A group of girls leave their school during a rally by All Progressives Congress party supporters celebrating the re-election of the incumbent president and the leader of party in Kano, Nigeria, on Feb. 27. (Luis Tato/AFP/Getty Images)
A group of girls leave their school during a rally by All Progressives Congress party supporters celebrating the re-election of the incumbent president and the leader of party in Kano, Nigeria, on Feb. 27. (Luis Tato/AFP/Getty Images)

A Week in World Photos

A welcome in Hanoi, an election in Nigeria, and Carnival in Rio de Janeiro.

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A group of girls leave their school during a rally by All Progressives Congress party supporters celebrating the re-election of the incumbent president and the leader of party in Kano, Nigeria, on Feb. 27. (Luis Tato/AFP/Getty Images)
A group of girls leave their school during a rally by All Progressives Congress party supporters celebrating the re-election of the incumbent president and the leader of party in Kano, Nigeria, on Feb. 27. (Luis Tato/AFP/Getty Images)

A group of girls leave their school during a rally by All Progressives Congress supporters celebrating the re-election of the incumbent president and the party’s leader in Kano, Nigeria, on Feb. 27.

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Schoolgirls look at "The Morning of the Streltsy Execution" by Russian painter Vasily Surikov at The State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow on Feb. 26. MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP/Getty Images
Schoolgirls look at "The Morning of the Streltsy Execution" by Russian painter Vasily Surikov at The State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow on Feb. 26. MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP/Getty Images

Schoolgirls look at The Morning of the Streltsy Execution by Russian painter Vasily Surikov at the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow on Feb. 26.

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Students wave Vietnamese and North Korean flags during a dance rehearsal at a school in Hanoi on Feb. 27 ahead of the second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. (Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images)
Students wave Vietnamese and North Korean flags during a dance rehearsal at a school in Hanoi on Feb. 27 ahead of the second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. (Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images)

Students wave Vietnamese and North Korean flags during a dance rehearsal at a school in Hanoi on Feb. 27 ahead of the second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

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North Korean students read the Rodong Sinmun newspaper coverage of Kim Jong Un’s visit to  Vietnam for a summit in Hanoi with U.S. President Donald Trump on Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang on Feb. 28. KIM WON JIN/AFP/Getty Images
North Korean students read the Rodong Sinmun newspaper coverage of Kim Jong Un’s visit to Vietnam for a summit in Hanoi with U.S. President Donald Trump on Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang on Feb. 28. KIM WON JIN/AFP/Getty Images

North Korean students read the Rodong Sinmun newspaper coverage of Kim Jong Un’s visit to Vietnam for a summit in Hanoi with U.S. President Donald Trump on Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang on Feb. 28.

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Wind turbines poke above the morning fog at a wind farm in Jacobsdorf, Germany, on Feb. 27. PATRICK PLEUL/AFP/Getty Images
Wind turbines poke above the morning fog at a wind farm in Jacobsdorf, Germany, on Feb. 27. PATRICK PLEUL/AFP/Getty Images

Turbines poke above the morning fog at a wind farm in Jacobsdorf, Germany, on Feb. 27.

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A man talks to a girl in the courtyard outside their house in a hutong area in Beijing on Feb. 26. NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images
A man talks to a girl in the courtyard outside their house in a hutong area in Beijing on Feb. 26. NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images

A man talks to a girl in the courtyard outside their house in Beijing’s hutong area on Feb. 26.

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Youth transport scrap in a wheelbarrow along an illegal trail from San Antonio, Venezuela, to Cucuta, Colombia, on Feb. 27. The border remained closed on the Venezuelan side after opposition efforts to bring humanitarian aid into the country from Colombia descended into a bloody chaos. LUIS ROBAYO/AFP/Getty Images
Youth transport scrap in a wheelbarrow along an illegal trail from San Antonio, Venezuela, to Cucuta, Colombia, on Feb. 27. The border remained closed on the Venezuelan side after opposition efforts to bring humanitarian aid into the country from Colombia descended into a bloody chaos. LUIS ROBAYO/AFP/Getty Images

Youths transport scrap materials in a wheelbarrow along an illegal trail from San Antonio, Venezuela, to Cúcuta, Colombia, on Feb. 27. The border remained closed on the Venezuelan side after opposition efforts to bring humanitarian aid into the country from Colombia descended into a bloody chaos.

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Supporters of Venezuelan opposition leader and self-declared acting president Juan Guaidó shout slogans during a demonstration outside Colombia's Foreign Ministry in Bogota, where Guaidó met with members of a multinational support group to tackle next steps in the country's crisis on Feb. 25. JOAQUIN SARMIENTO/AFP/Getty Images
Supporters of Venezuelan opposition leader and self-declared acting president Juan Guaidó shout slogans during a demonstration outside Colombia's Foreign Ministry in Bogota, where Guaidó met with members of a multinational support group to tackle next steps in the country's crisis on Feb. 25. JOAQUIN SARMIENTO/AFP/Getty Images

Supporters of Venezuelan opposition leader and self-declared acting president Juan Guaidó shout slogans during a demonstration outside Colombia’s Foreign Ministry in Bogotá, where Guaidó met with members of a multinational support group to tackle next steps in the country’s crisis on Feb. 25.

JOAQUIN SARMIENTO/AFP/Getty Images
A young child looks at a member of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (after leaving the Islamic State group's last holdout of Baghouz in Syria's northern Deir Ezzor province on Feb. 27. BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images
A young child looks at a member of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (after leaving the Islamic State group's last holdout of Baghouz in Syria's northern Deir Ezzor province on Feb. 27. BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images

A young child looks at a member of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces after leaving the Islamic State group’s last holdout of Baghouz in Syria’s northern Deir Ezzor province on Feb. 27.

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Women and children wait to be searched by members of the Syrian Democratic Forces after leaving Baghouz, Syria, on Feb. 27. BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images
Women and children wait to be searched by members of the Syrian Democratic Forces after leaving Baghouz, Syria, on Feb. 27. BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images

Women and children wait to be searched by members of the Syrian Democratic Forces after leaving Baghouz, Syria, on Feb. 27.

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Men suspected of being Islamic State fighters wait to be searched by members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces after leaving Baghouz, Syria, on Feb. 27. BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images
Men suspected of being Islamic State fighters wait to be searched by members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces after leaving Baghouz, Syria, on Feb. 27. BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images

Men suspected of being Islamic State fighters wait to be searched by members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces after leaving Baghouz, Syria, on Feb. 27.

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Pakistani soldiers stand next to what Pakistan says is the wreckage of an Indian fighter jet shot down in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir at Somani area in Bhimbar district near the Line of Control on Feb. 27. STR/AFP/Getty Images
Pakistani soldiers stand next to what Pakistan says is the wreckage of an Indian fighter jet shot down in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir at Somani area in Bhimbar district near the Line of Control on Feb. 27. STR/AFP/Getty Images

Pakistani soldiers stand next to what Pakistan says is the wreckage of an Indian fighter jet shot down in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir in the Bhimber district near the Line of Control on Feb. 27.

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A Pakistani policeman stands guard near the Samjhota Express train travelling to India at Lahore railway station on Feb. 25. ARIF ALI/AFP/Getty Images
A Pakistani policeman stands guard near the Samjhota Express train travelling to India at Lahore railway station on Feb. 25. ARIF ALI/AFP/Getty Images

A Pakistani policeman stands guard near the Samjhauta Express train traveling to India at Lahore railway station on Feb. 25.

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A border-wall prototype is torn down at the U.S.-Mexico border as seen from Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on Feb. 27. The U.S. Department of Customs and Border Protection said the prototypes would be torn down to make way for a second barrier separating California and Mexico. GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP/Getty Images
A border-wall prototype is torn down at the U.S.-Mexico border as seen from Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on Feb. 27. The U.S. Department of Customs and Border Protection said the prototypes would be torn down to make way for a second barrier separating California and Mexico. GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP/Getty Images

A border wall prototype is torn down at the U.S.-Mexico border as seen from Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on Feb. 27. The U.S. Department of Customs and Border Protection said the prototypes would be torn down to make way for a second barrier separating California and Mexico.

GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP/Getty Images
An Indian worker exits a tunnel after a boring machine broke through the eastbound tunnel of the Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation Limited in Ahmedabad on Feb. 25. SAM PANTHAKY/AFP/Getty Images
An Indian worker exits a tunnel after a boring machine broke through the eastbound tunnel of the Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation Limited in Ahmedabad on Feb. 25. SAM PANTHAKY/AFP/Getty Images

An Indian worker exits a tunnel after a boring machine broke through the eastbound tunnel of the Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation Limited in Ahmedabad on Feb. 25.

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A woman in the United States takes a picture of Mexico through the border fence as residents of Anapra, a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez, and others attend a prayer service with priests and bishops from both countries on Feb. 26. HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP/Getty Images
A woman in the United States takes a picture of Mexico through the border fence as residents of Anapra, a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez, and others attend a prayer service with priests and bishops from both countries on Feb. 26. HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP/Getty Images

A woman in the United States takes a picture of Mexico through the border fence as residents of Anapra, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Mexico’s Ciudad Juárez, and others attend a prayer service with priests and bishops from both countries on Feb. 26.

HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP/Getty Images
A girl stands in front of cow horns at Kaduna Abatour meat market in North Kaduna on Feb. 25 as Nigeria awaited results of its presidential election. CRISTINA ALDEHUELA/AFP/Getty Images
A girl stands in front of cow horns at Kaduna Abatour meat market in North Kaduna on Feb. 25 as Nigeria awaited results of its presidential election. CRISTINA ALDEHUELA/AFP/Getty Images

A girl stands in front of cow horns at Kaduna Abatour meat market in North Kaduna on Feb. 25 as Nigeria awaited results of its presidential election.

CRISTINA ALDEHUELA/AFP/Getty Images
People celebrate take to Kano’s streets to celebrate the re-election of Muhammadu Buhari as Nigerian president after a delayed poll that angered voters on Feb. 27. The opposition immediately vowed to challenge the "sham" result in court. LUIS TATO/AFP/Getty Images
People celebrate take to Kano’s streets to celebrate the re-election of Muhammadu Buhari as Nigerian president after a delayed poll that angered voters on Feb. 27. The opposition immediately vowed to challenge the "sham" result in court. LUIS TATO/AFP/Getty Images

People take to Kano’s streets to celebrate the re-election of Muhammadu Buhari as Nigerian president after a delayed poll that angered voters on Feb. 27. The opposition immediately vowed to challenge the “sham” result in court.

LUIS TATO/AFP/Getty Images
Michael Cohen, U.S. President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, is sworn in to testify before the House Oversight and Reform Committee in Washington on Feb. 27. JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images
Michael Cohen, U.S. President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, is sworn in to testify before the House Oversight and Reform Committee in Washington on Feb. 27. JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images

Michael Cohen, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, is sworn in to testify before the House Oversight and Reform Committee in Washington on Feb. 27.

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Flash floods caused by torrential rain go down a street on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Feb. 28. AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images
Flash floods caused by torrential rain go down a street on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Feb. 28. AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images

Flash floods caused by torrential rain wash down a street on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Feb. 28.

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An Algerian policeman restrains a protester participating in a rally organized by journalists against alleged censorship of the coverage of protests against a fifth term for veteran President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in Algiers on Feb. 28. Algerian police arrested a dozen journalists participating in the rally, as around 100 print and broadcast journalists, working for both state-owned and private outlets, joined the demonstration. RYAD KRAMDI/AFP/Getty Images
An Algerian policeman restrains a protester participating in a rally organized by journalists against alleged censorship of the coverage of protests against a fifth term for veteran President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in Algiers on Feb. 28. Algerian police arrested a dozen journalists participating in the rally, as around 100 print and broadcast journalists, working for both state-owned and private outlets, joined the demonstration. RYAD KRAMDI/AFP/Getty Images

An Algerian policeman restrains a protester at a rally organized by journalists alleging censorship of the coverage of protests against a fifth term for longtime President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in Algiers on Feb. 28. Algerian police arrested a dozen people participating in the rally as around 100 print and broadcast journalists, working for both state-owned and private outlets, joined the demonstration.

RYAD KRAMDI/AFP/Getty Images
People celebrate the start of the hot carnival season at the Women's Carnival in Cologne, Germany, on Feb. 28. FEDERICO GAMBARINI/AFP/Getty Images
People celebrate the start of the hot carnival season at the Women's Carnival in Cologne, Germany, on Feb. 28. FEDERICO GAMBARINI/AFP/Getty Images

People celebrate at the Women’s Carnival in Cologne, Germany, on Feb. 28.

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Revelers wait to take part in a street carnival parade of the "Loucura Suburbana" (Suburban Craziness) in Rio de Janeiro on Feb. 28. The parade is organized by workers and patients of the Nise da Silveira Municipal Psychiatric Hospital and starts inside the hospital and winds its way through the streets of the neighborhood. MAURO PIMENTEL/AFP/Getty Images
Revelers wait to take part in a street carnival parade of the "Loucura Suburbana" (Suburban Craziness) in Rio de Janeiro on Feb. 28. The parade is organized by workers and patients of the Nise da Silveira Municipal Psychiatric Hospital and starts inside the hospital and winds its way through the streets of the neighborhood. MAURO PIMENTEL/AFP/Getty Images

Revelers wait to take part in a street carnival parade of the Loucura Suburbana (Suburban Craziness) in Rio de Janeiro on Feb. 28. The parade is organized by workers and patients of the Nise da Silveira Municipal Psychiatric Hospital and starts inside the hospital and winds its way through the neighborhood.

MAURO PIMENTEL/AFP/Getty Images
An aurora borealis light lights up the late-night sky in the southern part of Norway on Feb. 28. HEIKO JUNGE/AFP/Getty Images
An aurora borealis light lights up the late-night sky in the southern part of Norway on Feb. 28. HEIKO JUNGE/AFP/Getty Images

An aurora borealis lights up the late-night sky in the southern part of Norway on Feb. 28.

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The polar bear cub at the Copenhagen Zoo comes outside for the first time on Feb. 28. MADS CLAUS RASMUSSEN/AFP/Getty Images
The polar bear cub at the Copenhagen Zoo comes outside for the first time on Feb. 28. MADS CLAUS RASMUSSEN/AFP/Getty Images

The polar bear cub at the Copenhagen Zoo comes outside for the first time on Feb. 28.

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A girl sits at a table in a street cafe during heavy snow in the Rosa Khutor resort, outside Sochi, Russia, on March 1. Organizers were forced to cancel the Ladies FIS Alpine Ski World Cup downhill event at due to heavy snowfall. ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/Getty Images
A girl sits at a table in a street cafe during heavy snow in the Rosa Khutor resort, outside Sochi, Russia, on March 1. Organizers were forced to cancel the Ladies FIS Alpine Ski World Cup downhill event at due to heavy snowfall. ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/Getty Images

A girl sits at a table in a street cafe during heavy snow in the Rosa Khutor resort outside Sochi, Russia, on March 1. Organizers were forced to cancel the Ladies FIS Alpine Ski World Cup downhill event due to heavy snowfall.

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A woman dressed in a traditional costume cares for farm animals in an enclosure set up for the Shrovetide spring festival outside the Kremlin in Moscow on March 1. MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP/Getty Images
A woman dressed in a traditional costume cares for farm animals in an enclosure set up for the Shrovetide spring festival outside the Kremlin in Moscow on March 1. MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP/Getty Images

A woman dressed in traditional costume cares for farm animals in an enclosure set up for the Shrovetide spring festival outside the Kremlin in Moscow on March 1.

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The pack of cyclists rides past during the fifth stage of the UAE tour from Sharjah to Khor Fakkan on Feb. 28. GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP/Getty Images
The pack of cyclists rides past during the fifth stage of the UAE tour from Sharjah to Khor Fakkan on Feb. 28. GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP/Getty Images

The pack of cyclists rides past during the fifth stage of the UAE tour from Sharjah to Khor Fakkan on Feb. 28.

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