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Our world in photos: December 3

December 3, 2020 Michaela Keil
LEBANON — Bright balloons: A street vendor walked with his colored balloons at Beirut's seaside corniche, or waterfront promenade, along the Mediterranean Sea, in Beirut on Wednesday. Photo: Hussein Malla/AP
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CALIFORNIA — Wildfire: Bruce McDougal watched embers fly over his property as the Bond Fire burned through the Silverado community in Orange County on Thursday. Photo: Noah Berger/AP

 

PERU — Agricultural strike: Trucks lined up as farm workers blocked the Pan-American highway during a protest Wednesday, in Villacuri, Ica province. The workers are demanding better wages and health benefits. Photo: Rodrigo Abd/AP

 

BRITAIN — Sunrise swim: Early morning swimmers enjoyed the water during sunrise in London on Wednesday at the Charlton Lido in Hornfair Park on its first day of reopening since the second national lockdown ended and England entered a strengthened, tiered system of regional coronavirus restrictions. Photo: Victoria Jones/PA via AP

 

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NEW YORK — Rockefeller is lit: People watched from the windows of 30 Rockefeller Center as more than 50,000 lights on the 75-foot-tall Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree were illuminated at the annual Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree lighting ceremony, Wednesday night. The ceremony was a mask-mandated, time-limited, socially distanced event due to the coronavirus pandemic. Photo: Craig Ruttle/AP

 

INDIA — Protest reflections: Farmer Surender Singh, 70, sat on a chair next to a truck parked on a highway as part of protests against new farm bills, at the Delhi-Haryana state border, Tuesday. The farmers have been protesting new laws that they say will result in their exploitation by corporations, eventually rendering them landless. It’s a siege of sorts and the mood among the protesting farmers is boisterous. Their rallying call is “Inquilab Zindabad” (“Long live the revolution”). Photo: Altaf Qadri/AP

 

CHILE — Malnutrition crisis: A homeless man slept on a mattress parked on a sidewalk near a grocery store, in Santiago, Wednesday. Although Latin America and the Caribbean have food to satisfy their more than 600 million inhabitants, last year 191 million people had insufficient nutrition and 47.7 million went hungry, according to a United Nations report released on Wednesday. Photo: Esteban Felix/AP

 

MINNESOTA — Crash landing: A single-engine plane made an emergency landing on northbound Interstate 35W, just north of County Road E2, in Arden Hills late Wednesday. Photo: Jeff Wheeler/Star Tribune via AP

 

ISRAEL — New masks: Masks which depicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz laid on the ground during a protest against a parliamentary vote to dissolve the Knesset and send the country to its fourth election in two years, while it still hasn’t approved a national budget for 2020, in Tel Aviv, Wednesday. Photo: Oded Balilty/AP

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