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A man in a devil costume rests during a procession symbolizing the fight between good and evil that celebrates the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception in Ciudad Vieja, Guatemala.Credit:AP
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A pedestrian walks into the shadow cast by a building in downtown Los Angeles. Credit:AP
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Japan's opposition parties' members try to stop Judicial Affairs Committee Chairman Shinichi Yokoyama, bottom center, from moving to hold a vote for a bill to revise an immigration control law, at upper house committee in Tokyo early Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018. Japan is preparing to officially open the door to foreign workers to do unskilled jobs and possibly eventually become citizens. Credit:Kyodo News via AP
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Jennifer and her sister Jessica adjust their angels costumes prior to a procession symbolizing the fight between good and evil that celebrates the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception in Ciudad Vieja, Guatemala, Friday, Dec. 7, 2018. Catholics hold their neighbor days-long annual fair in honor of their patron saint, the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, whose official feast day is Dec. 8.Credit:AP
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The Chang'e 4 lunar probe launches from the the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province, Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018. China launched a ground-breaking mission Saturday to soft-land a spacecraft on the largely unexplored far side of the moon, demonstrating its growing ambitions as a space power to rival Russia, the European Union and U.S.Credit:Xinhua News Agency
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A mountain lion known as P-64, also known as the "Culvert Cat," during one of his many crossings of U.S. Highway 101 freeway in Agoura Hills, Calif. Authorities using data from his tracking collar found the remains of P-64 on Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, in an unburned area of the Simi Hills in Los Angeles County. Researchers say the big cat suffered burned paws but survived last month's Woolsey Fire that ravaged the area. He was last known to be alive on Nov. 26. Credit:U.S. National Park Service/AP
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A Russian border guard stands behind barbed wire on the Russian side of the border with Ukraine as people shop at a market in Milove, eastern Ukraine, on Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018. People on the streets easily mix both Russia and Ukrainian languages without making a political statement of it, but earlier in 2018, Russia built a barbed wire fence on the Friendship of People's street, marking the border with Ukraine in a statement about the long-simmering conflict between the countries. Credit:AP
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A power plant is partially obscured by fog in Minsk, Belarus. The two-week U.N. climate meeting COP24 in Poland is intended to finalize details of the 2015 Paris accord on keeping average global temperature increases well below 2 degrees Celsius.Credit:AP