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31st anniv. of Great Hanshin Earthquake

Paper lanterns are lit at a park in Kobe, western Japan, on Jan. 16, 2026, the eve of the 31st anniversary of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake that killed over 6,400 people.

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31st anniv. of Great Hanshin Earthquake

Paper lanterns are lit at a park in Kobe, western Japan, on Jan. 16, 2026, the eve of the 31st anniversary of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake that killed over 6,400 people.

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Hiroshima Ahead Bombing 80th Anniversary - Japan

Paper lanterns are seen floating on a river at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 2025. Photo by Xinhua/Jia Haocheng/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Hiroshima Ahead Bombing 80th Anniversary - Japan

Paper lanterns are seen floating on a river at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 2025. Photo by Xinhua/Jia Haocheng/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Hiroshima Ahead Bombing 80th Anniversary - Japan

People place paper lanterns on a river at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 2025. Photo by Xinhua/Jia Haocheng/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Hiroshima Ahead Bombing 80th Anniversary - Japan

Paper lanterns are seen floating on a river at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 2025. Photo by Xinhua/Jia Haocheng/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cherry trees bloom in Uzhhorod

A woman in a mask and a kimono poses for a photo with a katana against a Japan-inspired set of umbrellas and paper lanterns, Uzhhorod, Ukraine, on April 19, 2025. (Photo by Yulii Zozulia/Ukrinform)

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Cherry trees bloom in Uzhhorod

A girl in a fox mask and a kimono poses for a photo under a cherry tree against a Japan-inspired set of umbrellas and paper lanterns, Uzhhorod, Ukraine, on April 19, 2025. (Photo by Yulii Zozulia/Ukrinform)

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30th anniversary of Great Hanshin Earthquake

KOBE, Japan, Jan. 16 Kyodo - Paper lanterns are lit at a park in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 16, 2025, the eve of the 30th anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that struck the city and its vicinity, killing more than 6,000 people. (Kyodo)

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30th anniversary of Great Hanshin Earthquake

Paper lanterns are lit to form the date "1.17" on the bank of a river near the Atomic Bomb Dome (back) at the Peace Memorial Park in the western Japan city of Hiroshima on Jan. 17, 2025, to mark the 30th anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that struck the western Japan city of Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, and its vicinity, killing more than 6,400 people.

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30th anniversary of Great Hanshin Earthquake

Paper lanterns are lit on the bank of a river near the Atomic Bomb Dome (back) at the Peace Memorial Park in the western Japan city of Hiroshima on Jan. 17, 2025, to mark the 30th anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that struck the western Japan city of Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, and its vicinity, killing more than 6,400 people.

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30th anniversary of Great Hanshin Earthquake

Paper lanterns are lit at a park in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 16, 2025, the eve of the 30th anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that struck the city and its vicinity, killing more than 6,000 people.

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Trick-or-Treat Event - Prague

People make paper lanterns at a workshop at the Prague Botanical Garden in Prague, the Czech Republic, on October 31, 2024. The Prague Botanical Garden held a Halloween celebration and an evening lantern parade on Thursday. Photo by Dana Kesnerova/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Dnipro streets ahead of Halloween

DNIPRO, UKRAINE - OCTOBER 30, 2024 - Paper lanterns made to look like jack-o'-lanterns are in the street ahead of Halloween, Dnipro, east-central Ukraine.

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Murdered Teenager Lina Funeral - Plaine

Funeral of Lina during which the attendees lit paper lanterns, the 15-year-old teenager who disappeared on September 2023 at Saint-Arnould church in Plaine, eastern France on October 25, 2024. The body of the French teenager who disappeared on September 23, 2023 displayed along the D350 road between Champenay and Saint-Blaise-La-Roche, eastern France who went missing 13 months ago in Alsace in eastern France has been found after a long police search in Sermoise-sur-Loire, in the central Nievre department on October 17 2024, some 400km from where she was last seen. Photo by Christoph de Barry/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Murdered Teenager Lina Funeral - Plaine

Funeral of Lina during which the attendees lit paper lanterns, the 15-year-old teenager who disappeared on September 2023 at Saint-Arnould church in Plaine, eastern France on October 25, 2024. The body of the French teenager who disappeared on September 23, 2023 displayed along the D350 road between Champenay and Saint-Blaise-La-Roche, eastern France who went missing 13 months ago in Alsace in eastern France has been found after a long police search in Sermoise-sur-Loire, in the central Nievre department on October 17 2024, some 400km from where she was last seen. Photo by Christoph de Barry/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Murdered Teenager Lina Funeral - Plaine

