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Frank McCourt Starts Effort to Buy TikTok

File photo - Olympique de Marseille owner Frank McCourt attends the Ligue 1 football match between Olympique Marseille (OM) and Paris Saint-Germain's (PSG) at Stade Velodrome in Marseille, southern France, on October 24, 2021. . Frank McCourt, a real estate billionaire and the former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, said Wednesday he is laying the groundwork to acquire TikTok as part of a broad initiative to make a healthier internet. Photo by Christian Liewig/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Frank McCourt Starts Effort to Buy TikTok

File photo - Owner of Olympique de Marseille Frank McCourt attending the Ligue 1 match Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) v Olympique de Marseille (OM) at Parc des Princes stadium on October 16, 2022 in Paris, France. Frank McCourt, a real estate billionaire and the former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, said Wednesday he is laying the groundwork to acquire TikTok as part of a broad initiative to make a healthier internet. Photo by Christian Liewig/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Frank McCourt Starts Effort to Buy TikTok

File photo - File photo - Marseille's new owner Frank McCourt and his wife Melissa during the French First League soccer match, PSG vs OM (Paris Saint-Germain vs Olympique de Marseille) in Parc des Princes, France, on October 23th, 2016. PSG and Marseille drew 0-0. - Frank McCourt, a real estate billionaire and the former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, said Wednesday he is laying the groundwork to acquire TikTok as part of a broad initiative to make a healthier internet. Photo by Christian Liewig/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Frank McCourt Starts Effort to Buy TikTok

File photo - Owner of Olympique de Marseille Frank McCourt attending the Ligue 1 match Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) v Olympique de Marseille (OM) at Parc des Princes stadium on October 16, 2022 in Paris, France. Frank McCourt, a real estate billionaire and the former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, said Wednesday he is laying the groundwork to acquire TikTok as part of a broad initiative to make a healthier internet. Photo by Christian Liewig/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Frank McCourt Starts Effort to Buy TikTok

File photo - Marseille's new owner Frank McCourt and his wife Melissa during the French First League soccer match, PSG vs OM (Paris Saint-Germain vs Olympique de Marseille) in Parc des Princes, France, on October 23th, 2016. Frank McCourt, a real estate billionaire and the former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, said Wednesday he is laying the groundwork to acquire TikTok as part of a broad initiative to make a healthier internet. Photo by Christian Liewig/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Frank McCourt Starts Effort to Buy TikTok

File photo - Frank McCourt and his wife Monica attend the Jumping Eiffel in Paris, on 26 June 2021. Frank McCourt, a real estate billionaire and the former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, said Wednesday he is laying the groundwork to acquire TikTok as part of a broad initiative to make a healthier internet. Photo by Laurent Zabulon/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Frank McCourt Starts Effort to Buy TikTok

File photo - Marseille's new owner Frank McCourt and his wife Melissa during the French First League soccer match, PSG vs OM (Paris Saint-Germain vs Olympique de Marseille) in Parc des Princes, France, on October 23th, 2016. Frank McCourt, a real estate billionaire and the former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, said Wednesday he is laying the groundwork to acquire TikTok as part of a broad initiative to make a healthier internet. Photo by Christian Liewig/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Frank McCourt Starts Effort to Buy TikTok

File photo - Marseille's new owner Frank McCourt and his wife Melissa during the French First League soccer match, PSG vs OM (Paris Saint-Germain vs Olympique de Marseille) in Parc des Princes, France, on October 23th, 2016. Frank McCourt, a real estate billionaire and the former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, said Wednesday he is laying the groundwork to acquire TikTok as part of a broad initiative to make a healthier internet. Photo by Christian Liewig/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Frank McCourt Starts Effort to Buy TikTok

File photo - Olympique de Marseille’s owner Frank McCourt attends French President’s speech at the Palais du Pharo, on September 2, 2021, as part of a three-day visit in Marseille, southern France. Frank McCourt, a real estate billionaire and the former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, said Wednesday he is laying the groundwork to acquire TikTok as part of a broad initiative to make a healthier internet. Photo by Dominique Jacovides/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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CHINA-GUANGXI-VILLAGE-TREE-PLANTING (CN)

(240310) -- LIUZHOU, March 10, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A drone photo taken on Nov. 19, 2022 shows people installing bamboo fences on both sides of the road to prevent cattle and sheep from biting saplings in Wuying Village on the border between south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and southwest China's Guizhou Province. Wuying Village is a Miao ethnic group hamlet that nestles snugly in the towering mountains stretching across the border between Guangxi and Guizhou. Six years ago, with the support of the local government and Lianjiang City in Guangdong Province, the village began to implement a ten-year tree planting program to improve the local ecological environment. Thousands of peach, plum, pear and other fruit trees have been planted. Now, as these trees start bearing fruit, the living environment of the village continues to improve, laying a groundwork for future eco-tourism development. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaobang)

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Nigerian intellectuals hail significance of Global Civilization Initiative

STORY: Nigerian intellectuals hail significance of Global Civilization Initiative SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 23, 2024 DATELINE: Jan. 30, 2024 LENGTH: 0:00:39 LOCATION: Abuja CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of China-proposed Global Civilization Initiative (GCI) 2. SOUNDBITE (English): FAROUK IBRAHIM BIBI-FAROUK, Nigerian political science scholar STORYLINE: At a seminar on the China-proposed Global Civilization Initiative (GCI) held last week by the Chinese Embassy in Nigeria and the University of Abuja, Nigerian intellectuals said the initiative demonstrated China's global vision. SOUNDBITE (English): FAROUK IBRAHIM BIBI-FAROUK, Nigerian political science scholar "China is building a community of shared future for mankind, which further lays the groundwork for advancing strategic visions. And together with developing countries, especially the South-South (countries), it is our hope and aspiration that China would be able to lead the world into a new civil engine." Xinhua News Agency correspondents report

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Groundwork for Kishida-Xi summit

Japan's top national security adviser Takeo Akiba (3rd from L) arrives at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing on Nov. 9, 2023, for talks with China's top diplomat Wang Yi to lay the groundwork for a summit meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chinese President Xi Jinping in the United States in mid-November.

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Groundwork for Kishida-Xi summit

Japan's top national security adviser Takeo Akiba leaves a hotel in Beijing on Nov. 9, 2023, for talks with China's top diplomat Wang Yi to lay the groundwork for a summit meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chinese President Xi Jinping in the United States in mid-November.

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Olympian artists create world beyond sports

STORY: Olympian artists create world beyond sports DATELINE: May 1, 2023 LENGTH: 00:03:24 LOCATION: GENEVA, Switzerland CATEGORY: CULTURE/SPORTS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the exhibition STORYLINE: In the world of Olympics, a bunch of athletes showed their talents beyond sports by offering a glimpse of arts, embodying sport, creativity and the Olympic values in their lives. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been exhibiting 18 pieces of artworks at the Olympic House since April 23, which were created by five Olympians and a Paralympian, to illustrate many facets, interests and stories of the elite athletes. The IOC Culture and Heritage initiated the program at PyeongChang 2018 and has received more than 50 original works from 16 athletes from eight countries and regions, and there's more to come. The Culture and Heritage did other two Olympian Artists programs at the Tokyo 2020 and the Beijing 2022, and led a three-month recruitment campaign to lay the groundwork for Paris 2024. As a re

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Iran, Saudi Arabia to exchange envoys after reopening diplomatic missions

STORY: Iran, Saudi Arabia to exchange envoys after reopening diplomatic missions DATELINE: April 11, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:37 LOCATION: Tehran CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the press conference of Iranian Foreign Ministry STORYLINE: The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Monday that Iran and Saudi Arabia will exchange ambassadors after the reopening of their diplomatic missions, Iran's official news agency IRNA reported. In a press conference, Nasser Kanaani said the Saudi team arrived in Iran on Saturday to lay the groundwork for the reopening of the kingdom's embassy in Tehran and consulate general in the northeastern city of Mashhad. He added that the Iranian delegation will soon travel to Saudi Arabia for the same purpose ahead of the scheduled reopening of Iran's embassy in Riyadh and its consulate general and representative office to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Jeddah. Following the signing of a joint statement by Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian a

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Foreign ministers lay groundwork for Abe's India trip

MANILA, Philippines - Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso (L) talks with his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee in Manila on Aug. 1.

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Foreign ministers lay groundwork for Abe's India trip

MANILA, Philippines - Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso (L) and his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee shake hands in Manila on Aug. 1 prior to their talks.

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Japan calls for foreign ministerial talks with China

PARIS, France - Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Paris on May 7, 2014, on the sidelines of a ministerial meeting of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Kishida expressed readiness to hold talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to lay the groundwork for a summit between the two countries.

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Japan-S. Korea talks

SEOUL, South Korea - Cho Tai Young, a South Korean foreign ministry spokesman, talks about a proposed meeting between senior officials of South Korea and Japan, during a press conference in Seoul on March 27, 2014. Japan and South Korea are considering such a meeting in April to lay the groundwork for a summit, diplomatic sources said the same day.

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Ex-Japan PM Mori meets Putin

MOSCOW, Russia - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori attends a news conference in Moscow after holding talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin on Feb. 21, 2013. Abe was visiting Russia as a special envoy of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to lay the groundwork for Abe's visit to Russia later in the year.

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Ex-Japan PM Mori meets Putin

MOSCOW, Russia - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (L) meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow on Feb. 21, 2013. Abe was visiting Russia as a special envoy of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to lay the groundwork for Abe's visit to Russia later this year. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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2 Koreas lay groundwork for high-level military talks

SEOUL, South Korea - Three representatives of the South Korean military on Feb. 8, 2011, stand in front of a Unification Ministry building in Seoul ahead of their departure for the inter-Korean truce village of Panmunjeom to discuss with their North Korean counterparts details for a proposed meeting of high-level defense officials between South and North Korea. The colonel-level talks are the first inter-Korean meeting since the North's deadly artillery attack on a South Korean border island in November 2010.

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Maehara says Nagoya meeting laid groundwork for next talks

NAGOYA, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara speaks at a press conference after an international meeting on reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Nagoya on Oct. 26, 2010. Maehara said at the end of the meeting, which he co-chaired, that it lays a strong foundation for the following round in Mexico in November.

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Bosworth seeks improved North-South Korea relations

TOKYO, Japan - Stephen Bosworth, a U.S. special representative for North Korea policy, speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 15, 2010. Bosworth called for an improvement in relations between North and South Korea to lay the groundwork for the resumption of six-party talks on Pyongyang's nuclear programs.

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Japan, India seek FTA

TOKYO, Japan - Senior government officials from Japan and India meet in Tokyo on Sept. 9, 2010, to lay the groundwork for reaching a bilateral free trade agreement that would provide Japanese goods and services greater access to the world's second-most populous market.

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U.S. Navy on alert for N. Korea instability

TOKYO, Japan - Adm. Patrick Walsh, commander of the Hawaii-based U.S. Pacific Fleet, meets a group of reporters in Tokyo on Sept. 8, 2010. He said the United States is on alert to respond to any incidents involving North Korea as the country appears to be entering the process of laying the groundwork for the eventual succession to power of one of leader Kim Jong Il's sons.

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Toyota pres. touts tie-up with Tesla over electric cars

NAGOYA, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda speaks in a press conference in Nagoya, Japan, on May 22, 2010. He said the top Japanese automaker's partnership with Tesla Motors Inc. of the United States on developing and producing electric vehicles has laid solid groundwork for pursuing next-generation environmentally friendly cars.

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Toyota pres. touts tie-up with Tesla over electric cars

NAGOYA, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda speaks in a press conference in Nagoya, Japan, on May 22, 2010. He said the top Japanese automaker's partnership with Tesla Motors Inc. of the United States on developing and producing electric vehicles has laid solid groundwork for pursuing next-generation environmentally friendly cars.

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Cabinet approves bill to pave way for consumption tax hike

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Taro Aso (C) chats with Kaoru Yosano (R), minister for economic and fiscal policy, in a room at the premier's office before an extraordinary Cabinet meeting Jan. 23. Aso's Cabinet endorsed a bill to revise the nation's taxation system, which includes a supplementary clause that lays the groundwork for raising the consumption tax from the current 5 percent.

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Panel OKs plan to raise sales tax from FY 2011 at earliest

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Taro Aso speaks during a meeting of the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy at the prime minister's office on Dec. 16. At right is Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister Kaoru Yosano. The panel endorsed a plan to raise the nation's consumption tax from fiscal 2011 at the earliest and to amend legislation to lay the groundwork for the tax increase in 2010.

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U.S., N. Korea fall short of consensus on nuclear verification

SINGAPORE, Singapore - North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan talks to reporters in Singapore on Dec. 5 after a meeting with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill. The top nuclear envoys met to lay the groundwork for next week's six-party talks but fell short of reaching a consensus on how to mention steps to verify Pyongyang's nuclear information in a proposed six-party document.

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Japan, China, S. Korea strengthen ties, efforts on N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi (L), Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura (C) and South Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Yu Myung Hwan pose for photos in Tokyo on June 14 before the start of trilateral talks to lay the groundwork for a three-way summit in Japan slated for fall. (Pool photo)

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Komura holds talks with South Korean foreign minister

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura (R) and his South Korean counterpart, Yu Myung Hwan, meet the press after a meeting at the Foreign Ministry's Iikura guesthouse in Tokyo on April 4. Yu is visiting Tokyo to lay the groundwork for South Korean President Lee Myung Bak's visit to Japan later this month.

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Fukuda meets South Korean foreign minister Yu

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (R) meets with South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Yu Myung Hwan at the prime minister's office on April 4. Yu is visiting Tokyo to lay the groundwork for South Korean President Lee Myung Bak's visit to Japan later this month.

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Key emitters aiming for 'difficult' medium-term CO2 cut targets

CHIBA, Japan - Koji Tsuruoka (L), director general for global issues at the Japanese Foreign Ministry, and Daniel Price, assistant to U.S. President George W. Bush for international economic affairs, speak at a press conference in Chiba on March 14. Senior officials involved in a U.S.-led meeting of the world's major greenhouse gas emitters tried to lay the groundwork for setting medium-term greenhouse gas reduction targets in a post-Kyoto Protocol framework, but their positions remained far apart.

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Chinese State Councillor Tang calls on ex-premier Abe

TOKYO, Japan - Former Prime Minister Shintaro Abe (L) meets with Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan at a hotel in Tokyo on Feb. 22. Tang is visiting Japan as Chinese President Hu Jintao's special envoy to set the groundwork for Hu's visit to Japan in April.

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Foreign Minister Komura meets Chinese State Councillor Tang

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura (R) meets with Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan at the Foreign Ministry's Iikura guesthouse in Tokyo in the evening of Feb. 21. Tang is visiting Japan as Chinese President Hu Jintao's special envoy to set the groundwork for Hu's visit to Japan in April.

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Foreign ministers from ASEAN, Japan, China, S. Korea discuss N. Korea

MANILA, Philippines - Japan's Foreign Minister Taro Aso (C) poses with his colleagues from the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, China and South Korea in a photo session in Manila on July 31. The ministers gathered to discuss regional issues such as North Korea's nuclear standoff and to lay the groundwork for a review of their nations' cooperation in the East Asian region, ASEAN officials said.

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Hill in Japan to prepare for next round of 6-party talks

NARITA, Japan - Christopher Hill, U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, arrives at Narita airport on April 9 as part of his Asian tour to lay the groundwork for the new six-party session focused on resolving the North Korean nuclear standoff and ultimately denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula.

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N. Korean, S. Korean nuke negotiators arrive in Beijing

BEIJING, China - North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan, the country's chief negotiator for the six-party nuclear talks, waves to photographers on arrival at Beijing airport on Jan. 22, as a flurry of diplomacy continued to lay the groundwork for the next round of the negotiations aimed at ending the North Korean standoff.

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N. Korean, S. Korean nuke negotiators arrive in Beijing

BEIJING, China - South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Chun Yung Woo, the country's chief negotiator for the six-party nuclear talks, arrives at Beijing airport on Jan. 22, as a flurry of diplomacy continued to lay the groundwork for the next round of the negotiations aimed at ending the North Korean standoff.

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Japan, U.S. nuke negotiators meet to pave way for 6-party talks

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Japanese nuclear negotiator Kenichiro Sasae (L) and his U.S. counterpart Christopher Hill pose prior to their talks in Tokyo on Jan. 20. They met at the Foreign Ministry to lay the groundwork for restarting six-party talks aimed at resolving the North Korean nuclear standoff.

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Japan-China summit groundwork talks to reconvene

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso (L) and Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo pose for a photo during the latter's courtesy call at the Foreign Ministry on Sept. 25. Dai was in Japan to attend bilateral subcabinet-level talks aimed to lay the groundwork for Japan-China summit talks. (Pool photo)

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Japan, China, S. Korea hold talks on 3-way alliance, N. Korea

HAKONE, Japan - Cui Tiankai (L), head of the Chinese Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Department, Mitoji Yabunaka (C), head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, and Chung Sang Ki, head of the South Korean Foreign Ministry's Asian and Pacific Affairs Bureau, join hands for photos at a resort hotel in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, on June 7 prior to their talks. They met to lay the groundwork for a trilateral foreign ministerial meeting which is planned for later this month.

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Karzai speaks at inauguration of new Afghan government

KABUL, Afghanistan - New Afghan government leader Hamid Karzai speaks after being sworn in as head of the new interim government in Kabul on Dec. 22. A new Afghan administration led by Karzai, a Pashtun tribal leader, was inaugurated the same day to lay the groundwork for rebuilding the shattered country after 23 years of war and destruction.

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New Afghan government installed in Kabul

KABUL, Afghanistan - Cabinet ministers (right) take the oath of office to interim leader Hamid Karzai (far left) in the inauguration of the interim Afghan government in Kabul on Dec. 22 to lay the groundwork for rebuilding the war-torn country. The new government was inaugurated 76 days after the United States launched its military campaign to oust the Taliban and capture Osama bin Laden, the chief suspect in the Sept. 11 terror attacks whom the Taliban sheltered.

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Ruling bloc execs leave for U.S.

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Secretary generals Tetsuzo Fuyushiba of the New Komeito party, Taku Yamasaki of the Liberal Democratic Party and Takeshi Noda of the New Conservative Party are at Narita airport before departure for the United States. They aim to lay the groundwork for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's summit talks with President George W. Bush slated for June 30

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Mori arrives in Irkutsk

IRKUTSK, Russia - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori arrives in the Siberian city of Irkutsk on March 24 for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on March 25. Mori said he hopes to lay the groundwork for future negotiations with Russia on a decades-old territorial dispute and a bilateral peace treaty when he meets with Putin.

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Kyrgyz lawmaker Bakiruulu arrives in Osh airport

OSH, Kyrgyzstan - Tursunbai Bakiruulu (R), a lawmaker of Kyrgyzstan, arrives in Osh airport on the morning of Oct. 17 to help lay the groundwork for the release of hostages, including four Japanese, seized by Muslim rebels.

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Albright meets Chinese President in Beijing

U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright meets with Chinese President Jiang Zemin in Beijing on March 2. Albright arrived in Bejing on Feb. 28 on the first leg a three-nation Asian visit. She will also travel to Indonesia and Thailand. The main purpose of Albright's visit to China is to lay the groundwork for Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji's scheduled U.S. trip in April.