A policeman falls backward during a scuffle with pro-democracy protesters during ongoing demonstrations at Hong Kong International Airport on Aug. 13.

Jammu and Kashmir police personnel stand in formation during a ceremony to celebrate India’s 73rd Independence Day, which marks the end of British colonial rule, in Srinagar on Aug. 15.

A security officer stands guard along a street during a lockdown in Srinagar, Kashmir, on Aug. 15.

Fans cry outside a hospital in Abidjan after news that the singer DJ Arafat, one of Ivory Coast’s most popular artists, had died at the age of 33 following a motorcycle accident on Aug. 12.

Firefighters extinguish a fire in Kampar, Riau province, on Indonesia’s Sumatra island on Aug. 13. Authorities are deploying thousands of extra personnel to prevent a repeat of fires in 2015, which were the worst in two decades and choked the region in haze for weeks.

Flames rise from a forest fire near the village of Makrimalli, northeast of Athens, on Aug. 13. Hundreds of villagers were evacuated as firefighters battled a major wildfire on Evia, the country’s second-largest island.

An injured man, suspected by protesters of being an undercover police officer, is taken away by paramedics at Hong Kong International Airport on Aug. 13.

Pro-democracy protesters block the entrance to terminals after a confrontation with police at Hong Kong International Airport on Aug. 13.

A pro-democracy protester holds a placard during another demonstration at Hong Kong’s airport on Aug. 13.

Supporters of Hong Kong protesters gather during a demonstration at Martin Place in Sydney, Australia, on Aug. 16.

Syrian families flee from Idlib province and the northern countryside of Hama in trucks loaded with their belongings past a flock of sheep on the highway near Maaret al-Numan on Aug. 14.

Young Muslims gather around a phone after participating in a special prayer organized to celebrate Eid al-Adha in Kolkata on Aug. 12. Muslims around the world celebrate the feast of sacrifice, the second of two Islamic holidays that mark the end of the annual hajj to Mecca.

A Sudanese child has his face painted at an amusement park in Omdurman on Aug. 13.

An indigenous woman votes during runoff elections in Santa Cruz Chinautla, Guatemala, on Aug. 11.

A group of activists take part in a protest against the police after four police officers were accused of raping a minor in their patrol car in Mexico City on Aug. 12.

The South African runner and Olympic champion Caster Semenya holds a news conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, to address a regulation that would make her take testosterone-lowering medication on Aug. 14.

A woman gestures during a protest against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s cuts to the education budget in Rio de Janeiro on Aug. 13.

An aerial view of the Sutong Bridge between Nantong and Suzhou in China’s eastern Jiangsu province on Aug. 14.

A relative mourns over the coffin of Kevin Mestizo—one of two members of the indigenous guard of the Nasa ethnic group killed by unknown assailants during an attack last weekend—during his funeral in Toribío, Colombia, on Aug. 13.

Supporters of Yemeni separatists wave flags of the former South Yemen (the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen) as they demonstrate in the Khormaksar district of Aden on Aug. 15. Yemen’s government ruled out talks with the separatists until they withdraw from positions seized last week in Aden.

An employee works on a medical glove production line at a factory in Huaibei in China’s eastern Anhui province on Aug. 14.

South Korean protesters hold signs reading “No Abe!” during an anti-Japanese rally marking the anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japan’s 1910-1945 colonial rule, in central Seoul on Aug. 15.

Police officers stand guard near the site of the hard landing of a Ural Airlines Airbus A321 in a cornfield near Moscow’s Zhukovsky Airport on Aug. 15. The plane’s pilot is being hailed as a hero for safely landing the Airbus, which was carrying 226 passengers, after being struck by a flock of birds.

The Swiss pianist and composer Alain Roche performs “Chantier” on his grand piano, suspended in the air from a crane, on Aug. 16 during the 20th “Jeux du Castrum,” a multidisciplinary festival in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland.

Members of the group “The Carriers of the Giants of the Province of Liège” prepare giant puppets for a folk parade in Outremeuse, Liège, Belgium, during Assumption Day celebrations on Aug. 15.

People look at lava erupting from the Piton de la Fournaise on the Indian Ocean island of Réunion on Aug. 13.

A 2-day-old male baby pygmy hippo plays in the water at the Taipei Zoo on Aug. 12.

The full moon rises next to the Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, south of Athens, on Aug. 15.

Palestinians sit and take pictures on the rocks by the Mediterranean Sea in Gaza City on Aug. 13, as people celebrate the Muslim religious holiday of Eid al-Adha.