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Eight-year-old Saladin Bashir of Boston looks on as thousands of protestors shout "Not Our President" and "Fuck Trump" at the Boston Common on November 9, 2016, the night after Donald Trump was elected as the 45th President of the United States.

A pro-democracy protestor argues with police in an attempt to march towards the venue where China’s President Xi Jinping was attending a variety show in Hong Kong on June 30, 2017.

The protestors were calling for the release of Liu Xiaobo, China’s only Nobel Peace Prize winner who spent almost a quarter of his life behind bars in China, after news that his late-stage liver cancer condition had worsened. Liu Xiaobo died 13 days later while under guard. He was 61.

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady raises Super Bowl trophies along with head coach Bill Belichick during a victory parade in Boston, Massachusetts on February 7, 2017, following the Patriots' win over the Atlanta Falcons in the NFL Super Bowl 51 on February 5.

Fans react during Boston Red Sox's victory parade in Boston on October 31, 2018, following the team's win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2018 World Series on October 28.

Protestors react during the Women’s March at the Boston Common on January 21, 2017.

Protestors react to a placard with a caricature of US President Donald Trump and the words "The Real Shit Hole" as Emma Williams, 16, India Colley, 16, and Lucinda Beard, 14, (top, L to R) led chants during the second Women's March on Cambridge Common on January 20, 2018.

Protestors react during a rally for transgender rights outside Boston's City Hall on October 28, 2018.

Students react as Boston University student and Trump supporter Nicholas Fuentes speaks during a debate at the George Sherman Union Conference Auditorium at Boston University on November 6, 2016.

Fuentes’ appearance in a Boston University-produced video series “Who I’ll be Voting For” and his controversial comments on Twitter including “multiculturalism is cancer” prompted the debate on campus attended by over 400 students.

Less than a year later, Fuentes quit Boston University as he received death threats after attending rallies in Charlottesville on August 12, 2017 with white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other groups.

Runners reach the finish line of the 121st Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts on April 17, 2017.

A boy on a subway train in Hong Kong on May 21, 2018.

People gather at Times Square in New York City on October 6, 2018.

People play basketball at the West 4th Street courts in Greenwich Village in New York City on October 7, 2018.

People play basketball at a public housing estate court as private residential buildings are seen in the background in Tiu Keng Leng in Hong Kong on May 26, 2018.

People walk on a street in Sai Ying Pun in Hong Kong on May 16, 2018.

Teams switch out after a football match at a public playground in Wan Chai in Hong Kong on July 18, 2018.

Visitors walk at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles on November 11, 2017.

A boy and helper look at products in a toy shop in Wan Chai in Hong Kong on May 18, 2018.

People sing "Bloodstained Glory" during an annual candlelight vigil at Victoria Park in Hong Kong on June 4, 2018, to mark the 29th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown in Beijing.

Hong Kong's richest man Li Ka-shing, 89, waves after speaking to the press on the official day of his retirement as his son Victor Li (L), 53, looks on at the Harbour Grand hotel in Hong Kong on May 10, 2018. 

Li formally stepped down as chairman of CK Hutchison at the annual shareholders' meeting today, and his son Victor Li will take over his corporate empire in real estate, telecommunications, ports and retail, with over 300,000 employees in over 50 countries.

2Members of the explosive ordinance disposal unit prepare to move an unearthed and defused US-made bomb dropped during World War II, into a truck on May 11, 2018, a day after it was discovered inside a construction site in Wan Chai in Hong Kong.

The 450-kilogramme (1,000-pound) bomb was of the same model as two other bombs discovered in January at the same construction site where a new metro train station is being built.

Workers put up an advertisement just before midnight at the Haneda International Airport in Tokyo on August 31, 2017.

A family in Bürkliplatz, a town square by the lake in Zürich, Switzerland on June 27, 2017.

Thomas Pernin (R), 37, and his daughters Layla (C), 10, and Yasmine, 8, remove clumps of palm oil washed up on a beach on Lamma Island, Hong Kong on August 8, 2017.

Their efforts came as the government announced around 1,000 tonnes of solidified oil had spilled from a cargo ship after a collision with another vessel near the Pearl River estuary in southern China on August 4.