An opposition protester yells as he is beaten by riot police in Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday, May 16. Police in Kenya's capital came under fire for what critics said was a heavy-handed response to a largely peaceful opposition protest. Kenya's police chief has called for an internal investigation, according to Interior Ministry spokesman Mwenda Njoka.
A relative of someone who was aboard EgyptAir Flight 804 cries Thursday, May 19, as family members are transported to a gathering point at Cairo's airport. There were 66 people on the plane when it disappeared during a flight from Paris to Cairo. A search operation is underway.
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Members of the Law Lords, Britain's senior judiciary, take their seats as they wait for Queen Elizabeth II to speak at the opening of Parliament on Wednesday, May 18.
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U.S. President Barack Obama awards the Medal of Valor to Los Angeles police officer Donald Thompson on Monday, May 16. While off duty, Thompson pulled a man from a car moments before it was engulfed in flames. Thompson suffered first- and second-degree burns.
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A Rohingya woman feeds her baby at a camp in Sittwe, Myanmar, on Tuesday, May 17. More than 100,000 Rohingya were displaced when ethnic violence erupted in the country in 2012.
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An aerial photo shows a devastated neighborhood in Fort McMurray, Alberta, on Friday, May 13. The mammoth inferno devastating northern Alberta has destroyed more than 877,000 acres. That's more than four times the size of New York City.
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A Hillary Clinton supporter holds up a Clinton doll as the presidential candidate speaks in Lexington, Kentucky, on Monday, May 16. Clinton narrowly won the state's Democratic primary.
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Mourners carry the coffin of Isaac Rosenberg, a leader of the Satmar Hasidic congregation, following his funeral in New York on Wednesday, May 18. Rosenberg and another rabbi, Chaim Parnes, drowned after getting caught in a rip current in Miami, according to the Miami Herald. Rosenberg was 67 and Parnes was 66.
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Destin Cramer, left, and Noah Rice place a new sticker on the door of a gender-neutral bathroom at Seattle's Nathan Hale High School on Tuesday, May 17. Since 2012, Seattle has mandated that transgender students be able to use the bathrooms and locker rooms of their choice.
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A police car burns in Paris on Wednesday, May 18. Two officers escaped with minor injuries after Molotov cocktails were thrown at their rear windshield, a police spokesperson said. The attack came on the same day that the national police union demonstrated against anti-police sentiment.
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Jamala, a Ukrainian singer, performs "1944" after winning the annual Eurovision Song Contest on Sunday, May 15. She told Ukraine Today that she wrote the politically charged song because she was inspired by a story her great-grandmother told her about the deportation of her family and others at the orders of Soviet leader Josef Stalin.
Plebes from the U.S. Naval Academy perform situps with a 12-foot log on top of them during the annual Sea Trials training exercise on Tuesday, May 17.
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An overloaded car travels through the Assaga refugee camp in Diffa, Niger, on Tuesday, May 17. More than 240,000 people are in Niger camps after being displaced by the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram.
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U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is seeking the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, greets supporters after speaking at a rally in Carson, California, on Tuesday, May 17.
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A farmer reaps fodder on a field near Treplin, Germany, on Monday, May 16.
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Activists clash with police in Hong Kong as Zhang Dejiang, the chairman of China's top decision-making body, arrived in the city on Wednesday, May 18. His visit comes amid a backdrop of political tension between the former British colony -- which was returned to China in 1997 -- and the central Beijing government.
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Residents make their way through floodwaters in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Thursday, May 19. Hundreds of thousands of people have been forced from their homes after a major storm hammered the country. At least 37 people have died and 21 are missing after three days of incessant rains that came just a couple weeks before the monsoon season.
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Rose petals rain down in Rome's Pantheon to celebrate the Pentecost holiday on Sunday, May 15.
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An honor guard member in Beijing has his hat adjusted before a welcoming ceremony for Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Wednesday, May 18.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, right, acknowledge the crowd before speaking at a fundraising event in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, on Thursday, May 19.
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A man in Rennes, France, shields himself from tear gas canisters during a demonstration against the government's planned labor law reforms on Tuesday, May 17.
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Tires burn at a dump near the Spanish town of Sesena on Friday, May 13. Officials worried that the toxic fumes could harm nearby residents, and areas were evacuated.
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Retirees look at Ah Tie robots at a nursing home in Hangzhou, China, on Tuesday, Nay 17. The robots were designed for nursing homes and are capable of monitoring vital signs. They can also be used for video conferencing.
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Two graduates of George Washington University struggle against the wind as they pose for photos near the Washington Monument on Sunday, May 15.
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Rescuers recover a body after flooding hit the Dua Warna waterfall in Sibolangit, Indonesia, on Monday, May 16. Nearly two dozen students were missing in rain-triggered floods and landslides at the waterfall.
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U.S. Army Sgt. Kathryn Fermin-Weinreb, right, kisses her wife, Victoria, after Victoria graduated from the Denver Sheriff Department's training academy on Friday, May 13.
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Pizza makers in Naples, Italy, help set a Guinness World Record for longest pizza on Wednesday, May 18. The wood-fired pizza was 6,082 feet long (1.15 miles).
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A supporter of Nepal's minority ethnic groups tries to break through a police cordon leading to the prime minister's office in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Monday, May 16. Hundreds of people scuffled with police, restarting protests against the government and the country's new constitution.