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Illustration For US Election Day

File photo dated March 17, 2015 - For St. Patrick's Day a green dye was added to the water of the fountain on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, USA. - American voters go to the polls on Tuesday to choose their next president. US election results are sometimes declared within hours of the polls closing, but this year's tight contest could mean a longer wait. Democratic Vice-President Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump, the former president, have been running neck-and-neck for weeks. Photo by Dennis Brack/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Huawei rewards Kenyan students for winning digital contest

STORY: Huawei rewards Kenyan students for winning digital contest SHOOTING TIME: March 15, 2024 DATELINE: March 17, 2024 LENGTH: 0:00:55 LOCATION: Nairobi CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the awarding ceremony 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): EZEKIEL MACHOGU, Cabinet secretary for Ministry of Education, Kenya 3. various of the awarding ceremony 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): LUIS KINYUA, Top student in the competition STORYLINE: Chinese technology giant Huawei rewarded 18 Kenyan students on Friday after they emerged as winners of the Huawei ICT Competition 2023-2024. The Huawei ICT Competition, initiated in 2015, comprises contests in the fields of cloud computing, networking, and innovation as part of a cooperative effort to enrich Kenya's ICT (information and communications technology) talent pool through the transfer of the latest knowledge in the technology sector. Ezekiel Machogu, cabinet secretary for the Ministry of Education, said the competition recognizes some of the best ICT talents in the

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Dmitry Rybolovlev Could Put AS Monaco Up For Sale

File photo dated March 17, 2015 of Prince Albert II of Monaco with Monaco's Russian president Dmitriy Rybolovlev during the UEFA Champions League football match Monaco vs Arsenal, at Louis II stadium in Monaco. - Dmitry Rybolovlev, the Russian owner of AS Monaco, is considering selling the club and has reportedly already received two preliminary offers. Dmitry Rybolovlev bought 66 % of the club's shares in 2011 and Prince Albert II of Monaco is a minority shareholder with 33 %. Photo by Christian Liewig/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Dmitry Rybolovlev Could Put AS Monaco Up For Sale

File photo dated March 17, 2015 of Prince Albert II of Monaco with Monaco's Russian president Dmitriy Rybolovlev during the UEFA Champions League football match Monaco vs Arsenal, at Louis II stadium in Monaco. - Dmitry Rybolovlev, the Russian owner of AS Monaco, is considering selling the club and has reportedly already received two preliminary offers. Dmitry Rybolovlev bought 66 % of the club's shares in 2011 and Prince Albert II of Monaco is a minority shareholder with 33 %. Photo by Christian Liewig/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Dmitry Rybolovlev Could Put AS Monaco Up For Sale

File photo dated March 17, 2015 of Prince Albert II of Monaco with Monaco's Russian president Dmitriy Rybolovlev during the UEFA Champions League football match Monaco vs Arsenal, at Louis II stadium in Monaco. - Dmitry Rybolovlev, the Russian owner of AS Monaco, is considering selling the club and has reportedly already received two preliminary offers. Dmitry Rybolovlev bought 66 % of the club's shares in 2011 and Prince Albert II of Monaco is a minority shareholder with 33 %. Photo by Christian Liewig/ABACAPRESS.COM

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H.K. protesters march ahead of vote on electoral package

HONG KONG, June 14 Kyodo - Pro-democracy protesters carry yellow umbrellas as they march through the streets of central Hong Kong on June 14, 2015, to support a veto of the government's electoral reform package. The controversial package, laying out how Hong Kong's next leader should be chosen, goes for debate at the legislature on June 17 and will be voted on by the end of the week.

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Japan beaten by U.S. at World Women's Curling Championship

SAPPORO, March 17 Kyodo - Japanese curling team members are pictured after being beaten by the United States 6-4 in a round robin match at the World Women's Curling Championship in Sapporo, northern Japan, on March 17, 2015.

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TEPCO expects 227 bil. yen pretax profit in FY 2014

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Co. Chairman Fumio Sudo attends a press conference at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 17, 2014. TEPCO, which operates the disaster-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, said it expects to record a group pretax profit of 227 billion yen for the business year ending March 2015 on the back of deeper cost-cutting, remaining in the black for the second straight year.

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New bullet train station in Niigata Pref.

NIIGATA, Japan - Joetsu-myoko station in Joetsu, Niigata Prefecture, northeastern Japan, shown in this photo taken on Aug. 17, 2014, is one of the new station built for the Hokuriku Shinkansen bullet train line to be operated from March 14, 2015.

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Kobe store produces jam, other food products without using additives

Toru Ishikawa, retired president of a family food shop, shows off jam and another additive-free self-made product at its store-cum-factory in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on March 17, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Shandong player pulls jersey of Kashiwa's Leandro in ACL game

Midfielder Liu Binbin (L) of China's Shandong Luneng pulls the jersey of Leandro Montera da Silva of Japan's Kashiwa Reysol during the first half of an Asian Champions League Group E game in Kashiwa, northeast of Tokyo, on March 17, 2015. Kashiwa won 2-1. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Urawa MF Kashiwagi struggles for ball in ACL game against Beijing

Midfielder Yosuke Kashiwagi (L) of Japan's Urawa Reds struggles for the ball with midfielder Piao Cheng of China's Beijing Guoan in the first half of an Asian Champions League Group G game in Beijing on March 17, 2015. Urawa lost 2-0. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kashiwa forward Taketomi fires shot against Shandong in ACL game

Forward Kosuke Taketomi (C) of Kashiwa Reysol fires a shot in the first half of an Asian Champions League Group E game against Shandong Luneng of China in Kashiwa, northeast of Tokyo, on March 17, 2015. The Japanese club won 2-1. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Exhibition of Eugene Smith's Minamata photos underway in Tokyo

Takeshi Ishikawa stands in front of his photos focusing on prominent photographer W. Eugene Smith, who covered the issue of Minamata disease in the early 1970s, at a Tokyo gallery on March 17, 2015. Ishikawa said he hopes visitors to the photo exhibition through April 11 "will share what Eugene observed and experienced in Minamata." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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4 Syrian nationals file suit seeking refugee status in Japan

A Syrian national speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on March 17, 2015. He and three other men who came to Japan after joining a prodemocracy movement in Syria filed a lawsuit with the Tokyo District Court earlier in the day, seeking refugee status. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. Embassy received calls in Feb. threatening to kill envoy Kennedy

Photo shows U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy. The U.S. Embassy in Tokyo received several calls in February 2015 threatening to kill Kennedy, investigative sources said March 17, 2015. Tokyo police are investigating the calls, made by someone speaking English and in a male voice, as a suspected case of blackmail, according to the sources. An embassy official declined to comment. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Singapore former leader Lee's health condition worsens: gov't

Photo taken in May 2010 shows Singapore's former leader Lee Kuan Yew. The 91-year-old Lee's "condition has worsened due to an infection. He is on antibiotics. The doctors are monitoring his condition," the Prime Minister's Office said in a statement on March 17, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tsuruga plant's No. 1 unit to be decommissioned

File photo taken May 2013 shows the Tsuruga nuclear power plant's No. 1 reactor (front) in the central Japan city of Tsuruga. Japan Atomic Power Co. decided on March 17, 2015, to decommission it. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tsuruga plant's No. 1 unit to be decommissioned

File photo taken May 2013 shows the Tsuruga nuclear power plant's No. 1 reactor (front) in the central Japan city of Tsuruga. Japan Atomic Power Co. decided on March 17, 2015, to decommission it. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pacific islands say financial support needed to reduce disaster risks

(From L) Aunese Makoi Simati, representative of Tuvalu to the United Nations, Tutai Tura, associate minister of foreign affairs and immigration from the Cook Islands, and Faamoetauloa Tumaalii, minister of natural resources and environment from Samoa, hold a press conference during the U.N. World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, northeastern Japan, on March 17, 2015. The representatives from the Pacific Island nations said international financial support is necessary to protect the countries facing increasing threats from natural hazards, days after Super Cyclone Pam ravaged part of the region. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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BOJ to maintain easy monetary policy, economic assessment

Bank of Japan Haruhiko Kuroda (4th from L) attends a monetary policy meeting at the BOJ headquarters in Tokyo on March 17, 2015. The BOJ is expected to decide to maintain its current easy monetary policy and assessment of the economy. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Darvish to undergo Tommy John surgery, miss season

Texas Rangers ace Yu Darvish holds a press conference in Surprise, the United States, on March 13, 2015. The team announced the same day the 28-year-old Darvish will undergo Tommy John ligament reconstruction surgery on his injured right elbow on March 17. He will miss all of the 2015 campaign as recovery takes at least a year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Darvish starts in 4th rehab assignment

Yu Darvish delivers against the Midland RockHounds as a starter for the Frisco RoughRiders, the Texas Rangers' Double-A affiliate, in Midland, Texas on May 17, 2016. Darvish, who underwent a Tommy John reconstruction surgery on his right elbow in March 2015, threw 68 pitches in five innings in his fourth rehabilitation assignment. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Darvish starts in 4th rehab assignment

