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US: Lake-Effect Snow Buries Upstate New York, Up to 6 Feet in Oswego County

Intense lake-effect snow buried parts of upstate New York on Sunday, dumping up to six feet of snow in Oswego County within days.

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US: Massive Tornado Touches Down Near Morton, West Texas

A large tornado was spotted near Morton, West Texas on Thursday, June 5, as severe storms swept through the region.

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Chinese New Year 2025 - Indonesia

(R-L) Brother and sister-in-law, Bulan, 25, and Yolin, 23, are seen together in the vibrant atmosphere of the Earth Snake Chinese New Year celebration at the Maitreya Temple in Chinatown, located in the Cemara Asri Complex in Deli Serdang, North Sumatra, Indonesia, on January 28, 2025. The event is marked by a spirit of harmony and tolerance, which enhances the significance of the 2025 Earth-Snake Chinese New Year festivities and inspires all Indonesians to appreciate the beauty of diversity. Photo by Sutanta Aditya/ABACAPRESS.COM

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India: Air Force Show Causes Travel Chaos In Chennai

An air show was held on Sunday, October 6, at Chennai Marina Beach to mark the 92nd IAF (Indian Air Force) Day celebrations. More than 1.5 million people flocked to the beach in scorching heat to watch the show. Buses and trains were packed for hours. Five people died, and more than 100 were taken to hospitals due to heatstroke and dehydration.

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U.S.-NEW YORK-CHINA-GUANGXI-PHOTO EXHIBITION

(240317) -- NEW YORK, March 17, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Liao Pinhu (4th R), vice chairman of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Jeffrey Greene (4th L), chairman of the Sino-American Aviation Heritage Foundation, Chinese Consul General in New York Huang Ping (3rd R), Jan Berris (1st R), vice president of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and George Geh (3rd L), CEO of China Institute, pose for a group photo at the opening ceremony of the "Sino-American Friendship in Guangxi" photo exhibition in New York, the United States, March 11, 2024. The event was held by the Guangxi People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries to commemorate the 45th anniversary of China-U.S. diplomatic ties. TO GO WITH "Feature: Spirit of Flying Tigers essential for sound China-U.S. relations" (Photo by Winston Zhou/Xinhua)

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Colombia V USA Womens U20 Friendly Preparatory Match Before U20 World Cup

USA Heather Gilchrist (L) and Colombia's Orianna Quintero (R) during the Colombia Vs USA Womens U20 friendly preparatory match in Bogota, Colombia's El Campin Stadium for the 2024 U20 Womens Wold Cup, on February 25, 2024. Photo by: Sebastian Barros/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Colombia V USA Womens U20 Friendly Preparatory Match Before U20 World Cup

Colombia's Sintia Cabezas (L) and USA Giana Riley (R) during the Colombia Vs USA Womens U20 friendly preparatory match in Bogota, Colombia's El Campin Stadium for the 2024 U20 Womens Wold Cup, on February 25, 2024. Photo by: Sebastian Barros/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Colombia V USA Womens U20 Friendly Preparatory Match Before U20 World Cup

Colombia Cristina Motta (L) and USA Leah Klenke (R) during the Colombia Vs USA Womens U20 friendly preparatory match in Bogota, Colombia's El Campin Stadium for the 2024 U20 Womens Wold Cup, on February 25, 2024. Photo by: Sebastian Barros/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japan PM Kishida receives "awamori" spirit

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (R) is gifted "awamori," a distilled spirit from Okinawa Prefecture, during a meeting with officials of the southern Japan prefecture's liquor makers' association at the premier's office in Tokyo on July 24, 2023.

