1/30 1 September 2016

The moon covering the sun, leaving a ring of fire effect around the moon, during an annular solar eclipse, seen from Saint-Louis, on the Indian Ocean island of La Reunion

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2/30 1 September 2016

Smoke rising close to the Syrian-Turkish border town of Jarabulus. Turkey denied a US claim it had agreed a truce with a Kurdish militia targeted as part of its week-old intervention in Syria but Turkish-backed fighters confirmed a lull in the fighting. In an unprecedented operation, Turkey sent tanks into Syria to help Arab rebels clear the border area of Islamic State (IS) jihadists and halt the westward advance of a US-backed Kurdish militia, which Ankara sees as a terrorist group

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3/30 31 August 2016

A wounded supporter of Gabonese opposition leader Jean Ping lies on the ground in Libreville, during clashes with riot police as part of a protest sparked after Gabon's president Ali Bongo was declared winner of last weekend's contested election. Protesters shouting "Ali must go!" tried to storm the offices of the election commission shortly after authorities announced his re-election by a narrow majority. Bongo won by a narrow 5,594 votes of a total 627,805 registered voters

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4/30 31 August 2016

Students wave the Malaysian flag during the 59th National Day celebrations at the Independence Square in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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5/30 31 August 2016

Mount Sinabung spews volcanic ash into the air during an eruption in Karo, North Sumatra, Indonesia

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6/30 31 August 2016

A man pedals his cycle rickshaw during monsoon rains in New Delhi, India

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7/30 31 August 2016

Crowds of people throw tomatoes at each other, during the annual "Tomatina", tomato fight fiesta, in the village of Bunol, 50 kilometers outside Valencia, Spain. The streets of an eastern Spanish town are awash with red pulp as thousands of people pelt each other with tomatoes in the annual "Tomatina" battle that has become a major tourist attraction. At the annual fiesta in Bunol, trucks dumped 160 tons of tomatoes for some 20,000 participants, many from abroad, to throw during the hour-long morning festivities

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8/30 31 August 2016

A man steers a wooden boat through dead fish in a breeding pond at the Maninjau Lake in Agam regency, West Sumatra province, Indonesia. Thousands of fish at the fish farm of the Maninjau Lake died suddenly due to lack of oxygen caused by a sudden change in water conditions

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9/30 30 August 2016

Iranians spending time in Urmia Lake near Urmia, North-western Iran. Hopes for survival of Urmia salt lake have been revived after more rains boosted a government program aimed at preserving the almost dried up water body

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10/30 30 August 2016

Somali security forces patrol the scene of a suicide car bomb blast in Mogadishu. At least 10 people were killed when jihadists exploded a suicide car bomb outside a popular hotel close to the presidential palace in Somalia's capital Mogadishu. The Al-Qaeda aligned Shabaab jihadists claimed responsibility for the attack on the SYL hotel which was previously attacked in both February 2016 and January 2015

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11/30 30 August 2016

Turkish soldiers carry a giant Turkish flag during a ceremony to mark 94th anniversary of Turkeys Victory Day in Ankara

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12/30 30 August 2016

Safari keeper Guy Pear gets a kiss from a five-day-old reticulated giraffe, at an enclosure at the Safari Zoo in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv, Israel

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13/30 29 August 2016

A child holds a placard reading "Open the border" during a demonstration in support to refugees and migrants in front of Athens municipality building

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14/30 29 August 2016

Police fire tear gas grenades at supporters of suspendend president Dilma Rousseff holding a demonstration during her impeachment trial in Sao Paulo, Brazil

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15/30 29 August 2016

A rescue boat of the Spanish NGO Proactiva approaches an overcrowded wooden vessel with migrants from Eritrea, off the Libyan coast in Mediterranean Sea

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16/30 29 August 2016

Indian troopers use shields to protect themselves during a clash with Kashmiri protesters in Srinagar. Authorities lifted a curfew in Indian-administered Kashmir after 52 days of lock down amid deadly violence, but street clashes broke out again between protesters and security forces

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17/30 29 August 2016

A farmer checks hot peppers laid out on a road to dry under the sun before selling them to factories producing pepper products in Kilis province, Turkey

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18/30 29 August 2016

Heavy rain clouds move over the central business district in Bangkok

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19/30 28 August 2016

Dead wild reindeer are seen on Hardangervidda in Norway, after lightning struck the central mountain plateau and killed more than 300 of them

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20/30 17 August 2016

Indonesian students play traditional drums called "Dol" from Bengkulu province as they participate in the Indonesian Independence day ceremony in Jakarta

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21/30 17 August 2016

A woman attempts to cover a tear gas canister fired by police at a crowd in Srinagar protesting against the recent killings in Kashmir

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22/30 17 August 2016

Participants struggle to reach the prizes on the top of greasy slippery poles in Jakarta, as part of Indonesia's celebrations to mark its 71st independent day anniversary

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23/30 16 August 2016

An air tanker drops fire retardant on the Blue Cut wildfire in Lytle Creek, California. The fire is currently 9,000 plus acres, with 700 personnel on scene. Fifty-seven engines, 8 crews, 8 air tankers, 2 Very Large Air Tankers (VLATS), with additional firefighters and equipment on order

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24/30 16 August 2016

Free Syrian army fighters stand atop of a hill as the moon is seen in the background in the south of Nawa city, in Deraa Governorate, Syria

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25/30 16 August 2016

A Palestinian youth is being evacuated after he was wounded during clashes with Israeli soldiers conducting searches in the Palestinian al-Fawwar refugee camp, south of the West Bank city of Hebron

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26/30 16 August 2016

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27/30 16 August 2016

Mine workers sing as they wait for the commemoration to get under way near Marikana in Rustenburg, South Africa. On 16 August 2012 police shot and killed 34 Lonmin striking miners, apparently while trying to disperse them and end their strike. Ten people, including two police officers and two Lonmin security guards, were killed in the preceding week

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28/30 16 August 2016

People look at a crater caused by a Saudi-led coalition air strike at the yard of a hospital operated by Medecins Sans Frontieres in the Abs district of Hajja province, Yemen

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29/30 15 August 2016

People cool off at a swimming pool in Daying county, China

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30/30 15 August 2016

Turkish soldiers from a military guard of honor carry coffins during a mass burial ceremony for Turkish Cypriots who went missing in 1974 and whose remains have been found by the Committee on missing people in Cyprus (CMP), at a cemetery in the village of Tashkent (Vouno) in the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. More than 30 Turkish Cypriots, who had disappeared in Tochni near the coastal southern city of Limassol in August 1974 and were found in 2014 in a mass grave in the village, were buried during the ceremony

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