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Twin giant pandas' arrival in China from Japan

Female giant panda Lei Lei is loaded into a truck after arriving at an airport in Chengdu in China's Sichuan Province from Japan on Jan. 28, 2026, with her twin brother Xiao Xiao. The twin pandas left the previous day Tokyo's Ueno Zoological Gardens where they were born and raised.

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Twin giant pandas' arrival in China from Japan

Female giant panda Lei Lei is loaded into a truck after arriving at an airport in Chengdu in China's Sichuan Province from Japan on Jan. 28, 2026, with her twin brother Xiao Xiao. The twin pandas left the previous day Tokyo's Ueno Zoological Gardens where they were born and raised.

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Final viewing day for Ueno zoo pandas

Photo shows Lei Lei, a female giant panda, at Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2026, the final day of her public viewing. She and her twin brother Xiao Xiao will be returned to China later January. (Pool photo)

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Final viewing day for Ueno zoo pandas

Photo shows Lei Lei, a female giant panda, at Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2026, the final day of her public viewing. She and her twin brother Xiao Xiao will be returned to China later January.

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Final viewing day for Ueno zoo pandas

People queue at the cage for giant pandas at Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2026, the final public-viewing day for Lei Lei and her twin brother Xiao Xiao. The animals will be returned to China later January.

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Final viewing day for Ueno zoo pandas

Photo shows a shop selling giant panda goods at Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2026, the final public-viewing day for Lei Lei and her twin brother Xiao Xiao. The animals will be returned to China later January.

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Final viewing day for Ueno zoo pandas

Photo shows Lei Lei, a female giant panda, at Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2026, the final day of her public viewing. She and her twin brother Xiao Xiao will be returned to China later January.

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Final viewing day for Ueno zoo pandas

Photo shows Lei Lei, a female giant panda, at Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2026, the final day of her public viewing. She and her twin brother Xiao Xiao will be returned to China later January.

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Final viewing day for Ueno zoo pandas

Photo shows a shop selling giant panda goods at Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2026, the final public-viewing day for Lei Lei and her twin brother Xiao Xiao. The animals will be returned to China later January.

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Final viewing day for Ueno zoo pandas

Photo shows Lei Lei, a female giant panda, at Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2026, the final day of her public viewing. She and her twin brother Xiao Xiao will be returned to China later January.

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Final viewing day for Ueno zoo pandas

Photo shows Lei Lei, a female giant panda, at Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2026, the final day of her public viewing. She and her twin brother Xiao Xiao will be returned to China later January.

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Final viewing day for Ueno zoo pandas

Photo shows Lei Lei, a female giant panda, at Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2026, the final day of her public viewing. She and her twin brother Xiao Xiao will be returned to China later January.

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Final viewing day for Ueno zoo pandas

Photo shows Lei Lei, a female giant panda, at Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2026, the final day of her public viewing. She and her twin brother Xiao Xiao will be returned to China later January.

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Final viewing day for Ueno zoo pandas

Photo shows Lei Lei, a female giant panda, at Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2026, the final day of her public viewing. She and her twin brother Xiao Xiao will be returned to China later January.

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Final viewing day for Ueno zoo pandas

Photo shows Lei Lei, a female giant panda, at Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2026, the final day of her public viewing. She and her twin brother Xiao Xiao will be returned to China later January.

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Final viewing day for Ueno zoo pandas

Photo shows Lei Lei, a female giant panda, at Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2026, the final day of her public viewing. She and her twin brother Xiao Xiao will be returned to China later January.

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Final viewing day for Ueno zoo pandas

Photo shows Lei Lei, a female giant panda, at Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2026, the final day of her public viewing. She and her twin brother Xiao Xiao will be returned to China later January.

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Final viewing day for Ueno zoo pandas

Photo shows Lei Lei, a female giant panda, at Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2026, the final day of her public viewing. She and her twin brother Xiao Xiao will be returned to China later January.

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Final viewing day for Ueno zoo pandas

Photo shows Lei Lei, a female giant panda, at Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2026, the final day of her public viewing. She and her twin brother Xiao Xiao will be returned to China later January.

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Pandas at Tokyo's Ueno zoo set to return to China

Lei Lei, a female giant panda, is shown to the media at Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo on Dec. 16, 2025, a day after the announcement that she and her twin brother Xiao Xiao will be returned to China the following month.

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Pandas at Tokyo's Ueno zoo set to return to China

Lei Lei, a female giant panda, is shown to the media at Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo on Dec. 16, 2025, a day after the announcement that she and her twin brother Xiao Xiao will be returned to China the following month.

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Japanese startup for art by people with disabilities

Fumito Matsuda, co-CEO of Heralbony Co., poses for a photo with artwork created by the disabled in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Jan. 24, 2023. Matsuda established the company to commercialize such works in 2018 with his twin brother Takaya, aiming to support artists with disabilities through business.

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Japanese startup for art by people with disabilities

Fumito Matsuda, co-CEO of Heralbony Co., poses for a photo with artwork created by the disabled in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Jan. 24, 2023. Matsuda established the company to commercialize such works in 2018 with his twin brother Takaya, aiming to support artists with disabilities through business.

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POLAR MUSIC PRIZE 2025

2025 Polar Music Prize laureates with the Swedish Royal family. Left to right: Prince Carl Philip, Prince Daniel, Crown Princess Victoria, laureate Herbie Hancock with his wife Gigi Hancock, Queen Silvia, King Carl Gustaf, laureate Barbara Hannigan with her twin brother Brian, laureates Queen's guitarist Brian May and Queen's drummer Roger Taylor and Princess Christina's husband Tord Magnuson. The 2025 Polar Prize at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden 27 May 2025.Photo: Stefan Jerrevång / TT / Code 60160

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POLAR MUSIC PRIZE 2025

2025 Polar Music Prize laureates with the Swedish Royal family. Left to right: Prince Carl Philip, Prince Daniel, Crown Princess Victoria, laureate Herbie Hancock with his wife Gigi Hancock, Queen Silvia, King Carl Gustaf, laureate Barbara Hannigan with her twin brother Brian, laureates Queen's guitarist Brian May and Queen's drummer Roger Taylor and Princess Christina's husband Tord Magnuson. The 2025 Polar Prize at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden 27 May 2025.Photo: Stefan Jerrevång / TT / Code 60160

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POLAR MUSIC PRIZE 2025

Canadian soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan is one of the 2025 Polar Prize winners. Here she arrives with her twin brother Brian for the 2025 Polar Prize, which is being awarded at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden, 27 May 2025.Photo: Stefan Jerrevång / TT / Code 60160

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POLAR MUSIC PRIZE 2025

Canadian soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan is one of the 2025 Polar Prize winners. Here she arrives with her twin brother Brian for the 2025 Polar Prize, which is being awarded at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden, 27 May 2025.Photo: Stefan Jerrevång / TT / Code 60160

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36th Annual GLAAD Media Awards - LA

Lawrence Zarian and twin brother Gregory Zaria arrive at the 36th Annual GLAAD Media Awards Los Angeles held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on March 27, 2025 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Photo by Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/ABACAPRESS.COM

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36th Annual GLAAD Media Awards - LA

Lawrence Zarian and twin brother Gregory Zaria arrive at the 36th Annual GLAAD Media Awards Los Angeles held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on March 27, 2025 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Photo by Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Luxury Real Estate Brothers Charged with Sex Trafficking in Miami

NO FILM, NO VIDEO, NO TV, NO DOCUMENTARY - File photo dated on on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024. Alon Alexander, 37, right, and his twin brother, Oren, left, attend their bond hearing at the Richard E. Gerstein Justice Building on Friday, Dec. 13, 2024, in Miami. The Alexanders have been charged with multiple state and federal crimes, including sex trafficking and rape. Star real estate agents Oren and Tal Alexander, along with their brother Alon, are accused of sex trafficking in New York and Miami. Seventeen complaints have been filed against them for rape and sexual assault between 2011 and 2019, some cases involving drugs. Prosecutors claim to have taken testimony from more than 60 alleged victims. Despite their denials, the accusations are piling up, revealing the scale of the charges. The case is being closely monitored by AVA Law Group, which is also representing several plaintiffs in the P. Diddy case. Photo by Matias J Ocner/Miami Herald/TNS/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Luxury Real Estate Brothers Charged with Sex Trafficking in Miami

NO FILM, NO VIDEO, NO TV, NO DOCUMENTARY - File photo dated on on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024. Oren Alexander, 37, attends his bond hearing at the Richard E. Gerstein Justice Building on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024, in Miami. Oren, alongside his twin brother Alon Alexander, have been charged with multiple state and federal crimes, including sex trafficking and rape. Star real estate agents Oren and Tal Alexander, along with their brother Alon, are accused of sex trafficking in New York and Miami. Seventeen complaints have been filed against them for rape and sexual assault between 2011 and 2019, some cases involving drugs. Prosecutors claim to have taken testimony from more than 60 alleged victims. Despite their denials, the accusations are piling up, revealing the scale of the charges. The case is being closely monitored by AVA Law Group, which is also representing several plaintiffs in the P. Diddy case. Photo by Matias J Ocner/Miami Herald/TNS/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Luxury Real Estate Brothers Charged with Sex Trafficking in Miami

NO FILM, NO VIDEO, NO TV, NO DOCUMENTARY - File photo dated on on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024. Alon Alexander, 37, right, and his twin brother, Oren, left, attend their bond hearing at the Richard E. Gerstein Justice Building on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024, in Miami. The Alexanders have been charged with multiple state and federal crimes, including sex trafficking and rape. Star real estate agents Oren and Tal Alexander, along with their brother Alon, are accused of sex trafficking in New York and Miami. Seventeen complaints have been filed against them for rape and sexual assault between 2011 and 2019, some cases involving drugs. Prosecutors claim to have taken testimony from more than 60 alleged victims. Despite their denials, the accusations are piling up, revealing the scale of the charges. The case is being closely monitored by AVA Law Group, which is also representing several plaintiffs in the P. Diddy case. Photo by Matias J Ocner/Miami Herald/TNS/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Luxury Real Estate Brothers Charged with Sex Trafficking in Miami

NO FILM, NO VIDEO, NO TV, NO DOCUMENTARY - Alon Alexander, 37, right, and his twin brother, Oren, left, attend their bond hearing at the Richard E. Gerstein Justice Building on Friday, Dec. 13, 2024, in Miami. The Alexanders have been charged with multiple state and federal crimes, including sex trafficking and rape. Photo by Matias J Ocner/Miami Herald/TNS/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Luxury Real Estate Brothers Charged with Sex Trafficking in Miami

NO FILM, NO VIDEO, NO TV, NO DOCUMENTARY - Oren Alexander, 37, attends his bond hearing at the Richard E. Gerstein Justice Building on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024, in Miami. Oren, alongside his twin brother Alon Alexander, have been charged with multiple state and federal crimes, including sex trafficking and rape. Photo by Matias J Ocner/Miami Herald/TNS/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Luxury Real Estate Brothers Charged with Sex Trafficking in Miami

NO FILM, NO VIDEO, NO TV, NO DOCUMENTARY - Alon Alexander, 37, right, and his twin brother, Oren, left, attend their bond hearing at the Richard E. Gerstein Justice Building on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024, in Miami. The Alexanders have been charged with multiple state and federal crimes, including sex trafficking and rape. Photo by Matias J Ocner/Miami Herald/TNS/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Twin festivals of Dussehra, Durga Puja celebrated across India

STORY: Twin festivals of Dussehra, Durga Puja celebrated across India DATELINE: Oct. 26, 2023 LENGTH: 0:01:44 LOCATION: New Delhi CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of India gate 2. various of festival crowd 3. various of Ram Leela 4. various of burnt effigies of demon Ravana, his brother Kumbhkaran and son Meghnad STORYLINE: Twin festivals of Dussehra and Durga Puja were celebrated with much gaiety and fervor across India on Tuesday, as people came out in the best of their attires, exchanging greetings, gifts and sweets. To mark the festival of Dussehra, which symbolizes the victory of good over evil, the effigies of demon Ravana, his brother Kumbhkaran and son Meghnad were burnt in the evening. It is believed that on the day of Dussehra Lord Ram killed the demon Ravana to get his wife Sita released from the latter's custody. On the 20th day from Dussehra, the grand festival of Diwali is celebrated across the South Asian country symbolizing the return of Lord Ram, along with his wife Sita, to

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Lviv Half Marathon of Invincibility 2023

LVIV, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 3, 2023 - Yana Stepanenko, 12, who lost both her legs in the Russian missile strike on the Kramatorsk railway station on April 8, 2022, and her twin brother Yaroslav Stepanenko partake in the Mile of Invincibility event during the Lviv Half Marathon of Invincibility 2023, Lviv, western Ukraine.

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Lviv Half Marathon of Invincibility 2023

LVIV, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 3, 2023 - Yana Stepanenko, 12, who lost both her legs in the Russian missile strike on the Kramatorsk railway station on April 8, 2022, and her twin brother Yaroslav Stepanenko partake in the Mile of Invincibility event during the Lviv Half Marathon of Invincibility 2023, Lviv, western Ukraine.

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Stepanenko family back in Ukraine after year-long rehabilitation in USA

LVIV, UKRAINE - AUGUST 29, 2023 - Yana Stepanenko, 12, and her twin brother Yaroslav are pictured upon their return from a year-long rehabilitation, n in San Diego, the USA, Lviv, western Ukraine. Yana Stepanenko lost both her legs and her mother Nataliia was left with one leg after the Kramatorsk railway station attack. On April 8, 2022, a Russian missile hit the railway station in Kramatorsk, Donetsk Region, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The strike killed 63 civilians (including 9 children) and wounded 150 (including 34 children).

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Stepanenko family back in Ukraine after year-long rehabilitation in USA

LVIV, UKRAINE - AUGUST 29, 2023 - Yana Stepanenko, 12, and her twin brother Yaroslav are pictured upon their return from a year-long rehabilitation, n in San Diego, the USA, Lviv, western Ukraine. Yana Stepanenko lost both her legs and her mother Nataliia was left with one leg after the Kramatorsk railway station attack. On April 8, 2022, a Russian missile hit the railway station in Kramatorsk, Donetsk Region, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The strike killed 63 civilians (including 9 children) and wounded 150 (including 34 children).

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Wimbledon tennis final

LONDON, United Kingdom - Bob Bryan (L) and his twin brother Mike Bryan of the United States celebrate after winning the men's doubles final match against Ivan Dodig of Croatia and Marcelo Melo of Brazil at the Wimbledon Championships at the All England Club in Wimbledon, southwest London, on July 6, 2013. The Bryan brothers won the title 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4.

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Funeral held for separated Vietnamese conjoined twin Viet

HO CHI MINH, Vietnam - Nguyen Duc (L), a Vietnamese man born as a conjoined twin apparently due to the influence of Agent Orange that the U.S. military used as a defoliant during the Vietnam War, and his wife attend the funeral for his elder brother Viet in Ho Chi Minh on Oct. 7. Viet died on Oct. 6 at a hospital in Ho Chi Minh City.

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Separated Vietnamese conjoined twin Viet dies at 26

TOKYO, Japan - Nguyen Viet (C), a Vietnamese man born as a conjoined twin apparently due to the influence of Agent Orange that the U.S. military used as a defoliant during the Vietnam War, died in Ho Chi Minh City on Oct. 6 at age 26. The photo, taken in 2006 at a hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, shows Viet surrounded by his brother Duc and Duc's wife. The twins were separated through surgery at age 7 by a group of Japanese and Vietnamese doctors in 1988. They had been conjoined at the lower halves of their bodies and sharing some organs.

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Twins clear sumo physicals

OSAKA, Japan - The twin brothers Masahiro (R) and Sadahiro Kogure, 15, clear their physical checkups for new sumo apprentices at an Osaka hospital on March 3. The brothers, from Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture, began taking up sumo in fifth grade, both determined to join the ranks of professional sumo wresters. ''It would be nice if one day I can take on my brother in a title bout,'' says elder brother Masahiro. Both say they want to become yokozuna.

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Nguyen Duc marries

HO CHI MIHN CITY, Vietnam - Nguyen Duc (L), 25, who had been a conjoined Vietnamese twin until he was separated from his brother in 1988, and his bride, Nguyen Thi Thanh Tuyen, 24, are celebrated after a marriage ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City on Dec. 16.

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Nguyen Duc supporters call for funds for his marriage

HANOI, Vietnam - A Japanese group supporting Nguyen Duc (L), 25, who had been a conjoined Vietnamese twin until he was separated from his brother in 1988, is calling for funds for Duc who will marry Nguyen Thi Thanh Tuyen (R), 24, in December. Duc, who lives at a Ho Chi Minh City hospital, will move outside after the marriage but he lacks funds to live, the group said.

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Once-conjoined Vietnamese twin arrives in Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Nguyen Duc, 22, a Vietnamese man who was born joined to his twin brother and was later separated during an operation in Japan, is welcomed by supporters at Kansai International Airport near Osaka on Aug. 28. He visited Japan to give speeches about his life.

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Separated conjoined twin learns leg making

OITA, Japan - Nguyen Duc (R), a Vietnamese who was separated from his conjoined twin brother in 1988, learns how to make artificial legs and maintain replacement legs in a two-week training course under Mikio Yuki (L), the Japanese designer and maker of his artificial leg. Duc, 19, was born joined to his twin, Viet, in 1981. The abnormality is suspected to have been caused by a defoliant scattered by U.S. military aircraft in the Vietnam War.

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Separated conjoined twin arrives in Oita to learn leg making

OITA, Japan - Nguyen Duc (C), a Vietnamese who was separated from his conjoined twin brother in 1988, waits at Oita's airport after arriving Aug. 19 for two weeks of technical training under Mikio Yuki (L), the Japanese designer and maker of his artificial leg. Duc, 19, will learn how to make and maintain replacement legs from Yuki. Duc was born joined to his twin, Viet, in 1981. The abnormality is suspected to have been caused by a defoliant scattered by U.S. aircraft in the Vietnam War.

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Separated conjoined twin visits Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Nguyen Duc, 19, a Vietnamese man born conjoined to his twin brother and separated by doctors, talks to reporters after arriving at Kansai International Airport on Aug. 17. He will stay in Japan till September 2 to learn how to maintain and replace his prosthetic leg.