed the "Elephant Cage," that was used to intercept radio transmissions during the Cold War era.

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Producer for 'unique' beef restaurant explains concept

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Radio/TV writer Kundo Koyama, a producer for "Beef Atelier Ushinomiya" in the Phoenix Seagaia Resort complex in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, explains on Sept. 1, 2014, the concept and menu of the restaurant that limits guests to just six a day.

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Ishiba not to take new post for national security legislation

TOKYO, Japan - Shigeru Ishiba, the secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, meets the press after appearing in a TBS radio program in Tokyo on Aug. 25, 2014. Ishiba, a former defense minister, indicated in the program he will turn down Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's offer to become state minister in charge of national security legislation.

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Centennial of birth of gold-medal swimmer Maehata

HASHIMOTO, Japan - Masaomi Hyodo (far L), a son of legendary Olympic gold-medal swimmer Hideko Maehata, sees some 50 exhibits of his mother during a centennial ceremony of her birth at a gymnasium in Hashimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on July 31, 2014. Maehata is best remembered by many Japanese for a live NHK radio broadcast of the 200-meter breaststroke final in the 1936 Berlin Olympics in which an announcer repeatedly shouted "Ganbare (Go for it), Maehata!"

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'Radio Kaikan' building reopened after reconstruction

TOKYO, Japan - "Radio Kaikan," a shopping complex filled with stores related to animation and comics, reopens after reconstruction in Akihabara, Tokyo, on July 20, 2014, with some 4,000 people waiting before the opening.

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Use of radio waves eyed to forecast regional downpours

TOKYO, Japan - Seiji Kawamura, senior researcher at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology in Koganei, western Tokyo, explains a prototype system to receive radio waves for terrestrial digital broadcasting from the Tokyo Skytree broadcasting tower to forecast regional torrential downpours, as seen in this file photo taken in June 2014.

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Radio can show images in V-Low multimedia broadcasting

FUKUOKA, Japan - A radio capable of receiving images under the new V-Low multimedia broadcasting system is displayed in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on July 3, 2014. The system uses vacant spaces in the analog TV/radio frequency spectrum made available after Japan's switch to digital broadcasting.

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Radio stations hold forum in Fukushima on post-disaster recovery

SENDAI, Japan - Representatives of temporary FM radio stations set up in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in northeastern Japan gather for a forum in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 29, 2014, to discuss how their broadcasts can help post-disaster reconstruction.

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Japan, S. Korea coast guards tying up for rescue work

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Photo taken in February 2014 shows Tsutomu Takahira, a Japan Coast Guard officer monitoring communication from ships sailing through the Tsushima Strait, talking on the radio at the 7th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture.

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JR West's tourism ambassador to promote Tottori, Shimane

YONAGO, Japan - Nana Gobyo (C), a 28-year-old TV and radio personality from Shimane Prefecture's Matsue, is named special ambassador by West Japan Railway Co.'s Yonago branch on March 18, 2014, to promote tourism in Tottori and Shimane prefectures, western Japan, for one year.

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Radio waves connect religion with earthly life

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 28, 2014 shows a recording scene of the Cafe de Monk radio talk program at a studio of FM Sendai in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, with Keiko Itabashi (R), the show's host, in discussion with guest and cleric Masashi Sato.

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Radio waves connect religion with earthly life

TOKYO, Japan - Hosts and guests -- junior high school students and one of their mothers -- have a preliminary meeting prior to a program recording of radio talk show "It's 8 p.m.!, God and Buddha" on Feb. 24, 2014 at a studio of FM Amagasaki in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture.

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Panasonic's 4K tablet

OSAKA, Japan - File photo shows Panasonic Corp.'s "4K" tablet computer dubbed Toughpad 4K UT-MB5. The Japanese electronics maker said Dec. 11, 2013, it will postpone the launch of the product until mid-February due to glitches found to affect radio waves of other electric appliances.

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Japanese astronomers at Alma radio telescope

ATACAMA PLATEAU, Chile - Shinya Komugi (L), a researcher at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, talks with colleagues on March 12, 2013, in an operation center located at an altitude of 2,900 meters, where they remotely control the antennas of the Alma telescope. The telescope was built at an altitude of around 5,000 meters on the Atacama Plateau in Chile to explore cosmic mysteries.

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Ex-comedian hosting radio show for refugees

KYOTO, Japan - Photo taken March 2, 2013 shows Katsuya Soda, host of a community FM radio station program for refugees residing in Japan, in front of a microphone at the Kyoto Sanjo Radio Cafe studio in Kyoto. The concept of Nanmin Now! is "Broadcasting refugee issues just like weather reports," he said.

