NOVEMBER 2017 - Pictures of the day - Nov.21 - Nov.25, 2017

NOVEMBER 2017Pictures of the day

Nov.21 – Nov. 25, 2017

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NOVEMBER 2017Pictures of the day

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North Korean soldiers dig a trench and plant trees in the area where, on November 13, a defector ran across the border at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing North Korea and South Korea. Handout via REUTERS

Nov.13, 2017


North Korean soldiers keep watch toward the south next to a spot where a North Korean has defected crossing the border on November 13, at the truce village of Panmunjom inside the demilitarized zone, South Korea. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji

Nov.13, 2017


Cinta, a 56-day-old female

orangutan interacts with zoo

visitors for the first time in

Bandung, West Java, Indonesia,

on Nov. 18, 2017.

Cinta is the first baby of Kiki, a

critically endangered

Kalimantan great ape.

Timur Matahari / AFP - Getty

Images

Nov.18, 2017


A worker at Holiday Tree Farms throws a freshly-harvested Christmas tree onto a pile of trees that are ready to be shipped on Nov. 18 in Philomath, Oregon.

The harvest is underway at Holiday Tree Farms, the biggest grower of Christmas trees in the United States. Workers at the farm will ship an estimated one million trees ahead of the holiday.

Justin Sullivan / Getty Images

Nov.18, 2017


Workers stand on a forklift platform during the construction of underground burial tunnels at Givat Shaul Cemetery in Jerusalem on Nov. 19.

Due to overcrowding in Jerusalem's central cemetery, a new underground burial site is being constructed that will provide more than 22,000 new graves.

Abir Sultan / EPA

Nov.19, 2017


BILL CLINTON VISITS PUERTO RICO

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton hugs a woman as he visits a market, after Hurricane Maria hit the island in September, in San Juan, Puerto Rico November 20, 2017. REUTERS/Alvin Baez

Nov.20, 2017


Former President Bill Clinton (C) and San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz (R) play dominoes during a visit to a market in San Juan. REUTERS/Alvin Baez

Nov.20, 2017


San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz (R) takes a photograph of former President Bill Clinton during a visit to a market in San Juan. REUTERS/Alvin Baez

Nov.20, 2017


Reuters / Monday, November 20, 2017

Former President Bill Clinton salutes a man

while visiting with Puerto Rico Governor

Ricardo Rosello (C) a school turned shelter for

people who have lost their homes during

Hurricane Maria in September, in Canovanas,

Puerto Rico. REUTERS/Alvin Baez

Nov.20, 2017


Reuters / Monday, November 20, 2017Relatives mourn the death of Lakbira Essabiry, one of the people who were killed when a stampede broke out in the southwestern Moroccan town of SidiBoulaalam as food aid was being distributed in a market, in Sidi Boulaalam, Morocco. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal

Nov.20, 2017


Reuters / Monday, November 20, 2017An Israeli police officer tries to move an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man away, during a demonstration against the detention of members of their community, who failed to report to a military recruiting office, in Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, Israel. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

Nov.20, 2017


A supporter of the Kenyan opposition candidate RailaOdinga prepares a slingshot as he and others face off with police in the Kibera slum in Nairobi on Nov. 20, after the top court delivered its verdict upholding President Uhuru Kenyatta's re-election.

The court dismissed challenges by human rights activists and a politician who argued that last month's election was not conducted according to the law. The decision appeared to put an end to a months-long political drama never before seen in Africa that has left dozens dead.

DaI Kurokawa / EPA

Nov.20, 2017


Honduras ElectionsA supporters of Opposition Alliance presidential

candidate Salvador Nasralla attends his closing

campaign rally in Tegucigalpa, Honduras,

Monday, Nov. 20, 2017. Honduras will hold

general elections on Sunday, Nov. 26.(AP

Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Nov.20, 2017



November 21, 2017

A tit picks from the fruit of a crabapple tree in a garden in Frankfurt, Germany, on Nov. 21.

Frank Rumpenhorst / AFP - Getty Images

Nov.21, 2017


German Chancellor Angela Merkel of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the chair of the CDU youth organization, Paul Ziemiak, talk on one of the back benches during a session of the parliament in Berlin on Nov. 21.

Merkel has hinted that another election might have to be held after the collapse of coalition talks put her fourth term as German chancellor in doubt — a political crisis that has caused consternation across Europe.

Clemens Bilan / EPA

Nov.21, 2017


German Chancellor Angela

Merkel attends a session of

the Bundestag in Berlin.

REUTERS/Axel Schmidt

Nov.21, 2017


ZIMBABWE REJOICES AS MUGABE STEPS DOWN

by NBC NEWSRobert Mugabe, the world's oldest ruler, resigned as Zimbabwe's

president on Tuesday, after last week's military coup.

Members of the International Apostolic Ejuwel JekenisheniChurch dance, sing, pray, and play drums during a morning service at the open-air church on the outskirts of Harare on Nov. 19. A day after huge crowds rallied peacefully in the capital, Zimbabweans around the country attended Sunday church services praying for peace and the future of their country. Ben Curtis / AP

Nov.19, 2017


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Zimbabweans shout as they gather at Unity Square opposite the parliament to protest on Nov. 21, in Harare.Mujahid Safodien / AFP - Getty Images

Nov.21, 2017


Lawmakers erupt in cheers at the news of Mugabe's resignation on Nov. 21 in Harare.The 93-year-old despot wrote a letter saying he was quitting "with immediate effect,” said Jacob Mudenda, speaker of the country’s Parliament.Jekesai Njikizana / AFP - Getty Images

Nov.21, 2017


After hearing the news, a man removes Mugabe's portrait from the wall at the International Conference Centre where parliament met in Harare on Nov. 21. Jekesai Njikizana / AFP - Getty Images

Nov.21, 2017


Zimbabweans celebrate outside the parliament building immediately after hearing the news in Harare on Nov. 21.

Ben Curtis / AP

Nov.21, 2017


Zimbabweans celebrate after President Robert Mugabe resigns in

Harare, Zimbabwe. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings

Nov.21, 2017


People sunbathe on the beach of San Lorenzo in Gijon, northern Spain. REUTERS/Eloy AlonsoNov.21, 2017


Reuters / Tuesday, November 21, 2017Activists of nationalist groups and their supporters clash with policemen during a rally on the anniversary of the 2014 Ukrainian pro-European Union (EU) mass protests and on the Day of Dignity and Freedom in Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

Nov.21, 2017


Russian President Vladimir Putin

welcomes Syrian President Bashar al-

Assad during a meeting in the Black Sea

resort of Sochi, Russia. Sputnik/Mikhail

Klimentyev/Kremlin via REUTERS

Nov.21, 2017


Russian President Vladimir

Putin (R) meets with Syrian

President Bashar al-Assad

in the Black Sea resort of

Sochi, Russia.

Sputnik/Mikhail

Klimentyev/Kremlin via

REUTERS

Nov.21, 2017


A Rohingya refugee stands

outside her makeshift shelter

at Hakim Para refugee

settlement near Cox's Bazar,

Bangladesh.

REUTERS/Susana Vera

Nov.21, 2017


Offices are seen at the Gae Aulenti square at Porta Nuova district downtown Milan, Italy. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini

Nov.21, 2017


Boys play in the river of Stviga on a hot summer day near the village of Pogost, Belarus. REUTERS/VasilyFedosenko

Nov.21, 2017


President Donald Trump participates in the 70th National Thanksgiving turkey pardoning ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Nov.21, 2017


First lady Melania Trump and her son Barron Trump welcome the official White House Christmas Tree, a Wisconsin-grown tree provided by the Chapman family of Silent Night Evergreens, to the White House. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Nov.21, 2017


Wishbone the turkey is shown to members of the news media by White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, left, in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Nov. 21.

President Donald Trump "pardoned" Wishbone and his "'wingman," Drumstick, in a ceremony later in the Rose Garden.

Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images

Nov.21, 2017


First Lady Melania Trump and her son Barron Trump welcome the official White House Christmas Tree, a Wisconsin-grown tree provided by the Chapman family of Silent Night Evergreens, to the White House. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Nov.21, 2017


TRUMP PARDONS THANKSGIVING TURKEY

Staff from the National Turkey Federation jump in to calm "Drumstick" the turkey as it flaps its wings, causing President Donald Trump's daughter Tiffany (R) to jump away, after it was pardoned. REUTERS/Jim Bourg

Nov.21, 2017


President Donald Trump participates in the 70th National Thanksgiving turkey pardoning ceremony. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Nov.21, 2017


First lady Melania Trump and her son Barron Trump participate in the 70th National Thanksgiving turkey pardoning ceremony. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Nov.21, 2017


President Donald Trump participates in the 70th National Thanksgiving turkey pardoning ceremony as son Barron and first lady Melania Trump look on. REUTERS/Jim Bourg

Nov.21, 2017


TrumpWishbone, one of two turkeys set to be pardoned by President Donald Trump, is presented to members of the press in the briefing room, Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017, prior to the annual pardon at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Nov.21, 2017


Workers wearing panda masks use a wireless device to detect the location of Yingxue, a panda which has received survival training, at a protection base before reintroducing it to the wild, in Wolong, Sichuan province, China. REUTERS/Stringer

Nov.21, 2017


Square holes in the wall of a detention center are seen near the Thailand-Malaysia border in Hatyai, Thailand. Dailynews/ via REUTERS

Nov.21, 2017


A man reads a newspaper next to marigold garlands, which are used to decorate temples and homes, at a wholesale flower market in Kolkata, India. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri

Nov.21, 2017


Reuters / Tuesday, November 21, 2017Bride Tatyana Pashkovets stands at her home before her wedding ceremony in the village of David-Gorodok, Belarus. Tatyana is waiting for the groom Alexander, with whom they will hold a wedding celebration in accordance with the traditions that have developed in this village - to walk through the village to the registry office, then to the church and back home. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko

Nov.21, 2017


Jubilee Party supporters

cheer after Kenya's

Supreme Court upheld the

re-election of President

Uhuru Kenyatta in last

month's repeat presidential

vote, in Nairobi, Kenya.

REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Nov.21, 2017


Muslim brides wait for the start of a mass marriage ceremony in Mumbai, India. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui

Nov.21, 2017


An aerial view shows the darkened ground of an oil spill which shut down the Keystone pipeline between Canada and the United States, located in an agricultural area near Amherst, South Dakota. REUTERS/Dronebase

Nov.21, 2017


Children protest against the Saudi-led coalition outside the U.N. offices in Sanaa, Yemen. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

Nov.21, 2017


Demonstrators march during the National Black Consciousness Day in Sao Paulo, Brazil. REUTERS/Nacho Doce

Nov.21, 2017


A man walks outside the Heydar

Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan.

REUTERS/Peter Cziborra

Nov.21, 2017


Reuters / Tuesday, November 21, 2017Mohamed Faisal, 13, a newly arrived Rohingya refugee who had crossed the Bangladesh-Myanmar border a few hours before, waits to get bused to a registration point at an army centre in the Teknaf area, Bangladesh, November 21, 2017. Faisal lost his father and part of his arm when a rocket launcher hit his home at the end of August, a relative of his says. REUTERS/Susana Vera

Nov.21, 2017


A Rohingya refugee child carries

firewood in the Kutupalong

refugee camp in Cox's Bazar,

Bangladesh, November 21, 2017.

REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir

Hossain

Nov.21, 2017


Bangladesh Myanmar RohingyaA Rohingya girl with her face covered in "thanaka", a comestic paste from ground bark, stands in her family's tent on Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017, in Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh. Since late August, more than 620,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar's Rakhine state into neighboring Bangladesh, seeking safety from what the military described as "clearance operations." The United Nations and others have said the military's actions appeared to be a campaign of "ethnic cleansing," using acts of violence and intimidation and burning down homes to force the Rohingya to leave their communities. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Nov.21, 2017


Bangladesh Myanmar RohingyaRohingya Muslim children fly a kite outside their tents on Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017, in Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh. Since late August, more than 620,000 Rohingyahave fled Myanmar's Rakhine state into neighboring Bangladesh, seeking safety from what the military described as "clearance operations." The United Nations and others have said the military's actions appeared to be a campaign of "ethnic cleansing," using acts of violence and intimidation and burning down homes to force the Rohingya to leave their communities. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Nov.21, 2017


Bangladesh Myanmar RohingyaA Rohingya Muslim girl carries a vegetable from the market on the outskirts of Kutupalong refugee camp on Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017, in Bangladesh. Since late August, more than 620,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar's Rakhine state into neighboring Bangladesh, seeking safety from what the military described as "clearance operations." The United Nations and others have said the military's actions appeared to be a campaign of "ethnic cleansing," using acts of violence and intimidation and burning down homes to force the Rohingya to leave their communities. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Nov.21, 2017


Greece StormsA family picture is covered with mud in a flood-damaged home in the town of Mandrawestern Athens, on Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017. Greece's fire department says search crews have recovered the body of a one person missing since deadly floods struck near Athens last week, bringing the death toll to 21. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Nov.21, 2017


Egypt WeatherDonkeys eat near an advertisement for a residential housing compound in the EzbetKhairallah neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Nov.21, 2017


Zimbabwe Political TurmoilA Zimbabwean dances on the roof of a vehicle as he and others celebrate outside the parliament building immediately after hearing the news that President Robert Mugabe had resigned, in downtown Harare, Zimbabwe Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017. Mugabe resigned as president with immediate effect Tuesday after 37 years in power, shortly after parliament began impeachment proceedings against him. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Nov.21, 2017


Iwo Jima EngravingsCommandant of the

Marine Corps Gen. Robert

B. Neller pauses while

speaking to reporters at

the unveiling of the Iraq

and Afghanistan campaign

engravings on the USMC

War Memorial (Iwo Jima),

Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017, in

Arlington, Va. (AP

Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Nov.21, 2017


Immigration Temporary Status HaitiImmigration advocates rally, Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017, in front of the Jacob J. Javits Federal Building in New York to protest the decision from the Department of Homeland Security to terminate Temporary Protected Status for people from Haiti. The Homeland Security Department said conditions in Haiti have improved significantly, so the benefit will be extended until July 2019 to give Haitians time to prepare to return home. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Nov.21, 2017


Haiti Daily LifeLadeniese Bordron, a 55-year-old woman who used to support herself selling clothes imported from Miami and who is now supported by relatives, pauses as she shovels away sewage water in the street that passes her home in the Cite Soleil slum of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017. The Trump administration said it is ending a temporary residency permit program that has allowed almost 60,000 citizens from Haiti to live and work in the United States since the 2010 earthquake, saying conditions in Haiti have improved significantly. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Nov.21, 2017


Chicago Daily LifeA pedestrian walks through puddles reflecting a projected face displayed on a video sculpture at the Crown Fountain in Chicago's Millennium Park, Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Nov.21, 2017


Argentina SubmarineNuns pray for the crew of the missing Argentine submarine ARA San Juan, during a mass at the Buenos Aires's Cathedral, in Argentina, Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017. The search continues for the missing submarine, with 44 crew members, that has been lost since Nov. 15 in the South Atlantic. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Nov.21, 2017


Honduras ElectionsLisandro Galindo, 15, cuts the hair of

14-year-old Carlos Estrada, at a barber

shop in Tegucigalpa, Honduras,

Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017. Honduras will

hold general elections on Sunday, Nov.

26. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Nov.21, 2017


Honduras ElectionsZamaria Canale, 6, drinks water next to her brother Henry, 3, while helping her mother Belkin wash the clothes on a pipe outside, due to the lack of water in their house in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017. Honduras will hold general elections on Sunday, Nov. 26. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Nov.21, 2017


Honduras ElectionsA homeless man sleeps on a sidewalk

in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Tuesday,

Nov. 21, 2017. Honduras will hold

general elections on Sunday, Nov. 26.

(AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Nov.21, 2017


Britain Christmas Kew GardensVisitors walk through a tunnel covered in lights, as part of an Christmas illuminated trail through Kew Gardens, in London, Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Nov.21, 2017


Reuters / Tuesday, November 21, 2017CCTV footage shows a North Korean soldier crossing the white Military Demarcation Line, shown during a United Nations Command (UNC) briefing on the investigation results of another soldier's defection, at the South Korean defense ministry in Seoul. REUTERS/Reuters TV-21

Nov.21, 2017


Reuters / Tuesday, November 21, 2017Policemen detain topless activists of women's rights group Femen, who stage a performance during a protest against Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and the government while marking the Day of Dignity and Freedom near the presidential administration headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko-

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Nov.21, 2017


Reuters / Tuesday, November 21, 2017Activists of nationalist groups and their supporters clash with policemen during a rally on the anniversary of the 2014 Ukrainian pro-European Union (EU) mass protests and on the Day of Dignity and Freedom in Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko-22

Nov.21, 2017


Spain Daily LifeThe sun sets during an evening autumn, in Navaz, near to Pamplona, northern Spain, Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

Nov.21, 2017


DAVID CASSIDY’S LIFE IN PICTURESby NBC NEWS

David Cassidy became a teen idol in the 1970s after starring in "The Partridge Family."

David Cassidy in 1971.

Cassidy played the wholesome Keith Partridge on "The Partridge Family," a sitcom about a widowed mother and five children who formed a bubblegum pop band. The popular show catapulted Cassidy to heartthrob status and he toured the world singing hits.

Cassidy died after being hospitalized for organ failure. He was 67.

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David Cassidy in a 1972 publicity still for "The Partridge Family"

ABC via Getty Images

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David Cassidy and Kay Lenz at their wedding at The Little Church Of The West in Las Vegas on Jan. 1, 1977.

Brad Elterman Archive / BuzzFoto/FilmMagic

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RATKO MLADIC CONVICTION CAPS DECADES OF GRIEF OVER

SREBRENICA MASSACREby NBC NEWS

Mladic was convicted for some of the worst atrocities of the Bosnian War, including the slaughter of 8,000 Muslims in

Srebrenica.

Bosnian Serb army commander General Ratko Mladic inspecting troops in the eastern Bosnian town of Vlasenica on Dec. 2, 1995. Mladic, the so-called Butcher of Bosnia, was sentenced to life in prison on Nov. 22 after being found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity, acts that included Europe's deadliest massacre since World War II.

Oleg Stjepanovic / AP file

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Citizens sprint across 'Sniper Alley' during the siege of Sarajevo in 1994. Mladic's forces besieged the city for 43 months, during which time an estimated 10,000 people were killed.Tom Stoddart / Getty Images file

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A man supports the head of a Bosnian Muslim woman as she is transported to a hospital in the back of a car. She was badly injured by Serbian mortar shelling of Sarajevo on June 27, 1992.Christophe Simon / AFP - Getty Images file

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Ratko Mladic pats one of his soldiers on the cheek at the Lukavica barracks on the outskirts of Sarajevo on Feb. 15, 1994.Pascal Guyot / AFP - Getty Images

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The feet of a 10 year old Bosnian Muslim boy, ElvedinSendo, clad in grass-stained running shoes and marked with his name tag, protrude from under a blanket at a hospital morgue after his school came under a shelling attack in Sarajevo on March 22, 1993.Chris Helgren / Reuters file

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Bosnian Serb wartime leader, Radovan Karadzic, second right, and his general Ratko Mladic, first left, walk accompanied by bodyguards on the Mount Vlasic front line on April 15, 1995. Karadzic was arrested on July 21, 2008, and extradicted to The Hague.Sava Radovanovic / AP file

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Evacuees from Srebrenica look out from a U.N. truck in Medgas, north of Sarajevo, as a convoy carrying evacuees from the besieged Bosnian town made its way to Tuzla on March 20, 1993.Michel Euler / AP file

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A group of Bosnian Muslims, refugees from Srebrenica, walk from the village of Potocari to Muslim-held territory near Olovo on July 13, 1995.Reuters

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Ratko Mladic, left, drinks a toast with Dutch U.N. Commander Tom Karremans, second right, in the village of Potocari, 3 miles from Srebrenica, on July 12, 1995. Mladic is accused of orchestrating the methodical slaughter of up to 8,000 Muslims from the "safe area" of Srebrenica, in the worst massacre in Europe since World War II.AP

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Bosnian refugees from Srebrenica cry over

their missing men in a refugee camp at Tuzla

airport on July 14, 1995.

Wade Goddard / Reuters file

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Evacuees from Srebrenica board a U.N. truck to be taken to a refugee camp at Tuzla on July 15, 1995.Reuters file

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Grieving women at a refugee center set up to shelter Muslim families after they fled Srebrenica. Over a period of five days the Bosnian Serb army took control of the small spa town and separated Muslim men from their families. Over 8,000 men and boys were systematically murdered in the fields and valleys around the town.Tom Stoddart / Getty Images

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Forensic experts from the international war crimes tribunal in the Hague work to uncover a pile of partly decomposed bodies on July 24, 1996. The mass grave was found in the village of Pilica and was believed to contain the remains of some of the missing men from Srebrenica.Odd Andersen / AFP - Getty Images

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Bosnian pathologist RifatKesetovic examines skulls of victims in a hospital in Tuzla on March 28, 1997. The remains were found in mass graves and in wooded areas following the 1995 massacre in Srebrenica.Reuters file

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A forensic expert with the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) holds a photograph found with remains of a victim of the Srebrenica massacre, in the Bosnian town of Tuzla on July 7, 2005.Damir Sagolj / Reuters file

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Two women cry over a coffin on July 10, 2005 in a factory hall in Potocari where the remains of 610 victims of Srebrenica massacre awaited burial. Their bodies were found in some 60 mass graves around the town, and a mass funeral was held on the tenth anniversary of the massacre.Damir Sagolj / Reuters file

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A photograph of Mladic taken in Belgrade after his arrest on May 26, 2011.Politika via Reuters file

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A police car drives by the house, on left, where Ratko Mladic was found in the village of Lazarevo, about 50 kilometers north of Belgrade, Serbia on May 28, 2011. Mladic was arrested at the house two days earlier after 16 years on the run.Vadim Ghirda / AP

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Pro-Mladic demonstrators are engulfed by smoke from flares during a support rally in Belgrade on May 29, 2011. To many Serbs, Mladic remains a national hero.Vadim Ghirda / AP file

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A forensic expert from the International Commission for Missing Persons (ICMP) works on trying to identify the remains of a victim of the Srebrenica massacre, at the ICMP centrenear Tuzla on June 1, 2011.Dado Ruvic / Reuters file

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Ratko Mladic salutes as he takes his seat in the International Criminal Tribunal as he faces war crime charges on June 3, 2011 in The Hague, Netherlands.Serge Ligtenberg / Getty Images file

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A woman crosses the street in Sarajevo in front of a mural memorializing the Srebrenica massacre on Nov. 15, 2017.Amel Emric / AP

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.Mladic appears for his sentencing at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the U.N. court based in the Netherlands, on Nov. 22, 2017. He was sentenced to life in prison.

Peter Dejong / Reuters

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November 22, 2017

Relatives of victims watch a live broadcast of Mladic's sentencing from a memorial in Potocari, near Srebrenica, on Nov. 22.Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP - Getty Images

Nov.22, 2017


Bosnia Mladic War CrimesBosnian women are overwhelmed by emotion

watching the final moments of former Bosnian Serb

military chief Gen. Ratko Mladic's trial at the

memorial center in Potocari, near Srebrenica,

Bosnia, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017. A U.N. court

has convicted former Bosnian Serb military chief

Gen. Ratko Mladic of genocide and crimes against

humanity and sentenced him to life in prison for

atrocities perpetrated during Bosnia's 1992-1995

war.(AP Photo/Amel Emric)

Nov.22, 2017


Netherlands War Crimes MladicBosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic during

an angry outburst in the Yugoslav War Crimes

Tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday,

Nov. 22, 2017. The United Nations’ Yugoslav war

crimes tribunal ordered Bosnian Serb military

chief Gen. Ratko Mladic out of the courtroom

over an angry outburst during Wednesday’s

verdict determining whether he is guilty of

genocide, crimes against humanity and war

crimes over Bosnia’s devastating 1992-95 war.

(ICTY via AP)

Nov.22, 2017


Reuters / Wednesday,

November 22, 2017

Ex-Bosnian Serb wartime

general Ratko Mladic reacts in

court at the International

Criminal Tribunal for the former

Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Hague,

Netherlands in this still image

taken from a video released by

the International Criminal

Tribunal for the former

Yugoslavia (ICTY). International

Criminal Tribunal for the former

Yugoslavia (ICTY)/Handout via

REUTERS

Nov.22, 2017


Reuters / Wednesday, November 22, 2017A woman writes in a book inside a traveling monument called 'Prijedor 92' outside the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal (ICTY), as she waits for the verdict to be handed down in the genocide trial against former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic, in The Hague, Netherlands. REUTERS/Cris Toala Olivares

Nov.22, 2017


A woman writes in a book inside a traveling monument called 'Prijedor 92' outside the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal, ICTY, as she waits for the verdict to be handed down in the genocide trial against former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic, in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday Nov. 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Phil Nijhuis)

Nov.22, 2017


Atletico's Antoine Griezmann shoots to score

his side's opening goal during a Champions

League group C soccer match between Atletico

Madrid and Roma at the Wanda Metropolitano

stadium in Madrid, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017.

(AP Photo/Paul White)

Nov.22, 2017


Holiday TravelTraffic streaks across the Francis Scott Key Bridge linking Virginia and Washington at the start of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017, in Washington. The vast majority of the travel during the long holiday weekend will be by automobile. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

Nov.22, 2017


Pope Francis waves as he arrives to lead the Wednesday general audience in Saint Peter's square at the Vatican on Nov. 22.

Max Rossi / Reuters

Nov.22, 2017


Reuters / Wednesday, November 22, 2017Black buzzards gather around the carcass of a sea turtle at Shalpa beach in Jicalapa, El Salvador. Hundreds of turtles were found in the coast of El Salvador in the last days. According to the officials of the Environment Ministry turtles were poisoned by "saxitoxins" or potent neurotoxins that lead to paralysis, linked to a so-called red tide algal bloom. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas

Nov.22, 2017


Zimbabwe Political TurmoilZimbabweans read morning newspapers Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017, a day after President Robert Mugabe resigned, at a news stand in downtown Harare, Zimbabwe. Mugabe resigned as president with immediate effect Tuesday after 37 years in power, shortly after parliament began impeachment proceedings against him. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Nov.22, 2017


Zimbabwe Political TurmoilSupporters of Emmerson Mnangagwa, the man expected to become Zimbabwe's new president, hold a photograph of him and cheer as they arrive to show their support at Manyame Air Force base where Mnangagwa is expected to arrive later in the day in Harare, Zimbabwe Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017. Mugabe resigned as president with immediate effect Tuesday after 37 years in power, shortly after parliament began impeachment proceedings against him. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Nov.22, 2017


Zimbabwe Political TurmoilA supporter of Zimbabwe's incoming leader Emmerson Mnangagwa holds his portrait while waiting for him to arrive at the Zanu PF Headquarters in Harare, Wednesday, Nov, 22, 2017. Mnangagwahas emerged from hiding and returned home ahead of his swearing-in Friday. Crowds have gathered at the ruling party's headquarters for his first public remarks. Mnangagwa will replace Robert Mugabe, who resigned after 37 years in power when the military and ruling party turned on him for firing Mnangagwa and positioning his wife to take power. (AP Photo/TsvangirayiMukwazhi)

Nov.22, 2017


Zimbabweans celebrate with soldiers after President Robert Mugabe resigns in Harare. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings-22

Nov.22, 2017


Zimbabweans celebrate in the morning sun after President Robert Mugabe resigned in Harare. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings-22Nov.22, 2017


Zimbabwe Political TurmoilZimbabwe's incoming leader Emmerson Mnangagwa, center at podium, speaks to supporters gathered outside the Zanu-PF party headquarters in Harare, Zimbabwe Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017. Mnangagwa has emerged from hiding and returned home ahead of his swearing-in Friday. Crowds have gathered at the ruling party's headquarters for his first public remarks. Mnangagwawill replace Robert Mugabe, who resigned after 37 years in power when the military and ruling party turned on him for firing Mnangagwa and positioning his wife to take power. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Nov.22, 2017


Britain BudgetMembers of the Treasury ministerial team walk away from Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond who continues to poses for the media with his traditional red dispatch box, outside his official residence 11 Downing Street, before delivering his annual budget speech to Parliament, in London, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017. As Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Phillip Hammond reveals his budget to the nation, he is under pressure to ease austerity in spending plans but also needs to preserve the country's finances as Britain braces for the shock of leaving the European Union.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Nov.22, 2017


Bangladesh Myanmar RohingyaRohingya Muslim children skip across a stream of drainage water at the Thaingkhali refugee camp on Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017, in Bangladesh. Since late August, more than 620,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar's Rakhine state into neighboring Bangladesh, seeking safety from what the military described as "clearance operations." The United Nations and others have said the military's actions appeared to be a campaign of "ethnic cleansing," using acts of violence and intimidation and burning down homes to force the Rohingya to leave their communities. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Nov.22, 2017


LebanonA supporter of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri chants slogans outside his residence in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017. Hariri returned to Lebanon a day earlier and in a surprise decision, said he was putting his resignation on hold responding to a request from the president to give more time to consultations. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Nov.22, 2017


Holiday TravelA traveler walks through Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday in Atlanta, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Nov.22, 2017


Honduras Daily LifeMarita Santos poses for the picture in

Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Wednesday,

Nov. 22, 2017. Marita sells cotton candy

for ten Lempiras (40 cents) each. (AP

Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Nov.22, 2017


Honduras ElectionsA man covers himslef from the rain with a banner of

Hondura's President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who

is running for his re-election in the upcoming Nov.

26 general elections, Tegucigalpa, Honduras,

Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Nov.22, 2017


Germany Daily LifeAn aircraft passes by as the sun sets in Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Nov.22, 2017


Brazil Argentina Soccer Copa LibertadoresFans of Brazil's Gremio cheer prior to a first leg Copa Libertadores

final soccer match against Argentina's Lanus in Porto Alegre, Brazil,

Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Wesley Santos)Nov.22, 2017


Mexico Daily LifeA cyclist carries two large statues of the Virgin Mary he bought from vendors outside the Basilica of Guadalupe, behind, in Mexico City, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017. The cyclist said he rode with a larger group to the capital from his state of Yucatan, starting on Nov. 5, as a pilgrimage to the Basilica in honor of Guadalupe. On Thursday, the group will return by bike and aim to arrive home just in time for her Dec. 12 feast day. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Nov.22, 2017


France Daily LifePeople bathe in the Atlantic ocean in Biarritz, southwestern France, Wednesday, Nov.22, 2017. Temperatures in southwestern France reached 22 degrees Celsius (71,6 Fahrenheit). (AP Photo/Bob Edme)

Nov.22, 2017


Thanksgiving ParadeA man makes an adjustment on the balloon being inflated for the Thanksgiving Day parade in New York, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017. Sand-filled sanitation trucks and police sharpshooters will mix with glittering floats and giant balloons at a Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade that comes in a year of terrible mass shootings and not even a month after a deadly truck attack in lower Manhattan. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Nov.22, 2017


An Olaf balloon is inflated near Central Park ahead of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade on Nov. 22 in New York.

Stephanie Keith / Getty Images

Nov.22, 2017


Turkeys stand in their barn at Seven Acres Farm, one day before the Thanksgiving holiday in North Reading, Massachusetts. REUTERS/Brian SnyderNov.22, 2017


Japan Daily LifePeople walk through an underpass at a business district Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017, in Tokyo. Japan's economy expanded at a 1.4 percent annualized rate in July-September in the seventh straight quarter of growth for the world's third-largest economy. The economy is in its longest period of expansion since 2001. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Nov.22, 2017


Reuters / Wednesday, November 22, 2017Automobile mechanic and welder Sergei Kulagin, who creates sculptures made of used car components during his non-working hours, removes snow from his new "Stinger" sculpture near a vehicle repair workshop in the Siberian town of Divnogorsk, Russia. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin

Nov.22, 2017


Visitors walk through the installation "Ancient Forest" which is part of the exhibit "Enchanted: Forest of Light" at Descanso Gardens in La Canada Flintridge, California. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni-22

Nov.22, 2017


French President Emmanuel Macron attends a meeting with Marine Le Pen, head of France's far-right National Front (FN) political party at the Elysee Palace in Paris. REUTERS/Francois Mori/Pool-22

Nov.22, 2017


Britain's GMB union stages a protest outside parliament on the day the Finance Minister Philip Hammond presents his budget in London. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls-22

Nov.22, 2017


Clouds gather during a rain and cold spell over the capital Cairo, Egypt. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh-22

Nov.22, 2017


Dennis Kabatto, from Sierra Leone, holds the 709-carat diamond as it is presented during a news conference before auction in New York. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz-22

Nov.22, 2017


Home for Thanksgiving

Travelers wait in a security check point line at O'Hare Airport in Chicago, Illinois, November 21, 2017. REUTERS/Kamil Krzaczynski

Nov.21, 2017


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Travelers are stuck in a traffic jam as people hit the road in Chicago, Illinois, November 21, 2017. REUTERS/KamilKrzaczynski

Nov.21, 2017


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Security guards walk through Terminal 3 at O'Hare Airport in Chicago, Illinois, November 21, 2017. REUTERS/KamilKrzaczynski

Nov.21, 2017


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Travelers wait for Amtrak trains to be called at Pennsylvania Station in New York City, November 22, 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

Nov.22, 2017


Travelers wait for Amtrak trains to be called at Pennsylvania Station in New York City, November 22, 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

Nov.22, 2017


Passengers wait to board an Amtrak trains at Pennsylvania Station in New York City, November 22, 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

Nov.22, 2017



November 23, 2017

MACY’S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE FLOATS THROUGH NYC

by NBC NEWSThousands lined the streets as iconic balloons floated

and marchers danced in celebration of the 91st Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Ice Age's Scrat and his acorn are carried down Central Park West during the 91st Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City on Nov. 23, 2017.The extravaganza of Americana made its way through 2 ½ miles of Manhattan on a cold morning, with new faces and old favorites among its signature giant balloons.

Eduardo Munoz / Reuters

Nov.23, 2017


Performers prepare for the start of the annual parade.

The Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade is the largest parade in the world and has been held since 1924.


Nov.23, 2017


Participants arrive prepared with balloons and rosy cheeks to march down the parade route.


Nov.23, 2017


Performers gather into their groups for the start of the parade.


Nov.23, 2017


The Olaf balloon glides over Central Park West.Craig Ruttle / AP

Nov.23, 2017


Cheerleaders march along 6th ave.Andres Kudacki / AP

Nov.23, 2017


The Pikachu balloon is carried down Central Park West.Eduardo Munoz / Reuters

Nov.23, 2017


.A Charlie Brown balloon moves along Central Park West.

Craig Ruttle / APNov.23, 2017


New York Police Department officers stand guard in front of Radio City Music Hall.Shannon Stapleton / ReutersNov.23, 2017


Performers twirl their flags and march along 6th ave.

Andrew Kelly / Reuters

Nov.23, 2017


Members of the United States Air Force march past Columbus Circle in the parade.

Dia Dipasupil / Getty Images

Nov.23, 2017


A participant in the parade touches hands with a spectator along Central Park West.Craig Ruttle / AP

Nov.23, 2017


New York Police Department officers stand on guard as the Charlie Brown balloon makes its way down 6th Ave.

Shannon Stapleton / Reuters

Nov.23, 2017


The Red Power Rangers Balloon makes it way past Radio City Music Hall on 6th ave.Noam Galai / Getty Images for Saban Brands

Nov.23, 2017


People watch from windows as the Sinclair Dino balloon moves through 6th ave.

Andres Kudacki / AP

Nov.23, 2017


A parade participant marches down 6th ave.Mary Altaffer / AP

Nov.23, 2017


Jimmy Fallon dances while riding a float in the parade.

Dia Dipasupil / Getty Images

Nov.23, 2017


New York Police Department officers stand guard for security as the Angry Bird's Red makes its way down 6th ave.Shannon Stapleton / Reuters

Nov.23, 2017


Children interact with the parade revelers throwing confetti on the parade route.


Nov.23, 2017


The SpongeBob SquarePants float glides down 6th ave.

Mary Altaffer / AP

Nov.23, 2017


.Santa Claus makes his way down Central Park West as the closer of the parade route.


Nov.23, 2017


People take photos of the Pillsbury Dough Boy balloon as it takes part in the 91st Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York, New York. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

Nov.23, 2017


An indigenous man from the Pataxotribe takes part in a protest against an opinion of the General Advocacy of the Union about the demarcation of indigenous lands, at the Esplanade of Ministries in Brasilia, Brazil. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

Nov.23, 2017


Lightning strikes behind a

commercial tower in

Colombo, Sri Lanka.

