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Israeli Forces Raid Financial Sites in Jenin - Palestine

Israeli soldiers patrol a city intersection during a military raid in Jenin, West Bank on May 27, 2025. Israeli occupation forces stormed several locations, including currency exchange shops, seizing large sums of money and arresting individuals allegedly linked to Palestinian resistance groups. Photo by Mojahid Nawahda/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Israeli Forces Raid Financial Sites in Jenin - Palestine

Israeli soldiers patrol a city intersection during a military raid in Jenin, West Bank on May 27, 2025. Israeli occupation forces stormed several locations, including currency exchange shops, seizing large sums of money and arresting individuals allegedly linked to Palestinian resistance groups. Photo by Mojahid Nawahda/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Israeli Forces Raid Financial Sites in Jenin - Palestine

Israeli soldiers patrol a city intersection during a military raid in Jenin, West Bank on May 27, 2025. Israeli occupation forces stormed several locations, including currency exchange shops, seizing large sums of money and arresting individuals allegedly linked to Palestinian resistance groups. Photo by Mojahid Nawahda/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Israeli Forces Raid Financial Sites in Jenin - Palestine

Israeli soldiers take position beside a storefront during a military operation in Jenin, West Bank on May 27, 2025. Israeli occupation forces stormed several locations, including currency exchange shops, seizing large sums of money and arresting individuals allegedly linked to Palestinian resistance groups. Photo by Mojahid Nawahda/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Korean designer chasing dream in China

STORY: Korean designer chasing dream in China DATELINE: Sept. 19, 2023 LENGTH: 00:06:37 LOCATION: DONGGUAN, China CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE (Korean): LINA JU, Korean designer 2. various of Lina Ju's living and working in Dongguan STORYLINE: Korean designer Lina Ju has been living and working in China for 10 years. She is now the chief designer of a company in Dongguan City, south China's Guangdong Province. SOUNDBITE (Korean): LINA JU, Korean designer "I work as a chief designer at SUMS MODEL. The chief designer's job is to oversee and supervise the overall design. And I designed the character IP with my team members. Also, I am working hard on directing the entire process of advertising, marketing, and sales of the products. My main work is to take charge and lead the whole process. HUGY is an emotive toy. It's a kind of art toy that reflects the artist's emotions. When I made this, I had to put a lot of my emotions into it, so I thought of the sad part of my personal feelings, and I reme

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Japan chief sums up Olympians' performance

VANCOUVER, Canada - Seiko Hashimoto, chief of the Japanese Olympic team, attends a press conference to wrap up the Winter Games in Vancouver on Feb. 28, 2010. Hashimoto, with her thumbnail decorated with the national flag, sounded satisfied with the medal count overall but added, ''We would have liked a gold though.''

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Osaka Gov. Ota gives up seeking 3rd term

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Gov. Fusae Ota tells reporters in Osaka on Dec. 3 she has given up seeking a third four-year term in January's gubernatorial election after failing to obtain support from parties that had backed her in the two previous elections. Ota has been under fire for money scandals such as receiving large sums for delivering speeches at meetings of managers of small and midsize businesses.

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Foreign Ministry urged to involve outside experts

TOKYO, Japan - Akira Saito (L), president of the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper and head of a Foreign Ministry panel of experts, hands to Foreign Minister Yohei Kono on April 24 a report recommending the ministry involve outside experts in internal operations to prevent improper actions by staff. The report was compiled in the wake of a scandal in which a former logistics chief is suspected of pocketing huge sums of public money.

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Religious group raided for alleged fraud

TOKYO, Japan - Police investigators carry out boxes of evidence from the house of Hogen Fukunaga, guru of the ''Ho-no-Hana Sampogyo'' religious group, in Shibuya, Tokyo, on Dec. 1. Police raided facilities linked to the group on suspicion it tricked thousands of people into paying large sums of money to cure what it falsely claimed were serious illnesses.

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'Ho-no-Hana' religious group raided for alleged fraud

FUJI, Japan - Police raided offices and gathering spots linked to the ''Ho-no-Hana Sampogyo'' religious group on Dec. 1 on suspicion of tricking thousands of people into paying large sums of money to cure what it falsely claimed were serious illnesses. Photo shows a raid at the group's head office in the city of Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture, in central Japan.

