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Mahashivaratri Eve at Pashupatinath Temple in  Nepal

Mahashivaratri Eve at Pashupatinath Temple in Nepal

Hindu saints camp in the premises of Pashupatinath Temple in Nepali capital Kathmandu as they arrive the Himalayan Nation for the annual festival of Shivaratri. This year the Shivaratri also called Maha Shivaratri falls on 18th February which is translated as âGreat Night of Shivaâ. In Hindu mythology, Shiva is regarded as the protector and destroyer. Hindu saints are considered the dispel of Lord Shiva; thousands of them throng the temple annually for the festival.

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Mahashivaratri Eve at Pashupatinath Temple in  Nepal

Mahashivaratri Eve at Pashupatinath Temple in Nepal

Hindu saints camp in the premises of Pashupatinath Temple in Nepali capital Kathmandu as they arrive the Himalayan Nation for the annual festival of Shivaratri. This year the Shivaratri also called Maha Shivaratri falls on 18th February which is translated as âGreat Night of Shivaâ. In Hindu mythology, Shiva is regarded as the protector and destroyer. Hindu saints are considered the dispel of Lord Shiva; thousands of them throng the temple annually for the festival.

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Mahashivaratri Eve at Pashupatinath Temple in  Nepal

Mahashivaratri Eve at Pashupatinath Temple in Nepal

Hindu saints camp in the premises of Pashupatinath Temple in Nepali capital Kathmandu as they arrive the Himalayan Nation for the annual festival of Shivaratri. This year the Shivaratri also called Maha Shivaratri falls on 18th February which is translated as âGreat Night of Shivaâ. In Hindu mythology, Shiva is regarded as the protector and destroyer. Hindu saints are considered the dispel of Lord Shiva; thousands of them throng the temple annually for the festival.

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Mahashivaratri Eve at Pashupatinath Temple in  Nepal

Mahashivaratri Eve at Pashupatinath Temple in Nepal

Hindu saints camp in the premises of Pashupatinath Temple in Nepali capital Kathmandu as they arrive the Himalayan Nation for the annual festival of Shivaratri. This year the Shivaratri also called Maha Shivaratri falls on 18th February which is translated as âGreat Night of Shivaâ. In Hindu mythology, Shiva is regarded as the protector and destroyer. Hindu saints are considered the dispel of Lord Shiva; thousands of them throng the temple annually for the festival.

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Britain's Prince William visits Fukushima with Abe

Britain's Prince William visits Fukushima with Abe

MOTOMIYA, Japan, Feb. 28 Kyodo - Britain's Prince William spends time with children at an athletic facility for children in the city of Motomiya in Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 28, 2015. The 32-year-old Duke of Cambridge, who arrived Feb. 26 on his first visit to Japan, visited Fukushima with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to help dispel safety concerns in the prefecture hit by the 2011 nuclear disaster. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Japan lawmaker holds trade talks with U.S. official

Japan lawmaker holds trade talks with U.S. official

WASHINGTON, United States - Mitsuru Sakurai (C), a House of Councillors member from the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, holds a press conference in Washington on April 10, 2012, after holding talks with Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Demetrios Marantis. Sakurai said Marantis has urged Japan to demonstrate willingness to dispel U.S. concerns in three sectors -- automobiles, insurance and beef -- before its formal entry into trans-Pacific free trade talks is approved.

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Okada says suspicion nukes brought in cannot be dispelled

Okada says suspicion nukes brought in cannot be dispelled

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada speaks during a news conference at his ministry on March 9, 2010, after the revelation by a ministry panel of a Cold War-era tacit agreement between Japan and the United States on the introduction of nuclear arms into Japan. Okada said he cannot completely dispel the suspicion that nuclear weapons were brought into Japan, in light of the revelation.

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Okada says suspicion nukes brought in cannot be dispelled

Okada says suspicion nukes brought in cannot be dispelled

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada speaks during a news conference at his ministry on March 9, 2010, after the revelation by a ministry panel of a Cold War-era tacit agreement between Japan and the United States on the introduction of nuclear arms into Japan. Okada said he cannot completely dispel the suspicion that nuclear weapons were brought into Japan, in light of the revelation.

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Okada says suspicion nukes brought in cannot be dispelled

Okada says suspicion nukes brought in cannot be dispelled

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada speaks during a news conference at his ministry on March 9, 2010, after the revelation by a ministry panel of a Cold War-era tacit agreement between Japan and the United States on the introduction of nuclear arms into Japan. Okada said he cannot completely dispel the suspicion that nuclear weapons were brought into Japan, in light of the revelation.

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Asashoryu scatters beans in traditional ceremony

Asashoryu scatters beans in traditional ceremony

NARITA, Japan - Mongolian yokozuna (R) scatters beans at Shinshoji Temple in Narita, east of Tokyo, in a traditional ceremony to dispel demons on Feb. 3.

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Japan to urge Iraq to act to dispel weapons concern

Japan to urge Iraq to act to dispel weapons concern

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi speaks to reporters at a Tokyo hotel Feb. 15 on chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix's report on Iraq. Kawaguchi said the Japanese government will continue to urge Iraq to cooperate with U.N. weapons inspectors to dispel global concern over its weapons programs.

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Singapore promotes recycled 'NEWater'

Singapore promotes recycled 'NEWater'

SINGAPORE - Singapore has been distributing free samples of its recycled water, which is drawn from sewers and added to reservoir water, as 'NEWater.' Samples have been handed out at public functions in a bid to dispel public concerns about safety. It will be pumped into the city's water system later in February.

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U.S., S. Korean defense chiefs meet the press

U.S., S. Korean defense chiefs meet the press

SEOUL, South Korea - U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen (L) speaks as his South Korean counterpart Cho Seong Tae listens at a joint news conference they gave at the end of their talks in Seoul on Sept. 21. The two ministers urged North Korea to dispel international concerns about Pyongyang's military threats.

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U.S. should fully account for its bio-military activities at home and abroad: spokesperson

STORY: U.S. should fully account for its bio-military activities at home and abroad: spokesperson DATELINE: March 10, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:33 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE (Chinese/English interpretation): ZHAO LIJIAN, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson STORYLINE: SOUNDBITE (Chinese/English interpretation): ZHAO LIJIAN, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson "The international community has had grave concerns about U.S. bio-military activities for long. The world has no knowledge about what the U.S. has been doing in Fort Detrick on its territory, and the 336 biological labs overseas, or whether the activities conform to the stipulations of the BWC (Biological Weapons Convention). It is wishful thinking to dispel concerns with few words and irresponsible to call such misgivings of the world disinformation. It is more confounding that if the U.S. did comply with the BWC, why is the U.S. the only country that has opposed setting up multilateral verification mechanisms for 20 yea

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CHINA-TIANJIN-INT'L STUDENT-VOLUNTEER (CN)

CHINA-TIANJIN-INT'L STUDENT-VOLUNTEER (CN)

(220116) -- TIANJIN, Jan. 16, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Evanilson hands over a cup of hot water to a staff member at a residential community in Dongli District of north China's Tianjin, Jan. 15, 2022. Evanilson Gomes Alqueia, 26, from Guinea-Bissau, is a junior student at Tianjin University. After the recent COVID-19 outbreak in Tianjin, he and his Zimbabwean girlfriend Kudzanai Dube are recruited as community volunteers. Evanilson has been working through several rounds of nucleic acid testing in the community, leading residents to queue up, carrying supplies with community workers, and distributing hot water for staff members to dispel the cold. "In the face of the epidemic, we should all stand up and work together to defeat it." Evanilson said. (Xinhua/Sun Fanyue)

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CHINA-TIANJIN-INT'L STUDENT-VOLUNTEER (CN)

CHINA-TIANJIN-INT'L STUDENT-VOLUNTEER (CN)

(220116) -- TIANJIN, Jan. 16, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Evanilson (L) hands over a cup of hot water to a staff member at a residential community in Dongli District of north China's Tianjin, Jan. 15, 2022. Evanilson Gomes Alqueia, 26, from Guinea-Bissau, is a junior student at Tianjin University. After the recent COVID-19 outbreak in Tianjin, he and his Zimbabwean girlfriend Kudzanai Dube are recruited as community volunteers. Evanilson has been working through several rounds of nucleic acid testing in the community, leading residents to queue up, carrying supplies with community workers, and distributing hot water for staff members to dispel the cold. "In the face of the epidemic, we should all stand up and work together to defeat it." Evanilson said. (Xinhua/Sun Fanyue)

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CHINA-TIANJIN-INT'L STUDENT-VOLUNTEER (CN)

CHINA-TIANJIN-INT'L STUDENT-VOLUNTEER (CN)