REUTERS/Dinuka LiyanawatteNov.23, 2017


President Donald Trump speaks via

video teleconference with troops

from Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm

Beach, Florida. REUTERS/Eric

Thayer

Nov.23, 2017


A marching band arrives to take part during the 91st Macy�s Thanksgiving Day Parade in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

Nov.23, 2017


Ural owl (strix uralensis), which is included in Belarus' national red data book of endangered birds and animals, rests on a tree branch in Minsk, Belarus. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko

Nov.23, 2017


A girl poses near Christmas decorations to celebrate the upcoming Christmas season, in front of a department store in the shopping district of central Bangkok, Thailand. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

Nov.23, 2017


Zimbabwe's former Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is due to be sworn in to replace Robert Mugabe as President, addresses supporters in Harare, Zimbabwe. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings

Nov.23, 2017


A couple say goodbye while waiting for Amtrak trains to be called, ahead of the Thanksgiving Day holiday, at Pennsylvania Station in New York City. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

Nov.23, 2017


Reuters / Thursday, November 23, 2017An employee displays the Marquis de Sade's original rolled manuscript called Le Rouleau de la Bastille of "Les 120 jours de Sodome ou l'ecole du libertinage" (The 120 Days of Sodom, or the School of Libertinage, 1785) before its auction at the Hotel Drouot auction house in Paris, France. The sale of the most important private stock of manuscripts from bankrupt French company Aristophil, which purchased some 130,000 pieces, will start on December 20, 2017 in Paris. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

Nov.23, 2017


New York Knicks forward Tim Hardaway Jr. dives onto the scorer's table diving for a ball heading out of bounds during the second half against the Toronto Raptors at Madison Square Garden in New York. Mandatory Credit: Adam Hunger-USA TODAY Sports

Nov.23, 2017


An element of the installation "Voyageurs"

by French artist Cedric Le Borgne is

pictured at sunrise near Credit Agricole

Indosuez and BNP Paribas banks near the

"Quartier des Banques" Financial District in

Geneva, Switzerland. REUTERS/Denis

Balibouse

Nov.23, 2017


Leader of the Liberal Party, Ludovic Orban, takes part in a protest outside the Romanian Parliament during a no-confidence vote against Romania's Social Democrat-led government, in Bucharest, Romania. Inquam Photos/George Calin/via REUTERS

Nov.23, 2017


Chelsea's Cesc Fabregas scores their

third goal from the penalty spot during

a match against Qarabag in Baku,

Azerbaijan. Action Images via

Reuters/Peter Cziborra

Nov.23, 2017


Reuters / Thursday, November 23, 2017Rohingya refugee Almor Yhan, 59, rests with relatives hours after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border at Shah Porir Dwip near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Yhan lost one son and two nephews when their village Godam Para was attacked by Myanmar military, she says. After her son was killed, soldiers threw acid on his face and body. She only was able to recognize him because of the t-shirt he was wearing, she adds. REUTERS/Susana Vera

Nov.23, 2017


People gather at the Broadway entrance of Macy's Herald Square store ahead of early opening for the Black Friday sales in Manhattan, New York. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

Black Friday frenzyNov.23, 2017


People enter the Broadway entrance of Macy's Herald Square in Manhattan, New York. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

Nov.23, 2017


A woman reacts while looking at handbags in Macy's Herald Square in Manhattan, New York. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

Nov.23, 2017


People shop for items in Macy's Herald Square in Manhattan, New York. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

Nov.23, 2017


MACY'S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE

Paw Patrol's Chase balloon make its way down 6th Ave. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri-23

Nov.23, 2017


People sing carols in the Macy's Singing Christmas Tree on 6th Avenue. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly-23Nov.23, 2017


The Ice Age's Scrat and his Acorn balloon are carried. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri-23

Nov.23, 2017


The Elf On The Shelf is carried down Central Park West. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz-23

Nov.23, 2017


TRUMP'S THANKSGIVING IN PALM BEACH

President Donald Trump speaks

via video teleconference with

troops from Mar-a-Lago estate in

Palm Beach, Florida, November

23, 2017. REUTERS/Eric Thayer

Nov.23, 2017


President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is seen in Palm Beach, Florida, November 23, 2017. REUTERS/Eric ThayerNov.23, 2017


President Donald Trump and

first lady Melania Trump visit

a Coast Guard Station Lake

Worth Inlet in Riviera Beach,

Florida, November 23, 2017.

REUTERS/Eric Thayer

Nov.23, 2017


Reuters / Thursday, November 23, 2017A demonstrator drags burning tires during a day-long strike to protest against the killing of Sudip DattaBhowmik, a local journalist, who according to local media was shot dead by a Tripura State Rifles trooper on Tuesday, in Agartala, India. REUTERS/Jayanta Dey

Nov.23, 2017


In this Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017 photo, painting on the wall is half covered with mud in a flooded house at the town of Mandrawestern Athens. Flash floods in the Greek capital's western outskirts Wednesday turned roads into raging torrents of mud and debris, killing at least 21 people.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

GREECE FLOODS: ‘THE WATER TOOK EVERYTHING’GALLERY PHOTOS


In this Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017 photo, a man clears mad from his home in front of flipped over cars in the town of Mandra western Athens, following deadly flash floods that hit the area. Nearly 1,000 buildings were damaged, most of them private houses, as well as businesses, storage areas and public buildings.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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In this Friday, Nov. 17, 2017 photo, Kiriaki Ksanthou cleans mud next to the tombs of her husband and her son in the flood-damaged cemetery of the town of Mandra western Athens, following deadly flash floods that hit the area.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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In Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017 photo worker uses a hose to suck up water from a damaged yard of a house in the town of Mandrawestern Athens following major flash flooding on Wednesday that left at least 21 people dead.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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In this Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017 photo clothes covered with mud are hunged in a closet into a flood-damaged home in the town of Mandra , west of Athens.(AP Photo/PetrosGiannakouris)

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In this Friday , Nov. 17, 2017 photo, a man drops buckets with mud outside his home in the town of Mandra western Athens, on Friday , Nov. 17, 2017 following deadly flash floods that struck near Athens, killing at least 21 people.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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In this Tuesday , Nov. 21, 2017 photo a sink and a bathtub is covered with mud into a flood-damaged home in the town of Mandra , west of Athens. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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In this Friday , Nov. 17, 2017 photo, a man walks past a tomb covered with mud as he is searching the tomb of his grandmother in the flood-damaged cemetery of the town of Mandrawestern Athens, on Friday , Nov. 17, 2017, following deadly flash floods that struck near Athens, killing 21. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

TEXT FROM THE AP NEWS STORY, AP PHOTOS: GREECE FLOODS: ‘THE WATER TOOK EVERYTHING’, BY PETROS GIANNAKOURIS.

PHOTOS BY PETROS GIANNAKOURIS

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BRAZIL PRISON HOLDS BEAUTY PAGEANT

A female inmate competes in her

jail's annual beauty contest at

Talavera Bruce penitentiary in Rio

de Janeiro, Brazil, early Thursday,

Nov. 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Silvia

Izquierdo)

Nov.23, 2017


Female inmates pose in evening gowns during their jail's annual

beauty contest at the Talavera Bruce penitentiary in Rio de Janeiro,

Brazil, early Thursday, Nov. 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Nov.23, 2017


A female inmate wearing her jail-

issued flip flops prepares to change

to heels for the annual beauty

contest at Talavera Bruce

penitentiary in Rio de Janeiro,

Brazil, early Thursday, Nov. 23,

2017. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Nov.23, 2017


Inmate Michelle Rangel, current

"Miss Talavera Bruce" beauty

queen title holder, prepares to

defend her title at the jail's

annual beauty contest at

Talavera Bruce penitentiary in

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, early

Thursday, Nov. 23, 2017. “During

this moment, I don’t feel like I am

in jail,” said 28-year-old Rangel,

who is serving time for drug

trafficking. “My soul is freed.”

(AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Nov.23, 2017


A tattoo of a weapon covers the arm of a female inmate waiting to compete in the annual beauty contest at Talavera Bruce penitentiary in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, early Thursday, Nov. 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Nov.23, 2017


Female inmates wear

evening gowns on the

morning of their annual

beauty contest at

Talavera Bruce

penitentiary in Rio de

Janeiro, Brazil, early

Thursday, Nov. 23, 2017.

(AP Photo/Silvia

Izquierdo)

Nov.23, 2017


Female inmates in evening gowns take part in their jail's annual

beauty contest at Talavera Bruce penitentiary in Rio de Janeiro,

Brazil, early Thursday, Nov. 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Nov.23, 2017


Inmates and their relatives watch female prisoners compete in an

annual beauty contest at Talavera Bruce penitentiary in Rio de

Janeiro, Brazil, early Thursday, Nov. 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Silvia

Izquierdo)

Nov.23, 2017


Inmate Mayana Rosa Alves, center, celebrates winning her jail's annual beauty contest at Talavera Bruce penitentiary in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, early Thursday, Nov. 23, 2017. “Everyone is very happy to be with their family. I feel nervous and at the same time happy. I just wish I had also won freedom and would have taken my sash with me out of here,” said Alves who is serving time for robbery. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Nov.23, 2017


PRISON BEAUTY PAGEANT IN BRAZIL

Mayana Rosa Alves (C) celebrates with partners after winning. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares

Nov.23, 2017


A prisoner and participant of the "TB

Girl" beauty contest holds her son at

the Talavera Bruce women prison in Rio

de Janeiro, Brazil. REUTERS/Pilar

Olivares

Nov.23, 2017


Female inmate Rossana

Goncalves with four of her five

children cry as they reunite on

the sidelines of competing in her

jail's annual beauty contest at

Talavera Bruce penitentiary in Rio

de Janeiro, Brazil, early Thursday,

Nov. 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Silvia

Izquierdo)

TEXT FROM THE AP NEWS STORY, AP PHOTOS: BRAZIL PRISON HOLDS BEAUTY PAGEANT.

PHOTOS BY SILVIA IZQUIERDO

Nov.23, 2017


Prisoners and participants of the "TB Girl" beauty contest line up. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares

Nov.23, 2017


Prisoners and participants of the "TB Girl" beauty contest walk to the runway. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares

Nov.23, 2017


Prisoners and participants of the "TB Girl" beauty contest prepare themselves. REUTERS/Pilar OlivaresNov.23, 2017


Shoppers grapple for televisions during a "Black Friday" event on Nov. 23 at a store in Sao Paulo, Brazil.Once a uniquely American experience, retailers overseas have adopted American-style Black Friday discounts to get a jump on the Christmas shopping season.Paulo Whitaker / Reuters

Nov.23, 2017


ROBOT CASTLE RISES IN CHINA

Reuters / Thursday, November 23, 2017A view of the Oriental Science Fiction Valley theme park at sunset, in Guiyang, Guizhou province, China. Giant robots and futuristic cyberpunk castles rise out of lush mountain slopes on the outskirts of Guiyang, the capital of one of China's poorest provinces. REUTERS/Joseph Campbell

Nov.23, 2017


Reuters / Thursday, November 23, 2017Staff members stand underneath a giant robot statue at the Oriental Science Fiction Valley theme park. Welcome to China's first virtual reality theme park, which aims to ride a boom in demand for virtual entertainment that is set to propel tenfold growth in the country's virtual reality market, to hit almost $8.5 billion by 2020. REUTERS/Joseph Campbell

Nov.23, 2017


Reuters / Thursday, November 23, 2017Staff members chat in the walkway leading up to a theme park ride. The 330-acre (134-hectare) park in southwestern Guizhou province promises 35 virtual reality attractions, from shoot-'em-up games and virtual rollercoasters to tours with interstellar aliens of the region's most scenic spots. REUTERS/Joseph Campbell

Nov.23, 2017


Reuters / Thursday, November 23, 2017A staff member demonstrates a test-run of the virtual reality (VR) attraction "Explore the Stars". The $1.5-billion Oriental Science Fiction Valley park, is part of China's thrust to develop new drivers of growth centered on trends such as gaming, sports and cutting-edge technology, to cut reliance on traditional industries. REUTERS/Joseph Campbell

Nov.23, 2017


Reuters / Thursday, November 23, 2017Construction workers carry a light pole in front of a giant robot statue. In the push to become a center of innovative tech, Guizhou is luring firms such as Apple Inc, which has sited its China data center there, while the world's largest radio telescope is in nearby Pingtang county. REUTERS/Joseph Campbell

Nov.23, 2017


Reuters / Thursday, November 23, 2017A worker rides on a cart in front of a giant robot statue. The Guiyang park will offer tourists bungee jumps from a huge Transformer-like robot, and a studio devoted to producing virtual reality movies. Most rides will use VR goggles and motion simulators to thrill users. REUTERS/Joseph Campbell

Nov.23, 2017


Reuters / Thursday, November 23, 2017"After our attraction opens, it will change the entire tourism structure of Guizhouprovince as well as China's southwest," Chief Executive Chen Jianli told Reuters. "This is an innovative attraction, because it's just different," he said in an interview at the park, part of which is scheduled to open next February. REUTERS/Joseph Campbell

Nov.23, 2017


Reuters / Thursday, November 23, 2017Staff members wearing virtual reality (VR) goggles sit in a motorized cart while performing an inspection of the attraction "Fly Over Guizhou". The park says it is the world's first of its kind, although virtual reality-based attractions from the United States to Japan already draw interest from consumers and video gamers seeking a more immersive experience. REUTERS/Joseph Campbell

Nov.23, 2017


Staff members inspect virtual reality (VR) goggles for the attraction "Fly Over Guizhou". "You feel like you're really there," said Qu Zhongjie, the park's manager of rides. "That's our main feature." REUTERS/Joseph Campbell

Nov.23, 2017


Reuters / Thursday, November 23, 2017Construction workers smooth out steel rods in front of the feet of a giant robot statue. China's virtual reality market is expected to grow tenfold to 55.6 billion yuan ($8.4 billion) by the end of the decade, state-backed think-tank CCID has said. REUTERS/Joseph Campbell

Nov.23, 2017


The Grinch balloon passes by windows of a building on Central Park West during Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York Thursday, Nov. 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Nov.23, 2017


Staff walk through the annual year end illumination in Shiodome district , in Tokyo, Thursday, Nov. 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Nov.23, 2017


Mississippi wide receiver DaMarkus Lodge (5) cannot catch a first-half pass while Mississippi State defensive back Chris Rayford (24) defends during an NCAA college football game in Starkville, Miss., Thursday, Nov. 23, 2017. Mississippi won 31-28. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)Nov.23, 2017



November 24, 2017

A young girl marches as she mimics the military parade, accompanied by supporters holding posters of Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa, at his inauguration ceremony in the capital Harare on Nov. 24.Mnangagwa was sworn in as Zimbabwe's president after Robert Mugabe resigned on Tuesday, ending his 37-year rule. PHOTOS: Robert Mugabe, from liberation hero to brutal dictatorBen Curtis / AP

Nov.24, 2017


A boy covers his face with a wool hat on the banks of the Yamuna river in Delhi, India, on Nov. 24. Saumya Khandelwal / Reuters

Nov.24, 2017


A Rohingya refugee boy bathes

at Moynarghona refugee

settlement near Cox's Bazar,

Bangladesh. REUTERS/Susana

Vera

Nov.24, 2017


A Palestinian youth uses his mobile phone as he sits on a beach in the northern Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

Nov.24, 2017


Shoppers reach out for television sets as they compete to purchase retail items on Black Friday at a store in Sao Paulo, Brazil. REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker

Nov.24, 2017


Atalanta's Mattia Caldara after throwing his kit into the crowd after the Europa League match against Everton in Goodison Park, Liverpool, Britain. REUTERS/Andrew Yates

Nov.24, 2017


A soldier in a military helicopter aims his weapon during a patrol of the operation 'Peace and Democracy II' as part of the security measures for the November 26 presidential election, in Tegucigalpa. REUTERS/Jorge Cabrera

Nov.24, 2017


Armed police officers mix with shoppers in an Oxford Street store, in London, Britain. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls

Nov.24, 2017


Members of the Navy and relatives of the 44 crew members of the missing at sea ARA San Juan submarine react at an Argentine naval base in Mar del Plata, Argentina. REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci

Nov.24, 2017


A six-year-old boy plays in front of yellow ginkgo leaves at a park in Tokyo, Japan. REUTERS/Issei Kato

Nov.24, 2017


Indigenous Warao children from

the Orinoco Delta in eastern

Venezuela, play on hammocks at a

shelter in Pacaraima, Roraima

state, Brazil. REUTERS/Nacho

Doce

Nov.24, 2017


Rohingya refugee children

stand by a bonfire in a field at

Jamtoli refugee settlement

near Cox's Bazar,

Bangladesh.

REUTERS/Susana Vera

Nov.24, 2017


HOLIDAY CHEERS: SHOPPERS STUFF THEMSELVES, THEN THE STORES ON

BLACK FRIDAYby NBC NEWS

In a start to the holiday season, Americans across the USA shop for deals on Black Friday.

Renee Hantelmann and her husband, Josh, both of Dickeyville, Wis.,

wear matching adult pajamas as they look for deals at Target on Nov.

24, 2017 in Dubuque, Iowa.

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Spectators cheer from the stands at the inauguration ceremony of President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the capital Harare, Zimbabwe Friday, Nov. 24, 2017. Mnangagwa was sworn in as Zimbabwe's president after Robert Mugabe resigned on Tuesday, ending his 37-year rule. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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A Rohingya Muslim gets his hair cut in a makeshift barber shop that is lit with a candle and a torch light at Jamtoli refugee camp, Friday, Nov. 24, 2017, in Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

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Syrian migrant Bashar Wakaa and his heavily pregnant wife are days away from the birth of their third child, stranded on the Greek island of Lesbos in a muddy, garbage-strewn olive grove with no running water or toilets.

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Nearby, three Syrian men share a flimsy tent designed for two. Like the expectant couple, they arrived by rubber dinghy from Turkey only to find the island's migrant camp in a disused military base was severely overcrowded."This is not a life for humans," said 23-year-old AnasBakour, one of the men who shares the rain-sodden tent. "The animals have a better life."

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The hundreds sleeping in the woods are among more than 8,500 asylum-seekers stuck on Lesbos, where facilities for migrants were only designed to accommodate about 3,000. Thousands more are on four other Greek islands close to Turkey.A deal between the European Union and Turkey struck in 2016 stemmed the uncontrolled exodus of nearly a million people across the Aegean Sea the year before.Under the agreement, anyone crossing to Greece from Turkey who does not qualify for asylum must be deported.

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Greek officials are keen to discuss continued cooperation on the migrant pact with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, who arrived in Athens on Thursday for the first visit to the country by a Turkish head of state since 1952.

Though arrivals collapsed in 2016 following the deal, they have recently ticked up. In the four months to November, 15,800 asylum-seekers arrived on Greek islands, up 27 percent from last year, according to U.N. refugee (UNHCR) data.


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The data does not give monthly arrivals by country of origin but a UNHCR spokesman in Greece said most were Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans, as has been the case throughout the crisis.Aid groups and experts on Europe's migration crisis say the main problem is a lack of political will to improve conditions on the Greek islands, in the hope of dissuading more migrants from risking the sea crossing."No one will admit it but it's a discouraging factor, a discouraging message for anyone who may want to come," said Konstantinos Filis, research director at Greece's Institute for International Relations.


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Aid workers say there is now an acute shortage of medical care, the conditions are horrendous and more and more depressed asylum-seekers are cutting themselves or attempting suicide.

Camp residents say gangs, some armed with knives, roam at night, drugs and alcohol circulate freely and women cower in their shelters for fear of attack.

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"Any girl in this camp expects at any moment that she will be attacked," said Shahed Naji, 22, an Iraqi woman.


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Afghan migrant Abdul Samad's son Sameer Soleimani, 10, was recovered unconscious from the dinghy on which they travelled to Greece.


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The EU-Turkey deal does not explicitly forbid asylum-seekers from leaving the islands until claims are assessed but the process takes months and stranded asylum-seekers grow desperate and frustrated, said charity Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF)."People need to get off the island as soon as possible," said Aria Danika, MSF's field coordinator in Lesbos.Turkish officials said the increase in crossings to the Greek islands in recent months did not reflect any slippage on their part in implementing its agreement with the EU.

Some camp residents on Lesbos said they were not aware of the deal blocking their journey onwards to northern Europe. Others said they left Turkey because they could not find work and found life unbearable."No one puts his life in danger to come by small boat if Turkey is good and he can live there," said Amal Adwan, a Palestinian born in Syria now on Lesbos.

Adwan, who made seven attempted sea crossings before reaching Lesbos, said she might have had second thoughts if she had know what the conditions were like."If I knew before, maybe I wouldn't have come," she said.


The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi told Reuters there was "a certain general resistance to moving people from the islands, not to create a pull factor".Greece's migration ministry, which manages the Lesbos camp, has said it is trying to ease overcrowding but could not remove people in large numbers because of the EU-Turkey pact.It declined to give an immediate comment on conditions on Lesbos and other islands.Ahead of Erdogan's visit, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told a Turkish news agency on Wednesday that the EU-Turkey deal was "difficult but necessary".The European Commission, which has offered Greece millions in emergency aid, said on Thursday it was working on a daily basis with the Greek authorities to try to improve the conditions on the islands but more needed to be done.


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"I have earlier, also in Athens, expressed my frustration over the fact that although we have put so much money at the disposal of all the authorities, that still the situation on some of the islands is unacceptable," the Commission's First Vice-President Frans Timmermans told reporters.

On Lesbos, the once-welcoming community is fed up. On Saturday, residents used cars to try to block a ferry from unloading containers intended to house more refugees.


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The island's mayor, Spyros Galinos, said EU policies had turned the island into "an open prison" and called for protests and strikes against the deal.

Sitting in his office overlooking the port, he compared Lesbos to a weightlifter being asked to lift heavier and heavier barbells: "Today, we're buckling. When we get crushed the situation will be completely unmanageable and explosive."

Back in the olive grove, Wakaa and his pregnant wife are despondent. "If they can't accommodate these people then why are they accepting them in the first place?" Wakaa asked. "Let them drown in the sea. At least they will die and rest."


Graves of refugees and migrants some of whom drowned during an attempt to cross a part of the Aegean Sea from the Turkish coast.

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