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A Palestinian protester uses a slingshot to throw stones toward Israeli forces during clashes following a protest along the border with Israel, east of Gaza City, on April 5th, 2018. Palestinians readied for new protests along the Gaza border and Israel warned that its open-fire rules would not change as fears of fresh violence rose a week after the bloodiest day in years.

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Viewfinder: Palestinian Protesters Use Slingshots Against Israeli Security Forces

A Palestinian protester uses a slingshot to throw stones toward Israeli forces during clashes following a protest along the border with Israel, east of Gaza City, on April 5th, 2018.

Pacific Standard Staff

Central-American migrants taking part in the "Migrant Via Crucis" caravan toward the United States receive breakfast as they camp at a sport complex in Matias Romero, Oaxaca State, Mexico.

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Viewfinder: Central-American ‘Caravan of Migrants’ Remains Far From U.S. Border

Central-American migrants taking part in the "Migrant Via Crucis" caravan toward the United States receive breakfast as they camp at a sport complex in Matias Romero, Oaxaca State, Mexico.

Pacific Standard Staff

Social Justice

An Orange County Judge Threatens to Bar Officials From Enforcing Anti-Camping Laws If They Can’t Shelter the Area’s Homeless

A U.S. district court judge attempted to mitigate a political standstill regarding Orange County's growing homeless population.

Ashley Hackett

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hold a joint press conference after their meeting at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, on April 3rd, 2018. Putin launched the construction of Turkey's first nuclear power station and vowed to accelerate the delivery of air defense systems to Ankara in a new tightening of an increasingly close alliance that has alarmed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

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Viewfinder: A Joint Press Conference Signals Cooperation Between Turkey and Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hold a joint press conference after their meeting at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, on April 3rd, 2018.

Pacific Standard Staff

Public school teachers and their supporters protest against a pension reform bill at the Kentucky State Capitol on April 2nd, 2018, in Frankfort, Kentucky. The teachers are calling for higher wages and are demanding that Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin veto a bill that overhauls their pension plan.

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Viewfinder: Kentucky Public School Teachers Protest Pension Cuts

Public school teachers and their supporters protest against a pension reform bill at the Kentucky State Capitol on April 2nd, 2018, in Frankfort, Kentucky.

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Students of Mehmet Akif College hold pictures of their Turkish teachers as they demonstrate against their arrest in Pristina on March 29th, 2018. In an operation carried out between Turkey's National Intelligence Organization and Kosovo's spy services, six high-ranking members of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen's movement were brought back home on a private plane, Anadolu news agency reported, citing security sources.

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Viewfinder: Turkish Students Publicly Protest Teacher Arrests

Students of Mehmet Akif College hold pictures of their Turkish teachers as they demonstrate against their arrest in Pristina on March 29th, 2018.

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Visitors to the One World Observatory look out at a snow covered Manhattan on January 8th, 2018, in New York City.

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Viewfinder: Looking Down at a Frigid New York City

Visitors to the One World Observatory look out at a snow covered Manhattan on January 8th, 2018, in New York City.

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A man walks in the middle of a flooded waterfront on January 5th, 2018, in Auckland, New Zealand. Heavy wind and rain have struck the region, with over 12,000 homes in and around Auckland losing power overnight. More flooding and damage is expected today from continued high winds.

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Viewfinder: Heavy Rain and Flooding in Auckland

A man walks in the middle of a flooded waterfront on January 5th, 2018, in Auckland, New Zealand.

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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras gestures as he delivers a speech during a parliamentary session in Athens on December 19th, 2017.

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Viewfinder: A Parliamentary Session in Athens

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras gestures as he delivers a speech during a parliamentary session in Athens on December 19th, 2017.

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A demonstrator shouts slogans in front of the Senate building during a protest against the potential approval of an internal security law that would allow the army to act as police, in Mexico City, on December 14th, 2017. Mexican deputies approved a new security law that provides a legal framework for military deployment. The controversial initiative is being discussed in the Senate.

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Viewfinder: An Anti-Military Protest in Mexico City

A demonstrator shouts slogans in front of the Senate building during a protest against the potential approval of an internal security law that would allow the army to act as police, in Mexico City, on December 14th, 2017.

Pacific Standard Staff