Tunisian president, Italian PM discuss bilateral ties, illegal immigration

STORY: Tunisian president, Italian PM discuss bilateral ties, illegal immigration DATELINE: June 7, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:49 LOCATION: Tunis CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. Various of Tunisian President meeting with Italian PM STORYLINE: Tunisian President Kais Saied met on Tuesday with visiting Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to discuss bilateral ties and the illegal immigration problem. During the meeting, Saied praised the close friendship and cooperation between Tunisia and Italy, recalling the historical memories of the rapprochement between the two peoples, said a statement issued by the Tunisian presidency. The two officials focused on issues of common interest, including the illegal immigration issue, it said. "The phenomenon of illegal immigration is worsening day by day and can only be solved through a collective action," Saied was quoted as saying. He noted the existence of criminal networks that engage in the trafficking of human beings and organs, whether in African countries or in nort

N. Korea's Kim calls for increase in grain production in key meeting

People wearing face masks walk in Pyongyang on March 3, 2023. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for increasing grain production at a key four-day ruling party meeting through Wednesday focused on agricultural development, state-run media reported, amid speculation that the country has been suffering from a chronic food shortage. At the plenary meeting of the Workers' Party of Korea, which followed the previous plenum by an unusually short interval of two months, Kim said it is "important to concentrate on increasing the per-hectare yield at all the farms," the official Korean Central News Agency said Thursday. He also stressed the need to enhance the role of the provincial, city and county guidance organs and all the farms in attaining the long-term objective of agricultural development, KCNA said.

Yamaha to launch electronic organs connectable to Internet

Yamaha to launch electronic organs connectable to Internet

TOKYO, Japan - Yamaha Corp. said Jan. 15 it will begin selling on March 20 an electronic organ (in handout photo) that can be connected to the Internet, becoming the first company in the world to add such functions to keyboard instruments for household use. The organs, called STAGEA, can be connected to the Internet without using personal computers, and users will be able to do such things as previewing and downloading music data, Yamaha said. Yamaha will release two types of the organs and they will be priced at 1,081,500 yen and 693,000 yen, respectively.

Japan's 9th set of organ transplants gets under way

Japan's 9th set of organ transplants gets under way

KYOTO, Japan - A doctor (R) from Hokkaido University transporting a liver arrives at Kyoto University Hospital as Japan's ninth set of organ transplant operations got under way Nov. 5 on two women, one in her 40s and another in her 50s, from organs donated by a brain-dead woman in Hakodate, Hokkaido. Earlier in the day, doctors at Hokkaido University removed two organs from the donor -- a kidney for the younger woman at the municipal hospital in Sapporo and a liver for the older woman in Kyoto. The liver was transported to Kyoto by plane and Shinkansen bullet train.

Rwanda's Umuganda community work resumes, after two-year suspension due to COVID-19

STORY: Rwanda's Umuganda community work resumes, after two-year suspension due to COVID-19 DATELINE: March 28, 2022 LENGTH: 0:03:08 LOCATION: Kigali CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the community work 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): PUDENCE RUBINGISA, Mayor of Kigali 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Kinyarwanda): NOEL NSHIMIYIMANA, Resident 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): VANESSA UMUTONI, Resident STORYLINE: Rwandan citizens on Saturday formally resumed monthly community work, locally known as Umuganda, after significant decline in COVID-19 infections, for the first time since the outbreak of COVID-19 in March 2020. About 1,500 people gathered at Bumbogo, in a suburb of Rwanda's capital city, Kigali, to clear bushes, drainage channels and to sweep the streets during community work. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): PUDENCE RUBINGISA, Mayor of Kigali "We've been joined by the specialists and also the directors-generals from different entities and organs like Rwanda Water Board and the water sector that has been badly affected by the

Japan's 9th set of organ transplants gets under way

Japan's 9th set of organ transplants gets under way

KYOTO, Japan - A doctor (R) from Hokkaido University transporting a liver arrives at Kyoto University Hospital as Japan's ninth set of organ transplant operations got under way Nov. 5 on two women, one in her 40s and another in her 50s, from organs donated by a brain-dead woman in Hakodate, Hokkaido. Earlier in the day, doctors at Hokkaido University removed two organs from the donor -- a kidney for the younger woman at the municipal hospital in Sapporo and a liver for the older woman in Kyoto. The liver was transported to Kyoto by plane and Shinkansen bullet train.

Kyoto doctors conduct liver transplant on 6-year-old girl

Kyoto doctors conduct liver transplant on 6-year-old girl

KYOTO, Japan - Kyoto University Hospital doctors led by Koichi Tanaka (third from L) carry out a liver transplant on a 6-year-old girl late on March 29, as part of a series of transplants around Japan of organs extracted from a female patient confirmed legally brain-dead March 28 at a Tokyo hospital. The operations, which were successfully completed by the morning of March 30, involved four organs transplanted to seven patients, including two children, at six medical institutions. Kyoto University Hospital released this photo.