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Russian UN ambassador defends his country's Security Council presidency

STORY: Russian UN ambassador defends his country's Security Council presidency DATELINE: April 4, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:06 LOCATION: UN Headquarters CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Russian ambassador to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia taking seat 2. SOUNDBITE (English): VASSILY NEBENZIA, Russian ambassador to the United Nations STORYLINE: Russian ambassador to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia on Monday defended his country's rotating presidency of the Security Council for the month of April. SOUNDBITE (English): VASSILY NEBENZIA, Russian ambassador to the United Nations "Some countries are pretending they can decide, at their own will, who they want or do not want to be in the chair of the presidency of the Security Council. As long as the current world order with the UN and the Security Council stands, there will be no change in the rules of procedure. The order of the presidency is well-defined. It's not for them to change it." Rule 18 of the Provisional Rules of Procedure of the Securit

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Wife of ex-vice health minister stabbed at home in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers examine the scene near the house of Kenji Yoshihara, a former vice health and welfare minister, in Tokyo's Nakano Ward after Yoshihara's wife Yasuko was stabbed in the entrance of their house by a man pretending to be from a parcel delivery service.

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Shizuoka police admit embezzling 10 mil. yen

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Wataru Ohashi, director of the Shizuoka prefectural police, bows in apology March 5 after the force admitted it embezzled around 10 million yen in prefectural money in fiscal 1995 by pretending the funds had been used for business trips and food.

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ISRAEL-TEL AVIV-DRILL-CHEMICAL ATTACK

(221123) -- TEL AVIV, Nov. 23, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Israeli emergency medical services personnel evacuate people pretending to be wounded citizens during a drill simulating a chemical attack on a new railway in central Tel Aviv, Israel, Nov. 22, 2022. (Yossi Zeliger/JINI via Xinhua)

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ISRAEL-TEL AVIV-DRILL-CHEMICAL ATTACK

(221123) -- TEL AVIV, Nov. 23, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Israeli emergency medical services personnel evacuate people pretending to be wounded citizens during a drill simulating a chemical attack on a new railway in central Tel Aviv, Israel, Nov. 22, 2022. (Yossi Zeliger/JINI via Xinhua)

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Living with COVID-19 doesn't mean pretending pandemic is over: WHO chief

STORY: Living with COVID-19 doesn't mean pretending pandemic is over: WHO chief DATELINE: Sept. 4, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:42 LOCATION: GENEVA, Switzerland CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of street views of some countries 2. various of the WHO headquarters 3. SOUNDBITE (English): TEDROS ADHANOM GHEBREYESUS, WHO Director-General STORYLINE: Despite the severity of constant new waves and soaring number of new cases, some countries have chosen to loosen or even lift COVID-19 restrictions due to gloomy economic outlooks and general fatigue in fighting the virus. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned that living with COVID-19 doesn't mean pretending the pandemic is over. SOUNDBITE (English): TEDROS ADHANOM GHEBREYESUS, WHO Director-General "With colder weather approaching in the northern hemisphere, it's reasonable to expect an increase in hospitalizations and deaths in the coming months. Subvariants of Omicron are more transmissible than their predecessors, and the risk of even more tran

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International Day Of The Disappeared - Bogota

A man wears black boots, pretending to be stained with blood in rejection of the more than 6,402 murders of innocent civilians committed by the Colombian army, during the performance carried out in the Plaza de Bolivar by university activists and mothers of the "false positives" (murders of innocent civilians passed as guerrilla casualties in combat) in Bogota, Colombia on August 30, 2021 A man wears black boots, pretending to be stained with blood in rejection of the more than 6,402 murders of innocent civilians committed by the Colombian army, during the performance carried out in the Plaza de Bolivar by university activists and mothers of the "false positives" (murders of innocent civilians passed as guerrilla casualties in combat) in Bogota, Colombia on August 30, 2021 Photo by Martin Galindo/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Children's Carnival

Two children dressed up for a fancy dress party. A little girl has a rather nice witch outfit with a dress appliqued with black cats and a broom, while a little boy has come as a swashbuckling pirate. Date: 1919

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THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER

THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER WARNER BROS BILLY MAUCH dressed as the pauper , Tom Canty, HALLIWELL HOBBS (Archbishop), BILLY MAUCH pretending to be Prince Edward Date: 1937

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3-year prison term sought for "weeping politician" accused of fraud

Undated photo shows Ryutaro Nonomura, 49, a former member of the Hyogo prefectural assembly, who is being tried at the Kobe District Court on charges of pocketing about 9.13 million yen (about $82,000) in assembly member travel allowances by pretending to make numerous work-related trips. Prosecutors sought a three-year prison sentence on April 25, 2016, for Nonomura, known as the "weeping politician" for crying hysterically at a news conference in 2014 where he was questioned about his alleged misuse of public funds. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chinese government poster warns of foreign spies

A comic strip poster warning of foreign spies is displayed at a subway station in Beijing on April 22, 2016. As part of a campaign to mark China's first National Security Education Day on April 15, President Xi Jinping's administration put up the "Dangerous Love" poster around the capital, depicting a female civil servant who falls in love with a white man pretending to be a researcher, steals classified information from work at his request and is arrested. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chinese government poster warns of foreign spies

A man looks at a comic strip poster warning of foreign spies at Dongdan subway station in Beijing on April 22, 2016. As part of a campaign to mark China's first National Security Education Day on April 15, President Xi Jinping's administration put up the "Dangerous Love" poster around the capital, depicting a female civil servant who falls in love with a white man pretending to be a researcher, steals classified information from work at his request and is arrested. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Co-existing with bears at Japan World Heritage site Shiretoko

Hatsusaburo Ose, a 79-year-old fisherman, works in the Rusha area of the Shiretoko Peninsula, a UNESCO World Natural Heritage site on the eastern tip of Hokkaido in Japan on July 2, 2015, with brown bears moving around behind him. Ose says that secret of co-existing with bears is pretending not to notice. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Belgian man narrowly escapes death in Tunis museum attack

This March 21, 2015 photo shows a Belgian man at a hospital in Tunis, whose wife was killed in a museum rampage on March 18. Although shot in both legs, he narrowly escaped death by pretending to be dead until government forces arrived an hour or so later. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Wife of ex-vice health minister stabbed at home in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers examine the scene near the house of Kenji Yoshihara, a former vice health and welfare minister, in Tokyo's Nakano Ward after Yoshihara's wife Yasuko was stabbed in the entrance of their house by a man pretending to be from a parcel delivery service. (Kyodo)

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A picnic

One of the photographs in a Yokohama album, this entitled, A Great Entertainment in the Field. A woman is dancing, a man is served sake, and the woman on the left is pretending to play the shamisen on a broom. The scene looks staged.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number86‐26‐0]

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A samurai warrior and his servant

This is one of the photographs in the album by Kashima Seibei. Although the English caption reads Samurai and Servant, this is a staged photograph of a samurai in official clothes. The child is pretending to be his servant. It looks very artificial.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number84‐18‐0]

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Women on jinrikishas

Two kimono-clad women are riding a jinrikisha (rickshaw). One is holding an umbrella. The rickshaw man has a topknot and wears a head towel, inhanten coat, long underwear and straw sandals. The rickshaw man in the rear wearing a sacerdotal robe is pretending to push. The background setting and objects around the subjects' feet indicates that this was taken in a studio.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number58‐29‐3]

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Geikos presenting a performance

The two women seem to be imitating a musume-gidayu or female ballad-drama. A rice box is used as a lectern. The woman on the left is wearing a towel in comical style, while the woman on the right is pretending to play the shamisen lute with a broom and wooden rice scoop. Their elaborate attire probably elicited great laughter.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number49‐10‐0]

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Snow sculpture of police car unveiled in Hokkaido town

Children play by pretending to ride in a snow sculpture of a life-size police vehicle at a residential police box in the town of Horonobe on the northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Jan. 10, 2017, designated Dial 110 day in Japan. Several police officers worked to create the sculpture, using a chainsaw and color sprays to shape a block of snow into the police vehicle. It even has a red light made of ice that glows at night. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Shizuoka police admit embezzling 10 mil. yen

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Wataru Ohashi, director of the Shizuoka prefectural police, bows in apology March 5 after the force admitted it embezzled around 10 million yen in prefectural money in fiscal 1995 by pretending the funds had been used for business trips and food. (Kyodo)