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Philippines: Alert Level 3 Raised For Kanlaon Volcano

As of December 23, the alert level for Kanlaon Volcano was raised to 3. At least 15 volcanic earthquakes were recorded in the past 24 hours. According to reports, over 7,000 tonnes of sulfur dioxide were emitted on Sunday, December 22.

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Soldiers for 2nd rotation of the UN peacekeeping mission for Lebanon - Spain

The military that make up the second rotation of the Lebanon Brigade XLII (BRILIB XLII), at the Torrejón Air Base, on November 17, 2024, in Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid (Spain). BRILIB XLII is composed of 630 troops from the Guzmán el Bueno X Brigade, based in Cerro Muriano (Córdoba). In Lebanon, they will take over from 650 soldiers of the Aragon Brigade who have completed the six months of Operation 'Libre Hidalgo', in a United Nations mission. Photo by Diego Radamés / Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Soldiers for 2nd rotation of the UN peacekeeping mission for Lebanon - Spain

Detail of the uniform of one of the members of the second rotation of the Brigade Lebanon XLII (BRILIB XLII), at the Torrejón Air Base, on November 17, 2024, in Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid (Spain). BRILIB XLII is composed of 630 troops from the Guzmán el Bueno X Brigade, based in Cerro Muriano (Córdoba). In Lebanon, they will take over from 650 soldiers of the Aragon Brigade who have completed the six months of Operation 'Libre Hidalgo', in a United Nations mission. Photo by Diego Radamés / Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Soldiers for 2nd rotation of the UN peacekeeping mission for Lebanon - Spain

The military that make up the second rotation of the Lebanon Brigade XLII (BRILIB XLII), at the Torrejón Air Base, on November 17, 2024, in Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid (Spain). BRILIB XLII is composed of 630 troops from the Guzmán el Bueno X Brigade, based in Cerro Muriano (Córdoba). In Lebanon, they will take over from 650 soldiers of the Aragon Brigade who have completed the six months of Operation 'Libre Hidalgo', in a United Nations mission. Photo by Diego Radamés / Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Soldiers for 2nd rotation of the UN peacekeeping mission for Lebanon - Spain

The soldiers that make up the second rotation of the Lebanon Brigade XLII (BRILIB XLII) board an aircraft at the Torrejón Air Base, on November 17, 2024, in Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid (Spain). BRILIB XLII is composed of 630 troops from the Guzmán el Bueno X Brigade, based in Cerro Muriano (Córdoba). In Lebanon, they will take over from 650 soldiers of the Aragon Brigade who have completed the six months of Operation 'Libre Hidalgo', in a United Nations mission. Photo by Diego Radamés / Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Soldiers for 2nd rotation of the UN peacekeeping mission for Lebanon - Spain

The military that make up the second rotation of the Lebanon Brigade XLII (BRILIB XLII), at the Torrejón Air Base, on November 17, 2024, in Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid (Spain). BRILIB XLII is composed of 630 troops from the Guzmán el Bueno X Brigade, based in Cerro Muriano (Córdoba). In Lebanon, they will take over from 650 soldiers of the Aragon Brigade who have completed the six months of Operation 'Libre Hidalgo', in a United Nations mission. Photo by Diego Radamés / Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Soldiers for 2nd rotation of the UN peacekeeping mission for Lebanon - Spain

The soldiers that make up the second rotation of the Lebanon Brigade XLII (BRILIB XLII) board an aircraft at the Torrejón Air Base, on November 17, 2024, in Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid (Spain). BRILIB XLII is composed of 630 troops from the Guzmán el Bueno X Brigade, based in Cerro Muriano (Córdoba). In Lebanon, they will take over from 650 soldiers of the Aragon Brigade who have completed the six months of Operation 'Libre Hidalgo', in a United Nations mission. Photo by Diego Radamés / Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Soldiers for 2nd rotation of the UN peacekeeping mission for Lebanon - Spain

The military that make up the second rotation of the Lebanon Brigade XLII (BRILIB XLII), at the Torrejón Air Base, on November 17, 2024, in Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid (Spain). BRILIB XLII is composed of 630 troops from the Guzmán el Bueno X Brigade, based in Cerro Muriano (Córdoba). In Lebanon, they will take over from 650 soldiers of the Aragon Brigade who have completed the six months of Operation 'Libre Hidalgo', in a United Nations mission. Photo by Diego Radamés / Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Soldiers for 2nd rotation of the UN peacekeeping mission for Lebanon - Spain

The soldiers that make up the second rotation of the Lebanon Brigade XLII (BRILIB XLII) board an aircraft at the Torrejón Air Base, on November 17, 2024, in Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid (Spain). BRILIB XLII is composed of 630 troops from the Guzmán el Bueno X Brigade, based in Cerro Muriano (Córdoba). In Lebanon, they will take over from 650 soldiers of the Aragon Brigade who have completed the six months of Operation 'Libre Hidalgo', in a United Nations mission. Photo by Diego Radamés / Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japanese volunteer killed during U.N. mission in Cambodia

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa prays at the cenotaph in Phnom Penh on July 6, 2024, for Atsuhito Nakata, a Japanese civilian and U.N. election observer who was killed in Cambodia during preparations for the U.N.-supervised general election in 1993.

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Japan police officer killed during U.N. mission in Cambodia

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa prays on July 5, 2024, at the cenotaph in Phnom Penh for Haruyuki Takata, a Japanese police officer killed in Cambodia during a U.N. peacekeeping operation in 1993.

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Japanese representative at UNHRC meeting

Takahiro Shiota, a minister-counsellor of the Permanent Mission of Japan to the International Organizations in Geneva, speaks at a U.N. Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva on Sept. 18, 2023, after Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki delivered a speech at the session and expressed his opposition to a plan to relocate a U.S. military base within the southern Japan prefecture.

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UNSC condemns N. Korea launch in presidential statement

NEW YORK, United States - Japanese State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Shintaro Ito (R) speaks at a news conference at Japan's permanent mission to the United Nations in New York on April 13 after the U.N. Security Council adopted a nonbinding presidential statement on North Korea's rocket launch. At left is Japanese Ambassador to the U.N. Yukio Takasu.

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Koike sends off SDF mission to Golan Heights

KOBE, Japan - Defense Minister Yuriko Koike (L) hands the contingent's flag to Maj. Yoshifumi Ogura during a sendoff ceremony in Itami, Hyogo Prefecture, on Aug. 19 for a Self-Defense Force contingent to join the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Golan Heights. Ogura will command the group for six moths from late August.

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2 Japanese policemen, liaison officer return from E. Timor

NARITA, Japan - Two Japanese police officers and a liaison officer returned to Narita airport on Aug. 3 after completing their six-month-long mission in the U.N.-led peacekeeping operation in East Timor.

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Japan to issue order over U.N. S. Sudan mission completion

TOKYO, Japan, March 24 Kyodo - In a meeting with reporters in Tokyo on March 24, 2017, Defense Minister Tomomi Inada announces she will issue an order to the Self-Defense Forces later in the day regarding the planned withdrawal of Japanese troops from a U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan in late May.

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Abe says Japan to contribute more to U.N. peacekeeping missions

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 19 Kyodo - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at a symposium in Tokyo commemorating 60 years of Japan's membership in the United Nations on Dec. 19, 2016. Abe said Japan will expand its contribution to United Nations peacekeeping operations in the future, with its Ground Self-Defense Force personnel already participating in a peacekeeping mission in South Sudan.

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N. Korean official remarks at U.N. meeting

NEW YORK, United States - Kim Song, a counselor for the North Korean Mission (C in front), makes remarks at a meeting at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Oct. 22, 2014, after Michael Kirby, former head of the U.N. commission of inquiry on North Korean human rights abuses finished his presentation.

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Refugee child passes by GSDF members in Juba

TOKYO, Japan - A refugee child passes by Japan Ground Self-Defense Force members who are engaged in drainage work at the base for the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the South Sudanese capital Juba in February 2014.

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Palestinian envoy in Japan urges U.N. role for cease-fire

TOKYO, Japan - Waleed Siam, head of the Permanent General Mission of Palestine in Tokyo, voices his hope for a U.N. role in realizing a cease-fire in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Gaza Strip during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on July 23, 2014.

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Outgoing UNMISS head Hilde Johnson

NEW YORK, United States - Outgoing United Nations Mission in South Sudan head Hilde Johnson gives a press conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York on June 30. 2014. She will leave her post on July 8.

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Syria chemical weapons elimination

NEW YORK, United States - Sigrid Kaag, who heads the joint mission of the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on the elimination of Syria's chemical weapons, answers reporters' questions at the U.N. headquarters in New York on June 4, 2014.

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Japan defense minister in South Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan - Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera (R) meets with Hilde Johnson, special representative of the U.N. secretary general, in Juba, South Sudan, on May 8, 2014. Johnson heads the U.N. Mission in the Republic of South Sudan.

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Refugee children in South Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan - Photo taken Feb. 13, 2014, shows children of refugees who have fled fighting to a base for a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Juba, South Sudan.

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Refugee children in South Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan - Photo taken Feb. 13, 2014, shows children of refugees who have fled fighting to a base for a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Juba, South Sudan.

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Refugee children in South Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan - Photo taken Feb. 13, 2014, shows children of refugees who have fled fighting to a base for a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Juba, South Sudan.

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Japanese troops in S. Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan - Refugees who have fled fighting to a base for a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Juba, South Sudan, walk by vehicles of Japan's Self-Defense Forces on Feb. 12, 2014.

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Japanese troops in S. Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan - Col. Kenichi Igawa, who leads a Ground Self-Defense Force engineering unit in South Sudan, is interviewed by Kyodo News in the capital Juba on Feb. 12, 2014. The Japanese unit is taking part in a U.N. peacekeeping mission in the African country.

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South Sudan unrest

JUBA, South Sudan - Photo shows the tents of people taking refuge at a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Juba, amid fighting in South Sudan on Dec. 22, 2013.

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South Sudan unrest

JUBA, South Sudan - Photo shows people taking refuge at a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Juba, amid fighting in South Sudan on Dec. 22, 2013.

