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-- AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2015 --

AFP Pictures of the Year 2015

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People observe a minute of silence at the Place du Trocadero in Paris on November 16, 2015 to pay tribute to victims of the attacks claimed by Islamic State which killed at least 129 people and left more than 350 injured on November 13.

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People gather at a makeshift memorial in front of "Le carillon" restaurant on November 15, 2015, in the 10th district of Paris.

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People take part in a gathering near Le Carillon restaurant, one of the site of the attacks in Paris on November 14, 2015.

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People lie on the pavement at the tarrasse of the Cafe Bonne Biere in Paris, on November 13, 2015.

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A man lies on the pavement near the Cafe Bonne Biere in Paris, on November 13, 2015.

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Refugees and migrants spend the night in a field outside of the Moria Hot Spot, on the Greek island of Lesbos on November 9, 2015.

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A handout picture taken on November 1, 2015 and released on November 3, 2015 by Russia's Emergency Ministry shows Russian Emergency Minister Vladimir Puchkov (4th L) visiting the crash site of a A321 Russian airliner in Wadi al-Zolomat, a mountainous area of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.

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Supporters of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi hold posters bearing her image as they listen as she speaks during a campaign rally for the National League for Democracy in Yangon on November 1, 2015. Myanmar heads to the polls on November 8 in what observers and voters hope will be the fairest election in decades as the nation slowly shakes off years of brutal and isolating junta rule.

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Syrians are seen inside a cage in Douma, the largest opposition stronghold on the outskirts of Damascus, on October 31, 2015,

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A man reacts as he arrives, with other refugees and migrants, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on October 28, 2015.

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A seagull flies in front of Repsol Honda rider Marc Marquez (C) and Movistar Yamaha rider Jorge Lorenzo of Spain after smashing into Ducati rider Andrea Iannone of Italy on the opening lap of the MotoGP Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island on October 18, 2015.

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Police escort migrants and asylum seekers as they walk to a refugee centre after crossing the Croatian-Slovenian border near Rigonce on October 24, 2015.

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Japan's Aiko Sugihara competes on the beam competes on the beam during the first day of qualifications at the 2015 World Gymnastics Championship in Glasgow, Scotland, on October 23, 2015.

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Farmer Chen Jinxiang walks through his rice paddy field planted with various types of rice forming a map of China in Fengjing, west of Shanghai, on October 19, 2015.

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Infiltrated members of the Israeli security forces detain a Palestinian stone thrower and aim their weapons at fellow protesters during clashes in Beit El, on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Ramallah, on October 7, 2015.

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Malaysian youths cool off in a river as schools remain closed due to hazy conditions in Hulu Langat on October 6, 2015.

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New cars of German car maker Volkswagen (VW) stand ready for shipping next to the Volkswagen plant in Emden, northwestern Germany, on September 30, 2015.

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Syrian refugees are covered with life blankets upon arriving to the Greek island of Lesbos, after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey, on September 28, 2015.

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Refugees struggle to get on a train from Gyor to Hegyeshalom in Hungary on September 19, 2015.

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A fishing boat that was ran aground by the sea while moored in the port of Coquimbo, some 445 km north of Santiago, during the eve's earthquake on September 17, 2015.

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An aerial view taken on September 16, 2015 shows migrants camping on no-man's land of the border between Hungary and Serbia near Roeszke.

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Refugees stand behind a fence at the Hungarian border with Serbia near the town of Horgos on September 16, 2015.

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gives a national security speech aboard the World War II Battleship USS Iowa, September 15, 2015,

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Migrants and refugees wait under the rain to cross the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni, in northern Greece on September 10, 2015.

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A helper puts a jacket at a refugee boy at the "Bayernkaserne", where clothes for migrants have been collected, in Munich, southern Germany, on September 9, 2015.

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Syrians walk amid the rubble of destroyed buildings following reported air strikes by regime forces in the rebel-held area of Douma, east of the capital Damascus, on August 30, 2015.

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Migrants walk through a field to cross the border from Greece to Macedonia near the Greek village of Idomeni on August 29, 2015.

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Palestinians fight to free a Palestinian boy (bottom) held by an Israeli soldier (C) during clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinian protesters following a march against Palestinian land confiscation to expand the nearby Jewish Halamish settlement on August 28, 2015.

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A father of a migrants family is arrested by the local police near the village of Roszke on the Hungarian-Serbian border on August 28, 2015 .

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A wounded Syrian girl looks on at a make shift hospital in the rebel-held area of Douma, east of the capital Damascus, following shelling and air raids by Syrian government forces on August 22, 2015.

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Jamaica's Usain Bolt (2nd R) celebrates before (L-R) USA's Justin Gatlin, USA's Tyson Gay and USA's Mike Rodgers as he wins the final of the men's 100 metres athletics event at the 2015 IAAF World Championships at the "Bird's Nest" National Stadium in Beijing on August 23, 2015.

