Our world in photos: September 24

September 24, 2024
Brokelyn Staff

MANITOBA — Surviving among hard rocks, part of Canada’s ecosystem: A polar bear nurses her cub, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, near Churchill, Manitoba. It is estimated that there are about 935 polar bears in the wild, concentrated around Churchill, Manitoba, in the Hudson Bay area. The best times for viewing are in October and November. Manitoba is a nexus for several types of ecosystems, from arboreal forest to tundra.

The Canadian province of Manitoba stretches northward from the U.S. border states of North Dakota and Minnesota to the province of Ontario to the east and south and the Hudson Bay to the north. Manitoba’s capital is Winnipeg, in the southeastern part of the province, near both the provincial line with Ontario and the U.S. border with Minnesota.

PORT-AU-PRINCE — A rocky path among the rubble: Pedestrians cross a puddle of water in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024. This week, the Associated Press reported that several dozen families are asking the U.S. government to grant humanitarian parole to the Haitian children they’re adopting, many of whom had to be evacuated amid gang warfare. The families are fighting Haiti’s policy of requiring the adoption process to be completed in its capital, Port-au-Prince before the children can emigrate because the mandate places the children in direct harm.

A number of U.S. Senators are involved in a bipartisan effort to get the U.S. Department of State and Homeland Security Dept. to safeguard the adoptees’ passage; these include Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Marco Rubio (R-Florida) and Tim Scott (R-South Carolina).

LONDON — Art reflecting life as a crown: A woman looks at an artwork by Pio Abad during the Turner Prize 2024 press preview at Tate Britain in London, part of the 40th-anniversary exhibition featuring four shortlisted artists, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. The works of four artists have been shortlisted for the prize, which is awarded annually to a British contemporary artist, according to the Associated Press. This year, the artists are Pio Abad, Claudette Johnson, Jasleen Kaur and Delaine Le Bas. A large concrete sculpture of a bracelet referencing the excesses of former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos and a collection of portraits focusing on Black men and women.

The Turner Prize of £25,000 ($33,000 in U.S. money) was established in 1984. The winner will be announced on Tuesday, Dec. 3.

PHILADELPHIA — Slightly out of uniform, exulting: Philadelphia Phillies’ Bryce Harper celebrates after the Phillies won a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs to clinch the NL East title, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024, in Philadelphia. As the closing week of the regular season began on Monday, there are 15 teams remaining vying for their respective division titles.

The Oct. 25 date for the start of this year’s World Series is flexible, and it depends largely on how many games are needed in the League Championship series to clinch the pennant. For example, if all the American and National League teams can clinch their championships in three games, then the World Series will begin sooner.

United States President Joe Biden, center, arrives to address the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, at UN headquarters. Photo: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP

President Joe Biden walks out of the White House in Washington as he waits for the arrival of United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024. Photo: Susan Walsh/AP

United States President Joe Biden, rear center, leaves the General Assembly Hall after addressing the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, at UN headquarters. Photo: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP

NEW YORK — ‘So there is life after presidency … you promise?’ President Joe Biden is presented with the Global Citizen Award by former President Bill Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative on Monday, Sept. 23, 2024, in New York. During the event, Clinton stated that President Biden had led the United States with “uncommon decency and goodness and grace” as he faced multiple crises since taking office.

The Clinton Global Initiative defines itself on its website as a “catalyst for change.” The nonprofit organization has adopted several focus areas, including climate resilience, economic inclusion, health equity, humanitarian response and women’s equality.

PENNSYLVANIA — ‘Don’t make a fuss, just picking up a few things …’ Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump waves as he visits Sprankle’s Neighborhood Market in Kittanning, PA, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024. Store owner Ryan Sprangle was given a heads-up last week that he’d be getting a visit from a representative with the Trump campaign, but he figured it would be someone at the state or local level, reports TribLIVE.com, a news media company serving Pennsylvania’s southwestern counties. But it wasn’t until Monday that he learned the GOP nominee himself was the visitor.

Trump’s visit was also a mettle test for coordination between the Secret Service and local security detail, who were on particular alert as details unfolded about the man behind a second assassination attempt earlier this month.

Cars sit in traffic as they flee the southern villages amid ongoing Israeli airstrikes, in Sidon, Lebanon, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024. Photo: Mohammed Zaatari/AP

A man watches rescuers sift through the rubble as they search for people still missing at the site of Friday's Israeli strike in Beirut's southern suburbs, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024. Photo: Hassan Ammar/AP

Smoke rises from Israeli airstrikes on villages in the Nabatiyeh district, seen from the southern town of Marjayoun, Lebanon, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024. Photo: Hussein Malla/AP

Israeli Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept rockets that were launched from Lebanon, as seen from Haifa, northern Israel, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024. Photo: Baz Ratner/AP

A wounded girl lies in a hospital bed in the southern village of Saksakieh, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. Photo: Mohammed Zaatari/AP

Emergency workers use excavators to clear the rubble at the site of Friday's Israeli strike in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024. Photo: Hassan Ammar/AP

A Lebanese woman who fled the southern villages amid ongoing Israeli airstrikes Monday, settles with her kids on a public beach in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. Photo: Mohammed Zaatari/AP

LEBANON — Extra seats on the rooftop for those fleeing warzone: Lebanese citizens who fled the southern villages amid ongoing Israeli airstrikes Monday sit on their cars at a highway that links to Beirut city, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024.

Meanwhile, mourners in Lebanon were carrying the bodies of loved ones, many of them young children, who were killed in the Israeli strikes. One man said his daughter, 7-year-old Joury Halal, was an “innocent child martyr.”

PENNSYLVANIA — Who pays for these message-bearers: Katie Mimura, left, and Hisako Kaneko, center, who traveled from Japan to show support for Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, walk outside before a rally at Ed Fry Arena in Indiana, PA, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024.

A capacity crowd of 5,000 greeted Trump, who gave his usual talking points, particularly his plan to raise tariffs on imported goods, according to TribLIVE.com, a news media company serving southwestern Pennsylvania.