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1/23
Guillermo Rodriguez, owner of the pizzeria “Siempre al 10” (“Forever the 10”) in Buenos Aires, shows his back tattoo, which he dedicated to the late Argentinian soccer star Diego Maradona.
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2/23
The highest volcano in Europe, Mount Etna in Sicily, shows activity again.
Strombolic eruptions from two chimneys can be seen in the photo.
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3/23
It's very Christmassy: Long exposure of the morning traffic in front of an antique and gift shop in Naples, Maine.
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4/23
The de Souza family poses in their hut in a slum on the outskirts of Salvador, in northeastern Brazil.
Both parents have been unemployed since the pandemic began.
The family, like almost a third of the population in Brazil, currently lives on state corona aid.
In April, the monthly amount of aid was around 92 euros, the sum was halved in September and is now due to expire at the end of the year.
This causes existential worries for many people: They do not know what to live on afterwards.
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5/23
Yellow rubber ducks, initially used by the demonstrators as protection against the water cannons of the security forces, have become a symbol of the protest movement in Thailand, together with the so-called three-finger salute from the film series "The Hunger Games".
For months, people have been demonstrating against the government and for constitutional reform in the Thai capital, Bangkok.
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6/23
After massive protests, the French government withdrew the controversial article 24 of the new "global security law" and announced a revision.
The passage stipulated that filming police officers during the mission would have been a criminal offense and would have meant a massive encroachment on the freedom of the press.
Nationwide, more than 130,000 people were on the streets, like here on the Place de la Bastille in Paris, to demonstrate against the proposed law.
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The security law, formulated under the aegis of the conservative interior minister Gérald Darmanin, marks a shift to the right by French President Emmanuel Macron, which also has strategic reasons.
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8/23
During the protests, Syrian press photographer Ameer Al Halbi also got caught between the fronts.
He was hit in the face by a police officer with a baton while he was documenting the incident and was then stuck in the fray for hours covered in blood because the police prevented him from going to the hospital.
Photo: GABRIELLE CEZARD / AFP
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9/23
The 24-year-old had already taken photos during the Syrian civil war and experienced the siege of Aleppo.
He fled to France three years ago and has since worked for the French agency AFP, among others.
In an interview with the media magazine Zapp, he impressively describes the events and how that experience brought back the traumatic memories of the civil war in his home country.
Photo: SAMEER AL-DOUMY / AFP
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10/23
A bus burns in the center of Guatemala City: despite the fact that parliament withdrew the controversial budget, which included cuts in programs to combat malnutrition and at the same time an increase in the salaries of MPs, protests against the government of President Alejandro broke out in Guatemala Giammattei.
The dispute over the budget had also fueled existing resentment against the country's political elite, fueled by the comments of a right-wing MP who had described poor Guatemalans as "bean eaters."
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11/23
Members of the Iranian military pray at the coffin of the murdered Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
The head of the Iranian nuclear program was killed last week in the course of a spectacular commando operation. There are some arguments in favor of Israel's participation and possible approval by the USA, but there is no evidence.
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12/23
Thanksgiving in the hospital: Dr.
Joseph Varon comforts a desperate Covid-19 patient in the intensive care unit at the United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas.
The chief doctor signed more death certificates this week than ever before: »I am currently waging two wars: one against Covid-19 and one against stupidity.
As for the first, I have hope that it can be won.
But with the second it gets more and more difficult.
Why am I saying that?
Because people don't listen.
It doesn't matter whether it's science or common sense.
The people in this country don't listen. ”Most recently, the upcoming US President Joe Biden had warned urgently against a further drastic increase in deaths related to Covid-19.
In total, more than 13.7 million people have been infected with the coronavirus in the United States, and more than 270,000 of the around 330 million inhabitants have died since the pandemic began.
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13/23
Horror for vaccine skeptics, hope for millions of children: a polio vaccination campaign is currently taking place in northern Yemen, in which more than five million children are to be vaccinated in order to increase the level of immunization of the population in the civil war country after a polio outbreak in August Northwest of the country had become known.
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14/23
The idyll of this everyday scene in the village of Wad al-Hulaywah in Eastern Sudan, captured by Reuters photographer Baz Ratner, is deceptive.
Ratner is actually on site to document the refugee crisis that is currently taking place there.
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15/23
This photo was also taken by him, it was taken in the "Um Rakuba" camp, one of several temporary camps in the border region with Ethiopia, where thousands of people are currently seeking refuge from the fighting in the breakaway Ethiopian region of Tigray every day.
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16/23
A total of more than 40,000 people have already fled from Tigray to the neighboring country of Sudan, like these men in another camp near al-Qadarif who are waiting for rice rations from a Muslim aid organization.
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The destination of this bus is the so-called »Village 8«: The camp, originally built by the Sudanese government to accommodate people who had to be relocated because of the construction of a dam, had less than 1000 inhabitants in Tigray before the war, now living alone There are also over 15,000 Ethiopians who have fled.
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18/23
These men in the trailer of a tractor block a highway north of New Delhi.
In India last week, thousands of farmers demonstrated against the planned deregulation of agriculture.
So far, grain has been traded in wholesale markets at guaranteed minimum prices, in future farmers should be able to sell their goods directly to private companies without middlemen.
The government argues that they could make higher profits on the free market, but farmers fear that prices will fall because they feel they are in a bad position when negotiating with large corporations.
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19/23
It took almost 30 seconds until Formula 1 driver Romain Grosjean was finally able to free himself from his burning car on the third attempt.
On Sunday at the Bahrain Grand Prix, Grosjean crashed into the track barrier shortly after the start and touching Daniil Kvyat's AlphaTauri.
The car was torn in two parts and immediately caught fire, the front part broke through the guardrail.
The Frenchman has since been released from hospital with burns on his hands.
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20/23
Illan Meslier of Leeds United in action: In the Premier League match between Leeds United and Everton, the French goalkeeper secured his team's first win at Goodison Park since 1990 with eight saves. Leeds won just under 1-0.
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21/23
Mi-Hau!
Tailor Fredi Lugina Priadim makes cat costumes in Bogor, Indonesia.
His products range from superheroes to historical, well, fabrics.
Cats are also one of the most popular pets in Indonesia, and they experienced another boom during the corona crisis.
They are probably a little less enthusiastic about the new fashion trend than their owners.
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22/23
At the beginning of summer in Australia, the state of New South Wales had temperatures of over 40 degrees, followed by a storm whose foothills can be seen here in Sydney.
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23/23
In Europe, winter has now started meteorologically, on December 21st is the winter solstice and thus the beginning of the astronomical (calendar) winter and the days are getting longer again.
Whether we can expect snow in Germany at Christmas, like here near Parádsasvár in Hungary, is still in the stars.
Photo: Peter Komka / AP