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A girl wipes mud off her face during carnival in the Pinto Salinas neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela.Credit:AP
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People line up their oxygen tanks as they prepare to spend the night waiting in line for a refill at a shop that has already closed for the day and will open again tomorrow, in the poor area of Villa El Salvador, in Lima, Peru, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of the people in line said they have been waiting for two days for refills and are now staying for a third day in an attempt to procure oxygen for their sick relatives. Credit:AP
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Former senator Eduardo Menem before the funeral ceremony for his brother Carlos Saul Menem, Senator for La Rioja and former President of Argentina at the Islamic cemetery in San Justo, Argentina. Credit:Getty
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Peyton McKinney uses a laundry basket for a sled in Nolensville, Tenn. Much of Tennessee was hit with a winter storm that brought freezing rain, snow, sleet and freezing temperatures.Credit:AP
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Demonstrators paint a scene following a shooting of Mya Thwate Thwate Khaing, an anti-coup protester who was shot in the head allegedly by Myanmar police during a previous protest a week earlier, in Yangon, Myanmar.Credit:AP
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Amy Shoemaker, of Lewiston, Idaho, walks alongside her youngest daughter Vera Shoemaker, 3, and pulls her older daughter, Ella Shoemaker, 6, in a sled as they eat popsicles while passing by the Normal Hill Cemetery in Lewiston, Idaho.Credit:AP
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Snow covers a tree in central Athens with the ancient Parthenon temple on the Acropolis hill seen in the background. A cold weather front has hit Greece, sending temperatures plunging.Credit:AP
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New Zealand warm up before the Tour Match between the New Zealand XI and England in Queenstown, New Zealand.Credit:Getty
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A health department worker assists a woman at a health center where people over 60 were receiving shots of the AstraZeneca vaccine, as Mexico began vaccinating its elderly population against coronavirus, in the outlying Milpa Alta borough of Mexico City.Credit:AP
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Sphiwe Maseko, coffin maker, finishes the details on a production line of coffins at workshop in Evaton, south of Johannesburg, South Africa. Maseko, says the material and cost for making coffins has gone up due to less suppliers due the impact of Covid-19 on most businesses.Credit:AP
