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Fight Like Hell Rally - LA

Demonstrators wave signs and chant during a protest outside a federal building in Los Angeles, United States on March 23, 2025. The rally was organized by the National Association of Letter Carriers and allied unions to oppose USPS cutbacks. Photo by Ali Matin/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fight Like Hell Rally - LA

Demonstrators wave signs and chant during a protest outside a federal building in Los Angeles, United States on March 23, 2025. The rally was organized by the National Association of Letter Carriers and allied unions to oppose USPS cutbacks. Photo by Ali Matin/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fight Like Hell Rally - LA

Demonstrators wave signs and chant during a protest outside a federal building in Los Angeles, United States on March 23, 2025. The rally was organized by the National Association of Letter Carriers and allied unions to oppose USPS cutbacks. Photo by Ali Matin/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fight Like Hell Rally - LA

Demonstrators wave signs and chant during a protest outside a federal building in Los Angeles, United States on March 23, 2025. The rally was organized by the National Association of Letter Carriers and allied unions to oppose USPS cutbacks. Photo by Ali Matin/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fight Like Hell Rally - LA

Demonstrators gather in front of the federal building during a USPS protest in Los Angeles, United States on March 23, 2025. The rally was organized by the National Association of Letter Carriers and allied unions to oppose USPS cutbacks. Photo by Ali Matin/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fight Like Hell Rally - LA

Demonstrators wave signs and chant during a protest outside a federal building in Los Angeles, United States on March 23, 2025. The rally was organized by the National Association of Letter Carriers and allied unions to oppose USPS cutbacks. Photo by Ali Matin/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fight Like Hell Rally - LA

Demonstrators wave signs and chant during a protest outside a federal building in Los Angeles, United States on March 23, 2025. The rally was organized by the National Association of Letter Carriers and allied unions to oppose USPS cutbacks. Photo by Ali Matin/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fight Like Hell Rally - LA

A man holds a red sign reading “Hell No to Privatization” during a USPS protest in Los Angeles, United States on March 23, 2025. The rally was organized by the National Association of Letter Carriers and allied unions to oppose USPS cutbacks. Photo by Ali Matin/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fight Like Hell Rally - LA

Demonstrators wave signs and chant during a protest outside a federal building in Los Angeles, United States on March 23, 2025. The rally was organized by the National Association of Letter Carriers and allied unions to oppose USPS cutbacks. Photo by Ali Matin/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fight Like Hell Rally - LA

Demonstrators chant and hold signs opposing USPS cuts during a protest in Los Angeles, United States on March 23, 2025. The rally was organized by the National Association of Letter Carriers and allied unions to oppose USPS cutbacks. Photo by Ali Matin/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Fight Like Hell Rally - LA

Demonstrators chant and hold a “Fight Like Hell!” sign during a postal workers’ protest in Los Angeles, United States on March 23, 2025. The rally was organized by the National Association of Letter Carriers and allied unions to oppose USPS cutbacks. Photo by Ali Matin/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Columbia University classes go remote as U.S. campuses divided over Israel-Hamas conflict

STORY: Columbia University classes go remote as U.S. campuses divided over Israel-Hamas conflict SHOOTING TIME: April 23, 2024 DATELINE: April 24, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:52 LOCATION: NEW YORK, U.S. CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): MAX, Alumnus of Columbia University 2. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): ROSS, New York resident 3. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): CARL DIX, Representative of the Revolutionary Communist Party 4. various of the protest STORYLINE: Starting on Monday, all classes at Columbia University went virtual due to divisive demonstrations and debates around the Israel-Hamas conflict. In his announcement, University president Minouche Shafik urged relevant parties to "sit down and talk and argue and find ways to compromise on solutions." Shafik sent a letter to the New York Police Department (NYPD) on April 18, requesting that the police help remove individuals who had occupied the South Lawn of the university's Morningside Heights campus a day earlier. The students with "Gaza Solidarity Enc

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Students of Lviv Polytechnic hold rally against Iryna Farion

LVIV, UKRAINE - NOVEMBER 13, 2023 - Students of Lviv Polytechnic National University hold a rally demanding the dismissal of university lecturer and linguist Iryna Farion amid a scandal over her statements and the publication of a letter with the data of a student from occupied Crimea, Lviv, western Ukraine

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Students of Lviv Polytechnic hold rally against Iryna Farion

LVIV, UKRAINE - NOVEMBER 13, 2023 - Students of Lviv Polytechnic National University hold a rally demanding the dismissal of university lecturer and linguist Iryna Farion amid a scandal over her statements and the publication of a letter with the data of a student from occupied Crimea, Lviv, western Ukraine

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Students of Lviv Polytechnic hold rally against Iryna Farion

LVIV, UKRAINE - NOVEMBER 13, 2023 - Students of Lviv Polytechnic National University hold a rally demanding the dismissal of university lecturer and linguist Iryna Farion amid a scandal over her statements and the publication of a letter with the data of a student from occupied Crimea, Lviv, western Ukraine

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Students of Lviv Polytechnic hold rally against Iryna Farion

LVIV, UKRAINE - NOVEMBER 13, 2023 - Students of Lviv Polytechnic National University hold a rally demanding the dismissal of university lecturer and linguist Iryna Farion amid a scandal over her statements and the publication of a letter with the data of a student from occupied Crimea, Lviv, western Ukraine

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Students of Lviv Polytechnic hold rally against Iryna Farion

LVIV, UKRAINE - NOVEMBER 13, 2023 - Students of Lviv Polytechnic National University hold a rally demanding the dismissal of university lecturer and linguist Iryna Farion amid a scandal over her statements and the publication of a letter with the data of a student from occupied Crimea, Lviv, western Ukraine

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Students of Lviv Polytechnic hold rally against Iryna Farion

LVIV, UKRAINE - NOVEMBER 13, 2023 - Students of Lviv Polytechnic National University hold a rally demanding the dismissal of university lecturer and linguist Iryna Farion amid a scandal over her statements and the publication of a letter with the data of a student from occupied Crimea, Lviv, western Ukraine

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Students of Lviv Polytechnic hold rally against Iryna Farion

LVIV, UKRAINE - NOVEMBER 13, 2023 - Students of Lviv Polytechnic National University hold a rally demanding the dismissal of university lecturer and linguist Iryna Farion amid a scandal over her statements and the publication of a letter with the data of a student from occupied Crimea, Lviv, western Ukraine

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Students of Lviv Polytechnic hold rally against Iryna Farion

LVIV, UKRAINE - NOVEMBER 13, 2023 - Students of Lviv Polytechnic National University hold a rally demanding the dismissal of university lecturer and linguist Iryna Farion amid a scandal over her statements and the publication of a letter with the data of a student from occupied Crimea, Lviv, western Ukraine

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Students of Lviv Polytechnic hold rally against Iryna Farion

LVIV, UKRAINE - NOVEMBER 13, 2023 - Students of Lviv Polytechnic National University hold a rally demanding the dismissal of university lecturer and linguist Iryna Farion amid a scandal over her statements and the publication of a letter with the data of a student from occupied Crimea, Lviv, western Ukraine

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Students of Lviv Polytechnic hold rally against Iryna Farion

LVIV, UKRAINE - NOVEMBER 13, 2023 - Students of Lviv Polytechnic National University hold a rally demanding the dismissal of university lecturer and linguist Iryna Farion amid a scandal over her statements and the publication of a letter with the data of a student from occupied Crimea, Lviv, western Ukraine

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Students of Lviv Polytechnic hold rally against Iryna Farion

LVIV, UKRAINE - NOVEMBER 13, 2023 - Students of Lviv Polytechnic National University hold a rally demanding the dismissal of university lecturer and linguist Iryna Farion amid a scandal over her statements and the publication of a letter with the data of a student from occupied Crimea, Lviv, western Ukraine

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Students of Lviv Polytechnic hold rally against Iryna Farion

LVIV, UKRAINE - NOVEMBER 13, 2023 - Students of Lviv Polytechnic National University hold a rally demanding the dismissal of university lecturer and linguist Iryna Farion amid a scandal over her statements and the publication of a letter with the data of a student from occupied Crimea, Lviv, western Ukraine

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Students of Lviv Polytechnic hold rally against Iryna Farion

LVIV, UKRAINE - NOVEMBER 13, 2023 - Students of Lviv Polytechnic National University hold a rally demanding the dismissal of university lecturer and linguist Iryna Farion amid a scandal over her statements and the publication of a letter with the data of a student from occupied Crimea, Lviv, western Ukraine

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A69 Motorway Protest - Saix

Posters on a stand, Stop the Villeneuve-les-lavaur and Puylaren bitumen factories. Petition No. Send your letter to Delga, here. Demonstration against the A69 motorway. The mobilization called - Ramdam sur le macadam - brought together - more than 9,500 people -, according to the organizers. Saix, France, on October 21, 2023. Photo by Patricia Huchot-Boissier /ABACAPRESS.COM

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ZAMBIA-LUSAKA-U.S. VP VISIT-PROTEST

(230330) -- LUSAKA, March 30, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Chilufya Tayali, leader of the opposition Economic and Equity Party, speaks during a protest outside the U.S. embassy in Lusaka, Zambia, on March 30, 2023. Some opposition parties on Thursday presented a letter of protest at the U.S. embassy in Zambia against a visit by U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris. (Xinhua) TO GO WITH Zambia opposition parties submit protest letter on U.S. VP visit

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Protest over Senkakus

BEIJING, China - A man reads out a protest letter in front of the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on Jan. 4, 2012, after a group of Japanese landed on one of the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea the previous day. The man was taken away by police officers shortly afterward.

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Protest over Senkakus

BEIJING, China - A man (back C) reads out a protest letter in front of the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on Jan. 4, 2012, after a group of Japanese landed on one of the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea the previous day. The man was taken away by police officers shortly afterward.

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Fishermen protest TEPCO

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Kishi (R), head of Japan's national fisheries cooperatives federation known as Zengyoren, hands a letter of protest to Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Naomi Hirose (L) in Tokyo on Aug. 29, 2013. The fishermen protested the leak of radioactive water at the utility's crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.

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Fishermen's group lodges protest with TEPCO

TOKYO, Japan - Representatives (R side) of the National Federation of Fisheries Co-operative Associations hand Naomi Hirose, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., a protest letter over the leakage of contaminated water from its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean, at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on July 25, 2013. The fishermen's group also urged TEPCO to take drastic measures to prevent further leakage and enhance monitoring of the ocean off the nuclear complex.

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Protests against mayor over sexual servitude remarks

OSAKA, Japan - A member of a civic group supporting women who were forced to serve as wartime sex slaves reads aloud a protest letter against Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto over his series of remarks regarding such women, at the Osaka city offices on May 24, 2013. Hashimoto has been under fire over his claim that sexual servitude was "necessary to maintain discipline" in the Japanese military.

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Gemba meets with S. Korea envoy Shin

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Shin Kak Soo (C) arrives at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 24, 2012, to meet with Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba. Gemba summoned Shin to lodge a protest over the return of a letter Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda had sent to South Korean President Lee Myung Bak protesting Lee's recent trip to one of the islets at the center of a territorial dispute.

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Gemba meets with S. Korea envoy Shin

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Shin Kak Soo (R) leaves the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 24, 2012, after meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba. Gemba summoned Shin to lodge a protest over the return of a letter Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda had sent to South Korean President Lee Myung Bak protesting Lee's recent trip to one of the islets at the center of a territorial dispute.

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Gemba meets with S. Korea envoy Shin

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba answers reporters' questions in Tokyo on Aug. 24, 2012, after meeting with South Korean Ambassador to Japan Shin Kak Soo. Gemba summoned Shin to lodge a protest over the return of a letter Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda had sent to South Korean President Lee Myung Bak protesting Lee's recent trip to one of the islets at the center of a territorial dispute.

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Ozawa, 49 allies to leave DPJ

TOKYO, Japan - Ichiro Ozawa, former leader of the Democratic Party of Japan, holds a press conference in Tokyo on July 2, 2012, after tendering a letter of resignation from the ruling party. Ozawa, a Japanese political heavyweight, and 49 allies submitted letters of resignation from the DPJ the same day in protest at the government's sales tax hike proposal, triggering a party split and weakening Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's hold on power.

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Ozawa, 49 allies to leave DPJ

TOKYO, Japan - Ichiro Ozawa, former leader of the Democratic Party of Japan, leaves following a press conference in Tokyo on July 2, 2012, after tendering a letter of resignation from the ruling party. Ozawa, a Japanese political heavyweight, and 49 allies submitted letters of resignation from the DPJ the same day in protest at the government's sales tax hike proposal, triggering a party split and weakening Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's hold on power.

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Ozawa, 49 allies to leave DPJ

TOKYO, Japan - Ichiro Ozawa, former leader of the Democratic Party of Japan, holds a press conference in Tokyo on July 2, 2012, after tendering a letter of resignation from the ruling party. Ozawa, a Japanese political heavyweight, and 49 allies submitted letters of resignation from the DPJ the same day in protest at the government's sales tax hike proposal, triggering a party split and weakening Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's hold on power.

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Group lodges protest over Nagoya mayor's remarks

NAGOYA, Japan - Kensaku Ishikawa (L), head of the Aichi prefectural chapter of the Japan-China Friendship Association, hands a letter of protest against Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura to an official at the Nagoya city government office on Feb. 24, 2012. Kawamura earlier in the week expressed doubt about the massacre of civilians by the Imperial Japanese Army in Nanjing in 1937.

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JR East president apologizes to Tokyo governor

TOKYO, Japan - Satoshi Seino (L), president of East Japan Railway Co., visits Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara at the Tokyo metropolitan government office in Tokyo on June 20, 2011, to offer an apology over the railway operator's decision to suspend its services and shutter its major stations in the capital in the wake of a magnitude 9.0 earthquake in northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011, forcing stranded passengers out of the stations. The governor sent a protest letter to the company, commonly known as JR East, in May, saying the metropolitan government might start imposing taxes on JR East station facilities depending on its response to Tokyo's inquiry into the controversial decision.

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Okinawa governor protests Maher's remarks

NAHA, Japan - Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima (R) hands a letter of protest to Raymond Greene, the U.S. consul general in Okinawa, on March 10, 2010, at the prefectural government office in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture. Nakaima protested comments by senior U.S. diplomat Kevin Maher that reportedly insulted the people of Okinawa, and urged the United States to investigate if Maher actually made the remarks. Maher was dismissed from the post.

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S. Korean 'comfort women' deliver letter, demand apology

SEOUL, South Korea - A group of former South Korean ''comfort women'' who were forced to serve as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers before and during World War II and others protest in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Feb. 10, 2010. The group delivered a letter to the embassy demanding an apology and compensation addressed to Japanese Foreign Minister Kazuya Okada before his visit to the city to meet with his South Korean counterpart.

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Okinawa village protests view of military role in mass suicides

NAHA, Japan - The assembly of the Okinawa village of Tokashiki on June 14 adopted a protest letter against the education ministry's advice that history textbook publishers play down the military's role in mass suicides during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa in which more than 300 villagers died.

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Japan protests Terao's disqualification in Olympics

SALT LAKE CITY, United States - Japanese officials tell reporters in Salt Lake City on Feb. 17 that Japan filed a letter of protest with the International Skating Union, questioning the disqualification of the men's 1,000 meters short track speed skater Satoru Terao in a race the previous day. (From L to R) are Kanji Kameoka, a member of the Japan Skating Federation's board of directors, Tsunekazu Takeda, president of the Japanese Olympic Committee, and short track team leader Takashi Kawakami.

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S. Korean lawmakers protest Koizumi's Yasukuni visit

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Seiken Sugiura (3rd from R) receives a letter Aug. 16 in Tokyo from five South Korean lawmakers of ruling and opposition parties in which they protest Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's controversial Aug. 13 visit to Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo.

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S. Korean lawmakers protest Koizumi's shrine visit

SEOUL, South Korea - Lawmakers from South Korea's ruling Millennium Democratic Party speak to reporters in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Aug. 16 after submitting to the embassy a letter to protest Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Aug. 13 visit to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine. In the letter, they expressed ''deep disappointment and a sense of betrayal'' at Koizumi's visit the Shinto shrine in defiance of repeated calls not to from neighboring countries.

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Muslims gather in Tokyo to protest torn Koran

TOKYO, Japan - Muslims hold a protest rally in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on May 25 following the discovery of a damaged Islamic holy text in front of a Pakistani-run business in the Sea of Japan coastal town of Kosugi in Toyama Prefecture on May 21. They submitted a protest letter concerning the incident addressed to Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka to the ministry.

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Kono receives letter from S. Korean foreign minister

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean Ambassador to Japan Choi Sang Yong (L) on April 19 hands to Japanese Foreign Minister Yohei Kono (R) a letter from S. Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Han Seung Soo complaining about Japan's approval of a controversial history textbook. The envoy returned to Japan earlier in the day, nine days after being recalled to Seoul in protest over the textbook approval.

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Chinese pilot's wife sends letter of protest to Bush

BEIJING, China - A postman shows reporters April 7 an envelope containing a protest letter to U.S. President George W. Bush from Ruan Guoqin, the wife of a Chinese pilot who went missing when his fighter collided with a U.S. spy plane April 1. The postman delivered the letter to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, where the reporters had assembled. Ruan denounced Bush and his administration for failing to apologize for the incident.

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Chinese embassy in U.S. protests against Washington Post's Taiwan-related op-ed

STORY: Chinese embassy in U.S. protests against Washington Post's Taiwan-related op-ed DATELINE: April 2, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:05 LOCATION: Washington D.C. CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of exterior of the Chinese Embassy in the U.S. STORYLINE: The Chinese Embassy in the United States has sent a letter to the editorial board of The Washington Post in protest of an op-ed carried recently by the newspaper that absurdly related the Taiwan question to the ongoing Ukraine crisis. Sent by Minister Counselor Zhu Haiquan, chief of the political section of the Chinese embassy, the letter -- part of which appeared in the Opinion section of The Post's website - was a solemn response to the op-ed authored by Bi-khim Hsiao dated March 24 and titled "Ukraine has inspired Taiwan. We must stand against authoritarianism," which used the Ukraine issue to distort the fact that both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to one and the same China. "The Taiwan question and the Ukraine crisis are totally different in n