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A demonstrator protesting the shooting death of Alton Sterling is detained by law enforcement near the headquarters of the Baton Rouge Police Department in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on July 9. 

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump delivers a speech during the evening session on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention on July 21, at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. 

The Chicago Cubs celebrate after Game 7 of the Major League Baseball World Series against the Cleveland Indians Thursday, November 3, in Cleveland.

Crowds look on as the supermoon rises behind the Fremantle War Memorial at Monument Hill on November 14, in Fremantle, Australia.

A Turkish gendarme places the body of a migrant child into a transport bag on the beach in Bademli district on January 30.

Air Force One carrying U.S. President Barack Obama and his family flies over a neighborhood of Havana, Cuba, as it approaches the runway to land at Havana's international airport on March 20. 

An injured woman looks on as another speaks on her mobile phone following twin blasts at Brussels airport in Zaventem on March 22, as part of coordinated attacks claimed by ISIS militants.

Britain's Thomas Daley competes in the Men's 10m Platform Semifinal during the diving event at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on August 20, 2016. 

Jennelyn Olayres, 26, cradles the body of her partner Michael Siaron, who was killed on a street by a vigilante group, according to police, in a spate of drug related killings in Pasay city, Metro Manila, Philippines, on July 23. 

A male chimpanzee named Chacha screams after escaping from nearby Yagiyama Zoological Park as a man tries to capture him on the power lines at a residential area in Sendai, northern Japan, on April 14.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, the presumptive nominee, arrives to speak during her California primary night rally held in Brooklyn, New York, on June 7.

Robin Roy reacts as U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump greets her at a campaign rally in Lowell, Massachusetts, on January 4. 

Smoke and flames from raging wildfires erupt behind a car on the highway near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, on May 7.

Jan Durica of Slovakia and Artem Dzyuba of Russia battle for possession during the UEFA EURO 2016 Group B match between Russia and Slovakia at Stade Pierre-Mauroy on June 15 in Lille, France. 

Some migrants swim away from a capsizing boat, while others scramble to the higher points, before a rescue operation by Italian navy off the coast of Libya on May 25.

Embers from a wildfire smolder along Lytle Creek Road near Keenbrook, California, on August 17. 

Fighters of Libyan forces allied with the U.N.-backed government fire a rocket at ISIS fighters in Sirte, Libya, on August 4. 

Amputee Amy Purdy dances with a robot during the opening ceremony of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on September 7. 

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds Kellen Campbell of Denver, right, and Evelyn Keane, of Castle Rock, Colorado, during a campaign rally on July 29, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. 

A protester uses a tennis racket to return a tear gas canister during a demonstration to protest the government's proposed labor law reforms in Nantes, France, on June 2. 

President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump shake hands following their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on November 10, two days after Trump had won the election.

A giant panda cub falls from the stage while 23 giant pandas born in 2016 lie on a display at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China, on September 29.

When U.S.-backed forces seized Souad Hamidi's village in northern Syria from ISIS militants, the 19-year-old swiftly tore off the niqab she had been forced to wear since 2014 and smiled. 

Syrian civil defense volunteers and rescuers remove a baby from under the rubble of a destroyed building following a reported air strike on the rebel-held neighborhood of al-Kalasa in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, on April 28.