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Idomeni, Greece -- Iraqi and Syrian refugees recover after Macedonian police fired tear gas at them on February 29. The men, women and children, many of whom are fleeing war and human rights abuses, tore down a barbed wire fence along the Greek border. Over the past year, Macedonia and its neighbors have built fences to stop the influx of more than a million refugees passing through on their way to Germany. In recent days, Macedonia has barred Afghans from entering and imposed stringent document controls on Syrians and Iraqis, drastically slowing the flow. Roughly 7,000 refugees are now struck on the Greek side of the border, living in squalor: photo by Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP via Newsweek, 29 February 2016

A Syrian takes advantage of a lull in the clashes to sell grains in Douma, On Feb 29, 2016. Ph: @SameerAlDoumy / @AFP: image via Sameer Al-Doumy @SameerAlDoumy, 1 March 2016

Women's day syria aleppo: image via baraaalhalabi @baraaalhalabi, 8 March 2016

A woman looks through a window of her ruined house during International Womens day in Cizre. By @pironic2121 #AFP: image via Stephanie Beauge @sbeaugeAFP, 8 March 2016 

Young girls walk next to ruined houses and shops in the predominantly Kurdish town of Cizre, Turkey. Residents of Cizre began returning home after authorities partially lifted a curfew.: photo by Ilyas Akengin/AFP, 8 March 2016

 

 

 

Young girls walk next to ruined houses and shops in the predominantly Kurdish town of Cizre, Turkey. Residents of Cizre began returning home after authorities partially lifted a curfew.: photo by Ilyas Akengin/AFP, 8 March 2016

 

Cizre

 

it was all herstory then in skeleton town, when

the young girls started going home, walking

down the rutted and muddy street

in Cizre

on which there was always going to be hell to pay, stepping

through the ruins

to their smashed shell houses

lugging their sad endeared bright plastic junk, smiling

gamely for the cameras

on international women's day

 

 #Turkey Young girls walk next to ruined houses during International Women's day in Cizre district. By @pironic2121: image via Stephanie Beauge @sbeaugeAFP, 8 March 2016

As 'Jungle' razed, migrants fan out along French coast: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 8 March 2016

 Refugees still vow to reach north Europe via Macedonia: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 8 March 2016

People rush to get firewood in a makeshift camp of the Greek-Macedonian border near Idomeni. Photo @dilkoff: image via Stéphane Arnaud @StephaneArnaud, 7 March 2016

People rush to get firewood in a makeshift camp of the Greek-Macedonian border near Idomeni. Photo @dilkoff: image via Stéphane Arnaud @StephaneArnaud, 7 March 2016

People rush to get firewood in a makeshift camp of the Greek-Macedonian border near Idomeni. Photo @dilkoff: image via Stéphane Arnaud @StephaneArnaud, 7 March 2016

A child clutches a shoe as she waits with other #refugees at the #Greece #Macedonia #border photo @lgouliam @AFPphoto: image via SundayTimesPictures @STPictures, 7 March 2016

A child inside metal fencing close to the Greek-Macedonian border near Idomeni. #refugees #Greece: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 8 March 2016

A child plays on a rail track at the Greek-Macedonian border where thousands of refugees are stranded. @lgouliam: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 8 March 2016

 Strong photos by @dilkoff on refugee children stranded at the Greek-Macedonian border: image via Stéphane Arnaud @StephaneArnaud, 8 March 2016

 Strong photos by @dilkoff on refugee children stranded at the Greek-Macedonian border: image via Stéphane Arnaud @StephaneArnaud, 8 March 2016

Strong photos by @lgouliam on refugee children stranded at the Greek-Macedonian border: image via Stéphane Arnaud @StephaneArnaud, 7 March 2016

Good work by@dilkoff at the Greece-Macedonia border. @AFPphoto: image via David Sim @davidsim, 8 March 2016

Migrants start small fires to keep warm near Idomeni, Greece, where they are waiting to cross the border into Macedonia: photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/Agence France-Presse, 8 March 2016 

  
Migrants start small fires to keep warm near Idomeni, Greece, where they are waiting to cross the border into Macedonia: photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/Agence France-Presse, 8 March 2016 

 A boy stands among tents of a makeshift camp at the Greek-Macedonian border near Idomeni. By @dilkoff #AFP: image via Stephanie Beauge @sbeaugeAFP, 8 March 2016

GREECE - Migrants sit under the rain near the gate at the Greek-Macedonian border near Idomeni. By@dilkoff #AFP image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 8 March 2016

#UPDATE Slovenia to ban transit of migrants from midnight: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 8 March 2016

 Quiet on the Syrian front as the fragile truce in the 5-year-old war holds: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 8 March 2016

 Quiet on the Syrian front as the fragile truce in the 5-year-old war holds: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 8 March 2016

 Quiet on the Syrian front as the fragile truce in the 5-year-old war holds: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 8 March 2016

Netanyahu says declined to meet Obama due to U.S. election campaign: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 8 March 2016

 LIVE: Ted Cruz holds a campaign rally in Raleigh, North Carolina: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 8 March 2016

Why Republicans hate the Republican Party so much: image via Reuters Opinion @ReutersOpinion, 8 March 2016

#PFW Willow Smith, 15, becomes new face of @Chanel: image via AFP Entertainment @AFPceleb, 8 March 2016

 Major sponsors distance themselves from Maria Sharapova after failed drug test, likely ban: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 8 March 2016

3 major sponsors cut ties with Maria Sharapova after positive drug test: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 8 March 2016

 Doping now shadows Maria Sharapova's rags-to-riches story: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 8 March 2016

 Rihanna, Beyonce rule women on Spotify: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 8 March 2016

 Israel, US in new row hours ahead of Biden visit: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 8 March 2016

 Tibetan monks take part in the "Beating Ghost" ritual, believed to expel evil spirits. Beijing, China.: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 8 March 2016

 2 years on, MH370 disappearance still a mystery, as devastated relatives grasp for answers: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 8 March 2016

German prosecutors say 17 suspects targeted in VW emissions probe: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 8 March 2016

#PFW Models take selfies backstage in front of the Eiffel Tower before the Ellery fashion show. By @MartinBureau1: image via AFP Entertainment @AFPceleb, 8 March 2016

 "It is not a joke. This helicopter can fly." #Malawi: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 8 March 2016

Hope sky high for homemade Malawi helicopter: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 8 March 2016

Members of the Libyan judicial police take part in a graduation ceremony in the capital Tripoli: photo by Mahmud Turkia/AFP 8 March 2016

 

 

Members of the Libyan judicial police take part in a graduation ceremony in the capital Tripoli: photo by Mahmud Turkia/AFP 8 March 2016

 

A member of staff poses next to British World War One soldiers in a recreated trench during a press preview for the “Remembering 1916 – Life on the Western Front” exhibition at Whitgift School in Croydon, England. The exhibition will open on Saturday.: photo by Carl Court via FT Photo Diary, 8 March 2016

 

A member of staff poses next to British World War One soldiers in a recreated trench during a press preview for the “Remembering 1916 – Life on the Western Front” exhibition at Whitgift School in Croydon, England. The exhibition will open on Saturday.: photo by Carl Court via FT Photo Diary, 8 March 2016

 

Members of the European Parliament take part in a voting session at the European Parliament in Strasbourg: photo by Frederick Florin/AFP, 8 March 2016

 

 

Members of the European Parliament take part in a voting session at the European Parliament in Strasbourg: photo by Frederick Florin/AFP, 8 March 2016

 

Italian Prime Minister Mateo Renzi, left, and French President Francois Hollande review the honor guard, in Venice, Italy. Renzi and Hollande are expected to discuss Libya and the migrant crisis during a meeting dedicated to Venice native Valeria Solesin, the only Italian killed in the Paris attacks on November 13: photo by Luigi Costantini/AP, 8 March 2016

Italian Prime Minister Mateo Renzi, left, and French President Francois Hollande review the honor guard, in Venice, Italy. Renzi and Hollande are expected to discuss Libya and the migrant crisis during a meeting dedicated to Venice native Valeria Solesin, the only Italian killed in the Paris attacks on November 13: photo by Luigi Costantini/AP, 8 March 2016

 

Volkswagen AG and CEO Matthias Müller covers his face with his hand as he attends an employee meeting at the plant of the German car manufacturer in Wolfsburg: photo by Julian Stratenschulte/DPA/AP, 8 March 2016

 

 

 Volkswagen AG and CEO Matthias Müller covers his face with his hand as he attends an employee meeting at the plant of the German car manufacturer in Wolfsburg: photo by Julian Stratenschulte/DPA/AP, 8 March 2016

 

 Naomi Campbell, second right, meets with former Israeli President Shimon Peres during an event for International Women’s Day in Tel Aviv, Israel: photo by Owen Humphreys/AP, 8 March 2016

 

 
 Naomi Campbell, second right, meets with former Israeli President Shimon Peres during an event for International Women’s Day in Tel Aviv, Israel: photo by Owen Humphreys/AP, 8 March 2016

 

The sun rises over the North Sea as a ship heads into the mouth of the river Tyne in Tynemouth, as signs of spring will start to show at the end of this week with climbing temperatures across the UK: photo by Owen Humphreys/AP, 8 March 2016

 

Friba Hameed, 30, an Afghan police officer, second right, helps paint part of a mural of herself on a wall outside the main gate of a police precinct to mark International Women’s Day in Kabul, Afghanistan: photo by Charlie Riedel/AP, 8 March 2016

Friba Hameed, 30, an Afghan police officer, second right, helps paint part of a mural of herself on a wall outside the main gate of a police precinct to mark International Women’s Day in Kabul, Afghanistan: photo by Charlie Riedel/AP, 8 March 2016

in a land without women 

#Pirates CF Andrew McCutchen swings and loses his bat into the crowd during a game vs the @Phillies today. #TribUCN: image via ChristopherHorner @Hornerphoto1, 8 March 2016  Clearwater, FL

A father stops a bat that was about to hit his son. A photographer captures the moment.: image via The New York Times @nytimes, 8 March 2016

Here’s the story behind that amazing baseball photo h/t @Hornerphoto1: image via Karen Workman @KarenWorkman, 8 March 2016

@BiertempfelTrib The two frames showing just how close the bat was to the boy's head: image via ChristopherHorner @Hornerphoto1, 8 March 2016 Bradenton, FL

@BiertempfelTrib The two frames showing just how close the bat was to the boy's head: image via ChristopherHorner @Hornerphoto1, 8 March 2016 Bradenton, FL

Shaun Cunningham saved his son Landon from a flying bat during a spring training game in Florida on Saturday: photo by Christopher Horner/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 8 March 2016 

Shaun Cunningham saved his son Landon from a flying bat during a spring training game in Florida on Saturday: photo by Christopher Horner/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 8 March 2016 

Fans walk through a concourse under a United States flag during the seventh inning of a spring training baseball game between the Seattle Mariners and the Arizona Diamondbacks in Peoria, Arizona: photo by Charlie Riedel/AP, 8 March 2016

A United States flag is seen flying over a concourse during the seventh inning of a spring training baseball game between the Seattle Mariners and the Arizona Diamondbacks in Peoria, Arizona: photo by Charlie Riedel/AP, 8 March 2016