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Flowers and notes are placed in tribute to Senator John McCain outside a mortuary in Phoenix, Arizona, on August 26th, 2018.

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Viewfinder: Paying Tribute to John McCain

Flowers and notes are placed in tribute to Senator John McCain outside a mortuary in Phoenix, Arizona, on August 26th, 2018.

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People carry a cross for a grave on August 23rd, 2018, in Mangina, North Kivu province, DRC.

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Viewfinder: An Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

People carry a cross for a grave on August 23rd, 2018, in Mangina, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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People rest at a relief camp in Aluva on August 22nd, 2018, in Kerala, India, where rescue efforts continue this week. Over 400 people have reportedly died in Kerala after weeks of monsoon rains, which forced more than one million people to take shelter in thousands of relief camps across the southern state.

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Viewfinder: Taking Shelter From Floodwaters in India

People rest at a relief camp in Aluva on August 22nd, 2018, in Kerala, India, where rescue efforts continue this week.

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Residents walk among debris in the village of Sugian on Indonesia's Lombok Island on August 21st, 2018, after a series of recent earthquakes. Indonesian aid agencies and government officials rushed to help survivors after another series of powerful quakes rattled the island, killing at least 14 people and leaving hundreds of thousands homeless.

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Viewfinder: Multiple Earthquakes Hit an Indonesian Island

Residents walk among debris in the village of Sugian on Indonesia's Lombok Island on August 21st, 2018, after a series of recent earthquakes.

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People scramble to reach the roof of an overcrowded train at a station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on August 20th, 2018. Crowds rushed home from the capital city to be with friends and family during the annual holiday of Eid al-Adha, also known as the Festival of Sacrifice, celebrated by Muslims worldwide.

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Viewfinder: Returning Home for Eid al-Adha in Bangladesh

People scramble to reach the roof of an overcrowded train at a station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on August 20th, 2018.

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Rescue personnel carry children on their shoulders through flood waters during a rescue operation in Annamanada, a village in India, on August 19th, 2018. Rescuers waded into submerged villages in a desperate search for survivors cut off for days by floods that have already killed more than 350 people.

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Viewfinder: A Rescue Operation in India

Rescue personnel carry children on their shoulders through flood waters during a rescue operation in Annamanada, a village in India, on August 19th, 2018.

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Indian commuters travel in a truck to a safer place as flood waters ravage the National Highway 47 in the Ernakulam district of Kochi, in the Southern Indian state of Kerala, on August 16th, 2018. According to the BBC, the death toll from floods in Kerala rose to over 100 on August 16th as torrential rainfall threatened new areas.

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Viewfinder: Monsoon Floods Engulf Southern India

Indian commuters travel in a truck to a safer place as flood waters ravage the National Highway 47 in the Ernakulam district of Kochi, in the Southern Indian state of Kerala, on August 16th, 2018.

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Anti-government protesters play traditional music and dance as they take part in a march demanding the release of political prisoners in Managua, Nicaragua, on August 15th, 2018.

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Viewfinder: Thousands of Nicaraguans March for the Release of Political Prisoners

Anti-government protesters play traditional music and dance as they take part in a march demanding the release of political prisoners in Managua, Nicaragua, on August 15th, 2018.

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People from San Salvador Atenco, a town outside of Mexico City, protest the construction of a new international airport on August 14th, 2018. For years, residents of the semi-rural town have fought against plans to construct the the Mexican capital's new airport adjacent to their town, fearing that the construction will result in their displacement. On Tuesday, protesters sought to pressure President-Elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador to commit to his campaign promise to cancel the airport's construction (the president-elect has since vacillated on the promise). In this photo, a woman holds a machete and marches in front of a banner bearing the image of Emiliano Zapata, a hero of the Mexican Revolution who famously sought to return land rights to indigenous people in the country's south.

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Viewfinder: Mexican Villagers Protest Displacement and Pressure the President-Elect

People from San Salvador Atenco, a town outside of Mexico City, protest the construction of a new international airport on August 14th, 2018.

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