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Pedestrians cross the ancient Magdalena bridge over the ArgaRiver as the season's first snow falls in Pamplona, northern Spain, on Dec. 1.
Alvaro Barrientos / AP
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People walk on a wooden footbridge across a canal during an autumn day in Srinagar. REUTERS/Danish Ismail
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Michael Flynn leaves federal court after he pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI in Washington on Dec. 1. Flynn became the first Trump White House official to face criminal charges and admit guilt so far in the wide-ranging election investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller.Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images
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People reached out to pick baskets at a newly commissioned Shoprite store at NovareGateway mall Abuja, Nigeria. REUTERS/AfolabiSotunde
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Houthi supporters hang off an iron fence during a rally marking the birth anniversary of Islam's Prophet Mohammad in Sanaa, Yemen. REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayaghi
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Turkish micro artist Hasan Kale displays one of his art work on a feather at his office in Istanbul, Turkey. REUTERS/Murad Sezer
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A model wears a 110-carat circular diamond during a media preview for the 'Magnificent Jewels and Fine Jewels' auction at Sotheby's in New York. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
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French President Emmanuel Macron watches boxers as he visits a sports center in the Jamestown area in Accra, Ghana. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer
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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson departs after meetings with President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
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A man takes a break from lifting weights
at Matapi gym in Mbare township
outside Harare, Zimbabwe.
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Afghan police special forces take part in a military exercise in Logar province, Afghanistan. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani
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Queen Elizabeth visits the Canine Partners charity in Midhurst. REUTERS/Richard Pohle/Pool
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Armed Forces members walk past a police
station destroyed after a violent clashes
between drug dealers and police officers,
during an operation against drug gangs in
Barbante slums complex in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes
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A woman prays during the festival of Eid-e-Milad-ul-Nabi, the birth anniversary of the Islamic prophet Mohammad, at Hazratbalshrine in Srinagar. REUTERS/Danish Ismail
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An employee of Tate Britain poses for a photograph next to the Christmas art commission, Home for Christmas, by Alan Kane which is illuminated on the front of the gallery, in London. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls
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A man adjusts his costume at Tokyo Comic
Con at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan.
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Supporters of Salvador Nasralla, presidential candidate for the Opposition Alliance Against the Dictatorship, clash with riot police as they wait for official presidential election results in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. REUTERS/EdgardGarrido
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Gremio players celebrate atop their truck after winning the Copa Libertadores final against Argentina's Lanus. REUTERS/Diego VaraDec.1 , 2017
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TRUMP LIGHTS THE NATIONAL CHRISTMAS TREE
President Donald Trump and first lady MelaniaTrump participate in National Christmas Tree Lighting and Pageant of Peace ceremony with hosts Dean Cain and Kathy Lee Gifford. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
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First lady Melania Trump, with President Donald Trump and hosts Dean Cain (L) and Kathie Lee Gifford (2nd L), reacts after she pressed the button to light the tree. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
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President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump attend the National Christmas Tree Lighting and Pageant of Peace ceremony. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
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President Donald Trump and First Lady MelaniaTrump attend the National Christmas Tree Lighting and Pageant of Peace ceremony on the Ellipse near the White House in Washington. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
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President Donald Trump attends the National Christmas Tree Lighting and Pageant of Peace ceremony. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
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President Donald Trump and first lady MelaniaTrump, seated with Interior Secretary�Ryan Zinke(L), participate in the National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
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White House senior adviser Ivanka Trump sits
with husband and fellow senior adviser Jared
Kushner and their sons, Theodore and Joseph;
and Tiffany Trump, daughter of President
Donald Trump. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
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Donald Trump Jr takes a picture as he and his wife Vanessa attend the National Christmas Tree Lighting and Pageant of Peace ceremony. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
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Argentina's Matias Alemanno in action with
Ireland's Iain Henderson during the Rugby
Union's Autumn Internationals at Aviva
Stadium in Dublin, Republic of Ireland.
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President Trump boards Air Force One at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, before his departure back to Washington, U.S., December 2, 2017. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
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Reuters / Saturday, December 02, 2017A relative of Kimberly Fonseca, 19, who was shot during a protest, touches her coffin after the Honduras government enforced a curfew while still mired in chaos over a contested presidential election, outside morgue building in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. REUTERS/EdgardGarrido
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History enthusiasts dressed in period regimental costumes take part in a re-enactment of Napoleon's famous battle of Austerlitz to mark its 212th anniversary near Slavkov u Brna, Czech Republic, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
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People dance and sing in the Samba Train in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017. Hundreds of people have gathered at Rio de
Janeiro's main train station for Brazil's annual Samba Day festivities.
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A child leaps between rock platforms as the sun sets behind Lake Erie at the Erie Basin Marina, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017, in Buffalo, N.Y. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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Reuters / Sunday, December 03, 2017A supporter of Salvador Nasralla, presidential candidate for the Opposition Alliance Against the Dictatorship, puts a balloon on the shield of a soldier in a protest while the country is still mired in chaos over a contested presidential election in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. REUTERS/EdgardGarrido
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Visitors walk in the courtyard of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, on Dec. 3. Giuseppe Cacace / AFP - Getty Images
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Anti-government protestors gather around barricades in protest during a government imposed dawn-to-dusk curfew in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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The nation’s homeless population increased this year for the first time since 2010, driven by a surge in the number of people living on the streets in Los Angeles and other West Coast cities.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development released its annual Point in Time count Wednesday, a report that showed nearly 554,000 homeless people across the country during local tallies conducted in January. That figure is up nearly 1 percent from 2016.
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Homeless tents are dwarfed by skyscrapers as 63-year-old Vincent, who only gave his first name, sorts his belongings Friday, Dec. 1, 2017, in Los Angeles. Vincent said he thought he was bulletproof and never had to worry about getting a job as a young man. "Things ain't the way they were anymore." The U.S. Department on Housing and Urban Development release of the 2017 homeless numbers are expected to show a dramatic increase in the number of people lacking shelter along the West Coast. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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Of that total, 193,000 people had no access to nightly shelter and instead were staying in vehicles, tents, the streets and other places considered uninhabitable. The unsheltered figure is up by more than 9 percent compared to two years ago.
Increases are higher in several West Coast cities, where the explosion in homelessness has prompted at least 10 city and county governments to declare states of emergency since 2015.
City officials, homeless advocates and those living on the streets point to a main culprit: the region’s booming economy.
Rents have soared beyond affordability for many lower-wage workers who until just a just few years ago could typically find a place to stay. Now, even a temporary setback can be enough to leave them out on the streets.
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A homeless man sleeps on a concrete floor outside an office building under renovation Friday, Dec. 1, 2017, in Los Angeles. The U.S. Department on Housing and Urban Development release of the 2017 homeless numbers are expected to show a dramatic increase in the number of people lacking shelter along the West Coast. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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“A lot of people in America don’t realize they might be two checks, three checks, four checks away from being homeless,” said Thomas Butler Jr., who stays in a carefully organized tent near a freeway ramp in downtown Los Angeles.
Butler said he was in transitional housing — a type of program that prepares people for permanent homes — for a while but mostly has lived on the streets for the past couple of years.
The numbers in the report back up what many people in California, Oregon and Washington have been experiencing in their communities: encampments sprouting along freeways and rivers; local governments struggling to come up with money for long-term solutions; conflicts over whether to crack down on street camping and even feeding the homeless.
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A homeless man, who declined to give his name, is dwarfed by skyscrapers Monday, Dec. 4, 2017, in Los Angeles. The U.S. Department on Housing and Urban Development release of the 2017 homeless numbers are expected to show a dramatic increase in the number of people lacking shelter along the West Coast. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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The most alarming consequence of the West Coast homeless explosion is a deadly hepatitis A outbreak that has affected Los Angeles, Santa Cruz and San Diego, the popular tourist destination in a county where more than 5,600 people now live on the streets or in their cars. The disease is spread through a liver-damaging virus that lives in feces.The outbreak prompted California officials to declare a state of emergency in October.The HUD report underscores the severity of the problem along the West Coast.While the overall homeless population in California, Oregon and Washington grew by 14 percent over the past two years, the part of that population considered unsheltered climbed 23 percent to 108,000. That is in part due a shortage of affordable housing.
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Thaddeus Bell, 50, who is homeless, sits outside his tent with the street address of his childhood home in Oklahoma hanging on a fence Monday, Dec. 4, 2017, in Los Angeles. "I might be homeless but I'm human just like everybody else," said Bell. "I deserve a real house like any other person." The U.S. Department on Housing and Urban Development release of the 2017 homeless numbers are expected to show a dramatic increase in the number of people lacking shelter along the West Coast. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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In booming Seattle, for example, the HUD report shows the unsheltered population grew by 44 percent over two years to nearly 5,500.
The homeless service area that includes most of Los Angeles County, the epicenter of the crisis, saw its total homeless count top 55,000 people, up by more than 13,000 from 2016. Four out of every five homeless individuals there are considered unsheltered, leaving tens of thousands of people with no place to sleep other than the streets or parks.
By comparison, while New York City’s homeless population grew to more than 76,000, only about 5 percent are considered unsheltered thanks to a system that can get people a cot under a roof immediately.
In the West Coast states, the surge in homelessness has become part of the fabric of daily life.
The Monty, a bar in the Westlake neighborhood near downtown Los Angeles, usually doesn’t open until 8 p.m. Partner and general manager Corey Allen said that’s because a nearby shelter requires people staying there to be in the building by 7. Waiting until after that to open means the streets outside are calmer.
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Homeless people wait in line for a meal served by a community organization outside Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017, in Los Angeles. A homeless crisis of unprecedented proportions is rocking the West Coast, and its victims are being left behind by the very things that mark the region's success: soaring housing costs, rock-bottom vacancy rates and a roaring economy that waits for no one. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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Allen said the homeless have come into his bar to bathe in the restroom wash basins, and employees have developed a strategy for stopping people from coming in to panhandle among customers.
Seventy-eight-year-old Theodore Neubauer sees the other side of it. Neubauer says he served in Vietnam but now lives in a tent in downtown Los Angeles. He is surrounded by thriving business and entertainment districts, and new apartments that are attracting scores of young people to the heart of the nation’s second most populous city.
“Well, there’s a million-dollar view,” he said.
Helping those like Neubauer is a top policy priority and political issue in Los Angeles.
Since last year, voters in the city and Los Angeles County have passed a pair of tax-boosting ballot initiatives to raise an expected $4.7 billion over the next decade for affordable housing and services for the homeless. HUD Secretary Ben Carson praised the region for dealing with the issue and not relying solely on the federal government.
“We need to move a little bit away from the concept that only the government can solve the problem,” he said.
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Theodore Neubauer, a 78-year-old Vietnam War veteran, who is homeless, looks at his smartphone while passing time in his tent Friday, Dec. 1, 2017, in Los Angeles. "Well, there's a million-dollar view," said Neubauer on what it's like to be homeless in Los Angeles. Neubauer has a tent pitched in the heart of downtown Los Angeles and is surrounded by high-rise buildings. A homeless crisis of unprecedented proportions is rocking the West Coast, and its victims are being left behind by the very things that mark the region's success: soaring housing costs, rock-bottom vacancy rates and a roaring economy that waits for no one. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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Places where the numbers went down included Atlanta, Philadelphia, Miami, the Denver area and Hawaii, which declared a statewide homelessness emergency in 2015.The homeless point-in-time survey is based on counts at shelters and on the streets. While imperfect, it attempts to represent how many people are homeless at a given time. Those who work regularly with the homeless say it is certainly an undercount, although many advocates and officials believe it correctly identifies trend lines.The report is submitted to Congress and used by government agencies as a factor in distributing money for programs designed to help the homeless
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A homeless man sits outside a high-rise building converted into apartments Monday, Dec. 4, 2017, in downtown Los Angeles. The U.S. Department on Housing and Urban Development release of the 2017 homeless numbers are expected to show a dramatic increase in the number of people lacking shelter along the West Coast. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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But Mayor Eric Garcetti said that insufficient federal funding for affordable housing and anti-homelessness programs are part of the reason for the city’s current crisis.“Los Angeles’ homelessness crisis was not created in a vacuum, and it cannot be solved by L.A. alone,” Garcetti said in a statement.Excluding the Los Angeles region, total homelessness nationwide would have been down by about 1.5 percent compared with 2016.The California counties of Sacramento, which includes the state capital, and Alameda, which is home to Oakland, also had one-year increases of more than 1,000 homeless people.In contrast, the HUD report showed a long-running decline in homelessness continuing in most other regions. Nationally, the overall homeless number was down by 13 percent since 2010 and the unsheltered number has dropped by 17 percent over that seven-year span, although some changes in methodology and definitions over the years can affect comparisons.