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Japan general election

TOKYO, Japan - Former Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara, head of the Japan Restoration Party, is pictured at a Tokyo hotel while appearing on a radio program on the results of the House of Representatives election on Dec. 16, 2012. The Japan Restoration Party won 54 seats in the election, up from 11 before the election, while Ishihara himself was also elected.

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Automatic auto parking

NAGOYA, Japan - An experiment is held at Nagoya University in the city of Nagoya on May 31, 2012, to demonstrate an automatic auto parking system in which cars equipped with GPS and radio communication devices to share location information can detect and reach spaces in parking lots automatically.

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Japanese minister vows to rescue abductees

SEOUL, South Korea - Jin Matsubara (R), Japanese minister in charge of addressing the abduction of Japanese nationals by North Korean agents in the 1970s and 1980s, records a message at a radio station in Seoul on April 22, 2012, for a shortwave program of Free North Korea Radio, which is run by defectors from North Korea. In the message he vowed that Japan will make ''all-out efforts to rescue abductees as soon as possible.''

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Softbank Mobile allocated coveted radio frequency band

TOKYO, Japan - Softbank Mobile Corp. Chairman & CEO Masayoshi Son smiles in Tokyo on March 1, 2012, as he holds a document certifying that the government has allocated to his company the coveted 900-megahertz radio frequency band to improve the signal reception for its handsets in Japan.

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Cellphone carrier practices setting up onboard base station

TOKYO, Japan - KDDI Corp. employees practice setting up an onboard mobile communications base station on a riverbank in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Dec. 6, 2011. The cellphone carrier showed to reporters the drill to enhance preparedness for a disaster. The onboard mobile communications base station comprises a generator, wireless equipment and satellite communications apparatus on a truck that can emit radio waves as far as 2 kilometers via satellite in times of disaster.

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Astronaut Furukawa communicates with Tohoku children

OTSUCHI, Japan - An elementary school student (L) in the quake- and tsunami-hit town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, speaks with Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa aboard the International Space Station via radio on Oct. 15, 2011. Sixteen students from five elementary schools in the town participated in the event, chatting with the astronaut for about 10 minutes.

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Actor Watanabe visits quake-hit areas

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Japanese actor Ken Watanabe (L) speaks with Ishinomaki Mayor Hiroshi Kameyama (R) at the city offices of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 14, 2011, when he made an appearance for a local FM radio program in support of people affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Watanabe, an internationally known star who has appeared in Hollywood movies, visited evacuation centers and encouraged evacuees in the city and the town of Onagawa the same day. He has also launched the disaster support website ''kizuna311'' with other actors.

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Ship carrying nuclear fuel from France arrives in Japan

SAGA, Japan - The Pacific Heron, a transport ship carrying recycled nuclear fuel from France for Japanese power reactors, arrives at Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Genkai plant in Saga Prefecture on June 28, 2010. A French radio station said the ship was loaded with 15 tons of uranium-plutonium mixed-oxide, or MOX, fuel, apparently containing around 1.3 tons of plutonium, when it left France in April.

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Japanese broadcasters pin hopes on online radio

TOKYO, Japan - Popular disc jockey Piston Nishizawa, seen here hosting Nippon Broadcasting System Inc.'s music and variety show ''AllNightNippon Gold'' on March 31, 2010, is upbeat about the promise of the online radio service Radiko.

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Trail of missing actress Sakai goes cold in Yamanashi Pref.

TOKYO, Japan - Photo of actress Noriko Sakai who has been missing since her husband Yuichi Takaso was arrested on Aug. 3 for allegedly possessing illegal stimulant drugs. Police said on Aug. 5 that radio waves of her cell phone disappeared in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo, on Aug. 4.

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March held in Shizuoka to mark 1954 Bikini Atoll H-bomb test

SHIZUOKA, Japan - About 1,000 people march in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture on March 1, calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons in commemoration of the 54th anniversary of the irradiation of the crew of a Yaizu-based Japanese fishing ship by a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. A march participant carried a photo of Aikichi Kuboyama, the ship's chief radio operator who died six months after the irradiation at the age of 40 and became a symbol of the 1954 incident.

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Designer's image of New Tokyo Tower bared

TOKYO, Japan - Sculptor Kiichi Sumikawa (L) explains to Kinya Miyasugi, president of New Tokyo Tower Co., about his design of the tower on Nov. 24. The radio and TV transmitter tower to be built by Japan Broadcasting Corp. and five commercial TV broadcasters in Tokyo's Sumida Ward by 2010 will stand 600 meters high, higher than the world's current tallest tower, the 553-meter CN Tower in Canada's Toronto.