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War-themed Santa Claus in Kobe

Photo taken on Nov. 17, 2022, in Kobe in western Japan, shows a Santa Claus figure in a bulletproof vest and helmet atop the Uroko no Ie in the historical Kitano Ijinkan district. The annual "Sesou" Santa display sums up the year's events.

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War-themed Santa Claus in Kobe

Photo taken on Nov. 17, 2022, in Kobe in western Japan, shows a Santa Claus figure in a bulletproof vest and helmet atop the Uroko no Ie in the historical Kitano Ijinkan district. The annual "Sesou" Santa display sums up the year's events.

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Impressions of China: In eyes of Dominican PM

STORY: Impressions of China: In eyes of Dominican PM DATELINE: June 14, 2022 LENGTH: 00:03:36 LOCATION: Mexico City CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of views in China 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ROOSEVELT SKERRIT, Dominican Prime Minister 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): ROOSEVELT SKERRIT, Dominican Prime Minister 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): ROOSEVELT SKERRIT, Dominican Prime Minister STORYLINE: SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ROOSEVELT SKERRIT, Dominican Prime Minister "China eliminated poverty in 2020, and when you view back, (about) 100 million citizens were lifted out of poverty, and this is a tremendous success story for any leader. The Chinese government has expanded huge sums of money to end poverty. The features of this campaign, as I understand it, include the relocation of millions of households from remote rural regions to new villages. Access to housing, new roads and all the infrastructure projects, and access to arable lands, small business support, lifting people out of poverty, and also access to educ

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Italian engineer develops metal toys in south China

STORY: Italian engineer develops metal toys in south China DATELINE: June 9, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:59 LOCATION: DONGGUAN, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the giant panda toys 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): DAVIDE ROMOR, Senior project manager, Sums Model Toys Co., Ltd. 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): DAVIDE ROMOR, Senior project manager, Sums Model Toys Co., Ltd. 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): SUM LIU, CEO, founder of Sums Model Toys Co., Ltd. STORYLINE: Italian expat Davide Romor works as a senior project manager with a Chinese toy company located in Dongguan, south China's Guangdong Province. Fascinated by automobiles and giant pandas, Davide Romor has co-developed with his colleagues a series of armor-wearing giant panda toys. The panda-shaped handicraft is called Pangda, which means "chubby little one" in Chinese. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): DAVIDE ROMOR, Senior project manager, Sums Model Toys Co., Ltd. "I think from a production perspective, the Pangda is very customizable in colors and accessories. And i

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Osaka Gov. Ota gives up seeking 3rd term

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Gov. Fusae Ota tells reporters in Osaka on Dec. 3 she has given up seeking a third four-year term in January's gubernatorial election after failing to obtain support from parties that had backed her in the two previous elections. Ota has been under fire for money scandals such as receiving large sums for delivering speeches at meetings of managers of small and midsize businesses. (Kyodo)

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Japan chief sums up Olympians' performance

VANCOUVER, Canada - Seiko Hashimoto, chief of the Japanese Olympic team, attends a press conference to wrap up the Winter Games in Vancouver on Feb. 28, 2010. Hashimoto, with her thumbnail decorated with the national flag, sounded satisfied with the medal count overall but added, ''We would have liked a gold though.'' (Kyodo)

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'Ho-no-Hana' religious group raided for alleged fraud

FUJI, Japan - Police raided offices and gathering spots linked to the ''Ho-no-Hana Sampogyo'' religious group on Dec. 1 on suspicion of tricking thousands of people into paying large sums of money to cure what it falsely claimed were serious illnesses. Photo shows a raid at the group's head office in the city of Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture, in central Japan.

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Foreign Ministry urged to involve outside experts

TOKYO, Japan - Akira Saito (L), president of the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper and head of a Foreign Ministry panel of experts, hands to Foreign Minister Yohei Kono on April 24 a report recommending the ministry involve outside experts in internal operations to prevent improper actions by staff. The report was compiled in the wake of a scandal in which a former logistics chief is suspected of pocketing huge sums of public money.

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Religious group raided for alleged fraud

TOKYO, Japan - Police investigators carry out boxes of evidence from the house of Hogen Fukunaga, guru of the ''Ho-no-Hana Sampogyo'' religious group, in Shibuya, Tokyo, on Dec. 1. Police raided facilities linked to the group on suspicion it tricked thousands of people into paying large sums of money to cure what it falsely claimed were serious illnesses.