Yu Darvish delivers against the Midland RockHounds as a starter for the Frisco RoughRiders, the Texas Rangers' Double-A affiliate, in Midland, Texas on May 17, 2016. Darvish, who underwent a Tommy John reconstruction surgery on his right elbow in March 2015, threw 68 pitches in five innings in his fourth rehabilitation assignment. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Video of Japanese journalist missing in Syria posted on Facebook

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga attends a press conference in Tokyo on March 17, 2016, where he commented on a video posted on Facebook the previous day indicating Japanese freelance journalist Jumpei Yasuda, who went missing in Syria in June 2015, is being held hostage by militants in the country. Suga said that the man in the video is likely to be Yasuda, adding that the government is not aware of any ransom demand being made in connection with his disappearance. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Video of Japanese journalist missing in Syria posted on Facebook

Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida speaks to reporters at his ministry in Tokyo on March 17, 2016, regarding a video posted on Facebook the previous day indicating Japanese freelance journalist Jumpei Yasuda, who went missing in Syria in June 2015, is being held hostage by militants in the country. Kishida said that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has instructed him to analyze the video and gather relevant information. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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5th anniversary of Japan's March 2011 disaster

Combination photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 12, 2011, (L) and Feb. 17, 2016, shows a ballpark in the northeastern Japanese city of Minamisoma devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The stadium reopened in July 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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100 days until Hokkaido Shinkansen begins operations

A board is unveiled at Tokyo Station on Dec. 17, 2015, celebrating the 100-day countdown until the beginning of operations for the 149-kilometer Hokkaido Shinkansen bullet train line, which connects the northern part of Japan's main island of Honshu and the northernmost main island of Hokkaido. Beginning March 26th, 2016, 10 round-trips will be operated from Tokyo to Shin-Hakodatehokuto stations each day using the Tohoku and Hokkaido Shinkansen lines. Passengers will be able to travel between the two stations in just about four hours at the fastest. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Honda's FCV unveiled in Los Angeles

Photo taken Nov. 17, 2015, in Los Angeles shows Honda Motor Co.'s "Clarity Fuel Cell," unveiled for the first time, and Kiyoshi Shimizu, chief engineer at Honda R&D Co., who led the vehicle's development project. The car to be launched in Japan in March 2016 and in the United States by the end of that year will be displayed at the Los Angeles Auto Show from Nov. 18 through Nov. 29. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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1000 samurai procession in Nikko

People in armor march during the biannual Hyakumonozoroe Sennin Musha Gyoretsu (the 1,000 Samurais Procession Festival) at Nikko Toshogu Shrine in Tochigi Prefecture on Oct. 17, 2015. The procession is a revival of the ceremony held in 1617 when the divine spirit of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, was moved from Mt. Kuno in Shizuoka Prefecture to Nikko. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan mourns death of "father of Japanese soccer" Cramer

File photo taken in March 2012 shows Dettmar Cramer posing for a photo with gifts from Japan at his home in Reit im Winkl in Germany. Cramer, dubbed "the father of Japanese soccer" for helping develop the game as a coach in the country in the 1960s, passed away on Sept. 17, 2015, aged 90. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Darvish throws for 1st time since Tommy John surgery

Undated photo shows Texas Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish. The club said on Aug. 17, 2015 that Darvish threw for the first time since undergoing Tommy John surgery in March. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-major leaguer Johnson meets with disaster-hit children

Former major leaguer Randy Johnson attends a baseball training session with around 250 children on Aug. 17, 2015, in the northeastern Japan city of Ishinomaki, which was devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-major leaguer Johnson meets with disaster-hit children

Former major leaguer Randy Johnson attends a baseball training session with around 250 children on Aug. 17, 2015, in the northeastern Japan city of Ishinomaki, which was devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-major leaguer Johnson meets with disaster-hit children

Former major leaguer Randy Johnson attends a baseball training session with around 250 children on Aug. 17, 2015, in the northeastern Japan city of Ishinomaki, which was devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-TEPCO execs to face mandatory indictment given panel decision

File photo taken on March 17, 2011, shows Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, six days after a massive earthquake and tsunami struck Japan's northeast, triggering meltdowns at the plant. An independent judicial panel of citizens said July 31, 2015, it has decided that three former executives of the utility merit indictment over the nuclear disaster, setting the stage for them to face mandatory prosecution. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fishermen release salmon fry in Fukushima river

