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Vatican: Thousands Queue at St. Peter’s Basilica to Pay Respects to Pope Francis 2

Pope Francis died at the age of 88 on Easter Monday, April 21. Thousands of people queued at St. Peter's Basilica to pay their respects. To accommodate the large crowds, the Vatican extended opening hours past midnight.

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Vatican: Thousands Queue at St. Peter’s Basilica to Pay Respects to Pope Francis

Pope Francis died at the age of 88 on Easter Monday, April 21. Thousands of people queued at St. Peter's Basilica to pay their respects. To accommodate the large crowds, the Vatican extended opening hours past midnight.

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Israeli Attack Targets Sites - Damascus

A man walks past the scene of an Israeli missile attack in Damascus, Syria, July 14, 2024. A series of Israeli attacks hit targets in the Syrian capital after midnight Sunday, causing explosions to reverberate across the city. The defense ministry said a military personnel was killed, and three others were injured as a result of the Israeli attack. Photo by Ammar Safarjalani/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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SYRIA-DAMASCUS-ISRAEL-ATTACK-AFTERMATH

(240714) -- DAMASCUS, July 14, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- A man walks past the scene of an Israeli missile attack in Damascus, Syria, July 14, 2024. A series of Israeli attacks hit targets in the Syrian capital after midnight Sunday, causing explosions to reverberate across the city. The defense ministry said a military personnel was killed, and three others were injured as a result of the Israeli attack. (Photo by Ammar Safarjalani/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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UK parliament dissolves ahead of July general election

STORY: UK parliament dissolves ahead of July general election SHOOTING TIME: May 30, 2024/FILE DATELINE: May 31, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:47 LOCATION: London CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. STANDUP (English): ZHANG BONING, Xinhua correspondent 2. various of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (courtesy of 10 Downing Street) 3. various of British parliament House of Commons (file of May 2024) 4. various of British parliament building STORYLINE: STANDUP (English): ZHANG BONING, Xinhua correspondent "The British parliament dissolved on Thursday in anticipation of the general election scheduled for July 4. The dissolution marks the conclusion of all parliamentary activities in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords." Campaigning has officially kicked off as 650 parliamentary seats in the Commons became vacant at one minute past midnight (2301 GMT) according to the electoral schedule. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced last week that the country will hold a general election on July 4. The Conserv

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Netanyahu says he has succeeded in forming coalition gov't

STORY: Netanyahu says he has succeeded in forming coalition gov't DATELINE: Dec. 22, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:34 LOCATION: Jerusalem CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Netanyahu 2. various of Herzog 3. various of swearing in the 25th Knesset 4. various of Netanyahu on election night STORYLINE: Israel's Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Wednesday night that he has succeeded in forming a new coalition government. "I have managed (to form a government)," Netanyahu wrote on Twitter, minutes before a midnight deadline. In a separate statement, Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party said that the veteran leader called President Isaac Herzog and informed the president that he has successfully formed a new government. The Likud has yet to sign final coalition agreements with four of its five partners -- three extreme-right parties and two Jewish ultra-Orthodox parties. The new government needs to be sworn in by Jan. 2, 2023, according to Israeli law. Netanyahu has struggled for the past wee

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DPJ leader Kaieda loses lower house seat

TOKYO, Japan - Banri Kaieda, leader of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, holds a press conference at the DPJ's headquarters in Tokyo's Nagatacho district past midnight of Dec. 14, 2014, after losing in his single-seat constituency. Kaieda also failed to retain his seat under the proportional representation system, marking the first time since 1949 that the leader of the largest opposition party in Japan has lost his or her seat in the lower house election.

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LDP achieves landslide election victory

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe leaves his Liberal Democratic Party's headquarters in Tokyo's Nagatacho district past midnight of Dec. 14, 2014, after the LDP achieved a landslide victory in the day's lower house election.

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Japan's environment minister unveils incorrect funding report entry

TOKYO, Japan - Environment Minister Yoshio Mochizuki attends a press conference at his ministry in Tokyo past midnight on Oct. 27, 2014, to unveil that his support group incorrectly recorded expenditures totaling around 6.6 million yen in its funding report as spending for New Year's events in 2008 and 2009 that were not sponsored by the group. Mochizuki said he does not think the incorrect entry constitutes a legal violation and indicated he has no plan to resign over the issue.

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Japan's environment minister unveils incorrect funding report entry

TOKYO, Japan - Environment Minister Yoshio Mochizuki (R) checks a document during a press conference at his ministry in Tokyo past midnight on Oct. 27, 2014, held to unveil that his support group incorrectly recorded expenditures totaling around 6.6 million yen in its funding report as spending for New Year's events in 2008 and 2009 that were not sponsored by the group. Mochizuki said he does not think the incorrect entry constitutes a legal violation and indicated he has no plan to resign over the issue.

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Japan's environment minister unveils incorrect funding report entry

TOKYO, Japan - Environment Minister Yoshio Mochizuki attends a press conference at his ministry in Tokyo past midnight on Oct. 27, 2014, to unveil that his support group incorrectly recorded expenditures totaling around 6.6 million yen in its funding report as spending for New Year's events in 2008 and 2009 that were not sponsored by the group. Mochizuki said he does not think the incorrect entry constitutes a legal violation and indicated he has no plan to resign over the issue.

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H.K. pro-democracy protests

HONG KONG, China - Pro-democracy protesters continue to occupy an area in front of the government headquarters in the Admiralty district of Hong Kong past midnight on Oct. 10, 2014.

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Japanese mayor on visit to N. Korea

SAKAIMINATO, Japan - Katsuji Nakamura, the mayor of Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture, holds a press conference at the city hall past midnight on Aug. 22, 2014, after making a day-trip to North Korea the previous day to take a look at the facilities of Rajin port in the Rason special economic zone. Nakamura said the visit was aimed at exploring the potential of the North Korean port as a trading channel for China.

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Explosion at firework festival

FUKUCHIYAMA, Kyoto - Investigators examine past midnight of Aug. 15, 2013, a site where an explosion occurred that evening at a row of stalls at a summer firework festival in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto Prefecture. Fifty-nine people were taken to hospital.

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Nuclear disaster-hit village reclassified into 3 areas

IITATE, Japan - Officials (C) from the Cabinet Office lock fences on a road leading to the Nagadoro district of Iitate village, Fukushima Prefecture, past midnight of July 16, 2012. The village, nearly all of whose residents have been evacuated since the March 2011 nuclear accident, was reclassified July 17 into three areas with varying levels of accessibility. Due to the high level of radiation exposure, the Nagadoro district was classified as "an area difficult to return to" for a long period of time.

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M6.0 quake jolts Aomori

TOHOKU, Japan - People move a refrigerator, with glass panes broken following an earthquake, outside a store in Tohoku, Aomori Prefecture, on the morning of May 24, 2012. An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 jolted Aomori Prefecture and other areas in northeastern Japan past midnight.

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M6.0 quake jolts Aomori

TOHOKU, Japan - A road is flooded following an earthquake in Tohoku, Aomori Prefecture, on the morning of May 24, 2012. An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 jolted Aomori Prefecture and other areas in northeastern Japan past midnight.

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M6.0 quake jolts Aomori

TOHOKU, Japan - Photo shows a broken door following an earthquake in Tohoku, Aomori Prefecture, on the morning of May 24, 2012. An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 jolted Aomori Prefecture and other areas in northeastern Japan past midnight.

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M6.0 quake jolts Aomori

TOHOKU, Japan - Photo shows a cracked windowpane and a sign saying ''don't touch'' at an elementary school following an earthquake in Noheji, Aomori Prefecture, on the morning of May 24, 2012. An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 jolted Aomori Prefecture and other areas in northeastern Japan past midnight.

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Dragons manager, wife celebrate CL title clinch

TOKYO, Japan - Chunichi Dragons manager Hiromitsu Ochiai (L front) and his wife Nobuko (R front) pose for photographs after jumping into the swimming pool of a Tokyo hotel where the Central League baseball club held a party from past midnight of Oct. 18, 2011, to celebrate their clinching of their second consecutive CL title.

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Tokyo Electric Power press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Kaoru Yoshida (C), public relations chief of Tokyo Electric Power Co., and other employees of the largest Japanese power utility hold a press conference past midnight March 14, 2011, amid an ongoing crisis at the company's nuclear power plant in quake-hit Fukushima Prefecture.

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Japan chemist Suzuki among Nobel laureates

SAPPORO, Japan - Akira Suzuki, a professor emeritus at Hokkaido University, speaks during a press conference at the university in Sapporo at past midnight Oct. 7, 2010, after hearing that he had shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry with Eiichi Negishi and Richard Heck for ''palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis.''

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Ruling, opposition face-off shifts to election after Diet battle

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters on June 30 after the ruling and opposition parties shifted gears to election mode following their fiercely fought parliamentary battle going past midnight. ''It was really good that the important bills for the people were enacted. I'm confident about receiving support from the people,'' Abe said.

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Beaujolais Nouveau released to usual fanfare

TOKYO, Japan - Women toast to each other at the Epson Aqua Stadium aquarium in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward at five minutes past midnight on Nov. 15 as this year's Beaujolais Nouveau was released with the usual fanfare in Japan. Japan is one of the first countries able to enjoy the wine each year due to time differences.

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Chief Cabinet Secretary Nakagawa to resign

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Hidenao Nakagawa tells reporters at his residence in Tokyo shortly past midnight Oct. 26 he will formally tender his resignation Oct. 27 after a meeting with Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori. Nakagawa has been embroiled in a widening scandal. He is to be replaced by Yasuo Fukuda, son of the late Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda.

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JR Hokkaido conducts Y2K rehearsal

SAPPORO, Japan - An employee of Hokkaido Railway Co. (JR Hokkaido) practices buying a ticket past midnight Nov. 26 with a ticket machine on which the date was advanced to Jan. 1, 2000 after midnight, in a drill to prepare for potential Y2K computer problems.

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Wine lovers celebrate Beaujolais Nouveau's arrival

TOKYO, Japan - A group of wine lovers holds a toast at a Tokyo restaurant to celebrate the arrival of Beaujolais Nouveau from France at half past midnight on Nov. 18 shortly after the wine went on sale.

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SOUTH KOREA-SEOUL-COVID-19-CASES

(220803) -- SEOUL, Aug. 3, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People wearing face masks are seen at a shopping mall in Seoul, South Korea, Aug. 3, 2022. South Korea's daily new COVID-19 cases hit the highest in 110 days, bringing the total number of infections to over 20 million, official data showed Wednesday. The country reported 119,922 new COVID-19 cases for the past 24 hours as of midnight Tuesday, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA). (Xinhua/Wang Yiliang)

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SOUTH KOREA-SEOUL-COVID-19-CASES

(220803) -- SEOUL, Aug. 3, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Passengers wearing face masks are seen on a bus in Seoul, South Korea, Aug. 3, 2022. South Korea's daily new COVID-19 cases hit the highest in 110 days, bringing the total number of infections to over 20 million, official data showed Wednesday. The country reported 119,922 new COVID-19 cases for the past 24 hours as of midnight Tuesday, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA). (Xinhua/Wang Yiliang)

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SOUTH KOREA-SEOUL-COVID-19-CASES

(220803) -- SEOUL, Aug. 3, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People wearing face masks walk at the Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul, South Korea, Aug. 3, 2022. South Korea's daily new COVID-19 cases hit the highest in 110 days, bringing the total number of infections to over 20 million, official data showed Wednesday. The country reported 119,922 new COVID-19 cases for the past 24 hours as of midnight Tuesday, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA). (Xinhua/Wang Yiliang)

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SOUTH KOREA-SEOUL-COVID-19-CASES

(220525) -- SEOUL, May 25, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A man walks past a store window in Seoul, South Korea, May 25, 2022. South Korea reported 23,956 new COVID-19 cases as of midnight Tuesday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 18,017,923, the health authorities said Wednesday. (Xinhua/Wang Yiliang)

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New Zealand gov't urges people to wear masks during Easter holidays

STORY: New Zealand gov't urges people to wear masks during Easter holidays DATELINE: April 16, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:18 LOCATION: Wellington CATEGORY: SOCIETY/HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of street views 2. various of people playing in the amusement park 3. various of night views of the city STORYLINE: New Zealand's Ministry of Health has warned the public to wear masks and stay vigilant during the Easter holidays. The country reported 13,636 new community cases and 30 deaths of COVID-19 in the past two days, said the ministry in a statement on Saturday. New Zealand moved from the highest Red settings under the COVID-19 Protection Framework to Orange settings from midnight Wednesday. According to the latest regulations, there are no indoor capacity limits and the seated and separated rules for hospitality venues lifts under Orange settings, so bars, cafes and restaurants are able to fill up again. However, wearing a face mask is still important and recommended. New Zealand has reported 818,882 confirm

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Beaujolais Nouveau released to usual fanfare

TOKYO, Japan - Women toast to each other at the Epson Aqua Stadium aquarium in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward at five minutes past midnight on Nov. 15 as this year's Beaujolais Nouveau was released with the usual fanfare in Japan. Japan is one of the first countries able to enjoy the wine each year due to time differences. (Kyodo)

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Suspected abductor caught after girl missing for 2 years found

Investigators enter an apartment building in Tokyo past midnight of March 27, 2016, to raid the home of Kabu Terauchi, 23. Terauchi was taken into custody the following day on suspicion of abducting a teenage girl who was found two years after going missing from her home in Asaka, Saitama Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Doomsday Clock kept at "3 min. before midnight"

Representatives of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists magazine announce in Washington on Jan. 26, 2016, that scientists maintained their estimate of how close Earth is to a catastrophe through analyses of high-profile events over the past year, keeping the so-called Doomsday Clock, a symbolic countdown to the end of the world, at "three minutes before midnight." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Floating "lanterns of wish" in Harbin, China

People in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, China, light fuel to float a lantern on a square crowded even past midnight of July 11, 2015. "Lanterns of wish" were on sale on the square, allowing purchasers to scribble messages such as "It was good to see you" and "I want to go to many different places" on them before floating them in the air. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ruling, opposition face-off shifts to election after Diet battle

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters on June 30 after the ruling and opposition parties shifted gears to election mode following their fiercely fought parliamentary battle going past midnight. ''It was really good that the important bills for the people were enacted. I'm confident about receiving support from the people,'' Abe said. (Kyodo)

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Dragons manager, wife celebrate CL title clinch

TOKYO, Japan - Chunichi Dragons manager Hiromitsu Ochiai (L front) and his wife Nobuko (R front) pose for photographs after jumping into the swimming pool of a Tokyo hotel where the Central League baseball club held a party from past midnight of Oct. 18, 2011, to celebrate their clinching of their second consecutive CL title. (Kyodo)

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M6.0 quake jolts Aomori

TOHOKU, Japan - People move a refrigerator, with glass panes broken following an earthquake, outside a store in Tohoku, Aomori Prefecture, on the morning of May 24, 2012. An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 jolted Aomori Prefecture and other areas in northeastern Japan past midnight. (Kyodo)

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M6.0 quake jolts Aomori

TOHOKU, Japan - A road is flooded following an earthquake in Tohoku, Aomori Prefecture, on the morning of May 24, 2012. An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 jolted Aomori Prefecture and other areas in northeastern Japan past midnight. (Kyodo)

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M6.0 quake jolts Aomori

TOHOKU, Japan - Photo shows a cracked windowpane and a sign saying ''don't touch'' at an elementary school following an earthquake in Noheji, Aomori Prefecture, on the morning of May 24, 2012. An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 jolted Aomori Prefecture and other areas in northeastern Japan past midnight. (Kyodo)

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M6.0 quake jolts Aomori

TOHOKU, Japan - Photo shows a broken door following an earthquake in Tohoku, Aomori Prefecture, on the morning of May 24, 2012. An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 jolted Aomori Prefecture and other areas in northeastern Japan past midnight. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo Electric Power press conference

TOKYO, Japan - Kaoru Yoshida (C), public relations chief of Tokyo Electric Power Co., and other employees of the largest Japanese power utility hold a press conference past midnight March 14, 2011, amid an ongoing crisis at the company's nuclear power plant in quake-hit Fukushima Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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LDP achieves landslide election victory

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe leaves his Liberal Democratic Party's headquarters in Tokyo's Nagatacho district past midnight of Dec. 14, 2014, after the LDP achieved a landslide victory in the day's lower house election. (Kyodo)

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Japan's environment minister unveils incorrect funding report entry

TOKYO, Japan - Environment Minister Yoshio Mochizuki attends a press conference at his ministry in Tokyo past midnight on Oct. 27, 2014, to unveil that his support group incorrectly recorded expenditures totaling around 6.6 million yen in its funding report as spending for New Year's events in 2008 and 2009 that were not sponsored by the group. Mochizuki said he does not think the incorrect entry constitutes a legal violation and indicated he has no plan to resign over the issue. (Kyodo)

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Japanese mayor on visit to N. Korea

SAKAIMINATO, Japan - Katsuji Nakamura, the mayor of Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture, holds a press conference at the city hall past midnight on Aug. 22, 2014, after making a day-trip to North Korea the previous day to take a look at the facilities of Rajin port in the Rason special economic zone. Nakamura said the visit was aimed at exploring the potential of the North Korean port as a trading channel for China. (Kyodo)

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Japan chemist Suzuki among Nobel laureates

SAPPORO, Japan - Akira Suzuki, a professor emeritus at Hokkaido University, speaks during a press conference at the university in Sapporo at past midnight Oct. 7, 2010, after hearing that he had shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry with Eiichi Negishi and Richard Heck for ''palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis.'' (Kyodo)

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Japan's new era under Emperor Naruhito

People gather for a countdown event in Tokyo's Roppongi district as the clock ticks past midnight into May 1, 2019, marking the start of Japan's new imperial era, Reiwa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chief Cabinet Secretary Nakagawa to resign

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Hidenao Nakagawa tells reporters at his residence in Tokyo shortly past midnight Oct. 26 he will formally tender his resignation Oct. 27 after a meeting with Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori. Nakagawa has been embroiled in a widening scandal. He is to be replaced by Yasuo Fukuda, son of the late Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda.

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JR Hokkaido conducts Y2K rehearsal

SAPPORO, Japan - An employee of Hokkaido Railway Co. (JR Hokkaido) practices buying a ticket past midnight Nov. 26 with a ticket machine on which the date was advanced to Jan. 1, 2000 after midnight, in a drill to prepare for potential Y2K computer problems.