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Our world in photos: January 22

January 22, 2021 Michaela Keil
BRITAIN — Storm Christoph: On Thursday, a house was surrounded by flood waters at Bangor-on-Dee, Wales, after large parts of central and northern England and Wales were caught in the path of Storm Christoph. Photo: Jon Super/AP
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AUSTRIA — Crash landing: Switzerland’s Urs Kryenbuehl crashed at the finish line during an alpine ski at the Men’s World Cup downhill in Kitzbühel, Friday.
Photo: Giovanni Auletta/AP

 

CHINA — One year anniversary: Residents burned paper offerings to relatives who died from the coronavirus on Friday, the eve of the anniversary of the 76-day lockdown in the central Chinese city where the coronavirus was first detected in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei province.
Photo: Ng Han Guan/AP

 

GAZA — Rainy day: A Palestinian woman checked the nylon cover on the roof of her house on a rainy day in a poor neighborhood of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday.
Photo: Khalil Hamra/AP

 

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MEXICO — Catching a ride: Mexican soldier Gaspar Sanchez sat over his recently adopted puppy, Cloee, following his troop’s overnight patrol along the Suchiate River, the natural border with Guatemala near Ciudad Hidalgo on Thursday. Sanchez said he adopted the puppy from a litter of street dogs near his base in Tapachula.
Photo: Marco Ugarte/AP

 

EGYPT — Handball World Championship: Portugal’s Andre Gomes shot during the World Handball Championship between Switzerland and Portugal in Cairo on Friday.
Photo: Petr David Josek/Pool via AP

 

INDIA — Vaccine manufacturing fire: Employees left as smoke rose from a fire at Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine maker that is manufacturing the AstraZeneca/Oxford University vaccine for the coronavirus, in Pune, Thursday.
Photo: Rafiq Maqbool/AP

 

LEBANON — Lockdown: The Ramlet al-Baida public beach was empty during a coronavirus lockdown, in Beirut on Thursday. Authorities on Thursday extended a nationwide lockdown by a week to February 8 amid a steep rise in coronavirus deaths and infections that has overwhelmed the health care system.
Photo: Bilal Hussein/AP

 

PERU — Trumpeteers: On Thursday, musicians played during the burial of Oclander Arresurrenga More, who died from COVID-19, at the “Martires 19 de Julio” cemetery in Comas, on the outskirts of Lima.
Photo: Rodrigo Abd/AP

 

NEW YORK — Helicopter crash: Investigators conferred near the wreckage of a UH-60 Black Hawk medical evacuation helicopter in a field in Mendon on Thursday. Three National Guard members were killed in the crash on Wednesday evening.
Photo: Jamie Germano/Democrat & Chronicle via AP

 


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