Shanghai in a sea of clouds, a photographer arrested at a Trump rally, the new World Trade Center transportation hub in New York, protests in Honduras and Venezuela, tearing down “the Jungle” in Calais, the Tungurahua Volcano erupting in Ecuador, the Arabian Oryx Sanctuary in the UAE, and much more.
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A three month old puma cub, Prince Foru, in the village of Borisovka, near the city of Ussuriysk, Russia, on February 28, 2016. The animal traveled some 7,600 kilometers by plane from the city of Krasnodar in southwest Russia to Moscow, and from Moscow to Vladivostok, on Russia's Pacific Coast within 24 hours. The owners who run a local zoo, Chudesny, are currently keeping the animal in their home and plan to transfer the cub to the zoo after a while. #
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A migrant walks past burning shacks, in the southern part of the "Jungle" migrant camp, as half of the camp is being dismantled, in the French northern port city of Calais, on March 1, 2016. In the northern French port city of Calais, tensions were high as officials razed part of the Jungle camp, and others burned shacks to protest the evictions. #
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A journalist wears virtual reality headgear outside the Great Hall of the People where the opening session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) was held in Beijing, China, on March 3, 2016. #
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Russia’s Soyuz TMA-18M space capsule carrying International Space Station crew members prepares to land in a remote area outside the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on March 2, 2016. U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko returned to Earth on Wednesday after spending almost a year in space in a ground-breaking experiment foreshadowing a potential manned mission to Mars. #
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K-9 Officer Sergeant Yevgeniya Shvetsel with a German Shepherd named Zhasmin at the canine training center of the North Caucasus regional command of the Russian Interior Ministry's Internal Troops, on March 2, 2016. #
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Cardboard cutouts of the faces of three candidates for the Republican nomination for the 2016 US Presidential election, Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, and Marco Rubio, set up on urinals in a pub in London on March 1, 2016 as part of an informal poll for customers to log which they dislike the most. Part of the satirical television show The Last Leg, customers at the pub are able to choose which urinal to use and then log their poll on a list on the wall afterwards. #
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A man covered with plastic bag for protection from the wind and cold, fishes through an ice hole in the Finnish Gulf west of St.Petersburg, Russia, on March 1, 2016. #
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Two people walk towards metal bars marking the United States border where it meets the Pacific Ocean on March 2, 2016, in Tijuana, Mexico. Former Mexican President Vicente Fox on Wednesday stood by his comparison of Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, saying the Republican presidential front-runner “believes in the white supremacy.” Fox is calling on Americans to “wake up” from “this Republican nightmare.” #
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An activist pushes the shields of policemen during a protest near the EDSA Shrine along a highway in Manila on February 25, 2016, commemorating the 30th anniversary of a bloodless popular revolt that ended the iron rule of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986. Philippine President Benigno Aquino urged voters on February 25 to stamp out the stunning political resurgence of Ferdinand Marcos' family, as the nation marked 30 years since a “People Power” uprising toppled the late dictator. #
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Defendant Nils D hides his face as he arrives at court on March 4, 2016, in Duesseldorf, Germany. The Duesseldorf Higher Regional Court convicted the 25-year-old German national for joining ISIS and working for its secret police, sentencing him to 4.5 years in prison. #
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An Arabian Oryx in the Arabian Oryx Sanctuary in Umm Al-Zamool, 290 kilometers south of Abu Dhabi, near the border with Oman and Saudi Arabia, on March 1, 2016. The sanctuary which is reserve for many different animals stretches over an estimated area of 8,900 square kilometers and currently hosts nearly 155 Arabian Oryx, which were reintroduced into the its natural habitat in the U.A.E in a five-year conservation plan launched by the U.A.E's late ruler Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. #
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Riot policemen extinguish a fire during the dismantling of half of the “Jungle” migrant camp in the French northern port city of Calais, on February 29, 2016. Two bulldozers and around 20 workers began destroying makeshift shacks, with 30 police cars and two anti-riot vans stationed nearby. #
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Students set a vehicle of the state company Petroleos de Venezuela on fire during a protest against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government, following the Supreme Court's decision to limit the opposition-controlled National Assembly powers, in San Cristobal, Venezuela, on March 3, 2016. #
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Riot police shoot tear gas at students protesting in Tegucigalpa against the murder of indigenous activist Berta Caceres, in La Esperanza, 200 kilometers northwest of the capital, on March 3, 2016. Caceres, a respected environmentalist who won the prestigious Goldman Prize last year for her outspoken advocacy, was murdered in her home on Thursday, her family said. #
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Spanish-born architect Santiago Calatrava poses for a portrait during a media tour of the World Trade Center transportation hub in New York City on February 25, 2016. The soaring, white transportation hub opening next week at the World Trade Center was designed to evoke a bird in flight, but it is hatching under a cloud. The head of the bi-state agency that controls the hub has blasted it as a “symbol of excess,” with runaway costs approaching $4 billion. #
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Iraqi girls hold makeshift white flags as they flee with their families a military operation by Iraqi security personnel aimed at retaking areas from Islamic State group jihadists, in the desert west of the city of Samarra on March 3, 2016. Counter-terrorism forces, soldiers, police, and allied paramilitaries are taking part in an operation launched on March 1, which is backed by artillery and both Iraqi and US-led coalition aircraft, aimed at retaking areas north of Baghdad, according to the Joint Operations Command. #
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In this image taken from Security Camera footage obtained by Turkish TV company DHA, two women are shown as they attack police in Istanbul, Turkey, on March 3, 2016. The two women attacked the police with gunfire and a grenade Thursday and then fled the scene to hide inside a building before being killed by police, an official said. Two police officers are reportedly slightly injured. #
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Former French Prime Ministers Alain Juppe (rear center) and Jean-Pierre Raffarin (left), holding a lamb, visit the French annual farm show, Salon International de l'Agriculture, on March 3, 2016 in Paris. #
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A supporter of the youth wing of India’s opposition Congress Party holds a portrait of the Indian independence leader and renowned pacifist, Mahatma Gandhi, as police use water canons to stop protesters from marching towards Indian Parliament during a protest in New Delhi, India, on March 2, 2016. The protest was against a statement given by Smriti Irani, India’s Human Resource Development Minister, in the Indian Parliament during a debate on recent student protests in the country. #
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A Syrian rebel fighter from the Failaq al-Rahman brigade comes out of a hiding position on the frontline against regime forces in the town of Arbin, eastern Ghouta region, on the outskirts of the capital Damascus on February 26, 2016. #
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A picture taken through a hole in a wall on February 27, 2016, shows cars driving at night past damaged buildings. Forces loyal to Libya's internationally recognized parliament retook the center of the eastern coastal city of Benghazi following fierce fighting with armed groups including ISIS jihadists. #
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Journalist Christopher Morris is arrested by police during a rally for Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, at Radford University in Radford, Virginia, on February 29, 2016. #
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