Funeral of Lina during which the attendees lit paper lanterns, the 15-year-old teenager who disappeared on September 2023 at Saint-Arnould church in Plaine, eastern France on October 25, 2024. The body of the French teenager who disappeared on September 23, 2023 displayed along the D350 road between Champenay and Saint-Blaise-La-Roche, eastern France who went missing 13 months ago in Alsace in eastern France has been found after a long police search in Sermoise-sur-Loire, in the central Nievre department on October 17 2024, some 400km from where she was last seen. Photo by Christoph de Barry/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Murdered Teenager Lina Funeral - Plaine

Funeral of Lina during which the attendees lit paper lanterns, the 15-year-old teenager who disappeared on September 2023 at Saint-Arnould church in Plaine, eastern France on October 25, 2024. The body of the French teenager who disappeared on September 23, 2023 displayed along the D350 road between Champenay and Saint-Blaise-La-Roche, eastern France who went missing 13 months ago in Alsace in eastern France has been found after a long police search in Sermoise-sur-Loire, in the central Nievre department on October 17 2024, some 400km from where she was last seen. Photo by Christoph de Barry/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Murdered Teenager Lina Funeral - Plaine

Funeral of Lina during which the attendees lit paper lanterns, the 15-year-old teenager who disappeared on September 2023 at Saint-Arnould church in Plaine, eastern France on October 25, 2024. The body of the French teenager who disappeared on September 23, 2023 displayed along the D350 road between Champenay and Saint-Blaise-La-Roche, eastern France who went missing 13 months ago in Alsace in eastern France has been found after a long police search in Sermoise-sur-Loire, in the central Nievre department on October 17 2024, some 400km from where she was last seen. Photo by Christoph de Barry/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Murdered Teenager Lina Funeral - Plaine

Funeral of Lina during which the attendees lit paper lanterns, the 15-year-old teenager who disappeared on September 2023 at Saint-Arnould church in Plaine, eastern France on October 25, 2024. The body of the French teenager who disappeared on September 23, 2023 displayed along the D350 road between Champenay and Saint-Blaise-La-Roche, eastern France who went missing 13 months ago in Alsace in eastern France has been found after a long police search in Sermoise-sur-Loire, in the central Nievre department on October 17 2024, some 400km from where she was last seen. Photo by Christoph de Barry/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Murdered Teenager Lina Funeral - Plaine

Funeral of Lina during which the attendees lit paper lanterns, the 15-year-old teenager who disappeared on September 2023 at Saint-Arnould church in Plaine, eastern France on October 25, 2024. The body of the French teenager who disappeared on September 23, 2023 displayed along the D350 road between Champenay and Saint-Blaise-La-Roche, eastern France who went missing 13 months ago in Alsace in eastern France has been found after a long police search in Sermoise-sur-Loire, in the central Nievre department on October 17 2024, some 400km from where she was last seen. Photo by Christoph de Barry/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Murdered Teenager Lina Funeral - Plaine

Funeral of Lina during which the attendees lit paper lanterns, the 15-year-old teenager who disappeared on September 2023 at Saint-Arnould church in Plaine, eastern France on October 25, 2024. The body of the French teenager who disappeared on September 23, 2023 displayed along the D350 road between Champenay and Saint-Blaise-La-Roche, eastern France who went missing 13 months ago in Alsace in eastern France has been found after a long police search in Sermoise-sur-Loire, in the central Nievre department on October 17 2024, some 400km from where she was last seen. Photo by Christoph de Barry/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Murdered Teenager Lina Funeral - Plaine

Funeral of Lina during which the attendees lit paper lanterns, the 15-year-old teenager who disappeared on September 2023 at Saint-Arnould church in Plaine, eastern France on October 25, 2024. The body of the French teenager who disappeared on September 23, 2023 displayed along the D350 road between Champenay and Saint-Blaise-La-Roche, eastern France who went missing 13 months ago in Alsace in eastern France has been found after a long police search in Sermoise-sur-Loire, in the central Nievre department on October 17 2024, some 400km from where she was last seen. Photo by Christoph de Barry/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Murdered Teenager Lina Funeral - Plaine

Funeral of Lina during which the attendees lit paper lanterns, the 15-year-old teenager who disappeared on September 2023 at Saint-Arnould church in Plaine, eastern France on October 25, 2024. The body of the French teenager who disappeared on September 23, 2023 displayed along the D350 road between Champenay and Saint-Blaise-La-Roche, eastern France who went missing 13 months ago in Alsace in eastern France has been found after a long police search in Sermoise-sur-Loire, in the central Nievre department on October 17 2024, some 400km from where she was last seen. Photo by Christoph de Barry/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Murdered Teenager Lina Funeral - Plaine

Lina's boyfriend, Tao is seen during the funeral of Lina during which the attendees lit paper lanterns, the 15-year-old teenager who disappeared on September 2023 at Saint-Arnould church in Plaine, eastern France on October 25, 2024. The body of the French teenager who disappeared on September 23, 2023 displayed along the D350 road between Champenay and Saint-Blaise-La-Roche, eastern France who went missing 13 months ago in Alsace in eastern France has been found after a long police search in Sermoise-sur-Loire, in the central Nievre department on October 17 2024, some 400km from where she was last seen. Photo by Christoph de Barry/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Murdered Teenager Lina Funeral - Plaine

The mother of Lina, Fanny Groll is seen wearing a white scarf and crying and the boyfriend of Lina, Tao is seen with a beard and fuzzy hair during the funeral of Lina during which the attendees lit paper lanterns, the 15-year-old teenager who disappeared on September 2023 at Saint-Arnould church in Plaine, eastern France on October 25, 2024. The body of the French teenager who disappeared on September 23, 2023 displayed along the D350 road between Champenay and Saint-Blaise-La-Roche, eastern France who went missing 13 months ago in Alsace in eastern France has been found after a long police search in Sermoise-sur-Loire, in the central Nievre department on October 17 2024, some 400km from where she was last seen. Photo by Christoph de Barry/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Murdered Teenager Lina Funeral - Plaine

Funeral of Lina during which the attendees lit paper lanterns, the 15-year-old teenager who disappeared on September 2023 at Saint-Arnould church in Plaine, eastern France on October 25, 2024. The body of the French teenager who disappeared on September 23, 2023 displayed along the D350 road between Champenay and Saint-Blaise-La-Roche, eastern France who went missing 13 months ago in Alsace in eastern France has been found after a long police search in Sermoise-sur-Loire, in the central Nievre department on October 17 2024, some 400km from where she was last seen. Photo by Christoph de Barry/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Murdered Teenager Lina Funeral - Plaine

Funeral of Lina during which the attendees lit paper lanterns, the 15-year-old teenager who disappeared on September 2023 at Saint-Arnould church in Plaine, eastern France on October 25, 2024. The body of the French teenager who disappeared on September 23, 2023 displayed along the D350 road between Champenay and Saint-Blaise-La-Roche, eastern France who went missing 13 months ago in Alsace in eastern France has been found after a long police search in Sermoise-sur-Loire, in the central Nievre department on October 17 2024, some 400km from where she was last seen. Photo by Christoph de Barry/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Murdered Teenager Lina Funeral - Plaine

Funeral of Lina during which the attendees lit paper lanterns, the 15-year-old teenager who disappeared on September 2023 at Saint-Arnould church in Plaine, eastern France on October 25, 2024. The body of the French teenager who disappeared on September 23, 2023 displayed along the D350 road between Champenay and Saint-Blaise-La-Roche, eastern France who went missing 13 months ago in Alsace in eastern France has been found after a long police search in Sermoise-sur-Loire, in the central Nievre department on October 17 2024, some 400km from where she was last seen. Photo by Christoph de Barry/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Murdered Teenager Lina Funeral - Plaine

Funeral of Lina during which the attendees lit paper lanterns, the 15-year-old teenager who disappeared on September 2023 at Saint-Arnould church in Plaine, eastern France on October 25, 2024. The body of the French teenager who disappeared on September 23, 2023 displayed along the D350 road between Champenay and Saint-Blaise-La-Roche, eastern France who went missing 13 months ago in Alsace in eastern France has been found after a long police search in Sermoise-sur-Loire, in the central Nievre department on October 17 2024, some 400km from where she was last seen. Photo by Christoph de Barry/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Murdered Teenager Lina Funeral - Plaine

