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Nigerian court affirms president's election, dismisses opposition petitions

STORY: Nigerian court affirms president's election, dismisses opposition petitions DATELINE: Sept. 8, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:05 LOCATION: Abuja CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of court proceedings STORYLINE: A panel of five judges from Nigeria's election tribunal late Wednesday unanimously affirmed the election of President Bola Tinubu, solidifying his position as the West African nation's leader and effectively dismissing petitions by opposition parties. Delivering the judgment which lasted over 12 hours, the five-member panel at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in the national capital of Abuja said that the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labor Party (LP), which filed the petitions, had failed to prove their allegations beyond reasonable doubts. The court ruled that the petitions "lacked merit" and dismissed them. Atiku Abubakar of the PDP and Peter Obi of LP, who respectively came second and third in the presidential election won by Tinubu in February, had approached the

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Antinuclear activists call for banning nukes at U.N.

NEW YORK, the United States - Hiroshi Takakusaki (L), a representative of the Japan Council against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs (Gensuikyo), presents a petition signed by heads of municipal governments in Japan calling for a complete ban on nuclear arsenals to Enrique Roman-Moray, who chairs the third session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, at U.N. headquarters in New York on May 2, 2014, with Angela Kane, the U.N. high representative for disarmament affairs, looking on.

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Man convicted in 1963 Sayama murder case still seeking retrial

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuo Ishikawa (L), who was given a life sentence and spent almost 32 years in prison over a 1963 murder in Sayama, Saitama Prefecture, before being released on parole, meets the press with his lawyer (R) after filing his third petition for a retrial with the Tokyo High Court on May 23, insisting he is innocent. Ishikawa, 67, was convicted of the murder of a 16-year-old female high school student in the city near Tokyo in a case that became known as the ''Sayama Incident.''

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Court approves retrial on wartime repression of writers

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Maki Kimura, the widow of Toru Kimura, one of the five defendants in the ''Yokohama Incident,'' sobs with joy in Yokohama on April 15 after the Yokohama District Court accepted a third petition for retrial of the case after rejecting two previous petitions. The case involved repression of journalists and other people during World War II.

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Man convicted in 1963 Sayama murder case still seeking retrial

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuo Ishikawa (L), who was given a life sentence and spent almost 32 years in prison over a 1963 murder in Sayama, Saitama Prefecture, before being released on parole, meets the press with his lawyer (R) after filing his third petition for a retrial with the Tokyo High Court on May 23, insisting he is innocent. Ishikawa, 67, was convicted of the murder of a 16-year-old female high school student in the city near Tokyo in a case that became known as the ''Sayama Incident.'' (Kyodo)

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Student compiles YouTube videos on Nagasaki hibakusha

Photo taken in Nagasaki on July 7, 2019, shows Ayaka Satomichi, a third-grade student at a technical high school in the southwestern Japan city. A member of a high school group aiming to collect 10,000 student signatures for an anti-nuclear petition, the 18-year-old compiled videos of past interviews with survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki and posted them on YouTube. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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NPT review conference

Atomic bomb survivor Sueichi Kido (2nd from R) delivers in New York on May 1, 2019, a petition signed by 9.4 million people -- calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons -- to Malaysian Ambassador Syed Mohamad Hasrin Aidid, who chairs the third and final session of the preparatory committee for the 2020 review conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, running through May 10. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Court approves retrial on wartime repression of writers

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Maki Kimura, the widow of Toru Kimura, one of the five defendants in the ''Yokohama Incident,'' sobs with joy in Yokohama on April 15 after the Yokohama District Court accepted a third petition for retrial of the case after rejecting two previous petitions. The case involved repression of journalists and other people during World War II. (Kyodo)