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Released Hostage Arrives At A Medical Center - Israel

Relatives of the hostage hug each other when a helicopter carrying a released hostage arrives at a medical center in Ramat Gan, Israel, on Feb. 8, 2025. Israel and Hamas on Saturday completed the fifth prisoner-for-hostage swap under the first phase of the ongoing Gaza ceasefire agreement, according to Israeli and Palestinian sources. Three Israeli hostages previously held by Hamas were transferred on Saturday from central Gaza to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Israel Security Agency and crossed the border into Israel, the IDF said in a statement. Photo by Gil Cohen Magen/Xinhua/aBACAPRESS.COM

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CHINA-XINJIANG-TAXKORGAN-TRADITIONAL WEDDING (CN)

(230322) -- TAXKORGAN, March 22, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Relatives greet each other with a typical Tajik gesture -- grasping each others' hands and kissing the others' knuckles, in front of bride Gulihan Jrbli's home in Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, March 18, 2023. In Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County, many young men and women prefer to get married in the spring season. Recently in Fumin Village, 25-year-old Gulihan Jrbli and her groom Mairmaitih Tirmur held a wedding after falling in love for more than three years. The ceremony was conducted according to traditional Tajik wedding custom, with relatives, friends and villagers singing and dancing to celebrate. As a national intangible cultural heritage, Tajik wedding custom has become a name card of cultural tourism in the county. Many tourists come to the weddings, sharing joy and happiness together. Gulihan's family used to live deep in the mountains. In 2018, her family moved to Fumin Village, fo

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TÜRKIYE-HATAY-EARTHQUAKES-CHINESE RESCUE TEAM-WOMAN SURVIVOR-RESCUE

(230210) -- ANTAKYA, Feb. 10, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Relatives of a woman survivor hug each other in Antakya in the southern province of Hatay, Türkiye, Feb. 9, 2023. In Antakya, Hatay, Chinese and Turkish rescuers successfully saved three women from the rubble of collapsed buildings on Thursday through their joint operations. TO GO WITH "Roundup: Hopes fade for finding quake survivors as death toll surpasses 17,000 in Türkiye" (Xinhua/Shadati)

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TÜRKIYE-HATAY-EARTHQUAKES-CHINESE RESCUE TEAM-WOMAN SURVIVOR-RESCUE

(230210) -- ANTAKYA, Feb. 10, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Relatives of a woman survivor hug each other in Antakya in the southern province of Hatay, Türkiye, Feb. 9, 2023. In Antakya, Hatay, Chinese and Turkish rescuers successfully saved three women from the rubble of collapsed buildings on Thursday through their joint operations. TO GO WITH "Roundup: Hopes fade for finding quake survivors as death toll surpasses 17,000 in Türkiye" (Xinhua/Shadati)

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TÜRKIYE-HATAY-EARTHQUAKES-CHINESE RESCUE TEAM-WOMAN SURVIVOR-RESCUE

(230210) -- ANTAKYA, Feb. 10, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Relatives of a woman survivor hug each other in Antakya in the southern province of Hatay, Türkiye, Feb. 9, 2023. In Antakya, Hatay, Chinese and Turkish rescuers successfully saved three women from the rubble of collapsed buildings on Thursday through their joint operations. TO GO WITH "Roundup: Hopes fade for finding quake survivors as death toll surpasses 17,000 in Türkiye" (Xinhua/Shadati)

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TÜRKIYE-HATAY-EARTHQUAKES-CHINESE RESCUE TEAM-WOMAN SURVIVOR-RESCUE

(230210) -- ANTAKYA, Feb. 10, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Relatives of a woman survivor hug each other in Antakya in the southern province of Hatay, Türkiye, Feb. 9, 2023. In Antakya, Hatay, Chinese and Turkish rescuers successfully saved three women from the rubble of collapsed buildings on Thursday through their joint operations. TO GO WITH "Roundup: Hopes fade for finding quake survivors as death toll surpasses 17,000 in Türkiye" (Xinhua/Shadati)

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Car and knife rampage on Guam

GUAM, United States - Vehicles believed to carry relatives of some Japanese victims of a recent car and knife rampage on Guam leave a hospital as they were returning to Japan along with the victims' bodies on Feb. 15, 2013. Investigators allege that the 21-year-old assailant, Chad Ryan Desoto, ran down six people with his car, crashed it into a building and then stabbed eight people after getting out of the vehicle, killing three Japanese tourists and injuring ten other Japanese nationals and one local.

