17 of 2017’s most visual stories from around the world

2017 is a year of relentless news cycle.
If it had a soundtrack, it would be a broken sound of a news reminder that popped up on the phone.
If it has the color, it is the dim blue.
When your eyes start to defocus after staring at the screen for too long, you will see the shades of white.
If it smells, it will be burnt out of rubber.
However, not all the news of 2017 is bad news.
Some are inspiring, comforting, touching, interesting or mysterious.
That being said, many of them are bad.
From deadly protests against foreign policy changes, to the resignation of a non-late president, to the milestone in the fight against Islamic State, here are the global news videos that have plagued us this year.
Earlier this year, residents of the Chinese capital were shrouded in smog.
The pollution level is so bad, a monitoring device at the Washington Post\'s Beijing bureau chief warned that masks should be worn indoors. On Jan.
3. The air quality index is above 700.
More than 300 of everything is considered dangerous, while reading under the age of 50 is considered to be at no significant health risk. On Jan.
4. Parents in Beijing are tired of the constant smog, and their children are petitioning for the government to install air purifiers in schools.
It collected 2,700 comments in one day.
Chinese authorities are trying to reduce smog by banning the use of coal, but the Associated Press reported that the effort backfired and caused a shortage of natural gas. In mid-
On January, reporters caught a glimpse of the world\'s most notorious drug lord, Joaquin \"El Chapo\" Guzman, at Long Island MacArthur Airport in Islip, New York. Y.
In handcuffs, surrounded by DEA agents wearing dark coats.
The elusive drug dealer was extradited to the United States after two appeals to flee the Mexican federal prison and lose his last stay in Mexico.
Reporters Joshua Paltrow and Matt zampotoski describe the political impact of El Chapo\'s departure from the United States: On February, Nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, died. 13.
He was found to have a deadly nerve factor VX on his face, \"at the airport clinic in Malaysia, his belly stood out from the Navy --
\"The blue polo shirt was then killed in an ambulance on the way to the hospital,\" wrote Tokyo police chief Anna fillfield . \".
CCTV video shows two women
Siti Aisyah, Indonesia, 25, and Doan Thi Huong, Vietnam, 29
Apply VX on your face at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
We later learned that gold carries a stable substance that may have a solution to the chemical that killed him.
According to the Post reporter Adam Taylor, experts wonder if this will save him.
During a march in the United States.
FBI Director James B.
Comey testified before Congress and Judge Neil M.
Gossage started his Supreme Court confirmation hearing, but what really caught the news attention was --
Observers around the world are a father whose two children are interrupted on live television.
Robert Kelly, nicknamed \"BBC Dad\", is on a news show expressing his views on South Korea\'s first female president to step down.
In the absence of his notice, a dancing toddler and a baby from a Walker rushed into the room behind him, being chased by their panic --looking mother.
This moment of comedy became famous on the Internet.
Nine months later, Kelly told the New York Timesyear-
Old Marion is still trying to interrupt his interview.
On April, the opposition of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro launched the most intense protests since 2014.
The country\'s Supreme Court stripped parliament of its power to return it to parliament only two days later, following Maduro\'s order.
This reversal should have calmed down criticism.
Instead, on April 1, opponents called Maduro and his government a \"circus\" and thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to condemn Maduro\'s \"dictatorship \".
Video from Caracas shows police using tear gas against young protesters.
The day began several months of demonstrations, which continued amid rising food and drug shortages.
With 2017 people coming to an end, Maduro continues to clash with opposition parties, some of which boycotted the conflict in December.
According to The Associated Press, 10 may oral elections.
He will be re-elected in 2018 and has tried to ban the parties from voting.
Half a world away, another dictator attacked his people on April 4.
Syrian President Bashar AL-ASSAD
Assad launched an air strike on the northwestern town of Khan shehuen.
Reporters Luisa loflock and Karen Dejan frott are among the six deadliest chemical attacks in the country. year war.
Images of crazy or lifeless women and children surfaced. In one heart-
The painful video captured the pain of the day when a father grabbed his 9-year-old bodymonth-
The old twins stroked their hair.
