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Palestinians Forced to Flee by Israeli Forces - Tulkarm

Palestinians carry their belongings after Israeli forces asked them to leave home during an Israeli military operation in the Nour Shams refugee camp east of the West Bank city of Tulkarm, on March 5, 2025. The Israeli army issued orders to blow up 17 homes in the Nour Shams refugee camp. Nihad Al-Shawish, head of the camp's Services Committee, told Xinhua that the Israeli army intends to blow up these homes under the pretext of paving a new road and altering the camp's geographical layout. He noted that the army had issued evacuation orders to the homeowners, following a recent explosion of 11 homes in the camp. Photo by Nidal Eshtayeh/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Palestinians Forced to Flee by Israeli Forces - Tulkarm

Palestinians carry their belongings after Israeli forces asked them to leave home during an Israeli military operation in the Nour Shams refugee camp east of the West Bank city of Tulkarm, on March 5, 2025. The Israeli army issued orders to blow up 17 homes in the Nour Shams refugee camp. Nihad Al-Shawish, head of the camp's Services Committee, told Xinhua that the Israeli army intends to blow up these homes under the pretext of paving a new road and altering the camp's geographical layout. He noted that the army had issued evacuation orders to the homeowners, following a recent explosion of 11 homes in the camp. Photo by Nidal Eshtayeh/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Palestinians Forced to Flee by Israeli Forces - Tulkarm

Palestinians carry their belongings after Israeli forces asked them to leave home during an Israeli military operation in the Nour Shams refugee camp east of the West Bank city of Tulkarm, on March 5, 2025. The Israeli army issued orders to blow up 17 homes in the Nour Shams refugee camp. Nihad Al-Shawish, head of the camp's Services Committee, told Xinhua that the Israeli army intends to blow up these homes under the pretext of paving a new road and altering the camp's geographical layout. He noted that the army had issued evacuation orders to the homeowners, following a recent explosion of 11 homes in the camp. Photo by Nidal Eshtayeh/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Palestinians Forced to Flee by Israeli Forces - Tulkarm

Palestinians carry their belongings after Israeli forces asked them to leave home during an Israeli military operation in the Nour Shams refugee camp east of the West Bank city of Tulkarm, on March 5, 2025. The Israeli army issued orders to blow up 17 homes in the Nour Shams refugee camp. Nihad Al-Shawish, head of the camp's Services Committee, told Xinhua that the Israeli army intends to blow up these homes under the pretext of paving a new road and altering the camp's geographical layout. He noted that the army had issued evacuation orders to the homeowners, following a recent explosion of 11 homes in the camp. Photo by Nidal Eshtayeh/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Palestinians Forced to Flee by Israeli Forces - Tulkarm

Vehicles of Israeli forces are seen during an Israeli military operation in the Nour Shams refugee camp east of the West Bank city of Tulkarm, on March 5, 2025. The Israeli army issued orders to blow up 17 homes in the Nour Shams refugee camp. Nihad Al-Shawish, head of the camp's Services Committee, told Xinhua that the Israeli army intends to blow up these homes under the pretext of paving a new road and altering the camp's geographical layout. He noted that the army had issued evacuation orders to the homeowners, following a recent explosion of 11 homes in the camp. Photo by Nidal Eshtayeh/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Palestinians Forced to Flee by Israeli Forces - Tulkarm

Palestinians carry their belongings after Israeli forces asked them to leave home during an Israeli military operation in the Nour Shams refugee camp east of the West Bank city of Tulkarm, on March 5, 2025. The Israeli army issued orders to blow up 17 homes in the Nour Shams refugee camp. Nihad Al-Shawish, head of the camp's Services Committee, told Xinhua that the Israeli army intends to blow up these homes under the pretext of paving a new road and altering the camp's geographical layout. He noted that the army had issued evacuation orders to the homeowners, following a recent explosion of 11 homes in the camp. Photo by Nidal Eshtayeh/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Short-term accommodation rental platforms see prices rise for 2024 Paris Olympics

STORY: Short-term accommodation rental platforms see prices rise for 2024 Paris Olympics DATELINE: April 15, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:08 LOCATION: SAINT-ETIENNE, France CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of a rental property on Airbnb 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (French): SIMON, Owner of a rental property on Airbnb 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (French): SIMON, Owner of a rental property on Airbnb 4. SOUNDBITE 4 (French): SIMON, Owner of a rental property on Airbnb STORYLINE: Short-term accommodation rental platforms such as Airbnb are already taking bookings for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. Rental prices on the platforms on average are three times higher than usual. Over 1,000 Parisian homeowners have already opened their rental calendars for the Games on the Airbnb site, with several cities across France also affected by this price increase. SOUNDBITE 1 (French): SIMON, Owner of a rental property on Airbnb "I set a minimum price and a maximum price. I have a price between 65 and 200 euros. The more requests there are on the sit

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Chinese court imprisons activist couple

BEIJING, China - Photo shows human rights activist and former lawyer Ni Yulan living homeless at a park in Beijing in May 2010. Hong Kong media reported that a Chinese court on April 10, 2012, sentenced Ni and her husband Dong Jiqin to prison on charges of causing a nuisance and committing fraud. Ni used to help Falun Gong practitioners and homeowners whose houses were demolished.

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Chinese court imprisons activist couple

BEIJING, China - Photo shows human rights activist and former lawyer Ni Yulan (R) and her husband Dong Jiqin living homeless at a park in Beijing in May 2010. Hong Kong media reported that a Chinese court on April 10, 2012, sentenced the couple to prison on charges of causing a nuisance and committing fraud. Ni used to help Falun Gong practitioners and homeowners whose houses were demolished.

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Lock business thrives in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Locksmith business is thriving in Japan -- along with a surge of break-in burglaries around the country. Manufacturers of locks featuring special safety devices, such as one shown in the photo (R), are finding it hard to keep pace with demand as homeowners are rushing to replace their door locks, just in case. At left is a conventional lock.

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Kenya announces mortgage scheme for slum dwellers through social housing plan

STORY: Kenya announces mortgage scheme for slum dwellers through social housing plan DATELINE: Oct. 5, 2022 LENGTH: 0:02:49 LOCATION: Nairobi CATEGORY: ECONOMY/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the buildings 2. various of Kenya's president inspecting a construction site 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): WILLIAM RUTO, Kenya's President 4. various of the housing scheme 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): WILLIAM RUTO, Kenya's President 6. various of audience STORYLINE: Kenyan President William Ruto on Monday announced a mortgage payment scheme that will allow Kenyan slum dwellers to own homes through a social housing programme. The programme offers different kinds of housing units. To live in these units, people pay a certain amount of money as a mortgage instead of rent, which allows them to become homeowners in the end. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): WILLIAM RUTO, Kenya's President "The first priority with this project is to get the people living in Mukuru (slums) to come live here. The 3,000 shillings (about 24.82 USD) they are pa

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Scientists to tackle knotweed, scourge of U.K. homeowners

Dick Shaw, country director for CABI UK, studies psyllids on a Japanese knotweed plant in the organization's laboratory in Egham, England, on Aug. 30, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Scientists to tackle knotweed, scourge of U.K. homeowners

Dick Shaw (bottom), country director for CABI UK, and research scientist Daisuke Kurose study psyllids on a Japanese knotweed plant in the organization's laboratory in Egham, England, on Aug. 30, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Scientists to tackle knotweed, scourge of U.K. homeowners

Homeowner Robin Waistell gazes out of a bedroom window at Japanese knotweed on neighboring railway tracks in Maesteg, Wales, on Sept. 6 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chinese court imprisons activist couple

BEIJING, China - Photo shows human rights activist and former lawyer Ni Yulan (R) and her husband Dong Jiqin living homeless at a park in Beijing in May 2010. Hong Kong media reported that a Chinese court on April 10, 2012, sentenced the couple to prison on charges of causing a nuisance and committing fraud. Ni used to help Falun Gong practitioners and homeowners whose houses were demolished. (Kyodo)

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Chinese court imprisons activist couple

BEIJING, China - Photo shows human rights activist and former lawyer Ni Yulan living homeless at a park in Beijing in May 2010. Hong Kong media reported that a Chinese court on April 10, 2012, sentenced Ni and her husband Dong Jiqin to prison on charges of causing a nuisance and committing fraud. Ni used to help Falun Gong practitioners and homeowners whose houses were demolished. (Kyodo)

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"Minpaku" lodging promoting rural tourism, solving hotel shortfalls

Yukio Shintani (L) and his wife, Tamiko, talk about their experience participating in a minpaku event, in which homeowners take payment from travelers for lodging them in their homes, in the western Japanese city of Tokushima on Aug. 14, 2017. A French newlywed couple and their friends stayed at their home during the Awa Odori dance festival. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Lock business thrives in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Locksmith business is thriving in Japan -- along with a surge of break-in burglaries around the country. Manufacturers of locks featuring special safety devices, such as one shown in the photo (R), are finding it hard to keep pace with demand as homeowners are rushing to replace their door locks, just in case. At left is a conventional lock.