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APTOPIX Brazil Lebanon Aid
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, right, and former President Michel Temer stand in the plane carrying humanitarian aid that will be sent to Lebanon, including medical supplies and experts to assist in the wake of the explosion in Beirut, at the Air Force base in Guarulhos, greater Sao Paulo area, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. Temer, whose parents were Lebanese, lead a group of 13 people that includes politicians, military personnel, and businessmen in delivering the aid. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
APTOPIX France Europe Heatwave
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A woman cools off with her dog under a public shower along the Seine river in Paris, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. Temperatures in Paris were expected to hit 36 degrees Celsius (100.4 Fahrenheit) Wednesday afternoon. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu)
APTOPIX Lebanon Explosion
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A banner with representations of the Lebanese flag hangs on a damaged building in a neighborhood near the site of last week's explosion that hit the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
APTOPIX Italy Cycling Tour of Piedmont
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Cyclists make their way through the countryside during the Gran Piemonte, Tour of Piedmont cycling race, from Santo Stefano Belbo to Barolo, Italy, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. (Marco Alpozzi/LaPresse via AP)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Israel Daily Life
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews, some wearing protective face mask amid concerns over the country's coronavirus outbreak, spend the day at a park in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. Ultra-Orthodox Yeshivas students enjoy Bein Hazmanim (between the times) for two weeks of summer vacation. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Argentina
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Men in full protective suits dig fresh graves at Chacarita cemetery, where many COVID-19 victims are being buried in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Aug 12, 2020. People are on edge in Argentina, where the number of new coronavirus cases is surging despite nearly five months of strict limits on movement and activities in the Buenos Aires area, home to about two-thirds of the country's population. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Paraguay
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Wearing masks amid the COVID-19 pandemic, National University students burn tires as they protest for free college education in Asuncion, Paraguay, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. Students are upset they are paying tuition for online classes amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
APTOPIX Portugal Soccer Champions League
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PSG's Marquinhos, left, celebrates after scoring his side's first goal with Thilo Kehrer during the Champions League quarter-final soccer match between Atalanta and Paris Saint-Germain, at the Luz stadium in Lisbon, Portugal, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. (Rafael Marchante/Pool via AP)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Mexico
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City workers place a giant face mask with text written in Spanish that reads “Joint the Iztapalapa challenge. Zero contagion,” on the Cabeza de Juarez museum amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in Iztapalapa, Mexico City, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. The museum constructed in 1976, is an enormous multicolored monument of Mexico’s 26th President Benito Juarez. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Trump
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President Donald Trump listens during an event called "Kids First: Getting America's Children Safely Back to School" in the State Dining room of the White House, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
APTOPIX Election 2020 Joe Biden VP
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Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden and his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., arrive to speak at a news conference at Alexis Dupont High School in Wilmington, Del., Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Trump
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President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a news conference in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
APTOPIX Giants Astros Baseball
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San Francisco Giants' Mike Yastrzemski dives toward third base after hitting a triple against the Houston Astros during the first inning of a baseball game Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
APTOPIX Severe Weather Midwest Agriculture
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Iowa Department of Transportation workers help with tree debris removal as grain bins from the Archer Daniels Midland facility are seen severely damaged in Keystone, Iowa, on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. A storm slammed the Midwest with straight line winds of up to 100 miles per hour on Monday, gaining strength as it plowed through Iowa farm fields, flattening corn and bursting grain bins still filled with tens of millions of bushels of last year’s harvest. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette via AP)
APTOPIX Raptors 76ers Basketball
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Philadelphia 76ers' Norvel Pelle, left, blocks a shot by Toronto Raptors' Dewan Hernandez during the second half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020 in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, Pool)
APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Mexico
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Medical workers using protective equipment dispose of trash bags containing hazardous biological waste into a large pile outside the Hospital del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, which treats patients with COVID-19 in Veracruz, Mexico, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. Improper disposal of medical waste has become an increasing problem in Mexico amid the pandemic. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
APTOPIX California Wildfires
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A firefighter watches as a helicopter drops water on the Lake Hughes fire in Angeles National Forest on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020, north of Santa Clarita, Calif. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)
APTOPIX California Wildfires
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Firefighters work in the smoke and haze and embers from the Lake Hughes fire in Angeles National Forest on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020, north of Santa Clarita, Calif. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)
APTOPIX Germany Daily Life
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A man runs on a small road in the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany, as the sun rises Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
