Emmanuel Latte Lath converts stoppage-time PK for Atlanta in 1-1 tie with Toronto

TORONTO (AP) — Emmanuel Latte Lath converted a penalty kick in the 11th minute of stoppage time for Atlanta United on Saturday night in a 1-1 tie with Toronto FC.

Latte Lath's shot from the spot was parried by goalkeeper Sean Johnson near the left post but slipped inside the right post to cap the scoring.

Jayden Hibbert, who turns 21 on Aug. 5, made his MLS debut for Atlanta and finished with four saves. Hibbert started in place of Brad Guzan, who underwent surgery Tuesday to repair a fractured cheekbone that occurred in a collision with teammate Luis Abram in last week’s 0-0 tie at D.C. United.

Deybi Flores headed home a corner kick played in by Matty Longstaff to give Toronto a 1-0 lead in the 48th minute.

Toronto (4-11-6) has one win in its last seven games.

Atlanta (4-10-7) is winless in four straight.

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Toronto FC midfielder Deybi Flores (20) celebrates after scoring as Atlanta United's Aleksey Miranchuk (59) and Toronto FC's Theo Corbeanu (7) look on during second-half MLS soccer match action in Toronto, Saturday, July 12, 2025. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP)

Atlanta United's Emmanuel Latte Lath, second from left, is congratulated Bartosz Slisz (99) and Aleksey Miranchuk (59) after converting the tying penalty kick as Toronto FC's Alonso Coello (14) looks on during second-half MLS soccer match action in Toronto, Saturday, July 12, 2025. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP)

Toronto FC's Deybi Flores (20) gets in front of Atlanta United's Tristan Muyumba (8) to score his team's opening goal during second-half MLS soccer match action in Toronto, Saturday, July 12, 2025. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP)

Atlanta United's Emmanuel Latte Lath, second from left, gets a shot away at the Toronto FC goal despite pressure from Deandre Kerr, second from right, during second-half MLS soccer match action in Toronto, Saturday, July 12, 2025. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP)

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping will travel to North Korea next week, both countries announced Friday, in what will be his first visit in nearly seven years.

The announcement came a day after North Korea unveiled a new facility to produce the ingredients for nuclear bombs. Experts say the plant’s disclosure implies that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is eager to cement his country’s status as a nuclear weapons state ahead of Xi’s visit.

Xi will make a state visit to the neighboring country from Monday to Tuesday, state media from both nations said in brief dispatches. His last visit was in June 2019.

The trip will come just weeks after Xi separately hosted U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing.

In recent years, Kim has placed a priority on developing relations with Russia by sending troops and conventional weapons to support its war against Ukraine. But he’s also recently been cozying up to China, the North’s biggest trade partner and aid provider.

Xi and Kim met in Beijing in September and pledged mutual support and enhanced cooperation. Kim was in the Chinese capital to attend a Chinese military parade alongside other foreign leaders including Putin.

South Korea’s military has assessed the new nuclear facility as a uranium enrichment plant. During a visit to the plant, Kim announced plans to bolster the country’s nuclear forces “at an exponential rate.”

Experts say Kim wants international recognition as a nuclear state so that he could demand the lifting of U.N. economic sanctions. They say Kim would ultimately push for arms reductions talks with the U.S. to win concessions in return for a partial surrender of his nuclear capability.

Trump has repeatedly expressed a desire to resume diplomacy with Kim, but the North Korean leader responded the U.S. must first drop its demand for North Korea to denuclearize as a precondition for talks.

Russia and China, both veto-wielding members of the U.N. Security Council, have previously frustrated the U.S. and others’ efforts to toughen international sanctions on North Korea, despite its banned weapons tests.

At their meeting in Beijing last month, Putin and Xi expressed their opposition to “foreign policy isolation, economic sanctions, military pressure and other methods of creating threats to the security” of North Korea, according to a statement from the Kremlin.

Embracing the ideas of a “new Cold War” and a multipolar world, Kim has pushed for a more assertive foreign policy by expanding ties with countries locked in confrontations with the United States.

Kim reported from Seoul, South Korea.

FILE - In this photo provided by the North Korean government, its leader Kim Jong Un delivers a speech during a session of the Supreme People's Assembly at parliament in Pyongyang, North Korea, on March 23, 2026. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, attends a meeting with Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif at the Great Hall of the People, in Beijing, China, Monday May 25, 2026. (Tingshu Wang/Pool Photo via AP)