Top AP photos of 2019 range from the epic to the intimate

Ours is a world of sweeping vistas, and intimate scenes. In 2019, Associated Press photographers captured both.  

A single Border Protection officer stands in the rain at the border; pieces of heavy equipment, replacing a stretch of border wall, are dwarfed by the open, blue sky. And the bodies of a Salvadoran father and his toddler daughter, drowned just short of their destination, float in the Rio Grande.  

Hordes of Hong Kong activists, umbrellas in hand, are glimpsed through a window framed by tattered posters; a police water cannon, seen from above, sprays scores of Chilean demonstrators. And a single churchgoer drops to the ground to pray near tires set afire by protesters in Haiti.  

The scale of some images is breathtaking. Trails of rockets light the night sky over Sederot, Israel. Motorcycles, ant-like from a distance, race across sand dunes in Peru. A drone’s eye view tracks the dividing line between lush Amazon jungle on one side of a road, and burnt ruins on the other.  

But the close-ups are no less remarkable. A mourner, lit by three candles, touches the body of a man killed during clashes with Bolivian security forces. In Washington state, friends and family lay hands on a 75-year-old throat cancer victim as he takes his last breaths, a suicide.  

Sometimes, the focus is even tighter, like the full-frame face of a silverback gorilla, peering intently into the camera. Or the wrinkled, 88-year-old woman in Blaj, Romania _ just one eye in the picture, gazing forward as she awaits Pope Francis’ arrival.  

In their eyes, the photographers find vistas.

A U.S. Border Protection officer stands in heavy rain near the border fence between San Diego, Calif., and Tijuana, Mexico, on Jan. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

Competitors ride their motorcycles across the dunes during stage nine of the Dakar Rally in Pisco, Peru, on Jan. 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

People flee as security forces aim their weapons during a deadly attack by extremists at a luxury hotel complex in Nairobi, Kenya, on Jan. 15, 2019. Explosions and heavy gunfire reverberated through the complex during the attack that killed more than 20 people. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)

Workers replace sections of the border wall, left, with new sections, right, on Jan. 8, 2019, in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Ruby Khan helps her 7-year-old son Farmaan get ready for school in New Delhi, India, on Jan. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Badou Jack, left, fights Marcus Browne in the WBA interim light heavyweight title boxing bout on Jan. 19, 2019, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Bodies are slumped in their chairs following a bomb blast at a restaurant in an upscale hotel complex in Nairobi, Kenya, where extremists launched a deadly attack with explosions and heavy gunfire on Jan. 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)

A man walks through the gate of the Sachsenhausen Nazi death camp with the phrase "Arbeit macht frei" (work sets you free) in Oranienburg, Germany, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jan. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., right arrives with her guest, Ana Maria Archila of New York, to hear President Donald Trump deliver his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Floodlights from the U.S., left, illuminate multiple border walls, center, as traffic flows along a street in Tijuana, Mexico, on Jan. 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Diver Lenford DaCosta cleans up lines of staghorn coral at an underwater coral nursery inside the Oracabessa Fish Sanctuary on Feb. 12, 2019, in Oracabessa, Jamaica. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

A mural is illuminated at dusk on Feb. 8, 2019, on the chimney of a home in Paradise, Calif., that was destroyed by the Camp Fire. Artist Shane Grammer says he painted murals throughout the fire-ravaged town to convey hope in the midst of destruction. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

The afternoon sun hangs low as it shines through the snow at the airport in Nome, Alaska, on Feb. 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Women and children ride in the back of a truck that is part of a convoy evacuating hundreds out of the last territory held by Islamic State militants in Baghouz, Syria, on Feb. 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Nicholas Bingham enters the water in Stewart Town, Jamaica, on Feb. 15, 2019, to go night spearfishing, even though the practice is banned, especially in the sanctuaries set up to protect the island's endangered coral reefs and replenish fish stocks. The restrictions have taken a toll on many Jamaicans' livelihoods, in a place where jobs can be scarce. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

