News photos of the day

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Believers pray around a cross-shaped platform covered with candles attached to jars of honey during a ceremony marking the day of Saint Haralampi, Orthodox patron saint of beekeepers at the Church of the Blessed Virgin in Blagoevgrad, eastern Bulgaria.
 

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Actress and activist Angelina Jolie, center, joins, from left, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, at a news conference to announce a bipartisan update to the Violence Against Women Act, at the Capitol in Washington. Photo AP
 
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ALL HANDS ON DECK: Members of the Georgian National Legion paramilitary volunteer unit instruct a 13-year-old boy learning to shoot for the first time during a training course at a shooting range in Kyiv, Ukraine. The Georgian National Legion has seen an increase in membership applications over the past month. Photograph: Chris McGrath/Getty Images
 
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BEIJING, Feb 11 (Reuters) Russian gold medal figure skater Kamila Valieva tested positive to Trimetazidine at the Beijing Games.
Trimetazidine is banned because it can increase blood flow efficiency and improve endurance, which are both crucial to high-end athletic performances like skating
 
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Manchester, UK
Members of the public attend the exhibition ‘Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel’ at Trafford Palazzo. The exhibition reproduces 34 of Michelangelo’s ceiling frescoes from the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel which are displayed in their original size
Photograph: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty Images
 
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Kathmandu, Nepal
Hindu boys attend Bratabandha, a coming of age ceremony, at Pashupati temple. During the event boys shave their heads and perform rituals for about four to five hours, symbolically meaning they are now mature enough to perform their duties as grown men. After the ritual, they are each given a janai, a sacred thread, and are henceforth expected to abide by the rules and norms of adult men, taking active part in religious ceremonies including last-rite rituals and marriages
Photograph: Narendra Shrestha/EPA
 
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At the Rose of Tralee launch were 2019 Rose Sinead Flanagan and Jamie Flannery, Escort of the Year 2019. Photograph: Domnick Walsh

The Rose of Tralee festival is held every August in Tralee, County Kerry, to choose a young woman to be crowned the Rose. The festival bills itself as a celebration of the "aspirations, ambitions, intellect, social responsibility and Irish heritage" of modern young women.
 
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Bhaktapur, Nepal
Hindu devotees undergoing Swosthani Brata hold prayers before a bathing ritual in the forest of Changu Narayan temple. Photograph Subash Shrestha/Rex/Shutterstock
 
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Kiev, February 13. Oligarchs and businessmen are leaving Ukraine en masse on private jets. According to the Ukrayinska Pravda publication, approximately 20 flights departed the country during the day. Among the major Ukrainian businessmen who left the country were Rinat Akhmetov and Boris Kolesnikov. It is also reported that the opposition MP and millionaire Igor Abramovich booked a plane for 50 people.
 
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A Taliban fighter directs traffic as a street vendor sells red heart-shaped balloons for Valentine’s Day in Kabul, Afghanistan.
 
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UKRAINE TENSIONS: Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky (front) and German chancellor Olaf Scholz arriving for a joint press conference following a meeting in Kiev, Ukraine. Mr Scholz is in Kyiv to show solidarity and support for Ukraine amid fears of a Russian invasion. Photograph: Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA
 
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz reportedly told Vladimir Putin by phone before Christmas that he would strive for a 'qualified reset' in relations

Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, faced allegations of “appeasement” and betraying his own coalition partners following reports he is seeking a meeting with Vladimir Putin to “reset” relations with the Kremlin….

https://news.yahoo.com/olaf-scholz-accused-appeasing-vladimir-201942517.html
 
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Russian tanks of the Western Military District units return to their permanent deployment sites in an unknown location in Russia in this still image taken from a handout video
 

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