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The 21-year-old student Wegahta Weldie remembers her escape in the Ethiopian province of Tigray in a makeshift shelter.
She and her family had hidden in a corn field before walking hundreds of kilometers to the region's capital, Mekele.
Over a million people have been displaced as a result of the conflicts in Tigray.
Rebels are fighting against government troops in the province.
Photo: Ben Curtis / AP
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Turkish policemen hold down a protester at a Labor Day event on May 1st.
Photo: Bulent Kilic / AFP
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Protester women shout slogans at a demonstration against sexual violence outside a government building in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
They accuse those responsible for being too slow in establishing an emergency due to gender-based violence.
Photo: Ricardo Aruduengo / AFP
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A woman stands amid tear gas used by police in Bogota, Colombia.
Preliminary protests were directed against a tax reform proposed by the government.
Photo: Fernando Vergara / dpa
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Impressive lightning strike in the center of Bangkok during a thunderstorm.
Photo: Mladen Antonov / AFP
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Schoolgirls in Indonesia use candles to prepare for the Koran reading on Laylat al-Qadr, the Night of Destiny.
According to Islamic belief, the Quran was first revealed on that night during Ramadan.
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Ulet Ifansasti / Getty Images
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Numerous ultra-Orthodox Jews attend a funeral service.
45 people had previously died in a crowd on Mount Meron in Israel.
The country is in mourning and the disaster is classified as "the worst civil catastrophe in Israeli history".
Photo:
Gil Cohen-Magen / AFP
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Short break by a crematorium employee: Scene during a mass cremation on May 1, 2021 in New Delhi.
The country has been badly affected by the pandemic for weeks - with more than 3,500 deaths per day.
The new wave has completely overwhelmed the country's health services and has resulted in crematoria operating day and night.
Photo: Anindito Mukherjee / Getty Images
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Civilians look at the remains of burned-out oil trucks near Kabul, Afghanistan.
At least seven people died and 14 were injured when a fire broke out in a convoy consisting mostly of fuel trucks.
Photo: Hedayatullah Amid / EPA
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Countless Shiite Muslims take part in a procession in Lahore, Pakistan, to commemorate the death of Imam Ali, a companion of the Prophet Mohammad.
Some wear masks because of the corona pandemic, many don't.
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Arif Ali / AFP
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11/20
Glacier panorama in Nepal: A helicopter flies over the Khumbu Glacier on Mount Everest in the Solukhumbu district, about 140 km northeast of the capital Kathmandu.
Photo: Prakash Mathema / AFP
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The railway line collapsed, metro cars broke through a bridge: at least 24 people died in an accident in Mexico City.
Mexico's Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard called the collapse a "terrible tragedy".
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Hector Vivas / Getty Images
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The US Department of Defense is following the apparently uncontrolled return of a Chinese "Long March" type space rocket to Earth with concern.
Calculating an exact crash site is currently almost impossible due to the uncontrolled sinking, according to the Pentagon.
Photo: Wang Jiangbo / Xinhua / imago images
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Birds don't need bridges: a flock of swallows flies over the Niger.
Here in Mali a mosque for the Islamic Sufist movement is to be built.
The place is considered sacred.
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Michele Cattani / AFP
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Top sport is often and rightly accused of being aloof.
Sometimes, however, is exactly the beauty of sport: high diver Hoong Cheng from Malaysia makes the aesthetic of being aloof at the World Cup in Tokyo clear.
Photo: Toru Hanai / Getty Images
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16/20
"May the fourth be with you": For Star Wars fans, the fourth of May is something of an unofficial holiday.
Most of the festivities took place online this year.
A few fans were also able to meet in person.
Actress Candice met her boyfriend Brandon Daniels to celebrate in a self-proclaimed "intergalactic" geek bar, right on Los Angeles' Hollywood Boulevard.
California recently had comparatively low incidence values.
Catering establishments are therefore allowed to open - with restrictions.
Photo: Jae C. Hong / AP
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Party despite Corona: In Liverpool, after a long break, 5000 people legally celebrated and danced in a warehouse - without distance and without a mask.
You were part of a scientific pilot project.
Researchers want to find out how air quality affects the transmission of viral diseases.
Incidentally, the participants were all tested beforehand.
Photo: Peter Powell / EPA
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Where there is smoke, there is fire: the protests of the English fans against the commercialization of football reached a first high point last weekend.
The supporters of Manchester United mobilized before the game against Liverpool FC, occupied the field - the game had to be canceled.
The Super League plans of the top clubs have mobilized the fans.
Photo: Michael Regan / Getty Images
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Chess wet!
Two elderly men play the game of kings in the reopened Szechenyi baths in Budapest.
Hungary recently relaxed the corona rules.
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Laszlo Balogh / AP
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They make the big waves: More than 600 surfers have not only set a new world record off the Australian coast of New South Wales, in mass surfing, so to speak.
They are also protesting against the environmental degradation in the region.
Photo: Dean Lewins / EPA
