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mega mirror selfie
According to the Guinness Book of Records, the Maraya Concert Hall in north-western Saudi Arabia has the largest mirrored facade in the world - it covers a total of 9,740 square meters.
The impressive rock formations around the oasis town of al-Ula are reflected in the facade.
Photo: Fayez Nureldine / AFP
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Full speed ahead?
A campaign poster for candidate Bola Tinubu of Nigeria's ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party on a boat in a lagoon near Lagos.
The presidential elections will take place in the West African country on February 25.
Photo: Pius Utomi Ekpei / AFP
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All lie!
In the polarized media landscape of the USA, many doubted the truthfulness of Fox News reporting anyway.
But now, in a lawsuit, it has become public that star moderators such as Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham themselves called Trump advisors liars in private messages and made fun of them, while their statements were reproduced in the program with all seriousness.
Photo: Gina M Randazzo / ZUMA Wire / IMAGO
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Gilead in Tel Aviv
Demonstrators dressed as characters from the television series »The Handmaid's Tale« protest in Tel Aviv on February 20, 2023 against the controversial judicial reform of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing religious government.
Photo: Jack Guez / AFP
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Anti-mosquito agent
A man covers his face after a health worker sprayed mosquito-repellent chemicals in Bangkok.
The measure is intended to curb the spread of dengue fever.
The Thai Ministry of Health expects around five times more dengue cases this year than in 2022. 2,683 cases have already been registered since the beginning of the year, most of them in the capital.
Photo: Narong Sangnak/EPA
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Balloons of Remembrance
A man hangs a balloon from the rubble of a collapsed building in Antakya, southern Turkey, after the February 20 magnitude 6.4 earthquake.
Two weeks earlier, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake near Gaziantep killed more than 44,000 people.
The red balloons symbolize »the last toys« of the deceased children.
Photo: Sameer al-Doumy / AFP
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drained
Italy suffers from drought.
At Lake Garda there is a historical water shortage, an island in the lake can be reached on foot because the low water has released an otherwise flooded headland.
Photo: Alex Fraser / REUTERS
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(Waiting) time is money
In Lagos, people are visibly annoyed in line in front of a bank – to get cash.
This is currently scarce in Nigeria because the central bank has started exchanging old banknotes for new ones.
She wants to curb the amount of cash outside the banking system.
However, there are problems with the implementation, so that there are queues in front of many banks;
in some cities this has already triggered protests.
Photo: John Wessels / AFP
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Three under one roof
The Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi combines a mosque, a church and a synagogue.
The building in the United Arab Emirates was officially inaugurated in February and is intended to promote dialogue and peaceful coexistence.
Photo: Ali Haider/EPA
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turn of the year
An exiled Tibetan artisan waits to perform a traditional dance after an early morning prayer session to herald the Year of the Water Rabbit in Dharamsala, India.
Photo: Ashwini Bhatia/AP
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expelling spirits
For peace and happiness in the New Year: With this eerie costume, a Tibetan monk drives away the "Demon King" at a ceremony for the Tibetan New Year in Beijing, China.
Photo: Andy Wong / dpa
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Gentrification in the Black Quarter
Boarded up doors and windows can be seen on homes next to a playground in Baltimore, Maryland.
In 2018, Angela Banks learned from her landlord that city officials wanted to buy her family's home, where she had lived for four decades, and demolish the three-story brick townhouse to make way for an urban renewal project.
This would reshape Banks' historically black neighborhood.
The woman and her children became homeless almost overnight.
As a result, Banks filed a complaint with the city and is now calling for an investigation.
Photo: Julio Cortez/AP
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In the abyss
This building in Soulac-sur-Mer in south-west France has been vacant since 2014.
It was evacuated because it is about to collapse.
It stands directly on the coast, which is being further and further removed by erosion.
The building is now to be demolished as a precaution.
Photo: Thibaud Moritz / AFP
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Early spring heralds
A pink ribbon meanders along a river in Kawazu, Japan: the cherry trees in the small town on the east coast of the Izu Peninsula are already in full bloom at the end of February - two months earlier than the normal cherry tree variety in Japan.
Photo: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images
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silent remembrance
Yellow ribbons and daffodils adorn the bench where missing Nicola Bulley's phone was found.
The 45-year-old was last seen near the village of St. Michael's on Wyre in north-west England at the end of January.
Almost four weeks after her disappearance, Lancashire police have discovered her body.
In their investigations, the police assume that the woman fell into the river and drowned while walking her dog.
Photo: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
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royal criticism
Protesters hold placards reading 'Not My King' upon the arrival of Britain's King Charles III.
in Milton Keynes, north of London.
He attended a reception celebrating Milton Keynes' new status as a town.
Photo: Arthur Edwards / AFP
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Shooting Swede
Hanna Öberg answers the journalists' questions with a grin.
The Swedish biathlete was in demand after the mass start race over 12.5 kilometers at the World Championships in Oberhof: she had just won the gold medal in the discipline.
Photo: Jacob Schröter / IMAGO
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Jecken behind glass
The costumes in the shop window of a Cologne shop are still waiting for buyers at the start of the traditional street carnival on Weiberfastnacht.
Photo: Roberto Pfeil / dpa
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dogs from the front
A woman cleans the floor of an animal shelter in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine.
The dogs are mostly brought there by Ukrainian soldiers from the combat zone.
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Hard work, little return
There seems to be an overabundance at the wholesale vegetable market in the Pakistani metropolis of Lahore.
But those who work here often have to fear for the future.
The government has introduced a bill for drastic tax hikes that would leave many families in the already impoverished country with even less to make a living.
Photo: KM Chaudary/AP
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multitasking
Turning the pancake in the air while running: A woman in London takes part in the traditional pancake race the day before Lent begins.
Photo: Carl Court/Getty Images