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Thurman Butler Jr., 66, who is homeless, sweeps around his tent Friday, Dec. 1, 2017, in Los Angeles. "A lot of people in America don't realize they might be two checks, three checks, four checks away from being homeless," said Butler who became homeless after he was evicted from his apartment. A homeless crisis of unprecedented proportions is rocking the West Coast, and its victims are being left behind by the very things that mark the region's success: soaring housing costs, rock-bottom vacancy rates and a roaring economy that waits for no one. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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A man who identified himself just as Vincent, sorts his belongings outside his tent Friday, Dec. 1, 2017, in Los Angeles. Vincent said he thought he was bulletproof and never had to worry about getting a job as a young man. "Things ain't the way they were anymore." The U.S. Department on Housing and Urban Development release of the 2017 homeless numbers are expected to show a dramatic increase in the number of people lacking shelter along the West Coast. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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Wearing a Christmas headband, Grace Fernandez, who is homeless, smokes outside her tent in the Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles, Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. "Holidays are just so much special. It should bring us altogether as one even if we are homeless," said Fernandez. The U.S. Department on Housing and Urban Development release of the 2017 homeless numbers are expected to show a dramatic increase in the number of people lacking shelter along the West Coast. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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Tents belonging to homeless people are covered with tarps as Los Angeles police officers on horses patrol in the Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. A homeless crisis of unprecedented proportions is rocking the West Coast, and its victims are being left behind by the very things that mark the region's success: soaring housing costs, rock-bottom vacancy rates and a roaring economy that waits for no one. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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Homeless man Alonzo Harrison, 47, takes a nap on a bench at Pershing Square decorated with Christmas lights in the background on Monday, Dec. 4, 2017, in Los Angeles. A homeless crisis of unprecedented proportions is rocking the West Coast, and its victims are being left behind by the very things that mark the region's success: soaring housing costs, rock-bottom vacancy rates and a roaring economy that waits for no one. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)TEXT FROM THE AP NEWS STORY,
US HOMELESS COUNT RISES, PUSHED BY CRISIS ON THE WEST COAST, BY CHRISTOPHER WEBER AND GEOFF MULVIHILL.
MULVIHILL REPORTED FROM CHERRY HILL, NEW JERSEY. AP VIDEOGRAPHER KRYSTA FAURIA AND PHOTOGRAPHER JAE HONG IN LOS ANGELES CONTRIBUTED TO THIS ARTICLE.
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Reuters / Monday, December 04, 2017Yuan Meng, a four-month-old baby panda, is seen inside his enclosure during a ceremony attended by his godmother, Brigitte Macron (not in the picture), French President's wife and China's Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Zhang Yesui (not in the picture) at the Beauval zoo in Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher, central France. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
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Indian Navy soldiers demonstrate their skills as they play drums during a rehearsal ahead of Navy Day celebrations in Mumbai, India. REUTERS/ShaileshAndrade
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A supporter of presidential candidate Salvador
Nasralla holds a Molotov cocktail during a protest
caused by the delayed vote count for the
presidential election at Villanueva neighborhood
in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. REUTERS/Edgard
Garrido
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Brides-to-be participate in the "Running of the Brides" race, in Bangkok, Thailand. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
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A man uses his mobile phone to take photographs of tides on the shores of the Arabian Sea, after flooding caused by Cyclone Ockhi in the coastal village of Chellanam in the southern state of Kerala, India. REUTERS/Sivaram V
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NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio joins demonstrators as they take part in a protest against government's tax reforms next to the New York Stock Exchange in Manhattan. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
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Participants take part in the 8th Edition of the Nautic SUP Paris Crossing stand up paddle competition near the Notre Dame Cathedral on the river Seine in Paris, France. REUTERS/Charles Platiau
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The home of Sven Berrar and Sven Schaan is decorated with some 67,000 bulbs in Voelklingen, Germany, on Dec. 4.Thomas Wieck / EPA
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Rohingya refugees line up for relief aid distribution at Balukhali
refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. REUTERS/Susana Vera
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Tear gas canisters are fired by Israeli troops towards Palestinians during clashes in the West Bank village of Qusrah. REUTERS/Mohamad TorokmanDec.4 , 2017
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Reuters / Monday, December 04, 2017One of the eight men and a woman holding Turkish citizenship, who were arrested on suspected links to a leftist militant group outlawed in Turkey following an operation by Greek security services, is escorted by anti-terrorism police officers to the prosecutor's office in Athens, Greece. REUTERS/AlkisKonstantinidis
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A 10-foot long remote controlled flying Santa makes a test flight over the ocean in Carlsbad, California. REUTERS/Mike Blake
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People wash clothes on the banks of the river Brahmaputra on a foggy winter morning in Guwahati, India. REUTERS/Anuwar Hazarika
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Rohingya refugees build a make-shift mosque at Balukhali refugee
camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. REUTERS/Susana Vera
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A runner rests during the Marathon des
Sables in Paracas, Peru.
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Military secure worshippers outside Al Rawdah mosque during the first Friday prayer after the attack in Bir Al-Abed, Egypt. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
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A man tries to take a photo of the Christ the Redeemer statue lit up in red to mark World AIDS Day, hidden by the fog in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares
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History enthusiast, dressed as a soldier, rides his horse during the re-enactment of Napoleon's famous battle of Austerlitz near the southern Moravian town of Slavkov u Brna, Czech Republic. REUTERS/David W Cerny
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The supermoon sets over the church of
Nuestra Senora de la Encarnacion at dawn
in Olvera, near Cadiz, southern Spain.
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A man exercises in a park on a winter morning in Kolkata, India. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri
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A ferris wheel is seen behind one of the seven statues by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa at Massena square in Nice, France. Picture taken with long exposure. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard
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A person walks along the "Puente Nuevo" (New Bridge) as it is silhouetted against the supermoonduring its rise in Ronda, southern Spain. REUTERS/Jon Nazca
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La Saline slaughterhouse is a nightmarish panorama of animal blood, body parts and detritus. It’s also an essential part of the economy of the Haitian capital, supplying meat to restaurants, street vendors and stores.
Associated Press photographer Chery Dieu Nalio spent nearly a month documenting conditions in the market and the lives of more than 100 people who work there. He found a constant struggle to make ends meet in the face of unhygienic conditions, poor regulation and even deadly violence.
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In this Nov. 9, 2017 photo, Chalemagne Nepturne blows air into the leg of a goat carcass to loosen the skin, at the La Saline slaughterhouse in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The 69-year-old has worked at the open-air market for a year as a “pike kabrit” or goat killer. He is not paid when slaughtering the goats for wholesale clients, but is allowed to keep the testicles and teats, which he in turns sells for a profit. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
More than 300,000 goats are butchered every year in La Saline, at the edge of a slum by the same name that forms part of the sprawl of the capital, Port-au-Prince. The market is mostly a dirt yard, with a few huts made of worn sheet metal, wood and cloth. Chunks of raw meat sit on tables for purchase by customers. The remnants of slaughtered animals are dumped in a canal at the entrance of the market, filling the area with a foul stench and causing flooding in the surrounding neighborhood.
Outside the market is the neighborhood known as La Saline, so violent that market workers and customers frequently have to dive to the ground to avoid stray bullets.
Customers, neighbors and even the market’s workers say Haitian authorities have long failed to take any action in to improve conditions there.
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In this Nov. 22, 2017 photo, MoniseJironer 54, left, and her 50-year-old co-worker Etty Felixas, clean goat intestines at the La Saline slaughterhouse, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Jironer who dreams of a safer and cleaner work environment says when residents inside the La Saline slum start shooting they are obligated to take cover on the ground covered in waste and mud. Felix and Jironer are former housekeepers who have worked together at the market since 1988. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
Butchers are paid $10 for $20 for each goat they slaughter for individuals. They get no money from wholesale customers, but rather keep some parts of the animals to sell to retail buyers.
Other workers skin the animals, clean them, transport them and sell them to customers. Etty Felix, 50, and Monise Jironer, 54, remove waste from goats’ intestines, disinfect them in boiling water and sell them to vendors who make bouillon to sell. They receive 16 cents per intestine.
Market owner Polynice Amboise, 65, said the market has been repeatedly moved by Haitian administrations, from inside the slum to the seaside and back again.
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In this Nov. 22, 2017 photo, owner of the La Saline slaughterhouse PolyniceAmboise poses for a photo at his open-air market, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. “The authorities don't come. I bring all my papers to City Hall but they never get back to me,” Amboise said. “I am not happy with the situation of the market. The workers also are not happy.”(AP Photo/DieuNalio Chery)
He said that since Haiti’s devastating 2010 earthquake killed an estimated 300,000 people and threw the government into crisis, he hasn’t paid taxes for the market and the government has taken no action to improve its conditions.
“The authorities don’t come. I bring all my papers to City Hall but they never get back to me,” Amboise said. “I am not happy with the situation of the market. The workers also are not happy.”
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In this Nov. 9, 2017 photo, goat skinner Sonson Pierre hauls goat pelts at the La Saline slaughterhouse, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The 28-year-old, who has worked at the open-air market for 12 years, is dismayed that a market which provides meat to most of the capital’s supermarkets and restaurant, is so unregulated. (AP Photo/Dieu NalioChery)
Youri Chevry, the mayor of Port-au-Prince, said the situation is complicated by a broader problem of lawlessness, but which he claims is improving. A U.N. peacekeeping mission recently left Haiti and the country is re-establishing its own army, a force supposed to be dedicated to maintaining domestic order.
“Everyone knows that this zone is a lawless area, a red zone with armed people that create a lot of problems,” Chevry said. “Step by step, peace is returning in the area. Step by step, we will get control of the slaughterhouse.”
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This Nov. 11, 2017 photo shows the a view of the La Saline slaughterhouse in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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In this Nov. 9, 2017 photo, Gesner Sagaille 65, scrapes hair off a goat’s snout, at the La Saline slaughterhouse, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Slaughterhouse workers complain of the squalid working conditions, but also know they have little choice but to keep working at the open-air market. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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In this Nov. 10, 2017 photo, goats munch on soybean pods at the La
Saline slaughterhouse, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio
Chery)
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In this Nov. 9, 2017 photo, Gesner Sagaille stirs a goat's head in a pot of boiling water to remove its hair, at the La Saline meat market in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. "The market is not only for animals, I am a human being who spends my day inside this market," says the 65-year-old who has worked at the market for more than 30 years and wants authorities to provide sanitary facilities. (AP Photo/DieuNalio Chery)
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In this Nov. 10, 2017 photo, children watch a butcher portion a goat carcass at the La Saline slaughterhouse, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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In this Nov. 9, 2017 photo, LifeneDorilas 27, shovels mud and waste at the La Saline slaughterhouse in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Dorilas has worked at the market for 15 years. His main job is to remove hair from goat heads and hooves. He is paid 40 U.S. cents per goat. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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In this Nov. 14, 2017 photo, a vendor takes a catnap on a layer of disassembled cardboard boxes at the La Saline slaughterhouse in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The more than 100 people who work at the open-air market find it a constant struggle to make ends meet in the face of unhygienic conditions, poor regulation and even deadly violence. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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In this Nov. 15, 2017 photo, customers wait with their livestock for available butchers at the entrance of the La Saline slaughterhouse in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. More than 300,000 animals, mostly goats, are butchered every year at the open-air market, a dirt yard with a few huts and tables holding raw meat. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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In this Nov. 10, 2017 photo, Lisianne
Chalemagne, 65, removes waste from
goat intestines, at the La Saline
slaughterhouse in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Chalemagne has worked at the open-
air market for 32 years. She hopes the
La Saline will one day be transformed
into a modern, safe market. (AP
Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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In this Nov. 8, 2017 photo, slaughterhouse workers push a wheelbarrow filled with a load of goat carcasses, ready for sale, through the La Saline slaughterhouse yard sodden with animal waste and mud, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Customers, neighbors and even the market’s workers say Haitian authorities have long failed to take any action to improve conditions at the market. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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In this Nov. 10, 2017 photo, Difisil Michel does a jig as his work day comes to an end at the La Saline slaughterhouse, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Michel, a former cabinetmaker, has worked at the market 11 years, scraping the hair from goat heads and hooves. The 30-year-old would like to see authorities construct a modern-day slaughterhouse that would provide change rooms and shower facilities so he doesn't have to go home smelling like a dead animal. (AP Photo/DieuNalio Chery)
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In this Nov. 10, 2017 photo, a slaughterhouse employee bathes at the end of his workday, at the La Saline slaughterhouse, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The open-air market is mostly a dirt yard, with a few huts made of worn sheet metal, wood and cloth. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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In this Nov. 9, 2017 photo, a moto-taxi driver
transports a La Saline slaughterhouse
customer and his newly acquired goats, in
Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio
Chery)
TEXT FROM THE AP NEWS STORY, TROUBLED MEAT MARKET IS KEY SUPPLIER FOR HAITI'S CAPITAL, BY CHERY DIEU NALIO.
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WILDFIRE DEVOURS HOMES AS RESIDENTS ESCAPEby NBC NEWSFerocious winds in Southern California have whipped up an explosive wildfire, prompting evacuation orders for thousands of homes.
Firefighters work to put out a blaze burning homes early on Dec. 5, 2017, in Ventura County, California. Authorities said the blaze broke out Monday and grew wildly in the hours that followed, consuming vegetation that hasn't burned in decades.
In the first 10 hours, the fire has already burned 31,000 acres and has forced more than 25,000 people to evacuate as one of the strongest Santa Ana winds forecast of the season is ongoing and expected to last several days.
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The Thomas Fire in Ventura county on Dec. 4.Ventura County Fire Department via EPA
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Property burns as strong winds push the Thomas Fire across thousands of acres on Dec. 5.
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Downtown is darkened by a power outage with smoke rising in the distance on Dec. 5.
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An apartment complex burns as the wildfire continues on Dec. 5.
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Smoke rises behind a leveled apartment complex on Dec. 5. Over 100 structures have burned so far in Ventura County, officials said.
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A firefighter stands under windswept palm trees as he hoses down smoldering debris on Dec. 5.
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The remains of a home are seen after the fire brought it to the ground on Dec. 5.
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A fire crew passes a burning home during a wind-driven wildfire in Ventura, California. REUTERS/Mike Blake
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The remains of a home are seen in Ventura. REUTERS/Mike Blake
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Firefighters battle flames from a Santa Ana wind-driven brush fire called the Thomas Fire in Santa Paula. REUTERS/Gene BlevinsDec.5 , 2017
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The remains of homes are seen in Ventura. REUTERS/Mike Blake
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Firefighters battle to save one of many homes burning in an early-morning Creek Fire that broke out in the KagelCanyon area in the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles, in Sylmar. REUTERS/Gene Blevins
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A real estate sign post is seen next to the remains of a home, after it burned to the ground, during a wind-driven wildfire in Ventura. REUTERS/Mike Blake
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Flames tower over palm trees from a Santa Ana wind-driven brush fire called the Thomas Fire near Ventura. REUTERS/Gene Blevins
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SUPPORTERS FREE EX-GEORGIAN LEADER FROM UKRAINIAN POLICE
Georgian former President MikheilSaakashvili is detained by officers of the Security Service of Ukraine conducting a search of his apartment, in Kiev, Ukraine December 5, 2017. REUTERS/ValentynOgirenko
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Reuters / Tuesday, December 05, 2017National Guard officers clash with supporters of Georgian former President Mikheil Saakashvili during a search of Saakashvili's apartment in Kiev. Ukrainian supporters of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili freed him from a police van on Tuesday after his detention on suspicion of assisting a criminal organization led to clashes with police in Kiev. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko
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Reuters / Tuesday, December 05, 2017A supporter of former Georgian president MikheilSaakashvili clashes with riot police in Kiev. Once freed, Saakashvili raised a hand in a V-for-victory sign -- a handcuff still dangling from his wrist as he stood in a melee of supporters. He then led protesters towards parliament, where he called defiantly for President Petro Poroshenko to be removed from office. REUTERS/GlebGaranich
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Reuters / Tuesday, December 05, 2017
A supporter of former Georgian President
Mikheil Saakashvili clashes with Ukrainian
National Guard officers in Kiev. Ukrainian
prosecutors suspect Saakashvili of
receiving financing from a criminal group
linked to former president Viktor
Yanukovich which planned to overthrow the
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Reuters / Tuesday, December 05, 2017Ukrainian National Guard officers guard a car carrying former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili during clashes with his supporters in Kiev. Masked officers had earlier dragged Saakashvili, 49, from an apartment in the Ukrainian capital. But his supporters prevented the police van from moving off, hemming it in and eventually freeing him by breaking its windows and back door. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
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Reuters / Tuesday, December 05, 2017A supporter of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili clashes with riot police in Kiev. It is unclear if Tuesday's events will lead to wider unrest, as Saakashvili enjoys limited support in Ukraine. Only 1.7 percent of voters would support his party, the Movement of New Forces, in elections, according to an October survey by the Kiev-based Razumkov Centre think-tank. REUTERS/GlebGaranich
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Reuters / Tuesday, December 05, 2017Former Georgian President MikheilSaakashvili reacts after he was freed by his supporters in Kiev. In a response to a request for comment on the case and on Saakashvili's comments on Poroshenko, the president's administration said law enforcement had found evidence to back up the claims against Saakashvili. "These facts clearly demonstrate the true price of all the political and 'incriminating' statements, which were recently made by Mikheil Saakashvili," it said in a statement. REUTERS/GlebGaranich
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Georgian former President MikheilSaakashvili flashes a victory sign after he was freed by his supporters in Kiev. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
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Supporters of Georgian former President Mikheil
Saakashvili move paving stones during clashes
with police in Kiev. Protesters also started
assembling a barricade of tires, wood and
stones ripped up from the street in scenes
reminiscent of Ukraine's 2013-14 pro-European
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Georgian former President Mikheil
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A supporter of Georgian former President Mikheil Saakashvili holds a
sign which reads, "Impeachment" as he stands on a barricade during
clashes with police in Kiev. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko
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Georgian former President Mikheil Saakashvili is seen on the roof of a building during a search of his apartment in Kiev. REUTERS/Serhii NuzhnenkoDec.5 , 2017
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A Houthi militant reacts as he sits on a tank after the death of Yemen's former president Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
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Members of the anti narcotics force pose for a picture as drugs are burned during a ceremony in Islamabad, Pakistan. REUTERS/Caren Firouz
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North Korea's women's national soccer
team arrive for the EAFF E-1 Football
Championship at Haneda international
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Cast member Mark Hamill poses for a portrait while promoting the movie "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" in Los Angeles. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni
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Tear gas canisters are fired by Israeli troops towards Palestinians during clashes in the West Bank village of Qusrah. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman
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Five Syrians, accused of facilitating the Rukbanbombings in June 2016, react during their trial at the State Security Court in Amman, Jordan. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed
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A Palestinian man holds his baby tortoises near the West Bank town of Tubas. REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta
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People carry images of late Cuban President Fidel Castro during a march to Santa Ifigenia Cemetery to commemorate the first anniversary of interment of Castro's ashes in Santiago, Cuba. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini
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Twenty-one year-old
deckhand trainee Jacob
Bumgarner holds a line
while wearing a headlamp
shortly before sunrise on
Campbell Transportation
Company's towboat MK
McNally on the Ohio River
near, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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A malnourished child is fed at UNICEF
medical centre at Balukhali refugee
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People hold up placards reading "Freedom for political prisoners! we are republic" during a gathering asking for the release of leaders currently jailed at Sant Jaume square in Barcelona, Spain. REUTERS/Javier Barbancho
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A boy sells grilled corn near cars damaged during recent clashes between Houthi fighters and forces loyal to Yemen's former president Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
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Alexander Yaroshenko, a member
of the Cryophile winter swimming
club, rubs himself with snow after
swimming in the Yenisei River in
the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk,
Russia. REUTERS/Ilya
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The Saana fell is lighted as part of the Luminous Finland 100 project, a light art event that will be held in honour of the 100th anniversary of Finland's independence, in Kilpisjarvi, Finland. Lehtikuva/Suvi Mansikkasalo via REUTERS
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People sit together next to a camel at the look-out point of Mount Olives opposite to the Dome of the Rock and Jerusalem's Old City. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
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A Palestinian protester uses a slingshot to hurl
stones towards Israeli troops during clashes in
the West Bank village of Qusrah.
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Reuters / Tuesday, December 05, 2017A woman sits next to the body of Yawar Bashir, a suspected militant, who according to the local media was killed in a gunbattle with Indian security forces on Monday, during his funeral procession at Hablish village in south Kashmir's Kulgam district. REUTERS/Danish Ismail
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An Afghan man looks on as he stands at a bird market in Kabul, Afghanistan. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail
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President Trump pushes a shopping cart as he visits the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Welfare Square food distribution center in Salt Lake City, Utah. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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A police officer guarding the main entrance of the Labor ministry is punched by a protester as Communist-backed unionists try to enter the building during a protest in central Athens, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017. (AP Photo/PetrosGiannakouris)
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WILDFIRE DEVOURS HOMES AS RESIDENTS ESCAPEby NBC NEWSFerocious winds in Southern California have whipped up an explosive wildfire, prompting evacuation orders for thousands of homes.
A firefighter battles the Thomas Fire along Highway 33 in Ventura County, California on Dec. 5, 2017. A dramatic new wildfire erupted in Los Angeles early Wednesday as firefighters battled three other destructive blazes across Southern California.
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Carolyn Potter tries to save her house as she throws dirt on her fence in Casita Springs on Dec. 5.Wally Skalij / LA Times via Getty Images
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The Creek Fire burns on a hillside in the Shadow Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles on Dec. 5.Mario Tama / Getty Images
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Edward Aguilar runs through flames to save his cats at his mobile home along Highway 33 in Casita Springs on Dec. 5.Wally Skalij / LA Times via Getty Images
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A firefighter checks the interior of a home as they conduct structure protection from the brush fire on Dec. 5 in Oakview.Marcus Yam / LA Times via Getty Images
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John Bain and Brandon Baker take cover from embers as they try to help stop a fire from burning a stranger's home on Dec. 5 in Ventura.Marcus Yam / LA Times via Getty Images
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A strong wind blows embers around a resident as he hoses his property on Dec. 5 in Sunland.David McNew / Getty Images
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A local man prays after an early-morning fire broke out in the San Fernando Valley in Sylmar on Dec. 5.Gene Blevins / Reuters
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A destroyed car is surrounded by wreckage at the two story Hawaiian Village apartment complex in Ventura on Dec. 5.
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Residents watch a home burn on a hillside in Ventura on Dec. 5.
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Firefighters hose down a home in Ventura on Dec. 5.John Cetrino / EPA
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A resident stands in the remains of an apartment complex on Dec. 5 in Ventura.Mario Tama / Getty Images
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Flames burst through a window of a home in Ventura on Dec. 5.John Cetrino / EPA
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Local residents react as numerous homes burn on a hillside in Ventura on Dec. 5.Mike Blake / Reuters
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A man watches flames consume a residence on Dec. 5 in Ventura.
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A wildfire threatens homes as it burns along the 101 Freeway on Dec. 5, in Ventura. Southern California's Santa Ana winds have long contributed to some of the region's most disastrous wildfires. They blow from the inland toward the Pacific Ocean, speeding up as they squeeze through mountain passes and canyons.Jae C. Hong / AP
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Trees burn in Ojai, California, on Dec. 5.The so-called Thomas Fire has scorched about 132,000 acres since Monday in Ventura County.
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People prepare a snow sculpture for
the Harbin Sun Island International
Snow Sculpture Art Expo in Harbin,
Heilongjiang province, China.
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A fisherman rows his boat through the waters of the Dal Lake on a cold morning in Srinagar. REUTERS/Danish Ismail
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Reuters / Tuesday, December 05, 2017Leaves cover the face of 11-month-old Rohingya refugee Abdul Aziz, after his body was brought back to the family shelter, at the Balukhali refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, a few hours after he died. Aziz, whose family fled Myanmar some two months ago, died at local clinic after suffering from high fever and severe cough for ten days, his mother said. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
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Bobo, a British Bulldog, takes a shower at The Wagingtonluxury pet hotel in Singapore. REUTERS/Edgar Su
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Britain's Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall, Patron, poses with employees in fancy dress during a visit to ICAP on the broker's annual Charity Day, London. REUTERS/Arthur Edwards/Pool
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Detained demonstrators are led out of Longworth House Office building during a protest against the Republican tax bill on Capitol Hill in Washington. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein
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Summer Zervos, a former contestant on The Apprentice, leaves New York State Supreme Court after a hearing on the defamation case against President Trump in Manhattan. REUTERS/Andrew KellyDec.5 , 2017
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A demonstrator attends a carol singing vigil for the families of British citizens detained overseas, outside Downing Street in London. REUTERS/Hannah McKay
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Yissel Mendoza feeds her pig "Balu" at her home in Ciudad Juarez,
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A fisherman sails to his net early morning on Lake Leman in Lausanne, Switzerland. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
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Houthi rebel fighters inspect the damage after an air strike reportedly carried out by the Saudi-led coalition targeted the presidential palace in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Dec. 5.Saudi-led warplanes pounded the rebel-held capital before dawn after the rebels killed former president Ali Abdullah Saleh as he fled the city following the collapse of their uneasy alliance, residents said.
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A man walks by as the Israeli national flag and an American one are projected on a part of the walls surrounding Jerusalem's Old City. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
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Republican candidate for Senate Judge Roy Moore and former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon shake hands during a campaign event in Fairhope, Alabama, December 5, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman
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Dawn hues of pink and purple reveal a dusty valley in Bangladesh's southern hills quilted with a dense settlement of red tents home to more than 230 women and children grieving for lost husbands and fathers.
They are among more than 625,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Bangladesh since late August, following a crackdown by the Myanmar military in response to attacks on security forces by Rohingya militants.
Roshid Jan, who walked for 10 days with her five children to Bangladesh after soldiers burnt their village, wept when she spoke about her missing husband.
He was accused of being a member of the Rohingya militants and arrested with four other villagers 11 months ago, she said. She had not seen him or heard about his fate since then.
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Aisha Begum, a 19-year-old widow, said her husband was killed by Myanmar soldiers as their band of refugees headed for Bangladesh.
"I was sitting there by his body and just crying, crying, crying," she said.
"He was caught and killed with knives. I found his body by the road. It was in three pieces," she cried, recounting the events that brought her to the camp.
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Most Rohingya are stateless and seen as illegal immigrants by Buddhist-majority Myanmar.The United Nations and United States have described the military's actions as ethnic cleansing, and rights groups have accused the security forces of atrocities, including rape, arson and killings.Myanmar's government has denied most of the claims, and the army has said its own probe found no evidence of wrongdoing by troops.
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There are 50 tents and no men in the camp for widows and orphans, the biggest of three sites built with donor funds from Muslim-majority Pakistan in the refugee settlement of Balukhali not far from Bangladesh's resort town of Cox's Bazar.
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Two makeshift kitchens provide space for cooking in small holes in the ground, a new well is being dug to supplement a water pump, and a big tent serves for prayers."For those who can't pray, we have learning sessions on Monday and Friday in a special room," said 20-year-old Suwa Leha, who serves as the camp's unofficial leader.Praying and reading the Muslim holy book, the Koran, was one of two conditions for admittance set by religious and group leaders, Suwa said. The other was that widows and orphans be selected from among the most vulnerable and needy.
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The camp is marooned amid ponds and streams of dirty water left by the washing of clothes and dishes. Behind are thousands of dwellings in a vast refugee camp that sprang up during the crisis.Still, the women are relieved to have their own space.
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"For those with no protection, a camp like this is much safer," said 22-year-old Rabiya Khatun, who lives there with her son. "No man can enter that easily. Also, the rooms are bigger and we have more chances of receiving some aid."Women and girls number about 51 percent of the distressed and traumatised Rohingya population in the Cox's Bazar camps, the U.N. Women agency said in October."Women and children are also at heightened risk of becoming victims of human trafficking, sexual abuse or child and forced marriage," it added.
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Women and adolescent girls aged between 13 and 20 arriving from Myanmar typically had two to four children each, it said, with some of them pregnant.No relief agencies officially run the camp for the widows and orphans but aid groups and individuals help out.
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Rihana Begum lives with her five children in a room that is bare except for a few tomatoes, some religious books and clothes. On a thin mat lies her daughter, ill with fever, but fear of missing food handouts keeps them away from the doctor."I'm afraid to miss aid distribution. I can't afford to miss it," she said on the day ration cards from the World Food Program were distributed in the camp.
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This week, Myanmar said it was finalising terms for a joint working group with Bangladesh to launch the process of safe and voluntary return of the Rohingyarefugees within two months.That may not be enough to allay Rihana Begum's fears."I'm so afraid that I will never go back to Myanmar," she said. "I would rather die here."
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Palestinians watch a televised broadcast of President Donald Trump delivering an address, in Jerusalem's Old City. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
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Reuters / Wednesday, December 06, 2017Vice President Mike Pence stands behind as President Donald Trump holds up the proclamation he signed that the United States recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and will move its embassy there, during an address from the White House in Washington. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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Palestinian women shout slogans during a protest in Gaza City. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
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People look at the paintings depicting Russian president Vladimir Putin at the "SUPERPUTIN" exhibition in UMAM museum in Moscow, Russia. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
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A photographer takes pictures in front of a painting depicting Russian president Vladimir Putin at the "SUPERPUTIN" exhibition. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
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People look at a mobile phone as they stand in front of a painting depicting Russian president Vladimir Putin at the "SUPERPUTIN" exhibition. REUTERS/Maxim ShemetovDec.6 , 2017
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People look at the paintings depicting Russian president Vladimir Putin dressed as Father Frost, Russian equivalent of Santa Claus, at the "SUPERPUTIN" exhibition. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
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A woman walks past busts depicting Russian president Vladimir Putin in the colours of the Russian national flag at the "SUPERPUTIN" exhibition. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
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Palestinians burn an Israeli and a U.S. flag during a protest against the U.S. intention to move its embassy to Jerusalem and to recognize the city of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in Gaza City. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
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Embers blow from a tree shortly before it fell down near burned cars as strong winds push the Thomas Fire across thousands of acres near Santa Paula, California. REUTERS/David McNew
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Flames from the Thomas fire burn on a hillside behind a truck on Highway 101 north of Ventura, Calif., on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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A CalFire plane drops Phos-Chek over the wildfire that began in the early morning hours in the Bel-Air neighborhood of Los Angeles on Dec. 6.
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A mansion that survived a wildfire sits on a hilltop in Bel-Air on Dec. 6.
