These photographs tell some of the stories that defined 2016. (40 PHOTOS)
2016: The Year In Photos
Violence shook the Middle East, migrants made dangerous journeys across the Mediterranean and Europe, and voting in the United Kingdom and the United States produced shock results. These photographs tell some of the stories.
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A girl walks through the mud at a refugee and migrant camp near Idomeni, Greece, close to the border with Macedonia, on March 10. (epa/Valdrin Zhemaj)
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A woman watches Russian police officers during a March 18 concert in Moscow's Red Square marking the second anniversary of Russia's annexation of the Crimean peninsula. (Reuters/Maxim Shemetov)
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Thousands of people hold a moment of silence in Brussels, Belgium, on March 24 to pay tribute to the victims of multiple terrorist attacks in the city two days earlier. (epa/Christophe Petit Tesson)
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A Syrian boy walks past the collapsed minaret of a mosque in the rebel-held city of Douma, outside Damascus, on March 31. (epa/Mohammed Badra)