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Photos of the Day: Sept. 8, 2015

Originally published September 8, 2015 at 11:53 am Updated September 8, 2015 at 12:13 pm

An Israeli man holds up the fish he caught on the Mediterranean Sea beach front, covered with a blanket of yellow dust, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015. An unseasonal sandstorm has hit the Middle East, reducing visibility and sending dozens to hospitals with breathing difficulties. (Oded Balilty / The Associated Press)

Indian laborers work at a brick kiln in Budgham area, southwest of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015. Brick making is an unorganized industry, generally confined to rural and semi-urban areas and is one of the largest employment-generating industries in India. The laborers usually work in hard conditions for 12-14 hours a day to reach a target of 1,000 to 1,200 bricks a day, earning between US$ 100 to 140 a month. (Dar Yasin / The Associated Press)

Residents cover their face and run in smoke as a municipal worker fumigates a residential area to prevent mosquitoes from breeding in New Delhi, India, Monday, Sept. 7, 2015. With several cases of Dengue fever, a mosquito-borne disease, being reported across the capital, the civic authorities are taking precautions to contain the disease. (Tsering Topgyal / The Associated Press)

Bangladeshis watch from a building the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying soccer match between Jordan and Bangladesh in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015. (A.M. Ahad / The Associated Press)

Malaysian supporters throw flares on the pitch during the 2018 FIFA World Cup Asian Zone qualification match between Malaysia and Saudi Arabia at Shah Alam Stadium, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 08 September 2015. (FAZRY ISMAIL / EPA)

Migrants who had arrived on a train hours earlier play football in the courtyard of the former city administration building that is their new home in Wilmersdorf district on September 8, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. Berlin authorities have created accommodation for at least 2000 people in recent days in a hasty effort to shelter expected migrants. Approximately 30,000 migrants have arrived in Germany by train in the last three days. Authorities are distributing them to registration centers and shelters nationwide. (Sean Gallup / Getty Images)

Refugees and migrants wait for their registration and the issuing of travel documents at a soccer stadium in Mytilene, on the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015. More than 15,000 refugees and migrants are stranded on the Aegean island, awaiting screening before they can board a ferry to the Greek mainland from where they head north through Macedonia, Serbia and Hungary to seek asylum in more prosperous European countries. (Santi Palacios / The Associated Press)

A man carries a child as migrants and refugees arrive on a dinghy after crossing from Turkey to Lesbos island, Greece, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015. The island of some 100,000 residents has been transformed by the sudden new population of some 20,000 refugees and migrants, mostly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. (Petros Giannakouris / The Associated Press)

Hungarian police officers stop a group of migrants near a temporary holding center for asylum seekers in Roszke, southern Hungary, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015. Hungarian police stood by as thousands of migrants hopped cross-border trains Sunday into Austria, taking advantage of Hungary’s surprise decision to stop screening international train travelers for travel visas, a get-tough measure that the country had launched only days before to block their path to asylum in Western Europe. (Darko Vojinovic / The Associated Press)

A large group of migrants, mainly from Syria, walk on the highway moving to the north 07 September 2015 in Denmark. The migrants want to reach Sweden to seek asylum there. Some of the migrants arriving in central Europe continue to other countries, as local authorities across the continent are trying to accommodate the rising tide of refugees. (BAX LINDHARDT / EPA)

Members of the Valley View High School (Archbald, Pa.) girls’ soccer team line up for the playing of the National Anthem before the start of the girls’ championship game at the fifth-annual Jamie Kotula Kick-Off Classic high school soccer tournament at Marywood University in Scranton, Pa. on Sunday, Sept. 6, 2015. Eleven teams compete in the annual tournament in memory of Holy Cross High School and Dunmore, Pa. student Jamie Kotula who died in January 2011 at the age of 16 in a car accident on his way to school. Proceeds from the tournament benefit the Jamie Kotula Foundation, which has raised more than $125,000 for scholarships and donations to families who have faced tragedies. (Christopher Dolan / The Associated Press)

Donald Young, of the United States, reacts after losing a point to Stan Wawrinka, of Switzerland, during the fourth round of the U.S. Open tennis tournament, Monday, Sept. 7, 2015, in New York. (Jason DeCrow / The Associated Press)

A monk works inside a Tibetan monks’ prayer hall at Yonghegong Lama Temple in Beijing Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015. Chinese government on Tuesday staged a mass spectacle in front of the Potala Palace in the regional capital of Lhasa, once home to the Dalai Lama and now a museum, marking 50 years since Tibet’s establishment as an ethnic autonomous region firmly under the control of Beijing. (Andy Wong / The Associated Press)

Traditional Aceh fishermen enter the port to sell their catch at Banda Aceh fish market, Indonesia, 08 September 2015. Indonesian President Joko Widodo pledged to introduce massive deregulation as soon as possible to stimulate the economy and attract investment. An economic slowdown and a slumping rupiah have sparked fears of a repeat of the 1997-98 financial crises, which crippled Indonesia’s economy. The economy grew 4.6 percent in the second quarter, the slowest pace in six years. Joko said bureaucracy was getting in the way of projects to build much-needed infrastructure for economic growth. (HOTLI SIMANJUNTAK / EPA)

A photo made available 08 September 2015 shows meteors lighting up the night sky above a road near Lietzen, Germany, 07 September 2015. The meteor is believed to be part of the debris of the Perseid cloud of comet Swift-Tuttle. The so-called ‘Perseid shower’ can be seen every year between July and October with its peak in the first and second weeks of August. (PATRICKÊPLEUL / EPA)

South Korean Jun Joo-eul, 85, who was separated from his family during the Korean War, sits in front of messages wishing for the family reunions between two Koreas at the video meeting room for separated families at the Korea Red Cross headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015. North and South Korea agreed Tuesday to hold reunions next month of families separated by the Korean War in the early 1950s, a small but important bit of progress for rivals that just last month were threatening each other with war. (Lee Jin-man / The Associated Press)

Dentist Walter Palmer enters his dental practice on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015 in Bloomington, Minn. Palmer returned to his practice after weeks out of the public eye. He was the subject of an international uproar after he was identified as the hunter who killed the famous lion in Zimbabwe. (Glen Stubbe / Star Tribune via AP)

The casket of slain Fox Lake police Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz is loaded into the hearse at Antioch Community High School, Monday, Sept. 7, 2015 in Antioch, Ill. Hundreds of law enforcement officers are attending the funeral of the suburban Chicago police officer who was fatally shot last week. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune via AP)

Farmers throw straw at Belgian riot police during a European farmers protest outside the Berlaymont (background), the headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium, 07 September 2015. Thousands of farmers and tractors are demonstrating on the sidelines of a European Agriculture Ministers council, to protest against the decrease of their incomes and the increasing instability they are facing. (LAURENT DUBRULE / EPA)

A cormorant perches on a tree, from which hang the nests of weaver birds, as it looks out across Lake Ihema in search of fish to catch at dawn in Akagera National Park, Rwanda Monday, Sept. 7, 2015. (Ben Curtis / The Associated Press)

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The Seattle Times

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