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A woman wearing a burqa begs on the street in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan
 

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A child washes his mother’s feet at an event to celebrate Indonesia’s Mother’s Day in Jakarta, Indonesia
 

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RAILWAY BLOCKAGE: Farmers light candles as a way to block the railway during a demonstration demanding compensation and jobs for families of people who died during protests against the government's agricultural reforms and over other economic issues, at Devi Dasspura village, near Amritsar, India. Photograph: Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty
 
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South Korea on Tuesday suspended quarantine inspections of Canadian beef following the discovery of a mad cow case in the North American country.

The agriculture ministry said the move effectively banning imports went into effect four days after Canada confirmed a cow in Alberta was infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as mad cow disease.
 
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The photograph on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's Christmas card. The couple’s message inside includes a list of charitable donations. Photograph: Alexi Lubomirski/Duke and Duchess of Sussex/PA
 
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Devonport, Australia
Members of the public pay their respects outside Hillcrest primary school in Tasmania. Six children were killed last week after an inflatable castle was lifted by a powerful gust of wind
Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP
 
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Sydney, Australia
Pelicans scavenge at the Sydney fish market where 350 tonnes of seafood are expected to be sold over the Christmas period
Photograph: Jenny Evans/Getty Images
 
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People walk along La Rambla in downtown Barcelona, Spain. Spain is reporting almost 700 cases per 100,000 inhabitants over 14 days, more than double the accumulated cases before last year’s Christmas holidays. The omicron strain has soared from 5 per cent of new cases to 47 per cent within one week.
 
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Amelie and Ludo Khayat hold each other during a visit at the Covid intensive care unit of the la Timone hospital in Marseille, southern France. Ludo, 41 is recovering from spending 24 days in a coma and on a ventilator in a Covid intensive care unit. Amelie began visiting her husband daily after he started to test negative for the virus.
 
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Travelers form lines outside the TSA security checkpoint during the holiday season as the coronavirus Omicron variant threatens to increase case numbers in Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. 22 December 2021
 
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Johannesburg, South Africa
A woman is comforted outside the historical home of Desmond Tutu in Soweto. Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel peace prize-winning activist died on Sunday at the age of 90
Photograph: Shiraaz Mohamed/AP
 
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Sydney, Australia
Competitors set off at the start of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race
Photograph: Andrea Francolini/Rolex/AFP/Getty Images
 
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A full-size ship converted to the shopping mall in Wampoa district, Hong Kong. The ship is in the middle of a new housing, business and hotel precinct that replaced a major slum area of old Hong Kong. Inside are restaurants, shops, and a cinema complex.
 
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Tokyo, Japan
Pedestrians visit Ginza in central Tokyo
Photograph: Kimimasa Mayama/EPA

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One of the city’s top shopping districts, Ginza is packed with upmarket boutiques and ritzy cocktail and sushi bars. Fine jewellery is sold in the 1930s Wako Honkan department store, while ultramodern Ginza Place specializes in high-tech electronics. On weekends, main drag Chuo Dori becomes a stylish pedestrian promenade. Traditional Japanese dance and drama is staged at the landmark Kabuki-za theater
 
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A view of participants in the annual Boxing Day, Duke of Beaufort's Hunt, at Worcester Lodge, in Gloucestershire, England, Monday, Dec. 27, 2021. The event where hunters, horses, hounds and members of the public gather took place on Monday as Boxing Day fell on a Sunday - a day when trail hunting does not take place.

In trail hunting, devised after the Hunting Act banned the hunting of foxes with dogs, a “trail layer” goes out ahead of the hunt, dragging a rag coated in an animal scent. Huntsmen cast the hounds to this scent, and follow it to the end of the trail.
 
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Newly infected COVID-19 patients have two new treatment options that can be taken at home. But that convenience comes with a catch: The pills have to be taken as soon as possible once symptoms appear. The challenge is getting tested, getting a prescription and starting the pills in a short window. U.S. regulators authorized Pfizer's pill, Paxlovid, and Merck’s molnupiravir last week. In high-risk patients, both were shown to reduce the chances of hospitalization or death from COVID-19, although Pfizer's was much more effective……. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireS...9-pills-catch-81944236?cid=social_twitter_wnt
 
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Kolkata, India
Homeless children queue to receive a morning meal from Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Saint Teresa, at its headquarters in Kolkata. India’s government has blocked Mother Teresa’s charity from receiving foreign funds
Photograph: Bikas Das/AP
 
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Hebron, West Bank
Palestinian women clash with Israeli soldiers during the demolition of their under-construction house. According to Israeli authorities, the construction did not have the necessary permits
Photograph: Abed Al Hashlamoun/EPA
 
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Amman, Jordan
MPs are held apart during an altercation in parliament
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

The argument erupted during a debate on an amendment adding the female noun for a Jordanian citizen, to a chapter in the constitution guaranteeing equal rights of all citizens.
 

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