They were killed in the attack with his wife, two brothers, two nephews and a niece.
A few days later, the United States, in retaliation for air strikes, was criticized by Russia and Syria.
Russia later rejected the United States. S. -
The United Nations Security Council resolution to investigate the attack on Khan shehuen, The Associated Press reported that it was less than two weeks before 2017, the first time in years that Assad\'s troops were gradually entering the rebels.
Held in Idlib province.
Protests in Washington are as common as Red Line delays, and they rarely cause a lot of turmoil, not to mention international events.
The Turkish ambassador\'s demonstration outside May\'s official residence was an exception to the rule.
On May 17, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stayed at the embassy\'s home in Northwest Washington.
When about 24 opponents gathered outside to protest Erdogan\'s harsh treatment of dissidents in his country, the president\'s bodyguards were involved.
When Erdogan looked, security guards in suits kicked and stepped on protesters.
Video Display posted on TwitterC.
Police officers trying to separate the two groups
When asked who attacked him, an old man covered with blood and white shirts turned to the camera and said, \"Turkish. ”D. C.
In light of the incident, officials charged 15 security guards.
This is one of the many dust
In 2017, relations between Erdogan and President Trump fluctuated, although they had long hoped that relations between the two countries would be better than during the Obama administration.
Later, Trump spoke at a NATO summit in Brussels.
The world is watching, wondering how the president\'s tough rhetoric in the campaign will translate into the international arena.
Reporters Philip Luk, Karen Dejan and Michael Burnbaum wrote that the speech was \"confrontation\" and \"scolding \".
\"The image we met at the event was Trump, physically pushing the leaders of another country away.
Video shows the United StatesS.
The president pushed sho Montenegro\'s prime minister, DOSCO Malkovich, on his way to photography.
Two attacks by the Islamic State in June marked a new geographic milestone for the militant group.
Militants launched deadly attacks on Iran\'s parliament building and a temple in the country\'s Islamic revolution leader\'s mausoleum
This is the first time the group has attacked inside Iran.
Staff writer Amanda Eriksson wrote, \"the attack on the Yasukuni Shrine --
Similar to an explosion in the unknown tomb of the United States
This is an attack on Iran\'s political identity and one of the most important monuments to Iran\'s Shiite Islam. ”A London high-
A fire broke out in a high-rise apartment building on June 14, killing at least 71 people and leaving hundreds homeless.
The building is located in one of the city\'s richest neighborhoods, but it is public housing.
Videos from people below to social media show residents trapped inside eager to escape the burning buildings.
A video saw the building through a window of an airplane, spewing smoke over the city.
A month later, British police released a video in which viewers visited the barren lobby of Grenfell Tower, the charred stairwell and the blown-out windows.
Displaced residents in the fire find it difficult to find new housing options of the same quality as before.
The fire prompted the British government to test other senior officials.
Building, see if they contain the same flammable outer cladding as the Grenfell Tower fire. As of Dec.
Reporter Kara Adam wrote: \"Thousands of people are still living in buildings that are proven to be dangerous.
On July, Iraqi coalition forces recaptured the main city of Mosul and won the war against Islamic State.
When soldiers and journalists re-enter the city, reconstruction is clearly a big task.
Five months laterS.
Now that the fighting is over, the military is still considering its role in Iraq.
In early August, Myanmar began sending troops to Rakhine, home to most of the Rohingya Muslim minority in the country.
The Rohingya left their country that month, telling the story of rape and abuse by the Burmese army.
Doctors Without Borders estimates that at least 6,700 Rohingya people were killed in the violence during August. 25 and Sept. 24.
Over time, the image of people queuing up to leave their homes is shocking.
In the months since the conflict began, the United States announced that violence against the Rohingya community was \"ethnic cleansing\" and nearly 650,000 Rohingya fled to the Bangladesh refugee camp.
In September, the hurricane landed in the Caribbean, with historic destruction.
Anthony Fiola, Samantha Schmidt and Mark Fisher of the Post wrote, \"the storm pushed the islands back to their original basic state, this makes the Caribbean\'s sandbars a pirate and tourist to Europe for half a thousand years.
