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Chinese manned space mission

JIUQUAN, China, Nov. 1 Kyodo - A rocket carrying three Chinese astronauts lifts off at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center near Jiuquan, Gansu Province, on Oct. 31, 2025. Three and a half hours later, the Shenzhou-21 spacecraft docked with China's Tiangong space station, where the three astronauts will stay for six months. (Kyodo)

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Chinese manned space mission

A rocket carrying three Chinese astronauts lifts off at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center near Jiuquan, Gansu Province, on Oct. 31, 2025. Three and a half hours later, the Shenzhou-21 spacecraft docked with China's Tiangong space station, where the three astronauts will stay for six months.

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Chinese manned space mission

A rocket carrying three Chinese astronauts lifts off at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center near Jiuquan, Gansu Province, on Oct. 31, 2025. Three and a half hours later, the Shenzhou-21 spacecraft docked with China's Tiangong space station, where the three astronauts will stay for six months.

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Chinese manned space mission

A rocket carrying three Chinese astronauts lifts off at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center near Jiuquan, Gansu Province, on Oct. 31, 2025. Three and a half hours later, the Shenzhou-21 spacecraft docked with China's Tiangong space station, where the three astronauts will stay for six months.

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Chinese manned space mission

A rocket carrying three Chinese astronauts lifts off at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center near Jiuquan, Gansu Province, on Oct. 31, 2025. Three and a half hours later, the Shenzhou-21 spacecraft docked with China's Tiangong space station, where the three astronauts will stay for six months.

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70th anniversary of Lucky Dragon tragedy

Photo shows the tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5, also known as the Lucky Dragon, at an exhibition hall in Tokyo on Feb. 29, 2024, on the eve of the 70th anniversary of its crew tragically being exposed to radiation in a U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. The crew suffered acute radiation sickness, and the chief radio operator died six months later at age 40.

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70th anniversary of Lucky Dragon tragedy

Photo shows the tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5, also known as the Lucky Dragon, at an exhibition hall in Tokyo on Feb. 29, 2024, on the eve of the 70th anniversary of its crew tragically being exposed to radiation in a U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. The crew suffered acute radiation sickness, and the chief radio operator died six months later at age 40.

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8th GSDF mission leaves for Golan Heights

NARITA, Japan - Members of the Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) leave Narita airport July 30 to join a U.N. peacekeeping mission on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Twenty-two GSDF members are departing this time and 21 will depart later to make up a 43-strong GSDF contingent that has been assigned to the U.N. Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) for a period of six months.

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WFP seeks 418 mln USD to ramp up aid in Horn of Africa amid famine threats

STORY: WFP seeks 418 mln USD to ramp up aid in Horn of Africa amid famine threats DATELINE: Aug. 20, 2022 LENGTH: 0:02:46 LOCATION: Nairobi CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of IDP (internally displaced persons) camp 2. various of people receiving food assistance 3. SOUNDBITE (English): DAVID BEASLEY, WFP Executive Director 4. various of camels crossing drought stricken desert 5. various of people getting water and food aid 6. various of nutrition testing STORYLINE: The World Food Programme (WFP) said Friday some 418 million U.S. dollars are urgently needed over the next six months to scale up assistance in the Horn of Africa as levels of hunger soar after back-to-back droughts and the threat of famine looms. WFP said the severe drought across the Horn of Africa is expected to continue in the coming months, with a fifth poor rainy season forecast later this year. SOUNDBITE (English): DAVID BEASLEY, WFP Executive Director "Climate change has impacted the entire world. And where I stand here in the

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Ontake ski slope opens after delay caused by volcanic eruption

Yuko Sakuno (C), a nurse in Otaki, Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, attends a ribbon-cutting ceremony as a guest on Feb. 26, 2015, to open the local Ontake 2240 ski site. The slope opened two and a half months later than last season due to volcanic eruption of Mt. Ontake in September 2014 that killed 57 climbers and left six others missing. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Snowboarders enjoy opening day of Ontake ski slope

Holidaymakers enjoy snowboarding at the Ontake 2240 ski site in Otaki, Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, on Feb. 26, 2015, the opening day of the season. The season began two and a half months later than the previous season due to volcanic eruption of Mt. Ontake in September 2014 that killed 57 climbers and left six others missing. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Families in tsunami-hit town then and now

