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Nicolas Sarkozy trial - Paris

French-Algerian businessman Alexandre Djouhri arrives at the courthouse in Paris, France, 25 March 2025. Sarkozy and twelve other people, including three former ministers, stand trial for criminal conspiracy to receive funds for the 2007 presidential campaign from the regime of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Nicolas Sarkozy has already been convicted twice, in two separate cases, since he left office in 2012. The trial will last until 10 April. Photo by Eliot Blondet / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Nicolas Sarkozy trial - Paris

French-Algerian businessman Alexandre Djouhri arrives at the courthouse in Paris, France, 25 March 2025. Sarkozy and twelve other people, including three former ministers, stand trial for criminal conspiracy to receive funds for the 2007 presidential campaign from the regime of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Nicolas Sarkozy has already been convicted twice, in two separate cases, since he left office in 2012. The trial will last until 10 April. Photo by Eliot Blondet / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Nicolas Sarkozy trial - Paris

French-Algerian businessman Alexandre Djouhri arrives at the courthouse in Paris, France, 25 March 2025. Sarkozy and twelve other people, including three former ministers, stand trial for criminal conspiracy to receive funds for the 2007 presidential campaign from the regime of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Nicolas Sarkozy has already been convicted twice, in two separate cases, since he left office in 2012. The trial will last until 10 April. Photo by Eliot Blondet / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Nicolas Sarkozy trial - Paris

French-Algerian businessman Alexandre Djouhri arrives at the courthouse in Paris, France, 25 March 2025. Sarkozy and twelve other people, including three former ministers, stand trial for criminal conspiracy to receive funds for the 2007 presidential campaign from the regime of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Nicolas Sarkozy has already been convicted twice, in two separate cases, since he left office in 2012. The trial will last until 10 April. Photo by Eliot Blondet / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Nicolas Sarkozy trial - Paris

French-Algerian businessman Alexandre Djouhri arrives at the courthouse in Paris, France, 25 March 2025. Sarkozy and twelve other people, including three former ministers, stand trial for criminal conspiracy to receive funds for the 2007 presidential campaign from the regime of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Nicolas Sarkozy has already been convicted twice, in two separate cases, since he left office in 2012. The trial will last until 10 April. Photo by Eliot Blondet / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Nicolas Sarkozy trial - Paris

French-Algerian businessman Alexandre Djouhri arrives at the courthouse in Paris, France, 25 March 2025. Sarkozy and twelve other people, including three former ministers, stand trial for criminal conspiracy to receive funds for the 2007 presidential campaign from the regime of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Nicolas Sarkozy has already been convicted twice, in two separate cases, since he left office in 2012. The trial will last until 10 April. Photo by Eliot Blondet / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Nicolas Sarkozy trial - Paris

French-Algerian businessman Alexandre Djouhri arrives at the courthouse in Paris, France, 25 March 2025. Sarkozy and twelve other people, including three former ministers, stand trial for criminal conspiracy to receive funds for the 2007 presidential campaign from the regime of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Nicolas Sarkozy has already been convicted twice, in two separate cases, since he left office in 2012. The trial will last until 10 April. Photo by Eliot Blondet / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Hacked Emails Expose Bashar al-Assad and Wife (Files)

Syrian head of state Bashar al-Assad and London-born wife Asma al-Assad appear to live in a surreal psychological bubble, insulated from the grotesque violence that has claimed the lives of 8,000 Syrians, according to a cache of some 3,000 alleged emails and documents obtained by Syrian activists and published by the Guardian issue dated March 15, 2012. File photo : © Ammar Abd Rabbo/ABACA. EXCLUSIVE. 40867-10. London-UK, 18/12/2002. Syrian president Bashar Al Assad poses with wife Asma and their one year old son Hafez in London before their departure after a three day visit.

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A German engineer's bond with China

STORY: A German engineer's bond with China SHOOTING TIME: March 10, 2024 DATELINE: March 12, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:42 LOCATION: SHIJIAZHUANG, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Klaus-Dieter Merz visiting battery factory in Hengshui City, Hebei Province 2. SOUNDBITE (English): KLAUS-DIETER MERZ, German engineer STORYLINE: Klaus-Dieter Merz, a 70-year-old German expert in new energy, recently revisited Gucheng County in north China's Hebei Province. During his visit, he collaborated with representatives from Chinese enterprises to facilitate the mass production of innovative sodium-ion batteries in China and Germany. Merz's first visit to China dates back to 2012. Since then, he has visited China frequently, fostering the adoption of eco-friendly new energy technologies through collaborative efforts between the two nations. He has also been deeply obsessed with Chinese culture and food. SOUNDBITE (English): KLAUS-DIETER MERZ, German engineer "And I took the opportunity to learn a little bit mor

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CHINA-CHONGQING-ALL-WOMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL TEAM (CN)

(230309) -- CHONGQING, March 9, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Yan Ni, leader of an all-woman archaeological team, conducts preliminary restoration of a pottery article at the site of a relics excavation project in Fuling District, southwest China's Chongqing, Oct. 19, 2022. Established in 2012, the all-woman team has carried out more than 10 excavation projects and organized field work on over 10 cultural relic investigation and exploration projects over the past decade. TO GO WITH "Across China: All-woman team dedicated to archaeological work in China's Chongqing" (Xinhua/Tang Yi)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-ALL-WOMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL TEAM (CN)

(230309) -- CHONGQING, March 9, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Yan Ni (4th L), leader of an all-woman archaeological team, conducts a archeological skill training program in Wulong District, southwest China's Chongqing, March 6, 2023. Established in 2012, the all-woman team has carried out more than 10 excavation projects and organized field work on over 10 cultural relic investigation and exploration projects over the past decade. TO GO WITH "Across China: All-woman team dedicated to archaeological work in China's Chongqing" (Xinhua/Tang Yi)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-ALL-WOMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL TEAM (CN)

(230309) -- CHONGQING, March 9, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Yan Ni (1st R), leader of an all-woman archaeological team, processes unearthed pottery shards at the site of a relics excavation project in Fuling District, southwest China's Chongqing, Oct. 19, 2022. Established in 2012, the all-woman team has carried out more than 10 excavation projects and organized field work on over 10 cultural relic investigation and exploration projects over the past decade. TO GO WITH "Across China: All-woman team dedicated to archaeological work in China's Chongqing" (Xinhua/Tang Yi)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-ALL-WOMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL TEAM (CN)

(230309) -- CHONGQING, March 9, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Yan Ni (L), leader of an all-woman archaeological team, supervises her colleagues at the site of a relics excavation project in Fuling District, southwest China's Chongqing, May 24, 2022. Established in 2012, the all-woman team has carried out more than 10 excavation projects and organized field work on over 10 cultural relic investigation and exploration projects over the past decade. TO GO WITH "Across China: All-woman team dedicated to archaeological work in China's Chongqing" (Xinhua/Tang Yi)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-ALL-WOMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL TEAM (CN)

(230309) -- CHONGQING, March 9, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Zhu Xuelian, a member of an all-woman archaeological team, measures an unearthed article at the site of a relics excavation project in Fuling District, southwest China's Chongqing, Oct. 19, 2022. Established in 2012, the all-woman team has carried out more than 10 excavation projects and organized field work on over 10 cultural relic investigation and exploration projects over the past decade. TO GO WITH "Across China: All-woman team dedicated to archaeological work in China's Chongqing" (Xinhua/Tang Yi)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-ALL-WOMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL TEAM (CN)

(230309) -- CHONGQING, March 9, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Yan Ni, leader of an all-woman archaeological team, processes unearthed pottery shards at the site of a relics excavation project in Fuling District, southwest China's Chongqing, May 24, 2022. Established in 2012, the all-woman team has carried out more than 10 excavation projects and organized field work on over 10 cultural relic investigation and exploration projects over the past decade. TO GO WITH "Across China: All-woman team dedicated to archaeological work in China's Chongqing" (Xinhua/Tang Yi)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-ALL-WOMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL TEAM (CN)

(230309) -- CHONGQING, March 9, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Yan Ni (L, back), leader of an all-woman archaeological team, supervises her colleagues at the site of a relics excavation project in Fuling District, southwest China's Chongqing, May 24, 2022. Established in 2012, the all-woman team has carried out more than 10 excavation projects and organized field work on over 10 cultural relic investigation and exploration projects over the past decade. TO GO WITH "Across China: All-woman team dedicated to archaeological work in China's Chongqing" (Xinhua/Tang Yi)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-ALL-WOMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL TEAM (CN)

(230309) -- CHONGQING, March 9, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Yan Ni, leader of an all-woman archaeological team, conducts preliminary restoration of a pottery article at the site of a relics excavation project in Fuling District, southwest China's Chongqing, Oct. 19, 2022. Established in 2012, the all-woman team has carried out more than 10 excavation projects and organized field work on over 10 cultural relic investigation and exploration projects over the past decade. TO GO WITH "Across China: All-woman team dedicated to archaeological work in China's Chongqing" (Xinhua/Tang Yi)

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CHINA-CHONGQING-ALL-WOMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL TEAM (CN)

(230309) -- CHONGQING, March 9, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Yan Ni, leader of an all-woman archaeological team, is seen at the site of a relics protection project in Wulong District, southwest China's Chongqing, March 6, 2023. Established in 2012, the all-woman team has carried out more than 10 excavation projects and organized field work on over 10 cultural relic investigation and exploration projects over the past decade. TO GO WITH "Across China: All-woman team dedicated to archaeological work in China's Chongqing" (Xinhua/Tang Yi)

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Miyazaki zoo amuses visitors with "flying flamingo show"

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Photo shows flamingos flying over a pond during a show at Miyazaki City Phoenix Zoo in Miyazaki Prefecture on March 10, 2013. The "Flying Flamingo Show" started in the spring of 2012.

