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Canada: Convoy of Evacuees Arrives in Opaskwayak Cree Nation Amid Wildfires

Thousands of people in Manitoba have been forced to evacuate as massive, out-of-control wildfires sweep through the province, prompting a monthlong state of emergency. This video, recorded Wednesday, May 28, shows a convoy of evacuees arriving in the areas surrounding Opaskwayak Cree Nation (OCN), The Pas, and the Rural Municipality of Kelsey.

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CHINA-BEIJING-ZHANG GUOQING-WORKPLACE SAFETY-CEREMONY (CN)

(240531) -- BEIJING, May 31, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, addresses a ceremony marking the launch of a monthlong campaign to improve workplace safety in Beijing, capital of China, May 31, 2024. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Ding Lin)

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CHINA-BEIJING-ZHANG GUOQING-WORKPLACE SAFETY-CEREMONY (CN)

(240531) -- BEIJING, May 31, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, addresses a ceremony marking the launch of a monthlong campaign to improve workplace safety in Beijing, capital of China, May 31, 2024. (Xinhua/Ding Lin)

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Abolished schools find new role as renovated residences

TOKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken June 13, 2013, shows Taiko Ishimoto standing in the lobby of a town-run housing complex that was created by renovating a closed junior high school building in Naka, Tokushima Prefecture. Ishimoto recalls the monthlong evacuation at her alma mater where town residents took refuge when a strong typhoon hit in 2004.

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Kyoto festival

KYOTO, Japan - "Yamahoko" floats are pulled through a Kyoto street on July 17, 2013, as the highlight of the ancient Japanese capital's annual monthlong Gion Festival.

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Kyoto festival

KYOTO, Japan - "Yamahoko" floats are pulled through a Kyoto street on July 17, 2013, as the highlight of the ancient Japanese capital's annual monthlong Gion Festival.

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Oldest round-the-world traveler

FUKUOKA, Japan - Saburo Shochi, a notable educator and professor emeritus at the Fukuoka University of Education, arrives at Fukuoka airport on Aug. 16, 2012, from a monthlong round-the-world lecture tour. The academic, who turned 106 that day, was recognized by Guinness World Records as the oldest person to complete a round-the-world trip using public transportation systems.

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Oldest round-the-world traveler

FUKUOKA, Japan - Saburo Shochi, a notable educator and professor emeritus at the Fukuoka University of Education, arrives at Fukuoka airport on Aug. 16, 2012, from a monthlong round-the-world lecture tour. The academic, who turned 106 that day, was recognized by Guinness World Records as the oldest person to complete a round-the-world trip using public transportation systems.

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Exodus ahead of Chinese New Year

BEIJING, China - Workers and students swarm a platform at Beijing West station on Jan. 18, 2011. An estimated 2.85 billion people will have likely used trains, buses and airplanes during the monthlong period of the ''great migration'' until late February to spend the Chinese New Year holidays in early February in their hometowns in rural areas and return to big cities.

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Exodus ahead of Chinese New Year

BEIJING, China - Workers and students walk through a concourse at Beijing West station on Jan. 18, 2011. An estimated 2.85 billion people will have likely used trains, buses and airplanes during the monthlong period of the ''great migration'' until late February to spend the Chinese New Year holidays in early February in their hometowns in rural areas and return to big cities.

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Gion Matsuri festival in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - The Yamahoko-junko parade of decorated floats is held in Kyoto as the monthlong Gion Matsuri summer festival culminated on July 17, 2010.

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Gion Matsuri festival in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - The Yamahoko-junko parade of decorated floats is held in Kyoto as the monthlong Gion Matsuri summer festival culminated on July 17, 2010.

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Gion Matsuri festival in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - The Yamahoko-junko parade of decorated floats is held in Kyoto as the monthlong Gion Matsuri summer festival culminated on July 17, 2010.

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Gion Matsuri festival in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - The Yamahoko-junko parade of decorated floats is held in Kyoto as the monthlong Gion Matsuri summer festival culminated on July 17, 2010.

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Kyoto Kabuki calligrapher busy creating name boards

KYOTO, Japan - Master calligrapher Seiho Kawakatsu, using a traditional thick brush and black ink, writes the names of star Kabuki actors on 1.8-meter-tall wooden boards during the seasonal ''maneki-gaki'' ceremony at Myodenji Temple in Kyoto on Nov. 10, 2009. The name-bearing ''hinoki'' cypress boards will be displayed at the front of the Minamiza theater in the hope for a packed hall during a nearly monthlong year-end performance starting Nov. 30.

