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Novice Buddhist monks look at a mobile phone on the ruins of Prasat Hin Phimai, an ancient Khmer temple in Nakhon Ratchasima Province in northeast Thailand, Jan. 29, 2016.

Diaa Bekheet captures splendid late autumn colors of trees and fallen leaves outside Rayburn House Office Building near VOA headquarters in Washington, D.C.

An earthquake survivor sits on debris in front of her house, which was built under the Mehr state-owned program, in Sarpol-e-Zahab in western Iran. President Hassan Rouhani said his administration will probe the cause of so much damage to buildings constructed under the state-owned program after a powerful earthquake hit the area along the border with Iraq on Sunday and killed more than 400 people.

A pro-union demonstration organized by the Catalan Civil Society makes its way through the streets of Barcelona, Spain.

Sparrows fight over food in a backyard in Springfield, Virginia, Sept. 13, 2015. (Photo taken by Diaa Bekheet)

Art installation "Fallen Men" in downtown Oslo, Norway (Photo taken by Maung Maung Myint)

A man dressed in a colorful suit sporting the flags of ASEAN countries sells flower garlands at a set of traffic lights in Pranburi, Prachuap Khiri Khan province in Thailand, July 11, 2015. (Photo taken by Matthew Richards/Thailand)

Kyonhtaw waterfall in Myaing Gyi Knu township, Kayin state, Myanmar (Photo taken by Bagan Minmin Oo/Myanmar on June 6, 2015)

Cherry blossoms in Washington, D.C., with Thomas Jefferson Memorial in the backdrop, April 12, 2015. (photo taken by Diaa Bekheet)

A group of Thai university art students create a sculpture on the beach for the Ban Krut Sand Fantasy Festival 2015 in Prachuap Khiri Khan province, April 9, 2015. (Photo taken by Matthew Richards/Thailand)

People walk under blooming cherry trees along the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C., April 12, 2015 (photo taken by Diaa Bekheet/VOA)

A man makes traditional Thai tea using a cloth bag filter at Bang Saphan meat and fish market in Prachuap Khiri Khan province, Thailand, April 4, 2015. (Photo taken by Matthew Richards)

A woman walking in a winter forest in Mason Neck State Park, Virginia. (Photo taken by Diaa Bekheet/VOA)

A Burmese laborer lifts a basket of fish from boiling water at a processing factory near Bang Saphan in Prachuap Khiri Khan province, southern Thailand, March 6, 2015. (Photo taken by Matthew Richards, Thailand)

A black vulture scans the surface of the Occoquan river, Virginia, for something to prey on, March 8, 205. (Photo taken by Diaa Bekheet/VOA)

Once a Norwegian, always a Norwegian - even in the absence of snow! (Photo taken by Maung Maung Myint on March 7, 2015 in Oslo, Norway)