A Palestinian reveller takes part in a festival of colours in the West Bank city of Ramallah on August 20. The festival is inspired by Holi
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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on August 24, 2015. After weeks of turmoil in global markets, major US stock indexes gained about 1 percent on Wednesday. The news stabilised global markets and soothed concerns that slowing growth in China will hurt the global economy
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A soldier runs behind animals in cages near the site of blasts in Binhai new district in Tianjin, China. Four new fires broke out at the site where two huge blasts killed 116 people in August
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The remains of a waterfront home on Lake Chelan destroyed by the Chelan Complex fire in Washington on August 24, 2015
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An injured national guard officer is carried away by comrades outside parliament in Kiev, Ukraine, on August 31. Nearly 90 people were wounded after several explosive devices were thrown in front of the Ukrainian parliament building in Kiev
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A South Korean soldier takes his position as a man photographs him during an anti-terror drill in Seoul, South Korea, on August 19, 2015. South Korea staged a nationwide civil defence drill, called the annual Ulchi Exercise, where they hope to prepare the general public for all possible emergencies
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Migrants telephone near a fence topped with barbed wire near the makeshift camp called &lsquoThe New Jungle&rsquo in Calais, France, on August 19. The French interior minister and his British counterpart visited Calais to sign a new Franco-British agreement on bilateral migratory policies. Calais remains an open wound between the two countries with more than 3,000 migrants trying to scale
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An Israeli soldier detains a Palestinian boy during a protest against Jewish settlements in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh near Ramallah on August 28
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Supporters of the pro-democracy group "Bersih" (Clean) gather outside the Dataran Merdeka in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on August 30 to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Najib Razak. The country is reeling under a political crisis over a multi-million-dollar payment made to an account under his name
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Greece's Supreme Court judge Vassiliki Thanou (left) during her swearing-in ceremony as the country's caretaker PM, in Athens on August 27. Thanou, the country's first woman PM, was named the head of a caretaker government to lead the country to elections expected next month. Outgoing PM Alexis Tsipras has signalled that he would accept an easing of Greece's huge debt burden if he wins th
