Today in Photos (May 20)

View a gallery of photos from around the world on Wednesday, May 20, 2015.

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Wed., May 20, 2015

Clean up workers place shovels of oil-laden sand in bags while a larger group of workers begin clean up operations at Refugio State Beach, site of an oil spill, north of Goleta, Calif., Wednesday, May 20, 2015. A broken onshore pipeline spewed oil down a storm drain and into the ocean for several hours Tuesday before it was shut off, creating a slick some 4 miles long about 20 miles west of Santa Barbara.

Michael Mariant Fr96689 Ap
An elderly Kashmiri Bakarwal woman leads a heard of horse near Peer Ki Gali, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Srinagar, India, Wednesday, May 20, 2015. Bakarwals are nomadic herders of India's Jammu-Kashmir state who wander in search of good pastures for their cattle. Every year in April-May more than one hundred thousand people from the nomadic Bakarwal tribes arrive in the meadows of Kashmir and parts of Ladakh from areas of the Jammu region with their flocks of cattle and sheep. After crossing snowy mountains with their cattle and belongings, Kashmir valley's lush green meadows become their home from April to September, after which they begin their return journey. This seasonal shifting of �homes� ensures a regular flow of income for the families.

Dar Yasin Associated Press
A rescued migrant weeps upon arrival Simpang Tiga, Aceh province, Indonesia, Wednesday, May 20, 2015. Hundreds of migrants stranded at sea for months were rescued and taken to Indonesia, officials said Wednesday, the latest in a stream of Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants to reach shore in a growing crisis confronting Southeast Asia.

Binsar Bakkara Associated Press
Displaced Iraqis from Ramadi cross the Bzebiz bridge fleeing fighting in Ramadi, 65 km west of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, May 20, 2015. Thousands of displaced people fleeing violence in nearby Anbar province poured into Baghdad province on Wednesday after central government granted them conditional entry, said a provincial official.

Karim Kadim Associated Press
Palestinian men work on rebar that was removed from the rubble of buildings destroyed in the last summer's Israel-Hamas war, in Shijaiyah neighborhood of Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, May 20, 2015. The reconstruction of the Gaza Strip is going "far more slowly than expected" after the devastating war last year, the International Monetary Fund said this week.

Adel Hana Associated Press
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire, center, greets children at Kyongsang kindergarten in Pyongyang Wednesday, May 20, 2015. A group of female peace activists including Gloria Steinem and two Nobel laureates arrived in North Korea's capital on Tuesday for a march across the Demilitarized Zone that they hope will bring world attention to calls for a resolution to tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

Kim Hyon Associated Press