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Furious
Gasoline prices have risen almost all over the world as a result of Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine.
Protests also broke out in Banda Aceh in the north of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
Students demonstrated there.
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Photo: Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP
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country under
A residential area in the Dadu district of Pakistan's Sindh province is engulfed in floods after heavy monsoon rains.
It is the worst flooding in the country's history.
Millions of people in the plains of southern Pakistan were trapped between the floodwaters.
In the mountainous north, the Army used helicopters to fly rescue missions to remote locations.
Photo: Husnain Ali / AFP
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3 / 23
Sad start
This girl from Ukraine fled to Romania from Putin's soldiers.
Instead of going to school in her home country, she is now going to school in the capital, Bucharest.
Photo: Andreea Alexandru/AP
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Taking leave
In Kyiv, Ukrainian soldiers carry a coffin with the body of Viacheslav Nalyvaiko.
He too was killed fighting the Russian invaders.
Photo: Emilio Morenatti/AP
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5/23
Caught
A fisherman stands with a fishing net in the waters of the Yamuna River in New Delhi, India.
Photo: Sajjad Hussain / AFP
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On dry land
People sit in a dried-up river bed of an arm of the Yangtze River near Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province.
In the Yangtze River basin, 45 percent less rain than usual fell this summer, and because of the throttled hydroelectric power plants, electricity is also scarce.
Photo: AFP
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7 / 23
Skeptical
A sailor in the Russian Navy looks out of a hatch on the destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov.
Together with more than 50,000 other soldiers, he took part in the large-scale maneuver "Vostok" near Vladivostok.
Photo: YURI KOCHETKOV / EPA
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8 / 23
escape from the fire
Horses seek shelter from a forest fire near Hemet, California.
After a summer of wildfires around the world, this fire is also a challenge for firefighters - and a catastrophe for people and nature.
Around 2,000 hectares of land were devastated, thousands of houses were evacuated and schools were closed.
Photo: David Swanson / REUTERS
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9/23
Against the flames
A fire department plane drops powder to help fight the blaze near the California city of Hemet.
California is currently suffering from a heat wave with temperatures sometimes exceeding 40 degrees.
In the western United States, there has been a devastating drought for years, which favors forest fires.
Photo: Patrick T. Fallon / AFP
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10/23
The Muh model
A cow at the Expointer agricultural fair in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil - one of the largest outdoor agricultural fairs in Latin America.
Photo: Ricardo Rimoli/EPA
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11/23
With a catchy tune on the shore
If you watch the »Umbrella Academy« series, you might get a catchy tune about this city for a while afterwards: »Istanbul was Constantinople / Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople«, it says.
To put it more precisely for this recording: These people are sitting on Eminonu Pier, i.e. on the banks of the Bosphorus in Istanbul – not Constantinople.
Photo: Francisco Seco/AP
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12/23
Plush everywhere
Employees at the Yalon Toy plush factory in Yangzhou in the province of Jiangsu in China.
The animals are mainly sold to the United States, the EU and Japan.
The company is the designated maker of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games mascot - and during the 2022 Winter Games, the company received official approval to manufacture Bing Dwen Dwen plushies.
Hundreds of thousands made it onto the market.
Photo: Alex Plavevski/EPA
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Nothing to measure
The Swiss glacier measurement network Glamos has given up on the Corvatsch glacier in the canton of Graubünden.
This summer even 7000 year old layers of ice melted.
Now the ice is missing to attach the devices of the measuring points.
A part of the glacier remained under a protective fleece, which employees of the mountain railways are now removing.
Skiing is practiced there in winter.
Photo: Gian Ehrenzeller / dpa
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Daring and protected
"I need a hat to protect me," said a character invented by Janosch.
With the veil blowing, the protective garment becomes daring.
But maybe the fashion label QiLin wanted to express something completely different with this creation presented in Beijing?
Photo: Ng Han Guan/AP
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15/23
ground and salt
Machines on salt evaporation ponds in the Narta Lagoon in southwestern Albania.
Bacteria and elders barely visible to the eye had stained the ponds pink.
Traditionally, Albania produces sea salt - which is exported to western countries.
Photo: Gent Shkullaku / AFP
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Don't fall out of character
The 79th Venice International Film Festival is on the home stretch.
Luca Dimic and Gerhard Liebmann (from left) also walked the red carpet at the film premiere of the thriller »Master Gardener« – costumed as Mario Falak and Charles Eismayer.
The characters come from the Austrian feature film »Eismayer«, which also premiered in Venice these days.
Photo: Yara Nardi / REUTERS
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17/23
protest in white
Animal rights activists from the group Animal Rebellion spray-painted the British Parliament in London white.
They called for a “plant-based future” on a poster.
Because of the action, some members were arrested.
Photo: IMAGO
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18/23
test balloons
The new school year is being prepared under difficult conditions at a school in Beijing.
To protect against the corona virus, all teachers and students in China's capital must show a negative PCR test result within 48 hours when entering the school premises.
Photo: Wu Hao/EPA
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19/23
The hippopotamus is also worth a rhyme
»A weasel / sat on a pebble / in the middle of a trickle stream«, wrote Christian Morgenstern.
And if you continue this rhyme with a hippopotamus that has taken a seat in a stream in Kenya's Masai Mara National Park, you can also feel a bit like a poet.
Photo: Baz Ratner / REUTERS
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20/23
Rock music fireworks
After a break due to the pandemic, fans celebrated the start of the Rock in Rio festival in Brazil.
It's not just one of the most important rock festivals in South America.
Contrary to the name, it also took place in Europe, more precisely: Lisbon and Madrid.
Photo: Pilar Olivares / REUTERS
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waiting for help
Mothers and babies wait under mosquito nets at a hospital in the Somali city of Baidoa.
The clinic is intended to help victims of the extreme drought in the African country.
The harvests are destroyed, which is why food prices are skyrocketing.
Seven million people (out of a total population of 16 million) are at risk of starvation.
Photo: Ed Ram/Getty Images
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22 / 23
shadowmen:
This looks a little like the creepy Dementors from Harry Potter, but it's just Hal Presley and his Baylor teammates making a big leap onto the field in the NCAA Football College game against Albany.
Photo: LM Otero/AP
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wood against the cold
A woman walks past firewood in a stairwell in the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, Ukraine.
According to local authorities, gas supplies in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions have been cut off due to the heavy shelling of the region by Russian soldiers.
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Photo: Juan Barreto / AFP
