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Day in Photos
May 8, 2915
May 08, 2015 11:52 AM
A look at the best news photos from around the world.
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Refugees gather to watch the arrival of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres at the sprawling Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. The camp currently houses some 350,000 people and for more than 20 years has been home to generations of Somalis who have fled their homeland wracked by conflicts. Kenya's government has asked UNHCR to close the camp after an attack on Kenya’s Garissa University by Somalia-based al-Shabab gunmen in April, whom are suspected to have planned and launched their attack from the camp.
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A worker installs a wreath of poppies on top of the 102-meter Motherland Monument in Kyiv, Ukraine to mark the anniversary of the defeat of the Nazis in WWII. Ukraine is for the first time this year marking two holidays for the victory anniversary, with a day of remembrance on May 8 and Victory Day on May 9.
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World War II reenactors salute while the National Anthem plays during ceremony commemorating 70th Anniversary of VE Day at the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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A family works to rebuild their damaged house in Lalitpur, Nepal. The April 25 earthquake killed thousands and injured many more as it flattened mountain villages and destroyed buildings and archaeological sites in Kathmandu.
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