Sun sets as a pile of some 2,000 illegally trafficked elephant tusks and hundreds of finished ivory products continue to burn in the first ever Cameroonian burn of poached wildlife goods, attended by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, at the Palais des Congres in Yaounde, Cameroon, Tuesday, April 19, 2016. Power is visiting Cameroon, Chad, and Nigeria to highlight the growing threat Boko Haram poses to the Lake Chad Basin region. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Visitors to a ceremony shield their faces from intense sun before a large pile of illegally trafficked elephant tusks and hundreds of finished ivory products are destroyed in the first Cameroon burn of poached wildlife goods, attended by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, at the Palais des Congres, in Yaounde, Cameroon, Tuesday, April 19, 2016. Power is visiting Cameroon, Chad, and Nigeria to highlight the growing threat Boko Haram poses to the Lake Chad Basin region. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Amjad, 16-years old, from Afghanistan, sits among rail tracks in a migrants and refugees makeshift camp at the northern Greek border point of Idomeni, Greece, Tuesday, April 19, 2016. Despite appeals from authorities to move to organized shelters, thousands of refugees and migrants have been camped for weeks at Idomeni. They hope that Macedonia will reopen its border and allow them to travel north towards Europe’s prosperous heartland. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
A student of the Miguel Fernandez Roig primary school sings a song for American artist Smokey Robinson, not pictured, in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, April 19, 2016. The U.S. President’s Committee on Arts and the Humanities, including musicians Smokey Robinson, Usher and Dave Matthews, are on a four-day visit in Cuba. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)
Women carrying flowers take part in “Flowers for democracy” demonstration against the impeachment process of the Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff, in front of the Planalto Presidential Palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, April 19, 2016. The image in the background is of a young Rousseff when she was a rebel militant, opposed to the military government of Brazil. The impeachment proceedings against Rousseff are based on accusations that illegal accounting tricks by her administration allowed her to use government spending to shore up flagging support before elections. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Louis Marquez carries his dog Dallas through floodwaters after rescuing the dog from his flooded apartment Tuesday, April 19, 2016, in Houston. Storms have dumped more than a foot of rain in the Houston area, flooding dozens of neighborhoods. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
An Afghan security force stands guard at the site of a Taliban-claimed suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, April 19, 2016. Taliban insurgents have stepped up their attacks against the security forces since announcing the start of their spring offensive last week. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)
Indian policemen detain an activist of the Awami Itihaad party (AIP), during a protest in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, April 19, 2016. Indian police detained dozens of activists of AIP during the protest which demanded punishment for those responsible for the deaths of civilians allegedly fired upon by Indian security forces on April 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
A man jokes around after taking some pictures of a section of highway that collapsed due to a 7.8-magnitude earthquake, in Chacras, Ecuador, Tuesday, April 19, 2016. The strongest earthquake to hit Ecuador in decades flattened buildings and buckled highways along its Pacific coast, sending the Andean nation into a state of emergency. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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