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Japan celebrates as Ohtani becomes the first major leaguer to reach 50-50 milestone

Shohei Ohtani's feat of becoming the first major leaguer with at least 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases in a season was met with extra editions of newspapers for fans to read on their way to work
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A pedestrian reads an extra edition of the Sports Hochi newspaper reporting on the Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani becoming the first player in major league history with 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases in a season, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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The EU's chief is trying to help Ukraine prepare for winter. Half its energy network is destroyed.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is in Ukraine, focused on helping the country to repair and reconnect its war-damaged electricity grid and boost its heating capacity as winter approaches
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President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen arrives at the railway station in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (Christoph Soeder, Pool via AP)
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Turkey wants to regulate Germany's beloved döner kebab street food

The döner kebab is beloved in Berlin
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People are seen through the window of a doner kebab restaurant in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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Thousands of exploding devices in Lebanon trigger a nation that has been on edge for years

For millions of Lebanese, this week's mass explosion of pagers and walkie-talkies, with its bloody aftermath, is painfully similar to the horrific explosion four years ago of haphazardly stored ammonium nitrates that tore through Beirut's port, killing...
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FILE - An Israeli reconnaissance drone flies over the funeral procession of four Hezbollah fighters who were killed Tuesday after their handheld devices exploded in the southern suburb of Beirut, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)
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Takeaways from AP’s story on the role of the West in widespread fraud with South Korean adoptions

Western governments ignored widespread fraud in South Korean adoptions and sometimes pressured the country to keep the kids coming, an investigation led by The Associated Press has found
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Yooree Kim, right, who was 11 when she was adopted from South Korea to a couple in France, hugs her biological mother, who had come to visit her in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, May 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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Western nations were desperate for Korean babies. Now many adoptees believe they were stolen

Western governments ignored widespread fraud in South Korean adoptions and sometimes pressured the country to keep the kids coming, an investigation led by The Associated Press has found
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Yooree Kim, who was 11 when she and her brother were sent by the Korean adoption agency Holt Children's Services to a couple in France, looks over childhood photos in her apartment in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, May 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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Brazil drought punishes coffee farms and threatens to push prices even higher

Brazilian coffee farmers are grappling with above-average temperatures as the country, the world’s largest coffee producer, faces its worst drought in more than seven decades
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Coffee producer Joao Rodrigues Martins inspects his plantation consumed by wildfires in a rural area of Caconde, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
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AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

Sept. 13-19, 2024 Demonstrators in Peru demanded more action from their government to combat fires in the Amazon. Mexicans celebrated Independence Day in the Zocalo, Mexico City's main square. Youths attended a march for religious freedom Rio de Janeiro. This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by The Associated Press from Latin America and the Caribbean. The selection was curated by AP photo editor Ramón Espinosa, based in Havana. ___ Follow AP visual journalism: AP Images blog: http://apimagesblog.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apnews X: http://twitter.com/AP_Images
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Swedish singer Zara Larsson performs during the Rock in Rio music festival in Rio de Janeiro, Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
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The night when 43 students disappeared in Mexico: A timeline of key events

On Sept. 26, 2014, dozens of students from a teachers college in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero disappeared
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Photos of 43 students who have been missing for 10 years cover the stairs at their former Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Normal School in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero state, Mexico, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
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Protests ousted Sri Lanka's last president. Ahead of new election, many are still waiting for change

Two years ago, tens of thousands of Sri Lankans rose up against their president and forced him to flee the country
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FILE - Sri Lanka army soldiers patrol near the official residence of president Gotabaya Rajapaksa three days after it was stormed by anti government protesters in Colombo in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on July 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)
September 20

It's been a decade since 43 students disappeared in Mexico. Their parents still fight for answers

The parents of 43 students of a radical teachers college who disappeared in Mexico are still searching for them 10 years later
September 20
A student walks on the campus of the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Normal School in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero state, Mexico, late Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
September 19

Hezbollah's leader vows revenge against Israel for pager attack

Former counterterrorism official Javed Ali reacts to Hezbollah's latest statements. Our panel discusses the Iranian election interference plot and the ceremony honoring NASA's "Hidden figures."
September 19
VIDEO: Hezbollah's leader vows revenge against Israel for pager attack
September 19

Israeli soldiers pushed three apparently lifeless bodies from roofs during a West Bank raid

An Associated Press journalist witnessed Israeli soldiers push three apparently lifeless bodies from rooftops during a raid in the occupied West Bank
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September 19

Israel launches strikes on Hezbollah in wake of device explosions

Thirty-two Hezbollah members were killed in device blasts, the group said.
September 19
Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanese village of Khiam near the border, Sept. 19, 2024.
September 19

Hezbollah leader says last 2 days of attacks are a ‘declaration of war’

Israel launches new strikes at Hezbollah targets in Lebanon as the leader of the terror group responds saying these attacks are a start of war.
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VIDEO: Hezbollah leader says last 2 days of attacks are a ‘declaration of war’
September 19

Israel had hand in manufacturing pagers that exploded in Lebanon: Source

Dozens of people have been killed in the pager attacks.
September 19
Police officers inspect a car inside of which a hand-held pager exploded, Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
September 19

