AUGUST 2017 - Pictures of the day - Aug 26 - 30 , 2017

AUGUST 2017
Picture of the day
26- 31 August 2017
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AUGUST 2017
Pictures of the day
Aug. 26 – 30 , 2017
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Child marriage increasing in civil war-torn South Sudan
In this photo taken Monday, July 31, 2017, Amat, 17, who is not married but expects to be
soon, tends to cattle at the camp where she grew up outside the town of Rumbek, South
Sudan. (AP Photo/Mariah Quesada)
GALLERY PHOTOS
July 31 , 2017

In this photo taken Sunday, July 30, 2017, Eliza, 17,
who at age 13 was forced by her father to marry a 35-
year-old man from their village in exchange for 50
cattle, recounts her experience to The Associated Press
in the town of Rumbek, South Sudan. (AP
Photo/Mariah Quesada)
GALLERY PHOTOS
July 30 , 2017

In this photo taken Sunday, July 30, 2017,
Eliza, 17, who at age 13 was forced by her
father to marry a 35-year-old man from their
village in exchange for 50 cattle, stands next
to crops in a courtyard in the town of
Rumbek, South Sudan. (AP Photo/Mariah
Quesada)
GALLERY PHOTOS
July 30 , 2017

In this photo taken Sunday, July 30, 2017, girls
take a break at the Irish-run Loreto Secondary
School, the region's only all-girls boarding school
where staff require each girl's guardian to sign a
form promising not to remove the child from
school until graduation, in the town of Rumbek,
South Sudan. (AP Photo/Mariah Quesada)
GALLERY PHOTOS
July 30 , 2017

In this photo taken Monday, July 31, 2017, cattle
keepers walk past their herd at a camp outside
the town of Rumbek, South Sudan. (AP
GALLERY PHOTOS
July 31 , 2017

In this photo taken Monday, July 31, 2017, cattle
keepers hang their guns beside their cows, to keep
them close to protect against potential cattle
raiders, at a camp outside the town of Rumbek,
South Sudan. (AP Photo/Mariah Quesada)
GALLERY PHOTOS
July 31 , 2017

In this photo taken Monday, July 31, 2017, a young
South Sudanese woman scrubs the dung-covered
ground in preparation for cows to return from grazing,
at a cattle camp outside the town of Rumbek, South
Sudan. (AP Photo/Mariah Quesada)
GALLERY PHOTOS
July 31 , 2017

In this photo taken Monday, July 31, 2017, a young
South Sudanese man tends to his herd of cattle at a
camp outside the town of Rumbek, South Sudan. Cows
are used for payments and dowries, which Human
Rights Watch calls a "key driver of child marriage" as
families see daughters as a source of wealth. (AP
GALLERY PHOTOS
July 31 , 2017

In this photo taken Monday, July 31,
2017, a young South Sudanese boy
learns how to take care of cattle at a
camp outside the town of Rumbek,
South Sudan. (AP Photo/Mariah
Quesada)
GALLERY PHOTOS
July 31 , 2017

People participate in a march organized by the group
"Take Em Down NOLA" in New Orleans, Saturday, Aug.
19, 2017, to show opposition to white-supremacist
rallies and deadly attack in Charlottesville, Va. (AP
Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Aug. 19, 2017

In this image made available by NASA, the
International Space Station is silhouetted against
the sun during a solar eclipse Monday, Aug. 21,
2017, as seen from Ross Lake, Northern Cascades
National Park in Washington state. (Bill
Ingalls/NASA via AP)
Aug. 21, 2017

A soldier takes position next to a wall
spray-painted with the Portuguese
message: "Police will die" in the
Jacarezinho slum during a security
operation, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on
Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. Thousands of
soldiers and police are occupying a series
of slum communities in northern part of
the city as part of efforts to combat a spike
in violence. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
Aug. 21, 2017

A shop window shows the few products it has for
sale, Aug. 23, 2017, in downtown Caracas,
Venezuela. U.S. economic sanctions on Venezuela
make it more likely Venezuela will stop payment on
its debt, or reduce what few goods it still imports.
(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
US sanctions to pile misery on
moribund Venezuelan economy
AUGUST 29, 2017
A small army of red-shirted
workers mop the linoleum
floors as their supervisors,
sitting under a giant portrait of
Hugo Chavez, look on. By the
meltdown standards of
Venezuela’s economy, the
shelves around the workers at
the state-run Bicentenario
supermarket in eastern Caracas
are brimming with staples like
rice and pasta.
What’s missing are the
shoppers: They’ve been scared
off by prices that double every
few weeks while wages in the
crisis-wracked nation remain
stagnant.
Aug. 23, 2017

Vegetable vendors wait for customers behind their tables set up on the sidewalk, in front of a
mosaic, Aug. 23, 2017, Caracas, Venezuela. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
“I don’t even look at my paycheck anymore because it just gets me depressed,” said
Norma Pena, a bank teller who earns a little more than Venezuela’s minimum wage
of around just $15 a month. She left the store with a single bag of black beans.
While President Nicolas Maduro celebrates having calmed Venezuela’s streets after
months of deadly protests, the country’s imploding economy poses an ever more
severe threat. And the misery is likely to get even worse due to financial sanctions
imposed by the Trump administration in efforts to isolate Maduro for taking the
country down an increasingly authoritarian path.
Even before the sanctions were announced, most Venezuelans were struggling like
never before. Since 2014, the year after Maduro took office, the economy has
shrunk 35 percent — more than the U.S. did during the Great Depression.
Aug. 23, 2017

A piggy bank for tips, filled with 5 Bolivar bills, sits on the table of a vegetable vendor
at a market, Aug. 23, 2017, Caracas, Venezuela. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
A bevy of foreign airlines have pulled out of
the country this year, oil production is at the
lowest level in more than two decades and
the government had to add three zeros to its
bills as the value of its currency — the “strong
bolivar” — plummeted.
But while daylong bread lines have eased, the
newest scourge is the way galloping inflation
has reached even the basic staples whose
prices were long controlled by rigid price and
currency restrictions.
In recent months authorities have started
allowing companies to import everything from
canned food to new cars and letting them pass
the dollar prices on to consumers at the black
market exchange rate, where the greenback is
worth 1,685 times more bolivars than it as at
the strongest of three official exchange rates.
In the past, merchants risked having goods
seized, or their businesses shut down, if
bolivar prices reflected the world market
prices.
Aug. 23, 2017

People wait outside a supermarket for subsidized products to arrive,
Aug. 23, 2017, Caracas, Venezuela. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
The result of the de-facto dollarization has been a devil’s bargain: Shelves are fuller than
Venezuela has seen for months, but with prices that are out of reach for the vast majority of
poor Venezuelans. Inflation, which has been running in the triple digits for more than two
years, hit a record last month and has risen to 650 percent over the past 12 months,
according to an estimate by New York-based Torino Capital.
Venezuelans have made a grim joke of the process. The government once boasted of
guaranteeing a “precio justo” — or “just price” — for goods. Buyers report there is now more
on offer but only at a “precio susto” — a “scary price.”
That’s not to say shortages have gone away. The Bicentenario supermarket hasn’t seen any
fish or meat in about a year, partly because the freezer section’s cooling system broke and
no spare parts can be found. Most shelves contain a single variety of any given product,
much of it imported from China. Private supermarkets aren’t much better stocked.
Aug. 23, 2017

A woman pick out plantains at a market, Aug. 23, 2017, Caracas,
Venezuela. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Pena says she scrapes by selling items —
telephones, clothes, once even a washing
machine — left behind by better-off
clients who have abandoned Venezuela.
If she and her husband didn’t already
own their home, they wouldn’t have
enough to feed their two daughters, she
said. Even so, she’s lost 6 kilograms (13
pounds) as a result of what’s come to be
known as the “Maduro diet.” In the past
year, 74 percent of the population has
lost weight because of food scarcity,
according to a recent study by three of
Caracas’ largest universities.
At the normally bustling outdoor Chacao
market, poultry vendor Juan Dulcey said
his middle-class clientele fell by half over
the past month because he has had to
double prices to make up for
skyrocketing costs. A kilogram of
boneless breasts costs around 27,300
bolivars per kilogram — about 10
percent of the current monthly minimum
wage.
Aug. 23, 2017