President Donald Trump turns to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., as he delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, as Vice President Mike Pence watches, on Feb. 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Singer Yola Carter poses in Nashville, Tenn. on Feb. 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Spectators watch from the scoreboard on day four of the third cricket Test match between England and West Indies at the Daren Sammy Cricket Ground in Gros Islet, St. Lucia, on Feb. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

Ballet dancer Erin King of Ballet Central prepares to pose for photos at the Central School of Ballet in London on Feb. 20, 2019. The dancers were preparing for a photo-call inspired by the 1945 musical "Carousel" by Rodgers and Hammerstein from the forthcoming Ballet Central 2019 tour. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Nigerians engage in heated but friendly arguments about the postponement of the election, over beers at a street-side bar in the predominantly-Christian neighborhood of Sabon Gari in Kano, northern Nigeria, on Feb. 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., meets with civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton, president of the National Action Network, during lunch at Sylvia's Restaurant in the Harlem neighborhood of New York on Feb. 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Adi Kazav, left, and Lied Adi Hagbi, members of the Israeli Mermaid Community, pose for a portrait wearing mermaid tails at their home in Netanya, Israel, on Feb. 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

A demonstrator is knocked over by a strand of barbed wire during clashes with the Bolivarian National Guard in Urena, Venezuela, near the border with Colombia on Feb. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

A woman and her baby, who were evacuated from the last territory held by Islamic State militants, walk after being screened by U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the desert outside Baghouz, Syria, on Feb. 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

President Donald Trump hugs the American flag as he arrives to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2019, in Oxon Hill, Md., on March 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Lady Gaga, winner of the Academy Award for best original song for "Shallow" from "A Star Is Born," gets emotional in the press room during the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Feb. 24, 2019. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

A youth is carried by medics to a safe zone after he was injured in clashes with Venezuelan National Guardsmen blocking the entry of U.S.-supplied humanitarian aid on the Simon Bolivar International Bridge in La Parada, Colombia, near the border with Venezuela on Feb. 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Firefighters work to resuscitate the driver of a commuter train who was injured in a collision with another train in Sao Cristovao station in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Feb. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Multiple cars crash during a NASCAR Daytona 500 auto race on Feb. 17, 2019, at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla. The crash included Austin Dillon (3), Daniel Suarez (41), David Ragan (38), Paul Menard (21), Ryan Newman (6), Aric Almirola (10), Matt DiBenedetto (95) and Ryan Blaney (12). (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Models walk the runway during the fashion show of the Dior ready to wear Fall-Winter 2019-2020 collection in Paris on Feb. 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Relatives of crash victims mourn at the scene where the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 passenger jet crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 157 on board, near Bishoftu, Ethiopia, south-east of Addis Ababa, on March 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene)

A manned submersible surfaces after a failed mission to recover a stranded remotely operated vehicle in the Indian Ocean near the Seychelles islands on March 13, 2019. The British-based Nekton mission has embarked on an unprecedented exploration of the Indian Ocean to document changes taking place beneath the waves that could affect billions of people in the surrounding region over the coming decades. (AP Photo/David Keyton)

Carol Dean, right, cries and embraces Megan Anderson and her 18-month-old daughter, Madilyn, as Dean sifts through the debris of the home she shared with her husband, David Wayne Dean, who died when a tornado destroyed the house in Beauregard, Ala., on March 4, 2019. "He was my wedding gift," said Dean of her husband whom she married three years ago. "He was one in a million. He'd send me flowers to work just to let me know he loved me. He’d send me some of the biggest strawberries in the world. I'm not going to be the same." (AP Photo/David Goldman)

North Koreans swim in an indoor swimming pool in Pyongyang, North Korea, on March 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

U.S. and Ethiopian security personnel secure the entry hall at the Presidential Palace in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, while behind the curtain U.S. White House senior adviser Ivanka Trump meets with Ethiopia's President Sahle-Work Zewde on April 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Boys swing censers using the smoke from incense to purify the path of the Holy Tuesday procession known as "La Resena," in downtown Guatemala City on April 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Family photos of some of those who died hang on display in an exhibition at the Kigali Genocide Memorial centre in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, on April 5, 2019. Rwanda commemorated the 25th anniversary of the country's descent into an orgy of violence in which some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were massacred by the majority Hutu population over a 100-day period in what was the worst genocide in recent history. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro puts his hand over his heart as Army Commander Edson Leal Pujol salutes during the playing of the national anthem at a ceremony marking Army Day, in Brasilia, Brazil, on April 17, 2019. Brazil's Army Day is officially on April 19. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Hooded penitents from the ''Entrada de Jesus en Jerusalen'' brotherhood prepare to take part in a Holy Week Palm Sunday procession in Zaragoza, Spain, on April 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

Tiger Woods reacts after winning the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Ga. on April 14, 2019. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Flames and smoke rise from Notre Dame cathedral in Paris as firefighters tackle the blaze on April 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Detroit Red Wings goaltender Jimmy Howard (35) covers the puck during the third period of the team's NHL hockey game against the Nashville Predators in Nashville, Tenn. on Feb. 12, 2019. The Red Wings won 3-2. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

People crowd around U.S. White House senior adviser Ivanka Trump, back left, to take selfies with her at the end of the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative, or We-Fi, event sponsored by the World Bank Group on April 17, 2019, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, where Trump is promoting a White House global economic program for women. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

A Sri Lankan family mourns next to the coffins of their three family members, all victims of an Easter Sunday bombing, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on April 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Buildings are reflected in the window of a car as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is taken from court, where he appeared on charges of jumping British bail seven years ago, in London on May 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Antonio Torres and Niky Alcazar braid the mane of Rociero, a Spanish pure breed that they hope can win the competition for best cloak during the annual fiesta called "Los Caballos del Vino," in Caravaca de la Cruz, southeast Spain, on May 2, 2019. The annual festival, usually translated as the Running of the Wine Horses is said to date from the 13th century when Knights Templar broke a siege. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

In this photo made with a tilt shift lens, Luis Saez rides Maximum Security across the finish line first during the 145th running of the Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs on May 4, 2019 in Louisville, Ky. Country House was declared the winner after Maximum Security was disqualified following a review by race stewards. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

The Israeli Iron Dome air defense system takes out rockets fired from Gaza near Sderot, Israel, on May 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Robert Fuller lies unconscious after plunging drugs that will end his life into his feeding tube as his husband, Reese Baxter, upper left, and friends hold him, in Seattle on May 10, 2019. Fuller was one of about 1,200 people who have used Washington’s Death with Dignity Act to end their lives in the decade since it became law. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Dolls decorate a window in the old part of the Transylvanian town of Sibiu, Romania, on May 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Dominic Thiem of Austria serves to Novak Djokovic during the Madrid Open tennis tournament in Madrid, Spain, on May 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

People light fireworks above the rubble of destroyed buildings to celebrate the holy month of Ramadan in Gaza City on May 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Singer Jessica Jung arrives at the opening ceremony and the premiere of the film "The Dead Don't Die" at the 72nd international film festival in Cannes, France, on May 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

A group of boys play basketball at the Petare shantytown, in Caracas, Venezuela, on May 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

President Donald Trump pumps his fist to the crowd after speaking to a campaign rally in Montoursville, Pa., on May 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Jury member Elle Fanning poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" at the 72nd international film festival in Cannes, France, on May 21, 2019. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

Members of the vigilante group United Front of Guerrero Community Police (FUPCEG) patrol in Xaltianguis, in Mexico's Guerrero state, on May 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

A masked Kashmiri protester jumps on an Indian police armored vehicle as he throws stones at it during a protest in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir on May 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Liverpool's players celebrate with the trophy after winning the Champions League final soccer match between Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool at the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium in Madrid on June 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Ana, an 88-year-old Greek Catholic, waits for the arrival of Pope Francis and the start of the Divine Liturgy and the beatification of seven martyred bishops of the Eastern-rite Romanian Catholic Church, in Blaj, Romania, on June 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Queen Elizabeth II and U.S. President Donald Trump arrive with others through the East Gallery at Buckingham Palace in London ahead of the State Banquet on June 3, 2019. (Victoria Jones/Pool Photo via AP)

Joshua K. Love gives a haircut to his nephew, Jintarius Turner Love, 7, at Love's home in Greenwood, Miss., on June 8, 2019. Love never graduated from the Catholic grade school where he says he was sexually abused, and today he can't read or write well enough to pass the state exam required for a barber’s license. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Pedestrians are seen through the reflection of an advertisement in a window as they walk along a busy street in the Shibuya district of Tokyo on June 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Demonstrators in Hong Kong march on the streets on June 16, 2019, to protest an extradition bill that would allow suspects to be sent for trials in mainland China, which many saw as infringing of Hong Kong's judicial freedoms and other rights that were guaranteed when the former British colony returned to China in 1997. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Byron Xol, an immigrant from Guatemala, lies on the floor in a make-shift disco ballroom in Buda, Texas, during his birthday party on June 23, 2019. Byron was separated from his father, David Xol-Cholom, in May 2018, during the Trump administration's wide-scale separation of immigrant families. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Two ballerinas rest as other dancers perform during a rehearsal in the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, Russia, on June 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

A couple in a classic American car drive past fishermen along the Malecon seawall at sunset in Havana, Cuba, on June 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

The bodies of Salvadoran migrant Oscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his nearly 2-year-old daughter Valeria lie on the bank of the Rio Grande in Matamoros, Mexico, on June 24, 2019, after they drowned trying to cross the river to Brownsville, Texas. Martinez' wife, Tania told Mexican authorities she watched her husband and child disappear in the strong current. (AP Photo/Julia Le Duc)

Fishermen prepare to begin harvesting crabs in the oil-contaminated Lake Maracaibo near Cabimas, Venezuela, on July 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Ethiopian migrants stand in line to board a boat on the uninhabited coast outside the town of Obock, Djibouti, the shore closest to Yemen, on July 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

United States' Megan Rapinoe, right, celebrates with Alex Morgan after Rapinoe scored the opening goal from the penalty spot during the Women's World Cup final soccer match between the U.S. and The Netherlands at the Stade de Lyon in Decines, outside Lyon, France, on July 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Revellers run next to fighting bulls from Cebada Gago ranch during the running of the bulls at the San Fermin Festival in Pamplona, Spain, on July 8, 2019. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

A migrant mother feeds her children in a freight train in Palenque, Chiapas state, Mexico, as they travel north on June 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

United States' Serena Williams falls while attempting to return the ball to United States' Alison Riske during a women's quarterfinal match on day eight of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London on July 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Conservative Party leadership candidate Boris Johnson, center, eats ice cream in Barry Island, Wales, on July 6, 2019, ahead of the Conservative party leadership hustings in Cardiff. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Placido Domingo speaks during a news conference about his upcoming show "Giovanna d'Arco" in Madrid, Spain, on July 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

A cliff diver jumps from the landmark Raouche sea rock during qualifying for the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series competition in Beirut, Lebanon, on July 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Tyler Holland guides his bike through the water as winds from Tropical Storm Barry push water from Lake Pontchartrain over the seawall in Mandeville, La., on July 13, 2019. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Health workers wearing protective suits tend to an Ebola victim kept in an isolation cube in Beni, Congo, on July 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Swimmers reach for drink bottles while competing in the men's 10km open water swim at the World Swimming Championships in Yeosu, South Korea, on July 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Fatimazehra El Ghazaoui, 27, a woman affected by a rare disorder called xeroderma pigmentosum, or XP, puts on a protective mask she wears outside on sunny days, in her home in Mohammedia, Morocco, near Casablanca, on July 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

A swimmer from China performs during the artistic swimming team free preliminary event at the World Swimming Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, on July 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

A demonstrator wearing a Puerto Rican flag joins thousands of others in a march to the governor's residence in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on July 17, 2019. The protesters chanted demands for Gov. Ricardo Rossello to resign after the leak of online chats that showed him making misogynistic slurs and mocking his constituents. (AP Photo/Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo)

Carmall Casey, who became addicted to opioids during her battle with chronic pain, pauses for a photo on her front porch in Black River, Tasmania, Australia, on July 24, 2019. Her favorite tree, now dead and gnarled, stands in the background. Like her, she says, it’s old and broken, but still good for something. "But dead trees, even though they’re dead, they’ve still got beauty of some kind haven’t they?” (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Cristian Riveros, a 22-year-old student, poses for a portrait dressed in bird's feathers during the celebration of "San Francisco Solano" in Emboscada, Paraguay, on July 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

A Guatemalan man gets a plate of food at El Buen Pastor shelter for migrants in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on July 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

A troupe charges and fires their rifles during Tabourida, a traditional horse riding show also known as Fantasia, in the coastal town of El Jadida, Morocco, on July 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Lopez Lomong wins the men's 10,000-meter run at the U.S. Track & Field Outdoor Championships in Des Moines, Iowa, on July 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

A train packed with commuters travels through the Shinjuku district of Tokyo during the evening rush hour on July 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Gold medalist Gary Hunt of Britain dives during the men's high diving competition at the World Swimming Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, on July 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

A bleeding man is taken away by policemen after he was attacked by protesters outside Kwai Chung police station in Hong Kong on July 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Fishermen covered in oil prepare their boat for fishing on Lake Maracaibo near La Salina crude oil shipping terminal in Cabimas, Venezuela, on July 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Argentina's hockey players stand in line during the playing of national anthems before their women's preliminaries pool WA against Canada at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, on July 31, 2019. Argentina won 3-0. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

An Ethiopian Tigray migrant who was imprisoned by traffickers for months lies on a gurney accompanied by a nurse at the Ras al-Ara Hospital in Lahj, Yemen, on Aug. 1, 2019. Nurses gave him fluids but he died several hours later. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Kashmiri Muslim women shout slogans as Indian policemen fire teargas and live ammunition into the air to stop the protest march in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, on Aug. 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

A large Iceberg floats away as the sun sets near Kulusuk, Greenland, on Aug. 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Firefighters battle the Marsh Fire near the town of Brentwood, Calif., in Contra Costa County, on Aug. 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Relatives mourn the death of Palestinian Hamas militant Mohammad Abu Namous, 27, in the family home during his funeral in the Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip on Aug. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

World War II veteran Lev Yatsevich, 92, salutes as he waits for other participants of an event marking the anniversary of the failed August 1991 hard-line coup outside the former Russian parliament building, which now houses the Russian Cabinet, in Moscow on Aug. 20, 2019. The coup, which briefly ousted Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, precipitated the collapse of the Soviet Union. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Ultra-Orthodox Jews attend the wedding ceremony of Hannah Halbershtam and Menahem Nachum, the son of the Rabbi of the Nadvorna Hasidic dynasty, in the town of Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv, Israel, on Aug. 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Texas Rangers starting pitcher Mike Minor throws during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers on Aug. 11, 2019, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Children in a trailer converted into a swimming pool playfully splash a man carrying a puppy along the road in the El Infernal neighborhood in San Andres, Cuba, in the province of Pinar del Río, on Aug. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

A group of climbers make their way to the summit of Japan's Mount Fuji, above a layer of clouds, to watch the sunrise on Aug. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Seagulls fly toward a woman feeding them french fries from her car on Taino beach before the arrival of Hurricane Dorian in Freeport, Grand Bahama, Bahamas, on Sept. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

A lush forest sits next to a field of charred trees in Vila Nova Samuel, Brazil, on Aug. 27, 2019. The fires that swept parts of the Amazon this year added to global worries about a warming climate, as well as the sense of urgency at the Climate Action Summit at the United Nations. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

A policeman pours water on the face of a protestor who was detained in Hong Kong on Aug. 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

A silverback mountain gorilla named Segasira looks up as he lies under a tree in the Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda, on Sept. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

A Brazilian soldier puts out fires at the Nova Fronteira region in Novo Progresso, Brazil, on Sept. 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

A shattered and water-filled coffin lies exposed to the elements in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian, at the cemetery in Mclean's Town, Grand Bahama, Bahamas, on Sept. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

People navigate their way through a street flooded by torrential rains in Mumbai, India, on Sept. 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

People celebrate during the traditional Cascamorras festival in Baza, Spain, on Sept. 6, 2019. During the festival, and according to an ancient tradition, participants throw black paint over each other for several hours every September 6 in the small town in the southern province of Granada. The "Cascamorras" represents a thief who attempted to steal a religious image from a local church. People try to stop him, chasing him and throwing black paint as they run through the streets. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

A little girl holds her hair while riding a merry go round at an autumn fair in Rosiorii de Vede, southern Romania, on Sept. 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

A man holding an independence flag is surrounded by smoke released by demonstrators during the Catalan National Day in Barcelona, Spain, on Sept. 11, 2019. September 11, called "Diada", marks the fall of the Catalan capital to Spanish forces in 1714. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Volunteers wade through a flooded road against wind and rain brought on by Hurricane Dorian to rescue families near the Causarina bridge in Freeport, Grand Bahama, Bahamas, on Sept. 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Supporters of President Nicolas Maduro hold a banner of Venezuela's independence hero Simon Bolivar during a rally celebrating 11 years of Venezuela's Socialist Party Youth in Caracas, Venezuela, on Sept. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Vincent Poirier of France falls on the court as Luis Scola of Argentina fights for the ball with Nicholas Batum, second from left, during their semifinals match for the FIBA Basketball World Cup at the Cadillac Arena in Beijing on Sept. 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

A model wears a creation by Julien Macdonald at the Spring/Summer 2020 fashion week runway show in London on Sept. 16, 2019. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

Revelers celebrate as fireworks explode over the Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico City after President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gave the annual independence shout from the balcony of the National Palace to kick off Independence Day celebrations on Sept. 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Sandra, a 33-year-old orangutan, stands in her enclosure at the former city zoo now known as Eco Parque, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Sept. 16, 2019. Sandra's solitary life took a turn when she left Buenos Aires for her new home at the Center for Great Apes in central Florida, United States. There, she joined other orangutans and chimpanzees rescued or retired from circuses, stage shows and the exotic pet trade. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Six-year-old Muneefa Nazir, a Kashmiri girl whose right eye was hit by a marble ball shot allegedly by Indian Paramilitary soldiers on Aug. 12, stands outside her home in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir on Sept. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Women clash with police after lawmakers did not approve a law that decriminalizes abortion in cases of rape, outside the National Assembly in Quito, Ecuador, on Sept. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Ruling party Sen. Ralph Fethiere fires his gun outside Parliament as he arrives for a vote on the ratification of Fritz William Michel's nomination as prime minister in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Sept. 23, 2019. Opposition members confronted ruling-party senators, and Fethiere pulled the pistol when protesters rushed at him and members of his entourage. The vote was cancelled. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Masked protestors ride a motorcycle on Sept. 30, 2019, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where demonstrators set fires and called for Haiti's President Jovenel Moise to resign. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Riot police move forward as anti-government protestors occupied a road in Hong Kong on Oct. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Anti-government protesters take cover during a demonstration in Baghdad, Iraq, as security forces open fire on Oct. 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Marching anti-government protesters are seen through a window with peeled off posters in Hong Kong on Oct. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Simone Biles of the United States performs on the uneven bars during a warmup for the women's all-around final at the Gymnastics World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, on Oct. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

A protester cries out over an injured protester after police launched tear gas to disperse demonstrators who set fires and chanted calls for Haiti's president to resign, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Sept. 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

A local resident uses his mobile phone to take photos of the damage in a house caused by a mortar fired from inside Syria on the Turkish town of Akcakale on Oct. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Demonstrators protest in front of the National Police during clashes in Barcelona, Spain, on Oct. 15, 2019, the day after Spain's Supreme Court convicted 12 former Catalan politicians and activists for their roles in a secession bid in 2017. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

A protester in Hong Kong, who identified herself as Morty, poses for a portrait next to pieces of broken glass as a projector displays a photo behind her from a previous day of unrest, on Oct. 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

A Shiite Muslim child beats his chest next to his father during a procession to mark the end of the 40-day mourning period following the anniversary of the 7th century death of Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad's grandson and one of Shiite Islam's most beloved saints, in Lahore, Pakistan, on Oct. 20, 2019. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

San Francisco 49ers offensive guard Mike Person walks on the sideline in the second half of an NFL football game against the Washington Redskins on Oct. 20, 2019, in Landover, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

A churchgoer drops to the ground and prays in the street near burning tires lit by protesters, during a march called by religious leaders in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Oct. 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

A riot policeman removes an anti-government protester who is blocking a main highway with her body in Beirut, Lebanon, on Oct. 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

A police water cannon sprays anti-government demonstrators in Valparaiso, Chile, on Oct. 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

A skateboarder attempts to jump a small staircase across the street from the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles on Oct. 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

A firefighter sprays water while embers threaten a residence as the Hillside fire burns through San Bernardino, Calif., on Oct. 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

An alligator ignores the small fish swimming nearby as it awaits its next opportunity for a meal in the Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida on Oct. 30, 2019. A fishing line dangles from the reptile's mouth. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

The Sugar Cane Cooperative's mill processes sugar cane at dawn in Belle Glade, Fla., near Lake Okeechobee, on Nov. 1, 2019. The mill operates 24-hours a day during the harvest season, grinding as much as 26,000 tons of sugarcane per day. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Police advance on anti-government protesters, past a religious statue that protesters removed from a church and then damaged, in Santiago, Chile, on Nov. 8, 2019. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Anti-government protesters set fires in Baghdad, Iraq, while security forces fire live ammunition and tear gas near the state-run television station on Nov. 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

People watch police officers running behind demonstrators during a protest ahead of the general election in Barcelona, Spain, on Nov. 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Firemen spray water after a car bomb exploded in the city of Qamishli, northern Syria, on Nov. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)

A mourner places a hand on the shoulder of Devi Posto, killed during clashes between security forces and supporters of former President Evo Morales, during a vigil at the San Francisco de Asis church in El Alto, on the outskirts of La Paz, Bolivia, on Nov. 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Anti-government demonstrators shine laser pointers at the police during a protest in Santiago, Chile, on Nov. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Flamengo soccer fans cheer a goal scored by Gabriel against Argentina's River Plate in the Copa Libertadores final match, broadcast on a giant screen at a watch party at the Maracanã Stadium, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Nov. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Student protesters with their homemade gear take their positions outside the Chinese University of Hong Kong on Nov. 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy, is flooded at high tide on Nov. 15, 2019, just three days after the lagoon city experienced its worst flooding in more than 50 years. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Supporters of former President Evo Morales protect themselves from tear gas launched by the police in La Paz, Bolivia, on Nov. 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

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