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7 JUN 2017. BEIJING, CHINA. REUTERS/DAMIR SAGOLJ

At one of the most treacherous and least restored stretches of China's Great Wall, a line of pack mules halted upon emerging from the gloom of a dense forest draped in mist and dew.Laden with 150 kg (330 pounds) of bricks each, the seven animals finally got moving in response to the coaxing and swearing of their masters, eager to gain altitude before the sun climbed high in the sky.

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For more than a decade, mules have been crucial in the effort to restore Jiankou, a serpentine 20-km (12-mile) section of the wall about 70 km (44 miles) north of central Beijing that is notorious for its ridges and perilous slopes.

"The path is too steep and the mountains are too high, so the bricks can only be transported by mules," said local mule owner Cao Xinhua, who has worked on Great Wall restoration projects in the mountains north of Beijing for 10 years.


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Where they could, workers would use the original bricks that have come off the wall over the centuries. When they found none, they used new bricks made to exacting specifications.


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"We have to stick to the original format, the

original material and the original craftsmanship, so that we can better preserve the historical and cultural values," said Cheng Yongmao, the engineer leading Jiankou's restoration.Cheng, 61, who has repaired 17 km (11 miles) of the Great Wall since 2003, belongs to the 16th generation in a long line of traditional brick makers.


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A government clampdown on pollution has forced the closure of almost all brick-making factories in Beijing and nearby provinces, Cheng said.

If he ran out of bricks, Cheng added, he would have to look for bricks left elsewhere or request the central government to consider reopening some brick factories.


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Famed for its rugged beauty, Jiankou, which is Chinese for an arrow's nock, or notch for a bowstring, was built in the twilight years of the Ming dynasty in the 1600s, but is young compared with other sections dating back two millennia.

Intensive repairs on the Jiankou section of the wall in the past year have been led by the district government keen to preserve the wall's natural beauty and shore up its disintegrating steps.


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The restoration began in 2005 and is now in its third phase, making slow progress because the uneven terrain allows use only of basic tools such as chisels, hammers, pickaxes and shovels.Authorities' meticulous approach followed widespread outrage last year sparked by botched restoration efforts on stretches of the wall.


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Authorities in the northeastern province of Liaoning, home to a 700-year-old section of the wall, paved its ramparts with sand and cement, resulting in what critics said looked more like a pedestrian pavement.

Soon after those disastrous repairs, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage said it would investigate any improperly executed wall preservation projects.


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Just a tenth of the wall built during the Ming dynasty has been repaired, said Dong Yaohui, vice president of the China Great Wall Association.

"In the past, we would restore the walls so that they would be visited as tourist hot spots," he said, by contrast with today's objective of repairing and preserving it for future generations. "This is progress."

7 JUN 2017. BEIJING, CHINA. REUTERS/DAMIR SAGOLJWRITING BY STELLA QIU AND RYAN WOO

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June 7 , 2017

The remains of mobile homes destroyed by a wildfire are seen in Boston Flats as a fire burns on a mountain near Ashcroft, British Columbia, Canada, on Sunday, July 9, 2017. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)

July 9 , 2017


Brian Wilson, 10, of Redford, smiles after he was crowned Mud Day King at Wayne County's annual event at Nankin Mills Park on July 11 in Westland, Michigan. Mud Day takes place in a 75' x 150' giant pit that gives children the opportunity to get down and dirty at one of the messiest playgrounds Southeast Michigan has ever seen.Jeff Kowalsky / AFP - Getty Images

July 11 , 2017


The sun sets behind destroyed buildings in the west side of Mosul, Iraq on Tuesday, July 11, 2017. The 9-month fight to defeat the Islamic State group in Mosul ended in a crescendo of bombardment that damaged or destroyed a third of its historic Old City in just three weeks. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

July 11 , 2017


In Indian police officer

fires a teargas shell to

disperse Kashmiri

protesters after the

funeral of local rebel

Aqib Ahmad in

Srinagar, Indian

controlled Kashmir,

Wednesday, July 12,

2017. (AP

Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

July 12 , 2017


Queen Elizabeth II, her husband Prince

Philip, Spain's King Felipe and his wife,

Queen Letizia, pose for a group

photograph before a State Banquet at

Buckingham Palace in London,

Wednesday, July 12, 2017. (AP

Photo/Matt Dunham, Pool)

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A horse runs from burning grasslands in the Long Valley fire near Doyle, California on July 13. Timber and brush parched from a years-long dry spell and thick grass that grew after drought-busting winter downpours are making for early and unpredictable wildfire behavior that California officials haven't seen for years, if at all.Crews were making progress against dozens of wildfires across California, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico.Lassen County Sheriff's Office / Reuters

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There was a smell of death in Mosul’s Old City when Ayman Hashem came back this week to see what happened to his home. His neighborhood was unrecognizable.

“All that’s left is rubble and the bodies of families trapped underneath,” the 23-year-old said. He flipped through photos on his phone, showing picture after picture of wreckage. His own house was “cut in half,” he said. He had to cover his nose with his tee-shirt because of the smell of buried, rotting bodies.

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The population, once numbering 3 million, is battered and exhausted, with hundreds of thousands displaced. Without a swift campaign to rebuild Mosul, aid and rights groups warn the current humanitarian crisis will balloon and resentment will likely give way to extremism, undermining the victory.“If the western half is ignored it will produce a social disaster and this social disaster will create bigger destruction if it’s not addressed,” said Khatab Mohammed al-Najjar, a resident of eastern Mosul who watched the Old City burn from across the Tigris River during the operation.

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“West Mosul produced Daesh, and it is very possible it may produce a new Daesh,” he said, referring to west Mosul’s historically more religious and traditional residents. He used the Arabic acronym for IS.When Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared victory in Mosul Monday, he pledged reconstruction would begin soon. But his government still struggles to finance day-to-day workings of the state amid low oil prices.

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Thousands of Mosul families have been left without a home. Schools have been leveled, utility grids wrecked, highways pounded into broken dirt roads.All five of the city’s bridges spanning the Tigris River have been damaged. The main hospital complex where a battle raged for more than a month is a burned out shell. Mosul’s airport looks like a derelict parking lot, booby-trapped with explosives by fleeing IS fighters.

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In eastern Mosul, the destruction was less intense. More than 160,000 of the 176,000 people who fled the east have returned, according to the U.N. Residents have begun rebuilding homes, shops have reopened, and demining is underway.

But west of the Tigris, neighborhoods have been rendered into ghost towns. There, coalition strikes killed some 5,805 civilians between Feb. 19 and June 19, according to Airwars, a London-based monitoring group tracking civilian deaths resulting from coalition actions.

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Fewer than a tenth of the more than 730,000 people who fled western Mosul have filtered back.

Saif Mohammed recently re-opened his sandwich shop on a main avenue in the west, repairing war damage with the help of a $5,000 loan from relatives. On the same street, only two or three other shops are open. The other storefronts are bombed out and burned, the corrugated Iron doors warped by explosions.

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His shop is a bet that residents will return. “But what people really need is government help,” he said. “If the government doesn’t give money, there won’t be any rebuilding.”Hiyam Mohammed hid in her home with her family on the edge of the Old City throughout the fight. They could see the cemetery from their house.

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“Some days the funerals lasted from dawn into the night. There were so many bodies piled up, it looked like a hill,” she said. “I thought I was going crazy seeing this. They didn’t even have time to wash the dead.”She said the only way to justice is if the government and coalition pay compensation to those who lost relatives or property.

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“The government brought Daesh to us,” she said, referring to sectarian rule that fueled Sunni extremism and corruption that weakened the country’s security forces. “This mess is God’s revenge for that.”But some in the security forces have resentments of their own, blaming Mosul residents for supporting IS.“The people here have always had a rebellious nature, so they should take some responsibility for what has happened,” said Maj. Imad Hassan, a federal police officer from Baghdad.

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During the campaign, his unit fought to capture a stretch of the corniche running along the Tigris, hammering it with artillery for weeks to clear out IS resistance. The former municipal center was shredded, rows of buildings blackened, palm trees lining the boulevard burned.

“I hope this destruction teaches them their lesson,” he said.

Iraqi and coalition officials say the devastation was the result of the Islamic State group’s tenacious grip. IS transformed the city into a fortress. Its fighters used hospitals and schools as military bases, moved civilians from the rural outskirts into central neighborhoods to use as shields from airstrikes and rigged hundreds of houses and roads with explosives.

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Nearly 10 years ago, Maj. Maher Aziz Khalaf fought IS’ predecessor, al-Qaida, in Mosul alongside U.S. forces. But when he rolled into western Mosul with the first wave of Iraqi special forces troops in early February he said he immediately realized this battle would alter the city in a way previous fights hadn’t.

“In 2008 it was different. We would just identify which houses the terrorists were living in, come in at night and arrest them,” he said. “We were fighting gangs, not an entire city.”

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A coalition spokesman, Col. Joe Scrocca, said the forces had to balance between protecting non-combatants and infrastructure on one hand and moving quickly on the other. Another factor, he said, was that the longer it took to free the city, the more danger civilians were in, whether from lack of food or IS retaliation.

Hesitant to risk casualties along their own troops, Iraqi military commanders relied on airpower and artillery to clear neighborhoods where a handful of IS fighters armed with light weapons and civilians as human shields repeatedly stalled entire units of Iraq’s military.

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As the fight moved to the Old City, rights groups and the U.N. warned the coalition and Iraqi forces against using large munitions. Still, the U.S.-led coalition repeatedly approved the use of 500- and 2,000-pound bombs inside the densely populated district.

As waves of civilians fled the Old City, more than a dozen individuals told the AP they knew of multiple families killed under their homes by what they believed to be airstrikes.

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“The buildings can be rebuilt, but the human lives lost cannot,” said Iraqi special forces Lt. Gen. Abdul-Ghani al-Asadi from a base on the edge of Old City on Tuesday.

“But the buildings in the Old City were all very old anyway,” he said. “Now we can demolish them and build apartment buildings.”

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TEXT FROM THE AP NEWS STORY, LIBERATION FROM MILITANTS LEAVES DEVASTATION IN MOSUL, BY SUSANNAH GEORGE. Associated Press writers Salar Salim, Felipe Dana, Bram Janssen and Balint Szlanko in Mosul, Iraq, and Lee Keath in Cairo contributed to this report.Video & Photos by Felipe DanaWritten content on this site is not created by the editorial department of AP, unless otherwise noted.

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July 14 , 2017


Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps is covered in gold "slime" as he accepts the Legend Award at the Kids Choice Sport Awards. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

July 14 , 2017


Revelers run from the Fire Bull, a man carrying a bull figure packed with fireworks, at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain. REUTERS/Susana VeraJuly 14 , 2017


Floyd Mayweather throws money at

Conor McGregor during a world tour

press conference to promote the

upcoming Mayweather vs McGregor

boxing fight at Brooklyn's Barclays

Center. Noah K. Murray-USA TODAY

Sports

July 14 , 2017


Jacqueline Simoneau of Canada competes in the 17th FINA World Aquatics Championship in Budapest, Hungary. REUTERS/Michael Dalder

July 14 , 2017


Israeli policemen check the body of an assailant after he was shot dead by Israeli police at the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

July 14 , 2017


A dusty champagne bottle from an edition commemorating the day former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh came to power is seen in his estate in Kanilai, Gambia. REUTERS/Emma Farge

July 14 , 2017


An Israeli youth swims in a natural spring water pool to cool off on a summer day near outskirts of Jerusalem. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

July 14 , 2017


Women in yukatas, or casual summer kimonos, take

their selfie in front of paper lanterns during the annual

Mitama Festival at the Yasukuni Shrine, where more

than 2.4 million war dead are enshrined, in Tokyo,

Japan. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

July 14 , 2017


Indonesia’s capital is lush with fake greenery even as the country is cutting down its precious tropical forests at a record rate.

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In this Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016 photo, shoppers walk past artificial trees at a shopping mall in Jakarta, Indonesia. The metropolitan's gleaming air conditioned malls have a particular fondness for fake forests, erecting plastic ferny extravaganzas where no life thrives or autumnal trees that don't drop any leaves while environmental destruction taking place elsewhere in the nation as palm oil and pulp wood plantations consume ever more land. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

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In this Friday, April 28, 2017 photo, workers take a break at an artificial garden at the newly-opened Terminal 3 at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, Indonesia. The urban embellishments creates an irony as environmental destructions are taking place elsewhere in the nation. Record forest fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan in 2015, often set to clear land for plantations, hastened tens of thousands of deaths from air pollution, according to a Harvard and Columbia study, and by World Bank estimates cost $16 billion. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

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In this Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016 photo, workers sweep dry leaves against the background of banners depicting a forest used to cover a construction site in Jakarta, Indonesia. One of the strange sights in Indonesia, an ecologically rich archipelago of more than 13,000 islands, is its capital's fondness for fake greenery at a time when the country is known for cutting down its precious tropical forests at a record rate. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

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In this Tuesday, May 16, 2017 photo, a woman walks past banners covering a construction site in Jakarta, Indonesia. One of the strange sights in Indonesia, an ecologically rich archipelago of more than 13,000 islands, is its capital's fondness for fake greenery at a time when the country is known for cutting down its precious tropical forests at a record rate. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

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In this Friday, Oct. 14, 2016 photo, a coffee vendor waits for customers near a patch of metal sheets adorned with stickers depicting a forest used to cover a construction site in Jakarta, Indonesia. The capital's fondness for fake greenery creates a n irony as the country is known for cutting down its precious tropical forests at a record rate. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

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In this Tuesday, March 28, 2017 photo, shoppers take a break under artificial trees at a shopping mall in Jakarta, Indonesia. The metropolitan's gleaming air conditioned malls have a particular fondness for fake trees and forests, creating an irony as the country is known for cutting down its precious tropical forests at a record rate. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

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In this Saturday, Nov. 12, 2016 photo, a man walks past a wall decorated with artificial plants at a shopping mall in Jakarta, Indonesia. The metropolitan's gleaming air conditioned malls have a particular fondness for fake trees and forests, creating an irony as the country is known for cutting down its precious tropical forests at a record rate. (AP Photo/DitaAlangkara)

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In this Friday, March 3, 2017 photo, Muslim women stand inside an elevator decorated with tree wallpapers at a hospital in Jakarta, Indonesia. One of the strange sights in Indonesia, an ecologically rich archipelago of more than 13,000 islands, is its capital's fondness for fake greenery at a time when the country is known for cutting down its precious tropical forests at a record rate. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

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In this Saturday, April 15, 2017 photo, people take an escalator adorned with environmental awareness message at a shopping mall in Jakarta, Indonesia. One of the strange sights in Indonesia, an ecologically rich archipelago of more than 13,000 islands, is its capital's fondness for fake greenery at a time when the country is known for cutting down its precious tropical forests at a record rate. (AP

Photo/Dita Alangkara)

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In this Sunday, April 16, 2017 photo, guests sit under an artificial tree during a wedding party in Jakarta, Indonesia. One of the strange sights in Indonesia, an ecologically rich archipelago of more than 13,000 islands, is its capital's fondness for fake greenery at a time when the country is known for cutting down its precious tropical forests at a record rate. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

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In this Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016 photo, a motorist rides past a construction site covered with metal sheets decorated with large stickers depicting greeneries at the main business district in Jakarta, Indonesia. One of the strange sights in Indonesia, an ecologically rich archipelago of more than 13,000 islands, is its capital's fondness for fake greenery at a time when the country is known for cutting down its precious tropical forests at a record rate. (AP Photo/DitaAlangkara)

Text from the AP news story, AP PHOTOS: As Indonesia cuts forests, fake nature thrives by Dita Alangkara.Photos by Dita AlangkaraWritten content on this site is not created by the editorial department of AP, unless otherwise noted.

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Slime eels, otherwise known as Pacific hagfish, cover Highway 101 after a flatbed truck carrying them in tanks overturned near Depoe Bay, Oregon. Depoe Bay Fire District/via REUTERSJuly 14 , 2017


Fleeing Iraqi civilians sit inside a house as they wait to be taken out of the Old City during fighting between Iraqi forces and ISIS militants in Mosul, Iraq on July 8.Felipe Dana / AP

July 14 , 2017


An ethnic Uyghur woman waits for customers at her fruit stand on June 2017 in the old town of Kashgar, in the far western Xinjiang province, China. Kashgar has long been considered the cultural heart of Xinjiang for the province's nearly 10 million Muslim Uyghurs.This image was released by Getty Images this week.Kevin Frayer / Getty Images

July 14 , 2017


Reuters / Friday, July 14, 2017Zarfishan Zahid (L) smiles as Sana Tahir (R) holds Malaika Noman, 3, as the child arrives in the United States after a federal judge ruled Thursday that President Trump's temporary ban on travelers from six Muslim-majority countries cannot stop grandparents and other relatives of U.S. citizens from entering the country at Washington Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia. REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan

July 14 , 2017


Peru CorruptionA supporter of Peru's former President Ollanta Humala shouts slogans against the justice system outside the Palace of Justice, where Humala and his wife are being held before their transfer to separate jails, in Lima, Peru, Friday, July 14, 2017. A judge ordered the arrest of Humalaand his wife on Thursday night as they face money laundering and conspiracy accusations tied to a construction scandal involving Brazilian company Odebrecht. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

July 14 , 2017


Florida SinkholeIn this aerial photo, debris is strewn about after a sinkhole damaged two homes in Land O' Lakes, Fla. on Friday, July 14, 2017. A sinkhole that started out the size of a small swimming pool and continued to grow has swallowed a home in Florida and severely damaged another. (Luis Santana/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

July 14 , 2017


Turkey Coup AnniversaryA man walk past a poster of photographs of victims of the July 15, 2016 coup attempt, in Istanbul, Friday July 14, 2017. Turkey commemorates the first anniversary of the July 15 failed military attempt to overthrow Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with a series of events honoring some 250 people, who were killed across Turkey while trying to oppose coup-plotters. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

July 14 , 2017


Japan Daily LifeA promotional image of a cat seen on a public tv screen dwarfs passersby in Tokyo, Friday, July 14, 2017.(AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

July 14 , 2017


Spain Running of the BullsMembers of The 'Comparsa de Gigantesy Cabezudos' or the Parade of the Giants and Big Heads pose for the media during the last day at the San Fermin Festival, in Pamplona, northern Spain, Friday, July 14, 2017. Revellers from around the world flock to Pamplona every year to take part in the eight days of the running of the bulls. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

July 14 , 2017


France Cycling Tour de FranceItaly's Fabio Aru, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey and yellow shoes, celebrates on the podium with hostesses after the thirteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 101 kilometers (62.8 miles) with start in Saint-Girons and finish in Foix, France, Friday, July 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

July 14 , 2017


India WeatherAn exile Tibetan holds an umbrella as he walks in an area enveloped by fog in Dharmsala, India, Friday, July 14, 2017. The Indian hill region is witnessing heavy rains and thick fogs for the past two weeks. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

July 14 , 2017


Britain Wimbledon TennisCzech Republic's Tomas Berdych stretches to

return to Switzerland's Roger Federer during

their Men's Singles semifinal match on day

eleven at the Wimbledon Tennis

Championships in London, Friday, July 14,

2017. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland)

July 14 , 2017


Paraguay Prison Musical InstrumentsA chair sits in a high-walled outdoor area of La Esperanza Integral Education Center, a correctional center for juveniles, in Itaugua, Paraguay, Friday, July 14, 2017. La Esperanza is a semi-open system, located about 16 miles or 26 kilometers from Asunci�n. Inmates who are on good behavior can participate in a workshop where they can learn to make stringed instruments from master luthiers. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

July 14 , 2017


Congress BudgetRep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky., a key member of the House Appropriations Committee, heads to a closed-door strategy session with fellow Republicans on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, July 14, 2017, to reconcile the GOP's long-overdue budget blueprint, even as divisions between moderates and conservatives over cutting programs like food stamps threaten passage of the measure. The House Budget Committee is expected to vote next week on the plan, which would spend far more money next year than President Donald Trump's proposal. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Spain’s Garbine Muguruza poses with the trophy as she celebrates winning the final against Venus Williams. REUTERS/FacundoArrizabalaga/Pool

July 15 , 2017


Spain’s Garbine Muguruza poses with the trophy as she celebrates winning the Wimbledon final against Venus Williams of the U.S. REUTERS/Tony O'Brien

July 15 , 2017


Venus Williams of the U.S. with the runner up trophy after losing the final against Spain�sGarbine Muguruza. REUTERS/David Ramos/Pool

July 15 , 2017


Russia’s Ekaterina Makarova and Russia’s

Elena Vesnina celebrate winning their

women's doubles final match against

Taiwan’s Hao-Ching Chan and Romania�s

Monica Niculescu. REUTERS/Matthew

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July 16 , 2017

Switzerland’s Roger Federer poses with the trophy as he celebrates winning the final against Croatia’s Marin Cilic. REUTERS/Andrew Couldridge

July 16 , 2017


Switzerland’s Roger Federer's wife Mirka and children as he celebrates winning the final against Croatia’s Marin Cilic. REUTERS/Daniel Leal-Olivas/Pool

July 16 , 2017


Mayor of London Sadiq Khan in the royal box on centre court before the men's final. REUTERS/Andrew Couldridge

July 16 , 2017


Reuters / Sunday, July 16, 2017A child seen with an open heart surgery scar cries while holding an empty tear gas canister, which was earlier thrown by riot police, during clashes with residents of the Nile island of al-Warraq when security forces attempted to demolish illegal buildings, in the south of Cairo, Egypt. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

July 16 , 2017


War-Torn Yemen Suffers World’s Worst Cholera Outbreak

by REUTERSYemen's cholera epidemic has infected more than 332,000 people and

killed at least 1,740 people since the outbreak began in late April.

A sanitation worker fumigates a residential area as others clean up a street during a nationwide anti-cholera campaign, on the outskirts of Sana'a, Yemen on July 16, 2017. The U.N. special envoy for Yemen warned last week that the conflict in the Arab world's poorest nation is intensifying daily, with terrorist groups expanding, 14 million people in desperate need of food and the worst cholera epidemic in the world.Yahya Arhab / EPA

July 16 , 2017


An elderly woman is treated for a suspected cholera infection in a tent at a hospital in Sana'a on June 29.

The incubation period of the disease, which spreads through ingestion of fecal matter and causes acute watery diarrhea, is a matter of hours. Once symptoms start, cholera can kill within hours if the patient does not get treatment.

Hani Mohammed / AP

June 29 , 2017

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A man scavenges for recyclables at a garbage dump on the outskirts of Sana'a on June 29.

A two-year war between Houthi rebels aligned with Iran and a Western-backed Saudi-led coalition has led to a "system-wide collapse in the economy" and health system, according to Jamie McGoldrick, U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Yemen.

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June 29 , 2017

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A girl is treated for a suspected cholera infection at a hospital in Sana'a on July 1.

WHO Director-General Tedros AdhanomGhebreyesus told the council the outbreak was "being driven by conflict, the collapse of the basic public services and malnutrition."

He said the WHO and the U.N. Children's Agency UNICEF were supporting more than 600 treatment centers and rehydration points in Yemen and planned to open another 500 centers but there was a shortage of doctors and nurses.

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July 1 , 2017

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Cholera-infected women receive treatment at a hospital in Sana'a on July 1.Yemen's economy has collapsed and 30,000 health worker have not been paid for more than 10 months, so the United Nations has stepped in with "incentive" payments to get them to help with the fight against cholera.U.N. Yemen mediator Ismail OuldCheikh Ahmed told the Security Council a Saudi donation of $67 million had helped slow the cholera spread and called on other donors to step up.

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July 1 , 2017

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A girl drinks water from a well that is allegedly contaminated with cholera bacteria, on the outskirts of Sana'a on July 12.

Hani Mohammed / AP

July 12 , 2017

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An elderly man waits to be treated for a suspected cholera infection at a hospital in Sana'a on July 12.

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July 12 , 2017

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Sanitation workers clean up a street in a residential area during an anti-cholera campaign on the outskirts of Sana'a on July 16.The $2.1 billion humanitarian appeal for Yemen is only 33 percent funded, and the response to the cholera epidemic requires an additional $250 million, of which just $47 million has been received, according to U.N. humanitarian chief Stephen O'Brien.

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July 16 , 2017


Yemeni sanitation workers clean up a street during the anti-cholera campaign in a residential area on the outskirts of Sana'a on July 16.

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A young boy watches as sanitation workers fumigate the street during the anti-cholera campaign, on the outskirts of Sana'a on July 16.

The United Nations has blamed the warring sides in Yemen and their international allies, including Saudi Arabia, for fueling the cholera outbreak, driving millions of people closer to famine, and for hindering aid access.

The cholera epidemic in Yemen could spread during the annual haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia in September, although Saudi authorities are well prepared, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on July 14.

Yahya Ahrab / EPA

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July 17 , 2017

President Donald Trump wears a cowboy hat as he attends a "Made in America" products showcase event at the White House in Washington. REUTERS/Carlos BarriaJuly 17 , 2017


A group of tourists take part in a two hour "boot camp" experience, at "Caliber 3 Israeli Counter Terror and Security Academy " in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc south of Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank. REUTERS/Nir Elias

July 17 , 2017


Ntando Mahlangu of South Africa falls during a heat of the men's 100 metre T42 at the IAAF World ParaAthleticsChampionships in London. Action Images via Reuters/Henry Browne

July 17 , 2017


The all-girl team from Afghanistan prepares to compete in first international robot Olympics in Washington. They were originally denied entry into the U.S. but participated after President Donald Trump intervened. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

July 17 , 2017


Employees from a bamboo industry company dry semi-finished bamboo chopsticks in a village in Xingancounty, Jiangxi province, China. REUTERS/Stringer

July 17 , 2017


Reuters / Monday, July 17, 2017People hold onto windows to avoid a bull, named Trompetero, during the 'Toro de Cuerda' (Bull on Rope) festival in Grazalema, Spain. Three bulls restrained by a rope are allowed to run through the streets of the village during the annual festival. REUTERS/Jon Nazca

July 17 , 2017


A still image taken from a video posted to a social media website by the Islamic State-affiliated Amaq News Agency, shows a man appearing to be an Islamic State militant firing a weapon, said to be in Raqqa, Syria. Social Media Website via Reuters TVJuly 17 , 2017


A man looks at the names of the victims on the national monument to commemorate the victims of the Malaysia Airlines crash in Ukraine in 2014 in Vijfhuizen, Netherlands. REUTERS/Remko de Waal/Pool

July 17 , 2017


A car burned by the wildfire is seen in the village of Mravince near Split, Croatia. REUTERS/Antonio Bronic

July 17 , 2017


A firefighting plane drops water to extinguish a forest fire near Zadar, Croatia. REUTERS/EdinTuzlak

July 17 , 2017


A Venezuelan resident hangs a

flag on the statue of Simon

Bolivar the Liberator during an

unofficial plebiscite against

President Nicolas Maduro's

government, in Bogota,

Colombia. REUTERS/Jaime

Saldarriaga

July 17 , 2017


Opposition supporters

ride on a motorcycle

after an unofficial

plebiscite against

President Nicolas

Maduro's government

and his plan to rewrite

the constitution, in

Caracas, Venezuela.

REUTERS/Marco Bello

July 17 , 2017


Park Mak-rye, a 70-year-old YouTuber, puts on makeup on a volunteer at a makeup show during DIA Festival in Seoul, South Korea. REUTERS/Kim Hong-JiJuly 17 , 2017


Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau comes out of a teepee at the Calgary Stampede in Calgary, Alberta. REUTERS/Todd Korol

July 17 , 2017


People cool off at a water park on a hot day in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. REUTERS/Stringer

July 17 , 2017


Water buffalos compete in Chonburi's

annual buffalo race festival, in

Chonburi province, Thailand.

REUTERS/Athit PerawongmethaJuly 17 , 2017


Firefighters from a Burbank engine company take a break after working all night tackling the Whittier Fire near Santa Barbara, California. Mike Eliason/Santa Barbara County Fire Department/via REUTERS

July 17 , 2017


A hot air balloon flies over residential buildings in Wuqing District of Tianjin, China. REUTERS/Stringer

July 17 , 2017


A woman sits on her bicycle in front of an image of late Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez and an image of Cuba's late President Fidel Castro in Altagracia town, Nicaragua. REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas

July 17 , 2017


Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton celebrates his win with fans after the Formula One British Grand Prix. REUTERS/Jason Cairnduff

July 17 , 2017


Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his

wife Rosalynn Carter at the Canadian Museum

for Human Rights during a closing ceremony

for a Habitat for Humanity project in

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

REUTERS/Zachary Prong

July 17 , 2017


A protester holds a copy of the Polish

Constitution during an opposition protest

at the Market Square in Krakow, Poland.

Agencja Gazeta/Jakub Porzycki via

REUTERS

July 17 , 2017


Streets of Russia's World Cup host cities

A man rides a bike along an

embankment of Volga river in

Nizhny Novgorod.

REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili

July 17 , 2017


People walk on Lenin Avenue in Saransk. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili

July 17 , 2017


People walk at the Millennium square in Saransk. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili

July 17 , 2017


People sit at a cafe in Nizhny

Novgorod. REUTERS/David

Mdzinarishvili

July 17 , 2017


People are silhouetted in front of a musical fountain at the Millennium Square in Saransk. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili

July 17 , 2017


Children cool off in a fountain at the Millennium Square in Saransk. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili

July 17 , 2017


Women pose for a picture at the Millennium Square in Saransk. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili

July 17 , 2017


A Free Syrian Army fighter sits in his position in the town of Dael in Deraa, Syria.

REUTERS/Alaa al-Faqir

July 17 , 2017

U.S.-RUSSIAN BROKERED CEASEFIRE IN SYRIA


Damaged buildings are pictured at night in the rebel-held area, in the city of Deraa, Syria. Picture taken using long exposure. REUTERS/AlaaAl-Faqir

July 17 , 2017


A Free Syrian Army fighter walks out of his position in the town of Dael in Deraa. REUTERS/Alaa al-Faqir

July 17 , 2017


A Free Syrian Army fighter stands in his position in the town of Dael in Deraa. REUTERS/Alaa al-Faqir

July 17 , 2017


Two men chat as they sit amid the rubble of a damaged site in Deraa. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Faqir

July 17 , 2017


Syrian children are seen play amidst the rubble of damaged buildings in Deraa. REUTERS/Alaaal-FaqirJuly 17 , 2017


People load belongings on a truck amidst the rubble of damaged buildings in Deraa. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Faqir

July 17 , 2017


A man walks while using his phone past damaged buildings in Deraa. REUTERS/AlaaAl-Faqir

July 17 , 2017


A man searches for belongings amid rubble of damaged buildings in Deraa. REUTERS/Alaa Al-FaqirJuly 17 , 2017


A Free Syrian Army fighter sits with his weapon in Deraa. REUTERS/AlaaAl-Faqir

July 17 , 2017


A boy searches for belongings amid rubble of damaged buildings in Deraa. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Faqir

July 17 , 2017


Children play inside a damaged bus in the rebel held besieged Doumaneighborhood of Damascus. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh

July 17 , 2017


Boys play table football in the rebel held besieged Douma neighborhood of Damascus. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh

July 17 , 2017


A woman walks with a child amid rubble at Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood in Aleppo. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki

July 17 , 2017


A man uses his phone as he stands amid rubble of damaged buildings at Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood in Aleppo. Picture taken with a wide-angle lens. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki

July 17 , 2017


A woman walks with a child past damaged buildings at Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood in Aleppo. Picture taken with a wide-angle lens. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki

July 17 , 2017


A man works on a wheel of a vehicle at Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood in Aleppo. Picture taken with a wide-angle lens. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki

July 17 , 2017


Men work on resurfacing a street in al-Fardos district in Aleppo. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki

July 17 , 2017


Cambodian temple joins UNESCO list

Sambor Prei Kuk in Kampong Thom province, Cambodia. The archaeological site has been identified as Ishanapura, the capital of the ChenlaEmpire that flourished in the late 6th and early 7th centuries. REUTERS/SamrangPring

July 17 , 2017


Roots shroud a relief at Sambor Prei Kuk, or "the temple in the richness of the forest" an archaeological site of ancient Ishanapura, listed as a UNESCO world heritage site, in Kampong Thom province, Cambodia. REUTERS/Samrang Pring

July 17 , 2017


The vestiges of the city cover an area of 25 square kilometres and include a walled city center as well as numerous temples, ten of which are octagonal, unique specimens of their genre in southeast Asia. REUTERS/Samrang Pring

July 17 , 2017


Roots cover a wall at Sambor Prei Kuk. The art and architecture developed here became models for other parts of the region and lay the ground for the unique Khmer style of the Angkor period. REUTERS/Samrang Pring

July 17 , 2017


A religious figure is seen inside SamborPrei Kuk. REUTERS/SamrangPring

July 17 , 2017


A woman pray inside of a temple at Sambor Prei Kuk. REUTERS/Samrang PringJuly 17 , 2017


A religious figure is seen inside SamborPrei Kuk. REUTERS/SamrangPring

July 17 , 2017


A relief is pictured at Sambor Prei Kuk. REUTERS/Samrang Pring

July 17 , 2017


Tourist visit Sambor Prei Kuk. REUTERS/Samrang Pring

July 17 , 2017


A tree at Sambor Prei Kuk.

REUTERS/Samrang Pring

July 17 , 2017


Tourists visit Sambor Prei Kuk.

REUTERS/Samrang Pring

July 17 , 2017


A tourist visits Sambor Prei

Kuk. REUTERS/Samrang Pring

July 17 , 2017


California Daily LifeA young woman rides her bike toward the beach past a mural painted outside a bike rental shop Monday, July 17, 2017, on the Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

July 17 , 2017


North Korea Daily LifeThe sky is overcast at the end of a work day on Monday, July 17, 2017, in Pyongyang, North Korea, where the 105-story pyramid-shaped Ryugyong Hotel is seen in this photograph towering over residential apartments. The hotel has been under construction since 1987 and was intended to be a landmark and a symbol of progress and prosperity, but the economic difficulties that the country went through forced the project into repeated delays and nearly 30-years later, it has become a major Pyongyang landmark but has never been used as a hotel, as it was intended. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

July 17 , 2017


Nigeria Boko HaramPeople gather at the site of a suicide bomb attack

in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Monday, July 17, 2017.

Several people were killed after a suspected female

suicide bomber detonated at a mosque in

northeastern Nigeria. (AP Photo/Jossy Ola)

July 17 , 2017


Mexico Duarte ExtraditionA federal police officer peers out from inside the hangar of the attorney general's office at the Mexico City airport, as former Veracruz State Governor Javier Duarte is processed inside after arriving from Guatemala, Monday, July 17, 2017. Duarte, who resigned as governor in 2016, agreed to extradition to his home country to face charges of embezzlement and ties to organized crime. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

July 17 , 2017


Guatemala Mexico CorruptionMexico's ex-governor of Veracruz state, Javier Duarte, is escorted in handcuffs by police to an aircraft as he is extradited to Mexico City, at an Air Force base in Guatemala City, Monday, July 17, 2017. Duarte faces charges of embezzlement and ties to organized crime in his home country. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

July 17 , 2017


South Korea Koreas TensionsSouth Korean army soldiers salute as they patrol along the barbed-wire fence in South Korea's Paju, near the border with North Korea, Monday, July 17, 2017. South Korea offered Monday to talk with North Korea to ease animosities along their tense border and resume reunions of families separated by their war in the 1950s. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

July 17 , 2017


US RussiaRussian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, second from left, and Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak, right, arrive at the State Department in Washington, Monday, July 17, 2017, to meet with Undersecretary of State Thomas Shannon. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

July 17 , 2017


Japan Daily LifeAfrican penguins swim in a water tank placed on the roof of an aquarium in Tokyo, Monday, July 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

July 17 , 2017


Germany ZooA great white pelican looks on in his enclosure at the zoo 'Hellabrunn' in Munich, Germany, Monday, July 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

July 17 , 2017


Spain Water FightPeople throw water at each other during the annual water fight at the Vallecas neighborhood in Madrid, Sunday, July 16, 2017. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

July 17 , 2017



July 18 , 2017

China PalestiniansMembers of a Chinese honor guard wipe sweat off of their faces before a welcome ceremony for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Tuesday, July 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

July 18 , 2017


Pakistan Apartment

CollapsePakistani volunteers try to rescue a

trapped resident in Karachi,

Pakistan, Tuesday, July 18, 2017. A

dilapidated, three-story building in

a poorer neighborhood of

Pakistan's sprawling port city of

Karachi collapsed as the residents

slept. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

July 18 , 2017


Special Session TexasProtesters gather in the Texas Capitol Rotunda as State lawmakers begin a special legislative session called by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in Austin, Texas, Tuesday, July 18, 2017. Immigrant rights groups plan to increase protests of the new law that allows police to inquire about peoples' immigration status, while LGBT activists bitterly oppose "bathroom bill" proposals. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

July 18 , 2017


TrumpPresident Donald Trump, accompanied by Vice President Mike Pence, pauses after speaking to members of the media during a lunch with services members in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

July 18 , 2017


Vice President Mike Pence laughs as President Trump holds a baseball bat as they attend a Made in America product showcase event at the White House. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

July 18 , 2017


Congress Health OverhaulSen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan. jumps the tracks of the Senate subway on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 18, 2017, to get around a large gathering of reporters as he arrives on Capitol Hill. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

July 18 , 2017


Congress Health Overhaul ProtestA U.S. Capitol Police officer gives the warning speaking through a bullhorn to a group of Black minister gathered to protest on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 18, 2017, demanding Congress to "reject both the immoral budget proposed by the Trump Administration and the equally unjust health care bill that the Senate may have a procedural vote on in the coming weeks." (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

July 18 , 2017


Reuters / Tuesday, July 18, 2017Workers remove letters from the "TRUMP" sign on top of the Trump International Hotel and Tower, after the project's new owner JCF Capital ULC reached a deal in June with Trump Hotels to buy out its management contracts, in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. REUTERS/Chris Helgren

July 18 , 2017


Iraq PrisonersSuspected Islamic State members sit inside a small room in a prison south of Mosul, Tuesday, July 18, 2017. Hundreds of suspected Islamic State members swept up by Iraqi forces in Mosul are being held in a cramped and stifling prison just outside the city. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

July 18 , 2017


JordanA pile of tires is seen burning on a road leading to the southern Jordanian town of al-Jafr on Tuesday, July 18, 2017. Hundreds of people in al-Jafrstaged protests Tuesday following the conviction of a local soldier a day earlier in the shooting deaths of three U.S. military trainers. The U.S. troops were killed in November at the gate to the al-Jafr air base when their convoy came under fire. (AP Photo/ReemSaad)

July 18 , 2017


India Kashmir VoilenceKashmiri villagers watch funeral of Showkat Ahmed Lohar, a local militant

in Arwani, about 55 kilometesr (35 miles) south of Srinagar, India,Tuesday,

July 18, 2017. Indian soldiers and police killed three suspected rebels

during a brief gun battle Monday in the disputed Himalayan region of

Kashmir, officials said. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

July 18 , 2017


Argentina ProtestA clown marches with a balloon with text written in Spanish that reads "Macri, take it easy," in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, July 18, 2017. Demonstrators marched against the recent closing of a PepsiCo plant that left many unemployed. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

July 18 , 2017


Nepal Daily LifeA Nepalese woman separates chaff from wheat in Bhaktapur, Nepal, Tuesday, July 18, 2017. Bhaktapurwas one of the worst hit in the April 25, 2015 earthquake, with many lives lost and hundreds of houses and Cultural heritage sites destroyed. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

July 18 , 2017


North Korea Daily LifeNorth Korean school girls stop at a kiosk selling flowers on Tuesday, July 18, 2017, in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

July 18 , 2017


Team North Korea practice synchro under coach supervision at the FINA World Aquatics Championships in Budapest. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth

July 18 , 2017


Cincinnati Police ShootingA protestor prays outside the offices of Hamilton County Prosecutor Joseph Deters following a news conference Tuesday, July 18, 2017, where Deters announced his decision to not pursue a third trial of former University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing on murder charges for the death of motorist Sam DuBose, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

July 18 , 2017


Reuters / Tuesday, July 18, 2017A sand-covered loincloth, or mawashi, worn by a sumo wrestler is seen during a training session at Ganjoji Yakushido temple in Nagoya, Japan. The temple is used by sumo wrestlers belonging to the Tomozuna stable as a temporary base for the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament. REUTERS/Issei Kato

July 18 , 2017


Two men fish on rocks during the sunset in Baleal near Peniche, Portugal. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

July 18 , 2017


Reuters / Tuesday, July 18, 2017A woman cries as she holds up a portrait of a victim of the 1994 bombing of the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) Jewish community center as they gather to commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the attack in Buenos Aires, Argentina. REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci

July 18 , 2017


A child looks at fish as he stands inside an underwater tunnel at the botanical and freshwater exposition "Live Water" in the village of Modra, Czech Republic. REUTERS/David W Cerny

July 18 , 2017


An Atlantic Puffin holds a mouthful of sand eels on the island of Skomer, off the coast of Pembrokeshire, Wales. REUTERS/Rebecca Naden

July 18 , 2017


A man stands on a mountain summit as he looks over the Inntal valley in the western Austrian village of Gnadenwald, Austria. REUTERS/Dominic Ebenbichler

July 18 , 2017


Rescue workers drag damaged cars out of debris and mud after a flood in Yongji, Jilin province, China. CNS/Yang Zaixin via REUTERS

July 18 , 2017


The remains of the Boston Flats trailer park is pictured after being destroyed by a wildfire in Boston Flats, British Columbia, Canada. REUTERS/Ben NelmsJuly 18 , 2017


Reuters / Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Ruling Democratic Progressive Party

(DPP) legislator Chen Ming-Wen (L)

scuffles with opposition Kuomintang

(KMT) legislator Hsu Yu-Jen (R) during

budget meeting for the infrastructure

development program, at the Legislative

Yuan in Taipei, Taiwan. REUTERS/Tyrone

Siu

July 18 , 2017


Firefighters spray water to extinguish a forest fire in Castagniers near Nice, France. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

July 18 , 2017


A local resident sits in his house, which was damaged by a recent shelling, in the rebel-controlled city of Donetsk, Ukraine. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

July 18 , 2017


Projektil Medialable creative director Roman

Beranek looks on a light projection, which is

part of the "Light Ragaz" multimedia project, in

the Taminaschlucht gorge near Bad Ragaz,

Switzerland. REUTERS/Arnd WiegmannJuly 18 , 2017


A breakaway group of riders in action during stage 14 from Blagnac to Rodez, France. REUTERS/Christian HartmannJuly 18 , 2017


Trek-Segafredo rider Jarlinson

Pantano of Columbia after his crash

during stage 16 from Le Puy-en-Velay

to Romans-sur-Isere, France.

REUTERS/Jeff Pachoud/Pool

July 18 , 2017


The pack of riders in action during stage 14 from Blagnac to Rodez, France. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann

July 18 , 2017


France Cycling Tour de FranceThe pack rides during the Tour de France

cycling race over 165 kilometers (102.5

miles) with start in Le Puy-en-Velay and

finish in Romans-sur-Isere, France,

Tuesday, July 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Peter

Dejong)

July 18 , 2017


People walk on the street in Samara. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili

July 18 , 2017


Streets of Russia's World Cup host cities

People walk on Leningradskaya

street in Samara,.

REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili

July 18 , 2017


Women paint on a street in Samara. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili

July 18 , 2017


A member of the Libyan Army's special forces runs for cover during clashes with Islamist militants in the militants' last stronghold in Benghazi. REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-FetoriJuly 18 , 2017


Benghazi , Libya

Members of the Libyan army's special forces take cover as a tank fires towards Islamist militants during clashes in the militants' last stronghold in Benghazi, Libya. REUTERS/EsamOmran Al-Fetori

July 17 , 2017


A member of the Libyan Army's special forces holds his weapon during clashes with Islamist militants in the militants' last stronghold in Benghazi. REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori

July 18 , 2017


Members of the Libyan Army's special forces run for cover during clashes with Islamist militants in the militants' last stronghold in Benghazi. REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori

July 18 , 2017


Members of the Libyan Army's special forces take cover during clashes with Islamist militants in the militants' last stronghold in Benghazi. REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori

July 18 , 2017


A tank belonging to Libyan National Army fires towards Islamist militants during clashes in the militants' last stronghold in Benghazi. REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori

July 18 , 2017


A member of the Libyan Army's special forces holds his weapon during clashes with Islamist militants in the militants' last stronghold in Benghazi. REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-FetoriJuly 18 , 2017


A member of the Libyan Army's special forces rests during clashes with Islamist militants in the militants' last stronghold in Benghazi. REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori

July 18 , 2017


Venezuelan violinist Wuilly Arteaga

plays the violin next to a pile of

sand used by protesters to block

the street during a protest against

Venezuelan President Nicolas

Maduro's government in Caracas.

REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins

July 18 , 2017


A girl plays the instrument during clashes with security forces at a rally against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government in Caracas. REUTERS/Andres Martinez CasaresJuly 18 , 2017


An armored vehicle hits

demonstrators during clashes at a

rally against Venezuelan President

Nicolas Maduro's government in

Caracas, Venezuela.

REUTERS/Marco Bello

July 18 , 2017


Russian President Vladimir Putin

uses a pair of binoculars as he

watches a display during the MAKS

2017 air show in Zhukovsky, outside

Moscow, Russia. Sputnik/Alexei

Nikolsky/Kremlin via REUTERS

July 18 , 2017



July 19 , 2017

Palestinian men stand inside Jerusalem's Old City next to the Lion's Gate. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

July 19 , 2017


Reuters / Wednesday, July 19, 2017Palestinian boy Mohammad Shanty, who suffers from cystic fibrosis, sits next to his mother after receiving oxygen therapy during a power cut in their family house, which is equipped with a backup battery-powered system, in Gaza City. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

July 19 , 2017


Israeli border police clash with Palestinian men during scuffles that erupted after Palestinians held evening prayers outside the Lion's Gate of Jerusalem's Old City. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

July 19 , 2017


Belgian researcher Jeroen Schuermans holds a human brain, part of a collection of more than 3,000 brains that could provide insight into psychiatric diseases, at the psychiatric hospital in Duffel, Belgium. REUTERS/Yves Herman

July 19 , 2017


Demonstrators protest against the Grenfell Tower fire outside a Kensington and Chelsea Council meeting at Kensington Town Hall in London, Britain. REUTERS/Neil HallJuly 19 , 2017


Denmark's Daniel Wagner celebrates winning the Men's Long Jump T42 at the IAAF World ParaAthleticsChampionships in London. Action Images via Reuters/Peter Cziborra

July 19 , 2017


A municipal worker fumigates a slum area to prevent the spread of dengue fever and other mosquito-borne diseases in Mumbai, India. REUTERS/Shailesh Andrade

July 19 , 2017


A journalist takes a photograph of a South Korean soldier standing guard at the truce village of Panmunjom, South Korea. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji

July 19 , 2017


People protest against the introduction of Goods and Services Tax (GST) at Jantar Mantar, in New Delhi, India. REUTERS/CathalMcNaughtonJuly 19 , 2017


Paratroopers of NATO armies take part in "Swift Response 2017" military drill, a part of "Saber Guardian 2017" exercise, at Bezmer airfield, Bulgaria. REUTERS/StoyanNenov

July 19 , 2017


Demonstrators shout slogans

at an avenue blockade during

a rally against Venezuelan

President Nicolas Maduro's

government in Caracas,

Venezuela. REUTERS/Andres

Martinez Casares

July 19 , 2017


Healthcare activists are detained by Capitol Police after gathering to protest the Republican healthcare bill on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 19, 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein

Healthcare on the Hill

July 19 , 2017


Healthcare activists gather outside the office of Senator Johnny Isakson (R-GA) to protest the Republican healthcare bill on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 19, 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein

July 19 , 2017


Reuters / Wednesday, July 19, 2017Republican leaders (L-R) Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-TX), Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and John Thune, (R-SD) speak with the media after a lunch meeting with President Donald Trump to discuss healthcare at the White House in Washington, July 19, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

July 19 , 2017


Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell looks down as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Senate Republicans to discuss healthcare at the White House in Washington. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

July 19 , 2017


The all-girl team from Afghanistan prepares at FIRST Global's First International Robot Olympics in Washington. A team of Afghan girls competed in an academic robotics competition in the United States after American officials agreed to allow them to enter the country despite initially denying them visas. The team won a silver medal for "courageous achievement". REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

July 19 , 2017

Afghan girls compete at Robot Olympics


Reuters / Monday, July 17, 2017The all-girl team from Afghanistan walks at the competition. Afghanistan itself is not on the list, and Team Afghanistan's robot had already been allowed entry to the United States. "We are so happy from the support of the Americans and Mr. Trump, and we thank them for providing us visas to allow us to travel and attend the competitions," Qaderyansaid. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

July 19 , 2017


Reuters / Monday, July 17, 2017The all-girl team from Afghanistan walks to compete. While officials did not comment on the reasons for initially denying the girls visas, the United States often denies visa requests from Afghans over fears that they will refuse to return home. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

July 19 , 2017


Reuters / Monday, July 17, 2017The all-girl team from Afghanistan competes. Members of the team said they see the competition as a chance to help improve conditions in Afghanistan, where women and girls often face significant limitations in public and private life. "Afghanistan is a war-torn country where it is difficult for women to improve," said 15-year-old Lida Azizi. "But now this is a big chance for us to attend in the competitions and also it�s good for our country." REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

July 19 , 2017


Children walk past rubble of damaged buildings at Ain Tarma, eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh

U.S.-Russian brokered ceasefire in SyriaJuly 19 , 2017


A Free Syrian Army fighter looks out through a window in rebel-held Al-Yadudah village, in Deraa Governorate, Syria. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Faqir

July 19 , 2017


Free Syrian Army fighters pray inside a house in rebel-held Al-Yadudah village, in Deraa Governorate. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Faqir

July 19 , 2017


Fighters from the Free Syrian Army's Al

Rahman legion eat together in Ain Tarma,

eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta, Syria.

REUTERS/Bassam KhabiehJuly 19 , 2017


Fighters from the Free Syrian Army's Al Rahman legion are seen inside an underground tunnel in Ain Tarma, eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh

July 19 , 2017


Children are seen near rubble of damaged buildings at Ain Tarma, eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta. REUTERS/Bassam KhabiehJuly 19 , 2017


Children hold corncobs at Ain

Tarma, eastern Damascus suburb of

Ghouta. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh

July 19 , 2017


A boy eats a corn as he sits in front of a shop in Ain Tarma, eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh

July 19 , 2017


Flames from a gas line are seen amidst a home destroyed by the Detwiler fire in Mariposa. REUTERS/Stephen Lam

Wildfires rage across CaliforniaJuly 19 , 2017


Charred grasslands remain after the Long Valley fire came through the Fort Sage Off-Highway Vehicle Area. Bureau of Land Management California/via REUTERS

July 19 , 2017


Flames from the Detwiler fire burn on a hill overlooking the town of Mariposa, California. REUTERS/Stephen LamJuly 19 , 2017


Bright flames seen on a road in Mariposa County, California in this picture obtained from social media. Darin McKinney / @firelinemedia/ Social Media Website /via REUTERS

July 19 , 2017


A chimney stands amidst remains of a home destroyed by the Detwiler fire in Mariposa, California. REUTERS/Stephen Lam

July 19 , 2017


Team Ukraine competes in women's team free synchro preliminary at the FINA World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. REUTERS/Michael Dalder

July 19 , 2017


Poland Britain RoyalsBritain's Prince William, left, holds the hand of his son Prince George on arrival at the airport, in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, July 17, 2017. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their children have arrived in Poland, the first leg of a goodwill trip to two European Union nations that seeks to underscore Britain's friendly ties despite its negotiations to leave the bloc. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

July 17 , 2017


Will and Kate's pre-Brexit charm tour

Prince William and Catherine at Plac

Solidarnosci in Gdansk, Poland. Agencja

Gazeta/Renata Dabrowska/via REUTERS

July 19 , 2017

Will and Kate's pre-Brexit charm tour


Prince William and Catherine visit the

European Solidarity Centre in Gdansk,

Poland. Agencja Gazeta/Renata

Dabrowska/via REUTERS

July 19 , 2017


The Duchess of Cambridge greets people at the central market square in Gdansk, Poland. REUTERS/Bogdan Popescu

July 19 , 2017


Catherine and Agata Kornhauser-Duda wait

as Polish president Andrzej Duda and Prince

William light candles at the Warsaw Rising

Museum in Poland. REUTERS/Kacper

Pempel

July 19 , 2017


Prince George arrives at Tegelairport in Berlin, Germany. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

July 19 , 2017


Prince William and his wife Catherine, Prince George and Princess Charlotte arrive at Tegelairport in Berlin. REUTERS/Kay Nietfeld/POOL

July 19 , 2017


German Chancellor Angela Merkel chats with Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge and his wife Catherine, The Duchess of Cambridge, at the Chancellery in Berlin. REUTERS/Axel Schmidt

July 19 , 2017


Prince William and his wife Catherine, Mayor of Berlin Michael Mueller and his daughter Nina pose at Brandenburg Gate. REUTERS/Fabrizio BenschJuly 19 , 2017

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JULY 2017 - Pictures of the day - July 14- 19 , 2017

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