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James Webb Telescope Finds Most Distant Known Galaxy

Handout infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (also called Webb or JWST) was taken by the NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) for the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey, or JADES, program. The NIRCam data was used to determine which galaxies to study further with spectroscopic observations. One such galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0 (shown in the pullout), was determined to be at a redshift of 14.32 (+0.08/-0.20), making it the current record-holder for the most distant known galaxy. This corresponds to a time less than 300 million years after the big bang. In the background image, blue represents light at 0.9, 1.15, and 1.5 microns (filters F090W + F115W + F150W), green is 2.0 and 2.77 microns (F200W + F277W), and red is 3.56, 4.1, and 4.44 microns (F356W + F410M + F444W). The pullout image shows light at 0.9 and 1.15 microns (F090W + F115W) as blue, 1.5 and 2.0 microns (F150W + F200W) as green, and 2.77 microns (F277W) as red. Photo by Nasa via ABACAPRESS.COM

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RUSSIA-WAGNER-PULLOUT

(230625) -- ROSTOV-ON-DON, June 25, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This image captured from a video shows military vehicles preparing to pull out from Rostov-on-Don, Russia, June 24, 2023. Moscow and Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner private military group, reached a compromise through the mediation of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko late Saturday, according to RIA Novosti news agency reports. Prigozhin has accepted Lukashenko's proposal to stop the advance of the Wagner troops and de-escalate the situation, the reports said. (Photo by Vladimir Konstantinov/Xinhua)

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RUSSIA-WAGNER-PULLOUT

(230625) -- ROSTOV-ON-DON, June 25, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This image captured from a video shows citizens standing near military vehicles on a street of Rostov-on-Don, Russia, June 24, 2023. Moscow and Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner private military group, reached a compromise through the mediation of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko late Saturday, according to RIA Novosti news agency reports. Prigozhin has accepted Lukashenko's proposal to stop the advance of the Wagner troops and de-escalate the situation, the reports said. (Photo by Vladimir Konstantinov/Xinhua)

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RUSSIA-WAGNER-PULLOUT

(230625) -- ROSTOV-ON-DON, June 25, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This image captured from a video shows military vehicles preparing to pull out from Rostov-on-Don, Russia, June 24, 2023. Moscow and Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner private military group, reached a compromise through the mediation of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko late Saturday, according to RIA Novosti news agency reports. Prigozhin has accepted Lukashenko's proposal to stop the advance of the Wagner troops and de-escalate the situation, the reports said. (Photo by Vladimir Konstantinov/Xinhua)

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Kashiwazaki residents bid farewell to GSDF members

KASHIWAZAKI, Japan - Children in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture bid farewell to members of the Ground Self-Defense Force who have completed their rescue-and-rebuild mission at Kashiwazaki and Kariwa, the two adjoining Niigata towns badly damaged by the magnitude 6.8 earthquake which hit the region on July 16. Several thousands of residents turned out at a thank-you ceremony held in honor of the departing GSDF members in Kashiwazaki on Aug. 27. GSDF members will complete their pullout from Kariwa on Aug. 28

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Japan orders pullout of ASDF planes on evacuation mission in S. Sudan

TOKYO, Japan, July 22 Kyodo - Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani speaks to the press in Tokyo on July 22, 2016, after ordering the pullout of three Air Self-Defense Force C-130 cargo aircraft dispatched to Africa to help Japanese nationals evacuate from violence-hit South Sudan. Nakatani said the planes, which were ordered to leave Djibouti the following day, are expected to return to their base in central Japan on July 26.

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Ozeki Kaio pulls out of Kyushu basho

FUKUOKA, Japan - Ozeki Kaio speaks of his pullout from the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at his stable lodgings in Kasuya, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Nov. 12 after hurting his arm in his loss to Wakanosato on the previous day.

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Japan defense minister orders pullout of vessels from Indian Ocean

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda responds to questions from reporters at his office on Nov. 1 after Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba ordered the Maritime Self-Defense Force earlier in the day to withdraw from the Indian Ocean to mark the end of Japan's nearly six-year refueling mission in support of U.S.-led antiterrorism operations in and around Afghanistan.

