Thursday December 21, Our World in Pictures

December 21, 2017 Brooklyn Daily Eagle

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PHILIPPINES — Demonstrators Rally Against Trump: In this Thursday photo, Muslim protesters hold a picture of U.S. President Donald Trump with horns and fangs during a protest in Manila against Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The protesters insist that Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine and demanded Trump to recall his statement.

VATICAN CITY — Former Archbishop Dies: Pope Francis presides over the funeral for late Cardinal Bernard Law at St. Peter’s Basilica on Thursday. Law, who died Wednesday at 86, resigned in disgrace as archbishop of Boston in 2002 after revelations that he covered up for dozens of priests who raped and sexually molested children, moving them to different parishes without telling parents or police.

JAPAN — Window Cleaners Dress Up: Window cleaners dressed as a dog and bird greet a girl at Tokyo’s Yaesu shopping and business district on Wednesday.

SPAIN — Residents Vote: A young woman jogs past a building decorated with Catalonia flags in Girona on Thursday. Catalans are choosing new political leaders in a highly contested election called by central authorities to quell a separatist bid in Spain’s northeastern region.

PHILIPPINES — Zoo Celebrates Christmas: Orphans interact with a Bengal tiger during a Christmas visit to the Malabon Zoo on Thursday. Malabon Zoo founder Manny Tangco hosted the Merry Animal Christmas event for some 200 orphans to underscore that “Christmas is for animals too.”

RUSSIA — City Commemorates Stalin’s Birthday: A woman holding a portrait of Josef Stalin places flowers near a monument to the former leader near the Kremlin wall on the anniversary of Stalin’s birth in Moscow’s Red Square on Thursday.

ROMANIA — Remembering a Deadly Uprising: An honor guard soldier closes his eyes while standing to attention in Bucharest on Thursday during a memorial ceremony for the victims of the 1989 uprising. The anti-communist uprising, which left more than 1,000 people dead and ended the rule of Dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, began in Timisoara on Dec. 16, 1989 and in Bucharest on Dec. 21, 1989.

PERU — Authorities Investigate President: Women prepare to sell candy on the steps of the government palace, where impeachment proceedings against Peru’s President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski are going on, in Lima on Wednesday. Congressional opposition leaders initiated the proceedings after an investigative committee revealed documents showing Kuczynski’s private consulting firm received payments from Brazilian construction company Odebrecht more than a decade ago.

GERMANY – Man in Tunnel: A man walks through a tunnel at the government district in Berlin, Wednesday.

BRAZIL – Transgender Volleyball Player: Bauru’s volleyball player Tiffany Abreu, right, celebrates with teammates during a Brazilian volleyball league match in Bauru, Brazil, Tuesday. Rodrigo Abreu, as he used to be known, played in men’s leagues in Brazil, Italy, Spain and Holland before changing gender in 2014.

FRANCE – Alpine Skiing: United States’ Mikaela Shiffrin, right, and Slovakia’s Petra Vlhova compete during the final run of an alpine ski, women’s World Cup parallel slalom in Courchevel, France, Wednesday.

IRAQ – Mother Cries as Daughter Exhumed: In this photo, Fatima Ahmed Aswad cries as the body of her 15-year-old daughter Sana is exhumed in Mosul for forensic investigation in order to receive a death certificate. The girl died from a mortar attack in the final battle to drive out Islamic State extremists, among between 9,000 and 11,000 civilians killed in the fighting.