Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr speaks during a media conference in Najaf, Iraq. Dozens of his supporters stormed the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad on Saturday. Anmar Khalil/AP hide caption
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Firefighters combat a blaze on April 29, after regime helicopters targeted a medical center in an opposition-controlled region of Aleppo, Syria. Anadolu Agency/Getty Images hide caption
A young man from Bali, Indonesia, shows off his rainbow-colored rooster before a cockfight. Courtesy of Ruben Salgado Escudero and the World Photography Organization hide caption
Ahmed Darwish appears in a police station in Rumeilan, northern Syria, after being captured by Kurdish fighters as he was running away from a battle. He was wounded in a coalition airstrike in support of anti-ISIS forces. "There was camaraderie, friendship, like a brotherhood between us," he says of his time in ISIS. Alice Fordham/NPR hide caption
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Army trainers conduct drills at a military base in Taji, Iraq last year. John Moore/Getty Images hide caption
Army Gen. Joseph Votel, commander of U.S. Central Command, briefs reporters on the release of the investigation into the U.S. airstrikes on the Doctors With Borders trauma center in Kunduz, Afghanistan. Molly Riley/AP hide caption
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A steel mill in Tangshan, in China's Hebei province. U.S. Steel claims that the Chinese government dumps steel at unfair prices and uses computer hackers to steal intellectual property. STR/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
U.S. citizen Kim Dong-chul, seen here arriving at court Friday, was sentenced to hard labor for what North Korea says were acts of espionage. Kim Kwang Hyon/AP hide caption
A waiter carries beers at the Theresienwiese fair grounds of the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich, southern Germany, last September. For centuries, a German law has stipulated that beer can only be made from four ingredients. But as Germany embraces craft beer, some believe the law impedes good brewing. Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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A man photographs the mummified body of revered Buddhist monk Fu Hou in March in Quanzhou city in southeastern China's Fujian province. Chinatopix via AP hide caption
A British Airways plane departs London's Heathrow Airport in 2010. Earlier this month, a British Airways plane was hit by an unidentified object but landed safely at Heathrow. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images hide caption