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A passenger ferry sits between two buildings after an earthquake in Wani, Indonesia, on Oct. 3.
A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck at dusk on Sept. 28 and generated a tsunami said to have been as high as 20 feet in places. More than 800 people were killed.
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Melania Trump visits the Giza Pyramids in Egypt on Oct. 6 during the final stop of her weeklong visit to four countries in Africa. It was her first solo trip overseas as first lady.
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Kathy Coy stands amid the remains of her home in Panama City, Florida, on Oct. 11, the day after Hurricane Michael made landfall in the Florida Panhandle.
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November
CNN’s Jim Acosta questions President Donald Trump at a news conference at the White House on Nov. 7 as an intern reaches for the microphone.
Trump’s ongoing feud with Acosta, CNN’s chief White House correspondent, boiled over with Trump verbally berating him and the White House suspending his press access hours later.
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A van is engulfed in flames as the Camp Fire tears through Paradise, California, on Nov. 8.
Tens of thousands of people fled the fast-moving wildfire in Northern California, some clutching babies and pets as they abandoned vehicles and struck out on foot ahead of the flames that forced the evacuation of an entire town and destroyed hundreds of structures.
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Saleh Hassan al-Faqeh holds the hand of his 4-month-old daughter, Hajar, who died at the malnutrition ward of al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen, on Nov. 15.
Hajar was one of thousands of Yemeni children suffering from malnutrition in a country that has been pushed to the brink of famine by more than three years of war.
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Maria Meza, 40, a migrant from Honduras who was part of a caravan of thousands from Central America trying to reach the United States, runs from tear gas with her 5-year-old twin daughters, Saira and Cheili Mejia, near the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana on Nov. 25.
U.S. border agents hurled tear gas canisters as migrants approached the border crossing into San Diego, provoking public outrage.
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A car is trapped on a damaged road south of Wasilla, Alaska, after back-to-back earthquakes on Nov. 30.
The quakes, measuring 7.0 and 5.7, shattered highways and rocked buildings in Anchorage and the surrounding area, sending people running into the streets and briefly triggering a tsunami warning for islands and coastal areas south of the city.
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December
Smoke hangs over Paris as seen from the top of the Arc de Triomphe on Dec. 1.
Protests against rising taxes and the high cost of living turned into a riot as police fired tear gas and water cannons in street battles with activists from the “yellow vest” movement.
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Former President George W. Bush touches the coffin after eulogizing his father, former President George H.W. Bush, at the National Cathedral on Dec. 5.
A World War II combat veteran, the elder Bush was a member of Congress from Texas, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, director of the CIA, vice president under Ronald Reagan and the 41st president of the United States. |