A market stall offers strawberries, Aug. 23, 2017,
Caracas, Venezuela. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
“We used to have a lot of fun joking with
customers, but now everyone seems very sad,”
Dulcey said.
The government accuses U.S. President Donald
Trump and the opposition, which has backed the
sanctions, of trying to oust Maduro through an
“economic war.” Former Foreign Minister Delcy
Rodriguez, leader of the pro-government
constitutional assembly whose creation triggered
the U.S. action, said Sunday that the “financial
blockade” means Venezuela won’t be able to pay
for essential imports like food and medicine.
The Trump administration denies it is seeking to
punish ordinary Venezuelans. The sanctions,
enacted by executive order last week, prohibit
American banks from providing new money to the
government or state-run oil company PDVSA. They
also bar PDVSA’s U.S. subsidiary, Citgo, from
sending dividends back to Venezuela. But they
don’t affect financing for most commercial trade,
including the shipment of crude oil, of which the
U.S. is the OPEC nation’s biggest buyer.
Aug. 23, 2017

A man walks past vegetables for sale, Aug. 23, 2017,
Still, by depriving Maduro of badly
needed hard currency, the sanctions
make it more likely that Venezuela will
stop payment on its debt, or reduce
what few goods it still imports at the
official rates. The government and
PDVSA have around $4 billion in debt
coming due before the end of the year
but only $9.7 billion in foreign currency
reserves, the vast majority in the form
of gold ingots that are hard to exchange
quickly for cash.
Worse, if Maduro doesn’t yield to
Trump’s demand to disband the
constitutional assembly and call
elections, even tougher sanctions are
likely to follow. To cope, Maduro says
he will look to increase commercial ties
with China and Russia, although it’s not
clear how generous its allies will be,
given Venezuela’s growing reputation as
an international outlaw in the mold of
Cuba, Syria and North Korea.
“This could really reduce them to a
barter economy and throw Venezuela
back to the stone ages,” said Russ
Dallen, a managing partner at
investment bank Caracas Capital
Markets. “It’s both fascinating and
terrifying to watch.”
Aug. 23, 2017

A street vendor sells avocados, Aug. 23, 2017,
Caracas, Venezuela. Venezuelan President
Nicolas Maduro has been celebrating calm
returning to the streets after months of deadly
protests, yet the country’s imploding economy
poses an ever more severe threat. (AP
Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Aug. 23, 2017

People wait outside a supermarket for
subsidized products to arrive, Aug. 23, 2017,
Aug. 23, 2017

A street vendor's basket full of cigarette
lighters, razors, batteries, insect killer, tape,
glue, hair nets, lotion and sink filters, sits on
the sidewalk, Aug. 23, 2017, downtown in
Text from the AP news story, US sanctions to pile misery
on moribund Venezuelan economy, by Joshua Goodman.
Photos by Ariana Cubillos
Aug. 23, 2017

A four-year-old boy photographed in a Kabul
mosque last week as police desperately tried to
call him to safety during an attack by Islamic State
gunmen is back with his family but still suffering
nightmares, his father said.
Ali Ahmad was with his grandfather in the Shi'ite
Imam Zaman mosque on Friday when at least two
attackers in police uniforms stormed in, one
exploding a suicide-bomb vest and the other
firing indiscriminately at the hundreds of
worshippers inside.
A picture by Reuters photographer Omar Sobhani
showed Ali standing alone in the courtyard of the
mosque as policemen taking cover behind a
doorway call and wave to him. He survived the
attack but his grandfather was among at least 20
killed.
Aug. 25, 2017

"We were running everywhere in search of
my son but the police were stopping us and
didn't let us get too close," Bashir said.
Bashir called the number again and was
speaking to Ali when another explosion went
off.
"I lost hope. I said to myself that everything
was finished. I tried the number again but it
was switched off," Bashir said.
In fact, Ali had run around behind the
mosque, disregarding the policeman
frantically signalling to him in the courtyard.
He was rescued soon afterwards but the
effects of the attack may take much longer to
heal.
25 AUG 2017. KABUL, AFGHANISTAN.
REUTERS/OMAR SOBHANI
Aug. 25, 2017

Aug. 25, 2017

The attack, the latest in a series targeting Shi'ite
mosques, was claimed by Islamic State Khorasan,
the local branch of Islamic State which takes the
name of an old region that included what is now
Afghanistan.
According to the United Nations, at least 62 civilians
have been killed and 119 injured in six separate
attacks on Shi'ite mosques this year.
WRITING BY JAMES MACKENZIE
25 AUG 2017. KABUL, AFGHANISTAN. REUTERS/OMAR SOBHANI
Aug. 25, 2017

Ali Ahmad sits with his father, Sayed Bashir (C), and relatives at their house.
Sayed Bashir, Ali's father, was nearby but
not in the mosque when the initial blast
was heard and immediately ran to check
on his family.
"Right after the explosion I thought
everything was finished," he said. "I
called my father's mobile phone number
and my son answered and said: 'They
killed grandpa'. He wanted me to bring
the car and get him."
27 AUG 2017. KABUL, AFGHANISTAN. REUTERS/OMAR SOBHANI
Aug. 27, 2017

Bashir, a building worker who lives in a district
with many Shi'ite families, said Ali was still
traumatised and having difficulty coming to
terms with what happened.
"After the incident, my son has some
problems. He's scared a lot at night," he said.
27 AUG 2017. KABUL, AFGHANISTAN.
REUTERS/OMAR SOBHANI
Aug. 27, 2017

People inspect the rubble of houses destroyed by
Saudi-led airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, on Friday,
Aug. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
Aug. 25, 2017

A condominium complex reduced to rubble in
Rockport. REUTERS/Rick Wilking
Hurricane Harvey slams TexasAug. 26, 2017

Lisa Rehr holds her four-year old son Maximus, after
they lost their home to Hurricane Harvey, as they
await to be evacuated with their belongings from
Rockport. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
Aug. 26, 2017

A sign along I-35E warns against travel on
the Texas Gulf coast, in Dallas. REUTERS/Nick
Oxford
Aug. 26, 2017

A car surrounded by floodwaters in
Point Comfort. REUTERS/Rick Wilking
Aug. 26, 2017

A man walks through water and onto
the main road after surveying his
property in Rockport.
REUTERS/Adrees Latif
Aug. 26, 2017

A wall of the Fairfield Inn is seen partially
missing in Rockport. REUTERS/Rick Wilking
Aug. 26, 2017

Dead cows killed in Hurricane Harvey lie
on highway 35 near Fulton. REUTERS/Rick
Wilking
Aug. 26, 2017

Men check on a boat storage facility that
was damaged by Hurricane Harvey,
Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017, in Rockport,
Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Aug. 26, 2017

A row of clothes dryers are exposed to the
elements after a laundromat lost its roof and
portions of walls in the wake of Hurricane
Harvey, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017, in Rockport,
Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Aug. 26, 2017

A damaged oil tank near
Seadrift. REUTERS/Rick
Wilking
Aug. 26, 2017

A car crushed by a huge
tree in Rockport.
REUTERS/Rick Wilking
Aug. 26, 2017

Hurricane Harvey makes landfall
Craig "Cajun" Uggen, 57, nearly floods his truck as
Hurricane Harvey comes ashore in Corpus Christi,
Texas. Minutes later, high winds blew off the
camper carrying all of his belongings.
REUTERS/Brian Thevenot
Aug. 26, 2017

Hurricane Harvey is pictured off the coast
of Texas, from aboard the International
Space Station. NASA/Handout via
REUTERS
Aug. 26, 2017

Hurricane Harvey is pictured off the coast of Texas,
from the cupola aboard the International Space
Station. NASA/Handout via REUTERSAug. 26, 2017

Hurricane Harvey is seen
approaching the Texas Gulf
Coast. NOAA/Handout via
Reuters
Aug. 26, 2017

Traffic lights lie on a street after being
knocked down, as Hurricane Harvey
approaches in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Aug. 26, 2017

Stewart Adams, of San Marcos, Texas,
plays in the winds from Hurricane
Harvey in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Aug. 26, 2017

Street signs lie on the ground after winds
from Hurricane Harvey escalated in
Corpus Christi, Texas. REUTERS/Adrees
Latif
Aug. 26, 2017

A group of people race across the street as winds
from Hurricane Harvey escalated in Corpus
Christi, Texas. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
Aug. 26, 2017

As a preventative measure, empty Metro buses are
lined up in the center lanes of Interstate 59 near
Cavalcade in case their bus shelters flood, Saturday,
Aug. 26, 2017, in Houston. (Mark Mulligan/Houston
Chronicle via AP)
Aug. 26, 2017

A driver works his way through a maze of
fallen utility poles damaged in the wake
of Hurricane Harvey, Saturday, Aug. 26,
2017, in Taft, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Aug. 26, 2017

A damaged car sits outside a heavily damaged
apartment complex in Rockport, Texas, after
Hurricane Harvey struck the area, Saturday,
Aug. 26, 2017. (Courtney Sacco/Corpus Christi
Caller-Times via AP)
Aug. 26, 2017

A storm chaser films himself on a camera
phone as Hurricane Harvey approaches, on
the boardwalk in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Aug. 26, 2017

Shelves sit nearly empty in a Walmart store as
residents stock up ahead of Hurricane Harvey
approaching landfall. REUTERS/Ernest Scheyder
Aug. 26, 2017

Lisa Rehr holds her four-year old son Maximus, after they lost
their home to Hurricane Harvey, as they await to be evacuated
with their belongings from Rockport. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
Her bruised eyes still swollen
shut, Buthaina Muhammad
Mansour, believed to be four or
five, doesn't yet know that her
parents, five siblings and uncle
were killed when an air strike
flattened their home in Yemen's
capital.
Aug. 26, 2017

Despite concussion and skull
fractures, doctors think
Buthaina will pull through --
her family's sole survivor of the
Aug 25 attack on an apartment
building that residents blame
on a Saudi-led coalition
fighting in Yemen since 2015.
26 AUG 2017. SANAA, YEMEN. REUTERS/KHALED ABDULLAH
Aug. 26, 2017

The alliance said in a statement it
would investigate the air strike, which
killed at least 12 civilians.
Yemen's long war involving competing
Yemeni factions and regional power
struggles has killed at least 10,000
people. Millions more have been
forced to leave their homes and face
disease and hunger.
Aid agencies have called for a speedy
resolution to the conflict, warning
that the impoverished country is now
victim to the world's greatest man-
made humanitarian disaster.
Aug. 25, 2017
GALLERY PHOTOS

Lying disoriented in her hospital
bed on Saturday, Buthaina called
out for her uncle, Mounir, who
was among those killed in the
attack.
Aug. 26, 2017

Another uncle, Saleh Muhammad Saad,
told Reuters Mounir had rushed to the
family's house when Buthaina's father
called him at 2 a.m. to say war planes
were bombing their neighbourhood in
Sanaa's Faj Attan district. He never
returned.
GALLERY PHOTOS
Aug. 25, 2017

By the time Saleh got to the
house, it was a ruin of broken
concrete blocks and wooden
planks. Hearing survivors
groaning from beneath the
rubble, he battled to free
them.
"I could hear the shouts of one
of their neighbours from
under the rubble, and tried to
remove the rubble from on
top of (Buthaina's father) and
his wife, but I couldn't. They
died," he said.
People recover the body of Buthaina's father Muhammad Mansour.
GALLERY PHOTOS
Aug. 25, 2017

"We lifted the rubble and saw first
her brother Ammar, who was three,
and her four sisters, all of them
dead. I paused a little and just
screamed out from the pain. But I
pulled myself together, got back
there and then heard Buthaina
calling."
He said her survival had given him
some solace as he mourned the rest
of the family.
"Her sister Raghad always used to
come up and hug me and kiss me
when I visited. I used to say to her,
'Come on, that's enough.' And she
would say 'Oh no it isn't!' and just
keep hugging and kissing."
WRITING BY NOAH
BROWNING
Ayah Muhammad Mansour, 7.
Aug. 26, 2017

Mourners carry coffins to a mosque for prayers during the funeral of Buthaina's family members.
Aug. 26, 2017

Strong winds batter a house on Padre Island
before Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in
Corpus Christi, Texas.
Mark Ralston / AFP - Getty Images
Hurricane Harvey Causes
Destruction After Making Landfall
in Texas
by NBC NEWS
Hurricane Harvey downgraded to a tropical storm after making landfall in
Texas causes flooding and destruction.
Aug. 26, 2017

Daisy Graham reacts to the news
that a friend of hers may still be in
an apartment that was destroyed
by Hurricane Harvey on August 26
in Rockport, Texas. The friends
were found alive, but still hiding in
the shower stall after the homes
roof was blown off and walls
blown in by the high winds.
Joe Raedle / Getty Images
Aug. 26, 2017

Terry Smith stands in the
apartment that had its ceiling
collapse when Hurricane
Harvey hit in Rockport, Texas.
Ms. Smith said she has never
been as terrified in her life as
when the winds started
roaring through town.
Aug. 26, 2017

Rescue workers search for survivors in
a structure damaged by Hurricane
Harvey in Rockport, Texas.
Darren Abate / EPA
Aug. 26, 2017

A driver moves through flood waters left
behind by Hurricane Harvey in Aransas
Pass, Texas.
Eric Gay / AP
Aug. 26, 2017

Boats lie pushed ashore by Hurricane
Harvey in Port Lavaca, Texas.
Rick Wilking / Reuters
Aug. 26, 2017

A Rockport firefighter goes door to door
on a search and rescue mission as he
looks for people that may need help after
Hurricane Harvey passed through
Rockport, Texas.
Aug. 26, 2017

Donna Raney is helped out of the
window by Lee Guerrero and Daisy
Graham after Hurricane Harvey
destroyed her apartment in Rockport,
Texas. Donna was hiding in the shower
after the roof blew off and the walls of
her home caved in by the winds of
Hurricane Harvey.
Aug. 26, 2017

A pelican injured during Hurricane Harvey
limps across a bridge Saturday, Aug. 26,
2017, in Port Lavaca, Texas. (AP
Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Aug. 26, 2017

Iraqi forces surround Islamic State
Smoke rises during clashes between joint
troop of Iraqi army and Shi'ite Popular
Mobilization Forces against the Islamic State
militants in Tal Afar. REUTERS/Thaier Al-
Sudani-26
Aug. 26, 2017

Iraqi army with Shi'ite Popular Mobilization
Forces remove the flag of the Islamic State
Sudani-26
Aug. 26, 2017

Smoke rises during clashes between
the Iraqi army and Shi'ite Popular
Mobilization Forces against the
Islamic State militants in Tal Afar.
REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani-26
Aug. 26, 2017

Members of Shi'ite Popular Mobilization Forces flash
victory sign during clashes against the Islamic State
militants in Tal Afar. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani-26
Aug. 26, 2017

A military vehicle of the Iraqi army with Shi'ite Popular
Mobilization Forces is seen during a fight with the
Islamic State militants in Tal Afar. REUTERS/Thaier Al-
SudaniAug. 26, 2017

Joint troops of Iraqi army and Shi'ite
Popular Mobilization Forces walk during
the fight against the Islamic State
Sudani-26
Aug. 26, 2017

A military vehicle of the Counter Terrorism
Service is seen during the fight with the
Islamic state militants in Tal Afar.
Aug. 26, 2017

A member of the Counter Terrorism
Service is seen during the fight with the
Islamic state militants in Tal Afar.
Aug. 26, 2017

Smoke rises during clashes between joint troop of
Iraqi army and Shi'ite Popular Mobilization Forces
against the Islamic State militants in Tal Afar.
REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani-26Aug. 26, 2017

Smoke rises during clashes between joint troops
of Iraqi army and Shi'ite Popular Mobilization
Forces against the Islamic State militants in Tal
Afar. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani-26Aug. 26, 2017

Smoke rises during clashes between joint troops of
Iraqi army and Shi'ite Popular Mobilization Forces
against the Islamic State militants in Tal Afar.
REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani
Aug. 26, 2017

SPLA-IO (SPLA-In Opposition) rebels fire
weapons during an assault on government
SPLA (Sudan People's Liberation Army)
soldiers in the town of Kaya, on the border
with Uganda, South Sudan, August 26, 2017.
REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
Aug. 26, 2017

Flamboyant Indian guru sentenced to prison
AUGUST 28, 2017
In this Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016 photo, Indian spiritual
guru, who calls himself Dr. Saint Gurmeet Singh Ram
Rahim Insan, rides a motorcycle as he arrives for a press
conference ahead of the release of his new film "MSG:
The Warrior Lion Heart," in New Delhi, India. (AP
Photo/Tsering Topgyal)
GALLERY PHOTOS
Oct. 5 , 2016

Supporters of the Dera Sacha Sauda sect
squat on the roadside leading to an Indian
court in Panchkula, India, Thursday, Aug. 24,
2017. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
Aug. 24, 2017

In this Friday, Aug. 25, 2017 photo, security officers
carry the body of a man after Dera Sacha Sauda
sect members went on a rampage near a court in
Panchkula, India. (AP Photo/Kapil Sethi)
Aug. 25, 2017

Vehicles set alight by Dera Sacha Sauda sect members
burn in the streets of Panchkula, India, Friday, Aug. 25,
Aug. 25, 2017

Supporters of the Dera Sacha Sauda religious
sect squat in a public park near an Indian
court in Panchkula, India, Friday, Aug. 25,
Aug. 25, 2017

An Indian man looks at the reception desk of
a government building vandalized by Dera
Sacha Sauda sect members a day before, in
Panchkula, India, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017.
(AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
Aug. 26, 2017

In this May 17, 2017 photo, an Indian spiritual guru, who calls
himself Dr. Saint Gurmeet Singh Ram Rahim Insan, attends the
premiere of the movie "Jattu Engineer" in New Delhi, India. A judge
on Monday, Aug. 28, 2017 sentenced the flamboyant and
controversial Indian spiritual guru to prison on charges of raping
two female followers. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)
May 17 , 2017
GALLERY PHOTOS

In this May 17, 2017 photo, Indian spiritual leader who
calls himself Dr. Saint Gurmeet Singh Ram Rahim Insan,
right, and others raise a toast with glasses of milk as they
hold a 'Cow Milk Party' during the premiere of the movie
"Jattu Engineer" in New Delhi, India.(AP Photo/Tsering
Topgyal)
GALLERY PHOTOS
May 17 , 2017

In this Oct. 5, 2016, file
photo, security officers
stand watch by a poster of
Indian spiritual guru, who
calls himself Dr. Saint
Gurmeet Singh Ram Rahim
Insan, during a press
conference ahead of the
release of the guru's film
"MSG, The Warrior Lion
Heart," in New Delhi, India.
(AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)
GALLERY PHOTOS
Oct. 5 , 2016

In this Oct. 5, 2016 photo, an
Indian guru, who calls
himself Dr. Saint Gurmeet
Singh Ram Rahim Insan,
addresses a press conference
ahead of releasing his new
movie, MSG The Warrior,
Lion Heart in New Delhi,
India. (AP Photo/Tsering
Topgyal)
GALLERY PHOTOS
Oct. 5 , 2016

A photographer is attacked by a masked
demonstrator in Martin Luther King Jr. Civic
Center Park during a cancelled No Marxism
in America rally and counter-protest in
Berkeley, California. REUTERS/Stephen Lam-
27
Clashes at canceled 'No Marxism'
rally in Berkeley
Aug. 27, 2017

A photographer is attacked by masked
demonstrators. REUTERS/Stephen Lam-27
Aug. 27, 2017

People come to the aid of a photographer (C)
as he is being attacked by masked
demonstrators. REUTERS/Stephen Lam-27
Aug. 27, 2017

Police officers help an injured man after he was
attacked by masked demonstrators.
REUTERS/Stephen Lam-27
Aug. 27, 2017

Masked counter-demonstrators carry
a banner as they climb over concrete
barriers into Martin Luther King Jr.
Civic Center Park. REUTERS/Stephen
Lam-27
Aug. 27, 2017

Hurricane Harvey slams Texas
People are rescued from flood waters from
Hurricane Harvey on an air boat in Dickinson,
Texas. REUTERS/Rick Wilking
Aug. 27, 2017

Interstate Highway 45 is submerged in Houston. REUTERS/Richard Carson
Aug. 27, 2017

Area residents use a kayak to rescue motorists
stranded on Interstate Highway 45 in Houston.
REUTERS/Richard Carson
Aug. 27, 2017

Jesus Rodriguez rescues Gloria Garcia after rain
flooded Pearland, in the outskirts of Houston.
Aug. 27, 2017

Flooded downtown is seen from JP Morgan
Chase Tower after Hurricane Harvey inundated
the Texas Gulf coast with rain causing
widespread flooding, in Houston, Texas.
Mandatory credit: Christian Tycksen via
REUTERS-27
Aug. 27, 2017

Flooded downtown Houston is seen from a high rise
along Buffalo Bayou in Houston, Texas. Mandatory
credit: Twitter/@caroleenarn via REUTERS-27
Aug. 27, 2017

Law enforcement officials divert traffic off the 8
beltway as major flooding hits Houston on Sunday,
Aug. 27.
Micheal Wyke / EPA-27Aug. 27, 2017

A stranded motorist escapes floodwaters on
Interstate 225.
Nick Oxford / Reuters-27
Aug. 27, 2017

Two kayakers try to beat the
current pushing them down an
overflowing Brays Bayou along S.
Braeswood.
Mark Mulligan / Houston
Chronicle via AP-27
Aug. 27, 2017

An abandoned Hummer is covered in
floodwaters on Interstate 610 in Houston.
Nick Oxford / Reuters-27
Aug. 27, 2017

An abandoned vehicle is covered by
floodwaters on Interstate 610.
Nick Oxford / Reuters
Aug. 27, 2017

Precinct 6 Deputy
Constables Sgt. Paul
Fernandez, from left, Sgt.
Michael Tran and Sgt.
Radha Patel rescue an
elderly woman from rising
water on North
MacGregor Way, near
Brays Bayou in Houston.
Jon Shapley / Houston
chronicle via AP-27
Aug. 27, 2017

People walk through the flooded waters of
Telephone Road.
Thomas B. Shea / AFP - Getty Images-27Aug. 27, 2017

Wilford Martinez, bottom, grabs the median as he is
rescued from his flooded car along Interstate 610 in
floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey on Sunday,
Aug. 27, 2017, in Houston, Texas. (AP Photo/David J.
Phillip)
Aug. 27, 2017

People walk along the road to board Metro buses
to be taken to a shelter at the GRB Convention
Center, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, in Houston.
(Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Aug. 27, 2017

Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls and Lucas
Wu lift Ethan Wu into an airboat as they are
evacuated from rising waters from Tropical
Storm Harvey, at the Orchard Lakes subdivision
on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, in unincorporated
Fort Bend County, Texas. (Brett
Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Aug. 27, 2017

Two people walk down a flooded section of
Interstate 610 in floodwaters from Tropical
Storm Harvey on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, in
Houston, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Aug. 27, 2017

Residents of La Vita Bella assisted living
facility are seen in waste-deep flooding due
to Tropical Storm Harvey in Dickinson,
Texas, U.S. August 27, 2017. Social
Media/Courtesy of Trudy Lampson/Handout
via REUTERS
Aug. 27, 2017

Sam Speights tries to hold back tears
while holding his dogs and surveying the
damage to his home in the wake of
Hurricane Harvey, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017,
in Rockport, Texas. Speights tried to stay
in his home during the storm but had to
move to other shelter after he lost his
roof and back wall. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Aug. 27, 2017

A man walks through floodwaters from Tropical Storm
Harvey as he evacuates his home on Sunday, Aug. 27,
2017, in Houston, Texas. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Aug. 27, 2017

A man helps a woman in floodwaters from Tropical
Storm Harvey Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, in Houston,
Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Aug. 27, 2017

A child makes his way through floodwaters from
Tropical Storm Harvey while checking on
neighbors at his apartment complex in Houston,
Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
Aug. 27, 2017

Melani Zurawski cries while inspecting her
home in Port Aransas, Texas, on Sunday, Aug.
27, 2017. (Nick Wagner/Austin American-
Statesman via AP)
Aug. 27, 2017

Wilford Martinez, right, is rescued from his flooded
car by Harris County Sheriff's Department Richard
Wagner along Interstate 610 in floodwaters from
Tropical Storm Harvey on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, in
Aug. 27, 2017

Houston Police SWAT officer Daryl Hudeck carries
Connie Pham and her 13-month-old son Aiden after
rescuing them from their home surrounded by
floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey Sunday, Aug.
27, 2017, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Aug. 27, 2017

A car is submerged on a freeway
flooded by Tropical Storm Harvey
on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, near
downtown Houston, Texas. (AP
Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Aug. 27, 2017

Residents are rescued from their homes
surrounded by floodwaters from Tropical
Storm Harvey on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, in
Aug. 27, 2017

Residents pick through needed items
at a make-shift aid station, Sunday,
Aug. 27, 2017, in Rockport, Texas. A
group from the Texas Rio Grande
Valley created the station for those in
need following Hurricane Harvey. (AP
Photo/Eric Gay)
Aug. 27, 2017

People push a stalled pickup through a flooded
street in Houston, after Tropical Storm Harvey
dumped heavy rains Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017. (AP
Photo/Charlie Riedel)Aug. 27, 2017

Neighbors used their personal boats to rescue Jane
Rhodes, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, in Friendswood,
Texas. (Steve Gonzales/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Aug. 27, 2017

A dog balances on an appliance of a destroyed
mobile home in Tivoli, Texas Sunday, Aug. 27,
2017 after the area was destroyed by
Hurricane Harvey. (The Victoria Advocate via
AP)
Aug. 27, 2017

A man helps children cross a flooded
street as they evacuate their home on
Aug. 27.
Aug. 27, 2017

Mayweather silences McGregor Floyd Mayweather Jr. lands a hit
against Conor McGregor during
the tenth round during their
super welterweight boxing
match at T-Mobile Arena in Las
Vegas, Nevada. Mandatory
Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA
TODAY Sports-27
Aug. 27, 2017

Floyd Mayweather Jr. celebrates with Floyd
Mayweather Sr. after winning the fight.
REUTERS/Steve Marcus-27
Aug. 27, 2017

Floyd Mayweather Jr. in action with Conor
McGregor before referee Robert Byrd stops
McGregor and the fight. REUTERS/Steve
Marcus-27
Aug. 27, 2017

Reuters / Sunday, August 27, 2017
Shi'ite Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) members
hold an Islamic State flag, which they pulled down,
during the war between Iraqi army and Shi'ite
Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) against the
Islamic State militants in Tal Afar, Iraq.
Aug. 27, 2017

Ethnic Chinese Indonesians visit
their ancestral graves at a cemetery
in West Kalimantan, Indonesia on
Aug. 27. The local Chinese
community visits the graves of their
ancestors to honor them, believing
that they will provide protection
and blessings to the living.
AFP - Getty Images
Aug. 27, 2017

Floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey flow in the
Buffalo Bayou in downtown Houston, Texas, Monday,
Aug. 28, 2017. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
Aug. 28, 2017
Catastrophic floods strike Houston
AUGUST 28, 2017

People evacuate a neighborhood inundated by
floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey on
Monday, Aug. 28, 2017, in Houston, Texas. (AP
Photo/Charlie Riedel)Aug. 28, 2017

A man walks to his home in a neighborhood
inundated by floodwaters from Tropical
Storm Harvey on Monday, Aug. 28, 2017, in
Houston, Texas. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Aug. 28, 2017

Harvey
A home is surrounded by floodwaters from
Tropical Storm Harvey on Monday, Aug. 28,
2017, in Spring, Texas. (AP Photo/David J.
Phillip)Aug. 28, 2017

Cattle are stranded in a flooded pasture on
Highway 71 in La Grange, Texas, after Hurricane
Harvey on Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. (Jay
Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)
Aug. 28, 2017

Harvey
Alexendre Jorge evacuates Ethan Colman, 4, from
a neighborhood inundated by floodwaters from
Tropical Storm Harvey on Monday, Aug. 28, 2017,
in Houston, Texas. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Aug. 28, 2017

A woman walks through a rain storm
during the aftermath of Hurricane
Harvey on Aug. 28.
Brendan Smallovski / AFP - Getty Images
Aug. 28, 2017

Residents cross high water on North
Braeswood Blvd. on Aug. 28.
Erich Schlegel / Getty Images
Aug. 28, 2017

A Texas National Guard soldier carries a woman on his
back as they conduct rescue operations in flooded
areas around Houston, Texas. 1Lt. Zachary West, 100th
MPAD/Texas Military Department/via REUTERS
Aug. 28, 2017

Barbara Koster stands on her front door as
she surveys her property which was left
devastated by Hurricane Harvey in Rockport,
Texas. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
Aug. 28, 2017

A rescue helicopter hovers in the background as an
elderly woman and her poodle use an air mattress to
float above flood waters from Tropical Storm Harvey
while waiting to be rescued from Scarsdale Boulevard
in Houston, Texas. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
Aug. 28, 2017

People gather at the site of a car
bomb attack in Jamila market in
Sadr City district of Baghdad, Iraq.
REUTERS/Wissm al-Okili
Aug. 28, 2017

French President Emmanuel Macron and
his dog, a labrador crossed griffon named
Nemo, leave at the Elysee Palace to greet a
guest in Paris, France. REUTERS/Charles
Platiau
Aug. 28, 2017

Sukhoi Su-30SM fighter of the Russkiye Vityazi
(Russian Knights) aerobatic team performs at the
ARMY 2017 International Military-Technical
Forum at the Kubinka airbase outside Moscow,
Russia. REUTERS/Andrey Volkov
Aug. 28, 2017

Kendrick Lamar performs at the MTV
Video Music Awards. REUTERS/Mario
Anzuoni
Aug. 28, 2017

A man walk in a field sowed of lucerne and
oat (green strip) in Krasnoyarsk region,
Russia. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin
Aug. 28, 2017

Relatives carry a child over the coffin as a
Filipino custom to let the spirit of the
departed rest, in Navotas city, Metro Manila,
Philippines. REUTERS/Dondi Tawatao
Aug. 28, 2017

Demonstrators protest against
Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales
outside Guatemala's Constitutional
Court in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
REUTERS/Fabricio Alonzo
Aug. 28, 2017

A counter protester is detained at a
cancelled No Marxism in America event
in Berkeley, California. REUTERS/Kate
Munsch
Aug. 28, 2017

A member of Border Guard Bangladesh
(BGB) tells a Rohingya girl not to come on
Bangladesh side, in Cox�s Bazar,
Bangladesh. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir
Hossain
Aug. 28, 2017

Revellers play with fireworks during
the annual "Corda" festival in the
village of Paterna near Valencia, Spain.
REUTERS/Heino Kalis
Aug. 28, 2017

A young reveller takes part in the children's
parade during the Notting Hill Carnival in west
London. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh
Aug. 28, 2017

Men lead a recently-purchased camel by a
car, ahead of the Eid al-Adha festival in
Peshawar, Pakistan. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz
Aug. 28, 2017

Pornchanit Junthabud of Thailand competes
in rhythmic gymnastics at the Southeast
Asian Games. REUTERS/Lai Seng Sin
Aug. 28, 2017

Members of the Guard of Honour of the
Presidential regiment perform during the
International Military Orchestra Music Festival
"Spasskaya Tower" in Red Square in Moscow,
Russia. REUTERS/Andrey Volkov
Aug. 28, 2017

Kendrick Lamar with his
awards at the MTV Video
Music Awards.
REUTERS/Danny Moloshok
Aug. 28, 2017

People hold placards and flags as they take part in
a march of unity after last week attacks, in
Barcelona, Spain. REUTERS/Albert Gea
Aug. 28, 2017

A member of the Militia of the National
Bolivarian Armed Forces teaches a woman
how to use a rifle during a military exercise
in Caracas, Venezuela. REUTERS/Andres
Martinez Casares
Aug. 28, 2017

A model displays a concealed carry purse during
the National Rifle Association (NRA) Carry Guard
Expo Fashion Show in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
REUTERS/Ben Brewer
Aug. 28, 2017

Usain Bolt reacts in the stands as Sir Alex Ferguson and
Manchester United executive vice chairman Ed Woodward
look on as Manchester United plays Leicester City. Action
Images via Reuters/Carl Recine
Aug. 28, 2017

German police remove a protester during
"Ende Gelaende" demonstrations against
open cast brown coal mining near
Bedburg Rath, Germany. REUTERS/Thilo
Schmuelgen
Aug. 28, 2017

Drought reveals ruins of Spanish town
The ruins of the old town of Mansilla de la Sierra,
normally submerged beneath the waters of the Mansilla
reservoir, are revealed following a prolonged drought, in
Rioja province, Spain. REUTERS/Vincent West
Aug. 28, 2017
The ruins of the old town of Mansilla de la Sierra,
normally submerged beneath the waters of the
Mansilla reservoir, are revealed following a prolonged
drought.

The ruins of the old town of Mansilla de la Sierra. REUTERS/Vincent West
GALLERY PHOTOS

Aug. 28, 2017

GALLERY PHOTOS

The ruins of the old town of Mansilla de la Sierra. REUTERS/Vincent Wes
GALLERY PHOTOS

March from Charlottesville to Washington
Reuters / Monday, August 28, 2017
Participants of "Charlottesville to D.C: The
March to Confront White Supremacy" walk
on Emmet Street N during a 10-day trek to
the nation's capital from Charlottesville,
Virginia, August 28, 2017. Anti-racism
activists began the march on Monday from
Charlottesville to Washington to protest
against a far-right rally in the Virginia city
and what they called President Donald
Trump's reluctance to condemn its white
nationalist organizers. REUTERS/Sait Serkan
Gurbuz
Aug. 28, 2017

Participants of the march begin the 10-day
trek. The "March to Confront White
Supremacy" is the latest demonstration
following the Aug. 12 rally in Charlottesville,
when one woman was killed after a man
drove a car into a crowd of anti-racism
counterprotesters. Trump received fierce
criticism from across the political spectrum
after he first blamed "many sides" for the
violence. Under pressure, he later
condemned neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan
by name, but that did little to appease his
opponents. REUTERS/Sait Serkan Gurbuz
Aug. 28, 2017

Reuters / Monday, August 28,
2017
Participants gather for the
march. March organizers said
that about 200 people will
walk on Monday evening from
Charlottesville, a liberal-
leaning college town that is
home to the University of
Virginia. That number is
expected to rise as the march
nears its end in Washington
on Sept. 6. REUTERS/Sait
Serkan Gurbuz
Aug. 28, 2017

Participants listen to speakers before they begin the march. The march began
at Emancipation Park, which was the focus of the Aug. 12 rally called by
white nationalists to protest against the city's plans to remove a statue of
Confederate General Robert E. Lee. REUTERS/Julia Rendleman
Aug. 28, 2017

Residents use boats to evacuate flood waters
along Tidwell Road in east Houston, Texas.
Houston under water
Aug. 28, 2017

Isiah Courtney and his one-year-old
daughter Aubry wade through flood
waters in Beaumont Place, Houston,
Texas. REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman
Aug. 28, 2017

Isiah Courtney carries his dog Bruce
through flood waters in Beaumont Place,
Houston, Texas. REUTERS/Jonathan
BachmanAug. 28, 2017

Residents wait to be rescued in Beaumont Place,
Houston, Texas. REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman
Aug. 28, 2017

A man uses a trash bag as cover from the rain while
wading through flood waters in east Houston, Texas.
REUTERS/Adrees LatifAug. 28, 2017

Residents wade through flood waters from
Tropical Storm Harvey in Beaumont Place,
Houston, Texas. REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman
Aug. 28, 2017

Harvey
Rain continues to fall in Houston from Tropical Storm Harvey,
Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. Floodwaters reached the roof lines of
single-story homes Monday and people could be heard
pleading for help from inside. (Karen Warren/Houston
Chronicle via AP)
Aug. 28, 2017

Harvey
Genice Gipson comforts her lifelong friend, Loretta
Capistran, outside of Capistran's apartment
complex in Refugio, Texas, on Monday, Aug. 28,
2017. "We got to be strong, baby," Gipson told
Capistran. (Nick Wagner/Austin American-
Statesman via AP)
Aug. 28, 2017

Harvey
A Coast Guard rescue team evacuates people from a
neighborhood inundated by floodwaters from Tropical
Storm Harvey on Monday, Aug. 28, 2017, in Houston, Texas.
(AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Aug. 28, 2017

Harvey
A member of the Houston Fire Department
holds Madelyn Nguyen, 2, after she and her
family were rescued by boat during flooding
Tropical Storm Harvey in Houston, Monday,
Aug. 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Aug. 28, 2017

Harvey
A man standing in the doorway of his flooded home
responds to an evacuation offer in a neighborhood
inundated by floodwaters from Tropical Storm
Harvey on Monday, Aug. 28, 2017, in Houston,
Texas. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Aug. 28, 2017

Harvey
Demetres Fair holds a towel over his
daughter Damouri Fair, 2, as they are
rescued by boat by members of the
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and
Fisheries and the Houston Fire
Department during flooding from
Tropical Storm Harvey, which hit Texas
last week as a Category 4 hurricane, in
Houston, Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. (AP
Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Aug. 28, 2017

Harvey
Rescue boats fill a flooded street
at flood victims are evacuated as
floodwaters from Tropical Storm
Harvey rise Monday, Aug. 28,
2017, in Houston. (AP
Photo/David J. Phillip)
Aug. 28, 2017

Harvey
Power poles blown by Hurricane Harvey lean
over a road in Refugio, Texas, Monday, Aug. 28,
2017. (Nick Wagner/Austin American-Statesman
via AP)
Aug. 28, 2017

Trump US Finland
President Donald Trump and Finnish
President Sauli Niinisto leave their joint
news conference, Monday, Aug. 28,
2017, in the East Room of the White
House in Washington. (AP
Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Aug. 28, 2017

MLK Sculpture
A statue paying tribute to civil rights leader Martin
Luther King Jr. is unveiled on the state Capitol
grounds in Atlanta, Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. The
statue's unveiling Monday came more than three
years after Georgia lawmakers endorsed the
project. A replica of the nation's Liberty Bell tolled
three times before the 8-foot (2.44-meter) bronze
statue was unveiled on the 54th anniversary of
King's "I have a dream" speech at the march on
Washington. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Aug. 28, 2017

Lebanon Syria
Lebanese soldiers rest on top of an
armored personnel carrier during a
media trip organized by the Lebanese
army, on the outskirts of Ras Baalbek,
northeast Lebanon, Monday, Aug. 28,
2017. Lebanon's Hezbollah TV is
reporting that Islamic State militants
started leaving the border area with Syria
on Monday as part of a negotiated deal
to end the extremist group's presence
there. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Aug. 28, 2017

Bangladesh Myanmar
Attacks
Myanmar's Muslim Rohingya
ethnic minority women and
children take shelter in a forested
area prior to moving to a make
shift camp on the Bangladeshi
side of the border in,
Ghumdhum, Bangladesh,
Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. Several
hundred Rohingya who were
trying to flee Myanmar are stuck
in a "no man's land" at the
Myanmar - Bangladesh border.
(AP Photo/Mushfiqul Alam)
Aug. 28, 2017

Britain Albesila
A visitor explores Albesila, a labyrinth made up of 27 egg-
shaped domes, in the courtyard of the Piece Hall in Halifax,
northern England, Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. The massive
sculpture, created by Alan Parkinson of Architects of Air, is
inspired by Islamic architecture, Archimedean solids and
Gothic cathedrals. (Danny Lawson/PA via AP)
Aug. 28, 2017

Missing Woman North
Dakota
A makeshift memorial to Savanna
Greywind featuring a painting, flowers,
candle and a stuffed animal is seen on
Monday, Aug. 28, 2017, in Fargo, N.D.,
outside the apartment where Greywind
lived with her parents. Police say the
body of Greywind was discovered
Sunday night in the Red River north of
Moorhead, Minn. Greywind was eight
months pregnant when she went
missing. (AP Photo/Dave Kolpack)
Aug. 28, 2017

Saudi Hajj
Muslim pilgrims circumambulate around the
Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque,
ahead of the annual Hajj pilgrimage, in the Muslim
holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Monday, Aug. 28,
2017. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
Aug. 28, 2017

Guatemala UN President
Activist Andrea Ixchiu holds an effigy
of Guatemala's President Jimmy
Morales and shouts slogans in
support of Ivan Velasquez, chief of a
U.N. anti-corruption commission, in
the middle of an altar honoring
dozens of girls who died in a fire at a
children's home this year, in the
Central Plaza of Guatemala City,
Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. Morales
ordered Velasquez to leave the
country after he and Guatemala's
attorney general called for the
removal of the president's immunity
from prosecution, so they can pursue
an investigation into alleged
campaign finance violations. (AP
Photo/Luis Soto)
Aug. 28, 2017

Mexico Juan Gabriel Anniversary
A Juan Gabriel imitator holds his photograph near a
statue of the superstar where his fans gather on the
one year anniversary of his death in Mexico City's
Garibaldi plaza, Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. The Latin
music icon, who's real name was Alberto Aguilera
Valadez, died one year ago today. (AP Photo/Eduardo
Verdugo)
Aug. 28, 2017

Mexico Juan Gabriel
Anniversary
An image of Juan Gabriel is displayed
on a jukebox inside a restaurant in
Mexico City's Garibaldi plaza, Monday,
Aug. 28, 2017. The Latin music icon,
who's real name was Alberto Aguilera
Valadez, died one year ago today. (AP
Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Aug. 28, 2017

Huan Huan holds her surviving panda cub
inside her enclosure at the Beauval Zoo in
Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher, France on Aug. 28.
Chinese giant panda experts and French
zookeepers are working to ensure the
cub's survival after its twin died during
the first-ever birth of the rare animal in
France.
The pink, hairless male weighing five
ounces is tiny compared to its 190-pound
mother. She bore twins Friday, but the
firstborn was too weak to survive. Panda
births are closely watched because they
remain rare — there are only about 1,800
pandas in the wild in China and about 400
in captivity worldwide. Zookeepers
frequently need to help raise the cubs to
ensure their survival.
Guillaume Souvant / AFP - Getty Images
Aug. 28, 2017

Eerie Aerials Show Houston Drenched in
Floodwater
by ASSOCIATED PRESS
Highways around downtown Houston are empty
as floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey
overflow from the bayous around the city, Aug.
29, 2017.
David J. Phillip / AP
Aug. 29, 2017

Residents evacuate their homes
near the Addicks Reservoir.
Aug. 29, 2017

Businesses and cars are flooded.
Aug. 29, 2017

Water from the Addicks Reservoir flows
into neighborhoods.
Aug. 29, 2017

Residents wade through floodwaters as
they evacuate their homes.
Aug. 29, 2017

Businesses and cars are flooded.
Aug. 29, 2017

Airplanes sit at a flooded airport.
Aug. 29, 2017

Homes are flooded, even children's
playgrounds are in deep water.
Aug. 29, 2017

Residents wade through floodwaters as
they evacuate their homes.
Aug. 29, 2017

Water from the Addicks Reservoir flows
into neighborhoods.
Aug. 29, 2017

Cars and businesses are flooded.
Aug. 29, 2017

Evacuees make their way through
floodwaters.
PHOTOS: Life-Threatening Rain Hammers
Houston
Aug. 29, 2017

Search and rescue crews wrestle a stray steer
to try and put it in a trailer in a neighborhood
flooded after the Addicks Reservoir
overflowed in Houston on Aug. 29.
Andrew Burton / The New York Times via
Redux
Aug. 29, 2017

An evacuee holding two dogs reacts
after his rescue by Texas National
Guardsmen from severe flooding due to
Hurricane Harvey in Cypress Creek,
Houston. U.S. Army National
Guard/Capt. Martha Nigrelle/Handout
via REUTERS
Aug. 29, 2017

A military helicopter and personnel rescue a
stranded resident from floods caused by
Tropical Storm Harvey in east Houston,
Texas. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
Aug. 29, 2017

Samaritans help push a boat with
evacuees to high ground during a
rain storm caused by Tropical Storm
Harvey along Tidwell Road in east
Houston, Texas. REUTERS/Adrees
Latif
Aug. 29, 2017

A woman holds her dog as she arrives to
high ground after evacuating her home due
to floods caused by Tropical Storm Harvey
along Tidwell Road in east Houston.
Aug. 29, 2017

Evacuees are airlifted in a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter
after flooding due to Hurricane Harvey inundated
neighborhoods in Houston, Texas. U.S. Coast
Guard/Petty Officer 3rd Class Johanna Strickland/via
REUTERS
Aug. 29, 2017

A man wades through flood waters from Tropical
Storm Harvey while helping evacuate a boy in
east Houston, Texas. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
Aug. 29, 2017

Reuters / Tuesday, August 29, 2017
President Donald Trump holds a flag of the state of
Texas after receiving a briefing on Tropical Storm
Harvey relief efforts at a local fire station where local
residents gathered to welcome the president in
Corpus Christi, Texas. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
Aug. 29, 2017

A missile is launched during a long and medium-
range ballistic rocket launch drill in this undated
photo released by North Korea's Korean Central
News Agency. KCNA/via REUTERS
Aug. 29, 2017

Reuters / Tuesday, August 29,
2017
Israeli soldiers, one wearing a Star
Wars Stormtrooper Voice
Changing Helmet, work on laptops
as they take part in a cyber
security training course, called a
Hackathon, at iNT Institute of
Technology and Innovation, at a
high-tech park in Beersheba,
southern Israel. REUTERS/Amir
Cohen
Aug. 29, 2017

A Muslim girl looks on behind a wooden
window frame at the shrine of Mir Syed Ali
Hamdani, a Sufi saint, during an annual religious
festival in Srinagar. REUTERS/Danish Ismail
Aug. 29, 2017

Lebanese Army soldiers flash the victory
sign in Ras Baalbek, Lebanon. REUTERS/
Hassan Abdallah
Aug. 29, 2017

The sun sets on the playa as approximately 70,000
people from all over the world gathered for the annual
Burning Man arts and music festival in the Black Rock
Desert of Nevada. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart
Aug. 29, 2017

A Rohingya woman looks on after being restricted
by the members of Border Guards Bangladesh
(BGB) to enter into Bangladesh side, in Cox�s
Bazar, Bangladesh. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir
Hossain
Aug. 29, 2017

Farmer Tony Reid casts a shadow as he walks past
a water trough located in a drought-effected
paddock on Kahmoo Station property, located on
the outskirts of the south-western Queensland
town of Cunnamulla in outback Australia.
REUTERS/David Gray
Aug. 29, 2017

Burnt-out trucks are pictured in the
San Jose de La Mariquina commune,
south of Santiago, Chile.
REUTERS/Miguel Angel Bustos
Aug. 29, 2017

Muslim pilgrims visit Mount Al-
Noor, where Muslims believe
Prophet Mohammad received the
first words of the Koran through
Gabriel in the Hera cave, in the
holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
REUTERS/Suhaib Salem
Aug. 29, 2017

An Afghan shopkeeper reacts behind the
broken windows of his shop near the site of
a suicide bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan.
REUTERS/Omar Sobhani
Aug. 29, 2017

An injured man receives
treatment after a suicide attack,
inside a hospital in Kabul,
Afghanistan.
REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail
Aug. 29, 2017

Russian President Vladimir Putin talks
to people as he attends the Suzuki
World Judo Championship with
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
in Budapest, Hungary.
REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh
Aug. 29, 2017

Worshippers participate in a
ritual of the African-Brazilian
Candomble religion in Salvador,
Brazil. REUTERS/Ueslei
Marcelino
Aug. 29, 2017

President Trump meets with Finland President Sauli
Niinist� in the Oval Office at the White House.
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Aug. 29, 2017

Taking shelter from Harvey
Charlotte Mills reads her Bible in the
warehouse at Gallery Furniture, which opened
its doors to residents needing shelter, in
Houston, Texas. REUTERS/Nick Oxford
Aug. 29, 2017

Volunteers with The American Red Cross register
evacuees at the George R. Brown Convention
Center in Houston. REUTERS/Nick Oxford
Aug. 29, 2017

Evacuees fill an exhibition hall at the George
R. Brown Convention Center in Houston,
Texas. REUTERS/Nick Oxford
Aug. 29, 2017

Evacuees get some rest in the warehouse at
Gallery Furniture, which opened its doors to
residents needing shelter, in Houston, Texas.
REUTERS/Nick Oxford
Aug. 29, 2017

Evacuees carry their belongings outside of
the George R. Brown Convention Center in
Houston. REUTERS/Nick OxfordAug. 29, 2017

Trump surveys Harvey damagePresident Trump greets a firefighter at Fire
Station 5 in Corpus Christi. REUTERS/Carlos
Barria
Aug. 29, 2017

President Donald Trump walks in front of a map of
Houston during a briefing at the Texas Department of
Public Safety Emergency Operations Center in Austin.
REUTERS/Carlos Barria
Aug. 29, 2017

President Trump and first lady Melania receive a
briefing on Harvey relief efforts in Corpus Christi.
Aug. 29, 2017

President Trump and first lady Melania are
greeted by Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
Aug. 29, 2017

Trump Harvey
President Donald Trump,
accompanied by first lady
Melania Trump, waves as they
walk from the White House to
the South Lawn, Tuesday, Aug.
29, 2017, to board Marine One
for a short trip to Andrews Air
Force Base, Md.m then onto
Texas to view the federal
government's response to
Harvey's devastating flooding
in Texas. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn
Martin)
Aug. 29, 2017

A protester stands by the motorcade
transporting President Donald Trump in
Austin. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
Aug. 29, 2017

Harvey
Evacuees escaping the floodwaters from Tropical
Storm Harvey rest at the George R. Brown
Convention Center that has been set up as a shelter
in Houston, Texas, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. (AP
Photo/LM Otero)
Aug. 29, 2017

Harvey
Kevin Lazenby, of Richmond, Texas, waits after being
evacuated from the flooding from Tropical Storm
Harvey at a shelter opened at the Lakewood Church
in Houston, Texas, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. (AP
Photo/LM Otero)
Aug. 29, 2017

Harvey
Volunteer Elizabeth Hill, 8, plays with evacuee
Skyler Smith, 7, at a shelter at St. Thomas
Presbyterian Church in west Houston as Tropical
Storm Harvey continues to affect the area
Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. (Jay Janner/Austin
American-Statesman via AP)
Aug. 29, 2017

Harvey
Chris Gutierrez, second from right, helps his
grandmother, Edelmira Gutierrez, down the stairs
of their flooded house and into a waiting fire
department truck in the Concord Bridge
neighborhood as Addicks Reservoir surpasses
capacity due Tropical Storm Harvey, Tuesday,
Aug. 29, 2017, in Houston. (Michael
Ciaglo/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Aug. 29, 2017

Harvey
A rescuer moves Paulina Tamirano,
92, from a boat to a truck bed as
people evacuate from rising waters
from Tropical Storm Harvey,
Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017 in Houston.
(Michael Ciaglo/Houston Chronicle
via AP)
Aug. 29, 2017

Harvey
Water is released from Lake Conroe Tuesday,
Aug. 29, 2017, in Conroe, Texas. (AP
Photo/David J. Phillip)
Aug. 29, 2017

Harvey
A young boy sleeps at the George R. Brown Convention
Center that has been set up as a shelter for evacuees
escaping the floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey in
Houston, Texas, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. (AP Photo/LM
Otero)
Aug. 29, 2017

Harvey
An elderly man is carried to dry ground
as he evacuates a neighborhood in west
Houston inundated by floodwaters after
water was released from nearby
Addicks Reservoir when it reached
capacity due to Tropical Storm Harvey
on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, in Houston,
Texas. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Aug. 29, 2017

Harvey
Jannett Martinez holds her cat Gigi as she
rides a boar out of her neighborhood which
was inundated after water was released
from nearby Addicks Reservoir when it
reached capacity due to Tropical Storm
Harvey on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, in
Houston, Texas. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Aug. 29, 2017

Harvey
A man stands in floodwaters from
Tropical Storm Harvey as he waits to
board a boat to help look for
evacuees Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, in
Kingwood, Texas. (AP Photo/Gregory
Bull)
Aug. 29, 2017

Iraqi forces surround Islamic State
Members of Iraqi Army fire mortar shells during
the war between Iraqi army and Shi'ite Popular
Mobilization Forces (PMF) against the Islamic
State militants in al-Ayadiya, northwest of Tal
Afar, Iraq. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani
Aug. 29, 2017

Members of Iraqi army are seen during the war
between Iraqi army and Shi'ite Popular Mobilization
Forces (PMF) against the Islamic State militants in al-
Ayadiya, northwest of Tal Afar, Iraq. REUTERS/Thaier
Al-Sudani
Aug. 29, 2017

An Iraqi soldier carries his weapon during
the war between Iraqi army and Shi'ite
Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) against
the Islamic State militants in al-Ayadiya,
northwest of Tal Afar, Iraq. REUTERS/Thaier
Al-Sudani
Aug. 29, 2017

Motorcycle used by Islamic State militants is left on
the road during the war between Iraqi army and
Shi'ite Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) against the
Islamic State militants in al-Ayadiya, northwest of Tal
Afar, Iraq. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani
Aug. 29, 2017

Destroyed buildings from
clashes are seen, during the war
between Iraqi army and Shi'ite
Popular Mobilization Forces
(PMF) against the Islamic State
militants in Tal Afar, Iraq.
Aug. 29, 2017

Blanca Hernandez sews stars on a
Confederate Battle Flag in the Alabama
Flag & Banner shop in Huntsville,
Alabama. REUTERS/Harrison McClary
Aug. 29, 2017

EU Libya Migrants
Backdropped by an oil rig, an
abandoned wooden boat floats in
the Mediterranean Sea north of the
Libyan coast, Tuesday, Aug. 29,
2017. Rescuers from the Aquarius
vessel of SOS Mediterranee and MSF
(Doctors Without Borders) NGOs
rescued seven persons from the
boat which departed Libya the
previous night. (AP Photo/Darko
Bandic)
Aug. 29, 2017

India Train Derails
People look at derailed coaches of the Duronto
Express in Asangaon, some 70 kilometers from
Mumbai, India, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. A
passenger train partly derailed Tuesday
morning in western India, the third rail
accident in the country in 10 days. Rescuers
were working to pull out people who were
trapped in the toppled train engine and seven
coaches lying on their sides. No casualties or
injuries have been reported, railway
spokesman A.K. Jain said. (AP Photo/Rafiq
Maqbool)
Aug. 29, 2017

India Kashmir Festival
A Kashmiri Muslim woman prays
outside the Shah-e-Hamdan Mosque
to commemorate the death
anniversary of sufi saint Mir Syed Ali
Hamadani in Srinagar, India,
Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. (AP
Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
Aug. 29, 2017

Afghanistan Eid al Adha
Afghan livestock merchants display animals for sale prior
to the upcoming Eid al-Adha holiday, at a market in
Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. Eid al-Adha,
or the "Feast of Sacrifice," an important Islamic holiday
that marks the willingness of the Prophet Ibrahim
(Abraham to Christians and Jews) to sacrifice his son.
During the holiday, which in most places lasts four days,
Muslims slaughter sheep or cattle, distribute part of the
meat to the poor and eat the rest. (AP Photo/Rahmat
Gul)
Aug. 29, 2017

Colombia Pope Visit
Local fashion critic Pilar Castano, left, and Colombian
designer Regina Bastidas dress a cardboard cutout
depicting Pope Francis with the vestments he will wear
during his visit to Colombia, in Bogota, Colombia,
Tuesday, Aug., 29, 2017. Francis will arrive in Colombia
on Sept. 6, as part of a five-day trip to celebrate the
South American nation's steps toward ending five
decades of armed conflict. It will be the first papal visit
to the staunchly Roman Catholic country in 31 years.(AP
Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Aug. 29, 2017

Nepal Daily Life
A Nepalese man takes rest while
installing electric lights at the
Boudhanath Stupa in Kathmandu,
Nepal, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017.
Boudhanath Stupa is an important
pilgrimage site for Buddhists. (AP
Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Aug. 29, 2017

Greece Acropolis
Clouds cover the Athenian sky as the ancient
Acropolis hill and the ruins of the fifth century
B.C. Parthenon temple are illuminated on
Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Petros
Giannakouris)
Aug. 29, 2017

HURRICANE HARVEY
AUG 30 2017, 12:15 AM ET
HOUSTON RESIDENTS
WEATHER FLOODWATER WITH
THEIR PETS
by NBC NEWS
Houston residents weather floodwater from Tropical Storm Harvey with their pets
Kevin Simms carries a pet in a
crate as he helps rescue the Lugo
family and their pet from their
apartment, surrounded by
floodwaters from Tropical Storm
Harvey August 29 in Kingwood,
Texas.
Gregory Bull / AP
Aug. 30, 2017

A man is evacuated by boat with his dog
from the Hurricane Harvey floodwaters in
Houston.
Aug. 30, 2017

A family is evacuated by boat from
Harvey floodwaters in Houston.
Rick Wilking / ReutersAug. 30, 2017

A woman holds a carrier with her pet after
being evacuated by boat from Harvey
floodwaters in Houston.
Aug. 30, 2017

People evacuate from a neighborhood which
was inundated after water was released from
nearby Addicks Reservoir when it reached
capacity due to Tropical Storm Harvey in
Houston.
Charlie Riedel / AP
Aug. 30, 2017

A man holds his dog after being evacuated by
boat in Houston.
Aug. 30, 2017

Jessie Rall carries his pets as he walks
with his wife, Montana, after being
rescued by boat from their home in
Kingwood, Texas.
Gregory Bull / AP
Aug. 30, 2017

A dog looks out from the back of a
pick-up truck after being rescued
from a flooded neighborhood in
Houston.
Tannen Maury / EPA
Aug. 30, 2017

A police officer wades through the Hurricane
Harvey floodwaters in Alvin, Texas.
Aug. 30, 2017

A man is evacuated from the Hurricane
Harvey floodwaters in Houston.
Aug. 30, 2017

Ethan holds his 2-year-old daughter Zella as
they walk through flood waters from Tropical
Storm Harvey in Iowa, Calcasieu Parish,
Louisiana. REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman
Aug. 30, 2017

A helicopter hovers above the Houston skyline
as sunlight breaks through storm clouds from
Tropical Storm Harvey in Texas.
Aug. 30, 2017
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