TIME magazine (USA) has just selected photos depicting 2016, which according to them was covered by the refugee crisis, conflict in Syria, Brexit and Donald Trump.
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| On November 8, billionaire Donald Trump was elected US president to the surprise and shock of the whole world. The photo above was taken on the morning of November 9, when White House staff gathered in the Rose Garden to listen to President Barack Obama speak about the election results the night before. Photo: AP |
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| David Cameron's children stand outside 10 Downing Street as he announces his resignation. The former British prime minister staked his political career on persuading Britons not to leave the EU (Brexit), and he resigned after 52% of the population voted for Brexit. Photo: AFP |
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| Cuban students grieve the passing of leader Fidel Castro. The successful leader of the Cuban revolution died on November 25 at the age of 90. Photo: New York Times. |
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| On March 20, Mr. Obama became the first US president to set foot in Cuba in 88 years, ending half a century of hostility between the two countries separated by only a strait. This was the first time Cubans saw the sight of the US president's Air Force One flying over Havana. In 1928, former US president Calvin Coolidge arrived in Cuba on a warship. Photo: Reuters. |
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| On June 30, Rodrigo Duterte took office as president of the Philippines, promising to wipe out drugs in the country. As of October, more than 3,500 people had died in President Duterte’s war on drugs, many of whom were shot to death without trial. Criticism from Western countries and human rights watchdogs has caused tension between Duterte and many world leaders. Photo: Reuters. |
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| 2016 began and ended with the conflict in Syria still in limbo. While the US and Russia have yet to find a common voice to resolve this conflict, Syria remains a battleground for President Bashar al-Assad's government, rebel groups and the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS). In this photo, a Syrian boy cries next to the body of his relative in the city of Aleppo. In the last week of November and the beginning of December alone, 500 people are said to have died in this city. Photo: AFP. |
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| Tens of thousands of South Sudanese queue for food distribution from the International Committee of the Red Cross. Conflict since 2015 has left many areas of South Sudan unable to grow crops, leading to widespread food shortages. Photo: Getty. |
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| Conflict and poverty hotspots around the world have led to waves of migration to developed countries and sparked anti-migrant and anti-refugee sentiment there. Populist politicians like Donald Trump of the US or Marine Le Pen of France are the ones who benefit from this discontent. In this photo, migrants from Libya wait to be rescued in the middle of the Mediterranean. Tens of thousands of people have died trying to cross this sea to Europe on wooden boats run by human traffickers. Photo: AP. |
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| Scientists from NASA and the University of California at Irvine (USA) recently said that the West Antarctic ice sheet is melting at the fastest rate they have ever tracked and this melting process is irreversible. On October 16, in the capital Kigali of Rwanda, nearly 200 countries, including the US and China, approved an agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Photo: Getty. |
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| The "supermoon" shines behind people riding on the swings at an amusement park in London, England on November 13. Photo: Reuters. |
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