Jae C. Hong, The Associated PressMembers of the media record a wall of lava entering the ocean near Pahoa, Hawaii, Sunday, May 20, 2018. Kilauea volcano, oozing, spewing and exploding on Hawaii's Big Island, has gotten more hazardous in recent days, with rivers of molten rock pouring into the ocean and flying lava causing the first major injury.
Ariana Cubillos, The Associated PressStudent desks block vehicle access near a polling station during the presidential election in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, May 20, 2018. Amidst hyperinflation and shortages of food and medicine, President Nicolas Maduro is seeking a second, six-year term in an election that a growing chorus of foreign governments refuse to recognize after key opponents were barred from running.
Desmond Boylan, The Associated PressGrieving relatives of passengers who perished in Cuba's worst aviation disaster wait for the identification of the bodies at the morgue in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, May 20, 2018. Officials say 110 people died when a charter passenger jet hired by Cuba's state-run airline, Cubana de Aviacion, crashed Friday in the rural outskirts of Havana.
Behrouz Mehri, AFP/Getty ImagesParticipants carry a portable shrine or "Mikoshi" during the annual Sanja Matsuri festival in the Asakusa district of Tokyo on May 20, 2018. Sanja Matsuri festival is a celebration for the three founders of Sensoji Temple in the Asakusa neighborhood with nearly two million people visiting during the three-day event.
Mladen Antonov, AFP/Getty ImagesParticipants in the Moscow bicycle parade ride on a street in central Moscow on May 20, 2018. Thousands of cycling enthusiasts take part in the annual event.
Adem Altan, AFP/Getty ImagesPeople are evacuated from a flooded underpass following torrential rains in Ankara, on May 20, 2018.
Hazem Bader, AFP/Getty ImagesPalestinian children jostle one another outside a charity kitchen run by the Islamic Waqf in the West Bank town of Hebron, to receive free food on May 20, 2018, during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan.
Luis Robayo, AFP/Getty ImagesVote counting starts at a polling station on election day in Venezuela, on May 20, 2018. Venezuelans, reeling under a devastating economic crisis, began voting Sunday in an election boycotted by the opposition and condemned by much of the international community but expected to hand deeply unpopular President Nicolas Maduro a new mandate.
Behrouz Mehri, AFP/Getty ImagesParticipants with traditional Japanese tattoos (Irezumi), related to the Yakuza, walk through the Asakusa district during the annual Sanja Matsuri festival in Tokyo on May 20, 2018.
Mohamed Abdiwahab, AFP/Getty ImagesA man carries a television through waist-deep flood water in Mogadishu on May 20, 2018 after homes were inundated in Somalia's capital following heavy overnight rainfall.
Junior Kannah, AFP/Getty ImagesAn attendant charged to handle the access to the Ebola security zone stands at the entrance of the Wangata Reference Hospital in Mbandaka, northwest of DR Congo on May 20, 2018. Three new Ebola cases have been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo's sprawling northwest taking the number of suspected infections to 43, the health minister said in a statement seen on May 19, 2018.
Scott Olson, Getty ImagesHouston police officers put their shoes on after leaving the mosque following the funeral prayer service for Sabika Sheikh at the Brand Lane Islamic Center on May 20, 2018 in Stafford, Texas. Sheikh, an exchange student from Pakistan, was killed last Friday when 17-year-old fellow student Dimitrios Pagourtzis entered Santa Fe High School with a shotgun and a pistol and opened fire, killing her and 9 other people.
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Members of the media record a wall of lava entering the ocean near Pahoa, Hawaii, Sunday, May 20, 2018. Kilauea volcano, oozing, spewing and exploding on Hawaii's Big Island, has gotten more hazardous in recent days, with rivers of molten rock pouring into the ocean and flying lava causing the first major injury.
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