Philippines: Typhoon Kalmaegi Triggers Severe Flooding, Displacing Thousands 4

At least 140 people have died and 127 remain missing after Typhoon Kalmaegi struck the Philippines, with the central province of Cebu suffering the worst damage from floods and mudslides. Homes were destroyed and streets were left buried in debris, forcing thousands of residents to evacuate. In Cebu, floodwaters rose to roof level in some areas. A state of calamity has been declared in Cebu to speed up emergency response as rescue operations continue.

Illustration - New York City - NYC

Illustration - New York City - NYC

UNITED STATES, NEW YORK CITY, MANHATTAN. ELEVATED VIEW OF THE SKYSCRAPERS EMPIRE STATE BUILDING AND WORLD TRADE CENTER AT TWILIGHT Photo by Francois Roux/Only World/ABACAPRESS.COM

Illustration - New York City - NYC

Illustration - New York City - NYC

UNITED STATES, NEW YORK CITY, MANHATTAN. PANORAMIC MIDTOWN MANHATTAN AT SUNSET AND SKYCSRAPERS (EMPIRE STATE BUILDING AND WORLD TRADE CENTER). NEW YORK HARBOR IN THE DISTANCE Photo by Francois Roux/Only World/ABACAPRESS.COM

Illustration - New York City - NYC

Illustration - New York City - NYC

UNITED STATES, NEW YORK CITY, MANHATTAN, LOWER MANHATTAN. THE TWO BEAMS OF THE TRIBUTE IN LIGHT WITH SKYCRAPERS OF FINANCIAL DISTRICT AT NIGHT (WITH THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING INTHE DISTANCE) Photo by Francois Roux/Only World/ABACAPRESS.COM

Illustration - New York City - NYC

Illustration - New York City - NYC

UNITED STATES, NEW YORK, MANHATTAN, LOWER MANHATTAN. NEW YORK HARBOR VIEW OF ONE WORLD TRADE CENTER, LOWER MANHATTAN FINANCIAL DISTRICT SKYSCRAPERS AND ELLIS ISLAND. THE SKYLINE AND CLOUDS REFLECT LATE AFTERNOON SUNLIGHT Photo by Francois Roux/Only World/ABACAPRESS.COM

World Trade Center Building New Main Building and Terminal Construction

World Trade Center Building New Main Building and Terminal Construction

World Trade Center Building New Main Building and Terminal Construction=June 22,2025,Tokyo

World Trade Center Building New Main Building and Terminal Construction

World Trade Center Building New Main Building and Terminal Construction

World Trade Center Building New Main Building and Terminal Construction=June 22,2025,Tokyo

World Trade Center Building New Main Building and Terminal Construction

World Trade Center Building New Main Building and Terminal Construction

World Trade Center Building New Main Building and Terminal Construction=June 22,2025,Tokyo

World Trade Center Building New Main Building and Terminal Construction

World Trade Center Building New Main Building and Terminal Construction

World Trade Center Building New Main Building and Terminal Construction=June 22,2025,Tokyo

World Trade Center Building New Main Building and Terminal Construction

World Trade Center Building New Main Building and Terminal Construction

World Trade Center Building New Main Building and Terminal Construction=June 22,2025,Tokyo

World Trade Center Building New Main Building and Terminal Construction

World Trade Center Building New Main Building and Terminal Construction

World Trade Center Building New Main Building and Terminal Construction=June 22,2025,Tokyo

US: Multiple Arrested At Pro-Palestine Protest Outside NYU Stern School Of Business

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators, including students and faculty members, rallied outside the New York University Stern School of Business on Monday, April 22. As the protest intensified, multiple protesters were taken into custody.

World Trade Center Building New Main Building and Terminal Construction

World Trade Center Building New Main Building and Terminal Construction

World Trade Center Building New Main Building and Terminal Construction =Date:March 6, 2024, Place: Tokyo

World Trade Center Building New Main Building and Terminal Construction

World Trade Center Building New Main Building and Terminal Construction

World Trade Center Building New Main Building and Terminal Construction =Date:March 6, 2024, Place: Tokyo

World Trade Center Building New Main Building and Terminal Construction

World Trade Center Building New Main Building and Terminal Construction

World Trade Center Building New Main Building and Terminal Construction =Date:March 6, 2024, Place: Tokyo

World Trade Center Building New Main Building and Terminal Construction

World Trade Center Building New Main Building and Terminal Construction

World Trade Center Building New Main Building and Terminal Construction =Date:March 6, 2024, Place: Tokyo

World Trade Center Building New Main Building and Terminal Construction

World Trade Center Building New Main Building and Terminal Construction

World Trade Center Building under construction of new main building and terminal=Date:August 26, 2023,Place:Tokyo

World Trade Center Building New Main Building and Terminal Construction

World Trade Center Building New Main Building and Terminal Construction

World Trade Center Building under construction of new main building and terminal=Date:August 26, 2023,Place:Tokyo

World Trade Center Building New Main Building and Terminal Construction

World Trade Center Building New Main Building and Terminal Construction

World Trade Center Building under construction of new main building and terminal=Date:August 26, 2023,Place:Tokyo

Yearender: Xinhua's top 10 world news events in 2022

Yearender: Xinhua's top 10 world news events in 2022

(221230) -- BEIJING, Dec. 30, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Participants walk outside the Nanning International Convention and Exhibition Center, the venue of the 19th China-ASEAN Expo and the China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit, in Nanning, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Sept. 16, 2022. The expo spotlighted the theme of "Sharing RCEP New Opportunities, Building a Version 3.0 China-ASEAN Free Trade Area." Xinhua's top 10 world news events in 2022 RCEP takes effect, sending strong voice of Asia on integration The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) officially entered into force on Jan. 1, marking the launch of a free trade area with the hugest population, the largest trade scale and the greatest potential for development. Over the past year, the proportion of tariff-free products among member states has increased by a large margin, trade and investment have been further liberalized and facilitated, and regional industrial, supply and value chains have been further consolidat

Four World Trade Center

Four World Trade Center

NEW YORK, United States - Architect Fumihiko Maki speaks at the opening of Four World Trade Center in lower Manhattan on Nov. 13, 2013. The building was the first to open on the original site since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Four World Trade Center

Four World Trade Center

NEW YORK, United States - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (C) and President and CEO of Silverstein Properties Larry Silverstein (R) cut the ceremonial ribbon at the opening of Four World Trade Center on Nov. 13, 2013 in lower Manhattan. The building was the first to open on the original World Trade Center site after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Four World Trade Center

Four World Trade Center

NEW YORK, United States - Photo taken on Nov. 11, 2013, shows Four World Trade Center in lower Manhattan. The building was the first to open on Nov. 13, 2013, on the original site since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Tokyo's World Trade Center

Tokyo's World Trade Center

TOKYO, Japan - File photo in February 2012 shows the World Trade Center Building in Tokyo. The building will be rebuilt due to the aging of the structure completed in 1970 as one of Japan's first skyscrapers, its operator said on Oct. 18, 2012.

Semipublic entity applies for court protection from creditors

Semipublic entity applies for court protection from creditors

OSAKA, Japan - This undated photo shows the Osaka World Trade Center Building in Osaka. A heavily-indebted semipublic Osaka entity that operates the building filed for court protection from creditors March 26 under the corporate rehabilitation law. The company was set up in 1989 through funding by the Osaka Municipal government and private firms, and opened the 256-meter, 55-story skyscraper in the Osaka Bay area in 1995 -- the tallest building in western Japan at the time.

Marine equipment trade show held in the Netherlands

STORY: Marine equipment trade show held in the Netherlands DATELINE: Nov. 18, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:12 LOCATION: Amsterdam CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the 34th International Marine Equipment Trade Show STORYLINE: The 34th International Marine Equipment Trade Show was held at RAI convention center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from Tuesday to Thursday. More than 1,000 exhibitors participated in the three-day trade fair, which is one of the world's largest such events for marine equipment, materials and systems. For 34 years, the trade fair has been known in the maritime leisure industry and as a platform for innovations, market developments and networking. In addition to the entire leisure boating industry, the focus is also placed on three special sectors, namely super yachts, marinas and shipyards and building materials. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Amsterdam. (XHTV)

