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Nicolas Sarkozy In Police Custody Over Campaign Financing

File photo - Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi shakes hands with President Nicolas Sarkozy before their meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France on December 10, 2007. Gadhafi is on a 5-Day State Visit to France for a high-profile visit set to usher in multi-billion-euro nuclear and aviation contracts. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was in police custody on Tuesday morning March 20, 2018, an official in the country’s judiciary said. He was to be questioned as part of an investigation into suspected irregularities over his election campaign financing, the same source added. The probe related to alleged Libyan funding for Sarkozy’s 2007 campaign, Le Monde newspaper reported. Photo by Abd Rabbo-Mousse/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Nicolas Sarkozy In Police Custody Over Campaign Financing

File photo - President Nicolas Sarkozy receives Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi prior to a dinner at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France on December 10, 2007, and a signing ceremony. Gadhafi is on a 5-Day State Visit to France for a high-profile visit set to usher in multi-billion-euro nuclear and aviation contracts. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was in police custody on Tuesday morning March 20, 2018, an official in the country’s judiciary said. He was to be questioned as part of an investigation into suspected irregularities over his election campaign financing, the same source added. The probe related to alleged Libyan funding for Sarkozy’s 2007 campaign, Le Monde newspaper reported. Photo by Abd Rabbo-Mousse/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Nicolas Sarkozy In Police Custody Over Campaign Financing

File photo - Franco-Lebanese Ziad Takieddine, flanked by his lawyer, Ludovic Landivau leaving the Paris financial crimes court on October 5, 2011, after his hearing. Takieddine, who was intermediaire sales of submarines to Pakistan and is charged for fraud and corruption in the financial aspect of "Karachi's case", asked France's president Nicolas Sarkozy to remove the secrecy for national security reasons on French weapons sales contracts to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia in the 90's, he told BFM TV French TV network on September 29, 2011. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was in police custody on Tuesday morning March 20, 2018, an official in the country’s judiciary said. He was to be questioned as part of an investigation into suspected irregularities over his election campaign financing, the same source added. The probe related to alleged Libyan funding for Sarkozy’s 2007 campaign, Le Monde newspaper reported. Photo by Mousse/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Nicolas Sarkozy In Police Custody Over Campaign Financing

File photo - Franco-Lebanese Ziad Takieddine, flanked by his lawyer, Ludovic Landivau leaving the Paris financial crimes court on October 5, 2011, after his hearing. Takieddine, who was intermediaire sales of submarines to Pakistan and is charged for fraud and corruption in the financial aspect of "Karachi's case", asked France's president Nicolas Sarkozy to remove the secrecy for national security reasons on French weapons sales contracts to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia in the 90's, he told BFM TV French TV network on September 29, 2011. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was in police custody on Tuesday morning March 20, 2018, an official in the country’s judiciary said. He was to be questioned as part of an investigation into suspected irregularities over his election campaign financing, the same source added. The probe related to alleged Libyan funding for Sarkozy’s 2007 campaign, Le Monde newspaper reported. Photo by Mousse/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Chinese firms back to int'l food show in Spain

STORY: Chinese firms back to int'l food show in Spain SHOOTING TIME: March 20, 2024 DATELINE: March 21, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:59 LOCATION: BARCELONA, Spain CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the food show 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): EMMA ZHANG, Project manager of exhibitions department of CFNA 3. various of the food show 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): MICHAEL LI, International sales manager at Qingdao Yi Long Packaging Machinery Company 5. various of the food show STORYLINE: Some 150 Chinese companies are in Spain this week for Alimentaria, one of Europe's largest trade shows for the food and beverage industry. Alimentaria is taking place in Barcelona from Monday to Thursday. The last time Chinese firms attended the exhibition was in 2018, before the COVID-19 pandemic. China's pavilion at this year's Alimentaria is organized by the China Chamber of Commerce of Import & Export of Foodstuffs, Native Produce & Animal By-Products (CFNA). SOUNDBITE 1 (English): EMMA ZHANG, Project manager of exhibitions de

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King Felipe Receives World Jurist Association - Madrid

