• A woman looks at an installation at London Design Festival. Neil Hall / EPA
    A woman looks at an installation at London Design Festival. Neil Hall / EPA
  • A disaster management officer walks towards a bush fire near Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia. Antara Foto / Nova Wahyudi via Reuters
    A disaster management officer walks towards a bush fire near Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia. Antara Foto / Nova Wahyudi via Reuters
  • London-based artist Adam Nathaniel Furman poses with his artwork 'Gateways'. Neil Hall / EPA
    London-based artist Adam Nathaniel Furman poses with his artwork 'Gateways'. Neil Hall / EPA
  • A Sudanese soldier waves a baton as he walks in a procession during president Omar Al Bashir's tour of Nyala, the capital of South Darfur. Ashraf Shazly / AFP Photo
    A Sudanese soldier waves a baton as he walks in a procession during president Omar Al Bashir's tour of Nyala, the capital of South Darfur. Ashraf Shazly / AFP Photo
  • A worker carries new seats at the Rostov Arena in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don on September 21, 2017. The stadium will host five football matches of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. / AFP PHOTO / Mladen ANTONOV
    A worker carries new seats at the Rostov Arena in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don on September 21, 2017. The stadium will host five football matches of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. / AFP PHOTO / Mladen ANTONOV
  • epa06217786 Filipino protesters shout slogans during a protest rally at a park in Manila, Philippines, 21 September 2017. President Rodrigo Duterte declared 21 September a national day of protest to allow the public to exercise their right to express anger towards government abuses. Human rights groups and government organizations staged protest rallies in different parts of the country marking the 45th anniversary of the declaration of martial law. Former strongman Ferdinand Marcos imposed martial law for nine years from September 1972, during which thousands of people, most of them accused of being enemies of the state, were arrested, tortured, killed and disappeared. EPA/FRANCIS R. MALASIG
    epa06217786 Filipino protesters shout slogans during a protest rally at a park in Manila, Philippines, 21 September 2017. President Rodrigo Duterte declared 21 September a national day of protest to allow the public to exercise their right to express anger towards government abuses. Human rights groups and government organizations staged protest rallies in different parts of the country marking the 45th anniversary of the declaration of martial law. Former strongman Ferdinand Marcos imposed martial law for nine years from September 1972, during which thousands of people, most of them accused of being enemies of the state, were arrested, tortured, killed and disappeared. EPA/FRANCIS R. MALASIG
  • Hasten Begum, a Rohingya Muslim woman, walks back to her shelter after a visit to a clinic to have her sick daughter Noor Fatima treated, at Taiy Khali refugee camp, Bangladesh, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. More than 400,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh since Aug. 25, when deadly attacks by a Rohingya insurgent group on police posts prompted Myanmar's military to launch "clearance operations" in Rakhine state. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
    Hasten Begum, a Rohingya Muslim woman, walks back to her shelter after a visit to a clinic to have her sick daughter Noor Fatima treated, at Taiy Khali refugee camp, Bangladesh, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. More than 400,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh since Aug. 25, when deadly attacks by a Rohingya insurgent group on police posts prompted Myanmar's military to launch "clearance operations" in Rakhine state. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
  • epa06217819 A protester is silhouetted in teargas during clashes with riot police during a demonstration against the French government's labor reforms in Paris, France, 21 September 2017. Workers are staging protests around the country in France's major cities - becoming a weekly fixture - days before president Emmanuel Macron's reform is set to become law. Additionally, an estimated 2,000 members of the CRS riot police, usually tasked with policing such street protests, have taken the day off citing 'health reasons', to protest the fiscalization of their travel bonuses. EPA/ETIENNE LAURENT
    epa06217819 A protester is silhouetted in teargas during clashes with riot police during a demonstration against the French government's labor reforms in Paris, France, 21 September 2017. Workers are staging protests around the country in France's major cities - becoming a weekly fixture - days before president Emmanuel Macron's reform is set to become law. Additionally, an estimated 2,000 members of the CRS riot police, usually tasked with policing such street protests, have taken the day off citing 'health reasons', to protest the fiscalization of their travel bonuses. EPA/ETIENNE LAURENT

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