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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People watch the flooded Jinsha River from a sightseeing platform in the Tiger Leaping Gorge in China's Yunnan Province on July 15. (Reuters)
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Black ribbons are draped on a monument in Nice, France, on July 18, after residents held a moment of silence in honor of the victims of a terrorist attack. Eighty-four people were killed in the attack during Bastille Day celebrations on July 14. (epa/Olivier Anrigo)
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Turkish national flags and a portrait of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hang in Istanbul's Taksim Square on July 23 during a rally against an attempted military coup that was crushed on July 15-16. (Petr Shelomovskiy)
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Ukrainian women examine their destroyed apartment after fighting between Russia-backed separatists and Ukrainian government troops in the town of Yasinovataya in the eastern Donetsk region on August 1. (epa/Alexander Ermochenko)