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International Women's Day, the first
: In Valparaíso, Chile, hooded women hug each other at a water cannon
belonging
to the security forces.
Demonstrations on March 8 led to clashes in several cities in Latin America.
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Photo: Santiago Morales / dpa
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2/25
Celebrating freshly vaccinated:
Several senior women met on a birthday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
The women had been vaccinated against Covid-19 a few weeks earlier.
Photo: Maria Alejandra Cardona / REUTERS
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3/25
Bean bath:
Stuntman Hunter Ray Barker has the logo of a restaurant tattooed on his arm while he is sitting in a paddling pool filled with bean pulp.
This action is intended to draw attention to the Los Toros Mexican eatery in Chatsworth, California, during the corona pandemic.
Photo: Mario Anzuoni / REUTERS
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4/25
Animal bathing fun:
A Japanese
macaque
bathes in a hot spring in the Jigokudani Monkey Park in Japan.
The animals are popularly called snow monkeys.
Photo: Kiichiro Sato / AP
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5/25
In the cold "Wild West":
Jeff Dahl (on horseback) and his son Jason during the 73rd annual skijoring weekend in Leadville, Colorado.
In this winter sport, which has its origins in Scandinavia, a skier lets himself be pulled by a horse, car or sledge.
In Leadville, where only horses are used, the person on skis has to jump over ramps and collect rings hung on poles, among other things.
Because of the corona pandemic, the event, which has been taking place since 1949, had to be held outside the city of Leadville without spectators.
Photo: Jason Connolly / AFP
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6/25
At the border
: A Texas State Police officer asks a mother from Honduras to leave the bushes where the two were previously hiding with her four-year-old son.
They were among a group of dozen migrants who had previously crossed the border river Rio Grande.
The authorities used a helicopter, among other things.
Photo: Adrees Latif / REUTERS
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7/25
Moment:
A Sadhu - that's what the Hindus call people who have committed themselves to a strictly ascetic life - takes part in a religious event in Nepal's capital Kathmandu.
The rally is part of the preparations for the Shivaratri festival, which plays an important role for the Hindus.
Photo: Narendra Shrestha / EPA
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8/25
“The Flash” on the bike:
racing cyclist Primoz Roglic was too fast for the cameras during the third stage of “Paris-Nice”.
The two-time overall winner of the Vuelta a España leads the tour after five of eight stages.
Photo: Yoan Valat / EPA
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9/25
Tsunami phone:
A woman from Ofunato, who lost classmates from junior high school in the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, calls her deceased friends in the so-called Kaze-no-Denwa.
The "Telephone of the Wind" is a phone booth in Iwate Prefecture in northern Japan where people can call their dead relatives.
Photo: Issei Kato / REUTERS
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10/25
On light wings:
flocks of blackbirds and starlings take to the skies in Ohio, in the American Midwest.
Photo: Andrew Dolph / ZUMA Wire / imago images
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11/25
Tree of Life:
The picture shows the artificially preserved "wonder pine" in the Japanese city of Rikuzentakata.
It became known as a symbol of hope as it was the only tree to stand still after the 2011 tsunami.
Photo: STR / AFP
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12/25
Red light with a difference:
cooks prepare something to eat on the crater rim of the Nyiragongo volcano in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Photo: Hereward Holland / REUTERS
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13/25
Lightning and smoke:
Since the first known eruption in 2010, the Sinabung volcano in the north of the Indonesian island of Sumatra has erupted nine more times.
Most recently, at the beginning of the month, the mountain spat a five-kilometer-high column of ash into the sky.
The eruption was captured using long exposure in this photo.
Photo: Sarianto Sembiring / Xinhua / imago images
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14/25
Birthday Appearance
: The Sri Lankan Air Force is celebrating the 70th anniversary of its existence.
Also there: aerobatics of the Indian Air Force.
Photo: Pradeep Dambarage / ZUMA Wire / imago images
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15/25
A stage instead of roses:
two female boxers meet at an open-air event in Nepal's capital Kathmandu, which was held on the occasion of International Women's Day on March 8th.
Photo: Navesh Chitrakar / REUTERS
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16/25
Fishing in murky waters:
A man searches for valuable items in the polluted Yamuna in New Delhi.
The Yamuna is the most important tributary of the Ganges in India.
Photo: Money Sharma / AFP
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17/25
With a chair and a book
: In Johannesburg, South Africa, a man blocks traffic with his protest.
Students recently demonstrated repeatedly against debts accumulated as a result of tuition fees.
The police used rubber bullets.
A passerby was killed.
Photo: Michele Spatari / AFP
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18/25
Ice marathon:
Lake Baikal in Siberia is more than 1,600 meters deep at one point - making it the deepest lake in the world.
As every year, an ice skating marathon took place on it in 2021.
Photo: Natalia Fedosenko / ITAR-TASS / imago images
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19/25
Aqua jogging
for four-legged friends:
This dog is to be cured of its running problems in the Shenyang Hospital in northeast China with exercise therapy in the water.
Photo: STR / AFP
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20/25
Reminder of the disaster:
This house is in the so-called Difficult-to-Return-Zone (in German: exclusion zone) in Japan.
In March 2011, a tsunami also destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Large amounts of radioactive material are released.
Ten years after the accident, parts of the country are still contaminated.
Photo: Yuichi Yamazaki / Getty Images
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21/25
Earth masses:
This current drone photo comes from the Norwegian village of Ask, which is part of Gjerdrum municipality.
Ten people were killed there in a landslide on December 30th and several houses were destroyed.
Photo: Stian Lysberg Solum / EPA
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22/25
Street
scene:
children play soccer in a narrow alley.
The picture was taken in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia.
Photo: Aris Messinis / AFP
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23/25
Historical trip:
Francis was the first Pope to visit Iraq.
On Hosh-al-Bieaa Square in Mosul, where four churches were destroyed between 2014 and 2017, he prayed for the victims of the war against the terrorist militia Islamic State (IS).
Photo: Andrew Medichini / AP
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Rainbow party on a small scale:
Because of the corona pandemic, the "Mardi Gras" parade of the LGBTQ community did not take place in Sydney's streets this year.
The event was moved to a sports stadium.
Photo: Rick Rycroft / AP
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International Women's Day, the second
: On March 8, activists demonstrated in Mexico City because of the high number of femicides in the country.
There were clashes with the police.
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Photo: Sashenka Gutierrez / EPA