Wednesday August 9, Our World in Pictures

August 9, 2017 Brooklyn Daily Eagle

AP Photo/J. David Ake

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Moon Sets Over Bridge: A cyclist passes the setting moon as she rides across the Francis Scott Key Bridge toward Georgetown early Wednesday morning.

VATICAN CITY — Pope Speaks with Audience: Pope Francis exchanges a skullcap with a faithful during his weekly general audience on Wednesday.

NEW YORK – Generator on a Barge: Tugboats guide a barge laden with a $195 million heat-recovery steam generator past the Statue of Liberty, Tuesday in New York. The generator is a component of a new, $600 million power plant being built by PSEG. The equipment was assembled in Coeymans, N.Y. and is destined for the Sewaren 7 power plant in Woodbridge, N.J.

VIRGINIA – Military Hats: The hats of officials sit on a coat rack outside a meeting between Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Vietnam Defense Minister Gen. Ngo Xuan Lich at the Pentagon, Tuesday.

ENGLAND – Celebration: Kenya’s Conseslus Kipruto celebrates winning the gold medal in the Men’s 3000m Steeplechase final during the World Athletics Championships in London Tuesday.

PARAGUAY – Farmers Protest: An overhead view of an encampment set up by protesting farmers in the Plaza de Armas, in downtown Asuncion, Paraguay, Tuesday. The farmers, who have been camped out for almost a month, are facing economic hardship after failed harvests due to harsh environmental conditions, and are asking the government to forgive their debts. Last week Paraguay’s President Horacio Cartes vetoed a law that would have forgiven the farmers’ debts.