Salt lake workers load bags of salt on to a truck for transportation at the salt pans in Saphale, 100 kilometers north of Mumbai, India, on Tuesday, May 14.

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A worker walks outside Grupo Mexico SAB’s copper smelting facility in Sonora, Mexico, on Tuesday, May 7.

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A member of India’s Border Security Force stands during a flag-lowering ceremony at the India-Pakistan Wagah border in Wagah, India, on Wednesday, May 8.

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A man looks through a window in which pedestrians are reflected in Amritsar, India, on Thursday, May 9.

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Women walking down the street are reflected in a puddle on the road in Amritsar, India, on May 9.

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A conveyor belt deposits white potash into storage piles at ICL Fertilizer’s Dead Sea Works, part of Israel Chemicals Group, on the Dead Sea, Israel, on May 6.

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A worker stands wearing a gas mask inside the Doe Run Peru refinery in La Oroya, Peru, on March 21.

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Ships sit in Guanabara Bay, rear, as traffic moves along the Rio Niteroi bridge, center, and containers are stacked near cranes, foreground, in this aerial photo taken at the Port of Rio de Janeiro in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on April 24.

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Pedestrians are reflected in a store window display in the Fort Bonifacio district of Manila, the Philippines, on May 6.

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A woman stacks bundles of wheat during a harvest in the Chakwal district of Punjab province, Pakistan, on May 4.

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