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IRAQ - UNDATED: (FILE PHOTO) In this undated photo, Saddam Hussein helps his daughter, Ragad, during a visit with family friends on the outskirts of Baghdad. Raghad Saddam Hussein and Rana Saddam Hussein, daughters of Saddam Hussein, and their nine children arrived in the Jordan July 31, 2003 from Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, said Information Minister Nabil al-Sharif. King Abdullah II of Jordan ordered them to be allowed into the country. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Norway, coastline near Alta. Reindeer waiting for the boat that will bring them to the island. They will stay there, because of more and better food, untill september, when they will be back on the mountains.

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A supporter sports a homemade Trump jacket during a rally in the final city of the President Elect's "Thank You" tour at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile, AL on Saturday, December 17, 2016.

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Jonathan Caines poses in a traditional hobbyhorse costume in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada on Saturday, December 19, 2015.

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Young members of the Libyan forces affiliated to the Tripoli government chat while holding defensive position within a school in Sirte, Libya, September, 2016.(Manu Brabo/MeMo)

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Tonina is a woman in her fifties. At the age of three she was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy.

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HAITI, Port au Prince, July 2016
GISELE, 20 years old:

"My cousin told me that I had bad luck, that something was wrong with me. A friend of my parents said that he was a mason and therefore could help remove the ?bad eye?. He took me to an isolated place and asked me to get naked. He touched me and raped me. I even gave him 1000 gourds. I told my family what happened. Now he is hiding, and he is under the protection of a women judge. I want justice to be done. I also know he is a recidivist. He did the same to two little girls from my neighbourhood. The parents are scared so they don?t do anything. Both girls are 15 and 12."

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Baruch Osorno (Mexique).
Homme Medecine porteur de la Tradition Azteque
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Italy. Rome. A group of nuns at the entrance to the Vatican take pictures and ask questions of the Swiss Guard on duty there. 2013

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Brother Daniel at Buckfast Abbey. "I wanted to portray religion in a positive light," Bourne said. "A monastic vocation or devotion of life to a spiritual service can be found in Buddhism, Hinduism, etc., and so the work primarily aims to highlight the beauty of this service."

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Policemen block the road near a home for asylum seekers in Emmerich, western Germany, on December 22, 2016.
Police have searched a refugee centre in Emmerich, western Germany, where the prime suspect in Berlin's deadly truck attack Tunisian Anis Amri stayed a few months ago.

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TOPSHOT - Syrians walk down a destroyed street in Aleppo's al-Akroub neighbourhood on December 17, 2016. / AFP / Youssef KARWASHAN (Photo credit should read YOUSSEF KARWASHAN/AFP/Getty Images)

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Police accompany a woman as they attend the scene where a house was raided at Meadow Heights in Melbourne, Australia, Friday, Dec. 23, 2016. Police in Australia detained five suspects who were allegedly planning a series of Christmas Day bomb attacks in the heart of the country's second largest city, officials said Friday. (Julian Smith/AAP Image via AP)

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Russian T-90A tanks roll at the Red Square during the Victory Day military parade general rehearsal in Moscow on May 7, 2016 / AFP / KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV (Photo credit should read KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP/Getty Images)

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Police patrol inside the Christmas market area and past the destroyed booths two days after an attack with a truck in front of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedaechtniskirche (Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church) in Berlin on December 21, 2016.
German police on December 21, 2016 stepped up their hunt for the driver of a truck that ploughed through a Berlin Christmas market, in a deadly assault claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group.

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US President Barack Obama (R) meets his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin (L) in Los Cabos, Mexico, on June 18, 2012, during the G20 leaders Summit. Obama met today Putin at a G20 summit to discuss differences over what to do about the bloody conflict in Syria. AFP PHOTO/ RIA-NOVOSTI POOL / ALEXEI NIKOLSKY (Photo credit should read ALEXEI NIKOLSKY/AFP/GettyImages)

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Turkish soldiers on a tank and Kurdish people look at the Syrian town of Ain al-Arab, known as Kobane by the Kurds, from a hill at the Turkish-Syrian border, in the southeastern Turkish village of Mursitpinar, Sanliurfa province, on October 11, 2014. Kurdish fighters halted a thrust by Islamic State group jihadists toward the heart of the battleground Syrian town of Kobane on October 11, after the UN warned thousands of civilians risked massacre. ARIS MESSINIS/AFP/Getty Images)

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A picture shows coral reefs in the lagoon of the Toau atoll, about 400 kilometres (250 miles) from Tahiti in the Tuamotu Archipelago in the French polynesia, on October 18, 2015. AFP PHOTO / GREGORY BOISSY (Photo credit should read GREGORY BOISSY/AFP/Getty Images)

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IRAQ - UNDATED: (FILE PHOTO) In this undated photo, Saddam Hussein helps his daughter, Ragad, during a visit with family friends on the outskirts of Baghdad. Raghad Saddam Hussein and Rana Saddam Hussein, daughters of Saddam Hussein, and their nine children arrived in the Jordan July 31, 2003 from Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, said Information Minister Nabil al-Sharif. King Abdullah II of Jordan ordered them to be allowed into the country. (Photo by Getty Images)

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LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 22: In this handout provided by The White House, President Barack Obama, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and First Lady Michelle Obama talks with Prince George at Kensington Palace on April 22, 2016 in London, England. The President and his wife are currently on a brief visit to the UK where they attended lunch with HM Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle and later dinner with Prince William and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge at Kensington Palace. Mr Obama visited 10 Downing Street this afternoon and held a joint press conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron where he stated his case for the UK to remain inside the European Union. (Photo by Pete Souza/The White House via Getty Images)

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NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 11: Anderson Cooper and Kelly Ripa present an award to CNN Superhero and 2012 CNN Hero of the Year Pushpa Basnet onstage during the CNN Heroes Gala 2016 at the American Museum of Natural History on December 11, 2016 in New York City.
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Thirteen year old Nepalese villager Sarswati Biswokarma sits inside a "chhaupadi house" in the village of Achham, some 800kms west of Kathmandu on November 23, 2011. Isolation is part of a centuries-old Hindu ritual known as chhaupadi which is blamed for prolongued depression, young women's deaths and high infant mortality rates in remote, impoverished western Nepal. Under the practice women are prohibited from participating in normal family activities during menstruation and after childbirth. AFP PHOTO/Prakash MATHEMA (Photo credit should read PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP/Getty Images)

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Ankara, TURKEY: Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari (C) shakes hands with officials upon his arrival at Ankara's airport, 28 February 2006. Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari began talks with Turkish leaders on bilateral ties and sectarian violence in his war-torn country which Ankara sees as a possible threat to Iraq's unity. AFP PHOTO/STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks at the United Nations General Assembly on September 30, 2015, in New York City.

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Chacha, the male chimp, screams at a worker in Sendai, northern Japan, Thursday, April 14, 2016 after fleeing from a zoo. The chimpanzee tried desperately to avoid being captured by climbing an electric pole. Chacha was on the loose nearly two hours Thursday after it disappeared from the Yagiyama Zoological Park in Sendai, the city that's hosting finance ministers from the Group of Seven industrialized nations in May. (Kyodo News via AP) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT

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Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, left, is all smiles as he greets Zimabwean President Robert Mugabe on Sunday.

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Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani speaks during a joint press conference at the White House in Washington, DC, March 24, 2015.

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Palestinain chief negotiator Ahmed Qorei speaks during a press conference at his office in the West Bank Jerusalem suburb of Abu Dis on March 15, 2010. (Photo credit: AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images)

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WILTSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM - JUNE 21: People watch the midsummer sun as it rises over the megalithic monument of Stonehenge on June 21, 2005 on Salisbury Plain, England. Crowds gathered at the ancient stone circle to celebrate the Summer Solstice; the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

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In this handout image provided by the Spanish Royal Palace, King Juan Carlos of Spain signs papers to confirm his abdication on June 02, 2014 in Madrid, Spain

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Rescuers and civilians inspect a destroyed building in the Syrian village of Kfar Jales, on the outskirts of Idlib, following air strikes by Syrian and Russian warplanes on November 16, 2016.
Syrian and Russian warplanes bombed rebel-held areas in Aleppo and Idlib province overnight, a monitor said, a day after Moscow announced a fresh offensive against opponents of its Damascus ally.

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TOPSHOT - A picture shows ruins covered in snow in the town of Maaret al-Numan, in Syria's northern province of Idlib, on December 21, 2016.
Rebels and civilians who have sought refuge in the opposition-held province of Idlib, most recently from second city Aleppo, say they are suffering from skyrocketing prices and overpopulation. At least 25,000 people, including rebel fighters, have left east Aleppo since last week under an evacuation deal that will see the city come under full government control.

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TOPSHOT - A picture shows ruins covered in snow in the town of Maaret al-Numan, in Syria's northern province of Idlib, on December 21, 2016.
Rebels and civilians who have sought refuge in the opposition-held province of Idlib, most recently from second city Aleppo, say they are suffering from skyrocketing prices and overpopulation. At least 25,000 people, including rebel fighters, have left east Aleppo since last week under an evacuation deal that will see the city come under full government control.

/ AFP / Mohamed al-Bakour (Photo credit should read MOHAMED AL-BAKOUR/AFP/Getty Images)

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Security and rescue workers tend to the area after a lorry truck ploughed through a Christmas market on December 20, 2016 in Berlin, Germany. So far 12 people are confirmed dead and 45 injured. Authorities have confirmed they believe the incident was an attack and have arrested a Pakistani man who they believe was the driver of the truck and who had fled immediately after the attack. Among the dead are a Polish man who was found on the passenger seat of the truck. Police are investigating the possibility that the truck, which belongs to a Polish trucking company, was stolen yesterday morning.

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BERLIN, GERMANY - DECEMBER 20: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier depart after laying flowers near where yesterday a lorry ploughed through a Christmas market on December 20, 2016 in Berlin, Germany. So far 12 people are confirmed dead and 45 injured. Authorities have confirmed they believe the incident was an attack and have arrested a Pakistani man who they believe was the driver of the truck and who had fled immediately after the attack. Among the dead are a Polish man who was found on the passenger seat of the truck. Police are investigating the possibility that the truck, which belongs to a Polish trucking company, was stolen yesterday morning. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

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An unnamed gunman gestures after shooting the Russian Ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, at a photo gallery in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, Dec. 19, 2016. The Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman said he was hospitalized with a gunshot wound. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

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