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U.S. sailors convicted for rape

NAHA, Japan - A March 1, 2013, photo shows the Naha District Court in Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan. The court the same day sentenced two U.S. sailors to prison terms of nine and 10 years for raping and injuring a Japanese woman in her 20s in Okinawa Prefecture in October 2012.

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Nikkei climbs back to level before March 2011 quake

TOKYO, Japan - A display in Tokyo's Yaesu district shows the closing level of Japan's Nikkei stock index on Dec. 27, 2012. It closed at 10,322.98, up 92.62 points from the previous day and its highest mark since March 10, 2011 -- the day before a massive earthquake and tsunami hit Japan.

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Railway fare cards to become mutually usable

TOKYO, Japan - Representatives of railway and bus operators pose with their respective electronic fare cards in a gathering at the East Japan Railway Co. head office in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2012. A total of 10 regional railway and bus fare cards such as Suica and Pasmo in Tokyo and Icoca in Osaka will become mutually usable in all their operating areas in Japan, starting March 23, 2013.

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World Bank president in disaster area

SENDAI, Japan - World Bank President Jim Yong Kim visits an elementary school in Sendai, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 10, 2012, which was struck by the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Kim was in Sendai to attend an international conference on disasters and development hosted by Japan and the World Bank.

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China to skip Tokyo IMF meetings

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Chinese Finance Minister Xie Xuren (L) and People's Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan holding a press conference during the National People's Congress in Beijing in March 2010. China said on Oct. 10, 2012, it will not send its finance chiefs to annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Tokyo amid a bilateral territorial row.

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WBC Japan manager Yamamoto

TOKYO, Japan - Koji Yamamoto speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 10, 2012, after he was named Japan team manager for the World Baseball Classic in March 2013.

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WBC Japan manager Yamamoto

TOKYO, Japan - Koji Yamamoto speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 10, 2012, after he was named Japan team manager for the World Baseball Classic in March 2013.

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WBC Japan manager Yamamoto

TOKYO, Japan - Koji Yamamoto poses with mannequins wearing new Japan team uniforms in Tokyo on Oct. 10, 2012, after he was named Japan manager for the World Baseball Classic in March 2013.

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Global leaders visit Sendai disaster-hit areas

SENDAI, Japan - (From R, front) International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim and Japanese Finance Minister Koriki Jojima stand on the rooftop of an elementary school that survived destruction in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in the Arahama coastal district of Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Oct. 10, 2012, during their visit to sites in disaster-hit areas.

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Fukushima reactor pressure vessel's lid removed

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter at 10:23 a.m. on Sept. 13, 2012 shows the lid (top L) to the pressure vessel of the No. 4 reactor removed by a crane at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture. The March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami triggered a nuclear crisis at the plant.

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Fukushima reactor pressure vessel's lid removed

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter at 10:20 a.m. on Sept. 13, 2012 shows the lid (bottom) to the pressure vessel of the No. 4 reactor removed by a crane at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture. The two objects at top are the lid to the containment vessel. The March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami triggered a nuclear crisis at the plant.

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Flights resume to Shanghai from Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Passengers head for a boarding gate to get on a chartered plane for a flight to Shanghai at Fukushima airport on Sept. 10, 2012. It was the first international flight that departed there since Fukushima Prefecture was hit by the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters in March 2011.

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Flights resume to Shanghai from Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato (C) speaks during a ceremony at Fukushima airport on Sept. 10, 2012, before a chartered plane departed there for Shanghai in the first international flight since Fukushima Prefecture was hit by the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters in March 2011.

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in the city of Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 10, 2011 (top), shortly after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 4, 2012 (bottom).

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 10, 2011 (L), after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 3, 2012 (R). Many of the buildings damaged by the tsunami have been removed.

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on April 10, 2011 (L), after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 3, 2012 (R).

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IAEA team on Onagawa plant

TOKYO, Japan - Sujit Samaddar, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency's International Seismic Safety Center, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 10, 2012. He said an IAEA delegation, led by him, had found that the Onagawa nuclear power station in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, was "remarkably undamaged" by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, despite being the closest nuclear power plant to the epicenter.

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Sake makers from disaster-hit areas serve samples in London

LONDON, Britain - Thirteen Japanese sake makers from 10 prefectures in Japan including Miyagi and Iwate, most severely hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, take part in a tasting event in London on June 18, 2012, designed to demonstrate Japanese culture pertaining to sake as well as recovery progress in the wake of the damage caused by the disaster.

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Protest in H.K. over Chinese dissident's mysterious death

HONG KONG, China - Thousands of people march in Hong Kong on June 10, 2012, to a rally outside Beijing's central liaison office to protest over what they see as the questionable handling of the death of prominent Tiananmen Square dissident Li Wangyang, who allegedly committed suicide in a hospital in Hunan Province while under police guard.

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After bomb explosion in Thailand

YALA, Thailand - A woman rides a motorcycle in southern Thailand's Yala Province on April 10, 2012, after an explosion in the province on March 31.

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Bo Xilai stripped of party posts

BEIJING, China - File photo taken in March 2012 shows Bo Xilai, head of southwest China's Chongqing municipality, during the opening ceremony for the annual session of the National People's Congress, China's parliament, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The official Xinhua News Agency announced April 10, 2012, that Bo is suspected of ''serious discipline violations'' and had been removed from the party's 25-member Politburo as well as its Central Committee.

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Bo Xilai stripped of party posts

BEIJING, China - File photo taken in March 2012 shows Bo Xilai, head of southwest China's Chongqing municipality, during a plenary session of the National People's Congress, China's parliament, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The official Xinhua News Agency announced April 10, 2012, that Bo is suspected of ''serious discipline violations'' and had been removed from the party's 25-member Politburo as well as its Central Committee.

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Tsunami-damaged vehicles

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken April 10, 2012, shows vehicles damaged by the March 2011 tsunami at a temporary storage site in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture. More than 37,000 vehicles are still being kept in temporary storage by municipalities after being badly damaged in the disaster in the worst-affected prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, according to a recent Kyodo News survey.

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Sony widens loss estimate

TOKYO, Japan - Sony Corp. Chief Financial Officer Masaru Kato speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on April 10, 2012. Sony said it has sharply cut its earnings forecast for the business year ended March 31, 2012, and expects to book its biggest-ever group net loss of 520 billion yen, remaining in the red for the fourth straight year.

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UNESCO honors children's newspaper

PARIS, France - Francesco Bandarin (rear C), assistant director general for culture at the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, poses for photos with Japanese children at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris on April 2, 2012, as the U.N. body honors the Fight Shimbun wall newspaper written by children in a northeastern Japanese city hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. In the front (from R) are first editor Risa Yoshida, 8, and her sister Mahiro, 4. In the center is second editor Satoko Oyama, 10, with her sister Kanako, 13, (rear L). To the right of Bandarin is coordinator and musician Misa Jonouchi.

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Eishin Flash at Dubai World Cup

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Japan's Eishin Flash, ridden by Christophe Lemaire, returns from the course after finishing in sixth place, which was the best Japan could do, in the $10 million Dubai World Cup at Meydan racecourse in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, on March 31, 2012.

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Mariners vs. Yomiuri

TOKYO, Japan - Hisashi Iwakuma of the Seattle Mariners pitches in an exhibition game against the Yomiuri Giants at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo on March 26, 2012. The right-hander allowed six runs on 10 hits over four innings in his team's 9-3 loss.

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Only 1 out of 54 nuclear reactors left operating

NIIGATA, Japan - Photo taken 0:10 a.m. on March 26, 2012, shows the central control room for the No. 6 reactor at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s seven-unit Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture, shortly after the reactor's operation was suspended. TEPCO suspended operation of its last running nuclear reactor for a routine checkup, leaving only one of 54 commercial reactors in Japan still in service.

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Audi's convertible

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken March 22, 2012 in Tokyo shows the Audi R8 GT Spyder, a convertible to be sold in Japan from late April by Audi Japan K.K. The Japanese unit of the German automaker said only 333 such cars will be produced for sale worldwide, of which 10 vehicles will be offered for sale in Japan at a price of 30.64 million yen.

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Japanese avant-garde artist Kusama

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken March 22, 2012, shows renowned Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama (in wheel chair) and her latest works, Yayoi-chan, a 10-meter-tall balloon girl, and Ring-Ring, a 4-meter-tall balloon dog, both decorated with her signature motif polka dots, in Roppongi Hills, Tokyo.

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Japanese avant-garde artist Kusama

TOKYO, Japan - Renowned Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama gives a speech in front of one of her latest works, Yayoi-chan, a 10-meter-tall balloon girl wearing a dress with polka dots, her signature motif, in Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, on March 22, 2012.