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MLB Qualifying Offer Rises by $10 Million Over 14 Years to $23.15 Million This Year The Associated Press reported today that the qualifying offer salary for this season is $23.15 million (approx. SBS Oct 20, 2026 5:38 PM

AG Bronze Medalist Seo Min-jun Leads South Chungcheong to Victory in Men's 400m Relay Seo Min-jun (Seocheon County Office), a bronze medalist in the men's 400m relay at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, secured victory in the 400m relay at the National Sports Festival after prevailing in a competitive race against his Asian Games teammate Bewsa Daniel Casama . SBS Oct 20, 2026 5:37 PM

Netherlands' First Gay Prime Minister Announces He Is Becoming a Father: 'See You Next Year, Little One' Prime Minister Jetten posted a photo on Instagram of himself and his fiancé, Nicolas Keenan, holding a fetal ultrasound image, writing, "Someone very special is on the way. SBS Oct 20, 2026 5:37 PM

Thought It Only Affected Women... A Disease That Claimed the Lives of 70 Men Over 5 Years It has been revealed that 70 male patients have died from breast cancer in the Central American country of Costa Rica over the past five years. SBS Oct 20, 2026 5:32 PM

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"Can Defeat Trump": The Real Motive Behind Expanding Hormuz Attacks Iranian leadership is reportedly planning to expand attacks on crude oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz in a calculation aimed at making President Trump lose the upcoming U.S. SBS Oct 20, 2026 5:32 PM

PPP Lawmaker Kim Tae-gyu: "Restoring Prosecutorial Powers Is Right... Just Wait Until Our Party Takes Power" During the National Assembly Legislation and Judiciary Committee's parliamentary audit of public prosecution offices, including those in Daegu, Busan, and Ulsan, People Power Party lawmaker Kim Tae-gyu remarked, "I believe the full restoration of prosecutorial investigative powers is the right move," adding, "Just wait until our party takes power." Representative Kim made the statement during the committee's parliamentary audit today , criticizing the abolition of the prosecution's supplementary investigative powers. SBS Oct 20, 2026 5:24 PM

France Protests: Damage Nears KRW 2 Trillion as Partial Night Curfews Enter Second Day France, stained by violent protests last weekend, is implementing regional partial curfews for a second consecutive day. SBS Oct 20, 2026 5:23 PM

Trump Bans DeepSeek from Federal Agencies; China Responds with Opposition to Politicization of Science and Technology Bloomberg and Reuters reported that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security released this directive on the Federal Register website that day. SBS Oct 20, 2026 5:22 PM

Russia Activates 'Killer Satellite'? Approaches U.S. Radar Satellite Within Hundreds of Meters commercial radar satellite, the New York Times reported on October 20 . According to the NYT, Russia's Cosmos 2612 satellite carried out multiple close-approach maneuvers targeting the ICEYE-X36 radar satellite starting from September 30, and reportedly came within hundreds of meters over the past week. SBS Oct 20, 2026 5:20 PM

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"Barely Enough Room for a Foot"… The Urgent Moments of Clinging to a Building's Exterior Ledge Fires broke out in succession at two buildings in Yeoksam-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, on the morning of October 20. SBS Oct 20, 2026 5:20 PM