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    Photos: Youth protesters of Sudan await justice amid transition

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    Updated on Mar 12, 2020 09:53 IST
    Graffiti made during last years’ revolution on a street in Khartoum, Sudan. When activist and artist Youssef al-Sewahly took to the streets in Sudan late in 2018, he and the other protesters had one goal: to remove the autocratic regime of Omar al-Bashir and replace it with a civilian-led government. They’ve achieved the former, but the latter still hangs in the balance. (Nariman El-Mofty / AP)9

    Photos: Italy goes into nationwide lockdown as virus numbers escalate

    A view of the Saint Peter’s Square in Rome. Italy woke up on to deserted streets in an unprecedented lockdown on Tuesday after the government extended quarantine measures across the entire country in a bid to slow Europe’s worst outbreak of the coronavirus. (Guglielmo Mangiapane / REUTERS)8
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    Updated on Mar 11, 2020 11:43 IST

    Photos: The state of surfing in Fukushima 9 years after nuclear accident

    Koji Suzuki, 64, a surfer and a surf shop owner, walks on the beach in front of a thermal power station after a surfing session in Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. Suzuki's local beach, Minamisoma, is around 30 kilometre north of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and he still has vivid memories of March 11, 2011, when a towering tsunami triggered by a magnitude 9.0 quake surged inland, ravaging the facility. (Charly Triballeau / AFP)7
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    Updated on Mar 11, 2020 11:13 IST

    Photos: Holi celebrations begin, colours take over India

    Women celebrate the arrival of Holi with coloured powders known as ‘gulal’, in Nadia district of West Bengal on the eve of the festival. Holi, the Hindu festival of colours, is observed at the end of the winter season on the last full moon of the lunar month. The festival also heralds the arrival of spring. (PTI)14
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    Updated on Mar 11, 2020 11:13 IST

    Photos: The peculiar carnival traditions of rural Spain

    People prepare with the symbol of Carnival, the giant Miel Otxin, to participate in an ancient rural carnival in the small Pyrenees village of Lantz, northern Spain. The carnival is a long-standing rural tradition in which the forces of good and evil confront each other in a symbolic battle. (Alvaro Barrientos / AP)8
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    Updated on Mar 11, 2020 09:37 IST

    Photos: Moroccan fisherwomen break tradition, venture into deep waters

    Saida Fetouh, Fatima Mekhnas and Fatiha Naji, members of the first Moroccan female fishing cooperative go out to sea in a fishing boat, in the village of Belyounech on the coast of the Mediterranean, northern Morocco. Fisherwomen in Moroccan coastal villages are breaking through boundaries into the male-dominated world of fishing. (Mosa'ab Elshamy / AP)8
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    Updated on Mar 10, 2020 09:43 IST

    Photos: Tourists steer clear of Venice over coronavirus fears

    A gondola sails on an empty Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. A quarter of the Italian population was locked down on March 8 as the government took drastic steps to stop the spread of the deadly coronavirus that is sweeping the globe. Owing to the outbreak, the city is deserted even during the festive season. (Andrea Pattaro / AFP)9
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    Updated on Mar 9, 2020 15:41 IST

    Photos: The women who scavenge for gold at the top of the world

    Eva Chura, 42, a 'pallaquera’, strikes rocks that were discarded from a mine, in search of gold, in the town of La Rinconada, the Andes, Peru. Living with their families in shacks in a gold shantytown in the Andes, these women make a living gleaning gold from rubble. They are called “pallaqueras” which roughly translates as ‘gold-pickers.’ (Nacho Doce / REUTERS)8
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    Updated on Mar 9, 2020 10:21 IST

    Yes Bank crisis and coronavirus scare: India this week

    Account-holders wait outside a Yes Bank branch to withdraw their money at Fort in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The bank has been put under a moratorium by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). (Pratik Chorge / HT Photo)30
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    Updated on Mar 9, 2020 06:31 IST

    Photos: Egypt’s ancient step pyramid reopens after renovation

    A general view shows the step pyramid of Djoser in Egypt's Saqqara necropolis, south of the capital Cairo. On Thursday, March 5, Egyptian authorities inaugurated the famed step pyramid of Djoser,one of the earliest built in the country’s ancient history, after years of renovation. The 4,700-year-old structure is nestled south of Cairo in the ancient capital of Memphis, a UNESCO World Heritage site, home to some of Egypt's most fascinating monuments. (Mohamed el-Shahed / AFP)7
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    Updated on Mar 8, 2020 14:38 IST

    Photos of the week: Coronavirus prevention in Japan and Brazil floods

    A large crowd of mask-wearing commuters walk through Shinagawa Station in Tokyo, Japan. The government has indicated it sees the next couple of weeks as crucial to containing the spread of COVID-19, which was discovered in China in late 2019. (Jae C. Hong / AP)30
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    Updated on Mar 7, 2020 16:06 IST

    Photos: Temperature dips, air quality improves after rains in Delhi-NCR

    An upside down reflection of a person walking on a road after the rain, at Rajghat, in New Delhi, on Friday. The national capital witnessed heavy downpour in the last couple of days, clearing pollutants and brining the mercury down by at least six notches but causing huge traffic jams in the evening peak hours. Consequently, the Air Quality Index (AQI) of the National Capital Region (NCR) also improved. (Sanchit Khanna / HT Photo)11
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    Updated on Mar 7, 2020 16:06 IST

    Photos: After abuse scandals, seminarians pledge to ‘get it right’

    Seminarians and faculty file out from Mass at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood. They walk along a hallway lined with photos of classes of priests who came before them. Some are pious alumni who have become their teachers and mentors; others climbed the Catholic hierarchy to be revered as bishops and cardinals. But after the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church, seminaries say they have tightened screening of applicants. (Wong Maye-E / AP)10
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    Updated on Mar 6, 2020 17:48 IST

    Photos: Yes Bank customers in Delhi, NCR feel the heat

    With withdrawals from Yes Bank capped at Rs 50,000 per depositor, tension among customers of the crisis-hit bank in Delhi-NCR was evident. Though there were no long queues outside bank premises, there was a rush inside bank branches. (Biplov Bhuyan / HT Photo)6
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    Updated on Mar 6, 2020 16:59 IST

    Photos: Indian women take reins in birthplace of modern polo

    Linthoingambi Kangjei Lup Polo Club player Shanglenmayum Sangeeta stands next to her pony as she adjusts the length of the stirrups leather before the start of their 15th Women’s State Polo Tournament match at the Mapal Kangjeibung (Polo Ground) in Imphal. (Xavier Galiana / AFP)11
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    Updated on Mar 6, 2020 13:42 IST

    Photos: Hong Kongers go hiking to escape coronavirus fear

    People seen taking photographs at a lookout point along a hiking trail in Hong Kong. Hong Kongers are escaping the coronavirus anxiety that has gripped the crowded city by heading for the hills to find fresh air and space to exercise. (Vivek Prakash / AFP)6
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    Updated on Mar 5, 2020 12:56 IST

    Photos: In Dakar, volunteers clean beach littered with medical waste

    A volunteer seen wearing protective gear picks up waste during a clean-up operation of medical trash thrown away by nearby hospitals on the Cap-Manuel beach in Dakar. (Seyllou / AFP)6
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    Updated on Mar 5, 2020 12:31 IST

    Photos: Coronavirus scare reaches India with cases reported from Delhi

    A group of visitors seen wearing protective masks following cases of coronavirus in India, at North Block, in New Delhi. With 29 confirmed coronavirus (Covid-19) cases in India, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said “From now on, all flights and passengers will be part of universal screening, not just the 12 countries which we had listed earlier.” (Burhaan Kinu / HT Photo)7
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    Updated on Mar 5, 2020 09:03 IST

    Photos: Mount Merapi erupts, spews massive ash cloud

    Tourists look towards Mount Merapi volcano as it erupts, at Cangkringan district in Sleman, Yogyakarta. Indonesia’s most active volcano erupted Tuesday, shooting a massive ash cloud some 20,000 feet in the air which coated nearby communities with grey dust. (Rizky Tulus / Indonesia Out / REUTERS)6
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    Updated on Mar 4, 2020 12:43 IST

    Photos: A week later, timeline of the Delhi riots by HT photographers

    Charred remains of a vehicle are seen outside a house in Old Garhi Mendu village in Shahdara, following communal violence over the new citizenship law. In Delhi, at least 47 people have been killed so far, while more than 350 people have been injured in the communal riots that ravaged the capital from February 23 to 25. (Amal KS / HT Photo)25
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    Updated on Mar 4, 2020 12:42 IST

    Photos: Refugees head to Europe as Turkey opens gate

    Migrants walk along fields near the border line to reach Greece as they are pictured near Karpuzlu village of the Turkish border city of Edirne. Refugees in Turkey headed towards European frontiers on Friday after an official said the borders had been thrown open, a response to the escalating war in Syria where 33 Turkish soldiers were killed by Russian-backed Syrian government troops, reported Reuters. (Umit Bektas / REUTERS)9
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    Updated on Mar 3, 2020 11:11 IST

    Photos: People with albinism issued with protective alarms in Malawi

    Catherine Amidu hangs clothes to dry outside her home in Machinga, Malawi. People with albinism in several African countries live in fear of being abducted and killed in the mistaken belief that their body parts carry special powers and can be sold for thousands of dollars. 17-year-old Amidu has survived an attempt on her life in 2017. (Thoko Chikondi / AP)10
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    Updated on Mar 3, 2020 10:19 IST

    Photos: For Afghan actor turned refugee, survival is the toughest role

    Talibshah Hosini, 35, helps his daughter Farima, 9, with her English vocabulary homework as his two other daughters Parisa, 6, and Marjan, 3, draw pictures inside their temporary shelter at a makeshift camp for refugees and migrants next to the Moria camp, on the island of Lesbos, Greece. Hosini played some tough roles as an actor in Afghanistan before he fled. None was as hard as his real-life fight for survival in a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. (Alkis Konstantinidis / REUTERS)10
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    Updated on Mar 2, 2020 14:25 IST

    Photos: In virus-hit China, coat maker adapts to make hazmat suits

    Workers sew hazardous material suits to be used in the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak at the Zhejiang Ugly Duck Industry garment factory in Wenzhou. The coronavirus outbreak in China is preventing clothing manufacturer Ugly Duck Industry from resuming its normal production of winter coats, so it has pivoted to another in-demand product: hazmat suits. (Noel Celis / AFP)7
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    Updated on Mar 2, 2020 14:09 IST

    Photos: Lives of Nigerian gay suspects after police raid and viral video

    Men arrested on charges of public display of affection stand beside the gate of the Federal High Court in Lagos. The 57 men stumbled out of the back of a dark police truck into the glare of a sunny courtyard and a phalanx of cameras. Some clutched another’s hand, as if for comfort. They lined up on wooden benches in the dirt, almost all of them trying to hide their faces, and not succeeding. (Temilade Adelaja / REUTERS)9
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    Updated on Mar 1, 2020 16:17 IST

    Riots in New Delhi and schools reopen in Kashmir: India this week

    Members of a wedding procession pass through a road littered with debris and damaged vehicles while smoke rises in the background after clashes between opposing groups over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) at Karawal Nagar in New Delhi. (Biplov Bhuyan / HT Photo)30
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    Updated on Mar 1, 2020 12:16 IST

    Photos | Coronavirus: Over 85,000 infected globally, over 2,900 deaths

    A man rides past bags of vegetables being prepared for delivery on an almost empty street in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province. A viral outbreak that began in China has infected more than 85,000 people globally. The World Health Organisation has named the illness COVID-19, referring to its origin late last year and the coronavirus that causes it. (AFP)10
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    Updated on Feb 29, 2020 12:41 IST

    Photos of the week: Ukrainian man sets himself ablaze and Indonesia floods

    A man sets himself on fire during protest rallies in front of the presidential office in Kiev, Ukraine. The man, who called himself Oleksandr Burlakov, said subsequently that his motive was to draw the attention of the authorities to his plight, related to the ownership of the land parcel. (Ihor Behus / REUTERS)30
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    Updated on Feb 29, 2020 12:41 IST

    Photos: Colombia launches military push against narco gangs

    Aerial view of coca fields in Tumaco, Narino Department, Colombia. The government said some 700 hectares (1,730 acres) of forest in the Sierra de la Macarena national park in southern Colombia have been destroyed by dissidents of the former FARC guerrilla group who rejected a 2016 peace agreement. (Raul Arboleda / AFP)7
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    Updated on Feb 28, 2020 13:54 IST

    Photos: Delhi morgue shows carnage after riots

    A man peeks through the gate of the mortuary to the Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital in Delhi. Some sobbed quietly in the corner and others sat catatonic with grief as bodies wrapped in white shrouds were wheeled in and out of a hospital mortuary in northeast Delhi. (Prashanth Vishwanathan / Bloomberg)9
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    Updated on Feb 28, 2020 11:29 IST
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