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In this August 20, 2019 drone photo released by the Corpo de Bombeiros de Mato Grosso, brush fires burn in Guaranta do Norte municipality, Mato Grosso state, Brazil. Brazil's National Institute for Space Research, a federal agency monitoring deforestation and wildfires, said the country has seen a record number of wildfires this year. (Photo: AP)

Horrific pictures of Amazon forest fire in Brazil

Horrific pictures of Amazon forest fire in Brazil

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In this August 20, 2019 drone photo released by the Corpo de Bombeiros de Mato Grosso, brush fires burn in Guaranta do Norte municipality, Mato Grosso state, Brazil. Brazil's National Institute for Space Research, a federal agency monitoring deforestation and wildfires, said the country has seen a record number of wildfires this year. (Photo: AP)

Horrific pictures of Amazon forest fire in Brazil

Protesters turned Hong Kong streets into rivers of umbrellas Sunday as they marched from a packed park and filled a major road in Hong Kong, where mass pro-democracy demonstrations have become a regular weekend activity over the summer. (Photo: AP)

'No withdrawal, no dispersal': Protests continue for democracy in Hong Kong

Muslim pilgrims circumambulate around the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, ahead of the Hajj pilgrimage in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The Hajj occurs once a year during the Islamic lunar month of Dhul-Hijja, the 12th and final month of the Islamic calendar year. (Photo: AP)

Annual pilgrimage of Hajj, 2019

A traditional healer holds a bottle filled with spiritual wine to show gratitude to the gods during a Poro ritual. (Photo: AFP)

Sierra Leone's secret societies

The great british beer festival is taking place in London. (Photo: AFP)

08 Aug 2019 6:26 PM

Festivals around the world

Flowers and a Virgin Mary painting adorn a makeshift memorial for the victims of Saturday mass shooting at a shopping complex in El Paso, Texas. (Photo: AP)

06 Aug 2019 1:51 PM

Aftermath of weekend mass shooting: US

In this image taken on Thursday August 1, 2019 melt water flows into the fjord near Kangerlussaq in western Greenland. The heat wave that smashed high temperature records in five European countries a week ago is now over Greenland, accelerating the melting of the island's ice sheet and causing massive ice loss in the Arctic. (Photo: AP)

03 Aug 2019 5:26 PM

Greenland's global warming woes

Children plays on a seesaw installed between the steel fence that divides Mexico from the United States in Ciudad de Juarez, Mexico, Sunday. The seesaw was designed by Ronald Rael, a professor of architecture in California. (Photo: AP)

01 Aug 2019 7:04 PM

Life as a Mexico migrant

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed created the initiative to help restore Ethiopia's landscape, which experts say is being eroded by deforestation and climate change. (Photo: Twitter/@PMEthiopia)

31 Jul 2019 6:25 PM

Plants 350 million trees in 12 hours, breaks world record: Ethiopia

2-month-old Lahya Kathembo is carried by a nurse waiting for test results at an Ebola treatment center in Beni, Congo. Lahya became an orphan in a day. Her mother succumbed to Ebola on a Saturday morning. By sunset her father was dead. Her tests came back negative for Ebola. (Photo: AP)

30 Jul 2019 4:41 PM

The Ebola epidemic: Congo

India, with around 3,000 tigers, is one of safest habitats for tigers, PM Modi said on Monday as he released the All India Tiger Estimation Report 2018. (Photo: AP)

29 Jul 2019 6:27 PM

International Tiger Day 2019: In and around the globe

President Donald Trump gestures as he greets Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan as he arrives at the White House, Monday, July 22, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

23 Jul 2019 11:30 AM

Pak PM Imran Khan meets US President Donald Trump

The crew of the Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, module pilot; Edwin E. 'Buzz' Aldrin, lunar module pilot. Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to the surface of the moon. (Photo: NASA | AP)

20 Jul 2019 12:28 PM

Apollo 11, 50: One step for man

Paris hosted the traditional fireworks on the Eiffel Tower on Sunday, July 14 to celebrate the French national day, Bastille Day. (Photo: AP)

15 Jul 2019 4:26 PM

France celebrates 230th Bastille Day on July 14

President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walk on the North Korean side in the Demilitarized Zone, Sunday, June 30, 2019 at Panmunjom. (Photo: AP)

30 Jun 2019 2:13 PM

US scripts history: Donald Trump meets Kim Jong-un in Demilitarized Zone

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, other leaders and delegates attend a family photo session at G-20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, June 28, 2019. (Photo: AP)

28 Jun 2019 5:26 PM

G-20 Summit 2019: World leaders meet in Japan's Osaka

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