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Europe struggles to fix migrant predicament

STORY: Europe struggles to fix migrant predicament SHOOTING TIME: Nov. 20-25, 2023 DATELINE: Dec. 16, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:04 LOCATION: LAMPEDUSA, Italy CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the migrants 2. various of migrants' ships 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): SERENA CORNIGLIA, Supervisor of migrant reception centers with the Italian Red Cross 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Italian): GIUSEPPE PALMISANO, Bar owner 5. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): SAMSUN YOSEEF, Migrant from Ethiopia 6. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): DANNIEL WOLDE, Migrant 7. SOUNDBITE 5 (English): FRIEDRICH REICH, NGO Rescue ship member from Germany STORYLINE: Migration has returned as a hotly debated issue in the European Union (EU) while a fresh crisis is looming on the continent. Irregular crossings at the EU's external borders increased by 17 percent in the first 11 months of this year to over 355,300, surpassing full-year totals in any year since 2016. Most migrants chose the Central Mediterranean route, a risky one that has seen many migrant shipwrecks due t

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American expat embraces life with possibilities in China's Dongguan

STORY: American expat embraces life with possibilities in China's Dongguan SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 11, 2023 DATELINE: Dec. 15, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:30 LOCATION: DONGGUAN, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Kymmberli Stowe working and participating in activities 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese & English): KYMMBERLI STOWE, Psychological counselor at QSI International School of Dongguan 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): KYMMBERLI STOWE, Psychological counselor at QSI International School of Dongguan 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): KYMMBERLI STOWE, Psychological counselor at QSI International School of Dongguan STORYLINE: Kymmberli Stowe, an American who has lived in China since 2016, has embraced a vibrant and diverse lifestyle in the city of Dongguan, south China's Guangdong Province. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese & English): KYMMBERLI STOWE, Psychological counselor at QSI International School of Dongguan "Hello everyone, I'm Dr. Kymmberli Stowe. I come from America. I came to China with my dog who's also known as Xiaomeili." Sto

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Mediterranean Route to Europe still busiest for irregular migrants

STORY: Mediterranean Route to Europe still busiest for irregular migrants SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 12, 2023 DATELINE: Dec. 13, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:51 LOCATION: Rome CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of screenshots of the report released by Frontex 2. various of migrants in Rome STORYLINE: Irregular border crossings into the European Union (EU) have dramatically increased this year, the EU's border control agency said Monday. In the first 11 months of 2023, the number of arrivals has already surpassed full-year totals in any year since 2016, according to data released by the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex). The total number of migrants arriving in the EU via non-regular means this year reached at least 355,300 by the end of November, Frontex said. Nevertheless, the number of irregular arrivals is slowing, and the balance between different routes is changing. The Central Mediterranean Route, marked by crossings to Italy from Tunisia or Libya, remained the most common means of

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World's first Zootopia land begins trial operation at Shanghai Disney Resort

STORY: World's first Zootopia land begins trial operation at Shanghai Disney Resort SHOOTING TIME: Nov. 30, 2023 DATELINE: Dec. 1, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:11 LOCATION: SHANGHAI, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Zootopia land STORYLINE: The world's first Zootopia land, scheduled to open to the public starting from Dec. 20 at Shanghai Disney Resort, has kicked off trial operation, the resort said Wednesday. The new themed land was open to the media for the first time on Wednesday. It is based on the Walt Disney Animation Studios movie "Zootopia" and will become the eighth themed land in Shanghai Disneyland. According to the resort, the Zootopia land's construction began in December 2019, and it involves many latest original design concepts from the international Disney engineering team. Shanghai Disney Resort opened with six themed lands on June 16, 2016. Its seventh land, Disney Pixar Toy Story Land, opened in 2018, making Shanghai Disneyland the fastest-expanding Disneyland in the world. I

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Figure skating: Evgenia Medvedeva

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 7 Kyodo - Russian figure skater Evgenia Medvedeva (L front) nudges Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan to perform an encore during the Grand Prix Final gala exhibition in Marseille, France, on Dec. 11, 2016.

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Huge glove created in Nara

Photo taken Dec. 26, 2015, shows a huge baseball glove, designed to fit on a hand of the Great Buddha of Nara (behind) at the Todaiji temple in the western Japan city of Nara. The 180-kilogram glove will be displayed in the disaster-hit northeastern Japan city of Iwaki from March 11, 2016, the 5th anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters, as a symbol of hope for reconstruction. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Huge glove created in Nara

Photo taken Dec. 26, 2015, shows a huge baseball glove, designed to fit on a hand of the Great Buddha of Nara (behind) at the Todaiji temple in the western Japan city of Nara. The 180-kilogram glove will be displayed in the disaster-hit northeastern Japan city of Iwaki from March 11, 2016, the 5th anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters, as a symbol of hope for reconstruction. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Image of monkeys created on ground with 15,000 pine cones

Photo taken Dec. 12, 2015, at Hitachi Seaside Park in Hitachinaka, eastern Japan, shows an image of two monkeys, measuring 25 meters by 25 meters, created with 15,000 pine cones and other natural materials. Park staff and visitors spent about two weeks to create the image in commemoration of the year of the monkey for 2016. The image will be on display until Jan. 11. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, China hold talks on economic partnership

Japan and China hold vice ministerial-level talks in Beijing on Dec. 11, 2015, to lay the groundwork for their first ministerial meeting on economic cooperation in about five and a half years in the spring of 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, China hold talks on economic partnership

Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister Yasumasa Nagamine (L) and Gao Yan, China's vice minister of commerce, shake hands ahead of vice ministerial-level talks on economic cooperation in Beijing on Dec. 11, 2015. The two nations are trying to lay the ground for their first ministerial meeting on the issue in about five and a half years in the spring of 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Figure skating: Evgenia Medvedeva

Russian figure skater Evgenia Medvedeva (L front) nudges Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan to perform an encore during the Grand Prix Final gala exhibition in Marseille, France, on Dec. 11, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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M'bishi Electric referred to prosecutors for alleged overwork

Photo taken Dec. 12, 2016, shows a former employee of Mitsubishi Electric Corp. who became mentally ill due to overwork and was laid off that year. The place of photography is withheld based on his request. Japan's labor ministry referred the electronics maker to prosecutors on Jan. 11, 2017, on suspicion of violating the labor standards law by making him work far longer than parameters set in a labor-management agreement. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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FEATURE: Japan's 'sharing economy' all the rage in 2016

Three families enjoy a meal featuring vegetables grown with no agrochemicals together on a hill surrounded by fields, bamboo and cedar forests, served by Ruri Aoki (L), a 46-year-old farmer, at an event to share farming experience provided by sharing economy service provider TABICA, which introduces people to the daily lives and customs of locals through guides and workshops, in Tokyo's suburban city of Machida on Dec. 11, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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FEATURE: Japan's 'sharing economy' all the rage in 2016

Elementary school boys harvest an edible burdock root by digging a 1-meter hole on a hillside at an event to share farming experience provided by sharing economy service provider TABICA, which introduces people to the daily lives and customs of locals through guides and workshops, in Tokyo's suburban city of Machida on Dec. 11, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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FEATURE: Japan's 'sharing economy' all the rage in 2016

Elementary school boys dig yams in a field on a hillside at an event to share farming experience provided by sharing economy service provider TABICA, which introduces people to the daily lives and customs of locals through guides and workshops, in Tokyo's suburban city of Machida on Dec. 11, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese-Brazilian hurdler aiming high in Rio Olympics

Photo taken Dec. 11, 2015, in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, shows Mahau Sugimachi, a Japanese-Brazilian hurdler, at his team's track. Sugimachi will represent Brazil at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Soccer: Real Madrid win Club World Cup in Japan

Real Madrid's Lucas Vazquez (white) is fouled by Shuto Yamamoto (L) of Japan's Kashima Antlers in the second half of the Club World Cup final at Nissan Stadium in Yokohama on Dec. 18, 2016. The 11-time European champions won 4-2 after extra time. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Harumafuji referred to prosecutors over assault

File photo taken in July 2016 shows sumo wrestler Takanoiwa. Police referred former sumo grand champion Harumafuji to prosecutors on Dec. 11, 2017 for his assault of Takanoiwa at a bar in western Japan in October 2017, (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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M'bishi Electric referred to prosecutors for alleged overwork

Photo taken on Dec. 12, 2016 shows a former employee of Mitsubishi Electric Corp. who became mentally ill due to overwork and was laid off that year. Japan's labor ministry referred the electronics maker to prosecutors on Jan. 11, 2017, on suspicion of violating the labor standards law by making him work far longer than parameters set in a labor-management agreement. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Satono Diamond edges Kitasan Black in Arima Kinen

Favorite Satono Diamond (11) ridden by Christophe Lemaire wins the season-ending Arima Kinen at Nakayama Racecourse in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, on Dec. 25, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Satono Diamond edges Kitasan Black in Arima Kinen

Favorite Satono Diamond (11) ridden by Christophe Lemaire wins the season-ending Arima Kinen at Nakayama Racecourse in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, on Dec. 25, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Evacuation advisory for area hit by massive fire lifted after 2 days

Residents look through the wreckage of what was their home in Itoigawa, Niigata Prefecture on Dec. 24, 2016, after an inferno destroyed some 150 buildings and injured 11 people in the Sea of Japan coast city. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Baseball: Ex-Giants pitcher Kato dies at 66

Undated photo shows former Yomiuri Giants right-hander Hajime Kato, nicknamed "Poker Face" for his blank expression on the mound. The Central League baseball club said on Dec. 20, 2016, that Kato died at 66 in a Shizuoka hospital on Dec. 11 due to rectal cancer. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Baseball: Ex-Giants pitcher Kato dies at 66

File photo taken in April 1976 shows Yomiuri Giants right-hander Hajime Kato celebrating after throwing a no-hitter to defeat the Hiroshima Carp. The Central League club said on Dec. 20, 2016, that Kato died at 66 in a Shizuoka hospital on Dec. 11 due to rectal cancer. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Soccer: Real Madrid win Club World Cup in Japan

Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane is tossed in the air after the 11-time European champions defeated Japan's Kashima Antlers 4-2 after extra time in the Club World Cup final at Nissan Stadium on Dec. 18, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe, Obama to visit Pearl Harbor

Visitors to the USS Arizona Memorial in Hawaii observe the list of names on Dec. 11, 2016, of those who died in the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit there with U.S. President Barack Obama later in the month to remember the people who perished. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan asks U.S. military to ground all Osprey airplanes after crash

U.S. military personnel check part of a wrecked U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey aircraft on the shore of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture at 11:01 a.m. on Dec. 14, 2016, after the aircraft crash-landed in the sea nearby the previous night. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Takanashi wins 3rd World Cup meet this season

Japan's Sara Takanashi meets with reporters after winning a World Cup women's ski jumping event for the third time in the current season on Dec. 11, 2016, in Nizhny Tagil, Russia. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Takanashi wins 3rd World Cup meet this season

Japan's Sara Takanashi smiles after winning a World Cup women's ski jumping event for the third time in the current season on Dec. 11, 2016, in Nizhny Tagil, Russia. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's tallest building Abeno Harukas holds stair climbing race

Piotr Lobodzinski (C) of Poland poses for a photo with other participants after winning "Harukas Skyrun," a race running up the emergency stairs at Abeno Harukas, Japan's tallest skyscraper at 300 meters, in Osaka on Dec. 11, 2016. The 31-year-old Lobodzinski won the first international vertical running event in Japan with a time of 8 minutes and 34 seconds in running up a total of 1,670 steps. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's tallest building Abeno Harukas holds stair climbing race

Participants compete in "Harukas Skyrun," a race running up the emergency stairs at Abeno Harukas, Japan's tallest skyscraper at 300 meters, in Osaka on Dec. 11, 2016. Around 1,000 people from home and abroad took part in the first international vertical running event in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's tallest building Abeno Harukas holds stair climbing race

Participants compete in "Harukas Skyrun," a race running up the emergency stairs at Abeno Harukas, Japan's tallest skyscraper at 300 meters, in Osaka on Dec. 11, 2016. Around 1,000 people from home and abroad took part in the first international vertical running event in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Table tennis: Hamamoto, Hayata win women's doubles at tour finals

Japanese teenagers Yui Hamamoto (R) and Hina Hayata play against Doo Hoi Kem and Lee Ho Ching of Hong Kong during the women's doubles final at the table tennis World Tour Grand Finals in Doha, Qatar on Dec. 11, 2016. Hamamoto and Hayata won 4-2 to claim their first win at the event for top players on the International Table Tennis Federation's world tour. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ski jumping: Takanashi wins 3rd World Cup meet this season, 47th total

Japan's Sara Takanashi (C), Daniela Iraschko-Stolz (53) and Jacqueline Seifriedsberger, both from Austria, stand on the podium after winning first, second and third place, respectively, in a World Cup women's ski jumping event in Nizhny Tagil, Russia, on Dec. 11, 2016. Takanashi won a World Cup event for the third time this season and 47th overall, surpassing Finland's legendary Matti Nykanen to sit alone in second place in the all-time standings for men and women combined. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Swimming: Ikee bronze at short-course worlds

Japan's Rikako Ikee holds the bronze medal she won in the women's 100-meter butterfly at the world short-course swimming championships in Windsor, Canada on Dec. 11, 2016. Ikee finished in a new national record time of 55.64 seconds. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Swimming: Ikee bronze at short-course worlds

Japan's Rikako Ikee wins bronze in the women's 100-meter butterfly at the world short-course swimming championships in Windsor, Canada on Dec. 11, 2016. Ikee touched the wall in 55.64 seconds, a new Japan short-course record. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese sweep wheelchair divisions of Honolulu Marathon

Wakako Tsuchida (L) and Masazumi Soejima of Japan pose for photos with their country's flags after winning the women's and men's wheelchair divisions of Honolulu Marathon in Honolulu on Dec. 11, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Soejima wins men's Honolulu wheelchair marathon

Masazumi Soejima of Japan crosses the finish line to win the men's wheelchair division of the Honolulu Marathon in Honolulu on Dec. 11, 2016. Soejima captured his 10th title, and won for the fourth straight year, with a time of 1:35:35. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tsuchida wins women's Honolulu wheelchair marathon

Wakako Tsuchida of Japan is seen after winning the women's wheelchair division of the Honolulu Marathon in Honolulu on Dec. 11, 2016. Tsuchida captured her 10th title, the first in two years, with a time of 1:50:42. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kenya's Cherono wins Honolulu Marathon men's race

Lawrence Cherono of Kenya crosses the finish line to win the men's race in the Honolulu Marathon in Honolulu on Dec. 11, 2016. Cherono won with a time of 2 hours, 9 minutes, 39 seconds. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kenya's Kosgei wins Honolulu Marathon women's race

Brigid Kosgei of Kenya crosses the finish line during the Honolulu Marathon in Honolulu on Dec. 11, 2016. Kosgei won the women's race in 2 hours, 31 minutes, 11 seconds. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Runners start at Honolulu Marathon 2016

Runners make starts during the Honolulu Marathon in Honolulu on Dec. 11, 2016. The Honolulu Marathon is the fourth largest marathon in the United States, and the latest event attracted around 29,000 participants including some 11,000 Japanese. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese Nobel laureate Ohsumi in Stockholm

Nobel laureate Yoshinori Ohsumi (R front), together with his wife Mariko, head to a banquet hosted by Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf in Stockholm on Dec. 11, 2016. Ohsumi was awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for elucidating "autophagy," an intracellular process that degrades and recycles proteins. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese Nobel laureate Ohsumi in Stockholm

Nobel laureate Yoshinori Ohsumi (R front), together with his wife Mariko, head to a banquet hosted by Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf in Stockholm on Dec. 11, 2016. Ohsumi was awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for elucidating "autophagy," an intracellular process that degrades and recycles proteins. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kashima beat Sundowns 2-0 in Club World Cup q'finals

Mu Kanazaki of Kashima Antlers celebrates after scoring the team's second goal during the second half of a Club World Cup quarterfinal match against African champions Mamelodi Sundowns at Suita Stadium in Osaka Prefecture on Dec. 11, 2016. Kashima won 2-0 to advance to the semifinals. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kashima beat Sundowns 2-0 in Club World Cup q'finals

Mu Kanazaki of Kashima Antlers celebrates after scoring the team's second goal during the second half of a Club World Cup quarterfinal match against African champions Mamelodi Sundowns at Suita Stadium in Osaka Prefecture on Dec. 11, 2016. Kashima won 2-0 to advance to the semifinals. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kashima beat Sundowns 2-0 in Club World Cup q'finals

Yasushi Endo (L) of Kashima Antlers scores the opener during the second half of a Club World Cup quarterfinal match against African champions Mamelodi Sundowns at Suita Stadium in Osaka Prefecture on Dec. 11, 2016. Kashima won 2-0 to advance to the semifinals. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese peacekeepers ready to perform rescue mission in S. Sudan

A base for the U.N. peacekeeping operations in South Sudan is pictured Dec. 11, 2016, in the capital Juba. A unit of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force engaging in the U.N. mission is quartered in the facility. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Turkey declares day of mourning after 38 killed in blasts

People gather Dec. 11, 2016, near the site of two explosions the previous evening in Istanbul. Turkey declared a day of national mourning on Dec. 11 after the explosions killed 38 people, mostly police officers, and injured 155 others. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kashima Antlers vs Mamelodi Sundowns in Club World Cup

Mu Kanazaki (R) of Japan's Kashima Antlers scores the team's second goal during the second half of a Club World Cup quarterfinal match against Africa champions Mamelodi Sundowns in Osaka on Dec. 11, 2016. Kashima beat Mamelodi 2-0. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo