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Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Robert Neller (L) testifies during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the decision to open all ground combat units to women, in Washington, February 2, 2016. Photo: Kevin Lamarque/ Reuters
The road to Sinjar passes through dozens of bleak, damp, wrecked villages. So swiftly have the Islamist al-Nusra retreated through the fog and rain that the Syrian army has not had time to erase their equally bleak graffiti.
A journalist was seen hugging his two-year-old daughter goodbye outside a Myanmar court as he faces 14 years in prison for allegedly breaching the Official Secrets Act.
The Obama-era rule targets fracking and is intended to increase the safety of fracking by reducing the risk of water contamination. (Steve Gonzales/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Thousands of heavy-duty trucks loaded with coal make their way along the sole road through the Gobi desert in Mongolia to the Chinese border. Photo: Reuters
Bill Richardson, the former governor of New Mexico and a friend of Aung San Suu Kyi, has dramatically quit a group advising her on the Rohingya refugee crisis, calling it a “whitewash”.
