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Symposium on aircraft accident victims' families

Kuniko Miyajima (2nd from L), who leads an association of relatives of the victims of the 1985 Japan Airlines jumbo jet crash, speaks at a symposium on assistance for aircraft accident victims and their families organized by the International Civil Aviation Organization in Haarlem, the Netherlands, on Nov. 26, 2024. Miyajima, 77, lost her 9-year-old son in the world's worst single-aircraft accident that killed 520 passengers and crew.

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Baseball: Rangers vs. Dodgers

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto (L) high-fives with a 9-year-old boy who threw the ceremonial first pitch to Yamamoto behind home plate at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles ahead of a baseball game against the Texas Rangers on June 13, 2024.

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Baseball: Rangers vs. Dodgers

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto catches the ceremonial first pitch thrown out by a 9-year-old boy (18) ahead of a baseball game against the Texas Rangers at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on June 13, 2024.

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On-site in Gaza: struggles inside Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital

STORY: On-site in Gaza: struggles inside Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital SHOOTING TIME: March 15, 18, 2024 DATELINE: March 20, 2024 LENGTH: 00:02:58 LOCATION: Gaza CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza (shooting time: March 18, 2024) 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): JABER, Kidney failure patient in Gaza 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): SAEED, Kidney failure patient in Gaza 4. various of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza (shooting time: March 15, 2024) 5. SOUNDBITE 3 (Arabic): YAHYA HAMAD, 9-year-old Gaza resident 6. various of Yahya Hamad 7. SOUNDBITE 4 (Arabic): FATEN MOHAMED, Yahya's aunt STORYLINE: It has been more than 160 days since the new round of large-scale conflicts between Hamas and Israel began. The conflicts have killed tens of thousands of people and severely damaged infrastructure, including hospitals, in the coastal enclave. Over 30 hospitals and more than 50 medical centers in Gaza are out of service. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza is one of the few

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Pope Francis Meets With World Children's Day Organizing Committee

Pope Francis meets at Domus Sanctae Martha with World Children's Day organizing committee in Vatican, on March 02, 2024. The first World Children's Day will take place in May 2024. The idea of a Day entirely dedicated to the youngest among us had been proposed to the Pope in July by a child, 9-year-old Alessandro. Editorial Use Only. Photo by Vatican Media /CPP/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Francis Meets With World Children's Day Organizing Committee

Pope Francis meets at Domus Sanctae Martha with World Children's Day organizing committee in Vatican, on March 02, 2024. The first World Children's Day will take place in May 2024. The idea of a Day entirely dedicated to the youngest among us had been proposed to the Pope in July by a child, 9-year-old Alessandro. Editorial Use Only. Photo by Vatican Media /CPP/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Francis Meets With World Children's Day Organizing Committee

Pope Francis meets at Domus Sanctae Martha with World Children's Day organizing committee in Vatican, on March 02, 2024. The first World Children's Day will take place in May 2024. The idea of a Day entirely dedicated to the youngest among us had been proposed to the Pope in July by a child, 9-year-old Alessandro. Editorial Use Only. Photo by Vatican Media /CPP/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Francis Meets With World Children's Day Organizing Committee

Pope Francis meets at Domus Sanctae Martha with World Children's Day organizing committee in Vatican, on March 02, 2024. The first World Children's Day will take place in May 2024. The idea of a Day entirely dedicated to the youngest among us had been proposed to the Pope in July by a child, 9-year-old Alessandro. Editorial Use Only. Photo by Vatican Media /CPP/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Francis Meets With World Children's Day Organizing Committee

Pope Francis meets at Domus Sanctae Martha with World Children's Day organizing committee in Vatican, on March 02, 2024. The first World Children's Day will take place in May 2024. The idea of a Day entirely dedicated to the youngest among us had been proposed to the Pope in July by a child, 9-year-old Alessandro. Editorial Use Only. Photo by Vatican Media /CPP/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pope Francis Meets With World Children's Day Organizing Committee

Pope Francis meets at Domus Sanctae Martha with World Children's Day organizing committee in Vatican, on March 02, 2024. The first World Children's Day will take place in May 2024. The idea of a Day entirely dedicated to the youngest among us had been proposed to the Pope in July by a child, 9-year-old Alessandro. Editorial Use Only. Photo by Vatican Media /CPP/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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9-yr-old girl wins 10,000-meter horse race in China's Inner Mongolia

STORY: 9-yr-old girl wins 10,000-meter horse race in China's Inner Mongolia DATELINE: July 4, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:14 LOCATION: HOHHOT, China CATEGORY: SPORTS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the girl at the horse race STORYLINE: In Bayan Nur City, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, a 9-year-old girl of the Mongolian ethnic group won a 10,000-meter horse race. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Hohhot, China. (XHTV)

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CHINA-ANHUI-JIXI-ANHUI OPERA-PUPILS-INHERITANCE (CN)

(230531) -- JIXI, May 31, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Elderly folk artists help 9-year-old Anhui Opera student Fang Dongdong (C) wear a headdress at Fuling Village of Jixi County, Xuancheng City, east China's Anhui Province, May 30, 2023. In order to promote Anhui Opera and raise awareness of the traditional performing art, a primary school in Fuling Village has been offering a routine training program since 2003 for its students, hiring veteran folk artists as tutors. (Xinhua/Zhang Duan)

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Xinjiang, My home: A 9-year-old boy's family vlog

STORY: Xinjiang, My home: A 9-year-old boy's family vlog DATELINE: April 9, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:56 LOCATION: URUMQI, China CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): YEHEYAJAN TURGHUNJAN 2. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): YEHEYAJAN TURGHUNJAN and his parents STORYLINE: Yeheyajan Turghunjan, a 9-year-old boy from Ruoqiang County, northwest China's Xinjiang, has filmed a vlog to record daily life of his parents who run a wedding photography studio. Check out what they say to their new family member to be born soon. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): YEHEYAJAN TURGHUNJAN "This is me at birth. This is me when I was 3 years old. This is my 7th birthday, and my mother, wearing makeup, was so beautiful that day. Hello, my name is Yeheyajan. I'm 9 years old. My parents are photographers. They take photos for other people every day. Today, I will record them with camera. Look, this is our wedding photography shop." SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): YEHEYAJAN TURGHUNJAN and his parents "Mom, what are you doing? I'm choosing photos for

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Man arrested over murder of Vietnamese girl in Japan

TOKYO, Japan, April 14 Kyodo - Photo taken April 14, 2017, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the key sites related to the murder of 9-year-old Vietnamese girl Le Thi Nhat Linh in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo: (1) the girl's house (2) the suspect's house (3) the elementary school the girl attended (4) the scene where her body was found. Yasumasa Shibuya, 46, the head of a parents' association, was arrested the same day in connection with the murder case.

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Guide dog's bleeding said linked to disease instead of stabbing

SAITAMA, Japan - Oscar, a 9-year-old male Labrador retriever, rests next to his owner, a blind man, in Saitama near Tokyo in August 2014. Five months after the guide dog's bleeding was attributed to a stabbing attack, police now say the bleeding might have been caused by a skin disease.

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Guide dog's bleeding said linked to disease instead of stabbing

SAITAMA, Japan - In this file photo taken in August 2014, Oscar, a 9-year-old male Labrador retriever, rests next to his owner, a blind man, in Saitama near Tokyo. Five months after the guide dog's bleeding was attributed to a stabbing attack, police now say the bleeding might have been caused by a skin disease.

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Polar bear gets annual summer gift

OSAKA, Japan - Gogo holds a chunk of ice containing apples, an annual midsummer present for the 9-year-old male polar bear from Russia from his keepers at Tennoji Zoo in Osaka on July 23, 2014.

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Polar bear gets annual summer gift

OSAKA, Japan - Gogo bites into a chunk of ice containing apples, an annual midsummer present for the 9-year-old male polar bear from Russia from his keepers at Tennoji Zoo in Osaka on July 23, 2014.

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Chinese student saves boy from swollen river

OSAKA, Japan - Chinese student Yan Jun (R) receives a letter of appreciation at the Oyodo police station in Osaka City on Sept. 18, 2013. Osaka prefectural police thanked Yan, 26, for his bravery in rescuing a 9-year-old boy who fell into a river swollen by Typhoon Man-yi two days before.

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Chinese student saves boy from swollen river

OSAKA, Japan - Chinese student Yan Jun holds a letter of appreciation at the Oyodo police station in Osaka City on Sept. 18, 2013. Osaka prefectural police thanked Yan, 26, for his bravery in rescuing a 9-year-old boy who fell into a river swollen by Typhoon Man-yi two days before.

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Smoking in Indonesia

JAKARTA, Indonesia - A 9-year-old boy smokes in a village in Sukabumi Regency, West Java, in July 2012. Indonesia does not have a law prohibiting smoking by children.

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Japanese woman set free after daughter returns to U.S.

MILWAUKEE, United States - Nicaraguan doctor Moises Garcia holds up a photo of his daughter during a press conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Dec. 24, 2011. A Japanese woman, his former wife, who had been detained in Wisconsin on a felony charge of concealing their 9-year-old daughter from Garcia, was set free Dec. 23 after the girl was returned to him following a plea agreement reached in November.

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Princess Aiko at athletic meet

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Aiko (C), the 9-year-old daughter of Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako, takes part in a tug-of-war at Gakushuin Primary School in Tokyo on Oct. 8, 2011, during the school's athletic meet. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Princess Aiko at athletic meet

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Aiko (L), the 9-year-old daughter of Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako, takes part in a tug-of-war at Gakushuin Primary School in Tokyo on Oct. 8, 2011, during the school's athletic meet. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Princess Aiko at athletic meet

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Aiko (C top), the 9-year-old daughter of Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako, attends an athletic meet of Gakushuin Primary School in Tokyo on Oct. 8, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Princess Aiko at athletic meet

TOKYO, Japan - Crown Prince Naruhito (C) and Crown Princess Masako (to right behind prince) watch their daughter, 9-year-old Princess Aiko, during an athletic meet of Gakushuin Primary School in Tokyo on Oct. 8, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Cancer sniffing dog

CHIBA, Japan - Photo taken in December 2010 in Minamiboso, Chiba Prefecture, shows a 9-year-old female Labrador retriever named Marine and Yuji Sato, head of St. Sugar Cancer Sniffing Dog Training Center in Minamiboso. According to researchers at the center and Kyushu University, Marine was able to distinguish between cancer patients and healthy persons with at least 90 percent accuracy by sniffing breath and other biological samples.

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9-year-old girl discovers fossil of new species of lobster

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Natsumi Kumagai from Hannan, Osaka Prefecture, holds fossil remains of a new species of lobster at the Wakayama prefectural government building in the city of Wakayama on Dec. 10. The nine-year-old dug out the fossil of the new lobster ''Hoploparia natsumiae,'' which was named after her given name, from the Lower Cretaceous stratum (130 million years ago) in the town of Yuasa, Wakayama Prefecture, in December last year.

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Murder suspect asked lawyer not to talk about daughter's death

AKITA, Japan - Hideki Arisaka, a lawyer for Suzuka Hatakeyama in Akita Prefecture who was indicted July 17 on charges of murdering a neighborhood boy, said in Noshiro in the prefecture the same day that Hatakeyama asked him not to talk to the media about the case of her daughter's death in April for the time being. According to investigative sources, Hatakeyama, reversing past statements, has admitted to killing her 9-year-old daughter Ayaka by throwing the girl from a bridge into a river.

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People gather for tickets to trial of kidnap suspect

NIIGATA, Japan - People gather in a municipal gymnasium in Niigata on the Sea of Japan coast Jan. 22 to get tickets to a court ruling on the case of Nobuyuki Sato, charged with abducting a 9-year-old girl in 1990 and keeping her prisoner in his home in Niigata Prefecture for more than nine years.

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Hearing starts for Niigata man who held girl for 9 years

NIIGATA, Japan - A Niigata District Court room is pictured May 23, before the start of the first hearing in the trial of Nobuyuki Sato, a 37-year-old unemployed man. Sato pleaded guilty to abducting a 9-year-old girl in 1990 and holding her captive for nine years and two months until January at his home in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture.

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Niigata man pleads guilty to confining girl for 9 years

NIIGATA, Japan - People form long queues outside the Niigata District Court on May 23 for admission tickets into the first hearing in trial of Nobuyuki Sato, a 37-year-old unemployed man charged with abduction. Sato pleaded guilty to abducting a 9-year-old girl in 1990 and holding her captive for nine years and two months at his home in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture.

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Giant panda performs "flying yoga" in China's Guangdong

STORY: Giant panda performs "flying yoga" in China's Guangdong DATELINE: Oct. 27, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:17 LOCATION: Guangzhou, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the panda STORYLINE: Giant panda Yayi plays with a fire hose at Guangzhou Zoo in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province. The 9-year-old giant panda is playful and lively. To ensure that giant pandas of the zoo could get enough amount of exercise, staff members prepared various facilities for them, such as fire hose. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Guangzhou, China. (XHTV)

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Xinjiang, My home: A 9-year-old boy's happy family

STORY: Xinjiang, My home: A 9-year-old boy's happy family DATELINE: March 11, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:32 LOCATION: URUMQI, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): WANIHAR QEYSER's family members STORYLINE: Wanihar Qeyser, a 9-year-old boy living in Artux in Xinjiang, China, loves to help clean his mom's hair salon. He has a family of five members, mom, dad, elder sister and brother, and him. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): WANIHAR QEYSER's family members "Mom, does my sister want to be a hairdresser like you when she grows up?" "Your sister would do whatever she likes." "I'm Wanihar Qeyser and I'm 9 years old. My mother's name is Patigul Arken, and she is a hairdresser. My mom opened a hair salon. I would go for help if my mom was busy. I can help clean the floor." "You are cleaning the floor, aren't you? How lovely you are. Give me a kiss." "My mom is the most beautiful woman to me. My brother likes running. Sometimes we run together. Just play for a minute. My sister is preparing for the college

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Boy dies after apparent fall from Tokyo hotel

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Dec. 29, 2021, shows a hotel in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward. A 9-year-old boy was found dead on the ground on the hotel's premises after an apparent fall earlier in the day.

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Boy dies after apparent fall from Tokyo hotel

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Dec. 29, 2021, shows a hotel in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward. A 9-year-old boy was found dead on the ground on the hotel's premises after an apparent fall earlier in the day.

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People gather for tickets to trial of kidnap suspect

NIIGATA, Japan - People gather in a municipal gymnasium in Niigata on the Sea of Japan coast Jan. 22 to get tickets to a court ruling on the case of Nobuyuki Sato, charged with abducting a 9-year-old girl in 1990 and keeping her prisoner in his home in Niigata Prefecture for more than nine years.

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Niigata man gets 14 yrs for confining girl for 9 yrs

NIIGATA, Japan - Thirty-nine-year-old Nobuyuki Sato (file photo) was sentenced by the Niigata District Court to 14 years in prison Jan. 22 for abducting a 9-year-old girl in 1990 and keeping her prisoner in his home in Niigata Prefecture for more than nine years.

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9-year-old girl discovers fossil of new species of lobster

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Natsumi Kumagai from Hannan, Osaka Prefecture, holds fossil remains of a new species of lobster at the Wakayama prefectural government building in the city of Wakayama on Dec. 10. The nine-year-old dug out the fossil of the new lobster ''Hoploparia natsumiae,'' which was named after her given name, from the Lower Cretaceous stratum (130 million years ago) in the town of Yuasa, Wakayama Prefecture, in December last year. (Kyodo)

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Hearing starts for Niigata man who held girl for 9 years

NIIGATA, Japan - A Niigata District Court room is pictured May 23, before the start of the first hearing in the trial of Nobuyuki Sato, a 37-year-old unemployed man. Sato pleaded guilty to abducting a 9-year-old girl in 1990 and holding her captive for nine years and two months until January at his home in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture.

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Niigata man pleads guilty to confining girl for 9 years

NIIGATA, Japan - People form long queues outside the Niigata District Court on May 23 for admission tickets into the first hearing in trial of Nobuyuki Sato, a 37-year-old unemployed man charged with abduction. Sato pleaded guilty to abducting a 9-year-old girl in 1990 and holding her captive for nine years and two months at his home in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture.

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Japan hangs 2 inmates, 16 executed since 2012 return of Abe gov't

Undated photo shows Yasutoshi Kamata, who was convicted of murdering a 9-year-old girl in Osaka and four women between 1985 and 1994. Japan hanged him and another death-row inmate Junko Yoshida on March 25, 2016, bringing the total number of people executed since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe returned to power in December 2012 to 16. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Family of girl killed by tsunami wins damages suit

Photo taken in February 2016 shows Nobiru elementary school in the March 2011 disaster-hit northeastern Japan city of Higashimatsushima. The Sendai District Court ruled on March 24 that the municipal government must pay compensation to the family of a 9-year-old girl who was killed by a tsunami on her way home from the school. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kids urge action on climate change ahead of COP21

Mirei Fukamizu (R), 13, and her 9-year-old brother Rui call for action to curb global warming during an "Earth Parade" event held in Kyoto on Nov. 29, 2015, ahead of the COP21 international conference on climate change in France. The children, wearing caps shaped like polar bears threatened by global warming, were among some 500 participants in the event. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Coast Guard member dies after apparently killing daughter

Photo taken in the early hours of Nov. 28, 2015, shows the house in Tokoname, Aichi Prefecture, where Takayuki Kanda, a 43-year-old Japan Coast Guard member, allegedly attacked his 9-year-old daughter who was later pronounced dead in hospital. Kanda was found dead 2 kilometers from his home. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Indonesia's young prodigy

Indonesia's 9-year-old skateboarder Aliqqa Novvery talks to the press after finishing her competition at the Asian Games in Palembang, Indonesia, on Aug. 29, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Indonesia's young prodigy

Indonesia's 9-year-old skateboarder Aliqqa Novvery (L) holds the Indonesian flag with compatriot Nyimas Bunga after her competition at the Asian Games in Palembang, Indonesia, on Aug. 29, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Indonesia's young prodigy

Indonesia's 9-year-old skateboarder Aliqqa Novvery reacts after her performance at the Asian Games in Palembang, Indonesia, on Aug. 29, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Indonesia's young prodigy

Indonesia's 9-year-old skateboarder Aliqqa Novvery competes at the Asian Games in Palembang, Indonesia, on Aug. 29, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Strong quake hits western Japan

Photo taken June 18, 2018, shows a collapsed wall of Juei Elementary School in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, following a powerful earthquake that hit the western Japan prefecture and its vicinity earlier in the day. A 9-year-old girl was killed in the wall collapse. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo