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Portugal's forward Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates a goal after shooting a penalty kick during the Russia 2018 World Cup Group B football match between Portugal and Spain at the Fisht Stadium in Sochi on June 15, 2018. (Photo by Nelson Almeida / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - NO MOBILE PUSH ALERTS/DOWNLOADS (Photo credit should read NELSON ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty Images)

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

'Mummers' making a comeback

"The Afghans"

Boy Mohammad, got bullit in his leg, when he was a mujahedin.
Part of a self organized support group for the disabled in Mazar-e Sharif

The faces of Afghanistan

Zurab was born in a small village near Suxomi. He lost his sight as a small child when he was 2 years. As his parents told him, that he's got a critical illnes which made him lost his sight. During his first teenage years, Zurab moved with his parents to tbilis and started to attend the school for blind people. He was already living in a dormish accomodation in ponichala, seperated from his parents while he went to the school. Right after his graduation, Zurab started to work in the facilities in ponichal and he never went to some other place since he first moved to ponichala.

'Leftovers from a fallen society'

China, Guizhou, Yeli Village - March 2015
Yu Guojiang (63 years) bringing manure to his field. Credit: Michele Palazzi/Contrasto/Redux

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Rigobert Youmbi from Cameroon poses for a photo when wearing a body paint in the Russian color prior to the opening match between Russia and Saudi Arabia during the 2018 soccer World Cup at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, June 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

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Washington Capitals left wing Alex Ovechkin, of Russia, hoists the Stanley Cup after the Capitals defeated the Golden Knights in Game 5 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Finals Thursday, June 7, 2018, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

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CHICAGO, IL - JUNE 01: Taylor Swift performs onstage during the 2018 reputation Stadium Tour at Soldier Field on June 1, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by John Shearer/TAS18/Getty Images)

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NEW YORK, NY - MAY 30: Aaron Judge #99 of the New York Yankees has his batting helmet knocked off by a foul ball during the third inning against the Houston Astros at Yankee Stadium on May 30, 2018 in the Bronx borough of New York City. (Photo by Adam Hunger/Getty Images)

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Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn presides over the annual royal ploughing ceremony outside Bangkok's royal palace on May 14.

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U.S. Border Patrol agents take a father and son from Honduras into custody near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 near Mission, Texas. The asylum seekers were then sent to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) processing center for possible separation. U.S. border authorities are executing the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy towards undocumented immigrants. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions also said that domestic and gang violence in immigrants' country of origin would no longer qualify them for political-asylum status. John Moore/Getty Images

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Japan protests South Korean military drills near contested islands

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MCALLEN, TX - JUNE 12: A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 in McAllen, Texas. The asylum seekers had rafted across the Rio Grande from Mexico and were detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents before being sent to a processing center for possible separation. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is executing the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy towards undocumented immigrants. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions also said that domestic and gang violence in immigrants' country of origin would no longer qualify them for political asylum status. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

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A building is seen on fire during riots in Papua New Guinea's Southern Highlands province.

Papua New Guinea declares 9-month state of emergency due to riots

ADANA, TURKEY - JUNE 01: Leader of Turkey's Iyi (Good) Party and presidential candidate, Meral Aksener speaks to supporters at a rally on June 1, 2018 in Adana, Turkey. Meral Aksener and party members campaigned in Hatay, Adana and surrounding areas ahead of the June 24, 2018 parliamentary and presidential elections. Aksener is one of six candidates contesting the snap elections called by Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

'Mother Meral': The woman trying to drive Turkey's Erdogan from office

ADANA, TURKEY - JUNE 01: Leader of Turkey's Iyi (Good) Party and presidential candidate, Meral Aksener speaks to supporters at a rally on June 1, 2018 in Adana, Turkey. Meral Aksener and party members campaigned in Hatay, Adana and surrounding areas ahead of the June 24, 2018 parliamentary and presidential elections. Aksener is one of six candidates contesting the snap elections called by Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Turkey's 'she wolf' promises change

A relative of one of the victims of the night club "Los Cotorros" -where a tear gas grenade was detonated- waits outside the morgue in Caracas on June 16, 2018. - Seventeen people, including eight minors, were killed after a brawl broke out during a middle school graduation party and someone detonated the tear gas, sending more than 500 people rushing for the exits (Photo by Federico PARRA / AFP) (Photo credit should read FEDERICO PARRA/AFP/Getty Images)

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Rescue boat carrying migrants from off the coast of Libya.

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epa06815348 Afghan security officials inspect the scene of a suicide bombing that targeted the participants of a meeting between Taliban militants and the Governor of Nangarhar province, outside the Governor's office in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, 17 June 2018. According to media reports, ten people were killed and dozens injured in an explosion outside the governor's office in the eastern province of Nangarhar as participants were leaving after a meeting to discuss ceasefire between the Afghan government and Talibans. The Taliban on 17 June ordered its fighters not to visit areas controlled by the Afghan government, a day after an attack by the Islamic State terror group against a gathering of insurgents and civilians left 36 dead. EPA/GHULAMULLAH HABIBI ATTENTION: GRAPHIC CONTENT

Afghan-Taliban ceasefires are marred by another mass killing -- and it's not clear who's responsible

FILES) -- A screengrab taken on July 13, 2014 from a video released by the Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram and obtained by AFP shows the leader of the Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau (C). Boko Haram gunmen killed 48 fish vendors in Nigeria's restive Borno State, near the border with Chad, the head of the fish traders association told AFP on November 25, 2014. "Scores of Boko Haram fighters blocked a route linking Nigeria with Chad near the fishing village of Doron Baga on the shores of Lake Chad on Thursday and killed a group of 48 fish traders on their way to Chad to buy fish, " Abubakar Gamandi said. AFP PHOTO / BOKO HARAM

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Pope Francis prays during a weekly general audience in St Peter's square on May 23, 2018 in Vatican.

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The Aquarius rescue ship enters the port of Valencia on June 17, 2018. - The 630 migrants whose rescue sparked a major migration row in Europe began disembarking in Spain after a turbulent week that saw Italy turn away the Aquarius ship. (Photo by Pau Barrena / AFP) (Photo credit should read PAU BARRENA/AFP/Getty Images)

Hundreds of migrants turned away by Italy arrive in Spain

Women and children migrants who were rescued sleep on board the Aquarius in the "shelter" - an indoor space to shield them from the weather, on June 14, 2018. Most are suffering from sea sickness and are being treated by the MSF medical team with sea sickess medications.

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DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - SEPTEMBER 27: General view of Burj Khalifa during a heavy fog on September 27, 2017 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by Tom Dulat/Getty Images)

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Relatives of the victims of the night club "Los Cotorros" -where a tear gas grenade was detonated earlier today- wait outside the morgue in Caracas on June 16, 2018. - Seventeen people, including eight minors, were killed after a brawl broke out during a middle school graduation party and someone detonated the tear gas, sending more than 500 people rushing for the exits (Photo by Federico PARRA / AFP) (Photo credit should read FEDERICO PARRA/AFP/Getty Images)

17 dead after Venezuela nightclub violence

Stranded migrants disembark in Spain

A taxi driver was detained after hitting pedestrians in central Moscow on Saturday.

Taxi hits pedestrians in Moscow amid World Cup festivities

Taxi driver detained after hitting pedestrians in central Moscow. Moscow police said Saturday they had detained a person who drove a taxi onto a sidewalk in a crowded area of central Moscow, saying the driver apparently lost control of the vehicle.

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Alleged Taliban militants meets Afghan people as a group of Taliban visits to greet people as a goodwill gesture amid a three-day ceasefire on second day of Eid al-Fitr, in Ghazni, Afghanistan, 16 June 2018.

Eid celebrations in Afghanistan marred by deadly bombing

Taxi driver detained after hitting pedestrians in central Moscow. Moscow police said Saturday they had detained a person who drove a taxi onto a sidewalk in a crowded area of central Moscow, saying the driver apparently lost control of the vehicle.

Police: Taxi strikes pedestrians in Moscow

Angelina Jolie visits war-torn Mosul one year after its liberation from ISIS

Yemeni pro-government forces gather at the south of Hodeida airport, in Yemen's Hodeida province on June 15, 2018. - Yemen's rebel chief urged his forces to fight on against pro-government troops pressing a Saudi-backed offensive to retake the key aid hub of Hodeida, as the UN called for the Red sea port to be kept open. (Photo by - / AFP) (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)

Thousands evacuate as battle intensifies near Yemen airport

Italian official warns migrant ships not to dock as migrant supporters rally in Rome

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Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz attends a joint press statement with German chancellor at the Chancellery in Berlin, on June 12, 2018, as Austria prepares to take over the rotating presidency of the EU. (Photo by John MACDOUGALL / AFP) (Photo credit should read JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images)

Austria's Sebastian Kurz, a rock star to conservatives, walks a 'thin red line' in Europe

Demonstrators clash with riot police during protests in Monimbo neighborhood in Masaya, some 40km from Managua on June 2, 2018. - The death toll from weeks of violent unrest in Nicaragua rose to almost 100 as embattled President Daniel Ortega rejected calls to step down and the Catholic church, which has tried to mediate the conflict, refused to resume the dialogue. (Photo by INTI OCON / AFP) (Photo credit should read INTI OCON/AFP/Getty Images)

Nicaragua government agrees to international probe into deadly protests

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GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - JUNE 16: Fire fighters battle a blaze at the Mackintosh Building at the Glasgow School of Art for the second time in four years on June 16, 2018 in Glasgow, Scotland. In May 2014 it was devastated by a huge fire leading to a multi-million pound restoration due to complete in 2019. It was built in the late 1890's by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, then a junior draughtsman, and is widely considered to be his masterpiece. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

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Hawaii lava flow seen from the air

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on the North Lawn of the White House, Friday, June 15, 2018, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Trump jokes about Kim Jong Un's dictatorship

Yemeni pro-government forces gather at the south of Hodeida airport, in Yemen's Hodeida province on June 15, 2018. - Yemen's rebel chief urged his forces to fight on against pro-government troops pressing a Saudi-backed offensive to retake the key aid hub of Hodeida, as the UN called for the Red sea port to be kept open. (Photo by - / AFP) (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)

Civilians in Yemen port city fear all-out battle as Saudi coalition closes in

A picture taken on April 21, 2018, shows the shattered rear window of the Red Cross vehicle that was carrying Red Cross employee Hanna Lahoud, parked outside a hospital in the country's third-city of Taiz. - A Red Cross employee was killed in Yemen's southern city of Taez, an ICRC spokesman said, after a gunman had opened fire on an ICRC vehicle in the Zabab district in the west of the city.
The aid worker was killed by multiple gunshots to the heart, according to a hospital source who spoke on condition of anonymity. (Photo by Ahmad AL-BASHA / AFP) (Photo credit should read AHMAD AL-BASHA/AFP/Getty Images)

Red Cross employee killed in an attack in Yemen

ALEXANDRIA, VA - OCTOBER 13:
Reverend Michael Curry, the incoming presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, sits at the Virginia Theological Seminary following the consecration of the newly built Immanuel Chapel on Tuesday, October 13, 2015, in Alexandria, VA. Curry, who is currently the Bishop of the Diocese of North Carolina, will become the first African American presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church.
(Photo by Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle asked an American bishop to preach at their wedding

Canada moves to make its national anthem gender-neutral

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

'Mummers' making a comeback

"The Afghans"

Boy Mohammad, got bullit in his leg, when he was a mujahedin.
Part of a self organized support group for the disabled in Mazar-e Sharif

The faces of Afghanistan

Zurab was born in a small village near Suxomi. He lost his sight as a small child when he was 2 years. As his parents told him, that he's got a critical illnes which made him lost his sight. During his first teenage years, Zurab moved with his parents to tbilis and started to attend the school for blind people. He was already living in a dormish accomodation in ponichala, seperated from his parents while he went to the school. Right after his graduation, Zurab started to work in the facilities in ponichal and he never went to some other place since he first moved to ponichala.

'Leftovers from a fallen society'

China, Guizhou, Yeli Village - March 2015
Yu Guojiang (63 years) bringing manure to his field. Credit: Michele Palazzi/Contrasto/Redux

Why China is moving millions to cities

Malaysian Muslims offer prayers during the first day of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, June 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Muslims celebrate Eid al-Fitr around the world

A family from the Chagos Islands that was separated because of immigration issues hopes to be reunited soon.

Chagos Islanders fight to keep families together