Family photo of King Felipe VI with a delegation of the World Jurist Association, at the Zarzuela Palace, March 5, 2024, in Madrid (Spain). The delegation was received for the World Jurist Association's tribute to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy from 1998 to 2018. The delegation was received for the World Jurist Association's tribute ceremony to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy . Photo by Marta Fernández Jara / Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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King Felipe Receives World Jurist Association - Madrid

Family photo of King Felipe VI with a delegation of the World Jurist Association, at the Zarzuela Palace, March 5, 2024, in Madrid (Spain). The delegation was received for the World Jurist Association's tribute to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy from 1998 to 2018. The delegation was received for the World Jurist Association's tribute ceremony to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy . Photo by Marta Fernández Jara / Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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King Felipe Receives World Jurist Association - Madrid

King Felipe VI arrives to pose for a family photo with a delegation of the World Jurist Association, at Zarzuela Palace, March 5, 2024, in Madrid, Spain. The delegation was received for the World Jurist Association's tribute ceremony to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy from 1998 to 2018. Photo by Marta Fernández Jara / Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Finnish man grows bamboo for giant pandas

STORY: Finnish man grows bamboo for giant pandas SHOOTING TIME: January 2024 DATELINE: March 1, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:01 LOCATION: AHTARI, Finland CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of panda house at the Ahtari zoo 2. various of pandas 3. various of Luokkakallio working in snow 4. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): JARI LUOKKAKALLIO, Bamboo grower 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): JARI LUOKKAKALLIO, Bamboo grower 6. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): JARI LUOKKAKALLIO, Bamboo grower 7. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): JARI LUOKKAKALLIO, Bamboo grower STORYLINE: In March 2018, a pair of giant pandas from China officially met the public at the Ahtari Zoo in central Finland. In the chilly expanse of Finland's rural heartland, an ambitious endeavor took root alongside the anticipated arrival of the pair. After Finland and China launched negotiations on the giant panda cooperation project in 2016, a group of dedicated volunteers embarked on a pioneering project of cultivating bamboo to host these iconic creatures. However, the initial enthusias

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Ghanaian businessman enjoys Chinese Lunar New Year in north China

STORY: Ghanaian businessman enjoys Chinese Lunar New Year in north China SHOOTING TIME: Feb. 6, 2024 DATELINE: Feb. 8, 2024 LENGTH: 0:01:49 LOCATION: LANGFANG, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): SHAHEED, Ghanaian sales manager 2. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): SHAHEED, Ghanaian sales manager 3. various of Shaheed and his friends 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): SHAHEED, Ghanaian sales manager 5. SOUNDBITE 4 (Chinese): SHAHEED, Ghanaian sales manager 6. SOUNDBITE 5 (Chinese): SHAHEED, Ghanaian sales manager STORYLINE: SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): SHAHEED, Ghanaian sales manager "This year is the Year of the Dragon. I was born in the Year of the Dragon. Happy New Year to everyone." SOUNDBITE 2 (English): SHAHEED, Ghanaian sales manager "My name is Shaheed. My Chinese name is Wang Kai. I came to China in March 2018." Shaheed, 36, is from Ghana in Africa. In 2018, he came to China to pursue a master's degree. After graduating, he chose to stay in China and joined a company in Langfang City, north Chi

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Australian road deaths hit 5-year high

STORY: Australian road deaths hit 5-year high SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 18, 2023 DATELINE: Dec. 19, 2023 LENGTH: 0:00:57 LOCATION: Canberra CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of traffic 2. various of a wrecked car on the street 3. various of Fire and Rescue on the road STORYLINE: Australian road deaths hit a five-year high in 2023, the nation's peak automotive body has said. According to data released by the Australian Automobile Association (AAA) on Monday, there have been 1,253 deaths on Australian roads in 2023 - an increase of 6 percent from 2022. It marks the highest road toll in Australia in a 12-month span since 1,270 people were killed in the 12 months to the end of March 2018. Michael Bradley, managing director of the AAA, used the release of the statistics to call for federal, state and territory governments to improve data transparency on road deaths. "Month after month, road deaths keep rising, and we lack the information needed to identify the reasons for this deadly trend and to

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National People's Congress in China

BEIJING, China, March 5 Kyodo - Wang Qishan, former secretary of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, attends the annual session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 5, 2018.

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Japan Post to hike parcel delivery rates by 12%

TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 5 Kyodo - Kunio Yokoyama, president of Japan Post Co., speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 5, 2017. The company said it will raise basic shipping fees for its door-to-door parcel delivery service by an average 12 percent from March 2018 as labor costs continue to climb due to a courier shortage.

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Xinhua Headlines: A look at how delegates to upcoming 20th CPC national congress were elected

(220928) -- BEIJING, Sept. 28, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Zhao Jing replaces blades of a computer numerical control machine on March 5, 2018. (Xinhua/Peng Yuan)

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Greece's bad debt ratio drops 82.8 pct in 6 years

STORY: Greece's bad debt ratio drops 82.8 pct in 6 years DATELINE: May 18, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:48 LOCATION: Athens CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Bank of Greece 2. various of the economic forum about Non-performing loans (NPLs) in Greece's banking system held in Athens on Tuesday 3. various of the National Bank of Greece 4. SOUNDBITE 1 (Greek): CHRISTINA PAPACONSTANTINOU, Bank of Greece (BoG) Deputy Governor 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Greek): CHRISTOS STAIKOURAS, Greece Finance Minister STORYLINE: Non-performing loans (NPLs) in Greece's banking system had been reduced by 82.8 pct in the period 2016-2021, but the outlook for the future is cloudy due to the new challenges, local officials told an online economic forum in Athens on Tuesday. NPLs at the end of December 2021 amounted to 18.4 billion euros (19.4 billion U.S. dollars), down by 90.3 billion euros compared to March 2016, when they had peaked during the acute debt crisis Greece went through (2010-2018), said Christina Papaconstantinou, Bank o

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Court approval of Ghosn's bail request

TOKYO, Japan, March 5 Kyodo - Journalists wait around the Tokyo Detention House on March 5, 2019, after the Tokyo District Court approved a bail request for former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn, who has been kept in detention since his arrest in November 2018 for alleged financial misconduct.

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CHINA-ANHUI-NPC DEPUTY-RURAL VITALIZATION (CN)

(220309) -- BEIJING, March 9, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Wang Mengmeng attends the opening meeting of the fifth session of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 5, 2022. Wang Mengmeng, a village official in east China's Anhui Province since 2013 when she began serving in her post after graduating from university, led the village in developing specialty agriculture to cash in on the region's transport and location advantages. After taking on her duties as a deputy to the National People's Congress in 2018, Wang has carried out multiple surveys on the methods of rural vitalization. The suggestions Wang put forward at China's ongoing "two sessions" focus on the long-term development pattern of rural collective economy. (Xinhua/Xing Guangli)

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National lawmaker from China's Jiangxi dedicated to rural vitalization

STORY: National lawmaker from China's Jiangxi dedicated to rural vitalization DATELINE: March 6, 2022 LENGTH: 00:03:09 LOCATION: NANCHANG, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): HONG ZHONGWEN, Yongtang villager 2. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): LI HONGLIANG, National lawmaker 3. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): LI HONGLIANG, National lawmaker 4. SOUNDBITE 4 (Chinese): WEN SHUILAN, Local villager 5. SOUNDBITE 5 (Chinese): ZHOU FANG, Head of Jiujiang Jinlei Chinese herbal medicine planting base 6. SOUNDBITE 6 (Chinese): ZENG GAOYU, Director, Bean strip factory of Xinhe Township 7. SOUNDBITE 7 (Chinese): LI HONGLIANG, National lawmaker STORYLINE: Li Hongliang has worked in Yongtang Village, east China's Jiangxi Province, for many years after graduating from college. In 2018, he was elected as a national lawmaker. Shortly before this year's annual session of China's national legislature, he was still busy with carrying out investigation into rural vitalization. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): HONG ZHONGWEN, Yongt

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Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli

File photo taken March 5, 2018, shows Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

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Chad's Army Announces The Death Of President Deby

File photo - ChadÂs president Idriss Deby attends a camel race among other officials in Amdjarass, Ennedi region, Chad on March 5, 2018. Chads President Idriss Deby has died while visiting troops on the front line of a fight against northern rebels, an army spokesman said on Tuesday, the day after Deby was declared the winner of a sixth term in office. Deby's campaign said on Monday that he was headed to the front lines to join troops battling "terrorists". Photo by Pascal Avenet/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Chad's Army Announces The Death Of President Deby

File photo - ChadÂs president Idriss Deby attends a camel race among other officials in Amdjarass, Ennedi region, Chad on March 5, 2018. Chads President Idriss Deby has died while visiting troops on the front line of a fight against northern rebels, an army spokesman said on Tuesday, the day after Deby was declared the winner of a sixth term in office. Deby's campaign said on Monday that he was headed to the front lines to join troops battling "terrorists". Photo by Pascal Avenet/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Chad's Army Announces The Death Of President Deby

File photo - ChadÂs president Idriss Deby attends a camel race among other officials in Amdjarass, Ennedi region, Chad on March 5, 2018. Chads President Idriss Deby has died while visiting troops on the front line of a fight against northern rebels, an army spokesman said on Tuesday, the day after Deby was declared the winner of a sixth term in office. Deby's campaign said on Monday that he was headed to the front lines to join troops battling "terrorists". Photo by Pascal Avenet/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Chad's Army Announces The Death Of President Deby

File photo - ChadÂs president Idriss Deby attends a camel race among other officials in Amdjarass, Ennedi region, Chad on March 5, 2018. Chads President Idriss Deby has died while visiting troops on the front line of a fight against northern rebels, an army spokesman said on Tuesday, the day after Deby was declared the winner of a sixth term in office. Deby's campaign said on Monday that he was headed to the front lines to join troops battling "terrorists". Photo by Pascal Avenet/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Chad's Army Announces The Death Of President Deby

File photo - ChadÂs president Idriss Deby attends a camel race among other officials in Amdjarass, Ennedi region, Chad on March 5, 2018. Chads President Idriss Deby has died while visiting troops on the front line of a fight against northern rebels, an army spokesman said on Tuesday, the day after Deby was declared the winner of a sixth term in office. Deby's campaign said on Monday that he was headed to the front lines to join troops battling "terrorists". Photo by Pascal Avenet/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Soccer: Okazaki makes 100th appearance for Japan

Shinji Okazaki receives a jersey from Japan coach Vahid Halilhodzic for his 100th national team appearance in a 5-0 drubbing of Syria at Saitama Stadium on March 29, 2016. Japan finished atop Group E in the second round of Asian qualifying for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Yata department store in H.K.

Susanna Wong, CEO of Yata Ltd., briefs the press on her company at its department store in Hong Kong on March 5, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Yata department store in H.K.

Shoppers look around a section for Japanese food products at a department store of Yata Ltd. in Hong Kong on March 5, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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The Amazons in concert in Tokyo

Elliot Briggs of English rock band The Amazons is pictured performing at Club Quattro in Tokyo on March 5, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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The Amazons in concert in Tokyo

English rock band The Amazons are pictured performing at Club Quattro in Tokyo on March 5, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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The Amazons in concert in Tokyo

Joe Emmett of English rock band The Amazons is pictured performing at Club Quattro in Tokyo on March 5, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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The Amazons in concert in Tokyo

Chris Alderton of English rock band The Amazons is pictured performing at Club Quattro in Tokyo on March 5, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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The Amazons in concert in Tokyo

Matt Thomson of English rock band The Amazons is pictured performing at Club Quattro in Tokyo on March 5, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Trump "not backing down" from planned import curbs on steel, aluminum

U.S. President Donald Trump, seen in this undated file photo, said March 5, 2018, that he is "not backing down" from a controversial plan to impose tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum which he announced the previous week. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Dodgers' Maeda

The Los Angeles Dodgers' Kenta Maeda strikes out in a 5-0 win against the San Francisco Giants at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California, on March 31, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Dodgers' Maeda

The Los Angeles Dodgers' Kenta Maeda pitches during his first start of the season in a 5-0 win against the San Francisco Giants at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California, on March 31, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Dodgers' Maeda

The Los Angeles Dodgers' Kenta Maeda pitches during his first start of the season in a 5-0 win against the San Francisco Giants at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California, on March 31, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Dodgers' Maeda

