February 15, 2017

Women with flowers stand next to Belarusian military cadets holding portraits of soldiers who were killed during the Soviet war in Afghanistan, during a memorial ceremony on the Island of Tears in Minsk.

Spectators watch a figure skater performing at the Paektusan Prize International Figure Skating Festival in Pyongyang, North Korea. The festival is held annually to celebrate Kim Jong Il, the leader who oversaw the nation's first nuclear tests.

Palestinian girls carry cardboard boxes to shield themselves from the rain, in Rafah, in the Gaza Strip.

This photograph released by India's Space Research Organization shows its polar satellite launch vehicle lifting off from a launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.

Rumor, a German shepherd, leaps to lick the face of her handler and co-owner Kent Boyles after winning Best in Show at the 141st Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York.

Relatives take part in a burial service, holding portraits of Carlos Daniel Xiquin, 10, front, and Oscar Armando Toc Cotzajay, 11, who were kidnapped over the weekend and then killed when the family could not raise the ransom money, in Ajuix, Guatemala, Feb. 14, 2017. Authorities found the bodies of the two boys on Sunday, stabbed and thrown into sacks in the municipality of San Juan Sacatepéquez, northwest Guatemala.

Women stand in a queue to cast their votes at a village near Amroha in Uttar Pradesh, India. Uttar Pradesh and four other Indian states are having state legislature elections in February-March, a key mid-term test for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist government.

A cemetery is flooded in Marysville, California, after an evacuation was ordered for communities downstream from the dam in Oroville, California, Feb. 14, 2017.

A Rohingya refugee girl cries at Leda Unregistered Refugee Camp in Teknaf, Bangladesh.

A policeman uses a baton to disperse the crowd as V. K. Sasikala (not pictured), general secretary of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) and confidante of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa Jayaram, arrives to surrender, outside the central jail in Bengaluru, India.

Displaced people wait for aid at a camp east of Mosul, Iraq.

Young people release red balloons during a flash mob to mark Valentine's Day in Moscow, Russia, Feb. 14, 2017.