Fishermen release juvenile salmon in a river in Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on April 17, 2015. Preparations are under way for residents' return to the town roped off since the nuclear accident at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s local power plant in March 2011. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tourist photographs Godzilla head in Tokyo's Kabukicho

A tourist from South Korea takes a shot of the "real-scale" head of world-famous movie monster Godzilla adorning the 8th-floor terrace of the Shinjuku Toho Building in Tokyo on March 30, 2015. The building, housing a cinema complex and other facilities in Tokyo's Kabukicho entertainment district, opened April 17. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan sends official to Taiwan over stricter food import rules

Photo taken April 17, 2015, shows a retail store in Taipei selling Japanese food and pharmaceutical products. Japan has sent a senior official to Taiwan to call on the island to reverse its decision to tighten regulations on Japanese food imports from May 15. Taiwan's move came after it was found in March that some foods were shipped to Taiwan from five Japanese prefectures subject to an import ban Taipei put in place after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Injured Endo in doubt for return in May

Popular sumo wrestler Endo receives encouragement from Nobuo Ishikawa, the mayor of his home town Anamizu, Ishikawa Prefecture, at the Oitekaze stable in Soka, north of Tokyo, on April 17, 2015. His stablemaster said the same day that Endo, who injured the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee in March, is in doubt of competing in the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament starting May 10. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Taiwan's DPP leader hopes to keep ties with China unchanged

Tsai Ing-wen, chairwoman of Taiwan's opposition Democratic Progressive Party who will run in the presidential election in January 2016, speaks in Taipei on March 17, 2015. She said she will aim at maintaining the ongoing Cross-Strait relations. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kirin subsidiary opens craft beer microbrewery, pub in Yokohama

Six types of craft beer are readied for service at a Spring Valley Brewery beer tavern in Yokohama southwest of Tokyo during a press preview on March 24, 2015, on the eve of its opening for business. Spring Valley Brewery, a subsidiary of Kirin Co., will also open a similar microbrewery-cum-dining facility in Tokyo on April 17. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Reopened Iraq national museum exhibits Assyrian Empire artifacts

High school students and other visitors observe the 4-meter-high statue of a winged bull with a human face from the Assyrian Empire era exhibited at the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad on March 17, 2015. The museum reopened recently after a 12-year hiatus. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, N.Z. leaders hold talks

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) and New Zealand Prime Minister John Key head for a joint press conference following their talks at the Japanese prime minister's office in Tokyo on March 24, 2015. They agreed to boost cooperation in assisting developing countries in the region in better managing natural disasters and to ensure the success of a summit of 17 Pacific nation leaders slated for May in Japan's Fukushima Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, N.Z. leaders hold talks

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) and New Zealand Prime Minister John Key shake hands before their talks at the Japanese prime minister's office in Tokyo on March 24, 2015. They agreed to boost cooperation in assisting developing countries in the region in better managing natural disasters and to ensure the success of a summit of 17 Pacific nation leaders slated for May in Japan's Fukushima Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, N.Z. leaders hold talks

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) and New Zealand Prime Minister John Key attend a joint press conference following their talks in Tokyo on March 24, 2015. They agreed to boost cooperation in assisting developing countries in the region in better managing natural disasters and to ensure the success of a summit of 17 Pacific nation leaders slated for May in Japan's Fukushima Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mindanao town residents fear possible recurrence of clash

Residents in Mamasapano on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao walk on a makeshift wooden bridge on March 17, 2015. In the back is the scene of the Jan. 25 clash between Philippine police and Islamic separatists that caused nearly 70 deaths. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fukushima Univ. senior calls for more education on radiation

Fukushima University senior Keiko Takahashi speaks of her experience as an evacuee from her hometown of Okuma near the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant during the U.N. World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, northeastern Japan, on March 17, 2015. Speaking in English, she urged the government to beef up education on radiation to eradicate public misconceptions stemming from the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mindanao town mayor says 60% of residents now refugees

Mayor Tahirodin Benzar Ampaturan of Mamasapano on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao speaks in an interview with Kyodo News on March 17, 2015. He said some 13,000 townspeople, or about 60 percent of the municipal population, are leading refugee lives now due to the Jan. 25 clash between Philippine police and Islamic separatists that caused nearly 70 deaths. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Traditional Japanese flute player collaborates with diamond shop

Hideki Togi, a player of the traditional Japanese flute "sho," speaks with the instrument in his hand at a promotional event for diamond shop "DIADDICT" in Tokyo on March 17, 2015. Togi improvised music inspired by diamonds during the event. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo