These images show some of the big events that defined 2020.
PHOTO PACKAGE Year-Ender: 2020: Biggest News Events In Pictures
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A man throws a flare at Greek anti-riot policemen during clashes as demonstrators protest against the construction of a new controversial migrant camp near the town of Mantamados on the northeastern Aegean island of Lesbos, February 25, 2020. - Riot police were dispatched to the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios on February 25 as the government ploughed ahead with the construction of controversial new migrant camps, officials said. At the harbours of both islands, where hundreds of local 20poty residents had gathered, police used tear gas to clear the way for security force reinforcements and construction machinery, a police source told AFP. (AFP/ARIS MESSINIS)
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Children walk past a burned-out house in the village of Masanchi, in Zhambyl region on February 26, 2020, after an outbreak of violence that claimed several lives earlier this month. (RFE/RL)
Kazakh authorities have launched about 90 investigations into the ethnic clashes in the southern region of Zhambyl that claimed 11 lives on February 7-8. They said earlier that the road-rage brawl sparked wider violence between local Kazakhs and Kazakh citizens from the ethnic Dungan minority -- a Muslim group of Chinese origin. The deadly violence spread into the villages of Sortobe, Masanchi, Auqatty, and Bulan-Batyr.
Kazakh authorities have launched about 90 investigations into the ethnic clashes in the southern region of Zhambyl that claimed 11 lives on February 7-8. They said earlier that the road-rage brawl sparked wider violence between local Kazakhs and Kazakh citizens from the ethnic Dungan minority -- a Muslim group of Chinese origin. The deadly violence spread into the villages of Sortobe, Masanchi, Auqatty, and Bulan-Batyr.
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The Olympic Rings monument in front of the Japan Olympic Committee headquarters in Tokyo, March 24, 2020. According to local media reports, during an interview published on 28 April Tokyo 2020 Olympics President Yoshiro Mori said that if the coronavirus pandemic is not fully contained by next year, the games - already postponed from July 2020 to 2021 - will be cancelled. (EPA-EFE/FRANCK ROBICHON)
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Doctors and nurses wearing protective equipment work in the COVID-3 level intensive care unit, treating COVID-19 patients, at the Casal Palocco hospital near Rome, Italy, April 22, 2020. (EPA-EFE/ANGELO CARCONI)