Combined photo shows Mayumi Sutou and her daughter Mimi on June 9, 2011 (L), holding up an album they found among the debris of their house in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, in northeastern Japan, three months after their home was devastated by a massive tsunami, and six years later on Feb. 13, 2017, holding the same album with new photos at a new home. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Families in tsunami-hit town then and now

Combined photo shows first-grade elementary school student Ayaka Sato in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, in northeastern Japan on June 8, 2011 (L) with her "randoseru" schoolbag that was found after being washed away by a massive tsunami three months earlier, and Ayaka six years later on Feb. 15, 2017, who will be graduating in March. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Families in tsunami-hit town then and now

Combined photo shows Sayaka Sugawara (C) and her daughters Sara (R) and Sena, sitting on what was left of their family-run inn in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan on June 8, 2011 (top), after it was washed away by a massive tsunami three months earlier, and six years later on Feb. 18, 2017, as they stand in front of their rebuilt inn as it marked five years of operation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan-born Nepalese 4-yr-old boy survives two major quakes

Four-year-old Samrat Khatri, a Japan-born Nepalese boy whose parents work in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, plays on the swings at a park in the northeastern Japan city on June 11, 2015. Khatri has shuttled between Japan and Nepal -- first to Nepal at six months old to temporarily flee the 2011 quake-triggered Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, and later again at 2 years old to attend an English school in Nepal, but is now back in Japan after surviving the major earthquake in Nepal in April. His parents plan to send him back to Nepal again when his grandparents' home is repaired. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan-born Nepalese 4-yr-old boy survives two major quakes

Four-year-old Samrat Khatri (R), a Japan-born Nepalese boy, is staying with his parents Him Bahadur Khatri (L) and Hem Kumari Khatri in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, where they work, as seen on June 11, 2015. Samrat has shuttled between Japan and Nepal -- first to Nepal at six months old to temporarily flee the 2011 quake-triggered Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, and later again at 2 years old to attend an English school in Nepal, but is now back in Japan after surviving the major earthquake in Nepal in April. His parents plant to send him back to Nepal again when his grandparents' home is repaired. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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6-way talks formally kick off

BEIJING, China - Kenichiro Sasae, Japan's chief delegate to six-way talks on North Korea's nuclear ambitions, speaks with journalists at a Beijing hotel on July 26. The talks resumed later in the day for the first time in 13 months. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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6-way talks formally kick off

BEIJING, China - Christopher Hill, chief U.S. delegate to six-way talks on North Korea's nuclear ambitions, leaves a Beijing hotel on July 26. The talks formally resumed later in the day for the first time in 13 months. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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6-way talks formally kick off

BEIJING, China - Kenichiro Sasae, Japan's chief delegate to six-way talks on North Korea's nuclear ambitions, speaks with journalists at a Beijing hotel on July 26. The talks resumed later in the day for the first time in 13 months. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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6-way talks formally kick off

BEIJING, China - Cars carrying the North Korean delegates to six-way talks on the country's nuclear ambitions leave the North Korean Embassy in Beijing on July 26. The talks resumed later in the day for the first time in 13 months. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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Japan replaces parliamentary vice minister over repeated gaffes

An undated photo shows Japanese parliamentary vice Cabinet Office minister Shunsuke Mutai. The government accepted the resignation of Mutai and appointed Yasumasa Nagasaka as his successor on March 10, 2017. Mutai was cautioned in September 2016 for being carried across a puddle in a typhoon-hit area but made light of the gaffe six months later. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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63rd anniv. of Lucky Dragon tragedy

Anti-nuclear weapon campaigners march through the central Japan city of Yaizu on March 1, 2017, the 63rd anniversary of the radiation exposure of the tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5, also known as the Lucky Dragon, in a U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Marshall Islands. The crew of the boat, based in Yaizu, suffered acute radiation sickness, and chief radio operator Aikichi Kuboyama died six months later at age 40. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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8th GSDF mission leaves for Golan Heights

NARITA, Japan - Members of the Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) leave Narita airport July 30 to join a U.N. peacekeeping mission on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Twenty-two GSDF members are departing this time and 21 will depart later to make up a 43-strong GSDF contingent that has been assigned to the U.N. Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) for a period of six months.