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THAILAND-AYUTTHAYA-LUBAN WORKSHOP

(230318) -- AYUTTHAYA, March 18, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A teacher (1st R) instructs students at the Luban Workshop of Ayutthaya Technical College in Ayutthaya, Thailand, March 14, 2023. The Luban Workshop, a Chinese vocational workshop program training talents overseas, was first inaugurated in Ayutthaya Technical College in March 2016. The workshop is named after Lu Ban, an ancient Chinese craftsman that represents the Chinese tradition of craftsmanship spirit. This workshop and its training center for railway talents have trained many students for Thailand in the past seven years. (Xinhua/Wang Teng)

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CHINA-TIANJIN-PAKISTANI STUDENT-CHINESE MARTIAL ARTS (CN)

(221227) -- TIANJIN, Dec. 27, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Huo Jinghong (R) gives a thumb up to Muhammad Nabil at a martial arts gym in Xiqing District, north China's Tianjin, Dec. 25, 2022. Muhammad Nabil is a Pakistani student at Nankai University in Tianjin. In 2018, he chose to come to Tianjin to study for his Ph.D., not only to achieve quality education here, but also to fulfill his dream to chase the Chinese martial arts, or Kung Fu. Muhammad Nabil said he became a fan of Huo Yuanjia, a renowned Chinese martial arts master, after watching Chinese Kung Fu movies in Pakistan. During his study in Tianjin, he came to Jingwu Town, Huo Yuanjia's hometown, and met Huo Jinghong, a descendant of the Kung Fu legend and a martial arts teacher with Tianjin University of Sport. Instructed by Huo, Muhammad Nabil started to practice the Huo-style boxing, which was listed as an intangible cultural heritage in Tianjin. Speaking of the future, Muhammad Nabil hopes to work in China as a teacher and better understand the spirit

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New Year sumo

TOKYO, Japan - Yokozuna Hakuho (R) waves in a celebration parade after winning the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on Jan. 26, 2014. Hakuho won his 28th career title. At left is No. 10 maegashira Endo, who was awarded the Fighting Spirit Prize.

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Kyushu Grand Sumo

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo shows Shohozan (R), who won the Fighting Spirit Prize, and Goeido, who received the Technique Prize, at the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament in Fukuoka on Nov. 25, 2012.

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Prize-winning sumo wrestlers

FUKUOKA, Japan - Sekiwake Kisenosato (C) holds the Technique Prize trophy while rank-and-filers Wakakoyu (L) and Aoiyama (R) each hold Fighting Spirit prize trophies after the final matches of the 15-day Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament in Fukuoka on Nov. 27, 2011.

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Hakuho wins his record-tying seventh consecutive title

TOKYO, Japan - Mongolian grand champion Hakuho (R), who won the May Technical Examination Tournament, throws his arms in the air in celebration at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on May 22, 2011. He won his record-tying seventh consecutive title. Brazilian sumo wrestler Kaisei was awarded the Fighting Spirit Prize.

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Hakuho wins his record-tying seventh consecutive title

TOKYO, Japan - Mongolian grand champion Hakuho (R), who won the May Technical Examination Tournament, responds to the crowd at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on May 22, 2011. He won his record-tying seventh consecutive title. Brazilian sumo wrestler Kaisei was awarded the Fighting Spirit Prize.

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Recipients of three special prizes at New Year basho

TOKYO, Japan - Recipients of three special prizes the Japan Sumo Association gives to makuuchi division wrestlers on the final day of a tournament show off their trophies for the prizes on Jan. 24, 2010. (From L to R) No. 16 maegashira Toyohibiki, who earned his third Fighting Spirit Prize, Estonian sekiwake Baruto, the Outstanding Performance Prize winner, and Aminishiki, the sixth-ranked maegashira who won the Technique Prize.

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Former Yomiuri manager Nagashima attends award ceremony

TOKYO, Japan - Former Yomiuri Giants manager Shigeo Nagashima (R) awards the Golden Spirit prize to Tsuyoshi Wada, a pitcher of the Pacific League baseball club Softbank Hawks, during a ceremony at a Tokyo hotel on Nov. 24.

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Mazda releases last RX-7 sports car

TOKYO, Japan - Mazda Motor Corp. announced March 25 its final model of the RX-7 rotary engine sports car, whose limited-production will end in August. The ''Spirit R'' is the last of the RX-7 which debuted in 1978 as the world's first mass-produced sports car with a compact and high-output rotary engine.

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Germany's Schroeder arrives in Okinawa, tastes 'awamori'

NAGO, Japan - German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder (R) tastes ''awamori,'' Okinawa's traditional distilled spirit, at a hotel in Yomitanson in the southernmost island prefecture after arriving earlier in the day. Schroeder is the first Group of Eight (G-8) leader to reach Okinawa Prefecture to take part in the three-day G-8 summit opening in Nago on July 21.

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ASEAN summits kick off in Cambodia, highlighting unity in face of challenges

STORY: ASEAN summits kick off in Cambodia, highlighting unity in face of challenges DATELINE: Nov. 11, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:00 LOCATION: Phnom Penh CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. STANDUP (English): HUANG XITIAN, Xinhua correspondent 2. various of Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen 3. various of the forum 4. various of Phnom Penh STORYLINE: STANDUP (English): HUANG XITIAN, Xinhua correspondent "The 40th and 41st ASEAN Summits and Related Summits kicked off today in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh. This year's summits highlight ASEAN's spirit of "Togetherness" as one community and the collective will to address and overcome challenges facing the region. Post-COVID-19 pandemic recovery, security issues, rising global inflation and climate change will be discussed during the summits." Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen made a speech at the opening ceremony. He urged the 10-member ASEAN to focus on the common goal of mutual development for peace, stability and the betterment of the r

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NEW ZEALAND-CHRISTCHURCH-REWI ALLEY-SYMPOSIUM

(221021) -- CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 21, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Ambassador to New Zealand Wang Xiaolong (L) and David Carter (R), former speaker of the New Zealand Parliament, visit a photo exhibition of Rewi Alley during a symposium to commemorate Alley's spirit and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the diplomatic ties between China and New Zealand, in Christchurch, New Zealand, Oct. 20, 2022. An old friend of the Chinese people, Rewi Alley, a New Zealand-born writer, social reformer and educator, had spent 60 years living and working in China before he died in 1987 in Beijing. He was the one who opened the door for New Zealand-China diplomatic ties. TO GO WITH "Feature: Rewi Alley's enduring legacy to help forge ever-tighter China-New Zealand link" (Photo by Kevin Zeng/Xinhua)

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(SP)CHINA-HENAN-ZHENGZHOU-STREET DANCE (CN)

(220726) -- ZHENGZHOU, July 26, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Ma Gaixiang (R) of Huo Mei Gui dance group practices at a street dance studio in Zhengzhou, central China's Henan Province, July 19, 2022. In Zhengzhou, central China's Henan Province, there is a female street dance group Huo Mei Gui (meaning Fire Rose). Founded in 2008, the group now has 16 members of 45 to 71 years old. Despite their age, they are full of energy when dancing. They practice every week and share the videos online. Now they have more than 50,000 followers on the short-video sharing platform. Many of the followers are young people. Through persistent practice, they dance better and better. They have performed in many television programmes, and even participated in an international street dance competition. The name of the group Huo Mei Gui just represents their positive spirit. Street dance keeps them mentally young and they hope that they can keep dancing. (Xinhua/Li An)

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(SP)CHINA-HENAN-ZHENGZHOU-STREET DANCE (CN)

(220726) -- ZHENGZHOU, July 26, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Yu Qinhua, Zhou Fang, Yan Xi'e and Gao Jingwen (from L to R) of Huo Mei Gui dance group practice in Zhengzhou, central China's Henan Province, July 21, 2022. In Zhengzhou, central China's Henan Province, there is a female street dance group Huo Mei Gui (meaning Fire Rose). Founded in 2008, the group now has 16 members of 45 to 71 years old. Despite their age, they are full of energy when dancing. They practice every week and share the videos online. Now they have more than 50,000 followers on the short-video sharing platform. Many of the followers are young people. Through persistent practice, they dance better and better. They have performed in many television programmes, and even participated in an international street dance competition. The name of the group Huo Mei Gui just represents their positive spirit. Street dance keeps them mentally young and they hope that they can keep dancing. (Xinhua/Li An)

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(SP)CHINA-HENAN-ZHENGZHOU-STREET DANCE (CN)

(220726) -- ZHENGZHOU, July 26, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Yan Xi'e (3rd R), Zhou Fang (2nd R) and Zhang Ruifang of Huo Mei Gui dance group practice at a street dance studio in Zhengzhou, central China's Henan Province, July 19, 2022. In Zhengzhou, central China's Henan Province, there is a female street dance group Huo Mei Gui (meaning Fire Rose). Founded in 2008, the group now has 16 members of 45 to 71 years old. Despite their age, they are full of energy when dancing. They practice every week and share the videos online. Now they have more than 50,000 followers on the short-video sharing platform. Many of the followers are young people. Through persistent practice, they dance better and better. They have performed in many television programmes, and even participated in an international street dance competition. The name of the group Huo Mei Gui just represents their positive spirit. Street dance keeps them mentally young and they hope that they can keep dancing. (Xinhua/Li An)

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(SP)CHINA-HENAN-ZHENGZHOU-STREET DANCE (CN)

(220726) -- ZHENGZHOU, July 26, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Hou Yanli (1st R) of Huo Mei Gui dance group practices at a street dance studio in Zhengzhou, central China's Henan Province, July 19, 2022. In Zhengzhou, central China's Henan Province, there is a female street dance group Huo Mei Gui (meaning Fire Rose). Founded in 2008, the group now has 16 members of 45 to 71 years old. Despite their age, they are full of energy when dancing. They practice every week and share the videos online. Now they have more than 50,000 followers on the short-video sharing platform. Many of the followers are young people. Through persistent practice, they dance better and better. They have performed in many television programmes, and even participated in an international street dance competition. The name of the group Huo Mei Gui just represents their positive spirit. Street dance keeps them mentally young and they hope that they can keep dancing. (Xinhua/Li An)

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CHINA-YUNNAN-WANGJIATAN-FAMILY FOSTER CARE (CN)

(220708) -- YUNNAN, July 8, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Cao Liqiong (R) and Abin (pseudonym) harvest vegetables in a field in Wangjiatan Village of Caopu Township in Anning, southwest China's Yunnan Province, July 6, 2022. TO GO WITH "Feature: Fostering a spirit of family, homeliness for less fortunate kids" (Xinhua/Zhou Lei)

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(BEIJING2022)CHINA-BEIJING-OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES-SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING-YOUNG SKATERS (CN)

(220219) -- BEIJING, Feb. 19, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Young skater Wei Rongbin (R) poses for a photo with his father who accompanies him during the winter training at Century Star Rink in Changping District of Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 10, 2022. The short track speed skating as a Winter Olympic event has seen a burgeoning popularity among ordinary people, attracting more and more people to ice and snow sports. In recent years, endeavor has been made to promote winter sports among the populace in Shijingshan District of Beijing. In that spirit, Shijingshan District Short Track Speed Skating Team was formed. The team is currently composed of nearly 70 skaters aged between 6 to 16, most of whom switched from sports of track and field, roller skating or other events. The short track speed skating team, with the former short track speed skating world champion Zhao Nannan serving as the .....

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Former Yomiuri manager Nagashima attends award ceremony

TOKYO, Japan - Former Yomiuri Giants manager Shigeo Nagashima (R) awards the Golden Spirit prize to Tsuyoshi Wada, a pitcher of the Pacific League baseball club Softbank Hawks, during a ceremony at a Tokyo hotel on Nov. 24. (Kyodo)

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Mazda releases last RX-7 sports car

TOKYO, Japan - Mazda Motor Corp. announced March 25 its final model of the RX-7 rotary engine sports car, whose limited-production will end in August. The ''Spirit R'' is the last of the RX-7 which debuted in 1978 as the world's first mass-produced sports car with a compact and high-output rotary engine.

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Roving Mars (2006)

Reed Smoot, George Butler & Stephen Squyres Film: Roving Mars (2006) Director: George Butler 27 January 2006 Pictured (L-R from center): Reed Smoot, George Butler, & Steve Squyre. Explore the surface of Mars as never before with two adventurous robots named Spirit and Opportunity in ROVING MARS, directed by George Butler and produced by Frank Marshall and George Butler. Permission is hereby granted to all media to reproduce this picture on the condition it is used in connection with direct publicity for the movie in which it appears and that it is accompanied by 'ｩ Disney Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved.' All other uses require prior written consent of Buena Vista International. Date: 27 January 2006

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Roving Mars (2006)

George Butler & Stephen Squyres Film: Roving Mars (2006) Director: George Butler 27 January 2006 Pictured (L-R): George Butler and Steve Squyre. Explore the surface of Mars as never before with two adventurous robots named Spirit and Opportunity in ROVING MARS, directed by George Butler and produced by Frank Marshall and George Butler. Permission is hereby granted to all media to reproduce this picture on the condition it is used in connection with direct publicity for the movie in which it appears and that it is accompanied by 'ｩ Disney Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved.' All other uses require prior written consent of Buena Vista International. Date: 27 January 2006

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Women holding kotos and shamisens

These two women exude health and uninhibited spirit in their simple kimono. The viewer senses a natural, gentle inner beauty and warmth.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:R. Stillfried, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number76‐17‐0]

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Hakuho wins his record-tying seventh consecutive title

TOKYO, Japan - Mongolian grand champion Hakuho (R), who won the May Technical Examination Tournament, throws his arms in the air in celebration at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on May 22, 2011. He won his record-tying seventh consecutive title. Brazilian sumo wrestler Kaisei is awarded the Fighting Spirit Prize. (Kyodo)

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Hakuho wins his record-tying seventh consecutive title

TOKYO, Japan - Mongolian grand champion Hakuho (R), who won the May Technical Examination Tournament, responds to the cheers at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on May 22, 2011. He won his record-tying seventh consecutive title. Brazilian sumo wrestler Kaisei is awarded the Fighting Spirit Prize. (Kyodo)

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Recipients of three special prizes at New Year basho

TOKYO, Japan - Recipients of three special prizes the Japan Sumo Association gives to makuuchi division wrestlers on the final day of a tournament show off their trophies for the prizes on Jan. 24, 2010. (From L to R) No. 16 maegashira Toyohibiki, who earned his third Fighting Spirit Prize, Estonian sekiwake Baruto, the Outstanding Performance Prize winner, and Aminishiki, the sixth-ranked maegashira who won the Technique Prize. (Kyodo)

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Prize-winning sumo wrestlers

FUKUOKA, Japan - Sekiwake Kisenosato (C) holds the Technique Prize trophy while rank-and-filers Wakakoyu (L) and Aoiyama (R) each hold Fighting Spirit prize trophies after the final matches of the 15-day Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament in Fukuoka on Nov. 27, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Olympics: Pyeongchang-bound Japanese athletes at ceremony

Japanese pop singer AI (2nd from R) and short track speed skater Kazuki Yoshinaga (3rd from R) get into the spirit during a send-off ceremony in Tokyo on Jan. 24, 2018, ahead of the start of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in February. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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S. Korea's Moon vows to restore democratic spirit of 1980 uprising

South Korea's new President Moon Jae In (R in front) talks to people, who lost their relatives at a 1980 pro-democracy uprising, during a ceremony marking the 37th anniversary of a 1980 pro-democracy uprising in Gwangju, a city in southwestern South Korea. Moon vowed at the ceremony to restore the democratic spirit of the uprising. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Panel calls for community service for students

TOKYO, Sept. 22 Kyodo - Nobel Physics Prize laureate Reona (Leo) Esaki (R), head of the National Commission on Educational Reform, hands Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori his panel's interim report Sept. 22. The report said the nation's school curricula should require all elementary, junior high and senior high school students to take part in community service to nurture their sense of self-reliance and civic spirit.

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Germany's Schroeder arrives in Okinawa, tastes 'awamori'

NAGO, Japan - German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder (R) tastes ''awamori,'' Okinawa's traditional distilled spirit, at a hotel in Yomitanson in the southernmost island prefecture after arriving earlier in the day. Schroeder is the first Group of Eight (G-8) leader to reach Okinawa Prefecture to take part in the three-day G-8 summit opening in Nago on July 21.