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Models at Dakar Fashion Week wear a creation by designer Bobo by Sag.
Due to the relatively low corona incidences in Senegal, the
The current fashion show is held to a relatively normal extent - but in contrast to previous years outdoors.
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After a month of fighting in the breakaway region of Tigray, international aid measures for Ethiopia, in which the German Red Cross is also involved, have started.
The precarious humanitarian situation in the region became apparent for the first time after the first aid convoys got access to the region this week.
Currently, many people who were previously housed in interim camps in Eastern Sudan are being taken to the larger Um Rakuba camp by bus.
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This boy also fled to East Sudan from the fighting in Tigray.
Helpers estimate the number of people who have fled from Ethiopia in the border area with Sudan at almost 50,000.
Many of those arriving did not eat anything for days and were separated from family members while they were fleeing.
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Scene during a vigil in front of the Congress building in Buenos Aires, during the parliamentary debate on a new abortion law.
After deliberations well into the night, the law that is supposed to legalize abortions up to the 14th week of pregnancy was finally passed with 131 votes to 117 and the government majority of President Alberto Fernandez.
With a few exceptions, the Catholic states of Latin America have very restrictive legislation with regard to abortion.
According to government figures, 38,000 women are hospitalized for improperly and clandestinely performed abortions each year in Argentina alone.
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Dancing in Wuhan: While in the rest of the world, with a few exceptions, there is still a new normal, in China they have returned to the old normal.
Pool parties, nightlife - was there anything?
But victory against the virus has its price: freedom.
If one is not willing to pay that price, one pays another: death.
“So it is right to do a lot to prevent the virus from spreading.
But not everything. «, As Dirk Kurbjuweit writes in his essay.
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After the Sars-CoV-2 vaccine from the Mainz company Biontech and its American partner Pfizer received emergency approval from the FDA last week, the first vaccination measures have now also started in the United States.
Here Janice Maylor, an employee of the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and who has been working on the Covid-19 ward since spring, receives her first dose.
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Alex Sog, a doctor at a veterans clinic in Portland, Oregon, also received the vaccine.
It is becoming increasingly clear that Germany may have done too little to secure larger vaccine contingents at an early stage.
“Even the virus containment tripped.
If the federal government doesn't finally get rid of its faint-heartedness, the same thing will happen to us again with the vaccination, «wrote Thomas Schulz in the editorial last week.
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A newly married couple in La Paz dances "Caporales", one of the many traditional dances in Bolivia.
The "Caporales" refers to the time of slavery, portraying a foreman who drove other slaves to work with a whip.
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A man in Piedra del Aguila, Argentina, watches the total solar eclipse on December 14th through a welding mask, which could only be seen in parts of Argentina and Chile.
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A nap at the right time: This man is one of tens of thousands of farmers who have been camping on the outskirts of the Indian capital New Delhi since the end of November in protest against a legislative package to deregulate agriculture, partially blocking at least five major access roads.
Most recently, 33 leaders from various farmers' associations and hundreds of farmers took part in a one-day hunger strike.
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In »Kok Boru«, the national sport of Kyrgyzstan, two mounted teams fight to get a goat's corpse into the opposing goal.
The game is widespread in many countries in Central Asia and is particularly important in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.
It has its roots in wolf hunting, in which the riders competed to be able to deposit the carcass of the killed wolf in front of the village elder's hut.
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Even more customs: Pakistani wrestlers compete at a Malakhra tournament in Karachi.
This traditional form of wrestling, in which opponents try to throw one another to the ground by a twisted cloth wrapped around their hips, is 5000 years old and is still practiced outside of Pakistan in Afghanistan and Iran.
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Beware of confusion!
The photo does not show a donkey, but a mule (l).
The so-called "Army-Mules" are the mascots of the West Point Military Academy, currently three (real) animals are on active duty.
Similarities between the stubborn animals and the US President who was also present at the football game in the academy stadium are purely coincidental.
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Even the influential majority leader of the US Republicans in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, finally conceded Joe Biden's victory in the presidential election this week and congratulated him after the majority in the Electoral College on Monday in the Electoral College von Biden came about as expected.
McConnell's role during Trump's tenure can hardly be overestimated - and neither is the danger he poses to the success of Joe Biden's presidency.
This text by Ralf Neukirch from October is recommended to you.
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Biden himself, here with his wife Jill, commented on Monday night in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware after the vote count: “The flame of democracy was kindled in this nation a long time ago, and we now know that nothing - not even a pandemic or an abuse of power - can extinguish this flame. "
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Protest against the Israeli settlement in Beit Dajan: Near Nablus in the West Bank, Palestinian protesters seek protection from the tear gas of Israeli soldiers.
In recent weeks, Israel has accelerated the construction of settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Observers believe that before the end of the Trump administration, Israel is still trying to create facts before Joe Biden's assumption of office brings a president to the White House who could be more critical of Israeli settlement policy than his predecessor.
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Shooting stars rain over Kochel Am See in Bavaria: This time up to 150 meteors per hour could be observed during the annual Geminid meteor shower at the edge of the Alps.
The cause of the cyclical sky phenomenon is the passage of a cosmic cloud of dust through the earth.
Debris burns up in the earth's atmosphere.
The climax of the Geminid season is mid-December each year.
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Choir children in St. Paul's Cathedral at a photo opportunity: During the holidays, seats for the services will be bookable with a ticket system, so that the total number of visitors to the famous London cathedral will be limited to about a tenth of normal capacity due to the corona pandemic.
In addition, interested parties will be able to follow the celebrations free of charge via live stream.
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An employee of the "Cat Garden" plays with the main attraction of the café for cat lovers in Seoul, South Korea.
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Santa behind glass: If the prophet doesn't come to the mountain ... Because personal meetings with Santa Claus in a shopping center in the Canadian city of Vaughan in the state of Ontario were not possible this year due to the corona pandemic, the company has its most important employees on tour sent through the adjacent residential areas.
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