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A giraffe crosses a road laced with an electric fence within the Kimana Sanctuary, part of a crucial wildlife corridor that links the Amboseli National Park to the Chyulu Hills and Tsavo protected areas, within the Amboseli ecosystem in Kimana,...more
Mount Sinabung volcano erupts as seen from Kuta Rakyat village in Karo, North Sumatra Province, Indonesia. Antara Foto/Sastrawan Ginting
Protesters lie on the ground after police opened fire to disperse an anti-coup protest in Mandalay, Myanmar. Among them, Angel, 19, bottom-left in black t-shirt, also known as Kyal Sin, took cover before she was shot in the head. REUTERS/Stringer
The scene of a collision is seen near Holtville, California. At least 13 people, 10 of them Mexican nationals, were killed on Tuesday when a tractor-trailer slammed into an SUV crammed with 25 adults and children on a dusty Southern Californian road...more
A sniper looks through the scope as he stands on a balcony of the house of parliament during an opposition rally to demand the resignation of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Yerevan, Armenia. Hrant Khachatryan/PAN Photo
Fourth and Fifth grade music teacher Virgilio Joven plays the violin while teaching a virtual music class at the Mount Vernon Community School in Alexandria, Virginia. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
Singer Dolly Parton receives a vaccination against the coronavirus at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. @DollyParton/via REUTERS
Indian Air Force Sarang helicopters team perform during the Sri Lanka's air force 70th anniversary in Colombo, Sri Lanka. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte
A man sprays water at a poster of Pope Francis ahead of the planned visit of Pope Francis to Iraq, in Baghdad, Iraq. REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily
Nancy Van Der Stracten, a 75-year-old suffering from Parkinson's disease, practices boxing with her trainer Muhammed Ali Kardas at a boxing club in the southern resort city of Antalya, Turkey. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
Girls look out of a car window as they watch a screening of the Sudanese European Film Festival at an outdoor, drive-through cinema for visitors, adhering to coronavirus restrictions, in Khartoum, Sudan. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah
People participate in a protest against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar. Picture taken from behind a window. REUTERS/Stringer
U.S. Senator Mitt Romney sports a bit of a black eye and small facial cuts from a fall over the weekend as he speaks with reporters about potential efforts to raise the minimum wage at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Taronga Zoo senior keeper Rob Dockerill holds Annie the Platypus during a World Wildlife Day announcement pledging to save the Australian platypus from extinction, at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia. AAP Image/Dean Lewins
Girls who were kidnapped from a boarding school in the northwest Nigerian state of Zamfara walk in line after their release, in Zamfara, Nigeria. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde
A symbolic street sign named "Khashoggi Way" stands above Connecticut Avenue in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
86-year-old Barbara Schmalenberger, of Hilliard, Ohio, hugs her daughter, Melanie Gagnon, after receiving the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine at the OSU Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio. "I can't believe it, I was so excited that I was...more
A demonstrator sits on the ground near burning fire during a protest against the fall in Lebanese pound currency and mounting economic hardship, in Beirut, Lebanon. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
A Sahrawi woman soldier, with henna dyed patterns on her hands, carries a weapon during a parade at the Awserd refugee camp in Tindouf, Algeria. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina
Empty hangers hang at a dry cleaners, as businesses struggle with continued work from home protocols to limit the spread of the coronavirus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. REUTERS/Caroline Gutman
Demonstrators hold signs as they gather outside the New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's office calling for his resignation, in the Manhattan borough of New York. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
Alondra and Hendi, both six-years-old, take their zoom class as the Westchester Family YMCA provides a safe distance learning environment for local students in Los Angeles, California. REUTERS/Mike Blake
People wait in a line stretching around the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on midtown Manhattan's west side, to receive a coronavirus vaccine at the site which has been converted into a mass vaccination center in New York City. REUTERS/Mike Segar
The feet of girls who were kidnapped from a boarding school in the northwest Nigerian state of Zamfara are seen after their release in Zamfara, Nigeria. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde
Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak holds the budget box outside Downing Street in London. REUTERS/John Sibley
FBI Director Christopher Wray arrives to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the January 6th insurrection, in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington. Mandel Ngan/Pool
A Kashmiri artisan is reflected in a mirror as he heats up a copper plate during its galvanizing process inside a workshop in downtown Srinagar. REUTERS/Sanna Irshad Mattoo
An employee with the McKesson Corporation packs a box of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine into a cooler for shipping from their facility in Shepherdsville, Kentucky. Timothy D. Easley/Pool
A Palestinian woman reacts as Israeli forces demolish her house near Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. REUTERS/Mussa Qawasma
U.S. National Guard soldiers patrol outside the Hart Senate Office Building near the U.S. Capitol in Washington. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Protesters take cover as they clash with riot police officers during a protest against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar. REUTERS/Stringer
People wearing protective face masks are seen inside a movie theater as cinemas, gyms and museums are gradually reopened after the city government eased isolation measures introduced to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in Mexico City. ...more
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