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WEEK OF MOURNING: A flower-adorned wall of remembrance for South African anti-apartheid figurehead, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, at St Georges Cathedral, Cape Town. South Africa has begun a week of mourning for the revered campaigner, who died on December 26th, aged 90. Photograph: Rodger Bosch/AFP/Getty
 

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Hong Kong, China
Staff at the pro-democracy online media outlet Stand News talk to members of the press after more than 200 police officers raided their offices, arresting at least six people
Photograph: Miguel Candela/EPA
 
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Nature Photographer of the Year contest unveiled for 2021
Runner Up Category Plants and Fungi: Audun Rikardsen | Natures eatable Arctic gould

Cloudberries are a circumpolar boreal plant, occurring naturally throughout the Northern Hemisphere. In Europe, they grow mostly in the Nordic countries where they are a highly regarded delicacy, often termed the eatable Arctic gold. In earlier times people were protecting their berries in every possible way on their properties and always kept it a secret where they could find them. This is still the case today, but usually in a more civilized way than in previous times,
 
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Karachi, Pakistan
An official uses a steamroller to crush bottles of alcohol during an event organized to detroy seized illicit alcohol and drugs smuggled into the country in Karachi.

Drinking alcohol is officially forbidden for Muslims in Pakistan, which drives a thriving black market. Scarcity and increased demand during the coronavirus pandemic have made tippling a costly affair.
 
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Thirteen million residents in northern Xi'an are in their seventh day of home confinement STR AFP

Thirteen million residents in northern Xi'an are in their seventh day of home confinement, and national health officials have called for measures to be strengthened further as China battles its worst virus surge in months. Beijing has followed a strict "zero Covid" strategy involving tight border restrictions and targeted lockdowns since the virus first surfaced in a central city in late 2019. But officials admitted at a press conference Wednesday that "low staff attendance and difficulties in logistics and distribution" had led to trouble providing essential supplies as the country faces a resurgence in infections……

https://www.france24.com/en/live-ne...-struggle-providing-food-in-locked-down-xi-an
 
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Canberra, Australia
The front entrance of old Parliament House was set on fire yesterday during an Aboriginal rights protest

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Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe (pictured) said in a tweet '”Seems like the colonial system is burning down. Happy New Year everyone,” the tweet read accompanied by hashtag #AlwayswasAlwayswillbeAboriginalLland'. The senator and proud descendant of the Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung peoples deleted the tweet shortly after posting it.
 
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Medical staff members help a patient to wear a new non-invasive technology that can reduce the need for intubation at Covid-19 intensive care unit at The Institute of Clinical Cardiology (ICC) in Rome, Italy.
 
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NEW YEAR'S CONCERT: Musicians of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of conductor Daniel Barenboim during a preview performance of their traditional New Year's Concert in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria. Photograph: Dieter Nagl/APA/AFP via Getty Images
 
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For Sale
The Solent, Hampshire, UK
If living down a remote country lane is not solitary enough, try the middle of the sea. Spitbank Fort was one of a chain of forts in the Solent built in the 1800s to protect Portsmouth dockyard. Now a floating mansion, it has nine bedrooms and bathrooms, a cinema room, a games room and a wine cellar. On the upper deck are sun terraces, a hot tub and fire pits, with panoramic views of the seascape. The crow’s nest is a self-contained annex. The Isle of Wight village of Seaview is about three miles by boat to the south-east. £3.6m. Knight Frank, 020 7861 1080
Photograph: Knight Frank
 
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A woman shovels snow from the footpath in front of her house in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Photograph: Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP
 
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2 January 2022
Syrian Maher al-Abdallah, center, mourns his wife and three children who died in their sleep after inhaling toxic fumes from burning coal to heat their room, during their funeral procession in Al-Wasta village near the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022. Lebanon, a country of 6 million people, is home to 1.5 million Syrians who fled the now decade-old civil war in their country. Mohammad Zaatari/AP

The mother, 31, and her children ages 8, 7 and 4 were already dead on arrival. They were declared dead of asphyxiation. Lebanon, a country of 6 million people, is home to 1.5 million Syrians who fled the now decade-old civil war in their country. They often live in squalid camps and shoddy homes. As Lebanon grapples with an unprecedented economic crisis, poverty has deepened for both Lebanese and Syrians. The United Nations estimates that 90% of Syrian refugee households now live in extreme poverty.
 
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2 January 2022
Workers put a dead crane in a bag at the Hula Lake conservation area, north of the Sea of Galilee, in northern Israel, Bird flu has killed thousands of migratory cranes and threatens other animals in northern Israel amid what authorities say is the deadliest wildlife disaster in the nation’s history.
 
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COMPLEX SHOPPING: The unconventional 1,000 Trees shopping centre, a landmark shopping complex with trees planted on its pillars and balconies, in Shanghai, China. Located along the Suzhou Creek, the complex includes art galleries, museums, restaurants, and entertainment sites. Photograph: Alex Plavevski/EPA
 
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Hong Kong welcomed a new batch of pro-Beijing lawmakers in its Legislative Council who were chosen in an election without opposition candidates, as the editors of one of the city’s last remaining pro-democracy news outlets announced its closure.
 
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Photographers look at snow covered mountains behind downtown Los Angeles Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022, from Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area in Los Angeles
Mark J. Terrill - staff, AP
 
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Hail, Saudi Arabia
France’s Sebastien Loeb in action during the Stage 1B of the Dakar Rally 2022
Photograph: DPPI/Eric Vargiolu/LiveMedia/REX/Shutterstock
 
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