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Iraqi Deminer Loses Legs Clearing Mines - Iraq

Boys play soccer across a field using Hoshyar Ali's prosthetic legs as goal posts in Halabja, Iraq, on November 20, 2025. Hoshyar Ali has been clearing landmines for over four decades, a task he began after the Iran-Iraq war when thousands of mines were planted along the border. Despite losing both legs and several family members to explosions, he continues to volunteer in mine removal. Locals call him “man of the mines,” and he is building a museum in his village to display defused explosives for future generations. Photo by Showan Sulaiman/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Iraqi Deminer Loses Legs Clearing Mines - Iraq

Six boys walk across a field carrying Hoshyar Ali's prosthetic legs in Halabja, Iraq, on November 20, 2025. Hoshyar Ali has been clearing landmines for over four decades, a task he began after the Iran-Iraq war when thousands of mines were planted along the border. Despite losing both legs and several family members to explosions, he continues to volunteer in mine removal. Locals call him “man of the mines,” and he is building a museum in his village to display defused explosives for future generations. Photo by Showan Sulaiman/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Israeli Attacks on Gaza Continue

Two boys lie on the floor of Al-Ma’amadani Hospital receiving medical attention in Jabalia al-Balad, north of the Gaza Strip, on January 9, 2025. Four victims and ten injuries were reported after Israeli airstrikes targeted a house belonging to the Qaddoura family in the area. Photo by Abood Abusalama/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Vienna Boys Choir in Japan

Vienna Boys Choir members sing during a press conference in Tokyo on May 1, 2023, held before the 525-year-old choir holds its first concert tour in Japan in four years following a COVID-19 hiatus. The choir will visit 15 prefectures for 28 performances.

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Vienna Boys Choir in Japan

Vienna Boys Choir members sing during a press conference in Tokyo on May 1, 2023, held before the 525-year-old choir holds its first concert tour in Japan in four years following a COVID-19 hiatus. The choir will visit 15 prefectures for 28 performances.

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PAKISTAN-ISLAMABAD-AFGHAN-REFUGEES

(230620) -- ISLAMABAD, June 20, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Boys play with tires at a refugee camp on World Refugee Day in Islamabad, Pakistan on June 20, 2023. Pakistani President Arif Alvi said that his country continued to host one of the largest refugee populations in the world, showing Pakistan's unwavering resolve and commitment to the welfare and voluntary repatriation of refugees. In his message on the occasion of World Refugee Day being observed on Tuesday, Alvi said that "on the day, we are reminded of the immense contributions of the government and people of Pakistan in hosting millions of Afghan refugees over the past four decades." (Xinhua/Ahmad Kamal)

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Vienna Boys Choir in Japan

Vienna Boys Choir members sing during a press conference in Tokyo on May 1, 2023, held before the 525-year-old choir holds its first concert tour in Japan in four years following a COVID-19 hiatus. The choir will visit 15 prefectures for 28 performances.

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Vienna Boys Choir in Japan

Vienna Boys Choir members sing during a press conference in Tokyo on May 1, 2023, held before the 525-year-old choir holds its first concert tour in Japan in four years following a COVID-19 hiatus. The choir will visit 15 prefectures for 28 performances.

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YEMEN-HAJJAH-BEACH

(230204) -- HAJJAH, Feb. 4, 2023 (Xinhua) -- School boys run to a beach in Midi, Hajjah Province, Yemen, on Feb. 2, 2023. Almost four years after the Yemeni government forces recaptured the Red Sea coastal city of Midi in the northwestern province of Hajjah from the Houthi rebels in April 2018, local visitors began to return to the city's beach. TO GO WITH "Feature: Life gradually returns to Yemeni beach amid hopes for end of civil war" (Photo by Mohammed Al-Wafi/Xinhua)

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YEMEN-HAJJAH-BEACH

(230204) -- HAJJAH, Feb. 4, 2023 (Xinhua) -- School boys play at a beach in Midi, Hajjah Province, Yemen, on Feb. 2, 2023. Almost four years after the Yemeni government forces recaptured the Red Sea coastal city of Midi in the northwestern province of Hajjah from the Houthi rebels in April 2018, local visitors began to return to the city's beach. TO GO WITH "Feature: Life gradually returns to Yemeni beach amid hopes for end of civil war" (Photo by Mohammed Al-Wafi/Xinhua)

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3 teenagers die after playing in Kiso River

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows rescue workers searching for four junior high school boys who were carried away by the currents in the Kiso River in Ichinomiya, Aichi Prefecture, on July 30, 2012. Three of the four students died after being taken to hospital. The remaining student suffered minor injuries.

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Soccer Globe exhibition booth opens in Berlin

BERLIN, Germany - Four boys pose in front of the FIFA 2006 World Cup ''Soccer Globe'' exhibition booth near Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate on June 1. They wear the uniforms of (from left to right) Croatia, Brazil, Japan and Australia, which compete with each other in Group F of the World Cup finals.

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Boy accused of killing mother goes to family court

OKAYAMA, Japan - A van carrying a 17-year-old boy arrested on suspicion of killing his mother and beating four baseball teammates with a bat in June heads for the Okayama Family Court on Aug. 7. The court will detain the boy for up to four weeks to examine his family circumstances and check his physical and mental condition. It will then decide whether to send him to a reformatory or send his case back to the prosecutors. The boy was arrested July 6 after spending 16 days on the run after allegedly bludgeoning the four boys with a bat and beating his 42-year-old mother to death at home.

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China bags 5 gold medals as AJCC concludes in Vientiane

STORY: China bags 5 gold medals as AJCC concludes in Vientiane DATELINE: Sept. 7, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:58 LOCATION: Vientiane CATEGORY: SPORTS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the table tennis competition STORYLINE: China bagged five gold medals as the 26th Asian Junior and Cadet Table Tennis Championships (AJCC) wrapped up in Lao capital Vientiane on Tuesday. China won two gold medals from the categories of Junior Boys' Singles and Junior Girls' Singles on Tuesday, besides collecting golds from the categories of Junior Boys' Team, Junior Girls' Team and Cadet Boys' Team events respectively last Saturday. Japan packed four golds from categories of Junior Boys' Doubles and Junior Girls' Doubles on Tuesday, Cadet Boys' Singles on Monday and Cadet Girls' Team last Saturday. What's more, a pair of Indian players won the Junior Mixed Doubles' champion Tuesday, while on Monday, a Thai player won the Cadet Girls' Singles event. The 26th Asian Junior and Cadet Championships was held from September 1 to 6 in L

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Child labor in Iraq on rise after years of war, instability

STORY: Child labor in Iraq on rise after years of war, instability DATELINE: Sept. 2, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:29 LOCATION: Baghdad CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of child laborers in Baghdad markets 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): MOHAMMED AL-QARAGHOLI, Retired construction engineer 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): ALI AL-OBAIDI, Lawyer STORYLINE: It is not uncommon to see underage girls and boys selling goods in Baghdad's crowded streets and markets, pushing carts to deliver goods, or unloading the trucks. This is just part of the rising child labor problem in the war-torn Iraq, where the number of children forced to work is increasing due to the decline in Iraqi families' incomes caused by political chaos and economic woes. "We are a five-member family and live in a room rented in an old house. I have to help my father, who is a daily wage worker. I gain, sometimes 5,000 Iraqi dinars (about four U.S. dollars)," Ahmed Saad, 10, told Xinhua. He was selling bottled water and small bags of ice cubes to passers-by and

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Xinjiang, My home: A happy Uygur family that value all-round development for children

STORY: Xinjiang, My home: A happy Uygur family that value all-round development for children DATELINE: June 18, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:54 LOCATION: URUMQI, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): Fencing coach 2. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): MUYASAR BARAHUN, Mother 3. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): UWES SHEWKILET, Son 4. SOUNDBITE 4 (Chinese): MUYASAR BARAHUN, Mother 5. SOUNDBITE 5 (Chinese): Coach 6. SOUNDBITE 6 (Chinese): UWES SHEWKILET, Son 7. SOUNDBITE 7 (Chinese): MUYASAR BARAHUN, Mother 8. SOUNDBITE 8 (Chinese): UWES SHEWKILET/SUDES SHEWKILET, Sons 9. SOUNDBITE 10 (Chinese): Father and Sons STORYLINE: SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): Fencing coach "Get prepared. Ready? Go. OK. Come on, come on. Good." SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): MUYASAR BARAHUN, Mother "Hello, everyone. My name is Muyasar Barahun. I'm a mother of two boys. This is my older son Uwes Shewkilet." SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): UWES SHEWKILET, Son "Four, five, six." SOUNDBITE 4 (Chinese): MUYASAR BARAHUN, Mother "Uwes has been practicing fencing for over

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Afternoon swimming at Boys Club

Five older boys in one piece swimming costume stand by the edge of a river. Two of them wear swimming hats and four look like they have not been long out of the water Date: circa 1930

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CAP#Portrait of Pope Gregory XIII displayed at Nagasaki museum

A portrait of Pope Gregory XIII is displayed at an exhibition of the history of Christianity in Japan at the Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture in Nagasaki in the country's southwest on Feb. 19, 2015. Gregory received the first Japanese mission to Europe comprising four boys in 1585. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Statue of Ultraman Jack unveiled in Fukushima Pref.

Boys strike poses in front of TV series hero Ultraman Jack in Sukagawa, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Nov. 14, 2015. Four monuments of characters from the Ultraman series were unveiled the same day in the northeastern Japanese city, the birthplace of the late Eiji Tsuburaya who created Ultraman, to cheer up people affected by the 2011 quake disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Soccer Globe exhibition booth opens in Berlin

BERLIN, Germany - Four boys pose in front of the FIFA 2006 World Cup ''Soccer Globe'' exhibition booth near Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate on June 1. They wear the uniforms of (from left to right) Croatia, Brazil, Japan and Australia, which compete with each other in Group F of the World Cup finals. (Kyodo)

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A boy and his younger brothers

The gentle faces of four brothers. The boys are clothed neatly and look dignified. It looks as though the younger three are hoping to emulate the oldest brother by entering an advanced school. It is said that the official Tokyo University cap was introduced in 1885.==Date:1908, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number72‐215‐0]

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four Czechs die in car crash near Slovak border

Four people from a car died in a head-on collision with a truck near Sudomerice, Czech Republic, close to the Slovak border, regional police spokesman Petr Zamecnik told CTK, adding that both drivers were women and all people involved in the accident were Czech. Two adults and two underage boys died, rescue service spokeswoman Hedvika Kropackova said. Another boy from the car was very seriously injured, he was put in a medically induced coma and a helicopter transported to to the Children's Hospital in Brno, she said. The accident occurred around 04:30 on August 26, 2019 on a direct section of the road. Its cause has not been known yet. (CTK Photo/Vaclav Salek)

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four Czechs die in car crash near Slovak border

Four people from a car died in a head-on collision with a truck near Sudomerice, Czech Republic, close to the Slovak border, regional police spokesman Petr Zamecnik told CTK, adding that both drivers were women and all people involved in the accident were Czech. Two adults and two underage boys died, rescue service spokeswoman Hedvika Kropackova said. Another boy from the car was very seriously injured, he was put in a medically induced coma and a helicopter transported to to the Children's Hospital in Brno, she said. The accident occurred around 04:30 on August 26, 2019 on a direct section of the road. Its cause has not been known yet. (CTK Photo/Vaclav Salek)

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OLMO OMERZU, VACLAV KOPTA

Vsechno bude (Winter Flies), a film by Slovenian-born Olmo Omerzu (pictured left), which is a roadmovie about two teenager boys on an adventurous journey, won the Czech Lion award for the best Czech film of 2018 and the best direction today plus further four categories out of 10 nominations in Prague, Czech Republic, March 23, 2019. At right is actor Vaclav Kopta. (CTK Photo/Katerina Sulova)

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OLMO OMERZU

Vsechno bude (Winter Flies), a film by Slovenian-born Olmo Omerzu (pictured), which is a roadmovie about two teenager boys on an adventurous journey, won the Czech Lion award for the best Czech film of 2018 and the best direction today plus further four categories out of 10 nominations in Prague, Czech Republic, March 23, 2019. (CTK Photo/Katerina Sulova)

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OLMO OMERZU

Vsechno bude (Winter Flies), a film by Slovenian-born Olmo Omerzu (pictured), which is a roadmovie about two teenager boys on an adventurous journey, won the Czech Lion award for the best Czech film of 2018 and the best direction today plus further four categories out of 10 nominations in Prague, Czech Republic, March 23, 2019. (CTK Photo/Katerina Sulova)

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Boy accused of killing mother goes to family court

OKAYAMA, Japan - A van carrying a 17-year-old boy arrested on suspicion of killing his mother and beating four baseball teammates with a bat in June heads for the Okayama Family Court on Aug. 7. The court will detain the boy for up to four weeks to examine his family circumstances and check his physical and mental condition. It will then decide whether to send him to a reformatory or send his case back to the prosecutors. The boy was arrested July 6 after spending 16 days on the run after allegedly bludgeoning the four boys with a bat and beating his 42-year-old mother to death at home.