Iraqi Deminer Loses Legs Clearing Mines - Iraq

Iraqi Deminer Loses Legs Clearing Mines - Iraq

Boys play soccer across a field using Hoshyar Ali's prosthetic legs as goal posts in Halabja, Iraq, on November 20, 2025. Hoshyar Ali has been clearing landmines for over four decades, a task he began after the Iran-Iraq war when thousands of mines were planted along the border. Despite losing both legs and several family members to explosions, he continues to volunteer in mine removal. Locals call him “man of the mines,” and he is building a museum in his village to display defused explosives for future generations. Photo by Showan Sulaiman/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Hang The National Flag To Welcome National Day

Hang The National Flag To Welcome National Day

GUIYANG, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 28, 2025 - The red flags hanging on the lamp posts on both sides of Yan'an South Road create a festive and peaceful atmosphere for National Day in Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, China on September 26, 2025.

Hang The National Flag To Welcome National Day

Hang The National Flag To Welcome National Day

GUIYANG, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 28, 2025 - The red flags hanging on the lamp posts on both sides of Yan'an South Road create a festive and peaceful atmosphere for National Day in Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, China on September 26, 2025.

Hang The National Flag To Welcome National Day

Hang The National Flag To Welcome National Day

GUIYANG, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 28, 2025 - The red flags hanging on the lamp posts on both sides of Yan'an South Road create a festive and peaceful atmosphere for National Day in Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, China on September 26, 2025.

Hang The National Flag To Welcome National Day

Hang The National Flag To Welcome National Day

GUIYANG, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 28, 2025 - The red flags hanging on the lamp posts on both sides of Yan'an South Road create a festive and peaceful atmosphere for National Day in Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, China on September 26, 2025.

Hang The National Flag To Welcome National Day

Hang The National Flag To Welcome National Day

GUIYANG, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 28, 2025 - The red flags hanging on the lamp posts on both sides of Yan'an South Road create a festive and peaceful atmosphere for National Day in Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, China on September 26, 2025.

Hang The National Flag To Welcome National Day

Hang The National Flag To Welcome National Day

GUIYANG, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 28, 2025 - The red flags hanging on the lamp posts on both sides of Yan'an South Road create a festive and peaceful atmosphere for National Day in Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, China on September 26, 2025.

Hang The National Flag To Welcome National Day

Hang The National Flag To Welcome National Day

GUIYANG, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 28, 2025 - The red flags hanging on the lamp posts on both sides of Yan'an South Road create a festive and peaceful atmosphere for National Day in Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, China on September 26, 2025.

Defense minister Ichikawa, consumer affairs minister Yamaoka

Defense minister Ichikawa, consumer affairs minister Yamaoka

TOKYO, Japan - Combined file photo shows Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa (L) and consumer affairs minister Kenji Yamaoka. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is set to remove Ichikawa and Yamaoka, who were both censured in parliament, from the posts possibly on Jan. 13, 2012, according to political sources.

New Japan envoys

New Japan envoys

TOKYO, Japan - Combined file photos show incoming Japanese Ambassador to China Masato Kitera (C) and Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Jiro Kodera (R), both of whom will take up the posts on Nov. 26, 2012. At left is Kazuyoshi Umemoto, who became Japan's assistant chief Cabinet secretary on Nov. 22, 2012.

Kan, Sengoku at Diet session

Kan, Sengoku at Diet session

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku talk during a House of Representatives plenary session in Tokyo on Dec. 3, 2010, the final day of an extra Diet session. Sengoku told reporters he will do his best in both posts -- chief Cabinet secretary and justice minister -- after saying he may concentrate on the justice minister role, amid increasing pressure from opposition parties to leave the Cabinet.

Nissan posts record interim sales, operating profit

Nissan posts record interim sales, operating profit

TOKYO, Japan - Nissan Motor Co. President Carlos Ghosn tells reporters in Tokyo on Oct. 16 that the company will book a consolidated operating profit of 401.1 billion yen on sales of 3,556.2 billion yen for the first half of fiscal 2003, both record highs for the April-September period.

Takenaka to retain ministerial posts for both finance, economy

Takenaka to retain ministerial posts for both finance, economy

TOKYO, Japan - Heizo Takenaka, who remained as state minister in charge of economic and fiscal policy and financial services in the reshuffled cabinet of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 22.

Miyabiyama, Musoyama beam as they see sumo rankings

Miyabiyama, Musoyama beam as they see sumo rankings

TOKYO, Japan - Newly promoted ozeki Musoyama (R) and sekiwake Miyabiyama, both of the Musashigawa stable, beam as they look at the new rankings released April 24 by the Japan Sumo Association. Musoyama joins yokozuna Musashimaru and ozeki Dejima in the elite ranks for the May 7-21 Summer Grand Sumo Tournament at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan. Miyabiyama could become the Musashigawa stable's third ozeki if he posts 10 or more wins.

Premier Obuchi to reshuffle cabinet after LDP poll

Premier Obuchi to reshuffle cabinet after LDP poll

TOKYO, Sept. 4 Kyodo - Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi tells Kyodo News on Sept. 4 that he will carry out a major cabinet reshuffle after the Sept. 21 election for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) presidency. Obuchi warned challengers for the LDP presidency -- Koichi Kato and Taku Yamasaki -- that if he wins, as is widely expected, he would not appoint the two to senior party posts if both former LDP senior officials continue to criticize the planned tripartite alliance.

2 Cabinet members visit war-linked Yasukuni shrine, PM sends offering

Two Cabinet ministers visited Tokyo's war-linked Yasukuni shrine on Monday, the 77th anniversary of the end of World War II, but Prime Minister Fumio Kishida chose to send a ritual offering to the shrine seen by Asian neighbors as a symbol of Japan's past militarism. The visits by hawkish economic security minister Sanae Takaichi and reconstruction minister Kenya Akiba, both handpicked for their posts by Kishida last week, marked the third straight year that Cabinet members have visited the Shinto shrine on Aug. 15.

CHINA-WUHAN-SPRING FESTIVAL HOLIDAY-WORKERS (CN)

CHINA-WUHAN-SPRING FESTIVAL HOLIDAY-WORKERS (CN)

(220202) -- WUHAN, Feb. 2, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on Feb. 2, 2022 shows Liao Yufang (L) and her husband Huang Jueheng, both of whom are staff members of Wuhan Metro Line 1, sticking to their posts during the Spring Festival holiday in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province. (Photo by Wu Zhizun/Xinhua)

Takenaka to retain ministerial posts for both finance, economy

Takenaka to retain ministerial posts for both finance, economy

TOKYO, Japan - Heizo Takenaka, who remained as state minister in charge of economic and fiscal policy and financial services in the reshuffled cabinet of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 22. (Kyodo)

Defense minister Ichikawa, consumer affairs minister Yamaoka

Defense minister Ichikawa, consumer affairs minister Yamaoka

TOKYO, Japan - Combined file photo shows Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa (L) and consumer affairs minister Kenji Yamaoka. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is set to remove Ichikawa and Yamaoka, who were both censured in parliament, from the posts possibly on Jan. 13, 2012, according to political sources. (Kyodo)

Kan, Sengoku at Diet session

Kan, Sengoku at Diet session

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku talk during a House of Representatives plenary session in Tokyo on Dec. 3, 2010, the final day of an extra Diet session. Sengoku told reporters he will do his best in both posts -- chief Cabinet secretary and justice minister -- after saying he may concentrate on the justice minister role, amid increasing pressure from opposition parties to leave the Cabinet. (Kyodo)

Japan Olympic chief Tsunekazu Takeda

Japan Olympic chief Tsunekazu Takeda

Japanese Olympic Committee President and International Olympic Committee marketing chair Tsunekazu Takeda announces his decision at a JOC board meeting in Tokyo on March 19, 2019, to resign from both posts. Takeda is under investigation by French authorities for his part in an alleged bribery scandal related to Tokyo's successful bid to host the 2020 Olympics. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japan Olympic chief Tsunekazu Takeda

Japan Olympic chief Tsunekazu Takeda

Japanese Olympic Committee President and International Olympic Committee marketing chair Tsunekazu Takeda, seen in this file photo, announced his decision in Tokyo on March 19, 2019, to resign from both posts. Takeda is under investigation by French authorities for his part in an alleged bribery scandal related to Tokyo's successful bid to host the 2020 Olympics. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japan Olympic chief Tsunekazu Takeda

Japan Olympic chief Tsunekazu Takeda

Japanese Olympic Committee President and International Olympic Committee marketing chair Tsunekazu Takeda announces his decision at a JOC board meeting in Tokyo on March 19, 2019, to resign from both posts. Takeda is under investigation by French authorities for his part in an alleged bribery scandal related to Tokyo's successful bid to host the 2020 Olympics. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Miyabiyama, Musoyama beam as they see sumo rankings

Miyabiyama, Musoyama beam as they see sumo rankings

TOKYO, Japan - Newly promoted ozeki Musoyama (R) and sekiwake Miyabiyama, both of the Musashigawa stable, beam as they look at the new rankings released April 24 by the Japan Sumo Association. Musoyama joins yokozuna Musashimaru and ozeki Dejima in the elite ranks for the May 7-21 Summer Grand Sumo Tournament at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan. Miyabiyama could become the Musashigawa stable's third ozeki if he posts 10 or more wins.

Premier Obuchi to reshuffle cabinet after LDP poll

Premier Obuchi to reshuffle cabinet after LDP poll

TOKYO, Sept. 4 Kyodo - Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi tells Kyodo News on Sept. 4 that he will carry out a major cabinet reshuffle after the Sept. 21 election for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) presidency. Obuchi warned challengers for the LDP presidency -- Koichi Kato and Taku Yamasaki -- that if he wins, as is widely expected, he would not appoint the two to senior party posts if both former LDP senior officials continue to criticize the planned tripartite alliance.