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Aleppo, Syria - 2 June 2025

1. Woman kissing her freed relative on a bus carrying prisoners

2. Various of freed men leaving buses

3. Man hugging and kissing freed relative

4. Two men hugging

5. People gathered

6. Woman whose brother was not released or found screams and cries, UPSOUND (Arabic) "Bring me my brother! Ahmad al-Sharaa (Syria's president), where are you on this? You're releasing the prisoners, where are they? Where is my brother? No. No."

7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yasser Mohammed Hakim, freed prisoner:

"The prison that they put us in was a prison that had IS members and terrorists. They put us with the biggest IS leaders and the biggest terrorists. I told them I'm a civilian. I am a civilian who took the a wrong road. I lost six months of my life; 180 days — I died 180 times in them."

8. Various of people waiting for the prisoners with dance and music

9. Various of buses carrying the prisoners driving by

10. People walking to buses, with music playing

11. People by buses

12. Freed prisoners and family members gathered

13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hassan Mahmoud al-Zain, freed prisoner:

"My happiness is priceless, all the money in the world couldn't measure up to it. There's nothing more beautiful than this happiness. The six months (in prison) felt like six years, each month felt like more than a year. I thank God."

14. Various drone shots of buses carrying prisoners lining up ++MUTE++

STORYLINE:

Syrian authorities and a Kurdish-led force exchanged Monday more than 400 prisoners as part of a deal reached earlier this year between the two sides.

The exchange in the northern city of Aleppo is a step in the process of confidence-building measures between the government in Damascus and the U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.

A similar exchange took place in April.

Mulham al-Akidi, the deputy governor of Aleppo province, said 470 prisoners were released by both sides adding that the exchange “aims to reduce tensions on the ground.”

He added that if there are more prisoners they will be released in the near future.

Yasser Mohammed Hakim said he was detained six months ago after he drove into an SDF-controlled area by mistake.

The man added that he was held in a jail where members of the Islamic State group are held in Syria.

“They put us with the biggest terrorists,” Hakim told The Associated Press after his release by the SDF.

“I am a civilian who took the wrong road. I lost six months of my life.”

In March, Syria’s interim government signed a deal with the Kurdish-led authority that controls the country’s northeast, including a ceasefire and the merging of the main U.S.-backed force there into the Syrian army.

Since the deal was signed, the clashes between the SDF and the Syrian National Army, a coalition of Turkey-backed groups, almost stopped in northern Syria after months of fighting that left dozens killed or wounded on both sides.

Syria’... [truncated]

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(2 Jun 2025)

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Washington, DC - 2 June 2025

1. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt walks toward reporters on the north lawn of the White House

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Karoline Leavitt, White House press secretary:

"Yeah, we have seen two horrific cases of anti-semitic violence in our country in the last two weeks, and it is unacceptable to this president and this White House. And rest assured, to all Jewish Americans across our great country, this president has your back. And he's not going to allow anyone to take part in violent terrorism, it's acts of terrorism in our country. And that's what this case in Boulder, Colorado, is being investigated as. Kudos to our FBI director, Kash Patel, for immediately calling this a targeted terrorist attack. That's clearly what it was. But I'd also like to point out that this administration has done more than any administration to curb this violence and to curb illegal immigration. We secured our border in record time, but we're also tightening up our visa process and our legal immigration process. And we know that this individual, this terrorist, was allowed into this country by the previous administration, was foolishly given a tourism visa, and then was illegally allowed to stay. These individuals are going to be deported, and we're not going to tolerate such violence in our country."

++BLACK FRAMES++

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Karoline Leavitt, White House press secretary:

Reporter: "President Erdogan, President Trump, President Putin, President Zelenskyy meet in Istanbul. Is that something that President Trump would support and would be partaking?"

Leavitt: "Well, the president has said he's open to it if it comes to that. But he wants both of these leaders and both sides to sit down at the table together. And we saw them do that at the urging of President Trump today. But as for how the president feels about those talks and what took place there, I'll let him speak on that."

