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 visitor inside the control room of Unit 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine on November 7. The control room was the site where technicians realized that a test of the backup cooling system had malfunctioned on April 26, 1986, leading to the world's worst civilian nuclear disaster. (RFE/RL/Serhiy Korovayniy)
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A migrant prepares to take a bath outside a derelict warehouse in Belgrade, Serbia, on November 10. (Reuters/Marko Djurica)
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Demonstrators protest against U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in front of Trump Tower in New York City on November 12, four days after his surprise victory in the presidential election. (AFP/Kena Betancur)
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People run after a coalition air strike hit positions held by Islamic State (IS) fighters in Mosul, Iraq, on November 17. Iraqi security forces, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, and Shi'ite militias were all engaged in a lengthy offensive to retake the city from IS control. (Reuters/Goran Tomasevic)