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(240105) -- BEIJING, Jan. 5, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Children and grandchildren of Tseten celebrate a traditional festival at their home in Lhaze County, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Jan. 22, 2023. Born in 1943, Tseten was a "Tralpa" (serf) before the campaign of democratic reform in Xizang. In March 1959, democratic reform was launched in Xizang and feudal serfdom was finally abolished. Nowadays, 11 members of four generations of Tseten's family live in plenty in their newly-built two-story house. (Xinhua/Sun Fei)

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Illuminations in Yamanashi

MINOBU, Japan - Sightseers look at illuminated houses in Minobu, Yamanashi Prefecture, central Japan, on Dec. 10, 2011. Residents of two houses in the mountainous town started the illuminations in December 2000 to entertain their grandchildren. The custom, which is observed every December, has spread to 38 houses, drawing visitors from as far away as Tokyo.

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3 die in residential fire in Okayama

NIIMI, Japan - This photo shows a house in Niimi, Okayama Prefecture, on Nov. 9, 2009, that burned down in a residential fire, claiming the lives of three people. Takako Ikeda, 67, and her two grandchildren -- Ayaka, 13, and Kein, 7 -- died in the fire, while Ikeda's husband, Kameo, 68, escaped the fire and was hospitalized for smoke inhalation.

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3 die in residential fire in Okayama

NIIMI, Japan - Firefighters and police inspect a house in Niimi, Okayama Prefecture, on Nov. 9, 2009, that burned down in a residential fire, claiming the lives of three people. Takako Ikeda, 67, and her two grandchildren -- Ayaka, 13, and Kein, 7 -- died in the fire, while Ikeda's husband, Kameo, 68, escaped the fire and was hospitalized for smoke inhalation.

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World's largest fun run returns to Sydney with passion and vitality

STORY: World's largest fun run returns to Sydney with passion and vitality DATELINE: Aug. 15, 2022 LENGTH: 0:00:53 LOCATION: SYDNEY, Australia CATEGORY: SPORTS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the City2Surf STORYLINE: After two years of going virtual, the world's largest fun run, the City2Surf, returned to Australia's Sydney on Sunday. Since its inauguration in 1971, City2Surf has transformed from a humble, local road race to the world's largest fun run, attracting not only athletes but also ordinary people seeking for fun. Just as he did every year, 85-year-old Bruce Shying woke up in the early hours of the morning before he, his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren all piled onto the train for the city. "I get to Sutherland railway station at around six o'clock in the morning. By the time you get to Town Hall the train is packed with people all going to run," he told Xinhua. He described the Sunday morning, as trains fill up at each stop and the carriage fills with the smell of liniment, t

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TURKEY-ISTANBUL-SUPERMARKET

(220528) -- ISTANBUL, May 28, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Sevda Alkin, a customer, speaks to Xinhua reporter at a supermarket in Istanbul, Turkey, May 26, 2022. The frequenter of the market intended to buy a couple of bottles of milk for her two grandchildren, but she abandoned the plan after seeing the prices of the chosen brand is 22 liras, up from 15 liras a month ago. A supermarket in Istanbul, once thronged with shoppers for a great variety of goods, is now completely desolated as inflation drove the prices out of reach. TO GO WITH "Feature: Turkish supermarket deserted amid ever-increasing food prices" (Xinhua/Shadati)

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3-generation German shepherd family takes exam to become police dogs

Six German shepherds from the same family -- the 7-year-old mother, her two 4-year-old daughters and three 2-year-old grandchildren -- pose after taking part in an examination to become part-time police dogs in Saitama, north of Tokyo, on April 13, 2015. Results will be announced in late May. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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3 die in residential fire in Okayama

NIIMI, Japan - This photo shows a house in Niimi, Okayama Prefecture, on Nov. 9, 2009, that burned down in a residential fire, claiming the lives of three people. Takako Ikeda, 67, and her two grandchildren -- Ayaka, 13, and Kein, 7 -- died in the fire, while Ikeda's husband, Kameo, 68, escaped the fire and was hospitalized for smoke inhalation. (Kyodo)

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3 die in residential fire in Okayama

NIIMI, Japan - Firefighters and police inspect a house in Niimi, Okayama Prefecture, on Nov. 9, 2009, that burned down in a residential fire, claiming the lives of three people. Takako Ikeda, 67, and her two grandchildren -- Ayaka, 13, and Kein, 7 -- died in the fire, while Ikeda's husband, Kameo, 68, escaped the fire and was hospitalized for smoke inhalation. (Kyodo)

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Illuminations in Yamanashi

MINOBU, Japan - Sightseers look at illuminated houses in Minobu, Yamanashi Prefecture, central Japan, on Dec. 10, 2011. Residents of two houses in the mountainous town started the illuminations in December 2000 to entertain their grandchildren. The custom, which is observed every December, has spread to 38 houses, drawing visitors from as far away as Tokyo. (Kyodo)

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Quake destruction a nightmare for Mexican town

A resident of Juchitan in southern Mexico's Oaxaca stands amid the rubble of her home on Sept. 9, 2017, two days after it was destroyed by the strongest earthquake to hit the country since 1985. The woman described how she and her two grandchildren escaped when the magnitude-8.1 temblor hit in the middle of the night while they were sleeping. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo