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(16 Jun 2025)

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Petah Tikva, Israel - 16 June 2025

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1. Wide of residential building hit by an Iranian missile, scorched and damaged, emergency workers working on site

2. Wide of rescuer carrying little girl away

3. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Yoram Suki, 60 years-old, resident of building: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON SHOT1 AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT2&4 AND PARTIALLY BY SHOT5++

“After we received the alerts at night, we entered to the safe room, we waited, there was a siren, within a minute and a half after the siren, we felt supersonic booms, up there, very strong booms, half a minute later we felt the explosion inside the apartment, inside the building, we waited until they told us that we can exit the safe room, thank God the safe room saved us, big time.”

4. Various of damaged building, rescuers searching through ruins

5. Rescuers helping pensioner

6. Zoom out rescue services on balcony

7. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Yoram Suki, 60 years-old, resident of building: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT 8 AND PARTIALLY BY SHOT9++

“After that when we opened the safe room’s door, we were shocked, the entire apartment was completely dismantled. Nothing was left. Within minutes, just a few minutes, the security forces, the Home Front Command arrived. They quickly called us to the apartment, they looked around, they asked us if everything was okay, me, the wife and the girl, thank God, we were okay.”

8. Wide of rescuers inside damaged part of the building

9. Wide of rescuer holding a baby, walking with resident

10. Exteriors of damaged building

STORYLINE:

Iran launched a new wave of missile attacks on Israel early Monday, triggering air raid sirens across the country.

Emergency services reported projectiles striking and shrapnel falling in Israel's north and center, wounding at least 67 people.

Authorities in the central Israeli city of Petah Tikva, near Tel Aviv, said Iranian missiles had hit a residential building, charring the concrete walls, blowing out the windows and heavily damaging multiple homes.

There was no immediate word on the number of casualties from that strike as rescuers searched through the ruins.

Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency service said it was treating 67 wounded people evacuated from four different sites of missile strikes, mostly in moderate and mild condition.

Iran's state TV announced it had fired at least 100 missiles at Israel, signaling that the country had no intention of yielding to international calls for de-escalation as it pressed on with its retaliation for Israel's surprise attack Friday.

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(16 Jun 2025)

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Mokopane, South Africa - 24 May 2025

1. Wide of farmer Kobus de Lange tending to crosses at a memorial site, UPSOUND (English): "When we come here we try to do all of them. He was murdered at the age of 79 years on 8th November 1996"

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Kobus de Lange, farmer:

"The idea is to show people, the greatness of this is, how many farmers were murdered in South Africa and is still murdered every year. Every year when we do the planting, it's around about 50 crosses that's been planted for the last year's farmers, that were brutally murdered. It's across the board, there are black farmers that's also attacked, but it's not as much as the white farmers that is attacked, and it's not as brutal."

3. Various of crosses in a field memorializing victims of farm killings

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Normandien, South Africa - 24 May 2025

4. Wide of the road US President Donald Trump showed in a video in which he incorrectly referred to the location as a “burial site” of slain white farmers

5. Various of Normandien resident MmaNtuli Buthelezi and her relatives preparing to cook outside

6. SOUNDBITE (Zulu) MmaNtuli Buthelezi, Normandien resident:

“What Donald Trump is saying about whites being targeted does not exist. White people have large firearms, we wouldn't even try targeting them. We don’t even have small firearms. Our weapons are just a spear and a shield, and sticks we get from the woods.”

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Johannesburg - 30 May 2025

7. Wide of crime expert Gareth Newman

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Gareth Newman, crime expert at the Institute for Security Studies:

"Although it is a huge concern, of course, to the farming community that they do fall victims to these attacks, those attacks are robberies. It's criminal individuals and groups that are targeting them because they're considered vulnerable and want to steal from them. And those groups also attack people in towns and in villages and in cities. So they're not only targeting farmers. So this idea that there's a particular campaign against white farmers is not true. So it's not about whether you're Black or white, it's about how wealthy you are and where you live. And you'll probably get equally bad service from the police everywhere, because the police themselves are completely overstretched. They're trying to do everything rather than focus on the key priorities, have key priorities and focus on those. So for example we don't have a strategy to reduce murder in South Africa, we've got an integrated crime prevention, crime and violence prevention strategy which is broad about everything."

