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 Ukrainian serviceman fires a machine gun in a clash with Russian-backed separatists near the village of Avdiyivka on November 22. (epa/Anatolii Stepanov)
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People hold posters of late Cuban leader Fidel Castro while awaiting the arrival of a procession carrying his ashes in Las Tunas, Cuba, on December 2. Castro, who ruled Cuba as a one-party state for almost half a century, died aged 90 on November 25. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)
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A boy plays with a paper plane near the site of a plane crash in the village of Saddha Batolni near Abbottabad, Pakistan, on December 8. All 47 people on board the plane were killed in the December 7 crash, including Junaid Jamshed, a Pakistani pop star turned Muslim preacher. (Reuters/Faisal Mahmood)
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People carry their belongings as they flee deeper into the remaining rebel-held areas of Aleppo, Syria, on December 13. Syrian government forces retook rebel-held territory after a lengthy siege and brutal fighting. (Reuters/Abdalrhman Ismai)