2015 in pictures - part #1
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Photographs from January - June on a range of topics from around the world.
A man holds a giant pencil as he takes part in a solidarity march in the streets of Paris after theCharlie Hebdo shootings, Jan. 11, 2015.
An injured Syrian child waits for treatment at a makeshift hospital in the rebel held area of Douma, north east of the capital Damascus, following reported air strikes by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad on Feb. 2.
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi greets supporters as she leaves a ceremony to mark the 100th birthday of independence hero Aung San, in the remote central Myanmar town of Natmauk on Feb. 13.
Diana Sofia Meliton, 2 years old, sits outside together with belongings after her and her family got evicted by the police and watches a housing right activist re-opening her apartment for them to live in Madrid, Spain, Feb. 11.
A Ukrainian woman begs Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to stop the bombing in Donetsk after shell hit the residential area where she lives, killing two civilians in Donetsk’s Kyibishevsky district, on Jan. 29.
Afghan survivors of an avalanche run to get relief goods distributed by an Afghan army helicopter in the Paryan district of Panjshir province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan March 1.
Barack Obama, center, walks as he and others including walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. for the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” a landmark event of the civil rights movement, March 7.
A rescue worker is lifted into an helicopter at the crash site near Seyne-les-Alpes, France, March 26. The co-pilot of a Germanwings jet barricaded himself in the cockpit and rammed the plane full speed into the French Alps, ignoring the captain’s frantic pounding on the cockpit door and the screams of terror from passengers.
Hundreds of Nigerians celebrate at an intersection in the flashpoint northern city of Kaduna on March 31, the victory of main opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Mohammadu Buhari.
A woman reacts as she is rescued out of the building where she had been held hostage by Somalia’s Islamist militant group al-Shabab in Garissa town, near Nairobi, Kenya, April 2. 148 people were killed and 79 were injured.
A protester jumps on the table in front of the European Central Bank President Mario Draghi during a news conference in Frankfurt, Germany April 15.
The Calbuco volcano erupts near Puerto Varas, Chile, April 22.. The volcano erupted for the first time in more than 42 years, billowing a huge ash cloud over a sparsely populated, mountainous area in southern Chile.
People search for family members trapped inside collapsed houses in Bhaktapur, Nepal April 26. Rescuers dug with their bare hands and bodies piled up in Nepal after an earthquake devastated the heavily crowded Kathmandu valley, killing at least 9,000 and injuring over 23,000.
A woman runs for safety as police throw tear gas canisters while enforcing curfew, Tuesday, April 28, in Baltimore, a day after unrest that occurred following Freddie Gray’s funeral.
A man begs for help from the military as he stands in a drain where he had hid himself to escape a lynching by a mob at the Cibitoke district of Burundi capital, Bujumbura on May 7.
Sailing boats are floating near the banks of Lake Starnberg, that is covered with a layer of pollen in Starnberg, southern Germany, May 8.
Emergency personnel work the scene of a train wreck in Philadelphia. An Amtrak train headed to New York City derailed on May 12.
Local residents carry portraits of their ancestors, participants in World War Two as they celebrate the 70th anniversary of the defeat of the Nazis in World War II in St. Petersburg, Russia on May 9.
A protester wears grass around his face to obscure his identity during a protest against President Pierre Nkurunziza’s decision to run for a third term, in Bujumbura, Burundi, May 11.
A Nepalese earthquake survivor lies down inside a mosquito net at a makeshift shelter in Patan, Nepal, May 14. People in Nepal started cautiously returning to their daily life two days after the Himalayan nation was hit by its second major earthquake in three weeks.
David Barry consoles his 5-year-old daughter, Marley, while she tries to sleep in a flood evacuee room created at the San Marcos Activity Center, May 24, in San Marcos, Texas.
Migrants, who were found at sea on a boat, collect rainwater during a heavy rainfall at a temporary refuge camp near Kanyin Chaung jetty, outside Maungdaw township, northern Rakhine state, Myanmar, June 4.
Lightning strikes the Alpine mountains over Garmisch-Partenkirchen as balloons, made by the “ONE” campaigning organisation, depicting leaders of the G7 countries are inflated in Garmisch-Partenkirchen June 7.
Syrians fleeing the war rush through broken down border fences to enter Turkish territory illegally, near the Turkish border crossing at Akcakale in Sanliurfa province on June 14.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks with U.S. President Barack Obama in Kruen near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, June 8.
Kearston Farr comforts her daughter, Taliyah Farr, 5, as they stand in front of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church after a mass shooting at the church that killed nine people of June 19.
A man cools off from a public tap after filling bottles during intense hot weather in Karachi, Pakistan, June 23.
Bodies are covered on a Tunisian beach, in Sousse, June 26. A man unfurled an umbrella and pulled out a Kalashnikov, opening fire on European sunbathers in an attack that killed at least 28 people.
A sailor of the Belgian Navy Vessel Godetia helps a migrant board the ship during a search and rescue mission in the Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan coasts, June 23.