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TIME Picks the Top 100 Photos of 2016

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Tens of thousands of South Sudanese people line up for the first food distribution administered by the International Committee of the Red Cross since the fighting stopped in Leer and a tentative peace is holding in Unity State, South Sudan, on March 17, 2016.

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Refugees wearing rain gear stand on a food distribution line at a refugee camp in Greece, near the border with Macedonia, on March 12, 2016.

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A Britain First protester walks through the streets of Dewsbury in opposition to building more mosques in Great Britain, on Jan. 30, 2016.

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Gerry Hann holds up the front cover of a newspaper in Liverpool Street train station in London the day after Britain voted to leave the EU, on June 24, 2016. "I think we're doomed and the country is only going to go backwards," Hann said.

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Guests attend a garden party at Buckingham Palace in London, England, on May 24, 2016.

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Millions of bison, sacred to Native Americans, once blanketed the Great Plains. had been hunted to near extinction.A dedicated public and private conservation effort has nurtured a revival, and today hundreds of thousands of bison range across parts of Wyoming, Nebraska, the Dakotas and Montana,on June 14, 2016.

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Attendees listen as Hillary Clinton speaks during an organizing event in Baldwin, Iowa, on Aug. 26, 2015

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Outgoing British Prime Minister David Cameron speaks, his daughters,his wife and son ,10 Downing Street in central London before going to Buckingham Palace to tender his resignation to Queen Elizabeth II, on July 13, 2016.

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In this official White House photograph, Prince George meets President Obama during a trip to London, on April 22, 2016.

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Britain's Queen Elizabeth arrives at a service for her 90th birthday at St Paul's Cathedral in London, Britain, on June 10, 2016.

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Bernie Sanders supporters at a campaign rally at Waterfront Park in Vallejo, Calif., on May 18, 2016.

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An ecstatic Hillary Clinton celebrates at the conclusion of the Democratic National Convention where she accepted the nomination in Philadelphia, on July 28, 2016.

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Donald Trump's family cheers for him during the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 19, 2016.

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Staff listens as President Barack Obama speaks about the election results in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, on Nov. 9, 2016.

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Bernie Sanders speaks during a rally at Santa Monica High School Football Field, on May 23, 2016.

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Air Force One, carrying U.S. President Barack Obama and his family, flies over a neighborhood in Havana, Cuba as it approaches the runway to land at Havana's international airport, on March 20, 2016.

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U.S. President Barack Obama dances tango during a state dinner hosted by Argentina's President Mauricio Macri, in Buenos Aires, on March 23, 2016.

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A demonstrator protesting the shooting death of Alton Sterling is detained by law enforcement near the headquarters of the Baton Rouge Police Department in Baton Rouge, La., on July 9, 2016.

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An employee conducts fumigation to prevent the Zika virus in the Carabayllo District, Lima Province, Peru, on Jan. 29, 2016.

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Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta set fire to the world's biggest ivory bonfire at Nairobi National Park, after demanding a total ban on trade in tusks and horns to end "murderous" trafficking and prevent the extinction of elephants in the wild, on April 30, 2016

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A group trying to rescue animals from Fort McMurray wait at a roadblock on Highway 63 as smoke rises from a forest fire nearby in Alberta, on May 6, 2016.

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Demonstrators throw back tear gas canisters to French riot police officers during clashes in a makeshift migrant camp known as "The Jungle" near Calais, northern France, on Oct. 22, 2016.

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A young man is attended to as he lies on the sidewalk after being shot in front of the Omni Hotel in downtown Charlotte, N.C., on Sept. 22, 2016. The day after Keith Scott's death at the hands of police triggered a night of violent clashes.

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks at the New York Police Department 2016 graduation class at Madison Square Garden, on July 1, 2016.

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Assistant Chief of Police Gary Tittle comforts a young man in front of the police station where a memorial was erected for people to come and grieve in Dallas, Texas.

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In this official White House photograph, President Barack Obama greets a young guest during a reception celebrating African American history month in the east room of the White House, on Feb. 18, 2016.

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People connecting with their loved ones through the border fence in Tijuana on the U.S.-Mexico border by the last border monument under the U.S. surveillance cameras. Nov. 2016.

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Lakota riders Alex Romero-Frederick (left) and Greg Grey Cloud (right) confront a line of North Dakota State Police the day that construction crews began work on the Dakota Access Pipeline just outside of the Standing Rock Reservation, on Aug. 15, 2016.

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The flash of an exploding stunt grenade is seen while a student from University of Witwatersrand jumps on a falling policeman while another policeman shoots his rubber bullets during a demonstration in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Oct. 4, 2016.

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A man helps a boy while other migrants and refugees lay on the ground after Macedonian police fired tear gas at hundreds of people who tried to break through the border fence in Idomeni, Greece, on Feb. 29, 2016.

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Soldiers involved in the coup attempt surrender on Bosphorus bridge in Istanbul, Turkey, on July 16, 2016.

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Turkish supporters of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan celebrate in Taksim Square after the coup attempt in Istanbul, Turkey on July 16, 2016.

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A woman wipes the eyes of a friend affected by tear gas during clashes with police as they gather against a mine project in northern Turkish city of Artvin, on Feb. 17, 2016. Security forces began closing off an area for the mine construction, and locals reacted by blocking the road with their vehicles and bodies.

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A salt lake, which is separated by a road, shows parts of it in different colors due to algae, in Yuncheng, Shanxi Province, China, on Sept. 25, 2016.

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Iranians lay beside Urmia Lake with their bodies covered in salt near Urmia, North-western Iran, on Aug. 8, 2016. Hopes for survival of Urmia salt lake have been revived after more rains boosted a government program aimed at preserving the almost dried up water body.

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Athletes compete in the swim portion of the 2016 IRONMAN World Championship triathlon in Kailua Kona, Hawaii, on Oct. 8, 2016.

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Paramilitary policemen take part in a drill in Baise, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, on Sept. 18, 2016.

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A girl and a woman sit inside a car as fireworks explode celebrating the start of the Chinese Lunar New Year of Monkey in Beijing, on Feb. 7, 2016.

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Embers from a wildfire smolder along Lytle Creek Road near Keenbrook, Calif., on Aug. 17, 2016.

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Hot lava and volcanic ashes rises from Mount Sinabung during an eruption in Karo, North Sumatra, Indonesia, on Feb. 29, 2016.

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Security backstage on the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 28, 2016.

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Donald Trump and Mike Pence on stage at the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 20, 2016.

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Hillary Clinton and her husband, former U.S. President Bill Clinton eat breakfast at the Chez Vachon restaurant in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Feb. 8, 2016.

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Secret Service agents await the arrival of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on the golf course at his Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeen, Scotland, on June 25, 2016.

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Hillary Clinton campaigns at Winnacunnet High School in Hampton, N.H. on Feb. 3, 2016.

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Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Loveland, Colorado, on Oct. 3, 2016.

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Donald Trump's supporters at a rally on the eve of the election in Manchester, NH. Nov. 7, 2016.

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Supporters of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton embrace at the Javits Center in New York, on Nov. 8, 2016.

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Chelsea Clinton and her father, former President Bill Clinton look on as U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a campaign rally at the Clark County Government Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Feb. 19, 2016.

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to an overflow crowd during a campaign rally in Greenville, N.C., on Sept. 6, 2016.

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Hillary Clinton poses for selfies at an Orlando, Fla., event, on Sept, 21, 2016.

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds Kellen Campbell of Denver, right, and Evelyn Keane, of Castle Rock, Colo., during a campaign rally in Colorado Springs, on July 29, 2016.

54Dedication ceremony of the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture at the National Mall in Washington on Sept. 24, 2016.

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Kosovo police officers wearing gas masks inspect the parliament, after tear gas was launched by opposition lawmakers, disrupting the first parliamentary session of the year in Pristina, on Feb. 19, 2016

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A photo shot and released on social media from the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. Katherine Clark in Washington, D.C., on June 22, 2016.

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The bench of late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is seen draped with black wool crepe in memoriam inside the Supreme Court in Washington, on Feb. 16, 2016. Scalia died on Feb. 13, 2016 at the age of 79.

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Violetta Kolobova of Russia, left, vies with Simona Pop of Romania in the women's epee team fencing semifinal at the Carioca Arena 3 during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, on Aug. 11, 2016.

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Gold Medal favorite Simone Biles poses for a portrait at World Champions Centre in Spring, Tex., on July 14, 2016.

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Usain Bolt of Jamaica competes in the Men's 100 meter semi final on Day 9 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Aug. 14, 2016.

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A street artist performs his show on Urdaneta Ave., in Caracas, Venezuela, on June 6, 2016.

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Jose Villarroel waits for hours in an emergency operating room at Luis Razetti Hospital in Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela, on April 15, 2016. The economic crisis; President Nicolas Maduro to impose a state of emergency

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A family stands in the remains of their destroyed home in Roche-a-Bateau, southwestern Haiti, on Oct. 8, 2016.

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A boy washes his clothes in a river near Maboussou village, in Central African Republic.

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Inmates sleep on the ground of an open basketball court inside the Quezon City jail at night in Manila, Philippines, on July 19, 2016

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The body of a man killed by unknown gunmen is lit by lights from TV cameras in Manila, Philippines, on Oct. 24, 2016.

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Earthquakes, Villagers rebuild houses and pathways in the Himalayan village of Barpak, in Gorkha district, Nepal, on April 6, 2016.

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Police search inside the exclusion zone for residents who are still considered missing from the tsunami in Namie, Japan, on March 11, 2016.

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Rohingya people work outside their informal settlement where they live in Shimlapuri, Bangladesh, on Jan. 10, 2016.

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Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels and supporters help push a vehicle stuck in mud at their camp following the 10th Guerrilla Conference in the remote Yari plains in El Diamante, Colombia, on Sept. 25, 2016.

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Women refugees and migrants queue in the prison yard as they are loaded onto buses to be transferred to another detention center. They were sold by a militia group ruling the Surman detention camp, Libya.

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Migrants, mostly from Eritrea, jumped into the water from a crowded wooden boat as they were rescued off the coast of Libya, on Aug. 29, 2016

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Migrants wait to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO in the Mediterranean Sea, some 12 nautical miles north of Libya, on October 4, 2016

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Three bodies are seen washed up on a beach in Canakkale, Turkey after at least 37 migrants and refugees were killed when their boat sank in the Aegean while trying to cross to Greece on Jan. 30, 2016.

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A migrant baby sits behind a plastic tent as a boy waves in a makeshift camp at the northern Greek border post of Idomeni, Greece, on March 15, 2016.

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Community members search for spilled grain on the site of a World Food Program airdrop in Ganyiel, South Sudan, on March 10, 2016.

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A girl running in the IDP's Al Kadasie apartment complex in Tikrit, Iraq, on July 20, 2016.

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First-responders attempt to stop Abu Soubhi from entering his home following an airstrike in the rebel-held area of Douma, on the outskirts of Damascus, on Sept. 11, 2016.

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A Syrian boy is comforted as he cries next to the body of a relative who died in a reported airstrike in the rebel-held neighborhood of al-Soukour in the northern city of Aleppo, on April 27, 2016.

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Ouagadougou center in Sirte, Libya, on Sep. 3, 2016.

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Libyan forces allied with the U.N.-backed government fire weapons during a battle with Islamic State fighters in Sirte, Libya, on July 15, 2016.

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The Iraqis Special Operations Forces search houses in Cogjali, an eastern district of Mosul, looking for Daesh members, equipment and evidence, on Nov. 2, 2016.

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Iraqi Army commanders survey the front line in the village of Kharbardan, south of Mosul, on May 18, 2016.

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Kurdish peshmerga troops fire at Islamic State positions as they move toward the Iraqi town of Badana Pixhawk, on Oct. 17, 2016.

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Iraqi ordnance disposal specialists clear a section of the Erbil-Mosul highway on the western edge of Bartella, Iraq, on Oct. 20, 2016.

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Displaced Iraqis arrive at a refugee camp in the town of Qayyarah, south of Mosul, as an operation to recapture the city of Mosul from the Islamic State, on Oct. 22, 2016.

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People wait near Nemrud village to cross the Tigris River by small boats, escaping the fight between the Iraqi army and Islamic State militants near Tuebe village, in southeast Mosul, Iraq, on Nov. 2016.

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A Palestinian girl dressed in a traditional outfit walks in a field near her house in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, on Feb. 7, 2016.

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Pope Francis,the Virgin of Guadalupe, in Mexico City, on Feb. 13, 2016.

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Siblings Julie, Antonio, and India Abram collect their daily allowance of bottled water from Fire Station #3.in Flint, Michigan.

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Snow falls on a mattress outside a shuttered K-Mart in Flint, Michigan, on April 10, 2016.

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A person braves a snowstorm at Prospect Park in New York, on Jan. 23, 2016.

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Ice is viewed near the coast of West Antarctica from a window of a NASA Operation IceBridge airplane, on Oct. 27, 2016.NASA and University of California, Irvine (UCI) researchers have recently detected the speediest ongoing Western Antarctica glacial retreat rates ever observed.

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The massive snowstorm that blanketed the East Coast from Washington, D.C., to New York City is seen from the International Space Station, on Jan. 23, 2016.

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Polar bear "Pizza" at an aquarium in Grandview shopping mall in Guangzhou, China, on July 27, 2016.

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The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, northern Nigeria during the Durbar Festival celebrating the end of Eid al-Fitr- the Islamic holy fasting month of Ramadan, on July 6, 2016.

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Children cry as a caravan carrying Fidel Castro's ashes passes through Santa Clara, Cuba, on Dec. 1, 2016.

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A businessman stands at a pond in the Kyu-Shiba-rikyu Garden on a warm and sunny day in Tokyo, Japan, on March 18, 2016.

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An eagle from Guard From Above, a security company training eagles to intercept drones, tackles a drone in the air, in Katwijk, Netherlands, on May 31, 2016.

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A syrian refugee, Tayma, holds her newborn baby in a refugee camp in Thessaloniki, Greece, on Sept. 26, 2016

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People on a fair ride are silhouetted against the moon a day before the "supermoon" spectacle in London, on Nov. 13, 2016.

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