Here is a small selection of the most extraordinary photographs from the Associated Press
A migrant is comforted by a member of the Spanish Red Cross in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, near the Moroccan-Spanish border. The event occurred on May 18, 2021.
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Firefighters fight the Sugar Fire, part of the Beckwourth Complex Fire, in Doyle, California. The event occurred on July 9, 2021.
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A house covered in ash from the volcano that continues to erupt on La Palma, in the Canary Islands of Spain. The event occurred on October 30, 2021.
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12-year-old Stephen Mudoga tries to chase away a swarm of locusts on his farm when he returns home from school in Elburgon, Nakuru County, Kenya. The event occurred on March 17, 2021.
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Plastic bottles and other garbage float in Lake Potpecko near Priboj in southwestern Serbia. The event occurred on January 22, 2021.
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A train passes a railway crossing surrounded by flooding caused by rain and melting snow in Nidderau, near Frankfurt, Germany. The event occurred on February 3, 2021.
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Víctor Tripiana, 86, reaches out to touch the hand of his daughter-in-law, Silvia Fernández Sotto, separated by a plastic sheet to prevent the spread of Covid-19, at the Reminiscences nursing home in Tandil, Argentina. The event occurred on April 4, 2021.
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