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40th anniversary of fatal JAL jet crash

Actor Hitomi Kuroki prays at the site of the 1985 Japan Airlines jetliner crash on Osutaka Ridge in the Gunma Prefecture village of Ueno, northwest of Tokyo, on Aug. 12, 2025, the 40th anniversary of the accident that claimed the lives of 520 passengers and crew, including her classmate at the Takarazuka Revue all-female musical theater troupe.

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40th anniversary of fatal JAL jet crash

Actor Hitomi Kuroki visits the site of the 1985 Japan Airlines jetliner crash on Osutaka Ridge in the Gunma Prefecture village of Ueno, northwest of Tokyo, on Aug. 12, 2025, the 40th anniversary of the accident that claimed the lives of 520 passengers and crew, including her classmate at the Takarazuka Revue all-female musical theater troupe.

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40th anniversary of fatal JAL jet crash

Actor Hitomi Kuroki visits the site of the 1985 Japan Airlines jetliner crash on Osutaka Ridge in the Gunma Prefecture village of Ueno, northwest of Tokyo, on Aug. 12, 2025, the 40th anniversary of the accident that claimed the lives of 520 passengers and crew, including her classmate at the Takarazuka Revue all-female musical theater troupe.

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"Laowai" in China | An Ethiopian student's vocational education journey in north China's Tianjin

(240726) -- TIANJIN, July 26, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Tola Tsegaye Alemu (R) discusses with a classmate in Tianjin University of Technology and Education in north China's Tianjin, June 27, 2024. Tola Tsegaye Alemu, a 34-year-old Ethiopian, is currently pursuing his doctoral degree at Tianjin University of Technology and Education in China. He began studying in China in 2019 for his master's degree, and chose to stay on for his doctorate upon graduating in 2022. Tola Tsegaye Alemu's connection with China can be traced back to the time when he met a Luban Workshop teacher from China in Ethiopia. Feeling the impact of vocational education on African youth, he decided to come to China to further his education. "Luban Workshop is a great opportunity for African young people to learn skills. It not only provides training courses but also unique teaching methods," said Tola Tsegaye Alemu. After obtaining his doctorate, he hopes to bring China's vocational education experience back to Ethiopia and tea

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Xinhua Headlines: Xi's upcoming visit to promote SCO cooperation, enhance China-Central Asia relations

(240702) -- BEIJING, July 2, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Ismail Daurov (L), a Kazakh student who has a Chinese name Ma Wenxuan, discusses with his classmate on their theses at Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, June 10, 2019. Ismail Daurov is now a doctor at the China-Kazakhstan Center for Traditional Medicine in Astana. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Li Yibo)

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CHINA-HUNAN-CHANGSHA-HEARING-IMPAIRED COUPLE-LIFE (CN)

(240519) -- CHANGSHA, May 19, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Zhang Yongsheng (C) greets a hearing-impaired child, a classmate of his daughter Zhang Yuhan (L) of a hearing rehabilitation center, at Sifangping night market in Changsha, central China's Hunan Province, May 15, 2024. Though hearing-impaired, Zhang Yongsheng and his wife Zhan Jingwen managed to make their daughter, who also suffers from the same disability, hear at the age of two. By running a snack stall at a night market and thanks to support from their relatives and friends, the couple managed to afford a cochlear implant for her daughter's left ear and a hearing aid for the daughter's right ear. "It is too expensive to have the similar treatment for me and my wife, and we have already been accustomed to the silent world anyway. What we want is to make sure our daughter can hear." Earlier this year, when the family's story was spread out by a blogger, they surprisingly received loads of kindness and encouragement from a lot of strangers. Thanks to

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Royal Military College Convocation Ceremony - Canada

A graduate takes a photo of a classmate at the 129th Convocation Ceremony at the Royal Military College in Kingston, ON, Canada, Thursday, May 16, 2024. Photo by Justin Tang/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Royal Military College Convocation Ceremony - Canada

A graduate takes a photo of a classmate at the 129th Convocation Ceremony at the Royal Military College in Kingston, ON, Canada, Thursday, May 16, 2024. Photo by Justin Tang/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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"Oud's Rhythmics" exhibition held in Cairo

STORY: "Oud's Rhythmics" exhibition held in Cairo SHOOTING DATE: Feb. 26, 2024 DATELINE: Feb. 27, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:57 LOCATION: Cairo CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the exhibition 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): MOSTAFA EL-RAZZAZ, Artist 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): HUSSEIN HAMED, Visitor 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Arabic): OMAIMA ALI, Visitor STORYLINE: The "Oud's Rhythmics" exhibition, featuring paintings and sculptures themed on the resonances of the oud, is being held at Zamalek Hall in Cairo, Egypt from Feb. 18 to March 7. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): MOSTAFA EL-RAZZAZ, Artist "The great singer and composer Sheikh Zakaria was my father's classmate at Al-Azhar. He used to come to our house every Thursday with the oud. They would sit and play and sing together. I have had memories associated with the oud from a long time ago. This is the reason that made me devote time to the main part of the exhibition." Mostafa El-Razzaz revived his family memories by embodying the musical instrument of the oud in the form of statu

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Xinhua Headlines: How China's grassroots tech centers nurture agricultural innovation

(230924) -- WUHAN, Sept. 24, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Du Chanchan (L), a PhD candidate at Huazhong Agricultural University, and her classmate collect gas for testing in an experimental field at a ratoon rice sci-tech station in Xiantao City, central China's Hubei Province, Sept. 18, 2023. (Xinhua/Pan Zhiwei)

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Woody Allen At A Matter Of Luck Photocall - Barcelona

Film director Woody Allen poses at the photocall of the film 'A Matter of Luck', at the ME Barcelona hotel, September 18, 2023, in Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). The American filmmaker Woody Allen arrived yesterday, Sunday, September 17, in Barcelona to participate in the premiere of his new film, 'Stroke of Luck', the 50th of his filmography and in which he explores the role of chance and luck in people's lives. The film is the story of Fanny (Lou de Laâge) and Jean (Melvil Poupaud), who seem like an ideal marriage, until Fanny accidentally runs into Alain (Niels Schneider), an old high school classmate, whom she soon sees again and becomes increasingly intimate with. In addition, during his visit to Barcelona, Allen performs today and tomorrow at the Teatre Tivoli, as part of the 55th Voll Damm Jazz Festival of Barcelona. Photo by Lorena Sopena/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Woody Allen At A Matter Of Luck Photocall - Barcelona

Film director Woody Allen poses at the photocall of the film 'A Matter of Luck', at the ME Barcelona hotel, September 18, 2023, in Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). The American filmmaker Woody Allen arrived yesterday, Sunday, September 17, in Barcelona to participate in the premiere of his new film, 'Stroke of Luck', the 50th of his filmography and in which he explores the role of chance and luck in people's lives. The film is the story of Fanny (Lou de Laâge) and Jean (Melvil Poupaud), who seem like an ideal marriage, until Fanny accidentally runs into Alain (Niels Schneider), an old high school classmate, whom she soon sees again and becomes increasingly intimate with. In addition, during his visit to Barcelona, Allen performs today and tomorrow at the Teatre Tivoli, as part of the 55th Voll Damm Jazz Festival of Barcelona. Photo by Lorena Sopena/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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2023ChinaJoy in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JULY 27, 2023 - Jay Chou's Cartoon avatar "Classmate Zhou" is seen at 2023ChinaJoy, Shanghai, China, July 27, 2023.

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CHINA-GANSU-LANZHOU-MAN WITH DISABILITY-MATHEMATICIAN (CN)

(230521) -- LANZHOU, May 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Xie Yanting (L) and a classmate visit the history museum at Lanzhou University in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu Province, May 10, 2023. TO GO WITH "Feature: Chinese mathematician challenges disability stereotypes" (Xinhua/Chen Bin)

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CHINA-LIAONING-XINGCHENG-SCHOOL-MOTHER-HEARING-IMPAIRED DAUGHTER (CN)

(230513) -- HULUDAO, May 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Li Xinwei (C) looks on as one of her classmates writes during a class break at the Hongyazi junior middle school in Hongyazi Township of Xingcheng City, northeast China's Liaoning Province, May 8, 2023. Due to hearing impairment, Li needs to watch closely what her classmate is writing. Zhang Lianqin, 55, mother of Li Xinwei, lives in Liangjiatun Village, Hongyazi Township of Xingcheng City. As her daughter Li suffers from hearing impairment, Zhang has accompanied Li in studying at school ever since Li was enrolled into primary school, with barely a class missed. Zhang has sat near her daughter to act as Li's "ears" at the classroom. The life of Zhang and her family is not well off. They live in a house of about 60 square meters, with certificates of merit of Li and pictures drawn by her hanging on the wall. Zhang's husband is disabled in his right hand, making a living at a public bathroom. Things like farming, doing chores, looking after Li and Li's grandmot

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Abductee's mother meets with top gov't spokesman Matsuno

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno (R) holds talks at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Feb. 6, 2023, with Sakie Yokota (C), whose daughter Megumi was abducted by North Korea at age 13 in 1977, and Megumi's classmate Masaki Ikeda (3rd from R).

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Concert held for abductee Megumi Yokota's safe return

TOKYO, Japan - Naoya Yoshida, a violinist and former classmate of Megumi Yokota who was abducted by North Korean agents in 1977, plays at a concert dedicated to Yokota's safe return to Japan in Tokyo on Aug. 23, 2014. Shown behind is a photo of Yokota.

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Welfare center received warning about teen held for murder

SASEBO, Japan - Photo taken July 31, 2014, shows a child welfare center in Sasebo in Japan's southwestern prefecture of Nagasaki. The center was informed last month that a 16-year-old girl arrested for allegedly killing and partially dismembering a classmate had exhibited disturbing behavior.

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Teen planned murder of classmate: police

SASEBO, Japan - People who attended a funeral service for Aiwa Matsuo, a 15-year-old high school student who was allegedly murdered by a classmate, send off her coffin in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, in southwestern Japan on July 29, 2014. The arrested classmate has admitted to planning the murder.

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Teen planned murder of classmate: police

SASEBO, Japan - People who attended a funeral service for Aiwa Matsuo, a 15-year-old high school student who was allegedly murdered by a classmate, cry as they send off her coffin in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, in southwestern Japan on July 29, 2014. The arrested classmate has admitted to planning the murder.

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Teen planned murder of classmate: police

SASEBO, Japan - A mourner extends her hand to a hearse carrying the coffin of Aiwa Matsuo, a 15-year-old high school student who was allegedly murdered by a classmate, as people who attended her funeral service send it off in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, in southwestern Japan on July 29, 2014. The arrested classmate has admitted to planning the murder.

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16-yr-old girl arrested for murder says she wanted to kill someone

SASEBO, Japan - Police officers on July 28, 2014, carry a large item that looks like a mattress from the apartment building where a 16-year-old girl allegedly murdered a high-school classmate two days earlier in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture. The suspect, whose name is being withheld because she is a minor under age 20, said she "wanted to kill someone" and suggested she also wanted to dismember a body, investigative sources said the same day. The victim's head and left hand were severed.

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16-yr-old girl arrested for murder says she wanted to kill someone

SASEBO, Japan - Police officers on July 28, 2014, carry a large item that looks like a mattress from the apartment building where a 16-year-old girl allegedly murdered a high-school classmate two days earlier in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture. The suspect, whose name is being withheld because she is a minor under age 20, said she "wanted to kill someone" and suggested she also wanted to dismember a body, investigative sources said the same day. The victim's head and left hand were severed.

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16-yr-old girl arrested for murder says she wanted to kill someone

SASEBO, Japan - A car carrying a 16-year-old girl under arrest for allegedly murdering a high-school classmate, leaves the Sasebo Police Station for the local prosecutors' office in Nagasaki Prefecture on July 28, 2014. The suspect, whose name is being withheld because she is a minor under age 20, said she "wanted to kill someone" and suggested she also wanted to dismember a body, investigative sources said the same day. The victim's head and left hand were severed.

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16-yr-old girl arrested for murder says she wanted to kill someone

SASEBO, Japan - A sheet shields on July 28, 2014, the balcony of the apartment in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture where two days earlier a 16-year-old girl allegedly murdered a high-school classmate and mutilated the body. The suspect, whose name is being withheld because she is a minor under age 20, said she "wanted to kill someone" and suggested she also wanted to dismember a body, investigative sources said the same day.

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Investigations on high school girl continue

SASEBO, Japan - Investigators leave the apartment on July 28, 2014, in Sasebo in Japan's southwestern prefecture of Nagasaki, where the body of a high school girl was found the previous day. A judicial autopsy has found the 15-year-old high school girl, allegedly killed by her classmate, was strangled to death.

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High school girl arrested for killing, dismembering friend

SASEBO, Japan - Police officers enter an apartment building in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on July 27, 2014, to investigate the site where Aiwa Matsuo, a 15-year-old high school girl, was murdered by her classmate, also 15. The suspect, whose name is withheld because she is a minor, is suspected of fatally beating and strangling Matsuo and dismembering her body at an apartment where she lived alone.

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High school girl arrested for killing, dismembering friend

SASEBO, Japan - Police officers enter an apartment building in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on July 27, 2014, to investigate the site where Aiwa Matsuo, a 15-year-old high school girl, was murdered by her classmate, also 15. The suspect, whose name is withheld because she is a minor, is suspected of fatally beating and strangling Matsuo and dismembering her body at an apartment where she lived alone.

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Concert to pray for Yokotas' reunion with abducted daughter

TOKYO, Japan - Shigeru Yokota (C) and his wife Sakie listen to music played by violinist Naoya Yoshida at a concert held in Tokyo on May 3, 2014, to pray for the couple's reunion as soon as possible with their daughter Megumi, who was abducted by North Korean agents. Yoshida was a classmate of Megumi at a junior high school in Niigata.

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Courtroom sketch of minor banned by court

NARA, Japan - Photo shows a local edition in Nara Prefecture of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper dated on Nov. 19, 2010, with a courtroom sketch showing the side of the face of a 19-year-old man accused of fatally stabbing his classmate. The Nara District Court issued an order the same day to prohibit drawing sketches of the boy in the court because he is a minor protected under the Juvenile Law.

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15-year-old boy stabs female classmate in Yamaguchi

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Photo shows a public high school classroom in the town of Tabuse, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on June 17, 2010, where a 15-year-old male student stabbed a female classmate with a knife. The attack, which gave minor wounds to the girl and led to the boy's arrest, follows another incident two days earlier in which a 15-year-old girl was stabbed at a school in Yokohama by a classmate.

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(8)At least 10 still inside derailed train's 1st car

AMAGASAKI, Japan - A university students breaks into tears over the death of her classmate as she lays flowers at the site of a fatal train crash in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, on April 27.

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(14)Princess Nori to marry Tokyo gov't official Kuroda

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Sayako (R), who will marry Yoshiki Kuroda, talks to her classmate during an entrance ceremony of Tokyo's Gakushuin Junior Middle School in April 1982.

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Girl in Sasebo classmate killing to be institutionalized

SASEBO, Japan - A car carrying an 11-year-old girl charged with killing a classmate in June at their school departs from the Sasebo branch of the Nagasaki Family Court on Sept. 15. The court decided to institutionalize the girl. The decision provides for a compulsory measure where the girl's freedom of movement may be restricted for two years at an institution for the rehabilitation of delinquent children.

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(3)Internet messaging trouble cited as motive in school murder

NAGASAKI, Japan - A car carrying an 11-year-old girl, believed to have murdered her classmate at an elementary school in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, is covered with a sheet on arrival at a juvenile classification office in the city of Nagasaki from a family court in Sasebo on June 2.

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(2)Internet messaging trouble cited as motive in school murder

SASEBO, Japan - A car carrying an 11-year-old girl, who is believed to have murdered her classmate at an elementary school in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, leaves the Sasebo branch office of the Nagasaki Family Court on June 2. The girl has told police she had a conflict involving Internet messaging with the victim and summoned her with the intention of killing her, investigative sources said.

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Internet messaging trouble cited as motive in school murder

SASEBO, Japan - A policeman stands guard in front of Okubo Elementary School in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on June 2, one day after an 11-year-old girl stabbed her classmate Satomi Mitarai to death in a study room. The girl told police she had argued with the victim over their Internet messages.

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(2)12-year-old girl killed by classmate at Sasebo school

SASEBO, Japan - Mothers gather at a primary school in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on June 1 where a 12-year-old girl died after a female classmate allegedly slashed her neck with a paper cutter in a classroom.

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(2)12-year-old girl killed by classmate at Sasebo school

SASEBO, Japan - Photo shows the building of a primary school in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, where a 12-year-old girl died June 1 after a female classmate allegedly slashed her neck with a paper cutter in a classroom.

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Beijing students protest over rape-murder

BEIJING, China - Hundreds of students stage a sit-in at Beijing University on May 24 to protest administrators who waited three days to inform them that a classmate had been raped and killed. The students demanded to meet with university President Xu Zhihong. Excluding those organized by the government, it was the biggest gathering at Beijing University since the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations that led to the Tiananmen Square massacre June 4, 1989.

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Parents of slain girl speak after ruling

NAGOYA, Japan - Hiroshi Nagatani, carrying the picture of his slain daughter Hanae, and his wife Keiko, speak to reporters in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture on May 15 after the Nagoya District Court's Okazaki branch sentenced an 18-year-old male stalker to five-to-10 years in jail for killing Hanae, a former classmate.

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Schoolgirls weep over death of classmate

Japanese schoolgirls weep July 27 over the death of their classmate Miyuki Torii, 16, a first-grade student at Kaichi high school in Wakayama, western Japan. Torii was one of four people who died after eating curry and rice contaminated with cyanide at a summer festival in Wakayama.

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Palestinian students invent robot to help rescue trapped people in rubbles

STORY: Palestinian students invent robot to help rescue trapped people in rubbles DATELINE: June 13, 2022 LENGTH: 00:03:30 LOCATION: GAZA CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Palestinian students 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): RAMA IBRAHIM, Local student 3. various of the Palestinian students 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): YOUSEF AQIL, Local student 5. various the Palestinian students STORYLINE: Three Palestinian teenagers in Gaza Strip invented a smart rescue robot that can help locate people trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings. The miniature car-shaped device, equipped with Wi-Fi remote control function, was developed by Rama Ibrahim, his brother Ahmed, and their classmate Yousef Aqil, all of whom are secondary school students, following months of research and experiment. Mounted with a camera and an alarm, the rescue robot can be operated through a cell phone application, and notify the rescue team with beeps and cellphone push notifications, the students told Xinhua. "We came up with the id

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MIDEAST-GAZA-RAFAH-SMART ROBOT

(220612) -- GAZA, June 12, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian siblings Rama (R) and Ahmed Ibrahim (C) as well as their classmate Yousef Aqil work on a smart robot in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, June 9, 2022. TO GO WITH "Feature: Gaza teachers bring interactive robot to classrooms" (Photo by Khaled Omar/Xinhua)

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MIDEAST-GAZA-RAFAH-SMART ROBOT

(220612) -- GAZA, June 12, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian siblings Rama (L) and Ahmed Ibrahim (C) as well as their classmate Yousef Aqil work on a smart robot in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, June 9, 2022. TO GO WITH "Feature: Gaza teachers bring interactive robot to classrooms" (Photo by Khaled Omar/Xinhua)

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MIDEAST-GAZA-RAFAH-SMART ROBOT

(220612) -- GAZA, June 12, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian siblings Rama (L) and Ahmed Ibrahim (C) as well as their classmate Yousef Aqil work on a smart robot in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, June 9, 2022. TO GO WITH "Feature: Gaza teachers bring interactive robot to classrooms" (Photo by Khaled Omar/Xinhua)

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Local residents mourn victims of Texas school shooting

STORY: Local residents mourn victims of Texas school shooting DATELINE: May 30, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:22 LOCATION: UVALDE, U.S. CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the mourning activities 2. SOUNDBITE (English): CHRISTINE MALDONADO, Classmate of a teacher died in the shooting STORYLINE: Residents of the Texas town of Uvalde have held rounds of mourning activities after a school shooting killed 19 children and 2 adults on last Tuesday. At Uvalde's city square, people gathered to sing and pay tribute to the victims of the mass shooting. Outside a local childcare center, people placed flowers and toys on the 21 stools bearing the victims' names to remember them. Outside the elementary school where the tragedy took place, residents lined up to mourn the victims. SOUNDBITE (English): CHRISTINE MALDONADO, Classmate of a teacher who died in the shooting "Shock, devastation, that there's just no way that this happened in our little hometown of Uvalde, Texas. There are no words. It's just very shocking. We s

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CHINA-NANJING-SIGN LANGUAGE-INTERPRETER (CN)

(220514) -- NANJING, May 14, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Chen Xin (L) speaks to his classmate at Nanjing Polytechnic Institute in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province, May 9, 2022. Chen Xin, a student of Nanjing Polytechnic Institute, also a certified sign language interpreter, established a workshop offering voluntary service for hearing-impaired people in September 2020. So far the workshop has organized over 80 sign language training courses and more than 100 voluntary events with an aggregate service time exceeding 1,000 hours. During COVID-19 pandemic, Chen has made a series of sign language videos to promote tips on COVID-19 prevention and control for hearing-impaired people. (Xinhua/Li Bo)

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CHINA-SHAANXI-CHINESE TRADITIONAL MEDICINE-KAZAKH STUDENT (CN)

(220129) -- BEIJING, Jan. 29, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Ismail Daurov (L), a Kazakh student who has a Chinese name Ma Wenxuan, talks with his classmate about their theses at Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, June 10, 2019. TO GO WITH Xiplomacy: "A foreigner, but not an outsider" -- a young Kazakh in Xi's speech on China-Central Asia ties (Xinhua/Li Yibo)

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Girl in Sasebo classmate killing to be institutionalized

SASEBO, Japan - A car carrying an 11-year-old girl charged with killing a classmate in June at their school departs from the Sasebo branch of the Nagasaki Family Court on Sept. 15. The court decided to institutionalize the girl. The decision provides for a compulsory measure where the girl's freedom of movement may be restricted for two years at an institution for the rehabilitation of delinquent children. (Kyodo)