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
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Muslim tourists pose in front of a poster of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan which reads, "Thank you Istanbul" at Taksim Square in Istanbul on June 26, the same day that the Turkish Electoral Commission announced Erdogan had won the country's presidential election. Meanwhile, his Justice and Development Party (AKP) took 42.5 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections, but lost the absolute majority the party has held since 2002. (epa-EFE/Sedat Suna)
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Actors perform during a ceremony to unveil a monument to the victims of World War II on the grounds of the former Nazi Trostenets extermination camp outside Minsk, Belarus, on June 29. (AFP/Sergei Gapon)
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A ballerina watches a broadcast of the soccer World Cup quarterfinal match between Russia and Croatia at the Mikhailovsky Theater, St. Petersburg, Russia, on July 7. (Reuters/Anton Vaganov)
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Demonstrators use a scooter to drive through burning tires during a protest against unemployment and the high cost of living in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on July 12. (AFP/Haidar Mohammed Ali)
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A vintage vehicle lies amid the devastation wrought by the Cranston Fire near Mountain Center, California, on July 29. Wildfires in California left dozens of people dead, destroyed hundreds of homes, burned thousands of acres, and caused the evacuation of at least 50,000 people. (epa-EFE/Mike Nelson)
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An Iranian woman walks past a wall painting on a street in Tehran on July 31. In August, Washington reimposed extensive sanctions on the Middle Eastern country. The move followed U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from a 2015 international agreement aimed at curtailing Iran’s nuclear program. (epa-EFE/Abedin Taherkenareh)
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A truck stands on the edge of the collapsed Morandi motorway bridge in the northwestern Italian city of Genoa on August 14. Forty-three people were killed when the bridge collapsed during torrential rainfall. The collapse, which saw a vast stretch of the freeway tumble onto railway lines, came as the bridge was undergoing maintenance work. (AFP/Valery Hache)
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A transgender group mourns the death of a companion during a protest demanding justice for the deceased on August 20 in Peshawar, Pakistan. Nasir, also known as "Naso," was shot dead during a wedding ceremony and her body mutilated and dismembered. (Reuters/Fayaz Aziz)
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An artist performs during the opening ceremony of the World Nomad Games on the shores of Lake Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan, on September 2. (AFP/Vyacheslav Oseledko)
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A boy tries on an improvised gas mask in Idlib, Syria, on September 3. (Reuters/Khalil Ashawi)
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A soldier runs past injured comrades lying on the ground at the scene of an attack on a military parade in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz on September 22. The parade marked the anniversary of the outbreak of the 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Dozens of people were killed and dozens more were wounded in the attack, state media reported.(AFP/ISNA/Morteza Jaberian)
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Migrants, intercepted off the coast in the Mediterranean Sea, wait to disembark from the Caliope rescue boat after arriving at the port of Malaga, southern Spain, on October 12. (Reuters/Jon Nazca)
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A health worker waits to receive a patient at a new Ebola treatment center in Bunia in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on November 7. The death toll from an Ebola outbreak in the east of the country had risen to more than 200 lives by November 10, the Health Ministry said. (John Wessels/AFP)
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A White House staff member reaches for the microphone held by CNN's Jim Acosta as he questions U.S. President Donald Trump during a news conference following midterm U.S. congressional elections on November 7. (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)
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A person holds a banner of Jamal Khashoggi during a symbolic funeral prayer for the Saudi journalist in the courtyard of the Fatih mosque in Istanbul on November 16. The CIA has reportedly concluded that Saudi Arabia's powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was behind the death of the journalist, who was killed and dismembered in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in October. (Bulent Kilic/AFP)
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A wedding hall in Kabul, Afghanistan, seen on November 21, a day after a suicide attack. A suicide bomber was able to sneak into the wedding hall where hundreds of Muslim religious scholars and clerics had gathered to mark the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad. (AP/Rahmat Gul)
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Protesters light fires during the "Yellow Vest" protests against higher fuel prices on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, France, on November 24. (Reuters/Benoit Tessier)
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A car is stopped by Ukrainian police officers at a checkpoint in Berdyansk on the south coast of the Sea of Azov on November 27. Tensions between Kyiv and Moscow escalated after Russian border guards opened fire and captured three Ukrainian naval vessels and 24 seamen on November 25 off the coast of Crimea, which Russia forcibly annexed from Ukraine in 2014. (AP/Evgeniy Maloletka)
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A participant rides a horse during a traditional hunting contest involving tamed golden eagles and hawks in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on December 2. (Reuters/Pavel Mikheyev)
