Monsoon Conditions Continue in India

Monsoon Conditions Continue in India

A city dweller walks with an umbrella on a rain-soaked road during a heavy downpour in Agartala, Tripura, on September 8, 2025, as monsoon conditions continue to affect the region. Photo by Abhisek Saha/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Monsoon Conditions Continue in India

Monsoon Conditions Continue in India

A city dweller walks on a rain-soaked road during a heavy downpour in Agartala, Tripura, on September 8, 2025, as monsoon conditions continue to affect the region. Photo by Abhisek Saha/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Underground and undernourished: Cave dwellers in Afghanistan's Bamiyan risk starvation

STORY: Underground and undernourished: Cave dwellers in Afghanistan's Bamiyan risk starvation DATELINE: March 26, 2022 LENGTH: 00:03:13 LOCATION: BAMIYAN, Afghanistan CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various shots of caves in which poor people live 2. STANDUP (English): SHI XIANTAO, Xinhua correspondent 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Dari): ZARIFA GULL AHMAD, Cave dweller 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Pashto): NORIA, Cave dweller 5. SOUNDBITE 3 (Dari): HASSAN, Cave dweller STORYLINE: For the whole of history, people have lived in caves in Afghanistan. Many people had no choice but to take up residence in one, and in central Bamiyan province, many families find themselves forgotten and starving. STANDUP (English): SHI XIANTAO, Xinhua correspondent "Following the pullout of its troops from Afghanistan in August 2021, the United States has frozen nearly 10 billion U.S. dollars worth of assets of Afghanistan's central bank, which is widely seen as the primary factor leading to the current economic crisis and humanitarian disaster in the wa

Model of Tomioka's prequake townscape brings back fond memories

Model of Tomioka's prequake townscape brings back fond memories

Chikako Nishihara (L), a temporary housing dweller in Fukushima Prefecture's Iwaki, points at a place of memories in the miniature model, which recreates the townscape of Tomioka in the northeastern Japanese prefecture before the 2011 quake based on residents' memories, on June 4, 2015, in Iwaki. All residents of the northeastern Japanese town continue their evacuation after the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Prequake Tomioka townscape recreated in model

Prequake Tomioka townscape recreated in model

Chikako Nishihara (C), a temporary housing dweller in Fukushima Prefecture's Iwaki, colors the roof of a miniature model of her house, part of the miniature model set to recreate the townscape of Tomioka Town before the 2011 earthquake, on June 4, 2015, in Iwaki. All residents of the northeastern Japanese town continue their evacuation after the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo