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2019 THE YEAR IN PHOTOS A look at the people, places and events that captured our attention through the lenses of Associated Press photographers

ANDREW HARNIK, ASSOCIATED PRESS

President Donald Trump turns to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California while Vice President Mike Pence watches as he delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 5.

Top AP photos of 2019 range from the

EPIC TO THE INTIMATE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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urs is a world of sweeping vistas, and intimate scenes. In 2019, Associated Press photographers captured both.

A single Border Protection officer stands in the rain at the border. Pieces of heavy equipment, replacing a stretch of border wall, are dwarfed by the open, blue sky.

Hordes of Hong Kong activists, umbrellas in hand, are glimpsed through a window framed by tattered posters. A police water cannon, seen from above, sprays scores of Chilean demonstrators.

The scale of some images is breathtaking.

Trails of rockets light the night sky over Sederot, Israel. A drone’s eye view tracks the dividing line between lush Amazon jungle on one side of a road, and burnt ruins on the other.

Sometimes, the focus is even tighter, like the full-frame face of a silverback gorilla, peering intently into the camera. Or the wrinkled, 88-year-old woman in Blaj, Romania — just one eye in the picture, gazing forward as she awaits Pope Francis’ arrival.

In their eyes, the photographers find vistas.

These images and more online The Associated Press selected 150 of its top images in 2019, including photos from national and international sporting events, the entertainment industry, U.S. politics and other national news events. The package also includes snapshots from Europe, Asia, the Middle East, North America, South America and Africa.

Visit our website and search “2019 in photos” to view the full collection of images.

TOP RIGHT: A U.S. Border Protection officer stands in heavy rain near the border fence on Jan. 1 between San Diego, Calif., and Tijuana, Mexico.

DANIEL OCHOA DE OLZA, ASSOCIATED PRESS

BOTTOM RIGHT: Anti-government protesters are seen through a window with peeled off posters in Hong Kong on Oct. 1.

VINCENT YU, ASSOCIATED PRESS

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NATION, PAGE 4

ENTERTAINMENT, PAGE 7

SPORTS, PAGE 8

REGIONAL, PAGE 11

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MATIAS DELACROIX, ASSOCIATED PRESS

A police water cannon sprays anti-government demonstrators in Valparaiso, Chile, on Oct. 26.

VADIM GHIRDA, ASSOCIATED PRESS ARIEL SCHALIT, ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Israeli Iron Dome air defense system takes out rockets fired from Gaza near Sderot, Israel, on May 4.

Ana, an 88-year-old Greek Catholic, waits for the arrival of Pope Francis and the start of the Divine Liturgy and the beatification of seven martyred bishops of the Eastern-rite Romanian Catholic Church, in Blaj, Romania, on June 2.

VICTOR R. CAIVANO, ASSOCIATED PRESS FELIPE DANA, ASSOCIATED PRESS

A silverback mountain gorilla named Segasira looks up as he lies under a tree in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda, on Sept. 2.

A lush forest thrives next to a field of charred trees in Vila Nova Samuel, Brazil, on Aug. 27. The fires that swept parts of the Amazon this year added to global worries about a warming climate, as well as the sense of urgency at the Climate Action Summit at the United Nations.

GREGORY BULL, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Workers replace sections of the border wall, left, with new sections, right, on Jan. 8, in Tijuana, Mexico.

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RICARDO MAZALAN, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Competitors ride their motorcycles across the dunes during stage nine of the Dakar Rally in Pisco, Peru, on Jan. 16.

ABOVE: A mourner touches the body of Devi Posto, killed during clashes between security forces and supporters of former President Evo Morales, during a vigil at the San Francisco de Asis church in El Alto, on the outskirts of La Paz, Bolivia, on Nov. 20.

NATACHA PISARENKO, ASSOCIATED PRESS

TOP LEFT: The bodies of Salvadoran migrant Oscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his nearly 2-year-old daughter Valeria lie on the bank of the Rio Grande in Matamoros, Mexico, on June 24, after they drowned trying to cross the river to Brownsville, Texas. Martinez’s wife, Tania, told Mexican authorities she watched her husband and child disappear in the strong current.

JULIA LE DUC, ASSOCIATED PRESS

BOTTOM LEFT: Robert Fuller lies unconscious after plunging drugs that will end his life into his feeding tube as his husband, Reese Baxter, upper left, and friends hold him in Seattle on May 10. Fuller was one of about 1,200 people who have used Washington’s Death with Dignity Act to end their lives in the decade since it became law.

ELAINE THOMPSON, ASSOCIATED PRESS

REBECCA BLACKWELL, ASSOCIATED PRESS

A churchgoer drops to the ground and prays in the street near burning tires lit by protesters during a march called by religious leaders in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Oct. 22.

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NATION

WONG MAYE-E, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Joshua K. Love gives a haircut to his nephew, Jintarius Turner Love, 7, at Love’s home in Greenwood, Miss., on June 8. Love never graduated from the Catholic grade school where he says he was sexually abused, and today he can’t read or write well enough to pass the state exam required for a barber’s license.

DAVID GOLDMAN, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Carol Dean, right, embraces Megan Anderson and her 18-month-old daughter, Madilyn, as Dean sifts through the debris of the home she shared with her husband, David Wayne Dean, who died when a tornado destroyed the house in Beauregard, Ala., on March 4. “He was my wedding gift,” said Dean of her husband, whom she married three years ago. “He was one in a million. He’d send me flowers to work just to let me know he loved me. He’d send me some of the biggest strawberries in the world.

I’m not going to be the same,” she said.

NOAH BERGER, ASSOCIATED PRESS

A firefighter sprays water while embers threaten a residence as the Hillside fire burns through San Bernardino, Calif., on Oct. 31.

DAVID J. PHILLIP, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tyler Holland guides his bike through the water as winds from Tropical Storm Barry push water from Lake Pontchartrain over the seawall in Mandeville, La., on July 13.

GREGORY BULL, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Floodlights from the U.S., left, illuminate multiple border walls, center, as traffic flows along a street in Tijuana, Mexico, on Jan. 7.

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NOAH BERGER, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Firefighters battle the Marsh Fire near the town of Brentwood, Calif., in Contra Costa County, on Aug. 3.

RICHARD VOGEL, ASSOCIATED PRESS

A skateboarder attempts to jump a small staircase across the street from the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles on Oct. 29.

NOAH BERGER, ASSOCIATED PRESS

A mural is illuminated at dusk on Feb. 8, on the chimney of a home in Paradise, Calif., that was destroyed by the Camp Fire. Artist Shane Grammer says he painted murals throughout the fire-ravaged town to convey hope in the midst of destruction.

WONG MAYE-E, ASSOCIATED PRESS

The afternoon sun hangs low as it shines through the snow at the airport in Nome, Alaska, on Feb. 13.

ROBERT F. BUKATY, ASSOCIATED PRESS

An alligator ignores the small fish swimming nearby as it awaits its next opportunity for a meal in the Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida on Oct. 30. A fishing line dangles from the reptile’s mouth.

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President Donald Trump throws a hat as he arrives to speak at a Nov. 26 campaign rally in Sunrise, Fla. SUSAN WALSH, ASSOCIATED PRESS

CAROLYN KASTER, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, right, arrives with her guest, Ana Maria Archila of New York, to hear President Donald Trump deliver his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 5.

ABOVE: People crowd around U.S. White House senior adviser Ivanka Trump, back left, to take selfies with her at the end of the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative, or We-Fi, event sponsored by the World Bank Group on April 17 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. She was there promoting a White House global economic program for women.

JACQUELYN MARTIN, ASSOCIATED PRESS

LEFT: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-California, stands beneath a painting of George Washington at the Capitol in Washington on Dec. 10 as she and House Democratic committee chairs announce they are pushing ahead with two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress — charging he corrupted the U.S. election process and endangered national security in his dealings with Ukraine.

J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE, ASSOCIATED PRESS

VICTORIA JONES, POOL PHOTO VIA AP

Queen Elizabeth II and U.S. President Donald Trump arrive with others through the East Gallery at Buckingham Palace in London ahead of the State Banquet on June 3.

BEBETO MATTHEWS, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Former Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris of California meets with civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton, president of the National Action Network, for lunch at Sylvia’s Restaurant in the Harlem neighborhood of New York on Feb. 21.

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ENTERTAINMENT

PETROS GIANNAKOURIS, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Singer Jessica Jung arrives at the opening ceremony and the premiere of the film “The Dead Don’t Die” at the 72nd international film festival in Cannes, France, on May 14.

FRANK AUGSTEIN, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Ballet dancer Erin King of Ballet Central prepares to pose for photos at the Central School of Ballet in London on Feb. 20. The dancers were preparing for a photo-call inspired by the 1945 musical “Carousel” by Rodgers and Hammerstein from the Ballet Central 2019 tour.

JORDAN STRAUSS, INVISION VIA AP

Lady Gaga, winner of the Academy Award for best original song for “Shallow” from “A Star Is Born,” gets emotional in the press room during the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Feb. 24.

ABOVE LEFT: A model wears a creation by Julien Macdonald at the Spring/Summer 2020 fashion week runway show in London on Sept. 16.

VIANNEY LE CAER, INVISION VIA AP

ABOVE RIGHT: Singer Yola Carter poses in Nashville, Tennessee, on Feb. 21.

MARK HUMPHREY, ASSOCIATED PRESS

LEFT: Jury member Elle Fanning poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” at the 72nd international film festival in Cannes, France, on May 21.

VIANNEY LE CAER, INVISION VIA AP

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SPORTS

MARK HUMPHREY, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Detroit Red Wings goaltender Jimmy Howard (35) covers the puck during the third period of the team’s NHL hockey game against the Nashville Predators in Nashville, Tenn., on Feb. 12. The Red Wings won 3-2.

ABOVE: Megan Rapinoe, right, celebrates with Alex Morgan after Rapinoe scored the opening goal from the penalty spot during the Women’s World Cup final soccer match between the United States and The Netherlands at the Stade de Lyon in Decines, outside Lyon, France, on July 7. The U.S. won 2-0.

FRANCISCO SECO, ASSOCIATED PRESS

TOP RIGHT: Tiger Woods reacts after winning the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Ga., on April 14.

DAVID J. PHILLIP, ASSOCIATED PRESS

BOTTOM RIGHT: San Francisco 49ers offensive guard Mike Person walks on the sideline in the second half of an NFL football game against the Washington Redskins on Oct. 20 in Landover, Md. ALEX BRANDON, ASSOCIATED PRESS

KIRSTY WIGGLESWORTH, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Serena Williams falls while attempting to return the ball to Alison Riske during a women’s quarterfinal match of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London on July 9.

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Liverpool’s players celebrate after winning the Champions League final soccer match between Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool at the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium in Madrid on June 2.

RICARDO MAZALAN, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Spectators watch from the scoreboard on day four of the third cricket Test match between England and West Indies at the Daren Sammy Cricket Ground in Gros Islet, St. Lucia, on Feb. 12.

MATTHIAS SCHRADER, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Simone Biles of the United States performs on the uneven bars during a warmup for the women’s all-around final at the Gymnastics World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, on Oct. 10.

HUSSEIN MALLA, ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLIE NEIBERGALL, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Lopez Lomong wins the men’s 10,000-meter run at the U.S. Track & Field Outdoor Championships in Des Moines, Iowa, on July 25, 2019.

A cliff diver jumps from the landmark Raouche sea rock during qualifying for the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series competition in Beirut, Lebanon, on July 13.

CHRIS O’MEARA, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Multiple cars crash during the NASCAR Daytona 500 on Feb. 17 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla. The crash involved Austin Dillon (3), Daniel Suarez (41), David Ragan (38), Paul Menard (21), Ryan Newman (6), Aric Almirola (10), Matt DiBenedetto (95) and Ryan Blaney (12).

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MORRY GASH, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Texas Rangers starting pitcher Mike Minor throws during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers on Aug. 11 at Miller Park in Milwaukee.

SILVIA IZQUIERDO, ASSOCIATED PRESS MARK BAKER, ASSOCIATED PRESS

A swimmer from China performs during the artistic swimming team free preliminary event at the World Swimming Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, on July 17.

Flamengo soccer fans cheer a goal scored by Gabriel against Argentina’s River Plate in the Copa Libertadores final match, broadcast on a giant screen at a watch party at Macarena Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Nov. 23.

MATT SLOCUM, ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this photo made with a tilt shift lens, Luis Saez rides Maximum Security across the finish line first during the 145th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 4, in Louisville, Ky. Country House was declared the winner after Maximum Security was disqualified following a review by race stewards.

ABOVE: Gold medalist Gary Hunt of Britain dives during the men’s high diving competition at the World Swimming Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, on July 24.

LEFT: Swimmers reach for drink bottles while competing in the men’s 10km open water swim at the World Swimming Championships in Yeosu, South Korea, on July 16.

MARK SCHIEFELBEIN, ASSOCIATED PRESS

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SEAN KRAJACIC, KENOSHA NEWS

The home at the east end of 17th Street in Somers, Wis., is pictured here falling into Lake Michigan in November as a crew prepares to dismantle it.

ABOVE LEFT: General Ulysses S. Grant, portrayed

by Curt Fields, left, conducts a troop review on horseback during the Civil War Weekend event at Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site in Illinois.

DAVE FOPAY, MATTOON AND CHARLESTON JOURNAL GAZETTE & TIMES-COURIER

ABOVE RIGHT: Ryan Pertzborn of Token Creek, Wis., and his daughter Harmony Pertzborn, 18 months, attend the World’s Biggest Little Parade on July 4 in Token Creek.

STEVE APPS, WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL

RIGHT: Fearless, first-time mutton buster Brinley Beerenstrauch, 10, of Lincoln, Neb., has a wooly good time as she holds on for a score of 90 out of 100 during the mutton bustin’ event on Aug. 6 at the Lancaster County Super Fair. Nearly 100 youngsters took part for a few seconds of thrills in Pavilion 3 at the Lancaster Event Center.

FRANCIS GARDLER, LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR

JESSICA GALLAGHER, MOLINE ISPATCH-ARGUS

Julia DePauw leads a cow out of the warm barn and to gates that lead to the milking parlor Jan. 30 in Port Byron, Ill. “Getting them up this morning was like getting a teenager up,” Bob Depauw joked.

ANDREW ROSENTHAL, FOR THE RACINE JOURNAL TIMES

Visitors play Aug. 11 on Adventure Island, an obstacle course at the new Bear Paw Beach at Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park Camp Resort in Caledonia, Wis.

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Kayla Clemons of Madison, Wis, leads the pack on the first lap of the women’s Category 3-4 race during the 41st running of the Melon City Criterium on May 26 in Muscatine, Iowa.

LISA GROUETTE, MASON CITY GLOBE GAZETTE KEVIN E. SCHMIDT, QUAD-CITY TIMES

Canadian Pacific Railroad employees work on replacing railroad ties April 22 after raising the tracks along Centennial and LeClaire Parks in Davenport, Iowa.

Beryl Buffington of Woden, Iowa, displays one of the many miniature pianos he made for his late wife, Sharon. Most are designed to actually play songs, fitted with the elements of a repurposed music box.

JESSICA GALLAGHER, MOLINE DISPATCH-ARGUS

Caeden Nobiling, 14, of Moline, Ill., pauses for a portrait after the Parade in Rock Island, Ill., on June 22.

Nobiling’s mother styled his hair for the event.

TIM HYNDS, SIOUX CITY JOURNAL

Sioux City, Iowa, magician Corey Fravel tosses cards in the air during a portrait on Jan. 3.

KALE WILK, MUNSTER TIMES

Laylah Maugeri, of Orland Park, Ill., keeps an eye on her competition during the spaghetti eating contest on Aug. 17 at Festa Italiana hosted at Villa Cesare in Schererville, Ind.

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BRANDON POLLOCK, WATERLOO COURIER

Hudson’s Ethan Fulcher is hit by North Tama’s Luke Pennell as he tries to pull in a pass on Sept. 20 in Hudson, Iowa.

KALE WILK, MUNSTER TIMES

The home-plate umpire calls Crown Point’s Drew Horton, left, scores after Portage catcher Xavier Alvarez tried to tag him out May 28 in Crown Point, Ind.

BYRON HETZLER, CARBONDALE SOUTHERN

Murphysboro’s Seth Daniels slides safely into third base in the fifth inning against Massac County during the Illinois 3A Baseball Regional on May 20 in Murphysboro, Ill.

LEWIS MARIEN, BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH

Illinois State forward Abdou Ndiaye dunks to seal the Redbirds’ 79-72 nonconference victory over Belmont on Nov. 6 at Redbird Arena in Normal, Ill.

FRANCIS GARDLER, LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR

Nebraska wrestler Taylor Venz celebrates his 8-6 win over Northern Iowa’s Drew Foster in the 184-pound match as a challenge brick (at left) thrown by the Panthers’ bench passes in front of him during the annual Tumble n’ Rumble event on Jan. 12 at Devaney Sports Center in Lincoln, Neb.

STEVE APPS, WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL

Vikings cornerback Trae Waynes upends Packers wide receiver Marquez Valdez-Scantling, preventing a completed catch, in the fourth quarter of Green Bay’s 21-16 victory Sept. 15 at Lambeau Field.

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ABOVE: A Guatemalan man gets a plate of food at El Buen Pastor shelter for migrants in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on July 25.

GREGORY BULL, ASSOCIATED PRESS

LEFT: A protester cries out over an injured protester after police launched tear gas to disperse demonstrators who set fires and chanted calls for Haiti’s president to resign, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Sept. 30.

REBECCA BLACKWELL, ASSOCIATED PRESS

MOISES CASTILLO, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Boys swing censers using the smoke from incense to purify the path of the Holy Tuesday procession known as “La Resena,” in downtown Guatemala City on April 16.

MARCO UGARTE, ASSOCIATED PRESS

A migrant mother feeds her children in a freight train in Palenque, Chiapas state, Mexico, as they travel north on June 24.

RAMON ESPINOSA, ASSOCIATED PRESS

A shattered and water-filled coffin lies exposed to the elements in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian, at the cemetery in Mclean’s Town, Grand Bahama, Bahamas, on Sept. 11.

DAVID J. PHILLIP, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Diver Lenford DaCosta cleans up lines of staghorn coral at an underwater coral nursery inside the Oracabessa Fish Sanctuary on Feb. 12 in Oracabessa, Jamaica.

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NORTH AMERICA

REBECCA BLACKWELL, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Revelers celebrate as fireworks explode over the Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico City after President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gave the annual independence shout from the balcony of the National Palace to kick off Independence Day celebrations on Sept. 15.

DIEU NALIO CHERY, ASSOCIATED PRESS RAMON ESPINOSA, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Volunteers wade through a flooded road against wind and rain brought on by Hurricane Dorian to rescue families near the Causarina bridge in Freeport, Grand Bahama, Bahamas, on Sept. 3.

Ruling party Sen. Ralph Fethiere fires his gun outside Parliament as he arrives for a vote on the ratification of Fritz William Michel’s nomination as prime minister in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Sept. 23. Opposition members confronted rulingparty senators, and Fethiere pulled the pistol when protesters rushed at him and members of his entourage. The vote was canceled.

FELIPE DANA, ASSOCIATED PRESS

A large Iceberg floats away as the sun sets near Kulusuk, Greenland, on Aug. 15.

RAMON ESPINOSA, ASSOCIATED PRESS RAMON ESPINOSA, ASSOCIATED PRESS

A couple in a classic American car drive past fishermen along the Malecon seawall at sunset in Havana, Cuba, on June 19.

Children in a trailer converted into a swimming pool playfully splash a man carrying a puppy along the road in the El Infernal neighborhood in San Andres, Cuba, in the province of Pinar del Río, on Aug. 24.

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FERNANDO VERGARA, ASSOCIATED PRESS NATACHA PISARENKO, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Supporters of former President Evo Morales protect themselves from tear gas launched by the police in La Paz, Bolivia, on Nov. 15.

A youth is carried by medics to a safe zone after he was injured in clashes with Venezuelan National Guardsmen blocking the entry of U.S.-supplied humanitarian aid on the Simon Bolivar International Bridge in La Parada, Colombia, near the border with Venezuela on Feb. 25.

LEO CORREA, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Firefighters work to resuscitate the driver of a commuter train who was injured in a collision with another train in Sao Cristovao station in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Feb. 27.

ERALDO PERES, ASSOCIATED PRESS ESTEBAN FELIX, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Anti-government demonstrators shine laser pointers at the police during a protest in Santiago, Chile, on Nov. 12.

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro puts his hand over his heart as Army Commander Edson Leal Pujol salutes during the playing of the national anthem at a ceremony marking Army Day, in Brasilia, Brazil, on April 17. Brazil’s Army Day is officially on April 19.

MARTIN MEJIA , ASSOCIATED PRESS

A group of boys play basketball at the Petare shantytown, in Caracas, Venezuela, on May 16.

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RODRIGO ABD, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Fishermen covered in oil prepare their boat for fishing on Lake Maracaibo near La Salina crude oil shipping terminal in Cabimas, Venezuela, on July 9.

NATACHA PISARENKO, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Sandra, a 33-year-old orangutan, inside of her enclosure at the former city zoo now known as Eco Parque, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Sept. 16. Sandra’s solitary life took a turn when she left Buenos Aires for her new home at the Center for Great Apes in central Florida. There, she joined other orangutans and chimpanzees rescued or retired from circuses, stage shows and the exotic pet trade.

ARIANA CUBILLOS, ASSOCIATED PRESS JORGE SAENZ, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Cristian Riveros, a 22-year-old student, poses for a portrait dressed in bird’s feathers during the celebration of “San Francisco Solano” in Emboscada, Paraguay, on July 24.

Supporters of President Nicolas Maduro hold a banner of Venezuela’s independence hero Simon Bolivar during a rally celebrating 11 years of Venezuela’s Socialist Party Youth in Caracas, Venezuela, on Sept. 12.

LEO CORREA, ASSOCIATED PRESS

A Brazilian soldier puts out fires at the Nova Fronteira region in Novo Progresso, Brazil, on Sept. 3.

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EUROPE

MARKUS SCHREIBER, ASSOCIATED PRESS

A man walks through the gate of the Sachsenhausen Nazi death camp with the phrase “Arbeit macht frei” (work sets you free) in Oranienburg, Germany, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jan. 27.

ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO, ASSOCIATED PRESS

World War II veteran Lev Yatsevich, 92, salutes as he waits for other participants of an event marking the anniversary of the failed August 1991 hard-line coup outside the former Russian parliament building, which now houses the Russian Cabinet, in Moscow on Aug. 20. The coup, which briefly ousted Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, precipitated the collapse of the Soviet Union.

ALVARO BARRIENTOS, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Hooded penitents from the ‘’Entrada de Jesus en Jerusalen’’ brotherhood prepare to take part in a Holy Week Palm Sunday procession in Zaragoza, Spain, on April 14.

LUCA BRUNO, ASSOCIATED PRESS

St. Mark’s Square in Venice, Italy, is flooded at high tide on Nov. 15, just three days after the lagoon city experienced its worst flooding in more than 50 years.

BERNAT ARMANGUE, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Opera singer Placido Domingo speaks during a news conference about his upcoming show “Giovanna d’Arco” in Madrid, Spain, on July 12.

ANDREEA ALEXANDRU, ASSOCIATED PRESS

A little girl holds her hair while riding a merry go round at an autumn fair in Rosiorii de Vede, southern Romania, on Sept. 7.

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MICHEL EULER, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Flames and smoke rise from Notre Dame cathedral in Paris as firefighters tackle the blaze on April 15.

ALVARO BARRIENTOS, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Revellers run next to fighting bulls from Cebada Gago ranch during the running of the bulls at the San Fermin Festival in Pamplona, Spain, on July 8.

EMILIO MORENATTI, ASSOCIATED PRESS

A man holding an independence flag is surrounded by smoke released by demonstrators during Catalan National Day in Barcelona, Spain, on Sept. 11, called “Diada,” marks the fall of the Catalan capital to Spanish forces in 1714.

ABOVE: Buildings are reflected in the window of a car as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is taken from court in London on May 1, where he appeared on charges of jumping British bail seven years ago.

MATT DUNHAM, ASSOCIATED PRESS

RIGHT: Then-Conservative Party leadership candidate Boris Johnson, center, eats ice cream in Barry Island, Wales, on July 6, ahead of the Conservative party leadership hustings in Cardiff. Johnson became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on July 24.

FRANK AUGSTEIN, ASSOCIATED PRESS

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ASIA

JAE C. HONG, ASSOCIATED PRESS

A group of climbers make their way to the summit of Japan’s Mount Fuji, above a layer of clouds, to watch the sunrise on Aug. 27.

K.M. CHAUDARY, ASSOCIATED PRESS

A Shiite Muslim child beats his chest next to his father during a procession to mark the end of the 40-day mourning period following the anniversary of the 7th century death of Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson and one of Shiite Islam’s most beloved saints, in Lahore, Pakistan, on Oct. 20.

VINCENT YU, ASSOCIATED PRESS

A bleeding man is taken away by policemen after he was attacked by protesters outside Kwai Chung police station in Hong Kong on July 31.

DITA ALANGKARA, ASSOCIATED PRESS

North Koreans swim in an indoor swimming pool in Pyongyang, North Korea, on March 13.

ERANGA JAYAWARDENA, ASSOCIATED PRESS

A Sri Lankan family mourns next to the coffins of their three family members, all victims of an Easter Sunday bombing, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on April 23.

DAR YASIN, ASSOCIATED PRESS

A masked Kashmiri protester jumps on an Indian police armored vehicle as he throws stones at it during a protest in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, on May 31.

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ASIA & AUSTRALIA

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A protester in Hong Kong, who identified herself as Morty, poses for a portrait on Oct. 16 next to pieces of broken glass as a projector displays a photo behind her from a previous day of unrest.

Carmall Casey, who became addicted to opioids during her battle with chronic pain, pauses for a photo on her front porch in Black River, Tasmania, Australia, on July 24. Her favorite tree, now dead and gnarled, stands in the background. Like her, she says, it’s old and broken, but still good for something. “But dead trees, even though they’re dead, they’ve still got beauty of some kind, haven’t they?”

JAE C. HONG, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Pedestrians are seen through the reflection of an advertisement in a window as they walk along a busy street in the Shibuya district of Tokyo on June 9.

ABOVE LEFT: Sixyear-old Muneefa Nazir, a Kashmiri girl whose right eye was hit by a marble shot allegedly by Indian Paramilitary soldiers on Aug. 12, stands outside her home in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, on Sept. 17.

MUKHTAR KHAN, ASSOCIATED PRESS

ABOVE RIGHT: Ruby Khan helps her 7-year-old son Farmaan get ready for school in New Delhi, India, on Jan. 18.

ALTAF QADRI, ASSOCIATED PRESS

LEFT: People navigate their way through a street flooded by torrential rains in Mumbai, India, on Sept. 4.

RAJANISH KAKADE, ASSOCIATED PRESS

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ABOVE: Anti-government protesters take cover during a demonstration in Baghdad, Iraq, as security forces open fire on Oct. 4.

KHALID MOHAMMED, ASSOCIATED PRESS

LEFT: A woman and her baby, who were evacuated from the last territory held by Islamic State militants, walk after being screened by U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces in the desert outside Baghouz, Syria, on Feb. 25.

FELIPE DANA, ASSOCIATED PRESS

ABOVE: People light fireworks on May 13 above the rubble of destroyed buildings to celebrate the holy month of Ramadan in Gaza City.

HATEM MOUSSA, ASSOCIATED PRESS

RIGHT: Ultra-Orthodox Jews attend the wedding ceremony of Hannah Halbershtam and Menahem Nachum, the son of the Rabbi of the Nadvorna Hasidic dynasty, in the town of Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv, Israel, on Aug. 20.

ODED BALILTY, ASSOCIATED PRESS

BOTTOM LEFT: A resident uses his phone to take photos of the damage in a house caused by a mortar fired from inside Syria on the Turkish town of Akcakale on Oct. 12.

LEFTERIS PITARAKIS, ASSOCIATED PRESS

BOTTOM RIGHT: Firemen spray water after a car bomb exploded in Qamishli, Syria, on Nov. 11.

BADERKHAN AHMAD, ASSOCIATED PRESS

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MIDDLE EAST

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Anti-government protesters set fires in Baghdad, Iraq, while security forces fire live ammunition and tear gas near the state-run television station on Nov. 4.

FELIPE DANA, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Women and children ride in the back of a truck that is part of a convoy evacuating hundreds out of the last territory held by Islamic State militants in Baghouz, Syria, on Feb. 20.

Ethiopian migrants line up to board a boat on the coast outside the town of Obock, Djibouti, the shore closest to Yemen, on July 15.

ODED BALILTY, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Adi Kazav, left, and Lied Adi Hagbi, members of the Israeli Mermaid Community, pose for a portrait wearing mermaid tails at their home in Netanya, Israel, on Feb. 21.

NARIMAN EL-MOFTY, ASSOCIATED PRESS

HUSSEIN MALLA, ASSOCIATED PRESS

A riot policeman removes an anti-government protester who is blocking a main highway with her body in Beirut, Lebanon, on Oct. 26.

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AFRICA

BEN CURTIS, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Family photos of some of those who died hang on display in an exhibition at the Kigali Genocide Memorial in the Rwandan capital of Kigali on April 5. Rwanda commemorated the 25th anniversary of the country’s descent into an orgy of violence in which some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were massacred by the majority Hutu population over a 100-day period in what was the worst genocide in recent history.

MULUGETA AYENE, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Relatives of crash victims mourn at the scene where an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 passenger jet crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 157 on board, near Bishoftu, Ethiopia, on March 14.

MOSA’AB ELSHAMY, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Fatimazehra El Ghazaoui, 27, a woman affected by a rare disorder called xeroderma pigmentosum, or XP, puts on a protective mask she wears outside on sunny days, in her home in Mohammedia, Morocco, near Casablanca, on July 16.

JEROME DELAY, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Health workers wearing protective suits tend to an Ebola victim kept in an isolation cube in Beni, Congo, on July 13.

KHALIL SENOSI, ASSOCIATED PRESS

People flee as security forces aim their weapons during a deadly attack by extremists at a luxury hotel complex in Nairobi, Kenya, on Jan. 15. Explosions and heavy gunfire reverberated through the complex during the attack that killed more than 20 people.

BEN CURTIS, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Nigerians engage in heated but friendly arguments about the postponement of the election while drinking beer at a street-side bar in the predominantly Christian neighborhood of Sabon Gari in Kano, northern Nigeria, on Feb. 16.