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Taiwan president introduces pandas at zoo

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou addresses a ceremony exhibiting two giant pandas from China at the Taipei City Zoo in Taipei on Jan. 24. ''Tuan Tuan'' and ''Yuan Yuan'' made a formal debut at the zoo's Panda House, marking the end of a monthlong quarantine since they arrived from China's Sichuan Province on Dec. 23.

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Kyoto's 'Miyako Odori' festival to feature 'Tales of Genji'

KYOTO, Japan - A hair stylist puts the final touches on the hairpiece of a geisha dancer dressed in Heian era costumes as geisha dancers prepare for a dress match-up session at the Gion Koubu Kaburenjo Theatre in preparation for the monthlong ''Miyako Odori'' festival in April. The program of this year's festival features a performance of Murasaki Shikibu's ''The Tales of Genji,'' as 2008 marks the 1,000th anniversary of the discovery of the Shikibu masterpiece. The show will open April 1 and run through April 30. Admission, with tea coupon, is 4,300 yen. Contact: 075-541-3391.

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Japanese troops start pulling out of Iraq

SAMAWAH, Iraq - A British helicopter carrying the first group of Japanese ground troops leaves the southern Iraqi city of Samawah on July 7. Japan's Air Self-Defense Force C-130 transport aircraft carried the group of about 30 troops from Taril airport, the airport closest to Samawah, to a Kuwaiti airport, marking the start of a monthlong process to end Japan's two-and-a-half-year aid mission in Samawah.

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Experimental voyage aims to resolve mystery of ancient stone coffins

UTO, Japan - A replica of an ancient boat (R) sets off for a monthlong experimental voyage from Uto, Kumamoto Prefecture, to Osaka on July 24 in a bid to resolve an archeological mystery in the sixth to seventh centuries -- how heavy stone coffins were shipped to emperors' tombs in the Kinki region some 800 kilometers away. The 12-meter-long wooden boat, rowed by 18 people, tows two boards with a replicated coffin made of the ''makadoishi'' stone on them.

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Experimental voyage aims to resolve mystery of ancient stone coffins

UTO, Japan - A crew of 18 persons rows a replica of an ancient boat out into the sea off Uto, Kumamoto Prefecture, on a monthlong experimental voyage to Osaka on July 24, aimed at resolving an archeological mystery in the sixth to seventh centuries -- how heavy stone coffins were shipped to emperors' tombs in the Kinki region some 800 kilometers away. The 12-meter-long wooden boat is towing a barge loaded with a replicated coffin made of the ''makadoishi'' stone on them.

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(3)Nuclear conference ends in failure

NEW YORK, United States - Members of the Japanese delegation to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference, headed by Yoshiki Mine (C), Japanese ambassador to the Conference of Disarmament in Geneva, meet the press in New York on May 27 after the review conference ended its nearly monthlong session without agreement.

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(1)Nuclear conference ends in failure

NEW YORK, United States - Brazilian Ambassador Sergio de Queiroz Duarte, president of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference, speaks at a news conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York on May 27 after the NPT review conference ended its nearly monthlong session without agreement.

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(2)Campaign for July 27 election kicks off in Cambodia

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Opposition leader Sam Rainsy on a truck leads thousands of supporters in a march around Phnom Penh on June 26 as a monthlong campaign for the July 27 general election began the same day.

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Campaign for July 27 election kicks off in Cambodia

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Supporters of the ruling Cambodian People's Party applaud during a candidate's speech at party headquarters in Phnom Penh on June 26 as a monthlong campaign for the July 27 general election began the same day.

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Keio conducts Net learning program for 6 Asian countries

TOKYO, Japan - Professors at Keio University's Fujisawa campus in Kanagawa Prefecture watch an Internet linkup on July 30 during a ceremony to award certificates marking completion of a monthlong distance learning program using the Net. Some 250 college students and researchers in Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam have completed the program.

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Hiroshima residents complete monthlong peace relay

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A torch relay for peace and the eradication of nuclear weapons ends in Hiroshima on July 25 after some 8,000 residents of the city participated in the monthlong event. Forty-two final runners carrying two torches arrived at the city窶冱 Peace Memorial Park.

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8 start round-the-world flight in 2 propeller planes

SAPPORO, Japan - Members of the Tokyo-based Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association of Japan wave before boarding a U.S.-made Piper plane at New Chitose airport in Hokkaido on June 1. Eight of the association's members left the airport in two planes for a monthlong round-the-world trip.

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Chernobyl child victims visit Sapporo snow festival site

SAPPORO, Japan - One of three boys from a part of Belarus contaminated by radiation from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster enjoys a snow slide Feb. 5 at the site of the 52nd Sapporo Snow Festival. The boys have been invited to Japan for a monthlong stay by Kakehashi (Bridge) to Chernobyl, a nonprofit group.

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MSDF warship practices firing missiles in RIMPAC 2000

HONOLULU, United States - A Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) warship practices firing antiaircraft missiles June 5 in RIMPAC 2000, a series of joint military drills involving seven countries in waters off Hawaii. The Aegis-type vessel is one of eight warships dispatched by the MSDF, which has also sent about 2,000 sailors, a submarine and eight P-3C antisubmarine aircraft to take part in the monthlong exercises which began May 30.

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Talks continue on Hyundai strike

A ruling party mediator (R), trying to end a monthlong dispute over layoffs at South Korea's Hyundai Motor, briefs the media Thursday Aug. 20 on talks his mediation team has been holding with the car maker's management and workers' union.

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Hyundai Motor talks resumed

Roh Moo Hyun (C), vice president of South Korea's ruling National Congress for New Politics who is seeking a last-minute breakthrough to end a monthlong dispute at Hyundai Motor, shakes hands with Hyundai Motor Chairman Chung Mong Kyu (R) and Hyundai Motor trade union chief Kim Kwang Sik (L) before resuming talks in the southeastern city of Ulsan on Aug. 20.

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Aftermath of deadly flooding in Afghanistan

A man walks in a field ravaged by a deadly flood on Sept. 4, 2022, in Khoshi in Logar Province, eastern Afghanistan, following a nearly monthlong torrential rain.

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(1)Nuclear conference ends in failure

NEW YORK, United States - Brazilian Ambassador Sergio de Queiroz Duarte, president of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference, speaks at a news conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York on May 27 after the NPT review conference ended its nearly monthlong session without agreement. (Kyodo)

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(3)Nuclear conference ends in failure

NEW YORK, United States - Members of the Japanese delegation to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference, headed by Yoshiki Mine (C), Japanese ambassador to the Conference of Disarmament in Geneva, meet the press in New York on May 27 after the review conference ended its nearly monthlong session without agreement. (Kyodo)

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Experimental voyage aims to resolve mystery of ancient stone cof

UTO, Japan - A replica of an ancient boat (R) sets off for a monthlong experimental voyage from Uto, Kumamoto Prefecture, to Osaka on July 24 in a bid to resolve an archeological mystery in the sixth to seventh centuries -- how heavy stone coffins were shipped to emperors' tombs in the Kinki region some 800 kilometers away. The 12-meter-long wooden boat, rowed by 18 people, tows two boards with a replicated coffin made of the ''makadoishi'' stone on them. (Kyodo)

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Japanese troops start pulling out of Iraq

SAMAWAH, Iraq - A British helicopter carrying the first group of Japanese ground troops leaves the southern Iraqi city of Samawah on July 7. Japan's Air Self-Defense Force C-130 transport aircraft carried the group of about 30 troops from Taril airport, the airport closest to Samawah, to a Kuwaiti airport, marking the start of a monthlong process to end Japan's two-and-a-half-year aid mission in Samawah. (Kyodo)

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Experimental voyage aims to resolve mystery of ancient stone cof

UTO, Japan - A crew of 18 persons rows a replica of an ancient boat out into the sea off Uto, Kumamoto Prefecture, on a monthlong experimental voyage to Osaka on July 24, aimed at resolving an archeological mystery in the sixth to seventh centuries -- how heavy stone coffins were shipped to emperors' tombs in the Kinki region some 800 kilometers away. The 12-meter-long wooden boat is towing a barge loaded with a replicated coffin made of the ''makadoishi'' stone on them. (Kyodo)

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U.S. military issues new restrictions on forces in Okinawa

Koza Gate Street, a shopping street in central Okinawa leading to the nearby U.S. Kadena Air Base, is largely empty at night on May 27, 2016. The base the same day issued new measures to tighten discipline among U.S. forces, imposing a midnight curfew and off-base alcohol ban for a monthlong "period of unity and mourning," following the arrest of an American civilian worker in connection with the killing of a local woman. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Gov't to resume base relocation work after ending talks with Okinawa

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 7, 2015. The national government plans to resume work to relocate a U.S. military base within Okinawa Prefecture after wrapping up two days later a monthlong "intensive consultation" with the Okinawa prefectural government aimed at defusing tensions between the two sides over the issue, Suga said. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Women clad in "yukata" enjoy float parade at Kyoto summer festival

Women dressed in "yukata" casual summer kimono enjoy the procession of "Yamahoko" floats in Kyoto, part of the western Japanese city's Gion Festival, a traditional monthlong summer festival, on July 21, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Solar plane leaves for Hawaii after monthlong layover in Japan

Photo shows a solar-powered plane, Solar Impulse 2, which left for Hawaii early June 29, 2015, from Nagoya airfield, after a nearly monthlong layover in Japan to avoid bad weather while circumnavigating the globe. The duration of the flight to Hawaii is expected to be 120 hours -- five days and nights -- the longest trip for the plane operated by Swiss pilot Andre Borschberg. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Solar plane leaves for Hawaii after monthlong layover in Japan

Photo shows a solar-powered plane, Solar Impulse 2, which left for Hawaii early June 29, 2015, from Nagoya airfield, after a nearly monthlong layover in Japan to avoid bad weather while circumnavigating the globe. The duration of the flight to Hawaii is expected to be 120 hours -- five days and nights -- the longest trip for the plane operated by Swiss pilot Andre Borschberg. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Solar plane leaves for Hawaii after monthlong layover in Japan

Photo shows a solar-powered plane, Solar Impulse 2, which left for Hawaii early June 29, 2015, from Nagoya airfield, after a nearly monthlong layover in Japan to avoid bad weather while circumnavigating the globe. The duration of the flight to Hawaii is expected to be 120 hours -- five days and nights -- the longest trip for the plane operated by Swiss pilot Andre Borschberg. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rohingya insurgents declare monthlong truce to allow aid delivery

Rohingya Muslim refugees arrive by boat near Cox's Bazar, southeastern Bangladesh, on Sept. 8, 2017, after fleeing Myanmar's strife-torn Rakhine State. The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army declared a temporary cease-fire on Sept. 10 and urged the government to reciprocate to allow for humanitarian assistance to reach vulnerable people trapped in the conflict zone. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rohingya insurgents declare monthlong truce to allow aid delivery

Rohingya Muslim refugees arrive by boat near Cox's Bazar, southeastern Bangladesh, on Sept. 8, 2017, after fleeing Myanmar's strife-torn Rakhine State. The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army declared a temporary cease-fire on Sept. 10 and urged the government to reciprocate to allow for humanitarian assistance to reach vulnerable people trapped in the conflict zone. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rohingya insurgents declare monthlong truce to allow aid delivery

Rohingya Muslim refugees arrive by boat near Cox's Bazar, southeastern Bangladesh, on Sept. 8, 2017, after fleeing Myanmar's strife-torn Rakhine State. The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army declared a temporary cease-fire on Sept. 10 and urged the government to reciprocate to allow for humanitarian assistance to reach vulnerable people trapped in the conflict zone. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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CORRECTED: Rohingya insurgents declare monthlong truce to allow aid delivery

Rohingya Muslim refugees arrive by boat near Cox's Bazar, southeastern Bangladesh, on Sept. 8, 2017, after fleeing Myanmar's strife-torn Rakhine State. The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army declared a temporary cease-fire on Sept. 10 and urged the government to reciprocate to allow for humanitarian assistance to reach vulnerable people trapped in the conflict zone. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rohingya insurgents declare monthlong truce to allow aid delivery

Rohingya Muslims unable to enter overflowing refugee camps are crowded on the side of a road near Cox's Bazar, southeastern Bangladesh, on Sept. 7, 2017. The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army declared a temporary cease-fire on Sept. 10 and urged the government to reciprocate to allow for humanitarian assistance to reach vulnerable people trapped in the conflict zone. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Gion Matsuri festival in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - The Yamahoko-junko parade of decorated floats is held in Kyoto as the monthlong Gion Matsuri summer festival culminated on July 17, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Gion Matsuri festival in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - The Yamahoko-junko parade of decorated floats is held in Kyoto as the monthlong Gion Matsuri summer festival culminated on July 17, 2010. (Kyodo)