Palestinian women and children take part in a protest in the refugee camp of Ain el-Helwe on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon December 8, 2017 to denounce the widely criticised US decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. / AFP PHOTO / MAHMOUD ZAYYATMAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP/Getty Images
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epaselect epa06368039 Indian people in a boat feed the migratory birds on a smoggy morning on the banks of the Yamuna river in New Delhi, India, 05 December 2017. Migratory birds arrive in the winter season from different parts of India and neighboring countries and are expected to leave in March 2018. EPA/RAJAT GUPTA
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Pecking order Migratory birds wait for food on a smoggy morning on the banks of the Yamuna river in New Delhi, India

A motorists on Highway 101 watches flames from the Thomas fire leap above the roadway north of Ventura, Calif., on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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Fired earth Wildfires have laid waste to 141,000 acres in southern California in five days and forced thousands of people from their homes

Palestinian protesters evacuate a wounded demonstrator during clashes with Israeli troops following a protest against US President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, near the Jewish settlement of Beit El, near the West Bank city of Ramallah on December 7, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / ABBAS MOMANIABBAS MOMANI/AFP/Getty Images
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Day of rage Palestinians take a wounded colleague from clashes with Israeli forces during protests against the US decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital

This undated picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on December 3, 2017 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un visiting the Amnokgang Tire Factory in Chagang province. / AFP PHOTO / KCNA VIA KNS / - / South Korea OUT / REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT ---EDITORS NOTE--- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS THIS PICTURE WAS MADE AVAILABLE BY A THIRD PARTY. AFP CAN NOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, LOCATION, DATE AND CONTENT OF THIS IMAGE. THIS PHOTO IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY AFP. / -/AFP/Getty Images
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Big wheel Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s leader, enjoys a visit to the Amnokgang Tyre Factory in Chagang province, near the border with China

A man walks near Mount Sinabung as the volcano continues to erupt in Karo, Indonesia, 02 December 2017. Many residents in the area have been forced to relocate to other villages of Northern Sumatra -in a safer distance from the volcano, which is one of the most active in Indonesia. Mount Sinabung roared back to life in 2010 for the first time in 400 years, after another period of inactivity. It erupted once more in 2013, and has remained highly active ever since. Photo: Ivan Damanik/ZUMA Wire/dpa
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Hellfire and brimstone Mount Sinabung on the Indonesian island of Sumatra reminds the world that it remains active

Huthi rebel fighters are seen riding an armoured vehicle outside of the residence of Yemen's former President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa on December 4, 2017. Yemen's rebel-controlled interior ministry announced on December 4 the "killing" of the ex-president, as a video emerged showing what appeared to be Saleh's corpse. / AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED HUWAISMOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP/Getty Images
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Era ends Houthi rebels celebrate outside the Sana’a residence of Ali Abdullah Saleh after hearing that Yemen’s former president had been assassinated

Participants start in the 8th Edition of the Nautic SUP Paris Crossing stand up paddle competition on the river Seine in Paris, France, December 3, 2017. REUTERS/Charles Platiau - RC14DCEDB7A0
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Surface tension Paddle boarders compete in the eighth edition of the Nautic SUP Paris Crossing on the river Seine in Paris

Indian police gather to celebrate the Himachal Pradesh state police "raising day", 68 years after the force was introduced, in the northern hill town of Shimla on December 7, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / --/AFP/Getty Images
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Turban parade Himachal Pradesh police celebrate the appointment 68 years ago of their first chief in the north Indian hill town of Shimla

epa06368309 Ukrainian Security Service officers arrest the former Georgian president and ex-Odessa Governor Mikheil Saakashvili (C) in downtown Kiev, Ukraine, 05 December 2017. The leader of the Movement of New Forces Party Mikheil Saakashvili has been detained in Kyiv on the roof of a residential building housing his flat amid a raid by the SBU Security Service and the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine. Saakashvili was given a notice of suspicion connecting with the financing of the anti-government rally and tent camp near of Ukrainian Parliament as local media reported. EPA/STEPAN FRANKO
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Brief encounter Mikheil Saakashvili, the former Georgian leader who is at odds with Ukraine’s president, is arrested shortly before his supporters forced his release from a police van in Kiev

Bobo, a British Bulldog, takes a shower at The Wagington luxury pet hotel in Singapore December 6, 2017. REUTERS/Edgar Su TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC19E9E596A0
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Dog’s life Bobo, a British bulldog, takes a shower at the Wagington luxury pet hotel in Singapore

Parliamentary group leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), Andrea Nahles (R) fixes the tie of Leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), Martin Schulz during a party congress of Germany's Social Democrats in Berlin, on December 7, 2017. Germany's Social Democrats, who vowed to go into opposition after losing a September election to Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, hold a party congress to plot the way forward and possibly join her in another coalition government after all. / AFP PHOTO / Tobias SCHWARZTOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP/Getty Images
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Political fix Martin Schulz, leader of Germany’s Social Democrats, waits while his tie is straightened by Andrea Nahles, a colleague, during a party congress in Berlin

Nuria Soto Marques of Spain reaches for her leg prosthesis as she exits the pool after winning the women's 100M backstroke S9 final, during the World Para Swimming Championships in Mexico City, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017. The World Para Swimming and Para Powerlifting championships are taking place in Mexico's capital from Dec. 2 to Dec. 8.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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Gold standard Nuria Soto Marques of Spain in celebratory mood after winning the women’s 100 metres backstroke final at the World Para Swimming Championships in Mexico City

Indian Kashmiri villagers look out from a window during a funeral procession of a local militant Yawar Bashir at Hablish village of south Kashmirs Kulgam district on December 5, 2017. Three militants and an Indian army soldier were killed in a gunfight that erupted after militants attacked an army patrol on the Jammu-Srinagar highway in Bounigam area of Qazigund on December 4. Militants were caught alive in injured condition, officials said. / AFP PHOTO / Tauseef MUSTAFATAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP/Getty Images
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In the frame A funeral procession for Yawar Bashir, a suspected militant killed in a gun battle with Indian forces, passes villagers in the Kashmiri district of Kulgam

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