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Osaka Metro station connected to World Expo venue

OSAKA, Japan, Jan. 19 Kyodo - A tape-cutting ceremony is held in Osaka on Jan. 19, 2025, to mark the opening of new Osaka Metro Chuo Line station Yumeshima, directly connected to the venue of the 2025 World Exposition starting in April on an artificial island called Yumeshima in the western Japan city. (Kyodo)

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New Year greeting event at Japan's Imperial Palace

TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 2 Kyodo - Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako wave to well-wishers from a balcony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo during a New Year greeting event on Jan. 2, 2025. (Kyodo)

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Year-end Jumbo lottery draw in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 31 Kyodo - Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike attends the year-end Jumbo lottery draw in Tokyo on Dec. 31, 2024, with top prize winners set to win up to 1 billion yen ($6.4 million). (Kyodo)

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25th anniv. of Macao's handover to China

MACAO, China, Dec. 20 Kyodo - The flags of China (R) and Macao are hoisted in Macao on Dec. 20, 2024, marking the 25th anniversary of the former Portuguese colony's handover to Chinese rule. (Kyodo)

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25th anniv. of Macao's handover to China

MACAO, China, Dec. 20 Kyodo - The flags of China (R) and Macao are hoisted in Macao on Dec. 20, 2024, marking the 25th anniversary of the former Portuguese colony's handover to Chinese rule. (Kyodo)

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Vietnam's first subway

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, Dec. 22 Kyodo - Passengers line up in front of a subway ticket gate in Ho Chi Minh City on Dec. 22, 2024, as the day marks Vietnam's first operation of a subway. The 20-kilometer railway line including a 2-km subway section was financed by Japan's yen loans. (Kyodo)

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Patients  See Doctors at The Central Hospital of Enshi

Patients See Doctors at The Central Hospital of Enshi

ENSHI, CHINA - FEBRUARY 18, 2024 - Patients register to see a doctor at the Central Hospital of Enshi, Hubei province, China, Feb 18, 2024. Playing mahjong, staying up late, excessive fatigue, causing cardio-cerebral vascular disease sudden; During the Spring Festival, the temperature fluctuates, and the patients with colds soar; Children eat too much and too miscellaneous, and has gastrointestinal disease. This Spring Festival, many people suffer from "New Year's disease".

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Patients  See Doctors at The Central Hospital of Enshi

Patients See Doctors at The Central Hospital of Enshi

ENSHI, CHINA - FEBRUARY 18, 2024 - Patients register to see a doctor at the Central Hospital of Enshi, Hubei province, China, Feb 18, 2024. Playing mahjong, staying up late, excessive fatigue, causing cardio-cerebral vascular disease sudden; During the Spring Festival, the temperature fluctuates, and the patients with colds soar; Children eat too much and too miscellaneous, and has gastrointestinal disease. This Spring Festival, many people suffer from "New Year's disease".

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Patients  See Doctors at The Central Hospital of Enshi

Patients See Doctors at The Central Hospital of Enshi

ENSHI, CHINA - FEBRUARY 18, 2024 - Patients register to see a doctor at the Central Hospital of Enshi, Hubei province, China, Feb 18, 2024. Playing mahjong, staying up late, excessive fatigue, causing cardio-cerebral vascular disease sudden; During the Spring Festival, the temperature fluctuates, and the patients with colds soar; Children eat too much and too miscellaneous, and has gastrointestinal disease. This Spring Festival, many people suffer from "New Year's disease".

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Patients  See Doctors at The Central Hospital of Enshi

Patients See Doctors at The Central Hospital of Enshi

ENSHI, CHINA - FEBRUARY 18, 2024 - Patients register to see a doctor at the Central Hospital of Enshi, Hubei province, China, Feb 18, 2024. Playing mahjong, staying up late, excessive fatigue, causing cardio-cerebral vascular disease sudden; During the Spring Festival, the temperature fluctuates, and the patients with colds soar; Children eat too much and too miscellaneous, and has gastrointestinal disease. This Spring Festival, many people suffer from "New Year's disease".

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Patients  See Doctors at The Central Hospital of Enshi

Patients See Doctors at The Central Hospital of Enshi

ENSHI, CHINA - FEBRUARY 18, 2024 - Patients register to see a doctor at the Central Hospital of Enshi, Hubei province, China, Feb 18, 2024. Playing mahjong, staying up late, excessive fatigue, causing cardio-cerebral vascular disease sudden; During the Spring Festival, the temperature fluctuates, and the patients with colds soar; Children eat too much and too miscellaneous, and has gastrointestinal disease. This Spring Festival, many people suffer from "New Year's disease".

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Patients  See Doctors at The Central Hospital of Enshi

Patients See Doctors at The Central Hospital of Enshi

ENSHI, CHINA - FEBRUARY 18, 2024 - Patients register to see a doctor at the Central Hospital of Enshi, Hubei province, China, Feb 18, 2024. Playing mahjong, staying up late, excessive fatigue, causing cardio-cerebral vascular disease sudden; During the Spring Festival, the temperature fluctuates, and the patients with colds soar; Children eat too much and too miscellaneous, and has gastrointestinal disease. This Spring Festival, many people suffer from "New Year's disease".

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Patients  See Doctors at The Central Hospital of Enshi

Patients See Doctors at The Central Hospital of Enshi

ENSHI, CHINA - FEBRUARY 18, 2024 - Patients register to see a doctor at the Central Hospital of Enshi, Hubei province, China, Feb 18, 2024. Playing mahjong, staying up late, excessive fatigue, causing cardio-cerebral vascular disease sudden; During the Spring Festival, the temperature fluctuates, and the patients with colds soar; Children eat too much and too miscellaneous, and has gastrointestinal disease. This Spring Festival, many people suffer from "New Year's disease".

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Patients  See Doctors at The Central Hospital of Enshi

Patients See Doctors at The Central Hospital of Enshi

ENSHI, CHINA - FEBRUARY 18, 2024 - Patients register to see a doctor at the Central Hospital of Enshi, Hubei province, China, Feb 18, 2024. Playing mahjong, staying up late, excessive fatigue, causing cardio-cerebral vascular disease sudden; During the Spring Festival, the temperature fluctuates, and the patients with colds soar; Children eat too much and too miscellaneous, and has gastrointestinal disease. This Spring Festival, many people suffer from "New Year's disease".

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Patients  See Doctors at The Central Hospital of Enshi

Patients See Doctors at The Central Hospital of Enshi

ENSHI, CHINA - FEBRUARY 18, 2024 - Patients register to see a doctor at the Central Hospital of Enshi, Hubei province, China, Feb 18, 2024. Playing mahjong, staying up late, excessive fatigue, causing cardio-cerebral vascular disease sudden; During the Spring Festival, the temperature fluctuates, and the patients with colds soar; Children eat too much and too miscellaneous, and has gastrointestinal disease. This Spring Festival, many people suffer from "New Year's disease".

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Patients  See Doctors at The Central Hospital of Enshi

Patients See Doctors at The Central Hospital of Enshi

ENSHI, CHINA - FEBRUARY 18, 2024 - Patients register to see a doctor at the Central Hospital of Enshi, Hubei province, China, Feb 18, 2024. Playing mahjong, staying up late, excessive fatigue, causing cardio-cerebral vascular disease sudden; During the Spring Festival, the temperature fluctuates, and the patients with colds soar; Children eat too much and too miscellaneous, and has gastrointestinal disease. This Spring Festival, many people suffer from "New Year's disease".

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Patients  See Doctors at The Central Hospital of Enshi

Patients See Doctors at The Central Hospital of Enshi

ENSHI, CHINA - FEBRUARY 18, 2024 - Patients register to see a doctor at the Central Hospital of Enshi, Hubei province, China, Feb 18, 2024. Playing mahjong, staying up late, excessive fatigue, causing cardio-cerebral vascular disease sudden; During the Spring Festival, the temperature fluctuates, and the patients with colds soar; Children eat too much and too miscellaneous, and has gastrointestinal disease. This Spring Festival, many people suffer from "New Year's disease".

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Patients  See Doctors at The Central Hospital of Enshi

Patients See Doctors at The Central Hospital of Enshi

ENSHI, CHINA - FEBRUARY 18, 2024 - Patients register to see a doctor at the Central Hospital of Enshi, Hubei province, China, Feb 18, 2024. Playing mahjong, staying up late, excessive fatigue, causing cardio-cerebral vascular disease sudden; During the Spring Festival, the temperature fluctuates, and the patients with colds soar; Children eat too much and too miscellaneous, and has gastrointestinal disease. This Spring Festival, many people suffer from "New Year's disease".

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Rally in Tokyo's Shibuya against Israel's assault on Gaza

TOKYO, Japan Kyodo - Hundreds of people, including Palestinian living in Japan, join a rally in front of Tokyo's Shibuya Station on Nov. 10, 2023, against Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip. (Kyodo)

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International conference on Osaka expo

OSAKA, Japan Kyodo - Attendees pose for a photo on the first day of a two-day international conference on the Osaka expo in Osaka on Nov. 14, 2023. The Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition held the meeting to provide information on the expo's pavilions for countries and international organizations planning to participate. (Kyodo)

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Japan's Princess Kako

TOKYO, Japan Kyodo - Japanese Princess Kako (L) interacts with students at an event organized by the Girl Scouts of Japan in Tokyo on Oct. 22, 2023. (Kyodo)

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Maglev train tunnel

FUJIKAWA, Japan, Oct. 13 Kyodo - A ceremony is held in Fujikawa, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Oct. 13, 2023, to mark the completion of a 710-meter tunnel for Central Japan Railway Co.'s Linear Chuo Shinkansen maglev trains that will run between Nagoya and Tokyo at speeds of 500 kilometers per hour. (Kyodo)

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Yaesu Book Center sells sundries on 1st floor

Yaesu Book Center sells sundries on 1st floor

TOKYO, Japan - Drinking vessels, bags and other miscellaneous items are on display in a section opened by Yaesu Book Center on the first floor of its main store near Tokyo Station, on Aug. 15, 2014.

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Hokkaido police inspect Meat Hope plant, reenacts meat fraud

Hokkaido police inspect Meat Hope plant, reenacts meat fraud

TOMAKOMAI, Japan - His head bowed, Minoru Tanaka, 68, president and founder of Meat Hope Co., walks out from the company's Shiomi meat-processing plant in Tomakomai, Hokkaido on July 3, helping police gather evidence on how the company mixed miscellaneous meat and sold the product as ''ground beef.'' Tanaka has acknowledged the fraudulent practice, saying it was intended to ''cut down costs.'' Tanaka has also admitted using rainwater to thaw frozen meat.

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Miscellaneous cereals becoming popular among women

Miscellaneous cereals becoming popular among women

TOKYO, Japan - The International Life & Food Association (ILFA) holds a confectionery course in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in late September. The participants learn how to make sweet alcoholic drinks, rice cakes and cakes using barn grass and millet.

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International Relations and Japan's Role - The 9th Summit

On May 27, Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, who visited the United States to attend the 9th Summit of the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations held in Williamsburg, Virginia, stopped by Washington, D.C., for a Japan-U.S. summit meeting. Prime Minister Nakasone, who visited the U.S. to attend the 9th Summit of the Group of Eight, met with President Reagan. photo session, the summit meeting, and miscellaneous impressions. President Reagan making the Williamsburg Declaration, *Filming date unknown, Release date: June 16, 1983..

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Around the border

The Soviet-Japanese agreement allows us to fish in the Habomai Islands. In the Lee Line, we fished under the fear of capture. In Okinawa, there is an island inside a base.   Habomai Islands on the Nemuro Peninsula at the eastern end of Hokkaido, fishing boats departing, fishing boats entering Soviet waters, Soviet surveillance boat (June 22, 1962), family left behind after being captured, boats returning from fishing, drying kelp, fishing grounds on the Li Line, fishing, landing large quantities of fish, U.S. base in Okinawa, farming U.S. base in Okinawa, farming, sugar cane production, drought, people tilling the soil, miscellaneous street vendors, Naha's Kokusai Street, show windows, women dancing traditional dances, foreigners walking along Kokusai Street, children playing in the sea. Date of shooting unknown, release date: August 16, 1963.

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Hokkaido police inspect Meat Hope plant, reenacts meat fraud

Hokkaido police inspect Meat Hope plant, reenacts meat fraud

TOMAKOMAI, Japan - His head bowed, Minoru Tanaka, 68, president and founder of Meat Hope Co., walks out from the company's Shiomi meat-processing plant in Tomakomai, Hokkaido on July 3, helping police gather evidence on how the company mixed miscellaneous meat and sold the product as ''ground beef.'' Tanaka has acknowledged the fraudulent practice, saying it was intended to ''cut down costs.'' Tanaka has also admitted using rainwater to thaw frozen meat. (Kyodo)

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Miscellaneous cereals becoming popular among women

Miscellaneous cereals becoming popular among women

TOKYO, Japan - The International Life & Food Association (ILFA) holds a confectionery course in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in late September. The participants learn how to make sweet alcoholic drinks, rice cakes and cakes using barn grass and millet. (Kyodo)

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A fancy goods shop

A fancy goods shop

This seems to be a shop in a large building with miscellaneous merchandise. There is a fan with a rising sun and a drum with a family crest. Artificial flowers are displayed on the wall in the back, and other goods like colour paper are effectively displayed. The shop may specialize incense or goods for traditional dance.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number83‐3‐0]

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World Sudoku & Puzzle Championship in Prague, Jakub Ondrousek

World Sudoku & Puzzle Championship in Prague, Jakub Ondrousek

The World Sudoku & Puzzle Championship was held in Prague, Czech Republic, on November 7, 2018. On the photo is seen Jakub Ondrousek from Czech Republic. Until now, Ondrousek was the world record holder. He solved the sudoku grid in 1 minute and 25 seconds in 2010. (CTK Photo/Michaela Rihova)

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Madonna and Child painting, Raffael Santi

Madonna and Child painting, Raffael Santi

Raffael Santi's the Madonna and Child painting at the press conference in Prague, Czech Republic, September 10, 2020. Czech experts from the InsightArt firm, using a radiation research method, assisted in reliably proving Raffael Santi's authorship of the Madonna and Child painting that was only ascribed to him previously. The experts used the particle detector developed in the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), produced by a Czech company and also used in outer space research. (CTK Photo/Katerina Sulova)

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Jiri Uher, Madonna and Child painting, Raffael Santi

Jiri Uher, Madonna and Child painting, Raffael Santi

Physicist Jiri Uher speaks at the press conference about Raffael Santi's authorship of the Madonna and Child painting in Prague, Czech Republic, September 10, 2020. Czech experts from the InsightArt firm, using a radiation research method, assisted in reliably proving Raffael Santi's authorship of the Madonna and Child painting that was only ascribed to him previously. The experts used the particle detector developed in the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), produced by a Czech company and also used in outer space research. (CTK Photo/Katerina Sulova)

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Jiri Fajt, Madonna and Child painting, Raffael Santi

Jiri Fajt, Madonna and Child painting, Raffael Santi

Art historian Jiri Fajt speaks at the press conference about Raffael Santi's authorship of the Madonna and Child painting in Prague, Czech Republic, September 10, 2020. Czech experts from the InsightArt firm, using a radiation research method, assisted in reliably proving Raffael Santi's authorship of the Madonna and Child painting that was only ascribed to him previously. The experts used the particle detector developed in the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), produced by a Czech company and also used in outer space research. (CTK Photo/Katerina Sulova)

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Jiri Fajt, Madonna and Child painting, Raffael Santi

Jiri Fajt, Madonna and Child painting, Raffael Santi

Art historian Jiri Fajt speaks at the press conference about Raffael Santi's authorship of the Madonna and Child painting in Prague, Czech Republic, September 10, 2020. Czech experts from the InsightArt firm, using a radiation research method, assisted in reliably proving Raffael Santi's authorship of the Madonna and Child painting that was only ascribed to him previously. The experts used the particle detector developed in the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), produced by a Czech company and also used in outer space research. (CTK Photo/Katerina Sulova)

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Czechs symbolically meet their German neighbours to support border reopening

Czechs symbolically meet their German neighbours to support border reopening

About 40 Czechs and Germans attended a symbolical meeting on the border in the Upper Palatine Forest mountain range to jointly call for the quickest possible reopening of the border, closed over COVID-19, to tourists and local people's walks, on May 16, 2020. (CTK Photo/Miroslav Chaloupka)

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Czechs symbolically meet their German neighbours to support border reopening

Czechs symbolically meet their German neighbours to support border reopening

About 40 Czechs and Germans attended a symbolical meeting on the border in the Upper Palatine Forest mountain range to jointly call for the quickest possible reopening of the border, closed over COVID-19, to tourists and local people's walks, on May 16, 2020. (CTK Photo/Miroslav Chaloupka)

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Czechs symbolically meet their Polish neighbours to support border reopening

Czechs symbolically meet their Polish neighbours to support border reopening

Czechs symbolically meet their Polish neighbours to support border reopening within symbolical meeting on the border between Czech Republic and Poland, near Nachod, on May 16, 2020. On the photo is seen meeting organizer Tereza Silbernaglova. (CTK Photo/Josef Vostarek)

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Czechs symbolically meet their Polish neighbours to support border reopening

Czechs symbolically meet their Polish neighbours to support border reopening

Czechs symbolically meet their Polish neighbours to support border reopening within symbolical meeting on the border between Czech Republic and Poland, near Nachod, on May 16, 2020. On the right side is seen meeting organizer Tereza Silbernaglova. (CTK Photo/Josef Vostarek)

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Czechs symbolically meet their German neighbours to support border reopening

Czechs symbolically meet their German neighbours to support border reopening

About 40 Czechs and Germans attended a symbolical meeting on the border in the Upper Palatine Forest mountain range to jointly call for the quickest possible reopening of the border, closed over COVID-19, to tourists and local people's walks, on May 16, 2020. (CTK Photo/Miroslav Chaloupka)

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Czechs symbolically meet their German neighbours to support border reopening

Czechs symbolically meet their German neighbours to support border reopening

About 40 Czechs and Germans attended a symbolical meeting on the border in the Upper Palatine Forest mountain range to jointly call for the quickest possible reopening of the border, closed over COVID-19, to tourists and local people's walks, on May 16, 2020. (CTK Photo/Miroslav Chaloupka)

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Czechs symbolically meet their German neighbours to support border reopening

Czechs symbolically meet their German neighbours to support border reopening

About 40 Czechs and Germans attended a symbolical meeting on the border in the Upper Palatine Forest mountain range to jointly call for the quickest possible reopening of the border, closed over COVID-19, to tourists and local people's walks, on May 16, 2020. (CTK Photo/Miroslav Chaloupka)

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Czechs symbolically meet their German neighbours to support border reopening

Czechs symbolically meet their German neighbours to support border reopening

About 40 Czechs and Germans attended a symbolical meeting on the border in the Upper Palatine Forest mountain range to jointly call for the quickest possible reopening of the border, closed over COVID-19, to tourists and local people's walks, on May 16, 2020. (CTK Photo/Miroslav Chaloupka)

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Czechs symbolically meet their German neighbours to support border reopening

Czechs symbolically meet their German neighbours to support border reopening

About 40 Czechs and Germans attended a symbolical meeting on the border in the Upper Palatine Forest mountain range to jointly call for the quickest possible reopening of the border, closed over COVID-19, to tourists and local people's walks, on May 16, 2020. (CTK Photo/Miroslav Chaloupka)

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Czechs symbolically meet their German neighbours to support border reopening

Czechs symbolically meet their German neighbours to support border reopening

About 40 Czechs and Germans attended a symbolical meeting on the border in the Upper Palatine Forest mountain range to jointly call for the quickest possible reopening of the border, closed over COVID-19, to tourists and local people's walks, on May 16, 2020. (CTK Photo/Miroslav Chaloupka)

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Czechs symbolically meet their German neighbours to support border reopening

Czechs symbolically meet their German neighbours to support border reopening

About 40 Czechs and Germans attended a symbolical meeting on the border in the Upper Palatine Forest mountain range to jointly call for the quickest possible reopening of the border, closed over COVID-19, to tourists and local people's walks, on May 16, 2020. (CTK Photo/Miroslav Chaloupka)

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Czechs symbolically meet their Polish neighbours to support border reopening

Czechs symbolically meet their Polish neighbours to support border reopening

Czechs symbolically meet their Polish neighbours to support border reopening within symbolical meeting on the border between Czech Republic and Poland, near Nachod, on May 16, 2020. (CTK Photo/Josef Vostarek)

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Czechs symbolically meet their Polish neighbours to support border reopening

Czechs symbolically meet their Polish neighbours to support border reopening

Czechs symbolically meet their Polish neighbours to support border reopening within symbolical meeting on the border between Czech Republic and Poland, near Nachod, on May 16, 2020. On the right side is seen meeting organizer Tereza Silbernaglova. (CTK Photo/Josef Vostarek)

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Czechs symbolically meet their Polish neighbours to support border reopening

Czechs symbolically meet their Polish neighbours to support border reopening

Czechs symbolically meet their Polish neighbours to support border reopening within symbolical meeting on the border between Czech Republic and Poland, near Nachod, on May 16, 2020. (CTK Photo/Josef Vostarek)

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Czechs symbolically meet their Polish neighbours to support border reopening

Czechs symbolically meet their Polish neighbours to support border reopening

Czechs symbolically meet their Polish neighbours to support border reopening within symbolical meeting on the border between Czech Republic and Poland, near Nachod, on May 16, 2020. On the right side is seen meeting organizer Tereza Silbernaglova. (CTK Photo/Josef Vostarek)

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