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South Sudan unrest

JUBA, South Sudan - Members of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force supply water to people taking refuge at a U.N. peacekeeping mission base in Juba on Dec. 22, 2013, amid fighting in South Sudan.

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South Sudan unrest

JUBA, South Sudan - Members of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force examine people taking refuge at a U.N. peacekeeping mission base in Juba on Dec. 22, 2013, amid fighting in South Sudan.

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South Sudan unrest

JUBA, South Sudan - Photo shows people taking refuge on Dec. 22, 2013, near a camp of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force, part of a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Juba, amid fighting in South Sudan.

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South Sudan unrest

JUBA, South Sudan - Members of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force hand water to people taking refuge at a U.N. peacekeeping mission base in Juba on Dec. 22, 2013, amid fighting in South Sudan.

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South Sudan unrest

JUBA, South Sudan - Photo shows people taking refuge at a U.N. peacekeeping mission base in Juba on Dec. 22, 2013, amid fighting in South Sudan.

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Japanese UNICEF officer

DAMASCUS, Syria - Photo taken March 21, 2013 shows Iman Morooka, a UNICEF communications officer, at the office of the U.N. Children's Fund in Damascus during her two-month mission in civil war-torn Syria.

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Unrest in D.R. Congo

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo - Fighters of the M23 rebel movement are pictured in Goma, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, during their withdrawal on Dec. 1, 2012. M23 rebels occupied Goma in November 2012. In the background are members of a U.N. peacekeeping mission wearing blue helmets. (Photo by Takeshi Kuno)

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Unrest in D.R. Congo

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo - A U.N. peacekeeping mission vehicle passes fighters of the M23 rebel movement in Goma, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Dec. 1, 2012. M23 rebels occupied Goma in November 2012 until their withdrawal in early December. (Photo by Takeshi Kuno)

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Japan withdraws from U.N. peacekeeping mission in Golan Heights

BEN GURION AIRPORT, Israel - Members of Japan's Self-Defense Forces arrive at Ben Gurion airport in Israel on Jan. 15, 2013, as Japan concluded nearly 17 years of participation in U.N. peacekeeping operations in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

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Japan orders end to peacekeeping mission in Golan Heights

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto (C) attends a meeting at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 21, 2012. The Japanese government ordered the same day the withdrawal of the Self-Defense Forces from the U.N. peacekeeping operation in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights due to worsening security conditions, Morimoto said.

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Rebels in D.R. Congo

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo - Soldiers of the M23 rebel movement aboard a vehicle in Goma, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Dec. 1, 2012, withdraw from the front. At left is a member of a U.N. peacekeeping mission. (Photo by Takeshi Kuno)

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Syrian village massacre

TREMSEH, Syria - Residents surround a member (L) of the U.N. Supervision Mission in Syria in the central Syrian village of Tremseh on July 14, 2012. Villagers say more than 220 people were killed in an attack on the village carried out July 12 by the army and a pro-regime militia known as "shabiha."

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Japan peacekeeping mission in S. Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan - Members (back) of an engineering unit of Japan's Self-Defense Forces are pictured with local people (front) in Juba on July 5, 2012. The SDF members are engaged in infrastructure improvement work under a U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan.

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Japan support in S. Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan - A member of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force stays cool at its camp in Juba, South Sudan, on Feb. 19, 2012. An engineering unit of the GSDF is in South Sudan to support infrastructure building under a U.N. peacekeeping mission.

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Japan support in S. Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan - Lt. Col. Teruo Sakama, who leads an engineering unit of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force (front L), is welcomed by a South Sudan government official as members of the unit arrive at Juba airport on Feb. 20, 2012. The unit is in South Sudan to support infrastructure building under a U.N. peacekeeping mission.

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Japan support in S. Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan - A member of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force is seen standing with a shovel as the flags of Japan and the United Nations fly above the GSDF camp in Juba, South Sudan, on Feb. 22, 2012. An engineering unit of the GSDF is in South Sudan to support infrastructure building under a U.N. peacekeeping mission.

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Defense chief encourages GSDF members in S. Sudan

TOKYO, Japan - Defense Minister Naoki Tanaka (C) speaks in the ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 21, 2012, via videophone with Col. Toru Namatame (R) of the Ground Self-Defense Force deployed in South Sudan. Tanaka encouraged GSDF personnel who arrived in the African nation the previous day to join a U.N. peacekeeping mission.

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GSDF engineers in South Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan - A Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force engineer puts on a blue helmet marked UN in the South Sudan capital of Juba on Feb. 21, 2012. Japan has dispatched the first batch of around 120 GSDF engineers to construct roads in the fledgling African nation as part of a U.N. peacekeeping mission.

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GSDF engineers in South Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan - Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force engineers receive blue helmets marked UN in the South Sudan capital of Juba on Feb. 21, 2012. Japan has dispatched the first batch of around 120 GSDF engineers to construct roads in the fledgling African nation as part of a U.N. peacekeeping mission.

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GSDF engineers arrive in South Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan - Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force engineers arrive in the South Sudan capital of Juba on Feb. 20, 2012, to join a U.N. peacekeeping mission in the fledgling African nation.