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SYRIA DAMASK ROSE

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Damascus, Syria - 13 May 2025

1. Damask rose plant

2. Various of women including company owner Roula Ali Adib (in multi-colored button-up shirt) on farm, picking roses

3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Roula Ali Adib, owner of Bio Cham company:

"Asma Assad (Syria's former first lady) did something great for the Damascus rose. She got it inscribed in the UNESCO (U.N. educational and scientific organization) list for (intangible heritage) as part of the cultural heritage of Syria and Damascus. We should take advantage of that and continue to build on the Damascus rose project."

4. Various of people picking the rose from a farm

5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Suzan Jibrini, volunteer:

"The smells are incredible. And the energy that we get is amazing and it stays with us for months to come. We hope that we can come back and pick the Damascus rose again. We get to see how the roses are taken out of the bags and what happens with it (afterwards)."

6. Various of people picking roses

7. Roses getting dropped into bag

8. Man pouring roses out of bag

9. Adib looking at roses

10. Roses on the floor

11. Man emptying crates of roses into large pot

12. Men pouring liquid over roses

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Damascus, Syria - 20 May 2025

13. Various of women picking and sorting rose petals

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Damascus, Syria - 13 May 2025

14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Roula Ali Adib, owner of Bio Cham company:

"We are still facing difficulties with shipments and registration. These difficulties have always been there. But now, we are hopeful that after the lifting of the sanctions, we’ll at least be able to ship (easily)."

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Damascus, Syria - 20 May 2025

15. Various of woman making rose soap bars

16. Woman wringing rose petals

17. Various of woman making rose jam, stirring mixture in pot

18. Woman putting jam in jar

19. Woman closing rose jam jar

20. Various of woman filling bottles with rose essence

21. Various of rose essence in bottles

STORYLINE:

Volunteers on a farm in a small village in the countryside of Damascus harvested the famed pink Damask rose, getting to enjoy its fragrant smell and take in the scenery in the process.

This versatile and treasured rose is one of Syria's most known flowers.

Roula Adib’s company harvests the flower and turns it into rose water, tea, jam, soap and skincare products.

This is the first Damask rose harvest to take place after the end to the 50-year rule of the Assad family.

Rose production in Syria was closely associated with government-backed initiatives in the past.

This year marks a shift in rose harvesting and production as independent growers and local communities take the lead.

The practices, handling and use of the Damask rose in the area of al-Mrah outside of Damascus were added to UNESCO’s world Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2019.

"We should take advantage of that and continue to build on the Damascus rose project," Adib said.

On the lush rose fields of Damascus, the pink roses stand out from all the green that surrounds them.

Volunteer Suzan Jibrini came to help harvest the rose and said she was enjoying the smell of the flower as well as her time on the farm.

"We hope that we can come back and pick the Damascus rose again," she added.

After the roses are picked, workers sort the petals then process them and use their extract to make a variety of food and cosmetic products.

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New York - 27 May 2025

1. SOUNDBITE (English) Jackie Chan, actor:

“At that time, funny thing, I was very depressed. Action movie not popular anymore. And I just tried to quit. Then I saw 'Karate Kid', brings me back. And at the same time, the Rocky, 'Rocky' 1 - 'Rocky' 1 was a 'Wow! Yes! I have to do the best I can,' you know, brings me back all the confidence, I keep training, keep training. Until one day one director called me to do a movie, then a success becoming Jackie Chan. Thank you 'Rocky,' thank you 'Karate Kid,' first one.”

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Kathmandu, Nepal - 27 May 2025

1. Nepal’s government ministers posing for photos with Mount Everest climbers

2. Climbers from India posing for photos

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Badri Prasad Pandey, Nepal’s tourism minister: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON SHOT1 AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT2&4++

"Let me assure you that the government is strongly committed to supporting mountaineering in every possible way by keeping climbers safe, by protecting the natural beauty of our peaks and by helping local communities grow alongside the spirit of adventure."

4. Prasad Pandey honouring climbers

5. Various of participants applauding

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Adriana Brownlee, mountaineer: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT7++

“The biggest kind of issues or concerns that we're having at the moment is probably the overcrowding, so the amount of people that are on the mountain. And it can be controlled but what we need to do is to make sure that those amounts of people are all experienced in the mountaineering world so that, you know, if they are struggling, if they are on their own and something happens they know how to save themselves.”

7. Prasad Pandey honouring climbers

8. SOUNDBITE (Nepali) Purnima Shrestha, mountaineer: ++SOUNDBITE IS PARTIALLY BY SHOT9++

“It has become too commercialized, and the feeling is that if there is money then Everest can be climbed. But not all the people there are physically and emotionally ready to climb the peak, that is being disrespectful to Everest. This is the reason why there are all these traffic jams on the way to the peak."

9. Various of women playing traditional trumpets before beginning of meet

STORYLINE:

Nepal's government said on Tuesday it has a “duty to protect” the Himalayas from the risks presented by climate change and the growing numbers of climbers attempting to scale the region's summits, especially Everest.

"The government is strongly committed to supporting mountaineering in every possible way by keeping climbers safe, by protecting the natural beauty of our peaks and by helping local communities grow alongside the spirit of adventure," Nepal’s tourism minister Badri Prasad Pandey said.

He was speaking in Kathmandu at a gathering of about 100 climbers from around the world who have successfully tackled Mount Everest.

The one-day conference, dubbed the Everest Summiteers Summit, involved discussions on how to protect climbers and the environment.

Attendees expressed concern on the rising numbers of people who crowd Everest to try to scale the 8,849-meter (29,032-foot) peak.

Veterans have complained how the mountains is becoming crowded and dirty.

Climbers normally spend weeks at base camp to acclimatize to the higher altitude. They make practice runs to the lower camps on Everest before beginning their final attempt on the peak.

Nepal’s government last year funded a team of soldiers and Sherpas to remove 11 tons (24,000 pounds) of garbage, four dead bodies and a skeleton from Everest during the climbing season.

Nepal doesn’t have rules on how many days climbers must spend acclimatizing or making practice climbs.

The permits to climb Everest, which cost $11,000 each, are valid for 90 days.

Climbing season normally wraps up by the end of May, when the weather deteriorates and monsoon season begins.

Mount Everest was conquered in 1953 by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay.

Since then it has been climbed thousands of times and every year hundreds more attempt to reach the summit.

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ARCHIVE: Port-au-Prince, Haiti - 19 May 2025

1. Various of people protesting shortage of medication

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Port-au-Prince, Haiti - 27 May 2025

2.⁠ ⁠SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Louis Gérald Gilles, Member of the Transitional Presidential Council of Haiti: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT3++

“We want the population to know that we will get medicine and there will never be a shortage of stock in the country. This will not happen because there will be a shortage of antiretroviral stocks in the country. We are exploring many avenues for solutions.”

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ARCHIVE: Port-au-Prince, Haiti - 19 May 2025

3. Various of people protesting shortage of medication

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ARCHIVE: Cap-Haitien, Haiti - 23 May 2025

4.⁠ ⁠Dispensary shelves with medicine

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Port-au-Prince, Haiti - 27 May 2025

5. SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Dr. Gabriel Timothe, Director of the Ministry of Health: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT6++

“The first thing I must say is that there is no shortage of medicines to give to HIV patients until the end of this year.”

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ARCHIVE: Cap-Haitien, Haiti - 23 May 2025

6.⁠ ⁠Doctor showing a box of antiviral medication

7.⁠ ⁠Dispensary shelves with medicine

STORYLINE:

A work group in Haiti with health officials and representatives from various organizations met in Port-au-Prince on Monday to discuss the shortage of the medication essential to keep HIV /AIDS patients alive.

The meeting came in response to a protest held the previous week by dozens of Haitians with HIV that defied stigma as they publicly denounced USAID cuts implemented by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump that have led to a dwindling of life-saving drugs

Louis Gérald Gilles, member of the Transitional Presidential Council (CPT), assured the population that there would be no shortage of antiviral medication.

“We are exploring many avenues for solutions,” said Gilles.

Gilles also said that the Ministry of Finance would study the use of state funds to restock hospitals and pharmacies.

While the Director of the Health Ministry, Dr. Gabriel Timothe, affirmed

that there was enough medicine for HIV/AIDS patients “until the end of this year.”

But some hospitals and clinics caring for HIV/AIDS patients worry that medication will run out as early as July.

At the New Hope Hospital in Haiti’s northern region, shelves are running low. The hospital used to receive over $165,000 a year to assist HIV/AIDS patients. However, that funding has dried up, and doctors find it challenging to share that reality with their more than 550 HIV patients.

More than 150,000 people in Haiti have HIV or AIDS, although non-profits believe the number to be much higher.

At least five clinics, including one that served 2,500 patients, have been forced to close after the U.S. slashed more than 90% of USAID’s foreign aid contracts and $60 billion in overall aid across the globe.

Experts say Haiti could see a surge in infections because medications are dwindling at a time when gang violence and poverty are surging.

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Jakarta - 28 May 2025

1. Various of French President Emmanuel Macron's motorcade arriving at Merdeka Palace

2. Macron and wife Brigitte Macron exiting car, greeting Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto

3. Various of Macron and Subianto during welcome ceremony

4. Close of honour guards

5. Various of Macron and Subianto inspecting honour guards

6. Macron greeting Indonesian officials

7. Macron, Subianto and Brigitte walking up stairs to go inside

8. Wide pan of palace exterior, honour guards

STORYLINE:

An official welcoming ceremony was held for visiting French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta on Wednesday.

The Macrons arrived in Jakarta on earlier on Wednesday to begin their state visit to Indonesia.

Macron met Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto at the Presidential Palace, which was followed by a lunch with Indonesian investors and CEOs to discuss projects in France.

Macron is also scheduled to give a speech about Ukraine and the Middle East to students at the National University of Jakarta.

Besides his one-day visit to Jakarta, Macron also plans to visit the ASEAN Secretariat in the afternoon before concluding his Jakarta visit with a state dinner.

On the second day of the visit, Macron will visit the military academy in Magelang and the Borobudur Buddhist Temple to demonstrate France’s commitment to supporting Indonesian heritage preservation before departing for Singapore to attend the Shangri-La Dialogue.

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 25 May 2025

1. Various of beachgoers gathering on Ipanema beach

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 27 May 2025

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Eléonore Hughes, The Associated Press:

"We’re here on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, which like all of Rio’s beaches has been at the heart of intense debate."

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 25 May 2025

3. Beachgoers on Ipanema

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 27 May 2025

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Eléonore Hughes, The Associated Press:

“Just a few weeks ago, city officials introduced new rules on beachside activity.”

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 25 May 2025

5. Kiosk at Ipanema beach

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 27 May 2025

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Eléonore Hughes, Associated Press:

"That included banning live music at kiosks without prior authorization and cracking down on street vendors."

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 25 May 2025

6. Various of street vendors at the beach

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 27 May 2025

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Eléonore Hughes, Associated Press:

“But after public outcry, Mayor Eduardo Paes has decided to reverse parts of the plan. Live music will once again be allowed, as long as certain rules are respected.”

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 25 May 2025

8. Various of people at the kiosk as music plays in the background

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 27 May 2025

9. SOUNDBITE (English) Eléonore Hughes, Associated Press:

"For many, that's a relief. After all, as anyone who's ever walked these sands knows, music, especially samba, is part of the soul of Rio’s beaches."

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 25 May 2025

10. Beachgoers gathering at the beach

STORYLINE:

Rio de Janeiro's mayor on Tuesday loosened new restrictions on live music on the city's beaches after many people warned of a threat to the dynamic cultural scene.

Mayor Eduardo Paes earlier this month introduced the measures and reinforced existing ones, citing the need to protect public safety and the environment and promote peaceful relations between tourists and residents.

The measures, due to come into effect on Sunday, outlawed food and drink sales, chair rentals, loudspeakers and live music in kiosks without official permits.

Critics warned of the threat to livelihoods of many musicians and local vendors.

Rio’s city government rescinded parts of the decree including the strict regulation of live musical performances and the ban on glass bottles in kiosks.

Owners of beach huts will be permitted to display names — not only numbers — as long as they follow an established format.

Other measures including the ban on loudspeakers and the crackdown on unregulated sales of food and drink will remain in place, the city government said in a statement.

Paes said the restrictions on live music had been introduced because some kiosks were playing music above permitted volumes and beyond the 10 p.m. cut-off time.

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 25 May 2025

1. Various of beachgoers gathering on Ipanema beach

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 27 May 2025

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Eléonore Hughes, The Associated Press:

++ PARTIALLY COVERED BY SHOT 1 ++

"We’re here on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, which like all of Rio’s beaches has been at the heart of intense debate."

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 25 May 2025

2. Beachgoers on Ipanema

3. Kiosk at Ipanema beach

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 27 May 2025

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Eléonore Hughes, The Associated Press:

++ PARTIALLY COVERED BY SHOTS 3- 5 ++

“Just a few weeks ago, city officials introduced new rules on beachside activity. That included banning live music at kiosks without prior authorization and cracking down on street vendors."

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 25 May 2025

5. Various of street vendors at the beach

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 27 May 2025

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Eléonore Hughes, Associated Press:

“But after public outcry, Mayor Eduardo Paes has decided to reverse parts of the plan. Live music will once again be allowed, as long as certain rules are respected.”

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 25 May 2025

7. Beachgoers gathering at the beach

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 27 May 2025

++ PARTIALLY COVERED BY SHOTS 7-9 ++

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Eléonore Hughes, Associated Press:

"For many, that's a relief. After all, as anyone who's ever walked these sands knows, music, especially samba, is part of the soul of Rio’s beaches."

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 25 May 2025

9. Various of people at the kiosk as music plays in the background

STORYLINE:

Rio de Janeiro's mayor on Tuesday loosened new restrictions on live music on the city's beaches after many people warned of a threat to the dynamic cultural scene.

Mayor Eduardo Paes earlier this month introduced the measures and reinforced existing ones, citing the need to protect public safety and the environment and promote peaceful relations between tourists and residents.

The measures, due to come into effect on Sunday, outlawed food and drink sales, chair rentals, loudspeakers and live music in kiosks without official permits.

Critics warned of the threat to livelihoods of many musicians and local vendors.

Rio’s city government rescinded parts of the decree including the strict regulation of live musical performances and the ban on glass bottles in kiosks.

Owners of beach huts will be permitted to display names — not only numbers — as long as they follow an established format.

Other measures including the ban on loudspeakers and the crackdown on unregulated sales of food and drink will remain in place, the city government said in a statement.

Paes said the restrictions on live music had been introduced because some kiosks were playing music above permitted volumes and beyond the 10 p.m. cut-off time.

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Rafah, Southern Gaza Strip - 27 May 2025

1. Various of crowds of Palestinians walking back after trying to reach a newly opened aid distribution center in southern Gaza

2. Man carrying box of aid, walking

3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ibrahim Abu Taha, Displaced from Rafah: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT4++

"We craved sugar, we craved oil, they brought us sugar and oil and brought us flour. This is the flour. Our children were longing for a bite to eat. We ate lentils, we ate pasta, and the merchants made us sell everything to buy expensive things."

4. Man showing items inside the aid box

5. people carrying boxes of aid in carts

6. Men pulling boxes of aid

7. Various of crowds of Palestinians walking back after trying to get aid

STORYLINE:

Chaos erupted on the second day of aid operations by a new U.S.-backed group in Gaza as desperate Palestinians overwhelmed a center distributing food on Tuesday, breaking through fences.

Israel said nearby troops fired warning shots.

An AP journalist heard Israeli tank and gunfire and saw a military helicopter firing flares.

The Israeli military said its troops fired the warning shots in the area outside the center and that “control over the situation was established.”

At least three injured Palestinians were seen by the Associated Press being brought from the scene, one of them bleeding from his leg.

The distribution hub outside Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah had been opened the day before by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which has been slated by Israel to take over aid operations despite opposition from the United Nations and other humanitarian organizations.

Palestinians have become desperate for food after nearly three months of Israeli blockade pushed Gaza to the brink of famine.

On Tuesday, hundreds of thousands of men, women and children walked for several miles from the sprawling tent camps along Gaza’s Mediterranean coast -- through Israeli military lines -- to reach the GHF hub.

In the afternoon, the AP journalist, positioned some distance away, heard gunfire and rounds of tank fire.

Smoke could be seen rising from where one round impacted.

He saw a military helicopter overhead firing flares and crowds were seen running from the site.

A few managed to secure aid boxes — containing basic items like sugar, flour, pasta and tehini — but the vast majority left empty-handed.

Ahmed Abu Taha, who was among those seeking aid, said crowds of people stormed into the distribution center, breaking fences. He heard gunfire and saw Israeli military aircraft overhead, “It was chaos,” he said. “People were panicked.”

Another Palestinian, Saleh Abu Najjar, said he heard a tank firing from a distance, east of the center. “The situation was very dangerous and people were frightened,” he said.

In a statement, GHF said that because of the large number of Palestinians seeking aid, staff at the hub followed the group’s safety protocols and “fell back” to allow them to dissipate, then later resumed operations.

A spokesperson for the group told the AP that no shots were fired from GHF.

Speaking on condition of anonymity in line with the group’s rules, the spokesperson said the protocol aims at “avoiding loss of life, which is exactly what happened.”

GHF uses armed private contractors to guard the hubs and the transportation of supplies.

The hub is also close to Israeli military positions in the Morag Corridor, a band of territory across the breadth of Gaza that divides Rafah from the rest of the territory.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS - 27 May 2025

1. Police outside the court building

2. Accused Maradona doctor, Leopoldo Luque, hit by Maradona supporters while entering the court building

3. Reporters crowding around Verónica Ojeda, former partner of Maradona, left, and her lawyer and current partner Mario Baudry, right

4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mario Baudry, Verónica Ojeda's lawyer:

"For us, it is very painful. I believe it is the biggest scandal in the justice system that we are aware of. I think it is an institutional disgrace."

5. Baudry

6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mario Baudry, Verónica Ojeda's lawyer:

"If they did this to Maradona, imagine what they can do to any ordinary citizen. So I hope that the politicians step up and take action, suspend the judge next week at the very least. Dr. Makintach should not be allowed to judge anyone else. I think what happened is disrespectful. What was done is disgraceful."

7. Journalists

8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Verónica Ojeda, former partner of Maradona:

"Yes, yes. I was even in the trailer (of the documentary), so it really was a scandal. But anyway, now let's move forward. Let's wait until Thursday at noon to see what they decide. And well, if I have to testify, we'll testify again."

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Buenos Aires, Argentina - 11 March 2025

9. Judges Julieta Makintach, right, Maximiliano Savarino, center, and Verónica di Tommaso, right

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Buenos Aires, Argentina - 27 May 2025

10. STILLS: Judge Julieta Makintach walking in a parking lot

11. Fernando Burlando, lawyer of Gianinna Maradona walking among journalists

12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Fernando Burlando, lawyer of Gianinna Maradona:

"One of the arguments we made is that apparently it was not focused on approving justice, but devoted to making this documentary or reality, series, whatever."

13. Gianinna Maradona

14. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alejandra, Maradona fan who hit Leopoldo Luque:

"Impotence, anger. But he already has social condemnation and cannot walk freely on the street because people do not want him. He already knows who he is. He is condemned to his actions. All that remains is for the justice to condemn him."

15. Journalists

16. Court building

STORYLINE:

A judge overseeing the trial of health professionals accused of negligence in the death of football great Diego Maradona stepped down from the proceedings Tuesday.

Julieta Makintach, one of the three judges appointed to the case, faced a controversy over her participation in the making of a documentary about the case.

Makintach withdrew from the case after the prosecutor showed footage of the documentary that spans the first moments after the soccer star's death in 2020 to the start of the trial more than two months ago, in which the judge appears as one of the lead characters.

Following Makintach’s resignation, the other two judges will decide Thursday how the case will proceed.

The trial was suspended for a week after prosecutor Patricio Ferrari asked the San Isidro court to review Makintach’s role in allegedly allowing the documentary to be filmed during the trial.

Leopoldo Luque, Maradona’s primary physician at the time of the star's death and one of the main defendants, had requested Makintach’s removal from the trial.

Luque’s lawyer, Julio Rivas, said he had been contacted by the BBC requesting an interview because they were making a documentary about the trial.

Seven healthcare professionals are on trial for allegedly failing to provide adequate care and could face a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison.

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Nagasaki, Japan - 21 April 2025

1. Tabby cat named Mi-chan with a key-shaped tail being stroked, UPSOUND No name given, (Japanese): "Look at this (tail). Isn't this amazing?"

2. Tracking shot of Mi-chan

3. Various of stray cat with short and bent tail

4. Stray cat running away

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Nagasaki, Japan - 24 April 2025

5. Exterior of Omagari Neko Shrine, near Spectacle Bridge

6. Shrine member of staff and member of Nagasaki Cat Society, Kazuya Hideshima, helping customer

7. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Kazuya Hideshima, Omagari Neko Shrine staff member and member of Nagasaki Cat Society:

"Omagari neko is a term for cats whose tail bones are genetically bent. The shape varies from key-shaped to bobtail and bun-shaped tails but all are believed to bring happiness and luck."

8. Tilt up of cat fortune-telling slips hanging outside shrine

9. Tokyo resident, Natsuno Kani, praying with her friend

10. Beckoning cat ornament with curved tail

11. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Natsuno Kani, 50-year-old tourist from Tokyo:

"I knew there were many omagari (cats) in Nagasaki which is also famous for its hilly roads."

12. Lucky charms in shape of cats

13. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Abigail Tarraso, Spanish artist based in Takeo City, Saga Prefecture:

"We might have some (cats with curved tailed) but I don't know. They are not popular (in Spain) as in Japan."

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Tokyo - 22 May 2025

14. Veterinarian and cat specialist Soshin Yamamoto carrying his 10-year-old cat, Katsuo

15. Close of Katsuo

16. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Soshin Yamamoto, veterinarian and cat specialist:

"One thing is to do with Nagasaki's geographical and cultural character. Having the only port open to the world in Japan during the period of isolation, cats came in and out (of the country) which led to genetic mutation."

17. Yamamoto showing X-rays of a cat's straight tail and a bobtail cat on monitor

18. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Soshin Yamamoto, veterinarian and cat specialist:

"In the UK, there is a famous breed known as Manx, which is almost tailless. Manx also originates from an island - the Isle of Man - so I guess one can say omagari-cats can be reproduced in a similar environment. It is said that the rate of bobtail cats are high in Japan, which is also an island, a big one. As a result, some people have an impression that cats in Japan are Calico cats with a short tail."

19. Yamamoto pointing to X-ray of twisted cat's tail

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Nagasaki, Japan - 24 April 2025

20. SOUNDBITE (English) Cindy Bi, American artist based in Takeo City, Saga Prefecture:

"No, today is the first time in Nagasaki I've ever heard of this. So I am excited to look around for them. Maybe we will see a few."

21. Mid of key-shaped tail cat

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In Japan, bobtail cats are considered good luck and Nagasaki is the place to find them.

They are known as “omagari neko (bent-tail cats)” or “kagi neko (hook cats)” and have their own society of admirers and even a dedicated Shinto shrine.

Their tails come in varieties including hook-shaped at the tip, curved or in a bun, explained Kazuya Hideshima, a worker at Omagari Neko Shrine and member of the Nagasaki Cat Society.

Past findings have indicated bobtails accounted for nearly 80% of the cats in Nagasaki, twice the occurrence of anywhere else in Japan.

Japanese cats are believed to have come from China in the 6th century with Buddhist monks, serving as rat hunters to protect religious scriptures on ships.

Nagasaki residents hope the cats bring in tourists and help business.

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