NurPhoto Pics of The Year - 2015

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19 December 2015

Italian-owned Norman Atlantic ferry moored at the pier at the port of Brindisi, on January 2, 2015. Bari prosecutor Giuseppe Volpe ordered the Italian-owned vessel to be towed to Brindisi so that it can be searched for corpses and for clues as to what caused the huge fire that erupted on board on December 28. The fire led to the deaths of at least 13 people and there are fears the final toll could be higher amid uncertainty over how many people were actually on board. The 60-mile (96-kilometre) crossing to southern Italy was expected to see the ferry arrive in Brindisi at midday Friday at the earliest.

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19 December 2015

American military training with Iraqi soldiers during an exercise on approaching and clearing buildings in Baghdad, on January 8, 2015. The US Military begin 6 month programs teaching the Iraqi National Army how to conduct operations against ISIS over the coming years in Iraq.

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19 December 2015

A march was organized today. it started at republic square where the gathering took place in tribute to the 17 victims of a three day killing spree by homegrown islamists.

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19 December 2015

Flames rise from an explosion in the Syrian town of Kobane, also known as Ain al-Arab, after a US-led coalition airstrike as it seen from the Turkish borders in the southeastern village of Mursitpinar, Sanliurfa province, on October 22, 2014.

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19 December 2015

Jaman is a young scavenger. Dhapa waste dumping ground, Kolkata, India. January 17, 2015. *** Go to http://nurphoto.com/en/reportages/51696 to see more ****

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19 December 2015

Violent clashes in Pristina on January 27, 2015. Several people were injured, including at least four police officers, when Kosovo police clashed with thousands of violent protesters demanding the dismissal of a Serb minister accused of insulting the ethnic-Albanian majority. Police fired tear gas, chasing protesters and clashing with them after a few thousand supporters of the nationalistic Self-Determination opposition party tried to break into the government building in the centre of the capital Pristina.

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19 December 2015

Rescue team and debris of a commercial airplane ATR72 operated by a Taiwanese airlines TransAir, that crashes into a river shortly after take off on February 4, 2015 in Taipei, Taiwan. (NurPhoto/CTK Photo/Karel Picha)

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19 December 2015

A district of Debaltsevo, Ukraine, heavly damaged by shelling on 2nd March 2015. The city was badly damaged by shelling

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19 December 2015

Indian Kids with colored powder on their face join celebrations of the Holi festival at the Pagal Baba Ashram in Vrindavan on March 3 , 2015. Holi celebrations organized by a non-governmental organization Sulabh International.

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19 December 2015

People take part in a march called ''For a March 8 without clandestine abortions'' to commemorate the International Women's Day, in Santiago, capital of Chile, on March 6, 2015.

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19 December 2015

Britain's Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William leave after attending the Service of Commemoration Afghanistan, at St Paul's Cathedral in London, Friday, March 13, 2015. The Queen and Britain's prime minister are joining veterans in a service to commemorate the end of Britain's combat operations in Afghanistan. Almost 150,000 Britons served in the conflict, and 453 died.

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19 December 2015

Members of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces, PKK and YPG fighting for retaking the Sinjar City from ISIS, on March 23, 2015.

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19 December 2015

(150325) -- SEYNE, March 25, 2015 () -- A rescue helicopter sets off to the crash site of Germanwings Airbus A320 plane in the Alps in southern France, March 25, 2015. French gendarmes late Tuesday found one of the two black boxes of the German passenger plane that crashed in southern France with 150 people on board, while a joint international probe into the cause of the accident is under way. (/Chen Xiaowei)

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19 December 2015

Between carcasses of trees it can be appreciated the extent of damage caused to the forest by the eruption of the Chaiten volcano in Chaiten city, Palena Province, Chile. April 2015 a few days ago Calbuco volcano erupted.

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19 December 2015

Palestinians during a mass wedding ceremony in Gaza City, on April 11, 2015. Nearly 200 Palestinian couples were married in a ceremony funded by an Emirati governmental organisation.

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19 December 2015

Asylum seekers who have been refused permits to stay in The Netherlands protested for the second day in a row in the Dutch capital on April 17, 2015. Around 50 African refugees who previously lived in an abandoned garage in Amsterdam have relocated themselves to an unused office building. The owner of the building has pressed charges. On April 17, 2015 the same group was denied the opportunity to protest in front of parliament.