Tuesday December 26, Our World in Pictures

December 26, 2017 Brooklyn Daily Eagle

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VATICAN — Faithful Flock on Christmas: Pope Francis waves to faithful during the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for “to the city and to the world”) Christmas blessing from the main balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica on Monday.

LITHUANIA — City Lit Up for Holiday: Visitors walk in front of the illuminated Christmas tree at Cathedral Square in Vilnius on Saturday. Over 80 percent of Lithuanians are Christians who celebrate the festival of Christmas on Dec. 25.

PERU — Protesters Fight Back: A demonstrator throws a tear gas canister back toward the police during clashes against the pardon of former President Alberto Fujimori in Lima on Monday. President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski announced Sunday night that he granted a medical pardon to the jailed former strongman who was serving a 25-year sentence for human rights abuses, corruption and the sanctioning of death squads.

VENEZUELA — Opposition Feeds the Hungry: Children watch their free meal arrive to be served at a soup kitchen sponsored by the opposition in Caracas on Dec. 12. Opposition leaders are reinventing themselves, meeting their country’s growing number of poor in their own neighborhoods.

INDIA — Mass Wedding Takes Place: A bride and a groom perform rituals during a mass wedding in Surat on Sunday. More than 250 young couples, including five Muslim couple and one Christian couple, tied the knot at the mass wedding hosted by diamond trader Mahesh Savani, who has been funding the weddings of fatherless women in Surat for several years. Weddings in India are expensive affairs with the bride’s family traditionally expected to pay the groom a large dowry of cash and gifts. Hundreds of people, mostly family members and neighbors of the couple, are hosted at lavish meals over a number of days, adding to the costs.

GERMANY — Crows Swoop: A man takes a picture of hundreds of crows at dawn near the Baltic Sea in Timmendorfer Strand on Saturday.

PUERTO RICO – Christmas in the Dark: In this photo, 6-year-old Melanie Oliveras González remains seated on the balcony of her house, in Barrio Patrón, Morovis, Puerto Rico. Their home lost its roof and most of their belongings during the passing of Hurricane Maria and they still have no power.

RUSSIA – Bus Crash: Pedestrians stand around the scene of a bus crash in Moscow, Russia, Monday. Several people were killed and more than a dozen injured when a bus careened off a road and onto steps leading into an underground passageway, authorities said.

ENGLAND – Royals Arrive at Christmas Service: Prince Harry and his fiancee Meghan Markle arrive to attend the traditional Christmas Day service, at St. Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham, England, Monday.

ISRAEL – Boy Holds Small Fish: In this Tuesday photo, an Israeli youth shows off the small fish he caught on the banks of the Jordan River near the northern Israeli Kibbutz of Kinneret. Israel is heading into its fifth consecutive year of drought, putting three celebrated biblical bodies of water at risk. The Sea of Galilee, the country’s main water source, already stands at a century low and the mighty Jordan River, known for its prominence in the Bible, could be best described along much of its length as a creek. The Dead Sea, a marvel of the natural world, is shrinking.