Police: 1 person killed and another seriously injured in a stabbing in Rotterdam

Police say that one person has been killed and another seriously wounded in a stabbing incident in central Rotterdam
September 19
FILE - The Erasmus Bridge towers over the river Maas in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, April 2007. (AP Photo/ Bas Czerwinski, File)
September 19

Mexican president blames the US for bloodshed in Sinaloa as cartel violence surges

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has blamed the United States in part for the surge in cartel violence terrorizing the northern state of Sinaloa which has left at least 30 people dead in the past week
September 19
Sinaloa state Gov. Ruben Rocha, center, participates in an annual earthquake drill in Culiacan, Mexico, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
September 19

Attempted prison escape in Honduras leaves 2 inmates dead and 3 injured

Authorities in Honduras say that an attempted prison break left two inmates dead and three injured
September 19
FILE - Military police guard the entrance to the National Penitentiary Center in Tamara, on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, June 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Elmer Martinez, File)
September 19

4 Americans detained in alleged plot to kill Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro

The news comes as the recent Venezuelan presidential election result has been disputed and opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez says he was forced to sign a letter conceding defeat.
September 19
VIDEO: 4 Americans detained in alleged plot to kill Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro
September 19

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen visits flood-stricken region in Europe and pledges billions of euros in swift aid

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen visits flood-stricken region in Europe and pledges billions of euros in swift aid
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Prada's Eras Tour explores the past to offer infinite options during Milan Fashion Week

Milan designers are challenging the notion that a collection should dictate how one dresses, offering instead individual looks that can elevate, transform or simply complement a wardrobe
September 19
A model wears a creation as part of the Moschino Spring Summer 2025 collection that was presented in Milan, Italy, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
September 19

Earth to get a temporary 2nd moon

Astrophysics Professor Adam Frank explains the gravitational capture event involving tiny asteroid 2024 PT5.
September 19
VIDEO: Earth to get a temporary 2nd moon
September 19

Police fatally shoot a blasphemy suspect in Pakistan in 2nd such killing in a week

Officials in Pakistan say police have shot dead a blasphemy suspect during an alleged shootout with armed men in the southern province of Sindh, the second such apparent extra-judicial killing in a week, drawing strong condemnation from human rights gr...
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September 19

Israeli defense minister says Hezbollah 'will pay an increasing price' as Israel seeks to return residents to its north

Israeli defense minister says Hezbollah 'will pay an increasing price' as Israel seeks to return residents to its north
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Former CIA official says Lebanon attacks will bring ‘emergence’

Matt Berrett, former director of the CIA’s Office of Middle East and North Africa Analysis, weighs in on the escalating conflict.
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VIDEO: Former CIA official says Lebanon attacks will bring ‘emergence’
September 19

A charred transformer on a Kyiv square makes for an unusual Ukraine war exhibit

A charred transformer from one of Ukraine’s severely damaged power plants has come to a square in Kyiv’s city center
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People look at a burnt transformer from one of power plants badly damaged in one of Russia's recent missile attacks on energy system in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
September 19

Python traps Thai woman for 2 hours before being rescued

A 64-year-old woman was preparing food at her home when the python took hold of her, officials said.
September 19
A 64-year-old woman was preparing food at her home when the python took hold of her, officials said.
September 19

International headlines from ABC News

Catch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.
September 19
Catch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.
September 19

An iconic Churchill photo stolen in Canada and found in Italy is ready to return

A ceremony at the Canadian Embassy in Rome has marked the successful recovery of a stolen photo portrait of Winston Churchill, known as “The Roaring Lion,” after a two-year search
September 19
Canadian Cultural Heritage Deputy Minister, Isabelle Mondou, left, and Andrea Clark-Grignon, Head of Public Affairs, unveil a photographic portrait known as 'The Roaring Lion', taken by photographer Yousuf Karsh in 1941 of Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill, stolen in Canada in 2022, and returned during a ceremony at the Canada's embassy in Rome, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
September 19

Rwanda begins vaccinations against mpox amid a call for more doses for Africa

The African health agency says that Rwanda has started a vaccination campaign against mpox with 1,000 doses it obtained from Nigeria
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FILE - Family nurse practitioner Carol Ramsubhag-Carela prepares a syringe with the Mpox vaccine before inoculating a patient at a vaccinations site on Aug. 30, 2022, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon, File)
September 19

Israel launches strikes on Hezbollah in wake of device explosions

“For decades, Hezbollah has weaponized civilian homes, dug tunnels beneath them, and used civilians as human shields,” the Israeli army said.
September 19
VIDEO: Israel launches strikes on Hezbollah in wake of device explosions
September 19

Israel says two of its soldiers were killed by latest Hezbollah strikes across the Lebanon border

Israel says two of its soldiers were killed by latest Hezbollah strikes across the Lebanon border
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Israel and Hezbollah exchange strikes along the border, as Nasrallah vows retaliation for attacks on group's devices

Israel and Hezbollah exchange strikes along the border, as Nasrallah vows retaliation for attacks on group's devices
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September 19

Southern white rhino recovering after groundbreaking surgery

A team of 10 veterinarians repaired Amara’s broken leg in what is believed to be the first surgery on a rhino with a broken leg.
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A team of 10 veterinarians repaired Amara’s broken leg in what is believed to be the first surgery on a rhino with a broken leg.
September 19

Vet team performs world-1st surgery on UK Rhino

Amara is an almost 2-year old Southern white rhino from Knowsley Safari Park.
September 19
A team of veterinarians perform a medial procedure on Amara, a rhino with a broken leg, at Knowsley Safari in Merseyside, England, in a photo distributed by the safari on Sept. 19, 2024.
September 19

Hezbollah leader says attack on the group's communication devices was a 'severe blow' that crossed a 'red line'

Hezbollah leader says attack on the group's communication devices was a 'severe blow' that crossed a 'red line'
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The exploding device attacks dealt a major but not crippling blow to Hezbollah, analysts say

The remotely triggered explosions that hit pagers and walkie-talkies carried by Hezbollah members this week made for an eerie and shocking spectacle
September 19
Hezbollah members attend the funeral of two of their comrades who were killed on Wednesday when a handheld device exploded, during a funeral procession in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
September 19

Israeli businessman demanded $1 million to kill Netanyahu, police say

Israeli police and intelligence services said they foiled an Iranian plot to assassinate top leaders including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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VIDEO: Israeli businessman demanded $1 million to kill Netanyahu, police say
September 19

Fallout after Lebanon attacks is ‘pretty concerning,’ former DHS official says

The former DHS assistant secretary for counterterrorism, Elizabeth Neumann, discussed the impact of recent attacks targeting Hezbollah.
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VIDEO: Fallout after Lebanon attacks is ‘pretty concerning,’ former DHS official says
September 19

Why Brazilian officials want to pave a highway in the Amazon rainforest

The construction of BR-319 is a contentious issue in Brazil.
September 19
Aerial view of a deforested area of the Amazonia rainforest in the surroundings of the BR-319 highway at the city of Humaita, Amazonas state, Brazil, Sept. 15, 2022.
September 19

A Tunisian presidential candidate sentenced to 20 months vows to campaign from prison

A candidate for president in Tunisia has been sentenced to 20 months in prison on election fraud charges that his attorney decried as politically motivated
September 19
Abdessatar Messaoudi, right, attorney of Tunisian presidential candidate Ayachi Zammel, seen on the poster on the wall, speaks during a press conference after Zammel was sentenced to prison on fraud charges that Messaoudi decried as politically motivated, in Tunis, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024 (AP Photo/Ons Abid)
September 19

Sweden charges a woman with war crimes for allegedly torturing Yazidi women and children in Syria

Swedish authorities have charged a 52-year-old woman associated with the Islamic State group with genocide, crimes against humanity and serious war crimes against Yazidi women and children in Syria
September 19
Prosecutor Reena Devgun speaks during a press conference regarding the indictment of a 52-year-old woman, associated with the Islamic State group, with genocide, crimes against humanity and serious war crimes against Yazidi women and children in Syria, in Stockholm, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (Anders Wiklund/TT News Agency via AP)
September 19

Denmark's Queen Margrethe who abdicated earlier this year has been hospitalized

Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II, who abdicated earlier this year, has been admitted to a hospital after falling in her home
September 19
Denmark's Queen Margrethe attends the Rungstedlund Prize 2024 at the Karen Blixen Museum in Rungsted, Denmark, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. (Ida Marie Odgaard/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)
September 19

EU chief travels to Kyiv with promise of fresh energy funds to get Ukraine through winter

European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen is traveling to war-ravaged Ukraine with the promise of 160 million euros in fresh energy funds to get the nation through the winter
September 19
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen presents her new team for her next five-year tenure at the head of the bloc, during a press conference at the European Parliament, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024, in Strasbourg. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)
September 19

Hezbollah leader vows retaliation against Israel for attacks on devices as both sides trade strikes

The leader of Hezbollah vowed to retaliate for this week’s deadly attacks on the group’s communications devices
September 19
Israelis take cover next to a shelter as a siren sounds a warning of incoming rockets fired from Lebanon, in Nahariya, northern Israel, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)
September 19

UK leader Starmer is facing flak for taking freebies. He says he's done nothing wrong

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was elected in July on a promise to restore trust in politics
September 19
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks to members of the media in Rome, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. (Phil Noble/Pool Photo via AP)
September 19

Israeli police, intelligence foil alleged $1 million plot to assassinate leaders

Israeli police and intelligence said Thursday they foiled an Iranian plot.
September 19
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (R) attend a press conference in the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, Israel, Oct. 28, 2023. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP, File)
September 19

Bank of England keeps its main interest rate on hold at 5% in wake of big US Fed rate cut

Bank of England keeps its main interest rate on hold at 5% in wake of big US Fed rate cut
September 19
September 19

A U.N.-chartered plane was damaged in an Islamist attack in Mali

A plane that was used for humanitarian work by the World Food Program was damaged during an Islamist attack in the capital of Mali, according to the South African aviation company that owns the plane
September 19