Mass protests were met with violence in several countries, Notre Dame Cathedral burned, a comic actor became president of Ukraine before getting embroiled in a U.S. domestic political dispute, while a teenager inspired action and sparked controversy with her warnings about climate change: Here are some of the images capturing the biggest stories of 2019.
2019: The Year In Photos
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A car drives along a road created during the winter season to connect the banks of the ice-covered Yenisei River, south of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, on March 3. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)
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Mohammed Nadir (center) cries as he listens to a service for the victims of a mass shooting at the Al-Noor Mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, which claimed 50 lives on March 15. (AFP/Anthony Wallace)
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Ukrainian comic actor and presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelenskiy plays table tennis on March 31 as he visits his campaign headquarters following a presidential election in Kyiv, Ukraine. Zelenskiy was subsequently inaugurated as president in May after winning comfortably over the incumbent, Petro Poroshenko. (Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko)
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Refugees and migrants protest near a refugee camp in the village of Diavata, west of Thessaloniki, in northern Greece, on April 6. (EPA-EFE/Sotiris Barbarousis)
