LA Mayor Oversees Homeless Camp Sweep - Los Angeles

LA Mayor Oversees Homeless Camp Sweep - Los Angeles

A cleanup worker in protective gear stands near the fenced perimeter of the Compound during a city-led sweep in Van Nuys on Thursday, July 31, 2025. The Inside Safe operation, carried out by sanitation crews and LAPD, displaced dozens of unhoused residents from the San Fernando Valley site. Photo by David Pashaee/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Military Divers Remove Waste From The Port - Toulon

Military Divers Remove Waste From The Port - Toulon

Operation “rade propre” is an annual harbor cleanup operation for which the military authorities provide men and equipment in Toulon, France, on June 11, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

Gunshots heard in Afghan capital Kabul, casualties feared

STORY: Gunshots heard in Afghan capital Kabul, casualties feared DATELINE: Aug. 3, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:14 LOCATION: Kabul CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the gunshot site and streets views in Kabul STORYLINE: Gunshots were heard in the Karta-e-Sakhi locality on the western edge of Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul on Wednesday, local television channel Tolonews reported. Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said on social media that after the gunshots, security forces surrounded a suspected house in Karta-e-Sakhi area of Police District 3 and the cleanup operation has continued. On Monday, Western media reported that U.S. President Joe Biden ordered a drone strike on the suspected residence of the al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul, killing him on the spot. The Taliban administration has confirmed the drone attack but didn't say if there was any victim or who was killed in the incident. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Kabul. (XHTV)

Pacific War History 19: U.S. Forces Capture Iwo Jima

Japanese POWs call for surrender, U.S. soldiers shoot Japanese soldiers hiding in a cave, Japanese soldiers surrender, Japanese POWs tell U.S. soldiers where the Japanese are, U.S. tanks and soldiers attack with flamethrowers. U.S. tanks and soldiers attacking with flamethrowers, Japanese soldiers being taken out naked, the Stars and Stripes being raised, U.S. soldiers staring at the Stars and Stripes on the graves of U.S. war dead, U.S. wounded walking through graves, tens of thousands of tons of artillery shells, U.S. Marine Corps engineering teams working to expand the airfield, B-29 fighters returning to the airfield on Iwo Jima, and U.S. troops on Okinawa and mainland Japan. Description, Date of shooting unknown, Release date: January 1, 1951.

'Hot spots' in Fukushima declared safe but few returning home

'Hot spots' in Fukushima declared safe but few returning home

Deserted fields in the Takakura district of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, are seen on Jan. 22, 2015, almost a month after the Japanese government lifted its evacuation advisory for the once "hot spot" area by saying radioactive contamination from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has returned to safe levels. A flag in the foreground bears the word "decontamination" referring to a cleanup operation to be undertaken for local farmland. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo