This still image, taken from a video posted by the Aleppo Media Center, shows a young boy in an ambulance after an airstrike in Aleppo, Syria, on Wednesday, August 17. It took nearly an hour to dig the boy, identified as Omran Daqneesh, out from the rubble, an activist told CNN. The airstrike destroyed his home, where he lived with his parents and two siblings. Director of the Aleppo Media Center Yousef Saddiq said Omran's 10-year-old brother, Ali, died from his injuries on Saturday, August 20.
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Brazil's Globo media group released surveillance footage that shows U.S. swimmers Ryan Lochte, James Feigen, Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz at a gas station in Rio de Janeiro early on Sunday, August 14. The Olympians said they were robbed at gunpoint there by men in police uniforms. Brazilian police said the athletes concocted a story to cover up an act of vandalism that led to a confrontation with security guards.
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Danielle Blount and her 3-month-old baby, Ember, wait to be rescued by the Louisiana Army National Guard near Walker, Louisiana, on Monday, August 15. More than 30,000 people have been rescued in southern Louisiana after heavy rains caused flooding over the weekend. It is the worst natural disaster to strike the United States since Hurricane Sandy four years ago, the Red Cross said.
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Soldiers stand around the coffin of a 5-year-old bombing victim during a funeral in Diyarbakir, Turkey, on Tuesday, August 16. Five Turkish police officers and two civilians were killed in a car bombing that the government blamed on Kurdish militants.
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Police move in on a group of protesters throwing rocks at them in Milwaukee on Sunday, August 14. Tensions were high as residents gathered to mourn Sylville Smith, an armed man shot to death by police. Protesters torched businesses and threw rocks at officers. Four officers were injured and 17 people were arrested, Mayor Tom Barrett said.
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Shaunae Miller of the Bahamas dives over the finish line to win gold in the 400 meters on Monday, August 15. She edged American Allyson Felix by .07 seconds.
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Thousands of people swim in a resort pool to beat the summer heat in Suining, China, on Sunday, August 14.
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A young daredevil, center, waits for her turn as another person rides a motorbike around the "Devil's Barrel" at a carnival in Deli Serdang, Indonesia, on Saturday, August 13.
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Detained immigrants are searched after being captured by Border Patrol agents in Roma, Texas, on Tuesday, August 16.
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Kellyanne Conway, the new campaign manager for presidential candidate Donald Trump, speaks to reporters in New York on Wednesday, August 17. Conway had been a senior adviser and pollster to the Republican's campaign. Steve Bannon, the executive chairman of Breitbart News, was named as the campaign's chief executive.
A blade of a wind turbine is transported at the Griessee lake in Valais, Switzerland, on Thursday, August 18. The wind turbines were developed for the highest wind park in Europe. The blades are 45 meters (148 feet) long.
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A dancer uses her cell phone at the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand, on Tuesday, August 16. The Hindu shrine was the target of a bombing that killed at least 20 people in August 2015.
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Riders compete in the 86th Palio dei Ciuchi (Donkey Race) in Roccatederighi, Italy, on Sunday, August 14. At one time the donkey was an indispensable part of life for the citizens of this town, and they celebrate the animal in a race held every August.
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Doctors treat an injured person who was rescued after a passenger bus crashed on a mountain highway in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Monday, August 15. At least 33 people were killed and 38 were injured when the bus skidded off the road and plunged down a hill, authorities said. The bus fell more than 300 meters (about 985 feet).
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Chinese army officers stand in front of a window Tuesday, August 16, before a welcome ceremony in Beijing for U.S. Army Chief of Staff Mark A. Milley.
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Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt looks back at his competitors during a 100-meter semifinal on Sunday, August 14. Bolt won the final a short time later, becoming the first man in history to win the 100 meters at three straight Olympic Games.
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People enjoy sunny weather on a float in Switzerland's Lake Zurich on Saturday, August 13.
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Workers help Jose "Cueto" Castelar, not pictured, hand-roll a 90-meter (295-foot) cigar in Havana, Cuba, on Friday, August 12. The world-record cigar was created in honor of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who was celebrating his 90th birthday the next day.
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Men in Jakarta, Indonesia, climb greased poles for prizes during Independence Day celebrations on Wednesday, August 17.
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People smear themselves with mud at a Dead Sea beach in Israel on Tuesday, August 16.
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People gather for a demonstration in the Queens borough of New York on Saturday, August 13. Imam Maulama Akonjee, 55, and his assistant, 64-year-old Thara Uddin, were gunned down after prayers at a nearby mosque, police said. A suspect has been charged with murder.
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To prevent the spread of the Zika virus, a team from the National Institute of Public Health sprays anti-mosquito product through the Koumassi district of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on Monday, August 15.
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Osida, 5, sits next to her mother, Aycha, after they were rescued from a sinking boat in the Mediterranean Sea north of Sabratha, Libya, on Thursday, August 18. Photos: Europe's migration crisis
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Tourists walk in front of the Pastoruri glacier in Huaraz, Peru, during a tour called "The Route of Climate Change" on Friday, August 12.
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A police officer rides a motorcycle through a flaming hoop and a wall of glass tubes during an Independence Day event in Srinagar, India, on Monday, August 15.
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A boy peeks out of his home's door during a gunfight in Srinagar, India, on Monday, August 15. A police paramilitary commander was shot dead while at least two suspected separatists were killed in gun battles as violence flared on India's Independence Day.
Flamingos move around a pen in the Odiel marshes of Huelva, Spain, on Saturday, August 13. About 400 young birds were tagged and measured before being released.
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Young Hindu priests take a bath Thursday, August 18, as a part of holy rituals during the Janai Purnima festival in Kathmandu, Nepal.
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