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Hooray, we're the capital!
Elefsina, 30 kilometers northwest of Athens, is the European Capital of Culture.
The residents celebrate this with a parade in traditional costume.
Elefsina is known for the Eleusinian Mysteries.
The religious ceremony represented the myth surrounding the goddess Demeter's search for her daughter Persephone, who had been kidnapped by Hades.
Photo: IMAGO/Vasilis Rebapis / Eurokinissi / Eurokinissi / ANE Edition / IMAGO
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A steak before the storm
A protester flambés a steak in a basement in Lima's capital, Peru.
The opponents of the Peruvian government have found shelter there.
Many of them come from the countryside, from the remote regions of the Andes.
They are demanding the resignation of President Dina Boluarte.
Photo: Rodrigo Abd/AP
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fraud and fires
Demonstrations against Indian businessman Gautam Adani broke out in New Delhi on Monday.
Its large corporation is faced with allegations of fraud.
Demonstrators threw counterfeit money into the air and set fire to suitcases bearing photos of Adani and Indian President Modi.
Photo: Manish Swarup/AP
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wrumm wrumm
In Rio de Janeiro, a boy seems to be more enthusiastic about his toy car than the devotees of goddess Iemanjá and the Queen of the Seas.
The women enter a building in white, lush dresses and take part in a religious ceremony.
The festivities in honor of Iemanjá are back for the first time since the pandemic.
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Bruna Prado / dpa
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Carnival and the Canal
The viewer looks through a pane of glass at the Canal Grande in Venice.
The Italian city is celebrating carnival.
The Carnevale di Venezia is world famous, especially the spectacular masks.
Photo:
Marco Bertorello / AFP
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Lookup!
Elaborate work in a landmark of Florence: The mosaic ceiling of the Baptistery of San Giovanni is to be restored for six years - now the work inside the famous baptistery of the Florentine Cathedral began on Wednesday.
The representations in the inner dome are among the most important medieval mosaics in Italy.
They were created between 1225 and around 1330 based on designs by important Florentine painters.
Photo: San Giovanni Baptistery Press Office/HANDOUT/EPA
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World in ruins
People sit on a sofa in front of a destroyed building in Hatay, Turkey.
The earthquake in Turkey and Syria is one of the most devastating in recent decades.
The Turkish civil protection reported 17,134 fatalities on Friday alone.
From Syria there are reports of more than 3000 dead.
Photo:
Ibrahim Oner / dpa
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sadness and horror
An activist holds a candle to protest for the victims of the suicide attack on a mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar.
At least 82 people were killed in the worst attack in Pakistani history - most of them police officers or other security forces.
Photo: Rahat Dar/EPA
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speed up
Rubber tapper Wanida Hityim mixes formic acid with natural latex from a rubber tree in the southern province of Surat Thani.
With a market share of almost 40 percent, Thailand is the world's largest producer of natural rubber.
However, the stagnating prices in China and the new regulations of the European Union for the sustainable management of their plantations do not make life easy for the rubber farmers.
Photo: Jack Taylor / AFP
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Remembering deceased refugees
In Valletta, Malta, people put shoes on the ground.
They want to commemorate all the refugees who died or disappeared along the migration routes.
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Darrin Zammit Lupi / REUTERS
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Protest in the freezing sea
Activists from the environmental organization Greenpeace protest against the expansion of oil production in the North Sea.
The rubber boats are on their way to a Shell group production platform off the French coast.
Photo: Lou Benoist/AFP
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art in war
A man walks past a mural on the Ukrainian island of Dolobetsky.
The island in the Desna, a tributary of the Dnepr, is a popular tourist destination in the city of Kyiv.
Photo: Daniel Cole/AP
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Led on the slippery slope...
...shepherds have these sheep.
The picture of the herd was taken at a frozen lake in Tibet, in the Lhoka region.
After the march, the animals were greeted by grassland that grows on an island in the lake.
Photo: VCG / IMAGO
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Save the pension
Demonstrators in front of the National Assembly in Paris.
They are calling for retirement at 60. President Macron wants to gradually raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.
The big unions have therefore called for strikes and protests.
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Christophe Ena / dpa
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Garbage collection at the dream beach
People clear plastic and other rubbish from a beach on the Indonesian island of Bali.
The problem: Most of the garbage ends up in the sea with every rainy season because there is no central waste management system on the island.
Photo: Made Nagi/EPA
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Perplexed cattle
A cow stands in a forest near the village of Santa Juana - surrounded by burnt trees.
Forest fires are spreading in southern and central Chile, leading to evacuations and the declaration of a state of emergency in some regions.
Photo: Matias Delacroix / dpa
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On the wrong path
Two drivers are repairing a wooden bridge on a mud road.
They are about to be crossed by the miners of illegal mines.
They are targeting the natural resources of the land of the indigenous Yanomami.
Photo: Amanda Perobelli / REUTERS
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Expensive lust of the flesh
The employees of this butcher's shop in Buenos Aires are guarding a small treasure: Argentina suffers from one of the highest inflation rates in the world, and meat prices have also risen massively - to the chagrin of many Argentines, for whom eating meat is an important tradition.
Photo: Natacha Pisarenko / AP