2015 World Championships in Athletics, Tomatina, Indian Pitcher Festival, journalists shot in Virginia | August 26
The day in photos around the world.
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- France’s Benjamin Compaore competes in the qualifying round of the men’s triple jump athletics event at the 2015 IAAF World Championships at the “Bird’s Nest” National Stadium in Beijing on August 26, 2015. (AFP Photo/Franck Fife)
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- Australia’s Alana Boyd competes in the womenís pole vault final at the World Athletics Championships at the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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- USA’s Sandi Morris competes in the final of the women’s pole vault athletics event at the 2015 IAAF World Championships at the “Bird’s Nest” National Stadium in Beijing on August 26, 2015. (AFP Photo/Franck Fife)
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- Trinidad and Tobago’s Mikel Thomas, top, lies on the track after falling in a menís 110m hurdles round one heat at the World Athletics Championships at the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
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- Japan’s Shohei Ono, bottom, competes against Japan’s Riki Nakaya in the men’s 73 kg final at the World Judo Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015. Japan’s Shohei Ono won the gold medal. (AP Photo/Alexey Filippov)
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- China’s Zhang Honglin reacts after getting injured in a menís 110m hurdles round one heat at the World Athletics Championships at the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
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- Czech Republic’s Zuzana Hejnova (C) celebrates as she wins the final of the women’s 400 metres hurdles athletics event at the 2015 IAAF World Championships at the “Bird’s Nest” National Stadium in Beijing on August 26, 2015. (AFP Photo/Olivier Morin)
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- Two woman lie in a puddle of squashed tomatoes during the annual “tomatina” tomato fight fiesta, in the village of Bunol, 50 kilometers outside Valencia, Spain, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015. The streets of an eastern Spanish town are awash with red pulp as thousands of people pelt each other with tomatoes in the annual “Tomatina” battle that has become a major tourist attraction. At the annual fiesta in Bunol on Wednesday, trucks dumped 150 tons of ripe tomatoes for some 22,000 participants, many from abroad to throw during the hour-long morning festivities. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)
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- Naga sadhus, or naked Hindu holy men participate in a procession during Kumbh Mela, or Pitcher festival, at Trimbakeshwar in Nasik, India, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015. Millions are expected to attend this yearís two-month festival, which began in mid-July and runs until the end of September. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
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- A Syrian refugee woman tends to her daughter while cooking inside her tent at an informal tented settlement near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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- Indian youth take pictures of a bus damaged and set on fire by a mob during clashes in Ahmadabad, India, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015. Authorities issued a curfew Tuesday night in at least five cities in Gujarat state, after mobs attacked police officers with stones and sticks and burned government and private vehicles.(AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)
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- Shiite fighters known as Houthis stand on the rubble of a house destroyed by a Saudi airstrike in Sanaa, Yemen, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
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- A Syrian refugee child drinks tea while standing outside her family’s tent at an informal tented settlement near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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- Lebanese citizens pass a pile of garbage blocking a street in the town of Jal el-Dib east Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015. Protests continued Wednesday over the country’s worsening garbage collection crisis. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
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- An injured Kurdish officer is taken for treatment, during a military operation to regain control of some villages from Islamic State group fighters south of oil-rich city of Kirkuk, 180 miles (290 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015. (AP Photo)
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- A Syrian refugee cries after she lost her daughter during clashes between Macedonian police and refugees who try to cross the borders in the town of Idomeni, Northern Greece, on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015. The U.N.ís refugee agency said it expects 3,000 people to cross Macedonia daily in the coming days, as Greece has borne the brunt of a record number of refugees and migrants heading to Europe. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)
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- A migrant man creeps under the metal fence near the village of Roszke, at the Hungarian-Serbian border on August 26, 2015. More than 140,000 migrants have reached Hungary on routes across the Balkans so far in 2015. Recently, some 80 percent of them are from war zones like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. (AFP Photo/Csaba Segesvari)
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- Authorities block Booker T. Washington Highway at Bridgewater Plaza, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015, in Moneta, Va., after two journalists were fatally shot while broadcasting live from the plaza earlier in the day. (Stephanie Klein-Davis/The Roanoke Times via AP)
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- A U.N. Cambodian specialist of mine detecting e team walks at a dirt road during a demining demonstration in the U.N. buffer zone (Green Line) near the Mammari village between the Greek and Turkish Cypriot controlled areas outside of the divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015. United Nations officials say a 17,000 square meter parcel of farmland situated inside a no manís land in ethnically divided Cyprus is now clear of land mines and will be returned for grazing and cultivation. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
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- A Chinese investor monitors stock prices at a brokerage in Beijing on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015. Asian stocks were mixed Wednesday and Shanghai’s index fell despite Beijing’s decision to cut a key interest rate to help stabilize gyrating financial markets and counter short liquidity.(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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- Paratroopers take part in an exercise of the U.S. Army Global Response Force in Hohenfels, Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015. Around 5000 soldiers from 11 NATO nations participated in simultaneous multinational airborne operations across Germany, Bulgaria, Italy and Romania called “Exercise Swift Response”. The exercise was the largest Allied airborne training in Europe since the end of the Cold War. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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- Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton waits to be introduced before speaking about rural issues at the Des Moines Area Community College, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015, in Ankeny, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
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- Rick Yen is silhouetted as he casts a rod while fishing for salmon near the mouth of the Capilano River off Ambleside Park at sunset in West Vancouver, British Columbia, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)
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- Australia’s Alana Boyd competes in the womenís pole vault final at the World Athletics Championships at the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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