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Japan to release extra oil reserve from May

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (R) speaks at a meeting of ministers held at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 10, 2026, to address the Middle East crisis. Takaichi revealed at the meeting that Japan plans to release an additional 20 days' worth of oil reserves starting in early May.

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Japan to release extra oil reserve from May

Cabinet ministers discuss measures to deal with the Middle East crisis in a meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 10, 2026. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi revealed at the meeting that Japan plans to release an additional 20 days' worth of oil reserves starting in early May.

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Japan to release extra oil reserve from May

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks at a meeting of ministers held at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 10, 2026, to address the Middle East crisis. Takaichi revealed at the meeting that Japan plans to release an additional 20 days' worth of oil reserves starting in early May.

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Japan to release extra oil reserve from May

Cabinet ministers discuss measures to deal with the Middle East crisis in a meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 10, 2026. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi revealed at the meeting that Japan plans to release an additional 20 days' worth of oil reserves starting in early May.

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Dominican Republic: Heavy Rainfall Causes Flooding Across Greater Santo Domingo

Heavy rainfall of exceptional intensity struck Greater Santo Domingo in the early hours of Wednesday, April 8, with the highest accumulation of 314 millimeters recorded in the Ensanche Julieta area, according to the Dominican Institute of Meteorology. Flooding affected several sectors of the city, disrupting traffic.

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Brazil: Fire Damages Roof of Rio Olympic Velodrome

A fire broke out at the velodrome in Rio de Janeiro's Olympic Park in the early hours of Wednesday, April 8, damaging the roof of the venue but leaving the track intact. No injuries were reported.

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US: Massive Fire Tears Through Kimberly-Clark Paper Goods Warehouse in Ontario, CA 2

A massive 6-alarm fire broke out at a Kimberly-Clark warehouse in Ontario, California, in the early hours of Tuesday, April 7, with more than 100 firefighters responding to battle the blaze. A warehouse employee was arrested on suspicion of arson, and no injuries were reported, though thick smoke prompted air quality warnings for sensitive groups in the area.

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US: Massive Fire Tears Through Kimberly-Clark Paper Goods Warehouse in Ontario, CA

A massive 6-alarm fire broke out at a Kimberly-Clark warehouse in Ontario, California, in the early hours of Tuesday, April 7, with more than 100 firefighters responding to battle the blaze. A warehouse employee was arrested on suspicion of arson, and no injuries were reported, though thick smoke prompted air quality warnings for sensitive groups in the area.

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Ukraine karateka regains Tokyo Olympics bronze medal

2021 Tokyo Olympics karate bronze medalist Stanislav Horuna of Ukraine is pictured on April 5, 2026, in Tokyo with his medal that he regained after auctioning it off in 2022 to help with the war against Russia. A Tokyo man who bought the medal had intended to return it after the war's end but decided on an early return as the war drags on.

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Ukraine karateka regains Tokyo Olympics bronze medal

2021 Tokyo Olympics karate bronze medalist Stanislav Horuna (2nd from R) of Ukraine is pictured on April 5, 2026, in Tokyo with his medal that he regained after auctioning it off in 2022 to help with the war against Russia. A Tokyo man who bought the medal had intended to return it after the war's end but decided on an early return as the war drags on.

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April Pink Moon Dazzles Sky Watchers Worldwide 2

April's full pink moon lit up the night sky on April 1, or April 2 in some regions, visible to sky watchers across both hemispheres. Despite its rosy name, the moon does not actually appear pink — the name comes from the early spring bloom of "moss pink," a wildflower native to eastern North America.

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April Pink Moon Dazzles Sky Watchers Worldwide

April's full pink moon lit up the night sky on April 1, or April 2 in some regions, visible to sky watchers across both hemispheres. Despite its rosy name, the moon does not actually appear pink — the name comes from the early spring bloom of "moss pink," a wildflower native to eastern North America.

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Famous Pair Of Pandas Will Leave Beauval Zoo For China - France

File photo - In the nursery, everything is ready to welcome a baby panda. Here is the incubator with a panda soft toy inside, on April 11, 2012, at the Beauval Zoo. For the first time in France, a pair of pandas is being presented to the public: Huan Huan, the female, and Yuan Zi, the male. The giant panda is listed as “endangered” on the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of Threatened Species. It is estimated that there are 1,600 pandas still living in the wild. The famous pair of pandas will leave Beauval Zoo on Tuesday, November 25, 2025, due to an early return to China caused by the female's kidney failure, on November 24, 2025, in Saint-Aignan, France. Photo by Pascal Baril/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Famous Pair Of Pandas Will Leave Beauval Zoo For China - France

File photo - Feeding time for the pandas: Astrid, a keeper, gives the pandas their supplements, on April 11, 2012, at the Beauval Zoo. For the first time in France, a pair of pandas is being presented to the public: Huan Huan, the female, and Yuan Zi, the male. The giant panda is listed as “endangered” on the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of Threatened Species. It is estimated that there are 1,600 pandas still living in the wild. The famous pair of pandas will leave Beauval Zoo on Tuesday, November 25, 2025, due to an early return to China caused by the female's kidney failure, on November 24, 2025, in Saint-Aignan, France. Photo by Pascal Baril/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Famous Pair Of Pandas Will Leave Beauval Zoo For China - France

File photo - Astrid, a keeper, prepares food supplements for the pandas, including pellets and apples, on April 11, 2012, at the Beauval Zoo. For the first time in France, a pair of pandas is being presented to the public: Huan Huan, the female, and Yuan Zi, the male. The giant panda is listed as “endangered” on the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of Threatened Species. It is estimated that there are 1,600 pandas still living in the wild. The famous pair of pandas will leave Beauval Zoo on Tuesday, November 25, 2025, due to an early return to China caused by the female's kidney failure, on November 24, 2025, in Saint-Aignan, France. Photo by Pascal Baril/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Famous Pair Of Pandas Will Leave Beauval Zoo For China - France

File photo - The Pandas' Meal on April 11, 2012, an exceptional event took place at Beauval Zoo (Loire-et-Cher). For the first time in France, a pair of pandas is being presented to the public: Huan Huan, the female, and Yuan Zi, the male. The giant panda is listed as “endangered” on the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of Threatened Species. It is estimated that there are 1,600 pandas still living in the wild. The famous pair of pandas will leave Beauval Zoo on Tuesday, November 25, 2025, due to an early return to China caused by the female's kidney failure, on November 24, 2025, in Saint-Aignan, France. Photo by Pascal Baril/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Famous Pair Of Pandas Will Leave Beauval Zoo For China - France

File photo - The Pandas' Meal on April 11, 2012, an exceptional event took place at Beauval Zoo (Loire-et-Cher). For the first time in France, a pair of pandas is being presented to the public: Huan Huan, the female, and Yuan Zi, the male. The giant panda is listed as “endangered” on the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of Threatened Species. It is estimated that there are 1,600 pandas still living in the wild. The famous pair of pandas will leave Beauval Zoo on Tuesday, November 25, 2025, due to an early return to China caused by the female's kidney failure, on November 24, 2025, in Saint-Aignan, France. Photo by Pascal Baril/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Famous Pair Of Pandas Will Leave Beauval Zoo For China - France

File photo - The Pandas' Meal on April 11, 2012, an exceptional event took place at Beauval Zoo (Loire-et-Cher). For the first time in France, a pair of pandas is being presented to the public: Huan Huan, the female, and Yuan Zi, the male. The giant panda is listed as “endangered” on the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of Threatened Species. It is estimated that there are 1,600 pandas still living in the wild. The famous pair of pandas will leave Beauval Zoo on Tuesday, November 25, 2025, due to an early return to China caused by the female's kidney failure, on November 24, 2025, in Saint-Aignan, France. Photo by Pascal Baril/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Famous Pair Of Pandas Will Leave Beauval Zoo For China - France

File photo - Feeding time for the pandas: Astrid, a keeper, gives the pandas their supplements, on April 11, 2012, at the Beauval Zoo. For the first time in France, a pair of pandas is being presented to the public: Huan Huan, the female, and Yuan Zi, the male. The giant panda is listed as “endangered” on the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of Threatened Species. It is estimated that there are 1,600 pandas still living in the wild. The famous pair of pandas will leave Beauval Zoo on Tuesday, November 25, 2025, due to an early return to China caused by the female's kidney failure, on November 24, 2025, in Saint-Aignan, France. Photo by Pascal Baril/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Famous Pair Of Pandas Will Leave Beauval Zoo For China - France

File photo - The Pandas' Meal on April 11, 2012, an exceptional event took place at Beauval Zoo (Loire-et-Cher). For the first time in France, a pair of pandas is being presented to the public: Huan Huan, the female, and Yuan Zi, the male. The giant panda is listed as “endangered” on the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of Threatened Species. It is estimated that there are 1,600 pandas still living in the wild. The famous pair of pandas will leave Beauval Zoo on Tuesday, November 25, 2025, due to an early return to China caused by the female's kidney failure, on November 24, 2025, in Saint-Aignan, France. Photo by Pascal Baril/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Famous Pair Of Pandas Will Leave Beauval Zoo For China - France

File photo - Feeding time for the pandas: Astrid, keeper, and Claudine, our journalist, bring bamboo to the pandas, on April 11, 2012, at the Beauval Zoo. For the first time in France, a pair of pandas is being presented to the public: Huan Huan, the female, and Yuan Zi, the male. The giant panda is listed as “endangered” on the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of Threatened Species. It is estimated that there are 1,600 pandas still living in the wild. The famous pair of pandas will leave Beauval Zoo on Tuesday, November 25, 2025, due to an early return to China caused by the female's kidney failure, on November 24, 2025, in Saint-Aignan, France. Photo by Pascal Baril/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Famous Pair Of Pandas Will Leave Beauval Zoo For China - France

File photo - The Pandas' Meal on April 11, 2012, an exceptional event took place at Beauval Zoo (Loire-et-Cher). For the first time in France, a pair of pandas is being presented to the public: Huan Huan, the female, and Yuan Zi, the male. The giant panda is listed as “endangered” on the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of Threatened Species. It is estimated that there are 1,600 pandas still living in the wild. The famous pair of pandas will leave Beauval Zoo on Tuesday, November 25, 2025, due to an early return to China caused by the female's kidney failure, on November 24, 2025, in Saint-Aignan, France. Photo by Pascal Baril/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Famous Pair Of Pandas Will Leave Beauval Zoo For China - France

File photo - The Pandas' Meal on April 11, 2012, an exceptional event took place at Beauval Zoo (Loire-et-Cher). For the first time in France, a pair of pandas is being presented to the public: Huan Huan, the female, and Yuan Zi, the male. The giant panda is listed as “endangered” on the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of Threatened Species. It is estimated that there are 1,600 pandas still living in the wild. The famous pair of pandas will leave Beauval Zoo on Tuesday, November 25, 2025, due to an early return to China caused by the female's kidney failure, on November 24, 2025, in Saint-Aignan, France. Photo by Pascal Baril/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Famous Pair Of Pandas Will Leave Beauval Zoo For China - France

File photo - The Pandas' Meal on April 11, 2012, an exceptional event took place at Beauval Zoo (Loire-et-Cher). For the first time in France, a pair of pandas is being presented to the public: Huan Huan, the female, and Yuan Zi, the male. The giant panda is listed as “endangered” on the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of Threatened Species. It is estimated that there are 1,600 pandas still living in the wild. The famous pair of pandas will leave Beauval Zoo on Tuesday, November 25, 2025, due to an early return to China caused by the female's kidney failure, on November 24, 2025, in Saint-Aignan, France. Photo by Pascal Baril/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Famous Pair Of Pandas Will Leave Beauval Zoo For China - France

File photo - The Pandas' Meal on April 11, 2012, an exceptional event took place at Beauval Zoo (Loire-et-Cher). For the first time in France, a pair of pandas is being presented to the public: Huan Huan, the female, and Yuan Zi, the male. The giant panda is listed as “endangered” on the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of Threatened Species. It is estimated that there are 1,600 pandas still living in the wild. The famous pair of pandas will leave Beauval Zoo on Tuesday, November 25, 2025, due to an early return to China caused by the female's kidney failure, on November 24, 2025, in Saint-Aignan, France. Photo by Pascal Baril/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Famous Pair Of Pandas Will Leave Beauval Zoo For China - France

File photo - The Pandas' Meal on April 11, 2012, an exceptional event took place at Beauval Zoo (Loire-et-Cher). For the first time in France, a pair of pandas is being presented to the public: Huan Huan, the female, and Yuan Zi, the male. The giant panda is listed as “endangered” on the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of Threatened Species. It is estimated that there are 1,600 pandas still living in the wild. The famous pair of pandas will leave Beauval Zoo on Tuesday, November 25, 2025, due to an early return to China caused by the female's kidney failure, on November 24, 2025, in Saint-Aignan, France. Photo by Pascal Baril/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Diet summons key figure in HIV scandal

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 24 Kyodo - Takeshi Abe, former head of the Health and Welfare Ministry's AIDS study team and former vice president of Teikyo University, raises his hand to testify as unsworn witness at a House of Representatives committee session in Tokyo in April 1996 over his connection with HIV infections through tainted blood products in the early 1980s. An expert on hemophilia treatment, Abe is regarded as the key figure who influenced a ministry decision to continue the use of unheated blood products in 1984.(Kyodo)

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US: North Dakota Sees Powerful Winds Amid Tornado-Producing Storm

Severe weather swept across the upper Midwest on Friday, June 20, bringing powerful winds and leaving at least 3 dead in North Dakota as a tornado ripped through the area.

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Exclusive - Illustration - The Cathedral of Notre Dame - Paris

FRANCE. PARIS (75) CATHEDRALE NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS. THE VIRGIN AND CHILD, KNOWN AS THE PILLAR VIRGIN, IS A 1.80 M STONE STATUE OF THE VIRGIN AND CHILD. CARVED IN THE EARLY 14TH CENTURY IN THE LATE GOTHIC STYLE, IT IS THE CATHEDRAL'S MOST FAMOUS STATUE. IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE DRAMATIC FIRE OF 15 APRIL 2019, IT WAS FOUND INTACT, LIKE A MIRACLE WORKER. Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Exclusive - Illustration - The Cathedral of Notre Dame - Paris

FRANCE. PARIS (75) CATHEDRALE NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS. THE VIRGIN AND CHILD, KNOWN AS THE PILLAR VIRGIN, IS A 1.80 M STONE STATUE OF THE VIRGIN AND CHILD. CARVED IN THE EARLY 14TH CENTURY IN THE LATE GOTHIC STYLE, IT IS THE CATHEDRAL'S MOST FAMOUS STATUE. IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE DRAMATIC FIRE OF 15 APRIL 2019, IT WAS FOUND INTACT, LIKE A MIRACLE WORKER. Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Exclusive - Illustration - The Cathedral of Notre Dame - Paris

FRANCE. PARIS (75) CATHEDRALE NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS. THE VIRGIN AND CHILD, KNOWN AS THE PILLAR VIRGIN, IS A 1.80 M STONE STATUE OF THE VIRGIN AND CHILD. CARVED IN THE EARLY 14TH CENTURY IN THE LATE GOTHIC STYLE, IT IS THE CATHEDRAL'S MOST FAMOUS STATUE. IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE DRAMATIC FIRE OF 15 APRIL 2019, IT WAS FOUND INTACT, LIKE A MIRACLE WORKER. Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Exclusive - Illustration - The Cathedral of Notre Dame - Paris

FRANCE. PARIS (75) CATHEDRALE NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS. THE VIRGIN AND CHILD, KNOWN AS THE PILLAR VIRGIN, IS A 1.80 M STONE STATUE OF THE VIRGIN AND CHILD. CARVED IN THE EARLY 14TH CENTURY IN THE LATE GOTHIC STYLE, IT IS THE CATHEDRAL'S MOST FAMOUS STATUE. IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE DRAMATIC FIRE OF 15 APRIL 2019, IT WAS FOUND INTACT, LIKE A MIRACLE WORKER. Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Exclusive - Illustration - The Cathedral of Notre Dame - Paris

FRANCE. PARIS (75) CATHEDRALE NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS. THE VIRGIN AND CHILD, KNOWN AS THE PILLAR VIRGIN, IS A 1.80 M STONE STATUE OF THE VIRGIN AND CHILD. CARVED IN THE EARLY 14TH CENTURY IN THE LATE GOTHIC STYLE, IT IS THE CATHEDRAL'S MOST FAMOUS STATUE. IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE DRAMATIC FIRE OF 15 APRIL 2019, IT WAS FOUND INTACT, LIKE A MIRACLE WORKER. Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Spain: People Celebrate End of Nationwide Power Outage 3

Massive blackouts in Spain and Portugal left passengers stranded on trains and elevators, and millions without phone and internet coverage. However, power was restored to nearly 90% of both countries by early Tuesday, April 29.

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Spain: People Celebrate End of Nationwide Power Outage 2

Massive blackouts in Spain and Portugal left passengers stranded on trains and elevators, and millions without phone and internet coverage. However, power was restored to nearly 90% of both countries by early Tuesday, April 29.

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Spain: People Celebrate End of Nationwide Power Outage

Massive blackouts in Spain and Portugal left passengers stranded on trains and elevators, and millions without phone and internet coverage. However, power was restored to nearly 90% of both countries by early Tuesday, April 29. The video shows people in Madrid cheering as the electricity was restored.

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US airstrike in Yemen - Sanaa

This video screenshot shows rescuers helping pull a man out of rubble at a detention center in Saada province, Yemen, April 28, 2025. The Houthis, who control much of northern Yemen, said U.S. airstrikes early Monday on a detention center in the northern province of Saada killed at least 30 African migrants and wounded 50 others in an initial estimate. Photo by Houthi Media Center/Handout via Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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