China's growth helpful to Global South economies: Turkish scholar

STORY: China's growth helpful to Global South economies: Turkish scholar DATELINE: Aug. 29, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:56 LOCATION: ISTANBUL, Türkiye CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE (English): SELCUK COLAKOGLU, Director, Turkish Center for Asia Pacific Studies STORYLINE: Selcuk Colakoglu, director of the Ankara-based Turkish Center of Asia Pacific Studies has said that China's opening-up policy is a success and its growth has become helpful to the Global South economies. SOUNDBITE (English): SELCUK COLAKOGLU, Director, Turkish Center for Asia Pacific Studies "China has become a trade and production center of the world. And in recent years, also China has an effort to get more quality development and more quality trade relationship with other countries. So Chinese opening up to the international market, reforming its economic structure, and also building a supply chain as a center of China is a success story. So now the Chinese government has a focus on more quality high-tech development progress. And als

U.S.-NEW YORK-CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION-LIGHT PROJECTION

U.S.-NEW YORK-CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION-LIGHT PROJECTION

(220131) -- NEW YORK, Jan. 31, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on Jan. 30, 2022 shows the Empire State Building and One World Trade Center lit up for the Chinese Lunar New Year, in New York, the United States. (Photo by Winston Zhou/Xinhua)

Semipublic entity applies for court protection from creditors

Semipublic entity applies for court protection from creditors

OSAKA, Japan - This undated photo shows the Osaka World Trade Center Building in Osaka. A heavily-indebted semipublic Osaka entity that operates the building filed for court protection from creditors March 26 under the corporate rehabilitation law. The company was set up in 1989 through funding by the Osaka Municipal government and private firms, and opened the 256-meter, 55-story skyscraper in the Osaka Bay area in 1995 -- the tallest building in western Japan at the time. (Kyodo)

Crocodile Dundee (1986)

Crocodile Dundee (1986)

Paul Hogan Characters: Michael J. 'Crocodile' Dundee Film: Crocodile Dundee (AUS 1986) / Location: New York City Director: Peter Faiman 24 April 1986 Date: 24 April 1986

The world's biggest ad

The world's biggest ad

SEOUL, South Korea - A young man holding the World Cup trophy graces the wall of the Trade Center building in Seoul on May 8, in what is believed to the world's largest wall advertising. The ad is 130 meters high and 25 meters wide.

Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, Lexington Avenue, Manhattan, NEW YORK 2017, NY, New York City, NY, NYC, night, picture in the night, electricity, lighting

Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, Lexington Avenue, Manhattan, NEW YORK 2017, NY, New York City, NY, NYC, night, picture in the night, electricity, lighting

Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, Lexington Avenue, Manhattan, NEW YORK 2017, NY, New York City, NY, NYC, night, picture in the night, electricity, lighting, in 8/2/2017 (CTK Photo/Vladimir Houdek)

Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, Lexington Avenue, Manhattan, NEW YORK 2017, NY, New York City, NY, NYC,

Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, Lexington Avenue, Manhattan, NEW YORK 2017, NY, New York City, NY, NYC,

Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, Lexington Avenue, Manhattan, NEW YORK 2017, NY, New York City, NY, NYC, in 8/2/2017 (CTK Photo/Vladimir Houdek)

Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, Lexington Avenue, Manhattan, NEW YORK 2017, NY, New York City, NY, NYC

Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, Lexington Avenue, Manhattan, NEW YORK 2017, NY, New York City, NY, NYC

Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, Lexington Avenue, Manhattan, NEW YORK 2017, NY, New York City, NY, NYC, in 8/2/2017 (CTK Photo/Vladimir Houdek)

Japan's tallest building during 1960s

Japan's tallest building during 1960s

File photo taken on May 30, 1969, shows the World Trade Center Building under construction in Tokyo's Minato Ward. The building had been the tallest in Japan until June 1971. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

3 World Trade Center

3 World Trade Center

Photo taken June 11, 2018, shows 3 World Trade Center as construction finished on the fourth skyscraper built as part of a new five-building complex in New York after the original twin towers were destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo