Relatives of Lim Saw Gaik, 49 and son, Neoh Jai Jun, 20, victims of Monday’s bombing at a popular Bangkok shrine arrive to pay their final respects at the Neoh’s home in Penang, Malaysia, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015. Monday’s bombing at the Erawan Shrine, which authorities have called the worst in Thai history, killed 20 people and wounded 120 others. (AP Photo/Joshua Paul)
Damage is visible on the statue of Phra Phrom, which is the Thai interpretation of the Hindu god Brahma, after Monday’s bombing at the Erawan Shrine at Rajprasong intersection in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015. A central Bangkok shrine reopened Wednesday to the public after Monday’s bomb blast as authorities searched for a man seen in a grainy security video who they say was the prime suspect in an attack authorities called the worst in the country’s history. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Smoke from an approaching wildfire looms over a home near Twisp, Wash., Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015. Authorities on Wednesday afternoon urged people in the north-central Washington town to evacuate because of a fast-moving wildfire. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
A billboard with an image of Pope John Paul II and a message that reads in Spanish; “Here is where the church Pope John Paul II is being built, “stands next to a wooden cross on a field, on the outskirts of Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015. Cubans have begun preparations to welcome Pope Francisco in September. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
A left-wing protester prepares to hurl a petrol bomb in the direction of Turkish police during minor clashes between police and people protesting Turkey’s operations against Kurdish militants in Istanbul, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015. There has been a sharp escalation of violence between Turkey’s security forces and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, along with the collapse of a two-year peace process with the rebels. Dozens of people, mostly Turkish soldiers, have died since July in the renewed violence. (AP Photo/Cagdas Erdogan) TURKEY OUT
Lebanese activists are sprayed by riot police using water cannons, during a protest against the ongoing trash crisis, in front of the government house, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015. Lebanon’s health minister says the country is on the brink of a “major health disaster” unless an immediate solution is found for its mounting trash problem. Garbage has been collecting on the streets in Lebanon for the past month amid government paralysis and inability to agree on a solution after Beirut’s main landfill was closed down. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Syrian refugee girl Zahra Mahmoud, 4, sits in front of her family’s makeshift tent at an informal tented settlement near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
Robert Burck, who performs as the Naked Cowboy, wears a bra as he poses for photos in New York’s Times Square, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says women posing nearly naked for photos in Times Square are breaking the law and undermining efforts to keep the tourist area family friendly. The women pose for photos with tourists in exchange for cash and often wear only body paint and a thong. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Anuncio Gisbreht, an Enhlet Indian, 43, symbolically chains himself to the gate of the National Republican Association’s Party headquarters, in Asuncion, Paraguay, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015. Gisbreht claims that he had won the July 26 primary elections of the party for Mayor of the city of Loma Plata, and had later had been arbitrarily pushed aside with the election given to his rival Herbert Sunk. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
A peacock roosts in a tree in Crandon Park Gardens, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015, in Key Biscayne, Fla. The gardens are situated at the former site of the Miami Zoo. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
Troy Munford soaks in the waters of Sunday River in Riley Township, Maine, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015. Munford, a tour and travel sales manager at the Sunday River Ski Resort, and many of his co-workers were enjoying an afternoon escape from work to beat the heat at the river. “The whole office played hooky,” he said. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
The National Cooperative Refinery Association oil refinery is silhouetted against the setting sun Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015, in McPherson, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
A Greek plain clothed policeman chases away Pakistani migrants as they started shouting while waiting to be registered near a police station at the southeastern island of Kos, Greece, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015. More than 130,000 migrants have reached Greece so far in 2015, straining the country’s resources. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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