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Pope Leo XIV Leads Extraordinary Consistory - Day 2 - Vatican

Pope Leo XIV have lunch with the cardinals on the second day of his first Extraordinary Consistory of Cardinals in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican on January 8, 2026. RIGHT of the pope: French cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline. Over the course of two days, the Pope meets with members of the College of Cardinals in order to foster shared discernment and to offer support and counsel to the pope in carrying out his responsibility for the governance of the universal Church. Photo by (EV) Simone Risoluti/ Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Leo XIV Leads Extraordinary Consistory - Day 2 - Vatican

Pope Leo XIV have lunch with the cardinals on the second day of his first Extraordinary Consistory of Cardinals in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican on January 8, 2026. Over the course of two days, the Pope meets with members of the College of Cardinals in order to foster shared discernment and to offer support and counsel to the pope in carrying out his responsibility for the governance of the universal Church. Photo by (EV) Simone Risoluti/ Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Leo XIV Leads Extraordinary Consistory - Day 2 - Vatican

Pope Leo XIV have lunch with the cardinals on the second day of his first Extraordinary Consistory of Cardinals in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican on January 8, 2026. LEFT: French cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline. Over the course of two days, the Pope meets with members of the College of Cardinals in order to foster shared discernment and to offer support and counsel to the pope in carrying out his responsibility for the governance of the universal Church. Photo by (EV) Simone Risoluti/ Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Leo XIV Leads Extraordinary Consistory - Day 2 - Vatican

Pope Leo XIV have lunch with the cardinals on the second day of his first Extraordinary Consistory of Cardinals in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican on January 8, 2026. LEFT: French cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline. Over the course of two days, the Pope meets with members of the College of Cardinals in order to foster shared discernment and to offer support and counsel to the pope in carrying out his responsibility for the governance of the universal Church. Photo by (EV) Simone Risoluti/ Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Leo XIV Leads Extraordinary Consistory - Day 2 - Vatican

Pope Leo XIV have lunch with the cardinals on the second day of his first Extraordinary Consistory of Cardinals in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican on January 8, 2026. LEFT: French cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline. Over the course of two days, the Pope meets with members of the College of Cardinals in order to foster shared discernment and to offer support and counsel to the pope in carrying out his responsibility for the governance of the universal Church. Photo by (EV) Simone Risoluti/ Vatican Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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US: Two Killed, Six Injured in Shooting Outside LDS Church in Salt Lake City

Two people were killed and six others injured when a shooting broke out during a dispute in the parking lot of a meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints outside a funeral in Salt Lake City’s Rose Park neighborhood on Wednesday evening, January 7.

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Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay

Aoyama Gakuin University anchor runner Sota Orita crosses the finish line in Tokyo's Otemachi business district on Jan. 3, 2026, securing the university's third consecutive year of victory in the two-day Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay.

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Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay

Aoyama Gakuin University anchor runner Sota Orita crosses the finish line in Tokyo's Otemachi business district on Jan. 3, 2026, securing the university's third consecutive year of victory in the two-day Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay.

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Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay

Aoyama Gakuin University anchor runner Sota Orita crosses the finish line in Tokyo's Otemachi business district on Jan. 3, 2026, securing the university's third consecutive year of victory in the two-day Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay.

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Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay

Aoyama Gakuin University anchor runner Sota Orita crosses the finish line in Tokyo's Otemachi business district on Jan. 3, 2026, securing the university's third consecutive year of victory in the two-day Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay.

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Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay

Aoyama Gakuin University anchor runner Sota Orita crosses the finish line in Tokyo's Otemachi business district on Jan. 3, 2026, securing the university's third consecutive year of victory in the two-day Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay.

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Tokyo-Hakone ekiden road relay

The first runners of 21 teams start the Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden in the capital's Otemachi business district on Jan. 2, 2026, the first day of the two-day road relay. (Pool photo)

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Tokyo-Hakone ekiden road relay

The first runners of 21 teams start the Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden in the capital's Otemachi business district on Jan. 2, 2026, the first day of the two-day road relay. (Pool photo)

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Tokyo-Hakone ekiden road relay

The first runners of 21 teams start the Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden in the capital's Otemachi business district on Jan. 2, 2026, the first day of the two-day road relay.

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Tokyo-Hakone ekiden road relay

The first runners of 21 teams start the Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden in the capital's Otemachi business district on Jan. 2, 2026, the first day of the two-day road relay.

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Takaichi moves to PM official residence

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi exits a vehicle at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on Dec. 29, 2025. Takaichi moved to the residence, adjacent to the prime minister's office, the same day, two month after she took office.

