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Paris Olympic torch relay begins

Former French football player Basile Boli raises the Olympic torch in Marseille on May 9, 2024, as the Paris Olympic torch relay begins following the arrival of the Olympic flame in the southern French port city on a majestic three-mast ship. About 10,000 torchbearers are to pass through over 400 towns until the games' opening ceremony in Paris on July 26.

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Paris Olympic torch relay begins

Torchbearers perform a torch kiss in Marseille on May 9, 2024, as the Paris Olympic torch relay begins following the arrival of the Olympic flame in the southern French port city on a majestic three-mast ship. About 10,000 torchbearers are to pass through over 400 towns until the games' opening ceremony in Paris on July 26.

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Paris Olympic torch relay begins

Colette Cataldo (L) receives the Olympic flame from former French football player Basile Boli in Marseille on May 9, 2024, as the Paris Olympic torch relay begins following the arrival of the flame in the southern French port city on a majestic three-mast ship. About 10,000 torchbearers are to pass through over 400 towns until the games' opening ceremony in Paris on July 26.

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Paris Olympic torch relay beings

Paris Olympic organizing committee chief Tony Estanguet meets the press in Marseille on May 9, 2024, before the Paris Olympic torch relay begins following the arrival of the Olympic flame in the southern French port city on a majestic three-mast ship. About 10,000 torchbearers are to pass through over 400 towns until the games' opening ceremony in Paris on July 26.

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Paris Olympic torch relay begins

Former French football player Basile Boli raises the Olympic torch in Marseille on May 9, 2024, as the Paris Olympic torch relay begins following the arrival of the Olympic flame in the southern French port city on a majestic three-mast ship. About 10,000 torchbearers are to pass through over 400 towns until the games' opening ceremony in Paris on July 26.

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Paris Olympic torch relay begins

A torchbearer runs in Marseille on May 9, 2024, as the Paris Olympic torch relay begins following the arrival of the Olympic flame in the southern French port city on a majestic three-mast ship. About 10,000 torchbearers are to pass through over 400 towns until the games' opening ceremony in Paris on July 26.

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Paris Olympic torch relay beings

Paris Olympic organizing committee chief Tony Estanguet meets the press in Marseille on May 9, 2024, before the Paris Olympic torch relay begins following the arrival of the Olympic flame in the southern French port city on a majestic three-mast ship. About 10,000 torchbearers are to pass through over 400 towns until the games' opening ceremony in Paris on July 26.

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Paris Olympic torch relay begins

A torchbearer runs in Marseille on May 9, 2024, as the Paris Olympic torch relay begins following the arrival of the Olympic flame in the southern French port city on a majestic three-mast ship. About 10,000 torchbearers are to pass through over 400 towns until the games' opening ceremony in Paris on July 26.

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Paris Olympic torch relay begins

Former French football player Basile Boli raises the Olympic torch in Marseille on May 9, 2024, as the Paris Olympic torch relay begins following the arrival of the Olympic flame in the southern French port city on a majestic three-mast ship. About 10,000 torchbearers are to pass through over 400 towns until the games' opening ceremony in Paris on July 26.

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Ceremony at Buryatiya monastery honors post-WWII Japanese detainees

ULAN-UDE, Russia, May 29 Kyodo - Monks and other participants release balloons into the air at a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Buryatiya, Eastern Siberia, on May 28, 2017, as a gesture of prayer for Japan-Russia friendship. A memorial service was held at the monastery the same day in honor of postwar Japanese detainees who died in the republic. In the wake of Japan's defeat in World War II in August 1945, over 10,000 Japanese soldiers and civilians were taken to and detained in Buryatiya by the Soviet Union, of whom 785 died there.

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Over 90% of world citizens support zero emissions goal: UNFCCC

TOKYO, June 16 Kyodo - Christiana Figueres (C), executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, talks in Bonn, Germany, on June 10, 2015, about the result of a citizen consultation project. In the largest ever citizen consultation on climate change involving 10,000 people selected for being demographically representative of their countries across the globe, over 90% said the new universal agreement to be inked in Paris should have a long term goal of zero emissions at the end of the century.

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Museum of scales in Mie Pref. closes

TSU, Japan - Kenzo Kobayashi, the 73-year-old owner and curator of Hakarinoyakata, one of only two museums on scales, weights and measures in Japan, speaks of his collection of over 10,000 items in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, in central Japan, on March 30, 2014. The museum closed the same day, with Kobayashi's collection to be donated to a scale maker in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, for exhibition in a new museum to open there in October.

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Fast breeder reactor costing

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken on November 2011 shows the prototype fast-breeder reactor Monju in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture. If development of Monju is continued, its costs will swell to over 1.4 trillion yen and its power generation costs will be 10,000 yen per kilowatt hour, roughly 1,000 times greater than a regular reactor, according to data compiled by Kyodo News.

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Landmines left in Tripoli

TRIPOLI, Libya - A man walks past a pile of landmines (L back) deserted near a residential area in southern Tripoli on Sept. 5, 2011. A total of over 10,000 preplanted landmines that are believed to have been left behind by Muammar Gaddafi's forces have been discovered there, according to a member of Libyan opposition group the National Transitional Council.

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Nikkei drops to 2-month closing low under 10,000 on yen jitters

TOKYO, Japan - An electric sign board in Tokyo's Nihombashi district shows the Nikkei Stock Average at the Tokyo Stock Exchange closing below the 10,000 line for the first time in over 2 months on Oct. 1, 2009.

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Semi-private markets becoming part of N. Korean life

PYONGYANG, North Korea - One of semi-private markets in Pyongyang is crowded with shoppers in a photo taken on Nov. 11. The market that attracts an average of over 10,000 people a day has numerous individual stalls that sell rice, meat, vegetables and fish, as well as daily necessities including clothing. Such markets which first began operating in mid-2003 to complement the role of state-owned stores have become an indispensable part of people's lives in North Korea.