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Firefighters work to save burning houses along Linda Flora Drive in Los Angeles on Dec. 6.
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Cast member of the movie "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" Mark Hamill hugs Star Wars character R2-D2 at its promotional event in Tokyo, Japan. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
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U.S. Air Force B-1B bomber flies in formation during a joint aerial drill called 'Vigilant Ace' between U.S. and South Korea, South Korea. Picture taken December 6, 2017. The Defense Ministry/Yonhap via REUTERS
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Reuters / Wednesday, December 06, 2017A U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II assigned to Hill Air Force Base, Utah, conducts a training flight with F-16 Fighting Falcons assigned to Kunsan Air Base, South Korea over the city of Gunsan, in South Korea. Courtesy Josh Rosales/U.S. Air Force/Handout via REUTERS
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Brazilian Armed Forces members patrol during an operation against
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Police remove supporters of Dreamers Act from the Senate steps in Washington, U.S., during their rally to urge Congress to pass a bill that will allow Dreamers to permanently stay in the country. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
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People walk by street art in Brooklyn, New York City, New York. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
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People load belongings on a van as they evacuate their house located on a street where Houthis have recently clashed with forces loyal to slain Yemeni former president Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
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A Bengal cat plays in the Palace Feline Suite at The Wagingtonluxury pet hotel in Singapore. REUTERS/Edgar Su
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Reuters / Wednesday, December 06, 2017Britain's Queen Elizabeth meets George Adesola Oguntade, the High Commissioner of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as he presents his Letter of Credence, with his wife, MrsOguntade, during a private audience at Buckingham Palace in central London, Britain. REUTERS/Victoria Jones/Pool
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A Palestinian refugee woman waits to receive food supplies from a United Nations food distribution center in Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
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Reuters / Wednesday, December 06, 2017Britain's Prince William, speaks to school children during a 'Stepping Out' session, at the BBC in MediaCityUK in Salford, Britain. The session comprised of a focus group where young people were able to give Children's television editorial staff and content producers their view of how they respond to new programmes under production. REUTERS/Oli Scarff/Pool
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A French fan of late French singer and actor Johnny Hallyday arrives with flowers in Marnes-la-Coquette near Paris, France. REUTERS/Charles Platiau
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A police personnel stands guard near the polling station at Hanumandhoka Durbar Square, a day ahead of the parliamentary and provincial elections in Kathmandu, Nepal. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
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A worker fixes the renovated summit cross on top of the highest German mountain, the Zugspitze, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. REUTERS/Michael Dalder
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A petrol bomb explodes next to riot police during clashes following an anniversary rally marking the 2008 police shooting of 15-year-old student, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, in Athens, Greece. REUTERS/AlkisKonstantinidis
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A weather vane is pictured on a ranch during the Creek Fire in the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles, in Sylmar, California. REUTERS/Jonathan Alcorn
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Heavy smoke covers the seaside enclave of MondosBeach beside the 101 highway as flames reach the coast from the Thomas wildfire near Ventura, California on Dec. 6.
Wind-whipped wildfires raged across the Los Angeles region, with flames triggering the closure of a major freeway and mandatory evacuations in an area dotted with mansions.
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Flames consume a home as a wildfire burns in Ojai on Dec. 7.
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A person rides their bicycle as a section of wildfire burns on a bluff on Dec. 7 in La Conchita. Many evacuation holdouts were forced to flee the small seaside town as the flames approached.
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Firefighters monitor a section of wildfire along the 101 freeway on Dec. 7, 2017 north of Ventura, California. The firefighters occasionally used a flare device to burn-off brush close to the roadside.Strong Santa Ana winds are rapidly pushing multiple wildfires across the region, expanding across tens of thousands of acres and destroying hundreds of homes and structures.Related: Malibu menaced by the wildfires that have been ravaging Southern California
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Cars and a residence burn as a result of the fast moving wildfire on Dec. 7.
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Trees glow in the wind after being burned by the wildfire on Dec. 7.
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Fire personnel drive along West Lilac Road in the midst of the wildfire on Dec. 7.
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Kingwood's drill team watches the game.David Butow / Redux for NBC News
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Players from both teams meet with the referees.David Butow / Redux for NBC News
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The Kingwood Mustangs score against the C.E. King Panthers.
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C.E. King's Rashad Wright is treated for an injury.David Butow / Redux for NBC News
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The Panthers drill team performs during halftime.David Butow / Redux for NBC News
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The C.E.King drill team performs as the stadium lights slowly come back after the outage.Read: Hit by Harvey, two Texas high school football teams hit backDavid Butow / Redux for NBC News
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Sen. Al Franken holds hands with his wife Franni Bryson as he leaves the Capitol after announcing his resignation on Dec. 7.Franken said he will resign from the Senate in coming weeks following a wave of sexual misconduct allegations and a collapse of support from his Democratic colleagues, a swift political fall for a once-rising Democratic star. Jacquelyn Martin / AP
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Reuters / Thursday, December 07, 2017Security forces remove a burning barricade settled to block a road by supporters of Salvador Nasralla, presidential candidate for the Opposition Alliance Against the Dictatorship, during a protest over a contested presidential election in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. REUTERS/Jorge Cabrera
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Australia's Liberal MP Warren Entsch lifts up Labor MP Linda Burney as they celebrate the passage of a same-sex marriage bill in the House of Representatives in Canberra on Dec. 7.The bill changes the definition of marriage from solely between a man and a woman to "a union of two people" excluding all others. The legislation passed with a majority that wasn't challenged, although five lawmakers registered their opposition.Lukas Coch / AAP via Reuters
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People look out from a window at masked Hamas gunmen during a rally against the U.S. decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
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Israeli forces disperse Palestinian protesters outside Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City on Dec. 7, 2017.Thousands took part in angry anti-U.S. demonstrations around the Muslim world over the Trump administration's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Since the 1979 Camp David Accords, previous presidents have refused to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel or move the U.S. Embassy.Ahmad Gharabli / AFP - Getty Images
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Reuters / Thursday, December 07, 2017A Palestinian protester prays during clashes with Israeli troops at a protest against U.S. 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. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman
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An orthodox Jewish man reads from a holy book in a cemetery near the Dome of the Rock Mosque in the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017. A day earlier, U.S. President Donald Trump announced his decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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