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Photos: 46 news photos you probably did not see

December 30, 2015 5:00AM ET

The year 2015 in overlooked photos

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2015 news photos
Hungarian police arrest the father of refugee family trying to enter the country from Serbia, Aug. 28, 2015. Attila Kisbenedek / AFP / Getty Images
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A man begs soldiers for help, from a drain where he had hid to escape a mob in Bujumbura, Burundi, May 7, 2015. Aymeric Vincenot / AFP / Getty Images
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Medics treat the wounded in a field hospital after air and missile strikes by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hit the Douma neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, Dec. 13, 2015. Bassam Khabieh / Reuters
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The crater left by an explosion at the port district of Tianjin, China, Aug. 16, 2015. Reuters
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Chile’s Calbuco volcano spews ash and lava, April 22, 2015. Diego Main / AFP / Getty Images
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Pontoons that once served as a floating jetty, on the cracked earth of the Cantareira reservoir, during a drought in São Paulo state, Brazil, Feb. 12, 2015. Paulo Whitaker / Reuters
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Part of the wreckage from Germanwings Flight 9525, near Seyne, France, March 25, 2015. F. Balsamo / French Interior Ministry / Getty Images)
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A law enforcement officer looks over evidence at the site of a shootout with a San Bernardino, California, couple who allegedly killed 14 people at the Inland Regional Center, Dec. 3, 2015. Mario Anzuoni / Reuters
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The body of a victim near the Bataclan concert hall in Paris after the attacks there, Nov. 13, 2015. Thierry Chesnot / Getty Images
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Young men dig graves for Ebola victims in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in January 2015. Espen Rasmussen / Panos Pictures
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Ukrainian prisoners of war are forced by pro-Russian fighters to search through the wreckage of the Donetsk airport for weaponry and bodies, Feb. 26, 2015. Andrew Burton / Getty Images
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Food supplies dropped by a Thai army helicopter are pulled from the ocean by Rohingya refugees and passed to others aboard a boat drifting off the coast of Thailand, May 14, 2015. Christophe Archambault / AFP / Getty Images
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Medical personnel try to revive a boy after a boat with refugees sank attempting to reach the Greek island of Lesbos from Turkey, Oct. 28, 2015. Angelos Tzortzinis / AFP / Getty Images
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A volunteer climbs a mountain of lifejackets that have been discarded on Lesbos, Dec. 3, 2015. Aris Messinis / AFP / Getty Images
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A policeman hits a migrant with a truncheon during a registration procedure on the Greek island of Kos, Aug. 11, 2015. Angelos Tzortzinis / AFP / Getty Images
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Refugees try to board a train headed to Zagreb, in western Croatia, from a station in Tovarnik, in the eastern part of the country, Sept. 20, 2015. Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images
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Rescue workers and troops search for victims of a train that derailed into a canal, Wazirabad, Pakistan, July 3, 2015. Rana Irfan Ali / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images
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A crime scene investigator searches one of the cars of an Amtrak train that derailed on its way to New York City, May 12, 2015. Joseph Kaczmarek / AP
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Workers disinfect the interior of a subway train against the spread of Midde East respiratory syndrom, June 9, 2015. Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters
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Nuns pass through a security checkpoint before attending a prayer service with Pope Francis at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City, Sept. 24, 2015. Damon Winter / Pool / Getty Images
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Iranian women show their support for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a rally in front of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran marking the 36th anniversary of its seizure, Oct. 4, 2015. Vahid Salemi / AP
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Protesters march in the rain on the first anniversary of the shooting of Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri, Aug. 9, 2015. Huy Mach / St. Louis Post-Dispatch / Polaris
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Pens are held aloft in solidarity with the victims of the attack on the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, Rennes, France, Jan. 7, 2015. Damien Meyer / AFP / Getty Images
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Albino youths from Tanzania put on prosthetic arms at a shelter in Staten Island in New York, Sept. 21, 2015. Their arms were amputated in their country by believers in witchcraft, who sell the limbs at a high price. Carlo Allegri / Reuters
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A 2-year-old orangutan undergoing a health examination at a conservation center in Thailand, Aug. 27, 2015, before being repatriated to Indonesia. Athit Perawongmetha / Reuters
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The winner of a lottery conceals his identity with a mask at the presentation of his check for over 110 million yuan ($17 million), in Kunming, China, Dec. 23, 2015. Reuters
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump takes the stage for a campaign event in Derry, New Hampshire, Aug. 19, 2015. Brian Snyder / Reuters
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Russian President Vladimir Putin exercises at a state residence in Sochi, Russia, Aug. 30, 2015. Michael Klimentyev / RIA Novosti / Reuters
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Relatives attend the funeral of an 11-year-old boy killed during shelling in Debaltseve, in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, Jan. 21 2015. Anastasia Vlasova / EPA
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Ropes weighted with water bottles are used to apply traction to the legs of a girl injured during an earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal, April 29, 2015. Danish Siddiqui / Reuters
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A Syrian refugee infant sleeps in a box in Idomeni, Greece, on the border with Macedonia, Sept. 7, 2015. Yannis Behrakis / Reuters
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A school in Chibok, Nigeria, in March 2015. Boko Haram fighters seized 276 teenagers from the school the year before. Sunday Aghaeze / AFP / Getty Images
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Shipping containers in a heap the day after an explosion at the port of Tianjin, China, Aug. 13, 2015. AFP / Getty Images
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Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip in the Mediterranean Sea near a building destroyed by Israeli shelling the previous summer, Aug. 14, 2015. Mohammed Salem / Reuters
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Undercover Israeli officers detain a Palestinian stone thrower during clashes near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, Oct. 7, 2015. Abbas Momani / AFP / Getty Images
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A police officer protects a colleague from a mob during protests sparked by President Pierre Nkurunziza’s announcement that he would seek a third term, in Bujumbura, Burundi, May 12, 2015. Goran Tomasevic / Reuters
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Demonstrators atop a police car during protests over the death of Freddie Gray, in Baltimore, April 27, 2015. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images
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A steward outside Banksy’s “Dismaland” exhibition before its opening, Aug. 20, 2015. Matthew Horwood / Getty Images
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, center right, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, center left, in front of 16 soldiers dressed to represent the 16 previous Turkish states, in Ankara, Turkey, Jan. 12, 2015. Adem Altan / AFP / Getty Images
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. President Barack Obama outside the Schloss Elmau resort, near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, during the G-7 summit, June 8, 2015. Michael Kappeler / Reuters
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Two Kurdish brides are greeted at their wedding reception, Nov. 11, 2015, near Qamishli, Syria. They married their husbands in absentia two months after the men left for Germany. John Moore / Getty Images
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A supporter of Uganda’s former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi kicks a tear gas canister fired by police to disperse a gathering to bolster his bid for the presidency, Sept. 10, 2015. James Akena / Reuters
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Smoke billows from a coal-fueled power plant in Shanxi, China, Nov. 26, 2015. Kevin Frayer / Getty Images
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A motorcyclist’s face covered by ash from the eruption of Mount Sinabung in Indonesia, June 13, 2015. Sutanta Aditya / AFP / Getty Images
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A television transmission tower pokes through fog, in Pecs, Hungary, Dec. 7, 2015. Tamas Soki / MTI / AP
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A supermoon rises behind Glastonbury Tor, Sept. 27, 2015, in Glastonbury, England. Matt Cardy / Getty Images

 

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