In particular, Hurricane Irma destroyed Barbuda Island.
The houses were razed to the ground, the trees were knocked down, and debris was everywhere.
Andrew deGrandpre wrote that Irma forced 1,800 residents of Barbuda to flee the island
First in 300. empty.
Now, the island is in the midst of a land scramble for the law of the occasion, and some lawmakers want to amend a key law to make it easier for investors to acquire shares in the rebuilding process.
The first day of October is the biggest day in the history of Spain\'s Catalan region.
Despite the Spanish government\'s opposition, the city held a referendum on whether to form its own independent country.
More than 2 million people voted for independence.
More than three weeks later, when the country officially declared itself an independent republic, the separatists packed the streets, hugging and cheering.
Their happiness is short-lived.
The referendum in October aims to give more autonomy to the region.
However, over the next few weeks, Spain has deprived officials of the power of the Catalan government and put the leader of the separatist movement in prison.
With the dissolution of parliament, voters in Catalunya returned to the polls on December.
Elect a new leader and vote again on whether to leave Spain.
William Booth and Pamela Rolf wrote this on a record.
Broken turnout, Pro
The Independence Party won most of the votes, \"laying the foundation for another showdown between Madrid and the central government.
It is unclear how the new battle will unfold, but in any case, 2017 of the unrest will have a lasting impact on the region.
More than 2,700 companies have left the region since the first vote.
Robert Mugabe has been in Zimbabwe for 37 years, but he stepped down in November.
When the military placed him and his wife Grace under house arrest in November, his rule began to disintegrate. 14.
It seems to herald a coup, but military leaders have denied that Mr. Mugabe did not step down immediately.
In November, he delivered a rambling speech.
There is no hint of leaving the plan.
Even in his own party, 93-year-
The old president finally resigned, paving the way for his former vice president, Emmerson mnamagua, to take the lead.
Photos taken from Zimbabwe that day showed pure jubilation: a man kneeling down on the streets of Harare, shouting happily, people hugging and dancing, the tanks rolled with the demonstrators waving the flag.
The country is still struggling economically, but the Associated Press reported that in his first State of the Union address, Mnangagwa promised to fight corruption and file a lawsuit against foreign investors.
North Korea has not conducted any missile tests for more than two months. On Nov.
29, when the country launched a new ICBM, the period of calm was broken, and the missile seemed more advanced than any of its predecessors.
The Kim Jong Un regime claims that his weapons can now reach the United States, and reporter Rick Noack wrote in the test, \"it is almost certain that North Korea
\"Pictures released by North Korea show that a long, dark cylinder exploded as it flashed.
The launch prompted Trump to threaten \"additional major sanctions\" against North Korea and called on China to curb North Korea\'s nuclear ambitions.
Adam Taylor and Tim MKO of The Post reviewed the evolution of the North Korean weapons program in 2017;
This year, they discovered that the country\'s capabilities were \"no longer interesting\" and began to become terrible.
After Trump took office, one of his lofty goals was to bring peace to the Middle East.
Critics say Trump\'s move has reduced the likelihood of achieving this goal. S.
Foreign policy precedent of December
When he announced that his government would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
The move sparked protests around the world: Pakistan, Morocco, Lebanon, Indonesia, New York, Turkey, Syria and, of course, Jerusalem.
Demonstrators set fire to Israel and the United States. S.
The flag was on fire, marching in the street and shouting slogans.
In the West Bank city of Bethlehem, security forces fired tear gas at them.
In the bloodiest protests in more than a week since the announcement, lofdi Morris and Hazem Balousha wrote that four Palestinians were killed, including one confirmed as\"year-
Old man who lost his legs before.
Israel launched an air strike on Gaza, saying it was in response to a Hamas rocket attack related to Trump\'s decision.
This change has also led to a showdown with the United Nations.
Trump has threatened to cut funds from countries that voted in favor of a resolution rejecting its Jerusalem decision.
His tactics don\'t work.
The measure was still passed by an overwhelming victory.
Nikki Haley, Trump\'s ambassador to the United Nations, condemned the resolution, saying the United States would \"remember the day \".