Revolution in Armenia, violence in the Middle East, and thawing relations with North Korea: These images show the big events that defined 2018.
2018: The Year In Photos
- By Lucie Steinzova and
- Kateryna Oliynyk
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People stand before the Holy Trinity Cathedral during a midnight Christmas service in Tbilisi, Georgia, on January 7. (Reuters/David Mdzinarishvili)
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Ukrainian forces fire a howitzer near the village of Novoluhanske on January 11 as fighting continued with pro-Russian rebels in the Donbas region. (epa-EFE/Markiian Lyseiko)
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Russian riot police detain a protester holding a poster reading "Putin, you are not my President" during a rally in St. Petersburg on January 28 against the decision to ban opposition leader Aleksei Navalny from running for president. Navalny was arrested in Moscow as demonstrations called by him took place across the country. (AP/Dmitri Lovetsky)
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People attend the funeral of a victim of a suicide bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, on January 28. Ninety-five people were killed and 158 injured in the car-bomb attack on Kabul's Sadarat Square. The Taliban used an ambulance loaded with explosives to carry out the attack on a busy commercial area near the former Interior Ministry building. (epa-EFE/Hedayatullah Amid)
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A red supermoon is seen over the Lakhta Center in the Primorsky District of St. Petersburg on January 31. Completed later in 2018, the Lakhta Center is now the tallest building in Europe. (TASS/Peter Kovalev)
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An athlete in action during the Men's Mogul Freestyle competition at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics, South Korea, on February 8. (epa-EFE/Sergei Ilnitsky)
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A man holds a child after an air strike on the besieged town of Douma in Syria on February 7. (Reuters/Bassam Khabieh)
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Student Pavarsia Sopi, 10, poses for a photo in front of a Kosovar flag during an independence celebration ceremony on February 16 at a school in the village of Sllovi near the town of Lipjan, Kosovo. Pavaresia was the first child born after Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008. Pavaresia translates into English as "Independence." (AP/Visar Kryeziu)
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Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar activists in Kyiv hold placards on February 26 with the names of people who have disappeared or been arrested by Russian security forces in Crimea. The activists marked a Day Of Crimean Resistance to the Russian occupation and demanded information on the whereabouts of missing people and the release of detainees. (epa-EFE/Sergey Dolzhenko)
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Protesters carry crosses and torches during a rally against plans to change Macedonia's constitutional name in Skopje on February 27. Several thousand protesters gathered in front of the former Yugoslav republic's parliament to demand that the government call off talks with neighbor Greece on a decades-long name dispute. (AP/Boris Grdanoski)
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Candles lit in memory of murdered Slovak journalist Jan Kuciak are laid out in front of government buildings in the capital, Bratislava, on February 28. The bodies of Kuciak and his girlfriend Martina Kusnirova were found in their home in Velka Maca, east of the capital. They had both been shot. The 27-year-old reporter was working for the Slovak news website Aktuality.sk and specialized in reporting on tax evasion. Police suspect the killing was linked to his investigations. (epa-EFE/Matej Kalina)
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Approximately seven thousand pairs of shoes representing the number of children killed by guns since the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, are seen on the East Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on March 13. (epa-EFE/Michael Reynolds)
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A Pakistani man splashes water on his face on the eve of World Water Day in Karachi, Pakistan, on March 21. International World Water Day is held annually on March 22 to highlight the importance of freshwater and its management. (epa-EFE/Rehan Khan)
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A little girl is carried on the shoulders of a man as people walk in the snow in downtown Washington on March 21. (epa-EFE/Michael Reynolds)
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A worker holds the body of an unborn baby whose mother was killed by an airstrike in Hodeida, Yemen, on April 2. (Reuters/Abduljabbar Zeyad)
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un prepares to shake hands with South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the border village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone between the two states on April 27. (Korea Summit Press/AP)
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Armenian protesters block a road after opposition leader Nikol Pashinian announced a nationwide campaign of civil disobedience in Yerevan on May 2. (Reuters/Gleb Garanich)
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Fireworks explode over The Motherland Calls statue in Volgograd, Russia, on May 8 during a light-and-laser show marking the 73rd anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. (Reuters/Tatyana Makeyeva)
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A house burns as a fast-moving lava flow consumes everything in its path in Pahoa, Hawaii, on May 19. The eruption of the Kilauea volcano was the largest in decades, destroying more than 40 homes and displacing thousands. (epa-EFE/Bruce Omori)
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Free food is placed on roadside tables as the time to stop fasting approaches during the holy month of Ramadan in Karachi, Pakistan, on May 27. Muslims around the world mark Ramadan by praying during the night and abstaining from eating in the period between sunrise and sunset. (epa-EFE/Shahzaib Akber)
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Protesters shout antigovernment slogans during a protest in front of government headquarters in Bucharest, Romania, on May 30. Around 2,000 people gathered to demonstrate after the Constitutional Court ruled that President Klaus Iohannis must approve the government's dismissal of the country's top anticorruption prosecutor, Laura Kovesi. The government accused Kovesi of violating the constitution, but her supporters said she had been targeted for investigating corruption among Romania's political elite. (AFP/Daniel Mihailescu)
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U.S. President Donald Trump (right) and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un prepare to shake hands at the start of their summit at the Capella Hotel on the resort island of Sentosa, Singapore, on June 12. (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)
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A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12 in McAllen, Texas. Asylum seekers had rafted across the Rio Grande from Mexico and were detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents before being sent to a processing center. U.S. Customs and Border Protection has been instructed to take a "zero tolerance" policy toward undocumented immigrants. (/Getty Images/AFP/John Moore)
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A senior officer wipes sweat from the brow of a standing guard at the Mamayev Kurgan World War II memorial complex in Volgograd, Russia, on June 21. (Reuters/Sergio Perez)
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A daughter (right) hands over her baby brother to their mother "M" in their shelter in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh. "M" was raped by six soldiers from Burma's security forces after they strangled her 2-year-old son to death. She later found out she was pregnant and gave birth to a baby boy. After she told her husband what had happened, he blamed her for the rape and wanted nothing to do with her or the infant. (AP/Wong Maye-E)
