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Baikho Festival - India

Baikho Festival - India

Rabha tribal priests walk barefoot across burning coals during sacred Baikho festival rituals in Pantan village, Kamrup, in India's northeastern state of Assam on June 11, 2025. The annual ceremony venerates their wealth deity while petitioning for abundant rains and prosperous harvests for the farming community. Photo by Hafiz Ahmed/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Baikho Festival - India

Baikho Festival - India

Rabha tribal priests walk barefoot across burning coals during sacred Baikho festival rituals in Pantan village, Kamrup, in India's northeastern state of Assam on June 11, 2025. The annual ceremony venerates their wealth deity while petitioning for abundant rains and prosperous harvests for the farming community. Photo by Hafiz Ahmed/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Baikho Festival - India

Baikho Festival - India

Rabha tribal priests walk barefoot across burning coals during sacred Baikho festival rituals in Pantan village, Kamrup, in India's northeastern state of Assam on June 11, 2025. The annual ceremony venerates their wealth deity while petitioning for abundant rains and prosperous harvests for the farming community. Photo by Hafiz Ahmed/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Baikho Festival - India

Baikho Festival - India

Rabha tribal priests walk barefoot across burning coals during sacred Baikho festival rituals in Pantan village, Kamrup, in India's northeastern state of Assam on June 11, 2025. The annual ceremony venerates their wealth deity while petitioning for abundant rains and prosperous harvests for the farming community. Photo by Hafiz Ahmed/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Politics shouldn't override innovation: Kenyan economist

STORY: Politics shouldn't override innovation: Kenyan economist SHOOTING TIME: May 15, 2024 DATELINE: May 16, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:47 LOCATION: Nairobi CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of China's EV industry 2. SOUNDBITE (English): XN IRAKI, Kenyan economist STORYLINE: The U.S. on Tuesday announced new tariffs on a variety of imports from China, including electric vehicles (EVs), lithium batteries, photovoltaic cells, critical minerals, semiconductors, steel and aluminum. The additional levy will cause tariffs on Chinese EV imports to rise to 100 percent this year. A Nairobi-based economist said the U.S. move shows how politics override innovation, noting that protectionism will harm the global decarbonization trend and industry growth. SOUNDBITE (English): XN IRAKI, Kenyan economist "We are seeing politics overriding innovation. Everybody believes that world is at time to become decarbonized world, so that we move away from fossil fuels, coals, gas, petrol, diesel and so on. And one of the ways to

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BANGLADESH-DHAKA-LABORERS

BANGLADESH-DHAKA-LABORERS

(230430) -- DHAKA, April 30, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Laborers unload coals from a ship at a river bank in Dhaka, Bangladesh on April 30, 2023. (Xinhua)

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BANGLADESH-DHAKA-LABORERS

BANGLADESH-DHAKA-LABORERS

(230430) -- DHAKA, April 30, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Laborers unload coals from a ship at a river bank in Dhaka, Bangladesh on April 30, 2023. (Xinhua)

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BANGLADESH-DHAKA-LABORERS

BANGLADESH-DHAKA-LABORERS

(230430) -- DHAKA, April 30, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Laborers unload coals from a ship at a river bank in Dhaka, Bangladesh on April 30, 2023. (Xinhua)

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BANGLADESH-DHAKA-LABORERS

BANGLADESH-DHAKA-LABORERS

(230430) -- DHAKA, April 30, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Laborers unload coals from a ship at a river bank in Dhaka, Bangladesh on April 30, 2023. (Xinhua)

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Fire dance ritual in Akita Pref.

Fire dance ritual in Akita Pref.

SEMBOKU, Japan - Children swing sacks of burning coals tied to ropes during a traditional agricultural fertility ritual called the ''Hifuri Kamakura'' in Semboku, Akita Prefecture in northeastern Japan, on Feb. 13, 2011. The sacred fire is believed to drive out bad luck from the rice fields while people also wish for the good health and safety of their families at the event.

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Fire dance ritual in Akita Pref.

Fire dance ritual in Akita Pref.

SEMBOKU, Japan - A child swings a sack of burning coals tied to a rope during a traditional agricultural fertility ritual called the ''Hifuri Kamakura'' in Semboku, Akita Prefecture in northeastern Japan, on Feb. 13, 2011. The sacred fire is believed to drive out bad luck from the rice fields while people also wish for the good health and safety of their families at the event.

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Love Happens (2009)

Love Happens (2009)

Aaron Eckhart Characters: Burk Film: Love Happens (2009) Director: Brandon Camp 18 September 2009 Date: 18 September 2009

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Madame Giradelli, The Celebrated Fire-Proof Female

Madame Giradelli, The Celebrated Fire-Proof Female

Undated illustration of Madame Giradelli, The Celebrated Fire-Proof Female, with one hand in the brazier and foot on a slab of red-hot iron. HPG/8/2/1 (xxvi) Date: mid 19th century

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Fire dance ritual in Akita Pref.

Fire dance ritual in Akita Pref.

SEMBOKU, Japan - Children swing sacks of burning coals tied to ropes during a traditional agricultural fertility ritual called the ''Hifuri Kamakura'' in Semboku, Akita Prefecture in northeastern Japan, on Feb. 13, 2011. The sacred fire is believed to drive out bad luck from the rice fields while people also wish for the good health and safety of their families at the event. (Kyodo)

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Fire dance ritual in Akita Pref.

Fire dance ritual in Akita Pref.

SEMBOKU, Japan - A child swings a sack of burning coals tied to a rope during a traditional agricultural fertility ritual called the ''Hifuri Kamakura'' in Semboku, Akita Prefecture in northeastern Japan, on Feb. 13, 2011. The sacred fire is believed to drive out bad luck from the rice fields while people also wish for the good health and safety of their families at the event. (Kyodo)

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