Funeral of Lina during which the attendees lit paper lanterns, the 15-year-old teenager who disappeared on September 2023 at Saint-Arnould church in Plaine, eastern France on October 25, 2024. The body of the French teenager who disappeared on September 23, 2023 displayed along the D350 road between Champenay and Saint-Blaise-La-Roche, eastern France who went missing 13 months ago in Alsace in eastern France has been found after a long police search in Sermoise-sur-Loire, in the central Nievre department on October 17 2024, some 400km from where she was last seen. Photo by Christoph de Barry/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Murdered Teenager Lina Funeral - Plaine

Funeral of Lina during which the attendees lit paper lanterns, the 15-year-old teenager who disappeared on September 2023 at Saint-Arnould church in Plaine, eastern France on October 25, 2024. The body of the French teenager who disappeared on September 23, 2023 displayed along the D350 road between Champenay and Saint-Blaise-La-Roche, eastern France who went missing 13 months ago in Alsace in eastern France has been found after a long police search in Sermoise-sur-Loire, in the central Nievre department on October 17 2024, some 400km from where she was last seen. Photo by Christoph de Barry/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Murdered Teenager Lina Funeral - Plaine

Lina's boyfriend, Tao is seen during the funeral of Lina during which the attendees lit paper lanterns, the 15-year-old teenager who disappeared on September 2023 at Saint-Arnould church in Plaine, eastern France on October 25, 2024. The body of the French teenager who disappeared on September 23, 2023 displayed along the D350 road between Champenay and Saint-Blaise-La-Roche, eastern France who went missing 13 months ago in Alsace in eastern France has been found after a long police search in Sermoise-sur-Loire, in the central Nievre department on October 17 2024, some 400km from where she was last seen. Photo by Christoph de Barry/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Murdered Teenager Lina Funeral - Plaine

Funeral of Lina during which the attendees lit paper lanterns, the 15-year-old teenager who disappeared on September 2023 at Saint-Arnould church in Plaine, eastern France on October 25, 2024. The body of the French teenager who disappeared on September 23, 2023 displayed along the D350 road between Champenay and Saint-Blaise-La-Roche, eastern France who went missing 13 months ago in Alsace in eastern France has been found after a long police search in Sermoise-sur-Loire, in the central Nievre department on October 17 2024, some 400km from where she was last seen. Photo by Christoph de Barry/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Murdered Teenager Lina Funeral - Plaine

Funeral of Lina during which the attendees lit paper lanterns, the 15-year-old teenager who disappeared on September 2023 at Saint-Arnould church in Plaine, eastern France on October 25, 2024. The body of the French teenager who disappeared on September 23, 2023 displayed along the D350 road between Champenay and Saint-Blaise-La-Roche, eastern France who went missing 13 months ago in Alsace in eastern France has been found after a long police search in Sermoise-sur-Loire, in the central Nievre department on October 17 2024, some 400km from where she was last seen. Photo by Christoph de Barry/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Murdered Teenager Lina Funeral - Plaine

Funeral of Lina during which the attendees lit paper lanterns, the 15-year-old teenager who disappeared on September 2023 at Saint-Arnould church in Plaine, eastern France on October 25, 2024. The body of the French teenager who disappeared on September 23, 2023 displayed along the D350 road between Champenay and Saint-Blaise-La-Roche, eastern France who went missing 13 months ago in Alsace in eastern France has been found after a long police search in Sermoise-sur-Loire, in the central Nievre department on October 17 2024, some 400km from where she was last seen. Photo by Christoph de Barry/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Lantern festival in southwestern Japan

Around 1,000 women wearing golden paper lanterns on their heads dance during the Yamaga lantern festival in Yamaga in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kumamoto on Aug. 16, 2024.

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Lantern festival in southwestern Japan

Around 1,000 women wearing golden paper lanterns on their heads form a circle during the Yamaga lantern dance festival in Yamaga in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kumamoto on Aug. 16, 2024.

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Lantern festival in southwestern Japan

Around 1,000 women wearing golden paper lanterns on their heads form a circle during the Yamaga lantern dance festival in Yamaga in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kumamoto on Aug. 16, 2024.

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Tohoku Kizuna Festival in Sendai

Performers of Akita Prefecture's Kanto festival troupe hold up poles decorated with paper lanterns as they march through a street of downtown Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture during the Tohoku Kizuna Festival on June 9, 2024. The event features parades involving six northeastern Japan prefectures, with the aim of revitalizing the region following the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster.

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XINHUA PHOTOS OF THE DAY

(240415) -- BEIJING, April 15, 2024 (Xinhua) -- People fly Kongming lanterns, a kind of small hot-air paper balloon, by the Lancang River in Jinghong City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, April 13, 2024, to celebrate the New Year of the calendar of the Dai ethnic group. (Xinhua/Wang Jingyi)

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CHINA-YUNNAN-JINGHONG-KONGMING LANTERNS (CN)

(240414) -- JINGHONG, April 14, 2024 (Xinhua) -- People fly Kongming lanterns, a kind of small hot-air paper balloon, by the Lancang River in Jinghong City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, April 13, 2024, to celebrate the New Year of the calendar of the Dai ethnic group. (Xinhua/Wang Jingyi)

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CHINA-YUNNAN-JINGHONG-KONGMING LANTERNS (CN)

(240414) -- JINGHONG, April 14, 2024 (Xinhua) -- People fly Kongming lanterns, a kind of small hot-air paper balloon, by the Lancang River in Jinghong City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, April 13, 2024, to celebrate the New Year of the calendar of the Dai ethnic group. (Xinhua/Dong Bohuai)

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CHINA-YUNNAN-JINGHONG-KONGMING LANTERNS (CN)

(240414) -- JINGHONG, April 14, 2024 (Xinhua) -- People watch flying Kongming lanterns, a kind of small hot-air paper balloon, on the Xishuangbanna Bridge in Jinghong City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, April 13, 2024, to celebrate the New Year of the calendar of the Dai ethnic group. (Xinhua/Wang Jingyi)

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CHINA-YUNNAN-JINGHONG-KONGMING LANTERNS (CN)

(240414) -- JINGHONG, April 14, 2024 (Xinhua) -- People fly Kongming lanterns, a kind of small hot-air paper balloon, by the Lancang River in Jinghong City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, April 13, 2024, to celebrate the New Year of the calendar of the Dai ethnic group. (Xinhua/Wang Jingyi)

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CHINA-YUNNAN-JINGHONG-KONGMING LANTERNS (CN)

(240414) -- JINGHONG, April 14, 2024 (Xinhua) -- People fly Kongming lanterns, a kind of small hot-air paper balloon, by the Lancang River in Jinghong City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, April 13, 2024, to celebrate the New Year of the calendar of the Dai ethnic group. (Xinhua/Wang Jingyi)

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CHINA-YUNNAN-JINGHONG-KONGMING LANTERNS (CN)

(240414) -- JINGHONG, April 14, 2024 (Xinhua) -- People fly Kongming lanterns, a kind of small hot-air paper balloon, by the Lancang River in Jinghong City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, April 13, 2024, to celebrate the New Year of the calendar of the Dai ethnic group. (Xinhua/Wang Jingyi)

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CHINA-YUNNAN-JINGHONG-KONGMING LANTERNS (CN)

(240414) -- JINGHONG, April 14, 2024 (Xinhua) -- People fly Kongming lanterns, a kind of small hot-air paper balloon, by the Lancang River in Jinghong City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, April 13, 2024, to celebrate the New Year of the calendar of the Dai ethnic group. (Xinhua/Wang Jingyi)

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CHINA-YUNNAN-JINGHONG-KONGMING LANTERNS (CN)

(240414) -- JINGHONG, April 14, 2024 (Xinhua) -- People fly Kongming lanterns, a kind of small hot-air paper balloon, by the Lancang River in Jinghong City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, April 13, 2024, to celebrate the New Year of the calendar of the Dai ethnic group. (Xinhua/Wang Jingyi)

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CHINA-YUNNAN-JINGHONG-KONGMING LANTERNS (CN)

(240414) -- JINGHONG, April 14, 2024 (Xinhua) -- People fly Kongming lanterns, a kind of small hot-air paper balloon, by the Lancang River in Jinghong City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, April 13, 2024, to celebrate the New Year of the calendar of the Dai ethnic group. (Xinhua/Wang Jingyi)