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Chicago’s mayor has turned the river that runs through the city into an Irish stew for St. Patrick’s Day — dyeing it bright green as per a tradition that was nixed last year because of COVID-19.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot had cancelled the annual dyeing in 2020 — and vowed to do the same this year — because of the coronavirus, citing social-distancing concerns over the crowds it typically draws.

But she changed course at the last minute this year in a bid to uplift local spirits — and businesses — and boat crews began dumping the dye into the Chicago River around 7 a.m. Saturday.
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I wonder what sort of effect the dye has on marine wildlife.

Seems so self-serving and uncaring to me to fill waterways with coloured dye.
 

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Asylum-seeking families and unaccompanied minors from Central America walk towards the border wall after crossing the Rio Grande river into the United States from Mexico on rafts, in Penitas, Texas. Reuters/Adrees Latif
 
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CLERICAL ABUSE: A sculpture by artist Jacques Tilly with the slogan “11 years of relentless investigation of the abuse cases!” is seen in front of the Cologne Cathedral in Cologne, Germany, following the long-awaited publication of a report on sexual violence allegedly committed by clergy and laymen in Germany's top diocese. The independent study, commissioned by the Roman Catholic Church, found 202 alleged perpetrators of sexual assault and 314 victims between 1975 and 2018. Photograph: Ina Fassbender/AFP via Getty
 

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Barcelona, Spain
Taxi drivers block traffic to protest against the return of Uber to the city after a two year hiatus. Photograph Emillio Morenatti/AP
 
Paris, France
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Parisians arrive to catch trains leaving from the Gare Montparnasse serving west and south-west of France. People packed inter-city trains leaving hours ahead of a new lockdown in the French capital imposed to combat a surge in coronavirus infections. The new restrictions, announced by the prime minister, Jean Castex, late on 18th March, apply to about a third of the country’s population affecting Paris and several other regions in the north and south. Photograph Ludovic Martin/AFP/Getty Images
 
Dozens of Central American migrants are expelled from the United States by the Paso del Norte-Santa Fe international bridge, from El Paso, Texas, United States to Ciudad Juarez, state of Chihuahua, Mexico, on March 18, 2021. Herika Martinez, AFP

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Uighur children sent to orphan camps

Workers walk by the perimeter fence of what is officially known as a vocational skills education centre in Dabancheng, Xinjiang
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China has begun rounding up and sending the children of Uighur exiles to “orphan camps” where they are forced to speak Mandarin and parrot Communist Party propaganda, parents claim.

Six families who have fled Xinjiang have told Amnesty International that friends and relatives sent coded messages, photos and videos telling them that their children had been moved to camps. Many believe that they will never see them again.
 
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Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni to be locked up at home for one year.

Nicolas Sarkozy, the former French president, is sentenced to one year home detention for offering a bribe to a judge for information.
 
A woman who suffers from COVID-19, receives oxygen at a field hospital set up in the parking lot of the Poliedro de Caracas auditorium, in Venezuela, March 21, 2021.

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Tourists make their way towards Saint Catherine's Monastery after watching the sunrise on top of Mount Moses, Saint Catherine city, South Sinai, Egypt. Photograph: Khaled Elfiqi/EPA

Mount Sinai is a mountain on the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. (It may possibly be the same as the biblical Mount Sinai, the place where, according to the Bible, Moses received the Ten Commandments)
 
NSW Floods

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Kate Fotheringham and Wayne Bell on Gloucester Road in Wingham, NSW on Monday. ‘It took three months to plan the wedding, 12 hours for it go to hell and six hours for it come together again,’ Fotheringham says. Photograph: Amanda Hibbard

“I had accepted the fact it was going to be raining and I was wearing gumboots, but I didn’t know how I was going to deal with a one-in-a-hundred-year flood and a natural disaster” Kate said
 
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New York City firefighters rescue Dylan, a Catalina macaw, from a tree in the Manhattan borough. The bird escaped as he was being brought to a veterinarian’s office by his owner. Photograph: Bill Swersey/Reuters
 
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A family receives medical attention after the Marine Rescue boat that rescued them from rising floodwaters capsized in strong currents, as the state of New South Wales experiences widespread flooding and severe weather, in the suburb of Sackville North in Sydney, Australia. REUTERS/Loren Elliott
 
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Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa was identified by authorities as the suspect in Monday’s massacre at the King Soopers supermarket in Colorado. The weapon used in the attack was an AR-15-style pistol modified with an arm brace, according to the source.
 
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A field of sand dunes occupies this frosty 5-kilometer diameter crater in the high-latitudes of the northern plains of Mars. Some dunes have separated from the main field and appear to be climbing up the crater slope along a gully-like form.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
Last Updated: Mar 26, 2021
Editor: Yvette Smith
 
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VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis led Palm Sunday services in an almost empty St. Peter's Basilica because of coronavirus restrictions for the second consecutive year and he urged people to be close to the poor and suffering.
 
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Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the Speaker of the House of Commons, helps to adjust clocks in the Houses of Parliament for British summer time. Photograph: Jessica Taylor/PA
 

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