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A Palestinian protester throws a bottle filled with paint at an Israeli army bulldozer during clashes following a demonstration against the expropriation of Palestinian land by Israel in the village of Kfar Qaddum, near Nablus in the occupied West Bank, on August 21, 2015.

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A child gets assistance to remove her life jacket upon her arrival on an inflatable boat carrying migrants on the Greek island of Kos after crossing a part of the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece on August 13, 2015.

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Smoke billows behind rows of burnt out cars at the site of a series of explosions in Tianjin, northern China on August 13, 2015.

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Migrants check their mobile phones after getting out of an inflatable boat on a beach on the Greek island of Kos, after crossing a part of the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece, on August 12, 2015.

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Residents gather to see huge waves stirred up by strong wind as typhoon Soudelor draws near the mainland of China in Wenling, east China's Zhejiang province on August 8, 2015.

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An athlete competes in the men's High Diving 27m preliminary round on day ten of the 16th FINA World Championships at the Kazanka River on August 3, 2015 in Kazan, Russia.

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Russia's Victor Minibaev competes in the men's 10m platform semi-final diving event at the 2015 FINA World Championships in Kazan on August 1, 2015.

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A woman wearing a facekini poses at the beach in Qingdao, eastern China's Shandong province on July 24, 2015.

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A beluga whale sprays water towards visitors during a summer attraction at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium in Yokohama, suburban Tokyo on July 20, 2015.

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Italy's Andrea Baldini (R) and Russia's Artur Akhmatkhuzin competing during the men's foil team gold medal match at the 2015 World Fencing Championships in Moscow on July 19, 2015.

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A picture taken early on July 16, 2015 from the Abraj al-Bait Towers, also known as the Mecca Royal Hotel Clock Tower.

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A woman practices ice climbing on July 14, 2015 next to insulating foams wrapping up the Rhone Glacier which has been shrinking under the summer sun near Gletsch.

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45Giorgos Chatzifotiadis, an elderly man, cries outside a national bank branch in Thessaloniki on 3 July, 2015 as pensioners queue to draw their pensions, up to a limit of 120 euros.

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An injured NATO soldier lies on the ground following a suicide car bomb attack that targeted foreign military vehicles in the Afghan capital Kabul on June 30,2015.

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Tourists look at flowers at the site of a shooting attack on the beach in front of the Riu Imperial Marhaba Hotel in Port el Kantaoui, on the outskirts of Sousse south of the capital Tunis, on June 28, 2015.

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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II arrives for a receiving line and state banquet with German President Joachim Gauck at the presidential Bellevue Palace in Berlin, on June 24, 2015.

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Emanuel AME Church pastor and South Carolina State Sen. Clementa Pinckney lies in state at the South Carolina State House in Colombia, South Carolina, on June 24, 2015.

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A French antirot police (CRS) officer tries to prevent illegal migrants from hiding in trucks heading for England in the French northern harbour of Calais, on June 17, 2015.

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A Syrian child fleeing the war is lifted over border fences to enter Turkish territory illegally, near the Turkish border crossing at Akcakale in Sanliurfa province on June 14, 2015.

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A hippopotamus walks across a flooded street in Tbilisi on June 14, 2015.

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Islamic State members ask people to go back to city center at the Turkish Akcakale crossing gate in Sanliurfa province, on June 13, 2015.

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Migrants, who were found at sea on a boat, collect rain water at a temporary shelter near the Kanyin Chaung jetty to MeeThike sub-township outside Maungdaw township, northern Rakhine state on June 4, 2015.

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A woman smokes a cigarette in a bar on May 27, 2015 in Beijing. China's capital seeks to snuff indoor smoking on June 1st, 2015 with a new ban and unprecedented fines.

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A Rohingya migrant eats food dropped by a Thai army helicopter after he jumped to collect the supplies at sea from a boat drifting in Thai waters off the southern island of Koh Lipe in the Andaman sea on May 14, 2015.

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Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu (man in the front car) salutes as he reviews units during the Victory Day military parade on Moscow's Red Square on May 9, 2015.

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A man begs for help from the military as he stands in a drain where he had hid himself to escape a lynching by a mob at the Cibitoke district of Burundi capital, Bujumbura on May 7, 2015.

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59Schoolgirls rest on a banquette at the Museum of the Great Patriotic War at Poklonnaya Gora in Moscow on April 28, 2015.

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People burn the bodies of earthquake victims at a mass cremation at Pashupatinath in Kathmandu on April 26, 2015.

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In this photograph taken on April 25, 2015, rescuers use a makeshift stretcher to carry an injured person after an avalanche triggered by an earthquake flattened parts of Everest Base Camp.