The Los Angeles Dodgers' Kenta Maeda pitches during his first start of the season in a 5-0 win against the San Francisco Giants at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California, on March 31, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pyeongchang Paralympics

A man shovels snow at the Pyeongchang Winter Paralympics athletes' village in South Korea as an athlete in a wheelchair passes by on March 5, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese boxer Shinsuke Yamanaka

Japan's former WBC bantamweight champion Shinsuke Yamanaka speaks at a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Jan. 5, 2018. Yamanaka will face champion Luis Nery of Mexico in March in a rematch of their Aug. 2017 title fight. The World Boxing Council ordered the rematch after Nery failed a drugs test. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Baseball: Angel Stadium

File photo taken Sept. 12, 2018, shows Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California. According to calculations released by U.S. business magazine Forbes in March 2020, for major sports properties alone, the cost of being sidelined for two months will be at least $5 billion amid the outbreak of the new coronavirus. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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1970 Osaka Expo symbol

Photo taken on Dec. 5, 2018, inside the Tower of the Sun, a building designed by the late artist Taro Okamoto now symbolizing the 1970 World Exposition in Osaka, shows an object known as the tower's fourth sun, located underground. The refurbished interior of the Tower of the Sun opened to the public in March 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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1970 Osaka Expo symbol

Photo taken on Dec. 5, 2018, inside the Tower of the Sun, a building designed by the late artist Taro Okamoto now symbolizing the 1970 World Exposition in Osaka, shows an object known as the "Tree of Life," also created by the Japanese artist to depict human evolution. The refurbished interior of the Tower of the Sun opened to the public in March 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Oita Prefectural Library

File photo taken in December 2018 shows the Oita Prefectural Library, renamed Oita Art Plaza, designed by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, in the southwestern Japan city. Isozaki won the Pritzker Architecture Prize, regarded as the Nobel prize of architecture, on March 5, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Bail request for ex-Nissan boss Ghosn

Media crews gather on March 5, 2019, in front of the Tokyo Detention House, where former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn has been detained since his arrest in November 2018 for alleged financial misconduct. The Tokyo District Court approved a bail request for Ghosn the same day, but prosecutors appealed the bail decision. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Bail request for ex-Nissan boss Ghosn

Media crews gather on March 5, 2019, in front of the Tokyo Detention House, where former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn has been detained since his arrest in November 2018 for alleged financial misconduct. The Tokyo District Court approved a bail request for Ghosn the same day, but prosecutors appealed the bail decision. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Court approval of Ghosn's bail request

Journalists wait around the Tokyo Detention House on March 5, 2019, after the Tokyo District Court approved a bail request for former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn, who has been kept in detention since his arrest in November 2018 for alleged financial misconduct. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Carlos Ghosn's house in Beirut

Photo taken Nov. 21, 2018, shows a house in Beirut, Lebanon, used by Carlos Ghosn. The chairman of Nissan Motor Co. was arrested by Tokyo prosecutors on Nov. 19 on suspicion of understating his nearly 10 billion yen ($88 million) of compensation as around 5 billion yen over five years from the business year ending March 2011. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Carlos Ghosn's house in Beirut

Photo taken Nov. 21, 2018, shows a house in Beirut, Lebanon, used by Carlos Ghosn. The chairman of Nissan Motor Co. was arrested by Tokyo prosecutors on Nov. 19 on suspicion of understating his nearly 10 billion yen ($88 million) of compensation as around 5 billion yen over five years from the business year ending March 2011. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Train connecting Tokyo and Mt. Fuji area

Photo taken Aug. 5, 2018, in Hokuto, Yamanashi Prefecture, shows East Japan Railway Co.'s E353 train, which will be used to connect Shinjuku station in Tokyo and Kawaguchiko station in Yamanashi Prefecture, a popular route to view Mt. Fuji, via express service from March 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pet insurance market in Japan expanding

Hirohisa Uehara, in this photo taken March 5, 2018, speaks in an interview in Tokyo as president-nominee of T&D Holdings Inc. about a plan to step up the company's pet insurance campaign as well as launch online sales of life insurance. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo