
A Week in World Photos
A welcome in Hanoi, an election in Nigeria, and Carnival in Rio de Janeiro.
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A group of girls leave their school during a rally by All Progressives Congress supporters celebrating the re-election of the incumbent president and the party’s leader in Kano, Nigeria, on Feb. 27.
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Schoolgirls look at The Morning of the Streltsy Execution by Russian painter Vasily Surikov at the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow on Feb. 26.
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Students wave Vietnamese and North Korean flags during a dance rehearsal at a school in Hanoi on Feb. 27 ahead of the second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
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North Korean students read the Rodong Sinmun newspaper coverage of Kim Jong Un’s visit to Vietnam for a summit in Hanoi with U.S. President Donald Trump on Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang on Feb. 28.
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Turbines poke above the morning fog at a wind farm in Jacobsdorf, Germany, on Feb. 27.
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A man talks to a girl in the courtyard outside their house in Beijing’s hutong area on Feb. 26.
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Youths transport scrap materials in a wheelbarrow along an illegal trail from San Antonio, Venezuela, to Cúcuta, Colombia, on Feb. 27. The border remained closed on the Venezuelan side after opposition efforts to bring humanitarian aid into the country from Colombia descended into a bloody chaos.
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Supporters of Venezuelan opposition leader and self-declared acting president Juan Guaidó shout slogans during a demonstration outside Colombia’s Foreign Ministry in Bogotá, where Guaidó met with members of a multinational support group to tackle next steps in the country’s crisis on Feb. 25.
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A young child looks at a member of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces after leaving the Islamic State group’s last holdout of Baghouz in Syria’s northern Deir Ezzor province on Feb. 27.
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Women and children wait to be searched by members of the Syrian Democratic Forces after leaving Baghouz, Syria, on Feb. 27.
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Men suspected of being Islamic State fighters wait to be searched by members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces after leaving Baghouz, Syria, on Feb. 27.
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Pakistani soldiers stand next to what Pakistan says is the wreckage of an Indian fighter jet shot down in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir in the Bhimber district near the Line of Control on Feb. 27.
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A Pakistani policeman stands guard near the Samjhauta Express train traveling to India at Lahore railway station on Feb. 25.
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A border wall prototype is torn down at the U.S.-Mexico border as seen from Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on Feb. 27. The U.S. Department of Customs and Border Protection said the prototypes would be torn down to make way for a second barrier separating California and Mexico.
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An Indian worker exits a tunnel after a boring machine broke through the eastbound tunnel of the Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation Limited in Ahmedabad on Feb. 25.
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A woman in the United States takes a picture of Mexico through the border fence as residents of Anapra, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Mexico’s Ciudad Juárez, and others attend a prayer service with priests and bishops from both countries on Feb. 26.
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A girl stands in front of cow horns at Kaduna Abatour meat market in North Kaduna on Feb. 25 as Nigeria awaited results of its presidential election.
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People take to Kano’s streets to celebrate the re-election of Muhammadu Buhari as Nigerian president after a delayed poll that angered voters on Feb. 27. The opposition immediately vowed to challenge the “sham” result in court.
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Michael Cohen, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, is sworn in to testify before the House Oversight and Reform Committee in Washington on Feb. 27.
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Flash floods caused by torrential rain wash down a street on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Feb. 28.
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An Algerian policeman restrains a protester at a rally organized by journalists alleging censorship of the coverage of protests against a fifth term for longtime President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in Algiers on Feb. 28. Algerian police arrested a dozen people participating in the rally as around 100 print and broadcast journalists, working for both state-owned and private outlets, joined the demonstration.
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People celebrate at the Women’s Carnival in Cologne, Germany, on Feb. 28.
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Revelers wait to take part in a street carnival parade of the Loucura Suburbana (Suburban Craziness) in Rio de Janeiro on Feb. 28. The parade is organized by workers and patients of the Nise da Silveira Municipal Psychiatric Hospital and starts inside the hospital and winds its way through the neighborhood.
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An aurora borealis lights up the late-night sky in the southern part of Norway on Feb. 28.
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The polar bear cub at the Copenhagen Zoo comes outside for the first time on Feb. 28.
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A girl sits at a table in a street cafe during heavy snow in the Rosa Khutor resort outside Sochi, Russia, on March 1. Organizers were forced to cancel the Ladies FIS Alpine Ski World Cup downhill event due to heavy snowfall.
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A woman dressed in traditional costume cares for farm animals in an enclosure set up for the Shrovetide spring festival outside the Kremlin in Moscow on March 1.
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The pack of cyclists rides past during the fifth stage of the UAE tour from Sharjah to Khor Fakkan on Feb. 28.
GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP/Getty ImagesA Week in World Photos
A welcome in Hanoi, an election in Nigeria, and Carnival in Rio de Janeiro.