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Japanese ground troops complete pullout from Iraq

KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait - Japanese Defense Agency Director General Fukushiro Nukaga, currently on a visit to Kuwait, greets Toshihiro Yamanaka, chief of the 10th Ground Self-Defense Force contingent, on his arrival in Kuwait from Iraq to complete Japanese ground troops' withdrawal from Iraq.

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Japanese ground troops complete pullout from Iraq

KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait - Japanese ground troops on July 17 completed their withdrawal from Iraq, with the last group of about 220 Ground Self-Defense Force personnel arriving in Kuwait on the Air Self-Defense Force's C-130 transport planes from Iraq.

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Japanese ground troops complete pullout from Iraq

SAMAWAH, Iraq - Iraqi soldiers keep guard in southern Iraqi city of Samawah on July 17 after Japanese ground troops withdrew from there.

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Japanese troops prepare for pullout from Iraq

KUWAIT, Kuwait - Members of a Japanese Ground Self-defense Force unit sort out cartons of goods to be flown to Japan at a warehouse near Kuwait on June 2. The goods have been sent to Kuwait by GSDF troops now preparing to withdraw from the southern Iraqi city of Samawah.

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Japanese troops prepare for pullout from Iraq

KUWAIT, Kuwait - Members of a Japanese Ground Self-defense Force unit sort out cartons of goods to be flown to Japan at a warehouse near Kuwait on June 2. The goods have been sent to Kuwait by GSDF troops now preparing to withdraw from the southern Iraqi city of Samawah.

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Japanese troops prepare for pullout from Iraq

KUWAIT, Kuwait - Members of a Japanese Ground Self-defense Force unit check the equipment to be flown to Japan at a warehouse near Kuwait on June 2. The equipment have been sent to Kuwait by GSDF troops now preparing to withdraw from the southern Iraqi city of Samawah.

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Japanese ground troops prepare for pullout

KUWAIT, Kuwait - Members of a Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force unit check their vehicle in Kuwait on June 29 in preparation for the imminent withdrawal of the GSDF troops from the southern Iraqi city of Samawah.

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Japan to send extra personnel to aid SDF pullout from Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - Defense Agency Director General Fukushiro Nukaga (L in back) hands Col. Yuichi Kajiya (C) the flag of a team of about 100 Ground Self-Defense Force personnel in a ceremony at the Defense Agency before the team leaves for Kuwait to help facilitate the withdrawal of about 600 GSDF troops who have been deployed in the southern Iraqi city of Samawah for about two-and-a-half years.

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Japan orders ground troop pullout from Iraq

SAMAWAH, Iraq - Members of a Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force unit sample water with Iraqi staff at a water purifying plant near Samawah, southern Iraq, on June 20. Japan ordered the withdrawal of its ground troops from Iraq, ending their landmark two-and-a-half-year reconstruction aid mission there.

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Key Cabinet ministers discuss pullout of ground troops from Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - Defense Agency Director General Fukushiro Nukaga is surrounded by reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 19 after a meeting of three Cabinet ministers -- Nukaga, Chief Cabinet secretary Shinzo Abe and Foreign Minister Taro Aso -- to discuss the planned withdrawal of Japanese troops engaged in reconstruction activities from the southern Iraqi city of Samawah.

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Indonesian military withdraws last troops from Aceh

LHOKSEUMAWE, Indonesia - The last contingent of Indonesian military troops gather at the Northern Aceh port of Lhokseumawe for pullout from the tsunami-devastated Aceh on Dec. 29 as part of a peace deal with the separatist Free Aceh Movement to end the long-running civil conflict in the oil-rich province. The withdrawal comes just two days after the rebels, popularly known as GAM, disbanded their armed wing.

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Civic group demands withdrawal of GSDF from Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the civic group World Peace Now take to the streets in Tokyo Sept. 11, calling for the pullout of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force troops from Iraq.

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Plan to check pullout of nuclear nonproliferation pact eyed

TOKYO, Japan - Sergio de Queiroz Duarte, the chairman of the upcoming Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Feb. 7. He expressed his hope the meeting will discuss formulating a provision to make it more difficult for a country suspected of building nuclear weapons to pull out of the treaty.