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Funeral of China train accident victims

WENZHOU, China - Yang Feng (C) helps to carry the coffin of his wife in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, in southeastern China, on Aug. 1, 2011. His pregnant wife and three other relatives were among the victims of a collision between two high-speed trains that occurred in the city on July 23.

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(2)230 GSDF troops return to Japan from Iraq

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - A female Ground Self-Defense Force member meets relatives after returning to Asahikawa, Hokkaido, on May 24 with some 230 other Ground Self-Defense Force troops from a three-month reconstruction mission in Samawah, southern Iraq.

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(3)Abductees' relatives arrive in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, United States - Shigeru Yokota (L) shows pictures of his daughter Megumi, who North Korea said was abducted to the country and committed suicide in 1993, at a news conference in Los Angeles on April 16. Yokota and three other family members of Japanese abducted to North Korea are visiting Los Angeles to lobby Americans for support.

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Abductees' kin to go to Washington next week to seek help

TOKYO, Japan - Teruaki Masumoto (R), whose sister Rumiko was abducted by North Korea in 1978, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 28. Masumoto will make a five-day visit to Washington on March 3 with three other relatives of abductees to ask the U.S. government for help in resolving the abduction issue.

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Relatives of Ehime Maru victims return to Japan

NARITA, Japan - Relatives of five victims of the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru that was struck and sunk by a U.S. Navy submarine off Hawaii in February return to Japan from Honolulu on Oct. 27, bringing with them the ashes of the deceased. Twelve relatives of three victims arrived at Narita airport near Tokyo, while seven relatives of two other victims returned via Osaka's Kansai airport.

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War-displaced Japanese leave for Beijing after search for kin

NARITA, Japan - Four war-displaced Japanese from China leave for Beijing on Nov. 20 after a one-week search for their relatives resulted in only one of them having being identified. The group consists of a woman, 58-year-old Gu Tiefeng (2nd from R), and three men -- Han Tonglai (2nd from L), 63, Zhang Wanchang (far L), 58, and Ma Fude (far R), 58. Their ages, except that of Han, are estimates as they have no birth certificates. Only Han's relationship to Japanese kin was confirmed among three group members who had interviews with possible relatives. The other two and Ma had blood tests, and are now awaiting the results, which will take months before a final conclusion is drawn.

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Opening of the trial for the kidnapping of a Swiss financier - Paris

Former Thai boxing champion Farid Khider, with his lawyer Bertrand Burman at the courthouse, for kidnapping, forcible confinement and organized gang extortion in Paris, France, during the opening of the trial for the kidnapping of a Swiss financier, on June 08, 2021. The trial of the businessman Arnaud Mimran for the kidnapping of a wealthy Swiss financier in January 2015, opened today, on Tuesday at the Paris Assize Court. Arnaud Mimran, 49, must appear (for three weeks) with five other defendants - a seventh man, wanted, is tried by default - including one of his relatives, the former Thai boxing champion Farid Khider, for kidnapping, forcible confinement and organized gang extortion. Photo by Patrice Pierrot/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Opening of the trial for the kidnapping of a Swiss financier - Paris

Former Thai boxing champion Farid Khider, with his lawyer Bertrand Burman at the courthouse, for kidnapping, forcible confinement and organized gang extortion in Paris, France, during the opening of the trial for the kidnapping of a Swiss financier, on June 08, 2021. The trial of the businessman Arnaud Mimran for the kidnapping of a wealthy Swiss financier in January 2015, opened today, on Tuesday at the Paris Assize Court. Arnaud Mimran, 49, must appear (for three weeks) with five other defendants - a seventh man, wanted, is tried by default - including one of his relatives, the former Thai boxing champion Farid Khider, for kidnapping, forcible confinement and organized gang extortion. Photo by Patrice Pierrot/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Opening of the trial for the kidnapping of a Swiss financier - Paris

Former Thai boxing champion Farid Khider, with his lawyer Bertrand Burman at the courthouse, for kidnapping, forcible confinement and organized gang extortion in Paris, France, during the opening of the trial for the kidnapping of a Swiss financier, on June 08, 2021. The trial of the businessman Arnaud Mimran for the kidnapping of a wealthy Swiss financier in January 2015, opened today, on Tuesday at the Paris Assize Court. Arnaud Mimran, 49, must appear (for three weeks) with five other defendants - a seventh man, wanted, is tried by default - including one of his relatives, the former Thai boxing champion Farid Khider, for kidnapping, forcible confinement and organized gang extortion. Photo by Patrice Pierrot/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Opening of the trial for the kidnapping of a Swiss financier - Paris

Former Thai boxing champion Farid Khider, with his lawyer Bertrand Burman at the courthouse, for kidnapping, forcible confinement and organized gang extortion in Paris, France, during the opening of the trial for the kidnapping of a Swiss financier, on June 08, 2021. The trial of the businessman Arnaud Mimran for the kidnapping of a wealthy Swiss financier in January 2015, opened today, on Tuesday at the Paris Assize Court. Arnaud Mimran, 49, must appear (for three weeks) with five other defendants - a seventh man, wanted, is tried by default - including one of his relatives, the former Thai boxing champion Farid Khider, for kidnapping, forcible confinement and organized gang extortion. Photo by Patrice Pierrot/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Opening of the trial for the kidnapping of a Swiss financier - Paris

Former Thai boxing champion Farid Khider, with his lawyer Bertrand Burman at the courthouse, for kidnapping, forcible confinement and organized gang extortion in Paris, France, during the opening of the trial for the kidnapping of a Swiss financier, on June 08, 2021. The trial of the businessman Arnaud Mimran for the kidnapping of a wealthy Swiss financier in January 2015, opened today, on Tuesday at the Paris Assize Court. Arnaud Mimran, 49, must appear (for three weeks) with five other defendants - a seventh man, wanted, is tried by default - including one of his relatives, the former Thai boxing champion Farid Khider, for kidnapping, forcible confinement and organized gang extortion. Photo by Patrice Pierrot/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Opening of the trial for the kidnapping of a Swiss financier - Paris

Former Thai boxing champion Farid Khider, with his lawyer Bertrand Burman at the courthouse, for kidnapping, forcible confinement and organized gang extortion in Paris, France, during the opening of the trial for the kidnapping of a Swiss financier, on June 08, 2021. The trial of the businessman Arnaud Mimran for the kidnapping of a wealthy Swiss financier in January 2015, opened today, on Tuesday at the Paris Assize Court. Arnaud Mimran, 49, must appear (for three weeks) with five other defendants - a seventh man, wanted, is tried by default - including one of his relatives, the former Thai boxing champion Farid Khider, for kidnapping, forcible confinement and organized gang extortion. Photo by Patrice Pierrot/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Opening of the trial for the kidnapping of a Swiss financier - Paris

Former Thai boxing champion Farid Khider, with his lawyer Bertrand Burman at the courthouse, for kidnapping, forcible confinement and organized gang extortion in Paris, France, during the opening of the trial for the kidnapping of a Swiss financier, on June 08, 2021. The trial of the businessman Arnaud Mimran for the kidnapping of a wealthy Swiss financier in January 2015, opened today, on Tuesday at the Paris Assize Court. Arnaud Mimran, 49, must appear (for three weeks) with five other defendants - a seventh man, wanted, is tried by default - including one of his relatives, the former Thai boxing champion Farid Khider, for kidnapping, forcible confinement and organized gang extortion. Photo by Patrice Pierrot/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Relatives of Ehime Maru victims return to Japan

NARITA, Japan - Relatives of five victims of the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru that was struck and sunk by a U.S. Navy submarine off Hawaii in February return to Japan from Honolulu on Oct. 27, bringing with them the ashes of the deceased. Twelve relatives of three victims arrived at Narita airport near Tokyo, while seven relatives of two other victims returned via Osaka's Kansai airport.

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Abductees' kin to go to Washington next week to seek help

TOKYO, Japan - Teruaki Masumoto (R), whose sister Rumiko was abducted by North Korea in 1978, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 28. Masumoto will make a five-day visit to Washington on March 3 with three other relatives of abductees to ask the U.S. government for help in resolving the abduction issue. (Kyodo)

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Funeral of China train accident victims

WENZHOU, China - Yang Feng (C) helps to carry the coffin of his wife in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, in southeastern China, on Aug. 1, 2011. His pregnant wife and three other relatives were among the victims of a collision between two high-speed trains that occurred in the city on July 23. (Kyodo)

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(2)230 GSDF troops return to Japan from Iraq

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - A female Ground Self-Defense Force member meets relatives after returning to Asahikawa, Hokkaido, on May 24 with some 230 other Ground Self-Defense Force troops from a three-month reconstruction mission in Samawah, southern Iraq. (Kyodo)