Here is a photographic journey of the last few days....
From wildfires in Texas, the Dutch elections, Seema Verma's swearing in to Trump's administration and other stories around the world.
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Brazil
Demonstrators take part in a protest during a national strike against the government's social welfare reform bill which seeks to extend the time of contributions and raise the minimum age required to obtain full retirement benefits, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on March 15, 2017. Since replacing leftist President Dilma Rousseff in Congress in 2016, President Michel Temer has been pushing for an adjustment program aimed at regaining market confidence and reactivating the country's economy, in recession for more than two years.
Image courtesy: AFP
Netherlands
Netherlands Prime minister and Peoples Party for Freedom and Democracy leader Mark Rutte (L) shakes hands with Jesse Klaver of GroenLinks Green Left Party during a televised debate between the eight top party leaders in The Hague on March 14, 2017, a day before the parliamentary elections.
Mr Wilders won just 20 seats, according to several exit polls, and was soundly beaten by Mark Rutte, the incumbent centre-Right Dutch prime minister, whose VVD Party was on track to becoming the largest party in the Netherlands 150-seat parliament with 33 seats.
Image courtesy: AFP
Japan
Japan launched a new spy satellite on Friday, the country's space agency said, as the region grows increasingly uneasy over North Korea's quickening missile programme.
The Radar 5 unit was carried into space on Japan's mainstay H-2A rocket from a launch site in the country's southwest.It is meant to replace an existing satellite that is coming to the end of its mission.
Japan started putting spy satellites into orbit in 2003 after North Korea fired a mid-range ballistic missile over the Japanese mainland and into the western Pacific in 1998.
In Picture: A H-IIA rocket, carrying a governments information gathering radar satellite, lifts off from the launching pad at Tanegashima Space Center on the Japanese southwestern island of Tanegashima, Japan on March 17, 2017
Image courtesy: Reuters