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Our world in photos: January 11

January 11, 2021 Michaela Keil
UKRAINE — Blessed in scrubs: Father Stephan, a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church priest, wore a special suit to protect himself against coronavirus as he visited with COVID-19 patients at an intensive care unit of the emergency hospital in Lviv, Saturday. Ukraine imposed a wide-ranging lockdown which began Friday, closing schools and entertainment venues and restaurant table service through Jan. 25. Photo: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP
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CZECH REPUBLIC — Full house: A worker moved a casket to be incinerated at a crematorium in Ostrava, Thursday. The biggest crematorium in the Czech Republic has been overwhelmed by mounting numbers of pandemic victims. With new confirmed COVID-19 infections around record highs, the situation looks set to worsen. Authorities in Ostrava have been speeding up plans to build a fourth furnace but.
Photo: Petr David Josek/AP

 

AUSTRALIA — Celebration: Australia’s Steve Smith excitedly threw off his helmet upon reaching a century during play on day two of the third cricket test between India and Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground in Sydney on Friday.
Photo: Rick Rycroft/AP

 

CANADA — Quiet: On Saturday in Montreal, the Turcot Interchange was empty as the Quebec government imposed a curfew to help stop the spread of COVID-19. The daily curfew started at 8 p.m, keeping the public inside until 5 a.m and will last until Feb. 8.
Photo: Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press via AP

 

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BOSNIA — Community cooking: Migrants cook inside a makeshift shelter at the Lipa camp, outside Bihac, Friday. A fresh spate of snowy and very cold winter weather brought more misery for hundreds of migrants who were stuck for days in the burnt-out camp, waiting for heating and other facilities.
Photo: Kemal Softic/AP

 

CALIFORNIA — Unlawful assembly: Supporters of President Donald Trump clashed with counter-protesters in San Diego on Saturday, prompting San Diego police to declare the gathering an unlawful assembly because of acts of violence.
Photo: Nelvin C. Cepeda/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP

 

CALIFORNIA — Above the competition: Washington forward Hameir Wright (13) rebounded over California guard Makale Foreman (10) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, in Berkeley.
Photo: Tony Avelar/AP

 

INDONESIA — Recovery: On Sunday, Indonesian Navy divers pulled a part of an airplane out of the water during a search operation for the Sriwijaya Air passenger jet that crashed into the sea near Jakarta shortly after takeoff on Saturday. Divers located parts of the wreckage of the Boeing 737-500 in the Java Sea, a day after the aircraft with dozens of people on board crashed.
Photo: Achmad Ibrahim/AP

 

ISRAEL — Mass injection: An Israeli protester held a giant styrofoam syringe during a demonstration against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu near his official residence, in Jerusalem, during the third nationwide coronavirus lockdown, Saturday. Protesters demanded that the embattled Israeli leader resign as he faces a trial on corruption charges and grapples with a deepening coronavirus crisis.
Photo: Oded Balilty/AP

 

PHILIPPINES — Protected procession: Young Catholic devotees wearing face masks stood on a fence, trying to catch a glimpse of the Black Nazarene at the Santa Cruz Church in Manila on Friday, one day before the feast day. One of Asia’s biggest religious events, the annual Jan. 9 procession attended by tens of thousands of devotees was canceled due to the threat of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Several Black Nazarene replicas have been placed around churches as the government asks devotees to pray at their communities instead of going to downtown Quiapo where the original image stays.
Photo: Aaron Favila/AP

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