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Steam
rises from the entry point where lava from the Kilauea volcano hits the
Pacific Ocean on May 21, 2018. The Kilauea volcano erupted on May 3,
with the lava flow destroying 24 homes and causing the evacuation of
2,000 people. Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY
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Steam
rises from the entry point where lava from the Kilauea volcano hits the
Pacific Ocean on May 21, 2018. The Kilauea volcano erupted on May 3,
with the lava flow destroying 24 homes and causing the evacuation of
2,000 people. Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY
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Afghan
security officials inspect the scene of a bomb explosion in Kandahar,
Afghanistan on May 22, 2018. At least 16 people were killed and another
38 wounded when a container full of explosives blew up even as security
forces were trying to defuse it in the southern Afghan province of
Kandahar. Since the end of the NATO combat mission in January 2015,
Kabul has been gradually losing ground to the Taliban and now controls
only 56 percent of the country, according to the Special Inspector
General for Afghanistan Reconstruction of the United States Congress. MUHAMMAD SADIQ, EPA-EFE
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Riot
police officers detain a protester during a demonstration in Paris, May
22, 2018. French public services workers have gone on strike as part of
their protest of a government plan to cut 120,000 jobs by 2022. Christophe Ena, AP
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A
Sri Lankan man walks in a flooded street in the suburb of Kaduwela in
Colombo on May 22, 2018 as monsoon rains lashed large parts of the
island.
Flood related accidents have killed at least eight people and damaged
nearly 1,000 homes this week, according the Disaster Management Center. LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI, AFP/Getty Images
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Stacey
Cunningham, the current New York Stock Exchange COO, who will become
the exchange's 67th president, visits the floor of the NYSE, May 22,
2018. Cunningham will become the first female leader in the history of
the 226-year-old exchange. Richard Drew, AP
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A
member of the global citizens movement Avaaz stands next to life-sized
Zuckerberg cutout figures, in a protest action in front of the European
Commission in Brussels, Belgium on May 22, 2018. The action intends to
highlight the hundreds of millions of fake Facebook accounts still
spreading disinformation on the platform and to call on Facebook and EU
legislators to take swift steps to defend democracies. Facebook CEO Mark
Zuckerberg is to appear before the European Parliament representatives
on May 22, 2018 to answer questions in a live broadcast on a data
information breach by Cambridge Analytica and also how Facebook uses
personal data in general. STEPHANIE LECOCQ, EPA-EFE
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A Buddhist pours water on a Buddha statue to celebrate Buddha's birthday, at a temple in Sokcho, South Korea on May 22, 2018. YONHAP, EPA-EFE
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