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New Zealand: Landslide Hits Mount Maunganui 3

Six people, including two teenagers, are missing after a major landslide struck a local campground in Mount Maunganui on Thursday, January 22. Police are also seeking information on three others as search and rescue operations continue in a dangerous environment, with authorities describing the incident as a national tragedy and the community rallying to support affected families.

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Riccardo Muti Conducts A Concert For Pope Leo XIV - Vatican

Pope Leo XIV greets Riccardo Muti at the end of the concert. Maestro Riccardo Muti's concert with the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra and the "Guido Chigi Saracini" Siena Cathedral Choir in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican. On this occasion, Muti receives the prestigious "Ratzinger Prize," established in 2011 and awarded annually, with the Pope's approval, to eminent figures in the fields of Christian culture and art, on December 12, 2025. Photo by Marco Iacobucci/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Riccardo Muti Conducts A Concert For Pope Leo XIV - Vatican

Riccardo Muti thanks the Pope at the end of the concert. Maestro Riccardo Muti with the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra and the "Guido Chigi Saracini" Siena Cathedral Choir in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican. On this occasion, Muti receives the prestigious "Ratzinger Prize," established in 2011 and awarded annually, with the Pope's approval, to eminent figures in the fields of Christian culture and art, on December 12, 2025. Photo by Marco Iacobucci/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Riccardo Muti Conducts A Concert For Pope Leo XIV - Vatican

Pope Leo XIV greets Riccardo Muti at the end of the concert. Maestro Riccardo Muti's concert with the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra and the "Guido Chigi Saracini" Siena Cathedral Choir in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican. On this occasion, Muti receives the prestigious "Ratzinger Prize," established in 2011 and awarded annually, with the Pope's approval, to eminent figures in the fields of Christian culture and art, on December 12, 2025. Photo by Marco Iacobucci/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Riccardo Muti Conducts A Concert For Pope Leo XIV - Vatican

Riccardo Muti thanks the Pope at the end of the concert. Maestro Riccardo Muti with the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra and the "Guido Chigi Saracini" Siena Cathedral Choir in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican. On this occasion, Muti receives the prestigious "Ratzinger Prize," established in 2011 and awarded annually, with the Pope's approval, to eminent figures in the fields of Christian culture and art, on December 12, 2025. Photo by Marco Iacobucci/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Riccardo Muti Conducts A Concert For Pope Leo XIV - Vatican

Pope Leo XIV greets Riccardo Muti at the end of the concert. Maestro Riccardo Muti's concert with the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra and the "Guido Chigi Saracini" Siena Cathedral Choir in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican. On this occasion, Muti receives the prestigious "Ratzinger Prize," established in 2011 and awarded annually, with the Pope's approval, to eminent figures in the fields of Christian culture and art, on December 12, 2025. Photo by Marco Iacobucci/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Philippines: Typhoon Kalmaegi Triggers Severe Flooding, Displacing Thousands 2

Severe flooding has submerged towns and displaced hundreds of thousands as Typhoon Kalmaegi battered the central Philippines. Rivers overflowed in Cebu and nearby islands, forcing residents onto rooftops while cars and containers were swept through the streets. Local officials said some evacuation centers were inundated, and many survivors of a recent earthquake had to be evacuated again. More than 380,000 people fled their homes across the Visayas, southern Luzon, and northern Mindanao. Kalmaegi, locally named Tino, made landfall late Monday, November 3 with winds of up to 130 kph before moving toward the South China Sea on Tuesday, November 4.

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China: Tourists and Locals Rescue Yaks from Mud Pit in Qinghai

In Qinghai, China, tourists and locals joined forces with an excavator operator to rescue four yaks stuck in deep mud on September 30, 2025. After spotting the trapped animals, the tourists alerted a herdsman and enlisted help from a nearby construction site. Working for nearly an hour, they freed all four yaks safely. The herdsman said the rescue prevented losses of over RMB 40,000.

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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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China: Typhoon Wutip Darkens Hainan Skies Ahead of Landfall in Hainan

This is the terrifying moment a massive wall of dark clouds engulfed the skies over Hainan as Typhoon Wutip approached southern China. On June 11, 2025, in Hainan, China, video captured thick, menacing clouds rolling in ahead of Typhoon Wutip's landfall. The sky turned eerily dark as the season’s first typhoon neared, creating a heavy, ominous atmosphere. The storm made landfall around 11 p.m. on June 13 along the coast of Dongfang, a city in Hainan, with winds reaching up to 30 meters per second and a central pressure of 980 hPa. Heavy rain swept through southern parts of the island, with some areas experiencing torrential downpours and localized extreme rainfall. According to China National Radio, by June 15, Typhoon Wutip had weakened into a tropical depression after moving inland into Jiangxi Province, and continued to lose strength. The video ends with the storm clouds blanketing the landscape as residents brace for the typhoon’s impact.

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File - Gaetane Thiney Announces Her Retirement at The End of The Season

File Photo - France's women soccer player Gaetane Thiney during a autographs session and press conference at Nike Store on the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris, France on July 18, 2011 after the FIFA Women World Cup in Germany. After a career spanning more than 20 years, Gaëtane Thiney has announced the end of her career as a professional footballer. The iconic 39-year-old captain of Paris FC will call time on her career in 2025, although she will still be playing in the final major matches for her club, including the league play-offs and the Coupe de France final against PSG. Voted best D1 player in 2012 and 2014, Thiney also made her mark on the history of the French national team, with 163 caps and 58 goals scored. Her last match in a blue shirt was in November 2019. Photo by Thierry Plessis/ABACAPRESS.COM

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File - Gaetane Thiney Announces Her Retirement at The End of The Season

File Photo - France's women soccer player Gaetane Thiney during a autographs session and press conference at Nike Store on the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris, France on July 18, 2011 after the FIFA Women World Cup in Germany. After a career spanning more than 20 years, Gaëtane Thiney has announced the end of her career as a professional footballer. The iconic 39-year-old captain of Paris FC will call time on her career in 2025, although she will still be playing in the final major matches for her club, including the league play-offs and the Coupe de France final against PSG. Voted best D1 player in 2012 and 2014, Thiney also made her mark on the history of the French national team, with 163 caps and 58 goals scored. Her last match in a blue shirt was in November 2019. Photo by Thierry Plessis/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japan: Heavy Snowfall Hits Sea Of Japan Coast 4

Heavy snowfall has battered a wide area of Japan, especially the Hokuriku region along the Sea of Japan coast. This video shows blizzard conditions in the city Otaru, Hokkaido.

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US: EF-1 Tornado Touches Down In Athens, AL, Leaving Devastating Damage

The National Weather Service in Huntsville has confirmed that an EF-1 tornado touched down in downtown Athens, Alabama, on Saturday night, December 28.

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Philippines: Typhoon Yinxing Makes Landfall In Cagayan, Damaging Infrastructure 3

Typhoon Yinxing, known as Marce in the Philippines, made landfall near Santa Ana, Cagayan, on Thursday afternoon, November 7, forcing more than 21,000 people to evacuate and damaging two domestic airports and homes. Telecommunications and power supplies have remained down due to damaged cables and power lines, severely affecting residents in the affected areas.

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Philippines: Typhoon Yinxing Makes Landfall In Cagayan, Damaging Infrastructure 2

Typhoon Yinxing, known as Marce in the Philippines, made landfall near Santa Ana, Cagayan, on Thursday afternoon, November 7, forcing more than 21,000 people to evacuate and damaging two domestic airports and homes. Telecommunications and power supplies have remained down due to damaged cables and power lines, severely affecting residents in the affected areas.

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Thailand: Overflowing Of Ping River Causes Flooding In Chiang Mai Amid Rainy Season 3

Water levels in the Ping River rose, causing severe flooding across Chiang Mai on September 25 and affecting infrastructure. Small vehicles were stranded on flooded roads, and local shops and stalls were forced to close.

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US: Beryl Causes Widespread Power Outages And Flooding, Leaves Multiple Dead In Texas 4

Beryl has weakened into a tropical storm after making landfall as a category 1 hurricane near Matagorda in Texas, on Monday, July 8, shortly before 4 a.m. local time. The hurricane caused power outages and life-threatening flooding and left multiple dead in Houston and the surrounding areas.

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Football: World Cup winner Sameshima retires

Aya Sameshima, a member of Japan's 2011 Women's World Cup-winning football squad, speaks at her retirement press conference in Saitama near Tokyo on May 25, 2024. She retired from competition at the end of the WE League season in Japan with Omiya Ardija Ventus.

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Football: World Cup winner Sameshima retires

Aya Sameshima, a member of Japan's 2011 Women's World Cup-winning football squad, speaks at her retirement press conference in Saitama near Tokyo on May 25, 2024. She retired from competition at the end of the WE League season in Japan with Omiya Ardija Ventus.

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Japan, China, S. Korea trilateral summit in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan, May 9 Kyodo - (From L) Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan and South Korean President Lee Myung Bak smile at the end of a joint press conference following their talks at the State Guest House in Tokyo on May 22, 2011. (Pool photo)

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More Than 100m Cars Recalled in China

Citizens view a luxury car at a shop in Beijing, China, May 15, 2011. On March 13, 2024, according to the data of the State Administration for Market Regulation, the defective product recall system has been implemented in China for 20 years, and by the end of 2023, China has implemented 2,842 vehicle recalls involving 103 million vehicles.

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US: Days-Long Winter Storm Dumps Heavy Snow On Sierra Nevada, Closing Roads, Schools

A days-long winter storm dumped heavy snow on the Sierra Nevada, closing major highways, ski resorts, and schools in parts of California. More than 10 feet of snow and hurricane-force wind gusts of 170 mph-plus were reported.

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US: Strong Winter Storm Brings Blizzard Conditions To Sierra Nevada

A strong winter storm hit the Sierra Nevada on Friday, March 1, bringing heavy snow and high winds. Blizzard Warnings were issued for the Sierra, including Lake Tahoe and eastern Nevada. The Sierra Avalanche Center warned that the danger of avalanches was high. Yosemite National Park and many ski resorts in the region announced they were closing at least for the day.

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Center Pompidou Will Close For Works From 2025 To 2030

File photo dated November 27, 2011 - A view of 'Le Georges' restaurant on the 6th floor of the Centre Georges Pompidou Museum of Contemporary Art, in Paris, France. - Five years of closure for the Center Pompidou in Paris. One of the most important museums of modern and contemporary art in the world, will completely close for work at the end of 2025 and will reopen in 2030, the Minister of Culture announced on Wednesday. Photo by Alain Apaydin/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Center Pompidou Will Close For Works From 2025 To 2030

File photo dated November 27, 2011 - A view of 'Le Georges' restaurant on the 6th floor of the Centre Georges Pompidou Museum of Contemporary Art, in Paris, France. - Five years of closure for the Center Pompidou in Paris. One of the most important museums of modern and contemporary art in the world, will completely close for work at the end of 2025 and will reopen in 2030, the Minister of Culture announced on Wednesday. Photo by Alain Apaydin/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Center Pompidou Will Close For Works From 2025 To 2030

File photo dated November 27, 2011 - A view of 'Le Georges' restaurant on the 6th floor of the Centre Georges Pompidou Museum of Contemporary Art, in Paris, France. - Five years of closure for the Center Pompidou in Paris. One of the most important museums of modern and contemporary art in the world, will completely close for work at the end of 2025 and will reopen in 2030, the Minister of Culture announced on Wednesday. Photo by Alain Apaydin/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Center Pompidou Will Close For Works From 2025 To 2030

File photo dated November 27, 2011 - A view of 'Le Georges' restaurant on the 6th floor of the Centre Georges Pompidou Museum of Contemporary Art, in Paris, France. - Five years of closure for the Center Pompidou in Paris. One of the most important museums of modern and contemporary art in the world, will completely close for work at the end of 2025 and will reopen in 2030, the Minister of Culture announced on Wednesday. Photo by Alain Apaydin/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Germany shuts down last three nuclear power reactors

STORY: Germany shuts down last three nuclear power reactorsDATELINE: April 16, 2023LENGTH: 00:00:45LOCATION: BerlinCATEGORY: SOCIETYSHOTLIST:1. various of the Neckarwestheim nuclear power plant in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany2. various of the Isar nuclear power plant in Bavaria, Germany3. various of the Emsland nuclear power plant in Lower Saxony, GermanySTORYLINE:Germany shut down its last three operating nuclear power reactors Saturday night, putting an end to more than half a century of nuclear power usage in the country.The shutdown of Emsland, Neckarwestheim II and Isar II came shortly before midnight.After the 2011 nuclear accident in Fukushima, Japan, Germany's nuclear phase-out was scheduled to be completed by the end of 2022 under the leadership of former Chancellor Angela Merkel.However, due to the energy crisis, operations at the plants have been extended until April 2023.Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Berlin.(XHTV)

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Nikkei at lowest year-end level in 29 yrs

TOKYO, Japan - An electronic signboard in the Yaesu district in central Tokyo shows the closing level of the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average on Dec. 30, 2011, the year's last trading day. Although the index gained -- up 56.46 points, or 0.67 percent -- from the previous day to finish at 8,455.35, it lost about 17 percent during the year to mark the lowest year-end closing level since 1982.

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Tsunami-driven ships to be dismantled

NAMIE, Japan - Photo taken on Nov. 21, 2014, shows a ship which has been unattended in the northeastern Japan town of Namie since washing up in the March 2011 tsunami disaster. The Environment Ministry has started dismantling 70 such ships in the nearby coastal areas to complete the works by the end of next March.

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Tsunami-driven ships to be dismantled

NAMIE, Japan - Photo taken on Nov. 21, 2014, shows a ship which has been unattended in the northeastern Japan town of Namie since washing up in the March 2011 tsunami disaster. The Environment Ministry has started dismantling 70 such ships in the nearby coastal areas to complete the works by the end of next March.

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Japan's empress turns 80

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in July 2013 shows Japanese Emperor Akihito (far L) and Empress Michiko (2nd from L) meeting with people affected by the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters at an elementary school in Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The empress, on the occasion of her 80th birthday on Oct 20, expressed hope that peace can be brought about ahead of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II next year.

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Japan's empress turns 80

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in August 2011 shows Empress Michiko (C) playing the piano with a violist and a clarinetist in Kusatsu, Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan. The empress, on the occasion of her 80th birthday on Oct 20, expressed hope that peace can be brought about ahead of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II next year.

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Student from quake-hit region

GENEVA, Switzerland - Kosuke Kagaya (R), a student at the Miyagi prefectural Sendai Daisan senior high school, is pictured on a snowboarding outing in the Swiss mountain resort village of Verbier on Dec. 24, 2013. Kagaya is spending time in Switzerland until the end of the year on a project started by a Japanese woman living in the country to invite children and students from Japan's Tohoku region hit by the March 2011 disaster to a school in Switzerland.

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Graduation ceremony held for popular monkey group in Nikko

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - A member of a popular monkey performance group at the Nikko Saru Gundan theme park receives a diploma at a "graduation ceremony" in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, on Dec. 21, 2013. The park opened in 1992 in Nikko, one of the most popular tourist destinations in Japan, and became popular because of the monkey performances. But it will close at the end of this year because foreign monkey trainers left Japan after the devastating 2011 earthquake.

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Graduation ceremony held for popular monkey group in Nikko

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - Toshio Manaka, president of the Nikko Saru Gundan theme park, reads a diploma during a "graduation ceremony" in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, on Dec. 21, 2013. The park opened in 1992 in Nikko, one of the most popular tourist destinations in Japan, and became popular because of the monkey performances. But it will close at the end of this year because foreign monkey trainers left Japan after the devastating 2011 earthquake.

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Graduation ceremony held for popular monkey group in Nikko

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - A popular group of monkeys attend a "graduation ceremony" at the Nikko Saru Gundan theme park in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, on Dec. 21, 2013. The park opened in 1992 in Nikko, one of the most popular tourist destinations in Japan, and became popular because of the monkey performances. But it will close at the end of this year because foreign monkey trainers left Japan after the devastating 2011 earthquake.

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Oma nuclear power plant

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows a nuclear power plant under construction in Oma, Aomori Prefecture, in October 2011. Electric Power Development Co. plans to resume construction of the plant by the end of 2012 in what would be the first such move since the 2011 crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, sources said on Sept. 28, 2012.

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Trip to burial sites for Japanese in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Sadao Masaki, the head of Seishinkai, a group of Japanese former residents of what is now North Korea, puts his hands together in prayer on Sept. 5, 2012, at a field believed to contain the remains of Japanese nationals who died in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula around the end of World War II, in a suburb of Pyongyang. The group concluded the same day a trip to North Korea during which they studied such sites and offered prayers. In the front are the remains which were said to have been found there in March 2011.

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Japanese coin found at burial site in N. Korea

HAMHUNG, North Korea - Photo taken Sept. 2, 2012, shows what appears to be a Japanese coin that North Korea said was discovered in a survey in March 2011 of a site in Bupyong, believed to contain the remains of Japanese nationals who died around the end of World War II, outside Hamhung in the south of Hamgyong Province in eastern North Korea. A bag containing the coin was excavated there on Sept. 2, 2012. Characters such as "Dai-Nippon," loosely translated as great Japan, "Showa 16 nen," referring to a Japanese era and year equivalent to the year 1941, and "Issen," a small currency unit, are inscribed on the coin.

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Japan's notorious suicide site near Mt. Fuji

KOFU, Japan - In this September 2011 photo, two people pray for those who committed suicide at the Aokigahara Jukai forest in Yamanashi Prefecture. Anyone can enter the forest that stretches northwest of Mt. Fuji, and the site has been a notorious magnet for those wishing to end their lives.

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Uotsuri Island

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in June 2011 shows Uotsuri Island, part of the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara said April 16, 2012, that the Tokyo metropolitan government is in negotiations with the owners of the disputed islands with the aim of buying them by the end of this year to protect Japanese territory.

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EU's Hedegaard in press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Connie Hedegaard, the European Union's climate action commissioner, speaks at a press conference in Durban, South Africa, on Dec. 11, 2011, after the end of the 17th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.

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Site of 1996-1997 hostage crisis in Peru

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken April 22, 1997, shows the then residence of the Japanese ambassador in Lima, from which smoke is coming, after the Peruvian military forced their way in the same day to end a four-month hostage crisis that began on Dec. 17, 1996, and that claimed the lives of 17 people. A condominium is planned to be built on the site, Japanese embassy sources said Dec. 12, 2011.

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Lunar eclipse

OKAYAMA, Japan - A combination photo shows (from L to R) the beginning at 9:45 p.m. on Dec. 10, 2011, to the end at 1:18 a.m. on Dec. 11, of a lunar eclipse with the total eclipse at the center observed in Okayama, western Japan.

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Total CEO de Margerie

TOKYO, Japan - Christophe de Margerie, chief executive officer of French oil giant Total, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Dec. 2, 2011. He said Total and Japan's Inpex Corp. are expected to reach a final agreement by the end of 2011 to invest in a gas field development project off Australia.

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Fukushima Gov. Sato

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato speaks during a press conference in Fukushima, northeastern Japan, on Nov. 30, 2011. Sato said the Fukushima prefectural government will seek the decommissioning of all 10 nuclear reactors in the prefecture in its reconstruction plan to be compiled by the year-end.

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7-year-old duo to perform in Japan's year-end song festival

TOKYO, Japan - Mana Ashida (R) and Fuku Suzuki attend a press conference at head office of NHK, Japan Broadcasting Corp., in Tokyo, on Nov. 30, 2011, as the public broadcaster announced the lineup of performers for the 62nd ''Kohaku Uta Gassen,'' year-end song festival, including the duo of Ashida and Suzuki. They are both 7 years old, making them the program's youngest ever performers, according to NHK.

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New faces in Japan's 2011 year-end song festival

TOKYO, Japan - Singers selected for the first time to perform at the 62nd ''Kohaku Uta Gassen'' year-end song festival of NHK, Japan Broadcasting Corp., pose for photos at the head office of NHK in Tokyo on Nov. 30, 2011, as the public broadcaster announced the lineup of performers for the program. They are (from L front) Fuku Suzuki and Mana Ashida and (from L back) Girls' Generation's SeoHyun, Jessica, YuRi, Tiffany, TaeYeon and SooYoung, Sayaka Kanda, KARA's GYU RI, HARA and NICOLE, and Inawashirokos' Michihiko Yanai, Toshimi Watanabe, who is holding a fan with member Takashi Yamaguchi's picture on it, and Shinji Matsuda. Solo singer Ringo Sheena, who will also appear for the first time on the show, was not present for the photo.