A woman walks among U.S. national flags erected by students and staff from Pepperdine University to honor the victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks in New York, at their campus in Malibu, California. (AFP/Mark Ralston)
Macedonian soldiers try to keep migrants and refugees under control before they cross the border line from Greece into Macedonia during a rainstorm near the Greek village of Idomeni. (Reuters/Yannis Behrakis)
A migrant woman cries as she is embraced by a relative upon their arrival on the shores of the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey on a dinghy. (AFP/Angelos Tzortzinis)
A Chinese People's Liberation Army military band conductor performs during an international military music festival on Moscow's Red Square. (Reuters/Maxim Shemetov)
An Afghan woman buys a traditional burqa at a shop in Mazar-e Sharif. (epa/Sayed Mustafa)
A Syrian refugee screams in frustration as he carries his daughter through a rainstorm toward Greece's border with Macedonia, near the Greek village of Idomeni. (Reuters/Yannis Behrakis)
An injured serviceman of the National Guard of Ukraine walks in front of portraits of fallen comrades during a memorial service in front of the Ukrainian parliament in Kyiv. (AFP/Anatolii Stepanov)
Migrants' tents are blown away by the wind near a collection point in the village of Roszke, Hungary. (Reuters/Marko Djurica)
A member of the Spanish Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art performs during the International Military Music Festival on Moscow's Red Square. (epa/Maxim Shipenkov)
Syrian refugee Laith Majid Al-Amirij and his 7-year-old daughter Noor pose in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin while holding a famous photo showing them during their crossing to the Greek island of Kos The photo was seen around the world and shared thousands of times on social media. The family are now being housed in Berlin. (epa/Joerg Carstensen)
Members of the Popular Mobilization units hold a position in the Al-Hayakel area on the eastern outskirts of Fallujah during a military operation conducted with government forces against Islamic State militants. (AFP/Haidar Mohammed Ali)
Simona Halep of Romania watches the ball as she returns a shot to Victoria Azarenka of Belarus during their quarterfinals match at the U.S. Open Championships tennis tournament in New York. Halep won 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. (Reuters/Carlo Allegri)
A migrant girl waits for permission to move toward the train station at a refugee camp near Gevgelija, Macedonia. (epa/Nake Batev)
Migrants pray after arriving on the shores of the Greek island of Lesbos aboard an inflatable dinghy across the Aegean Sea from Turkey. (AFP/Angelos Tzortzinis)
A migrant man carrying a small child falls to the ground after being tripped by TV camerawoman Petra Laszlo while they were trying to escape from a collection point in Roszke, Hungary. Laszlo, who works for a private television channel, was fired after videos of her kicking and tripping migrants spread in the media and on the Internet. (Reuters/Marko Djurica)
Soslan Daurov of Belarus attempts to get out of a pin by Almat Kebispayev of Kazakhstan during a medal round of the second night of the World Wresting Championships in Las Vegas. (USA TODAY/Stephen R. Sylvanie)
A Syrian refugee boy runs across rail tracks as a freight train approaches near Greece's border with Macedonia, outside the Greek village of Idomeni. (Reuters/Yannis Behrakis)
Migrants board a train after they crossed the border between Macedonia and Greece, near the town of Gevgelija, Macedonia. The Gevgelija-Presevo leg is just a part of the journey that the refugees, the vast majority of them from Syria, are forced to make along the so-called Balkan corridor, which takes them from Turkey, across Greece, Macedonia and Serbia. (epa/Nake Batev)
A migrant holds a child as they warm themselves by the fire in a makeshift camp at a collection point in the village of Roszke, Hungary. (Reuters/Marko Djurica)
A Pakistani boy reads aloud in school a day ahead of International Literacy Day (September 8) in Peshawar. (epa/Bilawal Arbab)
An Afghan girl runs along a path as the sun sets in Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
Afghan schoolgirls receive medical treatment outside a local hospital in Herat after being admitted for symptoms of poisoning. According to reports, more than 300 Afghan schoolgirls are suffering from suspected gas poisoning, the third incident in Herat in a week. Authorities have launched an investigation into the incident to determine if that was a deliberate act by sympathizers of the Taliban, who oppose women's education. (epa/Jalil Rezayee)
A member of the Pokrov youth military-patriotic club crushes a pile of bricks with a hammer atop the stomach of a comrade as they demonstrate their skills at Siberian Venice Park outside the Siberian town of Sosnovoborsk. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)
A police officer hits a man with a baton as he tries to maintain order while migrants wait for trains at a temporary camp near Gevgelija, Macedonia. Macedonia has organized trains twice a day to the north border where migrants cross into Serbia to make their way to Hungary. Since June, Macedonian authorities have said that more than 60,000 migrants have entered the country. (Reuters/Stoyan Nenov)
A newly married couple poses at home in the war-torn city of Kobani in northern Syria. (AFP/Yasin Akgul)
Migrants wait to enter a camp for a registration procedure after crossing the border between Greece and Macedonia near the town of Gevgelija. (AFP/Robert Atanasovski)
A migrant worker from Uzbekistan collects potatoes at a private agrarian field in the village of Beryozovka near Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)
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