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An opposition supporter clashes with riot police during a rally against President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela.

Abu Fahad (2nd R) rests with colleges inside a workshop in the rebel-held besieged Douma neighbourhood of Damascus, Syria. The workshop uses plastic from bottles and other waste materials to produce liquid and gas fuels.The liquid is refined into gasoline, diesel and benzene fuels which are sold for domestic and commercial use.

A sniper from the Iraqi Army aims at Islamic State positions from a school building on the frontline during clashes in north west of Mosul. 

An injured demonstrator is helped by another protester after clashing with riot police during the so-called “mother of all marches” against Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela.

U.S. Army Com. Sgt. Maj. Patrick Kelly, with Observer Controller Team Mustang, Joint Multinational Readiness Center, talks on the radio during Exercise Swift Response 16, June 16, 2016 in Hohenfels, Germany. Exercise Swift Response is one of the premier military crisis response training events for multi-national airborne forces in the world.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer removes lint from Senior White House Advisor Stephen Miller’s jacket as he waits to go on the air in the White House Briefing Room in Washington, February 12, 2017.

A U.S. Air Force combat controller assigned to the 353rd Special Operations Group, Kadena Air Base, Japan, exits a C-130J Super Hercules during a freefall jump with Indian paratroopers during Aero India 2017 at Air Force Station Yelahanka, Bengaluru, India, Feb. 16, 2017. 

A woman wearing a burka leaves a polling booth after voting during the state assembly election, in the town of Deoband, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. 

Wildfires threaten a suburb of Christchurch on New Zealand’s South Island taken after sunset. 

Iraqi newlyweds, who fled Mosul, Hussain Zeeno Zannun ® 26, and Chahad, 16, are showered in foam during their wedding party at Khazer camp in Iraq.

Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) 3rd Class (AW/SW) Sarah Atiyyat, from Edison, N.J., poses for a photo in the hangar bay of the Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) on July 5, 2016, in the South China Sea. Atiyyat is one of many Sailors who has dedicated time and skin to the artwork of tattoos. 

“I kind of have a hot temper, and sometimes I let it get the best of me, especially with this job (and) especially while forward deployed,” said Atiyyat. “It can get really stressful at times out here, so I got these as a reminder to stay calm and keep myself in check.” Photo by Ryan McFarlane/U.S. Navy

The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Persian Gulf August 5th, 2015.

Amoun, 70, a blind Palestinian refugee who lived in the town of Aleppo in Syria, rests on a beach moments after arriving along with another forty on a dinghy in the Greek island of Kos, crossing a part of the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece, August 12, 2015. The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) called on Greece to take control of the “total chaos” on Mediterranean islands, where thousands of migrants have landed. About 124,000 have arrived this year by sea, many via Turkey, according to Vincent Cochetel, UNHCR director for Europe. The Turkish coast is seen in the background. (REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis)

Ukrainian artist Dariya Marchenko works on a portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin named “The Face of War” which is made out of 5,000 cartridges brought from the frontline in eastern Ukraine, in Kiev, July 23, 2015. The portrait will be presented along with a novel which will tell personal stories of six people involved in this project including Daria’s own story and stories of people who helped her to collect shells from the frontline. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

Palestinian children enjoy a ride on a ferris wheel near residential buildings, that witnesses said were destroyed by Israeli shelling during a 50-day war last summer, in Beit Lahiya town in the northern Gaza Strip July 27, 2015. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

Explosives specialist police conduct their investigation after a bomb blast in the village of Sitra, south of Manama, Bahrain, July 28, 2015. The bomb attack killed two Bahraini policemen on duty in the mainly Shi'ite village of Sitra, south of the capital Manama, the Interior Ministry said on Tuesday, days after the government said it had disrupted an arms smuggling plot linked to Iran. (REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed)

A ten day old South American sea lion pup plays around at the ‘Tiergarten Schoenbrunn’ Zoo in Vienna, Austria, July 28, 2015. The pup was born in the zoo and weighs about 14 kilograms (30 pounds). (REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger)

Siyer, a refugee from Afghanistan, looks at his smartphone from the window of his room at the container settlement for refugees in the Allende quarter of Koepenick district on March 6, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. The settlement, located among high-rise apartment flats, houses 386 refugees and is one of six container settlements recently built by Berlin authorities in an effort to provide housing for a record number of arriving migrants and refugees seeking asylum. Germany, which accepted a record-number of refugees in 2014, expects over 200,000 to arrive in 2015, and many local communities are struggling to adequately house their share.

Masked Shi'ite fighters hold their weapons in Al Hadidiya, south of Tikrit, en route to the Islamic State-controlled al-Alam town, where they are preparing to launch an offensive on Saturday, March 6, 2015. Iraqi government forces and Iran-backed militiamen entered a town on the southern outskirts of Saddam Hussein’s home city Tikrit on Friday, pressing on with the biggest offensive yet against Islamic State militants that seized the north last year

Afghan boys play on the remains of an old Soviet tank on the outskirts of Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb. 21, 2015.