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In this photograph taken on April 25, 2015, a cloud of snow and debris triggered by an earthquake flies towards Everest Base Camp, moments ahead of flattening part of the camp in the Himalayas.

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People clear rubble in Kathmandu's Durbar Square, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that was severely damaged by an earthquake on April 25, 2015.

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Demonstrators destroy the windshield of a Baltimore Police car as they protest the death Freddie Gray, an African American man who died of spinal cord injuries in police custody, in Baltimore, Maryland, April 25, 2015.

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View from Frutillar, southern Chile, showing volcanic lightnings and lava spewed from the Calbuco volcano on April 23, 2015.

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Mainasi Issa, a 23-year-old Malawian albino woman, carries her tow-year-old daughter Djiamila Jafali as she poses outside her hut in the traditional authority area of Nkole, Machinga district, on April 17, 2015.

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Riot policemen stand splattered with red paint thrown by protesters outside the Athens University on April 16, 2015.

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A picture taken on April 7, 2015, shows an unexploded rocket in field near the village of Dmitrivka. Ukraine

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An Israeli boy swims next to sheep belonging to a Palestinian farmer in the West Bank village of Al-Auja in the Jordan Valley on April 8, 2015 during the Jewish Passover holiday.

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Pope Francis greets the crowd from the popemobile after the Easter Mass on April 5, 2015 in Vatican.

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A woman wearing a black chador cries as she attends the funeral of Omar Abdul Bakar, a young student who was killed on March 30 when soldiers shot into a crowd of young men on the side of the road in Kaduna, killing him and wounding four, in Kaduna on March 31, 2015.

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Hundreds of Nigerians celebrate at an intersection in the flashpoint northern city of Kaduna on March 31, 2015 the victory of main opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari.

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Voters wait to cast their ballots at a polling station set up under a tree on the outskirt of Kano during the presidential elections on March 28, 2015.

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French gendarmes and investigators work on March 26, 2015 in the scattered debris on the crash site of the Germanwings Airbus A320 that crashed in the French Alps above the southeastern town of Seyne.

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Kurdish men sit near bonfire near a destroyed building, in the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane, also known as Ain al-Arab, on March 22, 2015.

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A young boy walks past a makeshift barricade made of wreckages of buses to obstruct the view of regime snipers and to keep people safe, on March 14, 2015 in the rebel-held side of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo.

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A man points his gun in front of a barricade towards Turkish riot police with a pistol on March 11, 2015 in Istanbul, during clashes following a protest in memory of a teenager killed in 2013 anti-government demonstrations and whose death has become a rallying cause for opponents of President.

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The body of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov is covered with plastic lies on Moskvoretsky bridge near St. Basil cathedral (background) in central Moscow on February 28, 2015.

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A view of Lower Manhattan from the Staten Island Ferry February 25, 2015 as the New York Harbor is filled with large chunks of ice.

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Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi greets supporters as she leaves a ceremony to mark the 100th birthday of independence hero Aung San, in the remote central Myanmar town of Natmauk on February 13, 2015.

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An injured Syrian child waits for treatment at a makeshift hospital in the rebel held area of Douma, north east of the capital Damascus, following reported air strikes by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad on February 2, 2015.

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Serena Williams of the US celebrates after victory in her women's singles final match against Russia's Maria Sharapova on day thirteen of the 2015 Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on January 31, 2015.

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Musa, a 25-year-old Kurdish marksman, stands atop a building as he looks at the destroyed Syrian town of Kobane, also known as Ain al-Arab, on January 30, 2015.

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A Ukrainian woman begs Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to stop the bombing in Donetsk after shell hit the residential area where she lives, killing two civilians in Donetsk's Kyibishevsky district, on January 29, 2015.

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Mourners gather around the grave of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah at the Al-Oud cemetery in Riyadh on January 23, 2015 following his death in the early hours of the morning.

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In a picture taken on January 21, 2015.the Communist Party has started easing controls, allowing couples to have two offspring so long as one of the parents is an only child, rather than both.

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Riders compete during 2015 Dakar Rally stage 8 between Uyuni, Bolivia and Iquique, Chile, on January 12, 2015.

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People take part in a Unity rally Marche Republicaine on January 11, 2015 at the Place de la Nation (Nation square) in Paris in tribute to the 17 victims of a three-day killing spree by homegrown Islamists.

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Aerial view taken on January 11, 2015 shows people attending the Unity rally Marche Republicaine at the Place de la Republique (Republique's square) in Paris in tribute to the 17 victims of a three-day killing spree by homegrown Islamists.

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90December 7, 2015 王文堯 Kaohsiung Taiwan R.O.C All photos were taken from AFP, internet. Source: The Denver Post. THE END

Italian surfer Federico Piccinaglia rides a wave with a stand up paddle (SUP), dressed in a Santa Clause costume, off the coast of Levanto, near La Spezia, on December 1, 2015.