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In this photo released by Indonesian Presidential Secretariat, Indonesian President Joko Widodo walks on a burnt forest as firefighters are seen spraying water to extinguish the remaining fire in Pelalawan, Riau province, Indonesia, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. Widodo traveled to the area hardest hit by forest fires, as neighboring countries urged his government to do more to tackle the blazes that have spread a thick, noxious haze around Southeast Asia. (Laily Rachev, Indonesian Presidential Secretariat via AP)
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Indonesia sends more people, aircraft to battle forest fires
In this photo released by Indonesian Presidential Secretariat, Indonesian President Joko Widodo walks on a burnt forest as firefighters are seen spraying water to extinguish the remaining fire in Pelalawan, Riau province, Indonesia, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. Widodo traveled to the area hardest hit by forest fires, as neighboring countries urged his government to do more to tackle the blazes that have spread a thick, noxious haze around Southeast Asia. (Laily Rachev, Indonesian Presidential Secretariat via AP)
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  • In this photo released by Indonesian Presidential Secretariat, Indonesian President Joko Widodo walks on a burnt forest as firefighters are seen spraying water to extinguish the remaining fire in Pelalawan, Riau province, Indonesia, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. Widodo traveled to the area hardest hit by forest fires, as neighboring countries urged his government to do more to tackle the blazes that have spread a thick, noxious haze around Southeast Asia. (Laily Rachev, Indonesian Presidential Secretariat via AP)
  • Election commission workers check biometric devices in preparation for the presidential election scheduled for Sept 28, at the Independent Election Commission compound in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019. Afghan officials say around 100,000 members of the country's security forces are ready for polling day. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
  • This undated photo shows American swimmer Sarah Thomas, 37, swim the English Channel. The American cancer survivor has become the first person to swim across the English Channel four times in a row completing the remarkable feat Tuesday morning Sept. 17, 2019, after more than 54 hours of swimming. (Jon Washer via PA via AP)
  • Protesters hold banners outside the Supreme Court in London, Tuesday Sept. 17, 2019. The Supreme Court is set to decide whether Prime Minister Boris Johnson broke the law when he suspended Parliament on Sept. 9, sending lawmakers home until Oct. 14 — just over two weeks before the U.K. is due to leave the European Union. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
  • A family votes in the settlement of Tekoa, West Bank, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. Israelis began voting Tuesday in an unprecedented repeat election that will decide whether longtime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stays in power despite a looming indictment on corruption charges. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
  • FILE - In this June 4, 2017, file photo. nNew Army recruits take part in a swearing in ceremony before a baseball game between the San Diego Padres and the Colorado Rockies in San Diego. A year after failing to meet its enlistment goal for the first time in 13 years, the U.S. Army is now on track to meet a lower 2019 target after revamping its recruitment effort. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
  • Anti Brexit campaigner Gina Miller arrives at the Supreme Court in London, Tuesday Sept. 17, 2019. The Supreme Court is set to decide whether Prime Minister Boris Johnson broke the law when he suspended Parliament on Sept. 9, sending lawmakers home until Oct. 14 — just over two weeks before the U.K. is due to leave the European Union. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
  • FILE - In this Tuesday, July 23, 2019 file photo, Spain's caretaker Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speaks at the Spanish parliament in Madrid, Spain. Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez is proposing policies including pension hikes and rent controls in a bid to win parliamentary support for a new term as prime minister, but seems likely to face a new election as he rules out a coalition with an important far-left ally. The caretaker prime minister needs the parliamentary votes of the anti-austerity Podemos (We Can) to stay in office, but its leaders say Sánchez needs to include them in his new cabinet. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, file)
  • Israeli Arab politician Ayman Odeh casts his vote in Haifa, Israel, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. Israelis began voting Tuesday in an unprecedented repeat election that will decide whether longtime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stays in power despite a looming indictment on corruption charges. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
  • A worker refuels a car at a gas station in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, Monday, Sept. 16, 2019. Global energy prices spiked on Monday after a weekend attack on key oil facilities in Saudi Arabia caused the worst disruption to world supplies on record, an assault for which President Donald Trump warned that the U.S. was "locked and loaded" to respond. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
  • FILE - In this Aug. 25, 2019, file photo, U.S President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speak during a bilateral meeting at the G-7 summit in Biarritz, France to announce that the U.S. and Japan have agreed in principle on a new trade agreement. On Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019, officials in Japan appear wary over the prospects for a trade deal with the U.S. after President Donald Trump said he was prepared to sign a pact soon. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
  • In this Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019, photo, visitors tour an exhibitor booth with a 5G on display at the Smart China Expo in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality. The World Bank and a Chinese Cabinet agency have urged Beijing to roll back plans for government-led technology development that are fueling a tariff war with Washington. (Chinatopix via AP)
  • Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam speaks to reporters during a press conference at the government building in Hong Kong, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. Lam said the government asked international public relations firms to help restore the city's reputation, battered by months of pro-democracy protests, but was rejected. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
  • A quarantine official wearing protective gear places a barricade as a precaution against African swine fever at a pig farm in Paju, South Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. South Korea is culling thousands of pigs after confirming African swine fever at a farm near its border with North Korea, which had an outbreak in May. The notice reads: "Under quarantine." (Kim Sun-ung/Newsis via AP)
  • In this Nov. 24, 2018, photo, customers shop for vegetables at the Honiara Central Market in Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands. The Solomon Islands switched diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China on Monday, Sept. 16, 2019, becoming the latest country to leave the dwindling Taiwanese camp.(AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
  • In this Nov. 24, 2018, photo, customers shop for vegetables at the Honiara Central Market in Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands. The Solomon Islands switched diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China on Monday, Sept. 16, 2019, becoming the latest country to leave the dwindling Taiwanese camp.(AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
  • FILE- In this Monday, May 30, 2016, file photo, wildlife officials begin removing some of the 147 tigers held at a "Tiger Temple" following accusations that the monks were involved in illegal breeding and trafficking of the animals in Saiyok district in Kanchanaburi province, west of Bangkok, Thailand. On Monday, Sept. 16, 2019, wildlife officials said more than half of the tigers rescued from the temple have died due to poor health from weakened genetic traits as a result of inbreeding. (AP Photo, File)
  • Venezuela's National Assembly President and self-proclaimed interim President Juan Guaido speaks to the press in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Sept. 16, 2019. A group of minority opposition parties in Venezuela agreed Monday to enter negotiations with President Nicolas Maduro's government without the consent of the U.S.-backed opposition leader. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
  • President Donald Trump speaks before leaving the White House, Monday, Sept. 16, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
  • Pro-EU supporters hold signs during a demonstration outside a meeting between British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel at the prime ministers office in Luxembourg, Monday, Sept. 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)
  • Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh, chairs a cabinet meeting in the Jordan Valley village of Fasayil, Monday, Sept. 16, 2019. Israeli Prime Minister Benjmin Netanyahu has vowed to annex "all the settlements" in the West Bank in a bid to whip up support as Israelis head to the polls Tuesday in the second election this year. To protest that announcement, the Palestinian Authority held a Cabinet meeting in the Jordan Valley on Monday, a day after Israel's Cabinet met elsewhere in the valley. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
  • A model wears a creation by Burberry at the Spring/Summer 2020 fashion week runway show in London, Monday, Sept. 16, 2019. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)
  • Swedish youth climate activist Greta Thunberg, center, marches with other young climate activists for a climate strike outside the White House in Washington, Friday, Sept. 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
  • Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah speaks during the first presidential election debate at the Ariana TV building, a private TV station, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Sept. 16, 2019. Afghan president Ashraf Ghani cancelled his first electoral debate with his main electoral rival, Abdullah Abdullah, the country's chief executive. Both men are partners in the national unity government. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
  • Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis center left, and Greek Finance Minister Christos Staikouras, center right, arrive at a meeting in Athens, on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019. Mitsotakis chaired Wednesday a meeting of cabinet ministers on economic policy. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
  • EDS NOTE : SPANISH LAW REQUIRES THAT THE FACES OF MINORS ARE MASKED IN PUBLICATIONS WITHIN SPAIN. Accompanied by family members, former Venezuelan military spy chief, retired Maj. Gen. Hugo Carvajal, center, walks out of prison in Estremera, outskirts of Madrid, Spain, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019. Spain's National Court on Monday rejected the extradition to the United States of a former Venezuelan military spy chief accused of drug smuggling and other charges. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
  • Salwa Karoui, wife of Tunisia's jailed presidential candidate and media mogul Nabil Karoui, displays a letter he wrote, during a presser in Tunis, Tunisia, Sunday Sept. 15, 2019. A polling firm projected Sunday that an independent outsider candidate and a jailed media magnate will head to Tunisia's presidential runoff. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
  • A lawyer holds a effigy with a scull represending a dead lawyer march during a protest against the planned pension change in Paris, Monday, Sept. 16, 2019. French lawyers, doctors, nurses, pilots and others are taking to the streets of Paris to protest planned pension changes by French President Emmanuel Macron's government. Placard read, "no to the pension tax". Placard reads, "Macron wants my dead". (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
  • FILE - In this picture taken on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015, Marwan Hamadeh, a leading Lebanese legislator and former Cabinet minister who was close to Hariri, speaks during an interview in Beirut, Lebanon. The Special Tribunal for Lebanon, a U.N.-backed court based in the Netherlands, on Monday, Sept. 16, 2019, filed new charges including terrorism and intentional homicide against Salim Jamil Ayyash, a Hezbollah fighter who also is accused of assassinating former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. The new indictment accuses Ayyash of three bombings on Oct. 1, 2004, June 21 and July 12, 2005, each targeting a different politician — Marwan Hamadeh, Georges Hawi and Elias El-Murr. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)
  • Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, right, addresses a media conference next to an empty lectern intended for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson after a meeting at the prime ministers office in Luxembourg, Monday, Sept. 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)
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