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ECOWAS affirms Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger as continued members despite juntas' claims

STORY: ECOWAS affirms Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger as continued members despite juntas' claims SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 28, 2024 DATELINE: Jan. 29, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:01 LOCATION: Bamako, Mali CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Colonel Abdoulaye Maiga, spokesperson for the transitional government of Mali STORYLINE: The 15-member Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Sunday officially asserted Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger remain integral members of the regional bloc in response to an earlier declaration by the military junta in each respective country, stating their intention to withdraw membership. The ECOWAS Commission said in a statement that it was yet to receive any direct notification from the three member states about their intention to withdraw from the community. "Burkina Faso, Niger, and Mali remain important members of the community and the Authority of Heads of State and Government remains committed to finding a negotiated solution to the political impasse," read the statement

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16 MW offshore wind turbine begins operations off east China coast

STORY: 16 MW offshore wind turbine begins operations off east China coast DATELINE: July 20, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:35 LOCATION: FUZHOU, China CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of the wind turbine STORYLINE: The world's first 16-megawatt offshore wind turbine off the coast of east China's Fujian Province was successfully connected to the grid and began generating electricity on Wednesday. The wind turbine at the Fujian offshore wind farm, which is operated by the China Three Gorges Corporation, has the largest single-unit generating capacity of all turbines in operation worldwide, the company said. The turbine's blades are each 123 meters long and can sweep an area of approximately 50,000 square meters -- the size of seven standard soccer fields. It is estimated that the wind turbine will be able to generate more than 66 million kilowatt-hours of clean electricity annually, meeting the annual electricity consumption needs of 36,000 three-member households. That is equivalent to saving about 22,000

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CHINA-FUJIAN-OFFSHORE WIND TURBINE-16MW (CN)

(230719) -- FUZHOU, July 19, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo taken on June 28, 2023 shows a 16-megawatt wind turbine installed at the Fujian offshore wind farm operated by the China Three Gorges Corporation off the coast of southeast China's Fujian Province. The world's first 16-megawatt offshore wind turbine off the coast of Fujian Province was successfully connected to the grid and began generating electricity on Wednesday. The wind turbine has the largest single-unit generating capacity of all turbines in operation worldwide, the company said. The turbine's blades are each 123 meters long and can sweep an area of approximately 50,000 square meters -- the size of seven standard soccer fields. It is estimated that the wind turbine will be able to generate more than 66 million kilowatt-hours of clean electricity annually, meeting the annual electricity consumption needs of 36,000 three-member households. That is equivalent to saving about 22,000 tonnes of standard coal and reducing carbon dioxide

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CHINA-FUJIAN-OFFSHORE WIND TURBINE-16MW (CN)

(230719) -- FUZHOU, July 19, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo taken on July 19, 2023 shows a 16-megawatt wind turbine at the Fujian offshore wind farm operated by the China Three Gorges Corporation off the coast of southeast China's Fujian Province. The world's first 16-megawatt offshore wind turbine off the coast of Fujian Province was successfully connected to the grid and began generating electricity on Wednesday. The wind turbine has the largest single-unit generating capacity of all turbines in operation worldwide, the company said. The turbine's blades are each 123 meters long and can sweep an area of approximately 50,000 square meters -- the size of seven standard soccer fields. It is estimated that the wind turbine will be able to generate more than 66 million kilowatt-hours of clean electricity annually, meeting the annual electricity consumption needs of 36,000 three-member households. That is equivalent to saving about 22,000 tonnes of standard coal and reducing carbon dioxide emissions

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CHINA-FUJIAN-OFFSHORE WIND TURBINE-16MW (CN)

(230719) -- FUZHOU, July 19, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo taken on June 28, 2023 shows a 16-megawatt wind turbine installed at the Fujian offshore wind farm operated by the China Three Gorges Corporation off the coast of southeast China's Fujian Province. The world's first 16-megawatt offshore wind turbine off the coast of Fujian Province was successfully connected to the grid and began generating electricity on Wednesday. The wind turbine has the largest single-unit generating capacity of all turbines in operation worldwide, the company said. The turbine's blades are each 123 meters long and can sweep an area of approximately 50,000 square meters -- the size of seven standard soccer fields. It is estimated that the wind turbine will be able to generate more than 66 million kilowatt-hours of clean electricity annually, meeting the annual electricity consumption needs of 36,000 three-member households. That is equivalent to saving about 22,000 tonnes of standard coal and reducing carbon dioxide

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CHINA-FUJIAN-OFFSHORE WIND TURBINE-16MW (CN)

(230719) -- FUZHOU, July 19, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo taken on July 19, 2023 shows a 16-megawatt wind turbine at the Fujian offshore wind farm operated by the China Three Gorges Corporation off the coast of southeast China's Fujian Province. The world's first 16-megawatt offshore wind turbine off the coast of Fujian Province was successfully connected to the grid and began generating electricity on Wednesday. The wind turbine has the largest single-unit generating capacity of all turbines in operation worldwide, the company said. The turbine's blades are each 123 meters long and can sweep an area of approximately 50,000 square meters -- the size of seven standard soccer fields. It is estimated that the wind turbine will be able to generate more than 66 million kilowatt-hours of clean electricity annually, meeting the annual electricity consumption needs of 36,000 three-member households. That is equivalent to saving about 22,000 tonnes of standard coal and reducing carbon dioxide emissions

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Pakistani court orders immediate release of former prime minister

STORY: Pakistani court orders immediate release of former prime minister DATELINE: May 12, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:21 LOCATION: Islamabad CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Supreme Court of Pakistan 2. various of Islamabad STORYLINE: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Thursday evening ordered police to immediately release former Prime Minister Imran Khan who was arrested on May 9 on the charges of corruption and corrupt practices. The verdict was given on a plea of Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party saying the arrest was illegal as it was made at the premises of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) when Khan was seeking protective bail. The three-member bench of the supreme court, headed by the Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial, ordered the immediate release of the PTI chairman, and said he could reapply for protective bail on Friday. The court directed the Islamabad Police to keep Khan in a guest house at police headquarters until then. The court also directed the police t

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Chinese experts imparting rice-growing technology in Dominican Republic

STORY: Chinese experts imparting rice-growing technology in Dominican Republic DATELINE: May 8, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:26 LOCATION: Santo Domingo CATEGORY: AGRICULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of Chinese experts in the Dominican Republic 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): YU YUNXIANG, Chinese agricultural expert 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Spanish): JULIO CESAR LOPEZ, Agronomist at Dominican Institute of Agricultural and Forestry Research STORYLINE: A team of Chinese experts is imparting China's rice-growing technology in the Dominican Republic to help the country improve the yield and quality of rice. Since October, the three-member team has been experimenting on 1.3 hectares of land provided by the Dominican National Rice Training Center in Banao, a town some 80 km northeast of the capital Santo Domingo. The initiative is part of a cooperation project between the department of agriculture and rural affairs of central China's Hunan province and the Dominican Agriculture Ministry's department of international cooperation. SOUNDBITE

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NPO in Osaka organizes egg drop contest

KOBE, Japan - A high school student is about to drop a raw egg covered by a protector created by his three-member team during the Kansai western Japan regional competition of the Egg Drop Koshien on Nov. 3, 2013 on the Ritsumeikan University campus in Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture.

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SDF team arrives in Tacloban City

TACLOBAN CITY, Philippines - A three-member assessment team of Japan's Self-Defense Forces arrives at Tacloban City airport on Leyte Island on Nov. 14, 2013, five days after Typhoon Haiyan devastated islands in the central Philippines.

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Abe leaves for trip to Middle East

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe waves before boarding an aircraft at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Aug. 24, 2013 and leaving on a six-day trip to three member countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council -- Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar -- as well as Djibouti.

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Abe leaves for trip to Middle East

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) arrives at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Aug. 24, 2013 before leaving on a six-day trip to three member countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council -- Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar -- as well as Djibouti.

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N. Korea Olympic Committee delegation visits Japan

TOKYO, Japan - A delegation of North Korea's Olympic Committee, including Son Kwang Ho (L), a vice minister of physical culture and sports and vice president of the North Korean Olympic Committee, arrives at Narita International Airport in Chiba Prefecture on July 11, 2011. The three-member delegation left Beijing the same day to attend an Olympic Council of Asia meeting to be held in Tokyo on July 14.

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Ex-U.S. envoy Pritchard ends 4-day trip to N. Korea

BEIJING, China - Charles Pritchard, a former U.S. special envoy for Korean peace talks, is surrounded by reporters at Beijing airport on Nov. 24, 2009, after returning from a four-day trip to North Korea. Richardson said his three-member group held about six hours of discussions with Ri Gun, director general of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's North American affairs bureau.

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Japanese Red Cross team leaves for Iran for refugee relief

NARITA, Japan - A three-member advance team of the Japanese Red Cross Society prepares to leave Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on March 24 for Tehran to provide medical support to refugees entering Iran due to the U.S.-led war on Iraq.

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U.N. fact-finding team meets in Geneva

GENEVA, Switzerland - Sadako Ogata (L), former U.N. high commissioner for refugees, talks with former Finish President Martti Ahtisaari, in Geneva on April 24 to prepare for their U.N.-commissioned mission to probe the Israeli army's alleged massacre at the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank. The three-member U.N. fact-finding team -- Ogata, Ahtisaari, and Cornelio Sommaruga, former president of the International Committee of the Red Cross -- arrived in Geneva earlier in the day.

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Chindon-ya competition held in Toyama

A chindon-ya group from Tokyo performs during the all-Japan chindon-ya competition in Toyama on April 10, 2016. The all-female, three-member team won the event for the second straight year. A chindon-ya is a group of traditional street performers dressed in bright-colored clothes and makeup, playing musical instruments and hired as part of an advertising campaign. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Thai activists arrested for demanding junta release politician

Three member of the Resistant Citizen group observe silence in central Bangkok on April 20, 2016, to symbolically express their peaceful demand for the release of a politician detained by the junta for voicing his objection to a draft charter on social media. Following the protest, the three were arrested. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hokkaido high school team wins national cake contest

Photo taken on Sept. 22, 2015, shows "Magnum Opus," the cake produced by a three-member team from Hokkaido Mikasa High School that won a national contest for high school students aspiring to become patissiers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pictures of disabled N. Korea nuclear facilities show empty pits

BEIJING, China - Photographs of disabled nuclear facilities at North Korea's Yongbyon complex, obtained by Kyodo News on Feb. 17 from a three-member U.S. delegation which visited the country recently, show empty rooms and pits after the removal of furnaces and equipment used for making nuclear fuel. The photo shows the inside of a cooling tower that has been emptied of operation structure. (Kyodo)

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Pictures of disabled N. Korea nuclear facilities show empty pits

BEIJING, China - Photographs of disabled nuclear facilities at North Korea's Yongbyon complex, obtained by Kyodo News on Feb. 17 from a three-member U.S. delegation which visited the country recently, show empty rooms and pits after the removal of furnaces and equipment used for making nuclear fuel. The photo shows an emptied hall in a fuel fabrication facility after removal of the lathes. Ventilation hoods remain in place. (Kyodo)

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Pictures of disabled N. Korea nuclear facilities show empty pits

BEIJING, China - Photographs of disabled nuclear facilities at North Korea's Yongbyon complex, obtained by Kyodo News on Feb. 17 from a three-member U.S. delegation which visited the country recently, show empty rooms and pits after the removal of furnaces and equipment used for making nuclear fuel. The photo shows an empty pit which used to contain a furnace for making nuclear fuel. (Kyodo)

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Pictures of disabled N. Korea nuclear facilities show empty pits

BEIJING, China - Photographs of disabled nuclear facilities at North Korea's Yongbyon complex, obtained by Kyodo News on Feb. 17 from a three-member U.S. delegation which visited the country recently, show empty rooms and pits after the removal of furnaces and equipment used for making nuclear fuel. The photo shows Siegfried Hecker, professor at Stanford University, examining lathes that were previously used for making nuclear fuel, which are now stored in a monitored storage location. (Kyodo)

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Pictures of disabled N. Korea nuclear facilities show empty pits

BEIJING, China - Photographs of disabled nuclear facilities at North Korea's Yongbyon complex, obtained by Kyodo News on Feb. 17 from a three-member U.S. delegation which visited the country recently, show empty rooms and pits after the removal of furnaces and equipment used for making nuclear fuel. The photo shows the pits from which tanks used for making nuclear fuel have been removed. (Kyodo)

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Pictures of disabled N. Korea nuclear facilities show empty pits

BEIJING, China - Photographs of disabled nuclear facilities at North Korea's Yongbyon complex, obtained by Kyodo News on Feb. 17 from a three-member U.S. delegation which visited the country recently, show empty rooms and pits after the removal of furnaces and equipment used for making nuclear fuel. The photo shows the site of a fuel fabrication facility after removal of equipment used for casting nuclear fuel rods. (Kyodo)

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Pictures of disabled N. Korea nuclear facilities show empty pits

BEIJING, China - Photographs of disabled nuclear facilities at North Korea's Yongbyon complex, obtained by Kyodo News on Feb. 17 from a three-member U.S. delegation which visited the country recently, show empty rooms and pits after the removal of furnaces and equipment used for making nuclear fuel. The photo shows North Korean workers in front of insulating bricks and sand removed from furnaces used to make nuclear fuel. (Kyodo)

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Pictures of disabled N. Korea nuclear facilities show empty pits

BEIJING, China - Photographs of disabled nuclear facilities at North Korea's Yongbyon complex, obtained by Kyodo News on Feb. 17 from a three-member U.S. delegation which visited the country recently, show empty rooms and pits after the removal of furnaces and equipment used for making nuclear fuel. The photo shows a cooling tower seen from the outside. (Kyodo)

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Pictures of disabled N. Korea nuclear facilities show empty pits

BEIJING, China - Photographs of disabled nuclear facilities at North Korea's Yongbyon complex, obtained by Kyodo News on Feb. 17 from a three-member U.S. delegation which visited the country recently, show empty rooms and pits after the removal of furnaces and equipment used for making nuclear fuel. The photo shows the inside of a cooling tower that has been emptied of operation structure. (Kyodo)

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Pictures of disabled N. Korea nuclear facilities show empty pits

BEIJING, China - Photographs of disabled nuclear facilities at North Korea's Yongbyon complex, obtained by Kyodo News on Feb. 17 from a three-member U.S. delegation which visited the country recently, show empty rooms and pits after the removal of furnaces and equipment used for making nuclear fuel. The photo shows Siegfried Hecker (5th from left), professor at Stanford University, and others in white protective gear observing the equipment-removal site in the spent-fuel processing facility. (Kyodo)

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(CORRECTED) Ex-U.S. envoy Pritchard ends 4-day trip to N. Korea

BEIJING, China - Charles Pritchard, a former U.S. special envoy for Korean peace talks, is surrounded by reporters at Beijing airport on Nov. 24, 2009, after returning from a four-day trip to North Korea. Pritchard said his three-member group held about six hours of discussions with Ri Gun, director general of the North Korean Foreign Ministry's North American affairs bureau. (Kyodo)

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N. Korea Olympic Committee delegation visits Japan

TOKYO, Japan - A delegation of North Korea's Olympic Committee, including Son Kwang Ho (L), a vice minister of physical culture and sports and vice president of the North Korean Olympic Committee, arrives at Narita International Airport in Chiba Prefecture on July 11, 2011. The three-member delegation left Beijing the same day to attend an Olympic Council of Asia meeting to be held in Tokyo on July 14. (Kyodo)

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Olympics: Journey of Japanese table tennis star Fukuhara

File photo from June 2000 shows Japanese table tennis player Ai Fukuhara competing in the Ogimura Cup tournament at Kobe Central Gymnasium at the age of 11. Fukuhara was part of the three-member Japanese team that won bronze in the team event at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics on Aug. 16, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Olympics: Journey of Japanese table tennis star Fukuhara

File photo from June 1994 shows Japanese table tennis player Ai Fukuhara competing in an exhibition match at Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium at the age of 5. Fukuhara was part of the three-member Japanese team that won bronze in the team event at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics on Aug. 16, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese Red Cross team leaves for Iran for refugee relief

NARITA, Japan - A three-member advance team of the Japanese Red Cross Society prepares to leave Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on March 24 for Tehran to provide medical support to refugees entering Iran due to the U.S.-led war on Iraq. (Kyodo)

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U.N. fact-finding team meets in Geneva

GENEVA, Switzerland - Sadako Ogata (L), former U.N. high commissioner for refugees, talks with former Finish President Martti Ahtisaari, in Geneva on April 24 to prepare for their U.N.-commissioned mission to probe the Israeli army's alleged massacre at the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank. The three-member U.N. fact-finding team -- Ogata, Ahtisaari, and Cornelio Sommaruga, former president of the International Committee of the Red Cross -- arrived in Geneva earlier in the day.

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Japan sends advance team to Mozambique

NARITA, Japan - A three-member Japanese advance team leaves Narita airport on March 9 for Mozambique to assess the damage from floods that have devastated the African country. The Japanese government also plans to send a medical team to Mozambique to help prevent the spread of disease among flood victims.