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Takaichi moves to PM official residence

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi exits a vehicle at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on Dec. 29, 2025. Takaichi moved to the residence, adjacent to the prime minister's office, the same day, two month after she took office.

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Takaichi moves to PM official residence

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi exits a vehicle at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on Dec. 29, 2025. Takaichi moved to the residence, adjacent to the prime minister's office, the same day, two month after she took office.

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Free Education Empowers Rural Girls In Huaping - China

Two students have meals outdoors at Huaping Senior High School for Girls in Huaping County, Lijiang City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Dec. 23, 2025. Each morning at Huaping High School for Girls in Yunnan Province, the schoolyard rings with a bold pledge, "I was born to be a mountain not a creek, rising to the high peaks with the valleys at my feet." Behind that voice stands Zhang Guimei, the school's founder and principal. In her sixties and struggling with illness, she still devotes more than 18 hours a day to her students. Megaphone in hand, she has become a living symbol of how education can open doors that poverty once closed. Founded in 2008, Huaping High School for Girls is the country's first senior high school to offer free education for girls. The school in mountainous Yunnan Province has created a miracle, with more than 2,000 graduates -- most of whom come from low-income rural families -- admitted to colleges and universities. Many of them later became teachers, doctors and civil servants,

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BOJ raises key rate to 30-year-high of 0.75%

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 19 Kyodo - Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda attends a press conference at the central bank's headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2025, following the second day of a two-day policy-setting meeting at which the BOJ raised its key interest rate to a 30-year high of around 0.75 percent from 0.50 percent. (Kyodo)

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BOJ raises key rate to 30-year-high of 0.75%

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda attends a press conference at the central bank's headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2025, following the second day of a two-day policy-setting meeting at which the BOJ raised its key interest rate to a 30-year high of around 0.75 percent from 0.50 percent.

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BOJ raises key rate to 30-year-high of 0.75%

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda attends a press conference at the central bank's headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2025, following the second day of a two-day policy-setting meeting at which the BOJ raised its key interest rate to a 30-year high of around 0.75 percent from 0.50 percent.

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BOJ raises key rate to 30-year-high of 0.75%

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda attends a press conference at the central bank's headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2025, following the second day of a two-day policy-setting meeting at which the BOJ raised its key interest rate to a 30-year high of around 0.75 percent from 0.50 percent.

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BOJ raises key rate to 30-year-high of 0.75%

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda attends a press conference at the central bank's headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2025, following the second day of a two-day policy-setting meeting at which the BOJ raised its key interest rate to a 30-year high of around 0.75 percent from 0.50 percent.

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BOJ raises key rate to 30-year-high of 0.75%

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda attends a press conference at the central bank's headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2025, following the second day of a two-day policy-setting meeting at which the BOJ raised its key interest rate to a 30-year high of around 0.75 percent from 0.50 percent.

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BOJ raises key rate to 30-year-high of 0.75%

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda attends a press conference at the central bank's headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2025, following the second day of a two-day policy-setting meeting at which the BOJ raised its key interest rate to a 30-year high of around 0.75 percent from 0.50 percent.

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BOJ policy-setting meeting

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda arrives at the central bank's headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2025, for the first day of a two-day monetary policy meeting. (Pool photo)

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BOJ policy-setting meeting

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda arrives at the central bank's headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2025, for the first day of a two-day monetary policy meeting. (Pool photo)

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BOJ policy-setting meeting

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda arrives at the central bank's headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2025, for the second day of a two-day monetary policy meeting.

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BOJ policy-setting meeting

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda arrives at the central bank's headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2025, for the second day of a two-day monetary policy meeting.

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BOJ policy-setting meeting

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda arrives at the central bank's headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2025, for the second day of a two-day monetary policy meeting.

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BOJ policy-setting meeting

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda arrives at the central bank's headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2025, for the first day of a two-day policy-setting meeting. (Pool photo)

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Self-driving cargo tug testing begins at Haneda airport

Photo taken on Dec. 15, 2025, shows All Nippon Airways (L) and Japan Airlines self-driving cargo tugs at Haneda airport in Tokyo. The two airlines began self-driving tests of the vehicles the same day amid a chronic manpower shortage.

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US: Icy Roads After Snowfall Across Pennsylvania, Hazardous Travel Issued

The snow that fell Saturday night into Sunday, December 14, in central Pennsylvania partially thawed during the day but refroze as temperatures dropped in the afternoon and evening. Due to the resulting possibility of hazardous travel on Sunday night, December 14 and Monday morning, December 15, there is a possibility that classes in central Pa. could be delayed by one or two hours.

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Les Arcs Film Festival - Day Two. FC

LES ARCS, FRANCE - DECEMBER 14 Anyier Anei attends the Coutures photocall during Day Two of Les Arcs Film Festival on December 14, 2025 in Les Arcs, France... Photo by Franck Castel/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Les Arcs Film Festival - Day Two. FC

LES ARCS, FRANCE - DECEMBER 14 Anyier Anei attends the Coutures photocall during Day Two of Les Arcs Film Festival on December 14, 2025 in Les Arcs, France... Photo by Franck Castel/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Les Arcs Film Festival - Day Two. FC

LES ARCS, FRANCE - DECEMBER 14 Anyier Anei attends the Coutures photocall during Day Two of Les Arcs Film Festival on December 14, 2025 in Les Arcs, France... Photo by Franck Castel/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Les Arcs Film Festival - Day Two. FC

LES ARCS, FRANCE - DECEMBER 14 Alice Winocour and Ella Rumpf photocall during Day Two of Les Arcs Film Festival on December 14, 2025 in Les Arcs, France... Photo by Franck Castel/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Les Arcs Film Festival - Day Two. FC

LES ARCS, FRANCE - DECEMBER 14 Alice Winocour and Ella Rumpf photocall during Day Two of Les Arcs Film Festival on December 14, 2025 in Les Arcs, France... Photo by Franck Castel/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Les Arcs Film Festival - Day Two. FC

LES ARCS, FRANCE - DECEMBER 14 Anyier Anei attends the Coutures photocall during Day Two of Les Arcs Film Festival on December 14, 2025 in Les Arcs, France... Photo by Franck Castel/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Les Arcs Film Festival - Day Two. FC

LES ARCS, FRANCE - DECEMBER 14 Anyier Anei attends the Coutures photocall during Day Two of Les Arcs Film Festival on December 14, 2025 in Les Arcs, France... Photo by Franck Castel/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Les Arcs Film Festival - Day Two. FC

LES ARCS, FRANCE - DECEMBER 14 Anyier Anei attends the Coutures photocall during Day Two of Les Arcs Film Festival on December 14, 2025 in Les Arcs, France... Photo by Franck Castel/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Les Arcs Film Festival - Day Two. FC

LES ARCS, FRANCE - DECEMBER 14 Anyier Anei attends the Coutures photocall during Day Two of Les Arcs Film Festival on December 14, 2025 in Les Arcs, France... Photo by Franck Castel/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Les Arcs Film Festival - Day Two. FC

LES ARCS, FRANCE - DECEMBER 14 Anyier Anei attends the Coutures photocall during Day Two of Les Arcs Film Festival on December 14, 2025 in Les Arcs, France... Photo by Franck Castel/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Les Arcs Film Festival - Day Two. FC

LES ARCS, FRANCE - DECEMBER 14 Anyier Anei attends the Coutures photocall during Day Two of Les Arcs Film Festival on December 14, 2025 in Les Arcs, France... Photo by Franck Castel/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Les Arcs Film Festival - Day Two. FC

LES ARCS, FRANCE - DECEMBER 14 Anyier Anei attends the Coutures photocall during Day Two of Les Arcs Film Festival on December 14, 2025 in Les Arcs, France... Photo by Franck Castel/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Les Arcs Film Festival - Day Two. FC

LES ARCS, FRANCE - DECEMBER 14 Anyier Anei attends the Coutures photocall during Day Two of Les Arcs Film Festival on December 14, 2025 in Les Arcs, France... Photo by Franck Castel/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Les Arcs Film Festival - Day Two. FC

LES ARCS, FRANCE - DECEMBER 14 Anyier Anei attends the Coutures photocall during Day Two of Les Arcs Film Festival on December 14, 2025 in Les Arcs, France... Photo by Franck Castel/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Les Arcs Film Festival - Day Two. FC

LES ARCS, FRANCE - DECEMBER 14 Alice Winocour and Ella Rumpf photocall during Day Two of Les Arcs Film Festival on December 14, 2025 in Les Arcs, France... Photo by Franck Castel/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Les Arcs Film Festival - Day Two. FC

LES ARCS, FRANCE - DECEMBER 14 Anyier Anei attends the Coutures photocall during Day Two of Les Arcs Film Festival on December 14, 2025 in Les Arcs, France... Photo by Franck Castel/ABACAPRESS.COM