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Students daubed in coloured powders celebrate the Hindu spring festival of ‘Holi’ at a university in Amritsar on March 22, 2024. (Photo by Narinder NANU / AFP)
Palestinian Muslim devotees arrive for the second Friday Noon prayers of the Islamic holy fasting month of Ramadan, near the Dome of the Rock mosque in the compound of the Al-Aqsa mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem, on March 22, 2024. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)Activists from the environmental organization Greenpeace stand next to a giant inflatable sea turtle in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building as they demand that Mexico support the Global Plastics Treaty (GPT) in Mexico City on March 21, 2024. (Photo by Yuri CORTEZ / AFP)Bertrand Kacou, an artisan shoemaker, works at his workshop in Abobo, a suburb of Abidjan, on March 22, 2024. (Photo by Issouf SANOGO / AFP)Students hold portraits of Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Italy’s deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini with a red hand painted, during a protest against the Italian government in Turin, Northwestern Italy, on March 22, 2024. Students associations protest against police violence, the reform of school and in support of Palestinians amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Photo by MARCO BERTORELLO / AFP)Muslims perform the second Friday prayer of the Muslim’s holy month of Ramadan at a mosque in Lahore, Pakistan, 22 March 2024. The Muslims’ holy month of Ramadan is the ninth month in the Islamic calendar, and it is believed that the revelation of the first verse in the Koran was during its last 10 nights. It is celebrated yearly by praying during the night and abstaining from eating, drinking, and sexual acts during the period between sunrise and sunset. It is also a time for socializing, mainly in the evening after breaking the fast, and a shift of all activities to late in the day in most countries. Picture: EPA-EFE/RAHAT DARDamaged scooters hit by debris lay at a parking after a magnitude-6.4 offshore earthquake hit near Indonesia’s Java island, at Airlangga university hospital in Surabaya on March 22, 2024. A magnitude-6.4 offshore earthquake hit near Indonesia’s Java island on March 22, the United States Geological Survey said, with the tremor felt in the capital Jakarta and forcing residents of another city to flee their homes. The quake had a depth of approximately eight kilometres (five miles), and struck off Java island’s northern coast near Bawean island at about 3:52 pm local time (0852 GMT), the USGS said. (Photo by JUNI KRISWANTO / AFP)The dummy of a skeleton holding a banner against the current German traffic light ‘Ampel’ coalition is carried around during a farmer protest against the federal government’s agricultural policy including plans to end tax subsidies for agricultural diesel, in Berlin, Germany, 22 March 2024. Picture: EPA-EFE/Filip SingerAustrian Alpine forces take part in the military-tactical exercise ‘Rhodope – 24’ in the Rhodope Mountain near the town of Smolan, Bulgaria, 22 March 2024. Highland military units of Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia and Austria participate in the military exercise. The purpose of the training is to maintain and increase the capabilities of the alpine formations to conduct combat operations in mountainous and forested areas in winter, as well as to improve interoperability with formations from NATO and member countries of the mountain training initiative. Picture: EPA-EFE/VASSIL DONEVVisitors take part in a virtual reality experience as part of the exhibition ‘Paris 1874 Inventing Impressionism’ at the Musee d’Orsay in Paris on March 22, 2024, as 150 years ago, on April 15, 1874, the first impressionist exhibition opened in Paris. ‘Paris 1874’ reviews the circumstances that led the 31 artists exhibited (only seven of whom are well-known across the world today) to join forces and exhibit their works together. (Photo by MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP)A visitor looks at the painting “La Lecture” (Reading – 1873) by French impressionist painter Berthe Morisot (1841-1895), during a visit of the exhibition ‘Paris 1874 Inventing Impressionism’ at the Musee d’Orsay in Paris on March 22, 2024, as 150 years ago, on April 15, 1874, the first impressionist exhibition opened in Paris. ‘Paris 1874’ reviews the circumstances that led the 31 artists exhibited (only seven of whom are well-known across the world today) to join forces and exhibit their works together. (Photo by MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP)Marco Odermatt of Switzerland reacts in the finish area after his run in the Men’s Super G race at the FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup finals in Saalbach Hinterglemm, Austria, 22 March 2024. Picture: EPA-EFE/CHRISTIAN BRUNA