(220116) -- TIANJIN, Jan. 16, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Evanilson guides residents to queue up for nucleic acid tests at a residential community in Dongli District of north China's Tianjin, Jan. 15, 2022. Evanilson Gomes Alqueia, 26, from Guinea-Bissau, is a junior student at Tianjin University. After the recent COVID-19 outbreak in Tianjin, he and his Zimbabwean girlfriend Kudzanai Dube are recruited as community volunteers. Evanilson has been working through several rounds of nucleic acid testing in the community, leading residents to queue up, carrying supplies with community workers, and distributing hot water for staff members to dispel the cold. "In the face of the epidemic, we should all stand up and work together to defeat it." Evanilson said. (Xinhua/Sun Fanyue)

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CHINA-TIANJIN-INT'L STUDENT-VOLUNTEER (CN)

CHINA-TIANJIN-INT'L STUDENT-VOLUNTEER (CN)

(220116) -- TIANJIN, Jan. 16, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Evanilson guides residents to queue up for nucleic acid tests at a residential community in Dongli District of north China's Tianjin, Jan. 15, 2022. Evanilson Gomes Alqueia, 26, from Guinea-Bissau, is a junior student at Tianjin University. After the recent COVID-19 outbreak in Tianjin, he and his Zimbabwean girlfriend Kudzanai Dube are recruited as community volunteers. Evanilson has been working through several rounds of nucleic acid testing in the community, leading residents to queue up, carrying supplies with community workers, and distributing hot water for staff members to dispel the cold. "In the face of the epidemic, we should all stand up and work together to defeat it." Evanilson said. (Xinhua/Zhao Zishuo)

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CHINA-TIANJIN-INT'L STUDENT-VOLUNTEER (CN)

CHINA-TIANJIN-INT'L STUDENT-VOLUNTEER (CN)

(220116) -- TIANJIN, Jan. 16, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Evanilson guides residents to queue up for nucleic acid tests at a residential community in Dongli District of north China's Tianjin, Jan. 15, 2022. Evanilson Gomes Alqueia, 26, from Guinea-Bissau, is a junior student at Tianjin University. After the recent COVID-19 outbreak in Tianjin, he and his Zimbabwean girlfriend Kudzanai Dube are recruited as community volunteers. Evanilson has been working through several rounds of nucleic acid testing in the community, leading residents to queue up, carrying supplies with community workers, and distributing hot water for staff members to dispel the cold. "In the face of the epidemic, we should all stand up and work together to defeat it." Evanilson said. (Xinhua/Zhao Zishuo)

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Asashoryu scatters beans in traditional ceremony

Asashoryu scatters beans in traditional ceremony

NARITA, Japan - Mongolian yokozuna (R) scatters beans at Shinshoji Temple in Narita, east of Tokyo, in a traditional ceremony to dispel demons on Feb. 3. (Kyodo)

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U.S., S. Korean defense chiefs meet the press

U.S., S. Korean defense chiefs meet the press

SEOUL, South Korea - U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen (L) speaks as his South Korean counterpart Cho Seong Tae listens at a joint news conference they gave at the end of their talks in Seoul on Sept. 21. The two ministers urged North Korea to dispel international concerns about Pyongyang's military threats.

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State minister drinks purified Fukushima water to show safety

State minister drinks purified Fukushima water to show safety

Yosuke Takagi, state minister of economy, trade and industry, drinks a glass of water treated at a purification plant in Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, during his visit to the facility on April 3, 2015, in an attempt to show the water is safe and to dispel concerns about radioactive contamination from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Britain's Prince William visits Fukushima with Abe

Britain's Prince William visits Fukushima with Abe

Britain's Prince William (far L) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (center L) are welcomed at an athletic facility for children in the city of Motomiya in Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 28, 2015. The 32-year-old Duke of Cambridge, who arrived Feb. 26 on his first visit to Japan, visited Fukushima with Abe to help dispel safety concerns in the prefecture hit by the 2011 nuclear disaster. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Britain's Prince William visits Fukushima with Abe

Britain's Prince William visits Fukushima with Abe

Britain's Prince William (C) talks to a boy at an athletic facility for children in the city of Motomiya in Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 28, 2015. The 32-year-old Duke of Cambridge, who arrived Feb. 26 on his first visit to Japan, visited Fukushima with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (far L) to help dispel safety concerns in the prefecture hit by the 2011 nuclear disaster. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Britain's Prince William visits Fukushima with Abe

Britain's Prince William visits Fukushima with Abe

Britain's Prince William (L front) receives a letter from a girl when visiting an athletic facility for children in the city of Motomiya in Fukushima Prefecture with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (behind him) on Feb. 28, 2015. The 32-year-old Duke of Cambridge, who arrived Feb. 26 on his first visit to Japan, visited Fukushima with Abe to help dispel safety concerns in the prefecture hit by the 2011 nuclear disaster. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Britain's Prince William visits Fukushima with Abe

Britain's Prince William visits Fukushima with Abe

Britain's Prince William (2nd from L) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (far L) watch children bounce on a trampoline at an athletic facility for children in the city of Motomiya in Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 28, 2015. The 32-year-old Duke of Cambridge, who arrived Feb. 26 on his first visit to Japan, visited Fukushima with Abe to help dispel safety concerns in the prefecture hit by the 2011 nuclear disaster. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fukushima invites consumers to event to dispel concern over local fish

Fukushima invites consumers to event to dispel concern over local fish

Participants look at a man examining fish caught on a trial basis in waters 10 kilometers or less away from Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant for any radioactive substances during an event in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on May 17, 2015, aimed at dispelling consumer concerns over the safety of local fish. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fukushima invites consumers to event to dispel concern over local fish

Fukushima invites consumers to event to dispel concern over local fish

Participants pick dishes using fish caught on a trial basis in waters along and off Fukushima Prefecture during an event in Iwaki on May 17, 2015, aimed at dispelling consumer concerns over the safety of local fish. Full-scale fishing has been voluntarily suspended off the northeastern Japanese prefecture following the 2011 nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan lawmaker holds trade talks with U.S. official

Japan lawmaker holds trade talks with U.S. official

WASHINGTON, United States - Mitsuru Sakurai (C), a House of Councillors member from the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, holds a press conference in Washington on April 10, 2012, after holding talks with Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Demetrios Marantis. Sakurai said Marantis has urged Japan to demonstrate willingness to dispel U.S. concerns in three sectors -- automobiles, insurance and beef -- before its formal entry into trans-Pacific free trade talks is approved. (Kyodo)

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Okada says suspicion nukes brought in cannot be dispelled

Okada says suspicion nukes brought in cannot be dispelled

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada speaks during a news conference at his ministry on March 9, 2010, after the revelation by a ministry panel of a Cold War-era tacit agreement between Japan and the United States on the introduction of nuclear arms into Japan. Okada said he cannot completely dispel the suspicion that nuclear weapons were brought into Japan, in light of the revelation. (Kyodo)

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Okada says suspicion nukes brought in cannot be dispelled

Okada says suspicion nukes brought in cannot be dispelled

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada speaks during a news conference at his ministry on March 9, 2010, after the revelation by a ministry panel of a Cold War-era tacit agreement between Japan and the United States on the introduction of nuclear arms into Japan. Okada said he cannot completely dispel the suspicion that nuclear weapons were brought into Japan, in light of the revelation. (Kyodo)

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Okada says suspicion nukes brought in cannot be dispelled

Okada says suspicion nukes brought in cannot be dispelled

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada speaks during a news conference at his ministry on March 9, 2010, after the revelation by a ministry panel of a Cold War-era tacit agreement between Japan and the United States on the introduction of nuclear arms into Japan. Okada said he cannot completely dispel the suspicion that nuclear weapons were brought into Japan, in light of the revelation. (Kyodo)

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Athletics: Cambridge aims to dispel Rio demons with worlds 100 final

Athletics: Cambridge aims to dispel Rio demons with worlds 100 final

Japanese sprinter Asuka Cambridge speaks to reporters at Tokyo's Haneda airport on July 28, 2017, before taking off for the Aug. 4-13 world athletics championships in London. Cambridge has set his sights on a place in the 100-meter final at his world championships debut. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan to urge Iraq to act to dispel weapons concern

Japan to urge Iraq to act to dispel weapons concern

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi speaks to reporters at a Tokyo hotel Feb. 15 on chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix's report on Iraq. Kawaguchi said the Japanese government will continue to urge Iraq to cooperate with U.N. weapons inspectors to dispel global concern over its weapons programs. (Kyodo)

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Singapore promotes recycled 'NEWater'

Singapore promotes recycled 'NEWater'

SINGAPORE - Singapore has been distributing free samples of its recycled water, which is drawn from sewers and added to reservoir water, as 'NEWater.' Samples have been handed out at public functions in a bid to dispel public concerns about safety. It will be pumped into the city's water system later in February. (Kyodo)

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