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Hiroshima citizens demand troops pullout from Iraq

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Members of civic groups and citizens march in the city of Hiroshima on Nov. 26 in support of their demand for an immediate withdrawal of Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force troops from Iraq.

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200 protesters in Samawah demand SDF pullout

SAMAWAH, Iraq - About 200 supporters of anti-U.S. cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in Samawah, southern Iraq, march through downtown Samawah on Nov. 12 demanding the withdrawal of Japanese ground troops stationed in the city. Banners they hold read, ''No to Japan!'' and ''Get out of here, Self-Defense Forces!''

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(2)Japan seeks to rescue hostage in Iraq, no troop pullout

NOGATA, Japan - Masumi Koda (L), flanked by his wife Setsuko, reads a statement near his house in Nogata, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Oct. 27, asking the government for help in securing the release of his 24-year-old son Shosei, who has been held hostage in Iraq by a radical group linked to the al-Qaida network.

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(4)Group kidnaps Japanese man, demands troop pullout from Iraq

NARITA, Japan - Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shuzen Tanigawa leaves Narita airport, northeast of Tokyo, on Oct. 27 for the Jordanian capital of Amman to set up an ad hoc team to deal with the reported kidnapping of a Japanese man by an Islamic militant group.

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(2)Group kidnaps Japanese man, demands troop pullout from Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura is surrounded by reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 27 after reports that a Japanese man was taken hostage by Al-Qaida-linked militants in Iraq.

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(1)Group kidnaps Japanese man, demands troop pullout from Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 27 following reports that a Japanese man was taken hostage by Al-Qaida-linked militants in Iraq. The man was identified as Shosei Koda, 24, of Nogata, Fukuoka Prefecture in southwestern Japan.

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(3)Group kidnaps Japanese man, demands troop pullout from Iraq

TOYOOKA, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi tells reporters in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, on Oct. 27 he will not succumb to terrorism after reports a Japanese man was taken hostage by Al-Qaida-linked militants in Iraq. Koizumi visited Toyooka to inspect the damage caused by Typhoon Tokage.

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(2)Protesters call for pullout of S. Korean troops

SEOUL, South Korea - Holding placards and banners, members of civic groups demand withdrawal of South Korean troops from Iraq at a protest rally near the Blue House presidential palace in Seoul on June 22.

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(1)Protesters call for pullout of S. Korean troops

SEOUL, South Korea - Members of civic groups call for pullout of South Korean troops from Iraq at a protest rally near the Blue House presidential palace in Seoul on June 22.

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Shiite cleric calls for increase in SDF troops in Samawah

TOKYO, Japan - Muslim Shiite leaders (seated on the left) from Iraq's Muthana Province meet with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (R) and other Japanese officials in Tokyo on May 25. They urged Japan to increase the number of Self-Defense Forces troops in the provincial capital of Samawah. ''I do not want a pullout of Self-Defense Forces, but rather hope for an increase in the number,'' Ali Almaili (2nd from L) was quoted as telling Koizumi.

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(1)Relatives of hostages stop seeking SDF pullout

TOKYO, Japan - The families of three Japanese civilians kidnapped in Iraq attend a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan on April 14. They indicated they will stop demanding the Japanese government pull Self-Defense Forces (SDF) troops out of Iraq, a condition given by the kidnappers for the release of the hostages. Asked about their sudden change of attitude on the issue, they merely said, ''No comment.''

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(2)Relatives of hostages stop seeking SDF pullout

TOKYO, Japan - Ayako Inoue (C), sister of Nahoko Takato, one of three Japanese civilians kidnapped in Iraq, speaks at a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan in Tokyo on April 14.

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People call for early relief of hostages

AKITA, Japan - Holding candles in their hands, people march in the northern Japan city of Akita on April 14 to call for an early relief of three Japanese held hostage in Iraq and pullout of Japanese troops from Iraq.

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Casualties from terrorist attacks won't trigger SDF pullout

TOKYO, Japan - New Komeito Secretary General Tetsuzo Fuyushiba says in an interview with Kyodo News on Jan. 7 that Japan's Self-Defense Forces (SDF) troops being sent to Iraq will not withdraw in the event they suffer casualties in terrorist attacks.

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(2)Yokozuna Takanohana withdraws from New Year tournament

TOKYO, Japan - Futagoyama, master of Futagoyama Stable to which yokozuna Takanohana belongs, speaks to reporters Jan. 14 on the yokozuna's pullout from the 15-day New Year Grand Sumo Tournament that began at Ryogoku Kokugikan on Jan. 12.

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Nasdaq blames economic slump for Japan pullout

TOKYO, Japan - John Hilley, chairman and chief executive officer of Nasdaq International Inc., speaks at a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Aug. 19 about Nasdaq's decision to pull out of Japan. He said the country's economic slump was to blame.

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DPJ leader wants eventual pullout of U.S. forces from Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Opposition leader Yukio Hatoyama on Sept. 13 speaks at a lecture at a Tokyo hotel organized by K.K. Kyodo News. Hatoyama, head of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), recommended that Japan's war-renouncing Constitution be revised to legally recognize the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) as a full-fledged military force and that U.S. forces in Japan eventually be withdrawn.

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Albright rebuffs debate on U.S. troops pullout

SEOUL, S. Korea - U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (L) speaks at a joint news conference with South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Lee Joung Binn in Seoul on June 23. She rebuffed any debate in South Korea on changing the status or withdrawal of U.S. troops as ''not appropriate or premature.''

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Indonesian warship leaves Dili in troop pullout

DILI, East Timor - An Indonesian warship carrying soldiers of the Indonesian Defense Force leaves Dili port, East Timor, on Oct. 30, as part of a pullout ending Jakarta's 23-year military presence in the former Portuguese colony.

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Last Indonesian troops withdraw from East Timor

DILI, East Timor - Indonesian troops on a navy warship wave to their colleagues on a quay at Dili port as the last 925 personnel of the Indonesian Defense Force in East Timor start to withdraw from the territory's capital, on Oct. 30. The pullout marks the end of the 23-year Indonesian occupation of the former Portuguese colony.

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Demonstrators seek Indonesian military's pullout from E. Timor

TOKYO, Japan - Demonstrators of citizens groups and nongovernmental organizations march along the streets near Tokyo's JR Shibuya Station on Sept. 19, demanding an early withdrawal of the Indonesian military from East Timor.

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Interview: U.S. high inflation, appreciating dollar double whammy for world, says Singaporean expert

STORY: Interview: U.S. high inflation, appreciating dollar double whammy for world, says Singaporean expert DATELINE: July 29, 2022 LENGTH: 00:04:18 LOCATION: Singapore CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: SOUNDBITE 1 (English): LAWRENCE LOH, Director of the Center for Governance and Sustainability at the National University of SingaporeSOUNDBITE 2 (English): LAWRENCE LOH, Director of the Center for Governance and Sustainability at the National University of SingaporeSOUNDBITE 3 (English): LAWRENCE LOH, Director of the Center for Governance and Sustainability at the National University of SingaporeSOUNDBITE 4 (English): LAWRENCE LOH, Director of the Center for Governance and Sustainability at the National University of Singapore STORYLINE: The U.S. Federal Reserve's decision to raise interest rate amid elevating inflation will impose a larger impact on foreign countries than on the U.S. economy, a Singaporean scholar told Xinhua on Thursday. The U.S. Fed's move would cause capital pullout and push up the cos

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Pakistan facing tremendous challenges after U.S.-led war on terror: Pakistani expert

STORY: Pakistan facing tremendous challenges after U.S.-led war on terror: Pakistani expert DATELINE: May 11, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:17 LOCATION: Islamabad CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of street view of Pakistan 2. SOUNDBITE (English): FARHAT ASIF, President of Institute of Peace and Diplomatic Studies STORYLINE: Pakistan, once a major player in the U.S.-led war on terror, is still facing enormous sacrifices of terrorist attacks and an enormous economic dilemma, nearly a year after the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan. That's according to Farhat Asif, president of the Institute of Peace and Diplomatic Studies, an Islamabad-based think-tank. SOUNDBITE (English): FARHAT ASIF, President of Institute of Peace and Diplomatic Studies "When we were part of the operation, we faced a tremendous amount of sacrifices. We faced a tremendous amount of economic crisis. Pakistan has to serve millions of Afghan refugees in our soil, which was an extra burden on ourselves. We faced, I mean, a tremendous amount of dea

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1,000 families receive relief aid in N. Afghanistan

STORY: 1,000 families receive relief aid in N. Afghanistan DATELINE: April 15, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:27 LOCATION: Kabul CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of needy people receiving relief assistance in Kunduz province STORYLINE: About 1,000 destitute and drought-affected families received relief assistance in Afghanistan's northern province of Kunduz on Thursday, a provincial official said. "The Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) distributed 50 kg of flour, 10 liters of cooking oil, and 25 kg of rice together with packages of tea, sugar, salt and biscuits to each of the 1,000 surveyed families in Qala-i-Zal district on Thursday," Mohammad Riza Nasiri, head of province's ARCS department, told Xinhua. More relief assistance would be provided to needy families in Kunduz, 250 km north of Afghanistan's Kabul, in the coming days and weeks, according to the official. Following the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan last August, Washington has imposed sanctions on the Taliban-run administration and

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Underground and undernourished: Cave dwellers in Afghanistan's Bamiyan risk starvation

STORY: Underground and undernourished: Cave dwellers in Afghanistan's Bamiyan risk starvation DATELINE: March 26, 2022 LENGTH: 00:03:13 LOCATION: BAMIYAN, Afghanistan CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various shots of caves in which poor people live 2. STANDUP (English): SHI XIANTAO, Xinhua correspondent 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Dari): ZARIFA GULL AHMAD, Cave dweller 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Pashto): NORIA, Cave dweller 5. SOUNDBITE 3 (Dari): HASSAN, Cave dweller STORYLINE: For the whole of history, people have lived in caves in Afghanistan. Many people had no choice but to take up residence in one, and in central Bamiyan province, many families find themselves forgotten and starving. STANDUP (English): SHI XIANTAO, Xinhua correspondent "Following the pullout of its troops from Afghanistan in August 2021, the United States has frozen nearly 10 billion U.S. dollars worth of assets of Afghanistan's central bank, which is widely seen as the primary factor leading to the current economic crisis and humanitarian disaster in the wa

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AFGHANISTAN-KABUL-9/11 VICTIMS

(220214) -- KABUL, Feb. 14, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Deputy spokesperson for the Taliban government Inamullah Samangani speaks during an interview in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, Feb. 13, 2022. Samangani on Sunday criticized Washington's "unfair" decision to compensate the victims of 9/11 terrorist attacks with Afghanistan's assets. Following the pullout of its troops from Afghanistan in August 2021, the United States has frozen nearly 10 billion U.S. dollars worth of assets of Afghanistan's central bank, which worsened the economic crisis and poverty in the war-torn Asian country. (Photo by Saifurahman Safi/Xinhua)

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AFGHANISTAN-KABUL-9/11 VICTIMS

(220214) -- KABUL, Feb. 14, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Deputy spokesperson for the Taliban government Inamullah Samangani speaks during an interview in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, Feb. 13, 2022. Samangani on Sunday criticized Washington's "unfair" decision to compensate the victims of 9/11 terrorist attacks with Afghanistan's assets. Following the pullout of its troops from Afghanistan in August 2021, the United States has frozen nearly 10 billion U.S. dollars worth of assets of Afghanistan's central bank, which worsened the economic crisis and poverty in the war-torn Asian country. (Photo by Saifurahman Safi/Xinhua)

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Wildfire - Canada

A motorist watches from a pullout on the Trans-Canada Highway as a wildfire burns on the side of a mountain in Lytton, B.C., Thursday, July 1, 2021. Photo by Darryl Dyck/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Wildfire - Canada

A motorist watches from a pullout on the Trans-Canada Highway as a wildfire burns on the side of a mountain in Lytton, B.C., Thursday, July 1, 2021. Photo by Darryl Dyck/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM