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Colchane, Chile
People cross into Chile from bordering Bolivia. Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans have made the journey, trying to escape economic hardship
Photograph: Diego Reyes/AFP/Getty
 

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The Aboriginal flag will fly permanently on top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge after the NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet directed bureaucrats to find a way to make it happen.

'What I find ridiculous is that we could build the Harbour Bridge in the 1920s, but apparently we can’t put a flagpole on the bridge in 2022,' he said.
 
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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics, in Beijing.
 

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OLYMPICS: Artists perform during the opening ceremony for the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games at the National Stadium, also known as Bird's Nest, in Beijing, China on Friday. Photpgraph: Fazry Ismail/EPA
 
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Ighrane, Morocco
Security forces form a human chain as an ambulance carrying the body of five-year-old Rayan drives away from the scene where the boy fell in a well shaft, in the rural northern province of Chefchaouen. Rescue crews found the child dead at the bottom of a well late on 5 February, after a painstaking five-day operation that has gripped the nation
Photograph: Fadel Senna/AFP/Getty Images
 
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“I never said anyone sexually assaulted me” Peng Shuai told French newspaper L’Equipe at the Winter Olympics yesterday. “There has been a huge misunderstanding.”
 
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“We will be united, we will act together and we will take all the necessary steps” Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz says his country is “absolutely united” with the US on any action responding to Russia.
 
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President Biden said that the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia to Germany would be brought to an end. “If Russia invades, there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it,” he said. “I promise you we will be able to do that.”
 
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Tehran, Iran
Customers dine at restaurant-prison Cell 16 in eastern Tehran. Part of the proceeds is used to free those languishing in jails for unpaid debts
Photograph: Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images
 
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The mayor of Ottawa declared the state of emergency after more than a week of unrest that began with protests by truckers over vaccine mandates. Demonstrations have spread beyond Canada’s capital.
Credit...Patrick Doyle/Reuters
 
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Brisbane, Australia
Protesters in Brisbane opposing the federal government’s religious discrimination bill
Photograph: Darren England/AAP

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he did not support a Brisbane Christian school’s attempt to get families to sign statements that homosexual acts were ‘immoral’ and ‘offensive to God’ and wants to prevent LGBTQ+ students from being expelled. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/EPA
 
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Banon, France
A nurse styles Hermine Saubion’s hair as the 110-year-old woman sits before lunch next to her younger sister, Emmeline (101 years old), at her retirement house
Photograph: Nicolas Tucat/AFP/Getty Images
 

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