Reporter: "What is the president's reaction to that Ukrainian drone attack? A stunning drone attack on a Russian air base. I'm sure he saw that. What is his reaction?"

Leavitt: "Well, look, the reaction is this war needs to come to an end, and this war has been brutal from both sides. Too many people have died, and the president wants this war to end at the negotiating table, and he's made that very clear to both leaders, both publicly and privately."

++BLACK FRAMES++

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Karoline Leavitt, White House press secretary:

"Sure. She asked about the potential call with President Xi. I can confirm that the two leaders will likely talk this week. And as always, when there are foreign leader calls, we will provide a readout of those calls. So we'll see you guys later. Thank you."

5. Leavitt walks away from reporters ++CONTINUOUS SHOT++

STORYLINE:

The White House said the violence seen in Boulder, Colorado over the weekend is "unacceptable" after man accused of usi... [truncated]

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(2 Jun 2025)

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Boston – 2 June 2025

1. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts officials gather for a press conference

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Patricia H. Hyde, Field Office Director, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations, Boston:

“We were able to arrest almost 1,500 illegal aliens throughout the Commonwealth during the month of May, most of whom have significant criminality in the United States or abroad. Throughout this enhanced immigration enforcement operation, ICE and our federal partners targeted the most dangerous alien offenders in some of the most crime-infested neighborhoods of Massachusetts. Our efforts resulted in the arrests of 1,461 criminal alien offenders. 277 of those offenders have been ordered removed from the United States by a Justice Department immigration judge. Make no mistake, every person we arrested was breaking our immigration laws. But most of these individuals, 790 to be exact, had significant criminality as well.”

++BLACK FRAMES++

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Patricia H. Hyde, Field Office Director, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations, Boston:

“Represented in these numbers are murderers, rapists, drug traffickers, child sex predators, and members of violent transnational criminal gangs.”

++BLACK FRAMES++

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Todd Lyons, Acting Director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement:

“If sanctuary cities would change their policies and turn these violent criminal aliens over to us into our custody, instead of releasing them into the public, we would not have to go out to the communities and do this. Boston’s my hometown and it really shocks me that officials all over Massachusetts would rather release sex offenders, fentanyl dealers, drug dealers, human traffickers and child rapists back into the neighborhoods.”

++BLACK FRAMES++

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Todd Lyons, Acting Director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement:

“Two weeks ago, in Los Angeles where we ran an operation where ICE officers were doxxed. So, let’s just say that again. People are out there taking photos of the names, their faces, and posting them online with death threats to their family and themselves. So, I’m sorry if people are offended by them wearing masks but I’m not going to let my officers and agents go out there and put their lives on the line and their family on the line because people don’t like what immigration enforcement is.”

++BLACK FRAMES++

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael J. Krol, Special Agent in Charge, Homeland Security Investigations in New England:

“It should be no secret by now that you will continue to see all of our special agents and officers in your communities conducting daily enforcement actions 24-7.”

7. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts officials leaving the press conference

STORYLINE:

Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Todd Lyons on Monday defended the use of masks by his agents and expressed frustration at sanctuary jurisdictions that he said are hindering the detainment of immigrants who are in the country illegally.

During a press conference at the federal courthouse in Boston announcing a May operation in Massachusetts where nearly 1,500 immigrants were taken into custody, Lyons said his agents wear masks because they and their families have been doxxed and “targeted" with death threats.

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(2 Jun 2025)

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ARCHIVE: Praia da Luz, Portugal - 15 June 2007

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1. Wide of resort where British girl Madeleine McCann went missing

2. Sign at reception

3. Wide of building

4. Resort sign and copy of front page of British tabloid paper showing picture of Madeleine

5. Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, walking with their children

6. McCanns walking back to apartment

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ARCHIVE: Arade Dam, Portugal - 23 May 2023

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7. Various of police search

8. Police tent

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ARCHIVE: Praia da Luz - 3 May 2017

++16:9++

9. Various of Madeleine McCann postcard and candle at Praia da Luz church

10. Exterior of Praia da Luz church

11. Exterior of Ocean Club hotel, from where Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007

12. Various of exterior of apartment from where Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007

13. Close of sign reading (English and Portuguese): "Strictly no admittance, residents only"

14. Various of exterior of Ocean Club hotel

15. Various of hotel entrance

16. Various of ocean

17. Man fishing at beach

18. Various of beach, children in swings

STORYLINE:

German police investigating the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann are to carry out fresh searches near the Portuguese holiday resort she was last seen 18 years ago, U.K. police said on Monday.

The 3-year-old disappeared from her bed while on vacation with her family in the Praia da Luz resort, in southern Portugal, on May 3, 2007.

She has not been seen since.

The main suspect in the case is Christian Brueckner, who is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence in Germany for raping a 72-year-old woman in Portugal in 2005.

He is under investigation on suspicion of murder in the McCann case but hasn’t been charged.

He spent many years in Portugal, including in Praia da Luz, around the time of the child's disappearance.

Brueckner has denied any involvement in her disappearance.

“We are aware of the searches being carried by the BKA (German federal police) in Portugal as part of their investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann," the Metropolitan Police, in London, said in a statement.

“The Metropolitan Police Service is not present at the search, we will support our international colleagues where necessary," it added, without giving more details.

The McCann case received worldwide interest for several years, with reports of sightings of her stretching as far away as Australia as well as books and television documentaries about her disappearance.

Investigators in the U.K., Portugal and Germany are still piecing together what happened on the night she disappeared.

She was in the same room as her brother and sister — 2-year-old twins — while their parents, Kate and Gerry, had dinner with friends at a nearby restaurant.

Madeleine's family marked the 18th anniversary of her disappearance last month, and expressed their determination to keep searching.

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Rome, Italy - 2 June 2025

1. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins and her Italian Agriculture Minister Francesco Lollobrigida entering press room

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Brooke Rollins, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture:

“We had the opportunity to discuss areas of interest for our agricultural community in the United States including our desire to level the playing field and increase market opportunities for our hard-working American farmers. Our relationships with Italian buyers and consumers fosters tens of billions of dollars in bilateral trade and investment. So American farmers and ranchers want to ensure that EU regulations do not get in the way of that mutually beneficial trade relationship between the United States and Italy."

3. Wide of conference

4. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Francesco Lollobrigida, Italian Agriculture Minister :

“On our olive oil, on our wine, on our cheese, on our balsamic vinegar. A quarter, about a third, stays in Italy. The rest is wealth that is created in the United States. This perspective can be useful in understanding which European products are also useful to the United States in creating jobs and wealth, which is a legitimate need of the U.S. government. And then also understand what are the opportunities to implement some export factors to Europe and to Italy. Because it is objective that there are some imbalances (in the trade balance between US and EU).”

5. Wide of conference

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Brooke Rollins, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture:

“So what this effort is, is to realign, but also to open the markets around the world to our American agriculture products and to all products that come from America and that we do well. So any predictions that this is going to significantly harm any of our industries in America have to date not proven to be true, but if in fact when, you know, six months when harvest comes in and it does prove that some of our industries have been compromised, at least in the short term, then President Trump will step in the gap just as he's done before."

7. Wide of conference

8. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Francesco Lollobrigida, Italian Agriculture Minister :

“We are importers of some products that we cannot produce in Italy, such as soybeans, in sufficient quantities for our farms. So raising awareness among our entrepreneurs, including in the agricultural world, to import more from markets that are very important for their processing. This is something that I think is more than fair.”

9. Wide of conference

10. SOUNDBITE (English) Brooke Rollins, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture:

(Talking about Tuesday’s meetings with FAO and WFP UN agencies)

"The days of us in America just sort of sending billions upon billions upon billions upon billions of dollars out across the world without much accountability and without understanding how it specifically served the greater interest of America, but also of world stability, those days are over. We're now looking at every single program. We want to fully understand whether it is meeting its metrics, whether there are NGOs in America, we call those non-governmental organizations, that often serve as the middleman, that often have 50, 60, 70 percent overhead, where the food that we're trying to move out doesn't actually get to where it is supposed to be."

11. Wide of conference

12. SOUNDBITE (English) Brooke Rollins, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture:

13. Various of Rollins and Lollobrigida shaking hands

14. Italian, EU and US flags on the facade of the ministry of agriculture

15. Exteriors of ministry

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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - 2 June 2025

1. Close of displaced people carrying their pots and waiting to receive cooked food

2. Various of people carrying their pots and waiting to receive cooked food

3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammad Abu Jalel, displaced Palestinian:

++PARTLY OVERLAID WITH SHOTS 1/2++

"We have been relying on charity since the start of the war, we could not get anything else. We don’t have an income. They cook lentils and other stews. We come here in spite of ourselves. If you have the ingredients or have something at home or have an income, you wouldn’t have come here.”

4. Close of child waiting for cooked food

5. Various of displaced people rising their pots and shouting for food

6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abu Mohammad Mohammad, displaced Palestinian:

++PARTLY OVERLAID WITH SHOT 7++

"We are completely dependent on the charity kitchen currently. We cannot enter the market, not at all. The goods that were one shekel (30 cents) became forty ($11) or fifty shekels ($15). Where then do people get the shekels to buy? All this suffering, while we wait (for food) at the charity kitchen. What they cook, we take. I stand in line, if you can take, you will eat. If you cannot take, you will die of hunger."

7. Various of charity workers filling pots of displaced people with cooked food, people waiting

STORYLINE:

People crowded outside a soup kitchen in Khan Younis in southern Gaza on Monday, clutching worn pots and plastic buckets, waiting for cooked food.

Children shouted toward the charity workers, pleading for their containers to be filled.

“We have been relying on charity since the start of the war, we could not get anything else,” said Mohammad Abu Jalel, a man who has been displaced from Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza.

“We don’t have an income. They cook lentils and other stews. We come here in spite of ourselves. If you have the ingredients or have something at home or have an income, you wouldn’t have come here.”

U.N. agencies and major aid groups have struggled to bring in aid after Israel slightly eased its nearly three-month blockade of the territory last month.

The groups say Israeli restrictions, the breakdown of law and order and widespread looting make it extremely difficult to deliver aid to Gaza's roughly 2 million Palestinians.

Experts have warned that the territory is at risk of famine if more aid is not brought in.

The war began when Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting 251.

They are still holding 58 hostages, around a third believed to be alive, after most of the rest were released in ceasefire agreements or other deals.

Israel's military campaign has killed over 54,000 people in Hamas-run Gaza, mostly women and children, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which does not say how many of the dead were civilians or combatants.

The offensive has destroyed vast areas, displaced around 90% of the population and left people almost completely reliant on international aid.

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London - 30 May 2025

1. Exterior of a mosque, worshippers walking

2. Mid of Abdul Majid gathering suitcases for himself and his wife, who are travelling to Saudi Arabia for Hajj

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdul Majid, Hajj pilgrim:

++SOUNDBITE PARTIALLY COVERED BY SHOTS 2 AND 4++

"This is my first time I'm going to Hajj. I'm very excited. I am looking forward for it. I know I heard that a lot of people were waiting a long time, they needed to wait, some do get it (visa for Hajj accepted) and some do have to wait for next time. There's a couple of families I know myself, they've been waiting on that list for three, four years, and still they have not got the visa yet."

4. Majid reading a pocket-sized guide instructing him on how to perform Hajj, including the various supplications (prayers) he needs to recite at various points of the trip

5. Various of Majid unwrapping and trying on his ihram, a two-piece white robe worn by pilgrims UPSOUND (English) "I'm so excited, I feel myself like I've put my white clothes on, I'm ready for it."

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London - 30 May 2025

6. Wide of Hajj tour operator Alhaj Khan sorting various papers ahead of taking a group of over 30 pilgrims to Saudi Arabia

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Alhaj Khan, Tour Operator at Al Qibla Travels:

++SOUNDBITE PARTIALLY COVERED BY SHOTS 9-13++

"I've been going to Hajj for over 20 years. Every year when I go to Hajj, it's a new experience. Every year, when I finish helping the Hajjis (pilgrims), and I've done my 10th of Dhul Hijjah, 11th and the 12th, and the 13th of the Dhul-Hijjah. Come back hotel, travel to Medina. And then I said, I'm exhausted, that's it, I'm not going back. And soon as I come back, rest for a bit, a month later, my adrenaline kicks in again, that it's on fire, that I want go back again. Every time when I go to Hajj and I see the Kaaba right in front of me, I get goosebumps. It's the most amazing experience seeing so many nations together wearing two pieces of cloth. You don't know if they're poor, they're rich, they've saved 70 years of their life to go to Hajj or someone is a multi-billionaire. There is no difference and that's the beauty of Islam."

8. Khan looking back at videos he recorded of his trip to Hajj in 2016 on TV screen

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ARCHIVE: Mecca, Saudi Arabia - 11 June 2024

9. Various top shots of the holy site of Kaaba with pilgrims preparing for Al- maghrib (dusk) prayers

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ARCHIVE: Mina, Saudi Arabia - 26 June 2023

10. Close of feet of pilgrims walking

11. Pilgrims walking and holding umbrellas

12. Various of Saudi security officials spraying water on pilgrims

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ARCHIVE: Mecca, Saudi Arabia - 11 June 2024

13. Tilt down from Grand Mosque to pilgrims ++NIGHT SHOT++

STORYLINE:

On the last Friday before Hajj begins, worshipers spill out of this mosque in East London after Jummah prayers.

For many here, it is the final communal prayer before they depart for one of the most significant religious journeys in the Islamic calendar.

One of them is Bangladeshi born, Abdul Majid, who moved to the UK as a child with his parents.

He is heading home from the mosque, preparing mentally and spiritually for the journey ahead, as he gets ready to leave for the airport.

“This is my first time I’m going to Hajj. I’m very excited. I am looking forward for it. Inside I have so much joy and happiness. Allah has granted me to see Mecca again.”

For others, Hajj has become an annual duty.

Tour operator Alhaj Khan has been leading groups to Mecca for more than two decades.

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Ann Arbor, Michigan – 2 June 2025

1. Various of peonies in peak bloom

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Ann Arbor, Michigan – 29 May 2025

2. People walk a dog near a rock that features the Peony Garden’s name

3. SOUNDBITE (English) David Michener, University of Michigan curator:

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“We're here at the W.E. Upjohn Peony Garden in the Nichols Arboretum in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It's one of the largest peony gardens in North America and the largest historic collection of old peonies.”

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Ann Arbor, Michigan – 2 June 2025

4. Tight of a peony bloom

5. A sign encourages visitors to (English) “Support The Peony Garden”

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Ann Arbor, Michigan – 29 May 2025

6. SOUNDBITE (English) David Michener, University of Michigan curator:

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“It's an ancient group of plants, and it's been domesticated for over 2,000 years for its ornamental beauty. Stunning.”

7. Tight of a peony with morning dew on it

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Ann Arbor, Michigan – 2 June 2025

8. A number of peonies

9. Tight of a white peony

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Ann Arbor, Michigan – 29 May 2025

10. Visitors arrive the garden

11. A visitor smells a peony

12. SOUNDBITE (English) David Michener, University of Michigan curator:

++FULLY COVERED++

“The Peony Garden is such an attraction regionally, nationally and now internationally that we get between 70 and 80,000 people in a very few weeks. That means we have to bus people in on the weekends.”

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Ann Arbor, Michigan – 2 June 2025

13. Soon-to-be graduates of Farmington High School walk along the peony beds to set up for some photos

14. SOUNDBITE (English) Melanie Millar, Peony Garden visitor:

++PARTIALLY COVERED++

“I’m here with my best friends – a bunch of girls. And we just came here to get pictures since it’s going to be a nice day, and the Peony Garden seemed like a nice place to go to.”

15. A sign informs visitors that some of the peonies were vandalized the day before

16. Tight of a peony that was cut

17. SOUNDBITE (English) Melanie Millar, Peony Garden visitor:

++FULLY COVERED++

“I’m a little sad about what happened to all the peonies. They got chopped down, but it’s OK. It’s really pretty.”

18. Various of Linda J.K. Klenczar painting the scene

19. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda J.K. Klenczar, Peony Garden visitor:

++PARTIALLY COVERED++

“What would possess someone just to destroy nature and the beauty of it? It’s just unfathomable. There’s no explanation. I don’t know if they’re going to catch someone who did this. They need to explain themselves.”

20. A worker tends to the peonies

21. Various of visitors

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Ann Arbor, Michigan – 29 May 2025

22. SOUNDBITE (English) David Michener, University of Michigan curator:

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“Once you come here to the Peony Garden, you'll be mesmerized and you'll understand why people love peonies. The fragrances, the colors, the forms, it's just intoxicating. And it is romance writ large.”

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Ann Arbor, Michigan – 2 June 2025

23. A jogger passes through the garden

STORYLINE:

It’s time for thousands to peek at the peak peonies.

Visitors are making the annual pilgrimage to the University of Michigan this week to see -- and smell -- one of the world’s premier collections of the garden plant that features showy red, white and pink blooms of countless shades and varieties.

Melanie Millar and her friends visited the Ann Arbor school’s Nichols Arboretum on Monday to take some graduation photos.

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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - 2 June 2025

1. Various of smoke rising along Gaza skyline in Khan Younis

STORYLINE:

Large plumes of smoke were seen on the Khan Younis skyline on Monday, as Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip continued.

The cloud of smoke was captured in the afternoon by an Associated Press cameraperson in Khan Younis.

It is not yet known what caused the smoke.

The Israel-Hamas war began when Palestinian militants stormed into Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting 251.

Hamas is still holding 58 hostages, around a third of them believed to be alive, after most of the rest were released in ceasefire agreements or other deals.

Israel’s military campaign has killed over 54,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not say how many of the dead were civilians or combatants.

The ministry is led by medical professionals but reports to the Hamas-run government. Its toll is seen as generally reliable by U.N. agencies and independent experts, though Israel has challenged its numbers.

AP Video by Mohammad Jahjouh

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(2 Jun 2025)

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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - 2 June 2025

1. Various of smoke rising along Gaza skyline in Khan Younis

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Large plumes of smoke were seen on the Khan Younis skyline on Monday, as Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip continued.

The cloud of smoke was captured in the afternoon by an Associated Press cameraperson in Khan Younis.

It is not yet known what caused the smoke.

The Israel-Hamas war began when Palestinian militants stormed into Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting 251.

Hamas is still holding 58 hostages, around a third of them believed to be alive, after most of the rest were released in ceasefire agreements or other deals.

Israel’s military campaign has killed over 54,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not say how many of the dead were civilians or combatants.

The ministry is led by medical professionals but reports to the Hamas-run government. Its toll is seen as generally reliable by U.N. agencies and independent experts, though Israel has challenged its numbers.

AP Video by Mohammad Jahjouh

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