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Mokopane, South Africa - 24 May 2025

9. Various of a woman tending to crosses at memorial site

10. Crosses in field

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Normandien, South Africa - 24 May 2025

11. Wide of farmer releasing his dog from the back of his vehicle

12. Wide of farmer walking among cattle on his farm

STORYLINE:

The white crosses... [truncated]

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(16 Jun 2025)

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Bnei Brak, Israel – 16 June 2025

1. Close up of collapsed roof

2. Mid of damaged vehicles

3. Various of rescue services at scene

4. Mid of damaged windows

5. Various of scene

STORYLINE:

Iran has launched a new wave of missile attacks on Israel, triggering air raid sirens across the country as emergency services reported at least five killed and dozens more wounded in the fourth day of open warfare between the regional foes.

Iran announced it had launched some 100 missiles and vowed further retaliation for Israel’s surprise attack on its nuclear program and military leadership, which has killed at least 224 in the country since it began last Friday.

In announcing the latest salvo after a weekend of escalating tit-for-tat attacks, Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard vowed that further rounds of strikes would be “more forceful, severe, precise and destructive than previous ones.”

Israel argues that its assault on Iran's top military leaders, uranium enrichment sites and nuclear scientists was necessary to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Iran has always insisted its nuclear program is peaceful, and the U.S. and others have assessed that Tehran has not pursued a nuclear weapon since 2003.

AP video by Alon Bernstein

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(16 Jun 2025)

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Bnei Brak, Israel – 16 June 2025

1. Close up of collapsed roof

2. Mid of damaged vehicles

3. Various of rescue services at scene

4. Mid of damaged windows

5. Various of scene

STORYLINE:

Iran has launched a new wave of missile attacks on Israel, triggering air raid sirens across the country as emergency services reported at least five killed and dozens more wounded in the fourth day of open warfare between the regional foes.

Iran announced it had launched some 100 missiles and vowed further retaliation for Israel’s surprise attack on its nuclear program and military leadership, which has killed at least 224 in the country since it began last Friday.

In announcing the latest salvo after a weekend of escalating tit-for-tat attacks, Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard vowed that further rounds of strikes would be “more forceful, severe, precise and destructive than previous ones.”

Israel argues that its assault on Iran's top military leaders, uranium enrichment sites and nuclear scientists was necessary to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Iran has always insisted its nuclear program is peaceful, and the U.S. and others have assessed that Tehran has not pursued a nuclear weapon since 2003.

AP video by Alon Bernstein

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(16 Jun 2025)

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Petah Tikva, Israel – 16 June 2025

1. Rescue services at scene

2. Mid of damaged building

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dean Elsdunne, Israeli police spokesman:

“As you can see behind me. This is the result of the latest barrage of rockets fired at our residential communities by Iran. It's continuing the pattern as we're seeing each and every one of these scenes are targeting residential communities, civilians in their homes. Early this morning our police hotline number have got the report of a building that was hit. Our first responders and our bomb squad immediately arrived to the scene so that we can medically evacuate those that were injured together with the other first responders that are here, Home Front Command, the medical services. This is something that we prepare for year-round and something that we've been on high alert for since the start of these rocket barrages targeting our residential communities. “

4. More of damaged building

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dean Elsdunne, Israeli police spokesman:

“Right now, at this specific scene, we have well over 30, close to 40 even, injured in various conditions. They are mainly in light conditions because they listened to the instructions of the Home Front Command, and I can confirm that at this time there is three fatalities. That number is dynamic. It can change. It comes from the medical sources.”

6. Zoom out rescue services on balcony

7. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Yoram Suki, 60 years-old, resident of building:

“After we received the alerts at night, we entered to the safe room, we waited, there was a siren, within a minute and a half after the siren, we felt supersonic booms, up there, very strong booms, half a minute later we felt the explosion inside the apartment, inside the building, we waited until they told us that we can exit the safe room, thank God the safe room saved us, big time.”

8. Close up of group of rescue services at scene

9. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Yoram Suki, 60 years-old, resident of building:

“After that when we opened the safe room’s door, we were shocked, the entire apartment was completely dismantled. Nothing was left. Within minutes, just a few minutes, the security forces, the Home Front Command arrived. They quickly called us to the apartment, they looked around, they asked us if everything was okay, me, the wife and the girl, thank God, we were okay.”

10. Close up of security forces

11. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Yoram Suki, 60 years-old, resident of building:

“Bibi, keep going, don't stop, you have to eliminate them. There's nothing to do. The whole nation of Israel is with you. “

(Reporter: Does the war worth the suffering?)

“It is totally worth it, because this is for the sake of our children, and grandchildren, Yes, I’m personally ready to take it in, that the apartment was totally dismantled, and we have now a challenging period, a difficult period, but yes until the end, must not stop. “

12. Wide of damage... [truncated]

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Venice, Italy - 15 June 2025

1. Venetian gondolas moored, boat crossing canal in background

2. Protesters unfurling a banner in a Venice canal against new hotel opening

3. View of a Venice canal by train

4. Various of boats with tourists crossing canals

5. Banner held by protesters on a boat reading (Italian): “Stop hotels, more cities."

6. Activist Giacomo Salerno looking at his smartphone UPSOUND (Italian): “Here we are in Palazzo dei Guardiani”

7. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Giacomo Salerno, activist:

“This is the Calle dei Guardiani complex that was taken over by Delta Real Estate. When it was taken over there were 18 apartments inside. It had also been a public housing complex in the past, then it had several changes of ownership. Delta Real Estate took it over and evicted the last remaining resident tenant, among other things, starting renovation work while the elderly resident was still inside. From 18 apartments they took over 33 units, all for tourist rentals.”

8. Various of gondolas with tourists onboard and waterbuses crossing the canals

9. Protesters holding banner in front of a hotel on Tronchetto island

10. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Giacomo Salerno, activist:

“This is the first Hampton by Hilton chain hotel to open. 648 beds on an island that was one of the few places of potential urban transformation and could have hosted public investment to implement services for residents, which this city notoriously lacks.”

11. Tourists aboard a boat crossing a city canal

STORYLINE:

In Venice, a couple of dozen protesters unfurled a banner Sunday calling for a halt to new hotel beds in the lagoon city in front of two recently completed structures, one in the popular tourist destination’s historic center where activists say the last resident, an elderly woman, was kicked out last year.

“They started the construction work while she was still inside,’’ said Giacomo Salerno of the OCIO housing activist group that organized the protest.

“She paid her rent regularly, and up until today she still hasn’t found a place to live.’’

Organizers underlined that nearly 17,000 tourist beds had been added to the city of Venice since 2017 despite a “hotel block” in the historic center adopted that year by the city.

According to Ocio, there are 58, 310 tourist beds - both hotels and short-term rentals - in Venice’s historic center and lagoon islands, and a total of 84,628 taking into account the Venetian mainland.

The protesters highlighted the latest examples: The conversion of an apartment building at Calle dei Guardiani from 18 units to 30 short-term rental units exploiting a gray area in the 2017 measure by not being officially registered as a hotel, Salerno said.

The protesters moved unobtrusively from the first stop in Tronchetto, an island not covered by the hotel block, where a 648-room hotel has recently opened and where another is being built, to the Calle dei Guardiani structure.

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(16 Jun 2025)

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Beijing - 16 June 2025

1. Wide of news conference

2. Wide of reporters

3. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Fu Linghui, spokesperson of National Statistics Bureau of China:

“In general, in May as the policy package continued to take effect, it plays a greater role in stabilizing the economy and promoting development. The economy was generally stable with steady progress, which fully demonstrates our economy's resilience and vitality. But it is also important to recognize that there are still many external uncertainties and instabilities. Domestic demand needs further strengthening, and the foundation for a sustained economic recovery and improvement still needs to be consolidated.”

4. Reporter asking questions

5. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Fu Linghui, spokesperson of National Statistics Bureau of China:

“Driven by policies such as trade-in programs for consumer goods and online sales promotions, market sales growth accelerated. In May, total retail sales of consumer goods increased by 6.4% year-on-year, 1.3 percentage points faster than the previous month.”

6. Wide of reporters

7. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Fu Linghui, spokesperson of National Statistics Bureau of China:

“In May, the value added industrial output above this size grew by 5.8%. In terms of industries, the key industries, including equipment manufacturing, grew rapidly, supporting steady growth of the industry.”

8. Mid of reporters

9. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Fu Linghui, spokesperson of National Statistics Bureau of China

“In May, the property market was generally stable, but the property market is still undergoing adjustment. Market confidence is being rebuilt. Market supply and demand need further improvement and more efforts are needed.”

10. Various of news conference

STORYLINE:

The Chinese markets retreated after the country's industrial output rose 5.8% year-on-year in May.

That figure missed the expectations, despite the strong retail sales growth of 6.4%, which beat the forecast, according to data released by China's National Bureau of Statistics Monday.

At a news conference in Beijing, China's National Bureau of Statistics spokesperson Fu Linghui said China’s economy was “generally stable with steady progress.”

However, he warned that “external uncertainties and instabilities” remain and emphasized that domestic demand still requires strengthening to solidify the foundation for sustained recovery.

Retail sales, a key measurement of consumer spending, rose to 6.4% in May, up from 5.1% in April.

Fu attributed the boost to government-led “trade-in programs for consumer goods” and robust online promotions during the May Day holiday.

Growth in industrial output increased 5.8% from a year earlier, slightly down from April’s 6.1% expansion.

Meanwhile, investment in fixed assets, which includes spending on infrastructure, real estate, machinery, and equipment, increased by 3.7% from January to May compared to the same period las... [truncated]

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(16 Jun 2025)

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Petah Tikva, Israel - 16 June 2025

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1. Wide of residential building hit by an Iranian missile, scorched and damaged, emergency workers working on site

2. Wide of rescuer carrying little girl away

3. Various of damaged building, rescuers searching through ruins

4. Rescuers helping pensioner

5. Wide of woman walking holding her dog

6. Wide of rescuers inside damaged part of the building

7. Wide of rescuer holding a baby, walking with resident

8. Various of people walking outside building, rescuers

9. Various exteriors of damaged building

10. Mid of rescuers inside damaged part of the building

STORYLINE:

Iran launched a new wave of missile attacks on Israel early Monday, triggering air raid sirens across the country.

Emergency services reported projectiles striking and shrapnel falling in Israel's north and center, wounding at least 67 people.

Authorities in the central Israeli city of Petah Tikva, near Tel Aviv, said Iranian missiles had hit a residential building, charring the concrete walls, blowing out the windows and heavily damaging multiple homes.

There was no immediate word on the number of casualties from that strike as rescuers searched through the ruins.

Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency service said it was treating 67 wounded people evacuated from four different sites of missile strikes, mostly in moderate and mild condition.

Iran's state TV announced it had fired at least 100 missiles at Israel, signaling that the country had no intention of yielding to international calls for de-escalation as it pressed on with its retaliation for Israel's surprise attack Friday.

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(16 Jun 2025)

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San Francisco - 11 June 2025

1. Various sunflower sea stars living in California Academy of Sciences aquarium tank with Giant Octopus

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jessica Witherly, Senior Biologist, California Academy of Sciences:

"The sunflower starfish is actually incredibly important. They were recently listed as critically endangered along the California coast by the ICUN list. That means that there's barely any that you would find on the California coast where you used to find them all over the place. So whenever you go out to a beach tide pooling, you'd be almost stepping on them. And now you can't find them anywhere."

3. Shipping container with "live animals" written on it

4. Various sea star larvae in containers and being examined with microscope

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jessica Witherly, Senior Biologist, California Academy of Sciences:

"California has beautiful kelp forests that are habitat to thousands of different animals. And that habitat is being destroyed right now by overpopulation of purple urchins. Those purple urchins normally would get eaten by pycnopodia or sunflower starfish as they eat other echinoderms or starfish and urchins. But because of their decline after the sea star wasting disease multiple years ago, the purple urchin's population has mass produced and is decimating our kelp forest, destroying habitat for many different species and affecting animals all up and down the California coast."

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Mendocino County, California - 30 September 2023

6. Underwater footage of purple urchins covering the sea floor

7. Underwater footage of diver smashing purple urchin

8. Diver holds harvested purple urchins

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San Francisco - 11 June 2025

9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jessica Witherly, Senior Biologist, California Academy of Sciences:

"So we collaborated with Alaska Sea Life Center in Seward, Alaska. We went up there where they have over 45 adult individuals and we were able to successfully spawn them."

10. Various growing sea stars moved into larger tanks

11. SOUNDBITE (English) Jessica Witherly, Senior Biologist, California Academy of Sciences:

"And we have, as you can see, a ton of larvae. So we are growing these up from free-floating larvae to tiny, subtle starfish to much larger juvenile starfish."

12. Medium-sized sunflower sea star in lab tank

13. SOUNDBITE (English) Jessica Witherly, Senior Biologist, California Academy of Sciences:

"But the goal here is to get good and kind of break the code about how to mass produce and breed and care for these animals in our care so that then we can reintroduce them back into the wild to see surges of their numbers along the west coast."

14. Two fully grown sunflower sea stars in public tank on display

STORYLINE:

In a breakthrough for marine conservation, scientists at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco are successfully spawning and raising critically endangered sunflower sea stars in... [truncated]

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Pine Grove Furnace State Park, Pennsylvania - 10 June 2025

1. Sam Cooper attempts the half-gallon ice cream challenge

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Sam Cooper, Appalachian Trail thru-hiker:

“1760, okay. So that's, that's about a third of my calories for the day.”

3. Ice cream on a table

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sam Cooper, Appalachian Trail thru-hiker:

"What I'm doing is eating a half-gallon of ice cream at the halfway point on the Appalachian Trail. It's called the half-gallon challenge. Very appropriately named."

5. A pint of ice cream

6. Zeke Meddock attempts the half-gallon ice cream challenge

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Sam Cooper, Appalachian Trail thru-hiker:

“It was a reward up until right about here. When I got below that, it became a challenge.”

8. Various of thru-hiker Noritaka Mizumoto walking the Appalachian Trail

9. Appalachian Trail sign

10. SOUNDBITE (English) Sam Cooper, Appalachian Trail thru-hiker:

“How many miles we've done so far… 1,090, isn't it?”

11. Appalachian Trail map and photos

12. Newspaper article on the half-gallon ice cream challenge

13. SOUNDBITE (English) Sam Cooper, Appalachian Trail thru-hiker:

“That's the last bite… we did it!”

14. Pine Grove Furnace General Store sign

15. Half-gallon ice cream challenge sign

16. SOUNDBITE (English) Angela Simons, manager at Pine Grove General Store:

“So the Pine Grove General Store is the unofficial halfway point of the Appalachian Trail and it's a stop for hikers for fresh food, the half-gallon challenge and for resupply.”

17. Photos of previous half-gallon ice cream challenge victors adorn a wall

18. Photo of half-gallon ice cream challenge record holder

19. SOUNDBITE (English) Angela Simons, manager at Pine Grove General Store:

“This is a big, you know, it's a big accomplishment making it halfway through the trail. It's the tradition. You know what I mean, just a little something to say ‘hey, i made it halfway, and I did the half-gallon challenge' so... a little bragging rights.”

20. Various of ice cream delivery

21. SOUNDBITE (English) Angela Simons, manager at Pine Grove General Store:

“It's very well known with the hikers, the half gallon challenge, the halfway point and all — so i feel like it's important. It's a big accomplishment and they want to reward themselves and the hikers just want to you know say ‘hey i did it.’ One more thing that they can say that they accomplished.”

22. Zeke Meddock is photographed after completing the half-gallon ice cream challenge

STORYLINE:

Midway up the Appalachian Trail, a little country store in Gardners, Pennsylvania, invites hikers to take on an additional challenge: eating a half-gallon of ice cream in one sitting. So far this year, about 50 thru-hikers have finished the challenge.

Besides bragging rights, they earned the honor of having their photos posted on a store bulletin board. The record, set two years ago, is under 4 minutes. It took nearly 40 minutes for Sam Coope... [truncated]

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