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Japan: H2A Rocket Series Ends with 50th Launch from Tanegashima Successfully

The 50th and final H2A liquid-fuel rocket was launched from Tanegashima Space Center in southwestern Japan at 1:33 a.m. on June 29, drawing the curtain on the series' 24-year career in support of the country's space development program.

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South Korea: Fire Breaks Out at Seoul Convention Center, Prompting Evacuation

A fire broke out at the COEX convention center in Gangnam District, southern Seoul on Friday, April 25, prompting an evacuation of the building.

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U.S.-NEW YORK-JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION-COVID-19 VICTIMS-COMMEMORATION

(220621) -- NEW YORK, June 21, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Indira Findlay (R) designs a patch memorializing her children's grandfather who was a victim of the COVID-19 pandemic, for the quilt project during the 13th Annual Juneteenth Festival in Prospect Park in the Brooklyn borough of New York, the United States, on June 19, 2022. Participants made artworks or wrote words on the quilts in commemoration of their family members who died of the coronavirus. As African Americans in New York joined others from across the country to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States, they also honored the lives lost to the COVID-19 pandemic at a regular thematic event in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. TO GO WITH "Feature: New Yorkers honor lives lost to COVID-19 at Juneteenth celebration" (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua)

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U.S.-NEW YORK-JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION-COVID-19 VICTIMS-COMMEMORATION

(220621) -- NEW YORK, June 21, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A quilt memorializing victims of the COVID-19 pandemic is displayed as part of the quilt project during the 13th Annual Juneteenth Festival in Prospect Park in the Brooklyn borough of New York, the United States, on June 19, 2022. Participants made artworks or wrote words on the quilts in commemoration of their family members who died of the coronavirus. As African Americans in New York joined others from across the country to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States, they also honored the lives lost to the COVID-19 pandemic at a regular thematic event in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. TO GO WITH "Feature: New Yorkers honor lives lost to COVID-19 at Juneteenth celebration" (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua)

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U.S.-NEW YORK-JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION-COVID-19 VICTIMS-COMMEMORATION

(220621) -- NEW YORK, June 21, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Chayanne Marcano (1st L), and Catherine Mbali Green-Johnson (1st R), curators of the quilt project, watch as people make patches for a quilt memorializing victims of the COVID-19 pandemic during the 13th Annual Juneteenth Festival in Prospect Park in the Brooklyn borough of New York, the United States, on June 19, 2022. Participants made artworks or wrote words on the quilts in commemoration of their family members who died of the coronavirus. As African Americans in New York joined others from across the country to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States, they also honored the lives lost to the COVID-19 pandemic at a regular thematic event in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. TO GO WITH "Feature: New Yorkers honor lives lost to COVID-19 at Juneteenth celebration" (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua)

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U.S.-NEW YORK-JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION-COVID-19 VICTIMS-COMMEMORATION

(220621) -- NEW YORK, June 21, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Indira Findlay designs a patch memorializing her children's grandfather who was a victim of the COVID-19 pandemic, for the quilt project during the 13th Annual Juneteenth Festival in Prospect Park in the Brooklyn borough of New York, the United States, on June 19, 2022. Participants made artworks or wrote words on the quilts in commemoration of their family members who died of the coronavirus. As African Americans in New York joined others from across the country to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States, they also honored the lives lost to the COVID-19 pandemic at a regular thematic event in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. TO GO WITH "Feature: New Yorkers honor lives lost to COVID-19 at Juneteenth celebration" (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua)

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U.S.-NEW YORK-JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION-COVID-19 VICTIMS-COMMEMORATION

(220621) -- NEW YORK, June 21, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Chayanne Marcano, curator of the quilt project, hangs a patch for a quilt memorializing victims of the COVID-19 pandemic during the 13th Annual Juneteenth Festival in Prospect Park in the Brooklyn borough of New York, the United States, on June 19, 2022. Participants made artworks or wrote words on the quilts in commemoration of their family members who died of the coronavirus. As African Americans in New York joined others from across the country to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States, they also honored the lives lost to the COVID-19 pandemic at a regular thematic event in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. TO GO WITH "Feature: New Yorkers honor lives lost to COVID-19 at Juneteenth celebration" (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua)

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U.S.-NEW YORK-JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION-COVID-19 VICTIMS-COMMEMORATION

(220621) -- NEW YORK, June 21, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Chayanne Marcano (L) and Catherine Mbali Green-Johnson, curators of the quilt project, place a quilt memorializing victims of the COVID-19 pandemic during the 13th Annual Juneteenth Festival in Prospect Park in the Brooklyn borough of New York, the United States, on June 19, 2022. Participants made artworks or wrote words on the quilts in commemoration of their family members who died of the coronavirus. As African Americans in New York joined others from across the country to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States, they also honored the lives lost to the COVID-19 pandemic at a regular thematic event in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. TO GO WITH "Feature: New Yorkers honor lives lost to COVID-19 at Juneteenth celebration" (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua)

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U.S.-NEW YORK-JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION-COVID-19 VICTIMS-COMMEMORATION

(220621) -- NEW YORK, June 21, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A quilt memorializing victims of the COVID-19 pandemic is displayed as part of the quilt project during the 13th Annual Juneteenth Festival in Prospect Park in the Brooklyn borough of New York, the United States, on June 19, 2022. Participants made artworks or wrote words on the quilts in commemoration of their family members who died of the coronavirus. As African Americans in New York joined others from across the country to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States, they also honored the lives lost to the COVID-19 pandemic at a regular thematic event in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. TO GO WITH "Feature: New Yorkers honor lives lost to COVID-19 at Juneteenth celebration" (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua)

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U.S.-NEW YORK-JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION-COVID-19 VICTIMS-COMMEMORATION

(220621) -- NEW YORK, June 21, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Children design a patch memorializing their grandfather who was a victim of the COVID-19 pandemic for the quilt project during the 13th Annual Juneteenth Festival in Prospect Park in the Brooklyn borough of New York, the United States, on June 19, 2022. Participants made artworks or wrote words on the quilts in commemoration of their family members who died of the coronavirus. As African Americans in New York joined others from across the country to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States, they also honored the lives lost to the COVID-19 pandemic at a regular thematic event in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. TO GO WITH "Feature: New Yorkers honor lives lost to COVID-19 at Juneteenth celebration" (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua)

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New Yorkers honor lives lost to COVID-19 at Juneteenth celebration

STORY: New Yorkers honor lives lost to COVID-19 at Juneteenth celebration DATELINE: June 20, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:35 LOCATION: NEW YORK, U.S. CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the festival 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): CATHERINE MBALI GREEN-JOHNSON, Curator of the quilt project 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): CATHERINE MBALI GREEN-JOHNSON, Curator of the quilt project STORYLINE: A free music festival marking Juneteenth was held Sunday in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, where African Americans commemorated the end of slavery in the United States and honored the lives lost to COVID-19 pandemic. A traditional altar was set up at the central meadow, featuring quilts contributed by people in commemoration of their family members who died of the coronavirus. The markings and patterns in quilts were used as a way to message and learn where to go when Black people escaped from slavery hundreds of years ago. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): CATHERINE MBALI GREEN-JOHNSON, Curator of the quilt project "It is definitely very tightly wov

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U.S.-NEW YORK-JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION

(220620) -- NEW YORK, June 20, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People take part in a celebration of Juneteenth in Prospect Park in the Brooklyn borough of New York, the United States, June 19, 2022. Celebrated on June 19, the holiday marks the day in 1865 when Union Major General Gordon Granger issued General Order No. 3 in Galveston, Texas, emancipating the remaining enslaved people in the state. For enslaved Americans in Texas, freedom came two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua)

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U.S.-NEW YORK-JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION

(220620) -- NEW YORK, June 20, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People take part in a celebration of Juneteenth in Prospect Park in the Brooklyn borough of New York, the United States, June 19, 2022. Celebrated on June 19, the holiday marks the day in 1865 when Union Major General Gordon Granger issued General Order No. 3 in Galveston, Texas, emancipating the remaining enslaved people in the state. For enslaved Americans in Texas, freedom came two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua)