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Our world in photos: January 29

January 29, 2021 Michaela Keil
NEPAL — Festival: Nepalese Hindu devotees offered prayers during the Madhav Narayan Festival along the banks of the Hanumante river in Bhaktapur, on Thursday. During the festival, devotees recite holy scriptures dedicated to Hindu goddess Swasthani and Lord Shiva. Unmarried women pray to get a good husband while those married pray for the longevity of their husbands by observing a month-long fast. Photo: Niranjan Shrestha/AP
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VENEZUELA — Fire: A firefighter rested after helping put out a fire at the Ministry of Education, where a fire broke out in the early morning before the offices opened, in Caracas on Thursday. The cause has not yet been disclosed. No injuries were reported.
Photo: Ariana Cubillos/AP

 

CANADA — Rideau Canal: People made their way along the Rideau Canal Skateway on its opening day in Ottawa, Ontario on Thursday, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Rideau Canal is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Photo: Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP

 

POLAND — Protests continue: People gathered for a protest against a new anti-abortion law in Warsaw on Thursday. A near-total ban on abortion has taken effect in Poland three months after a top court ruled that the abortion of congenitally damaged fetuses is unconstitutional. Led by a women’s rights group, people poured onto the streets of Warsaw and other cities for the second evening in a row on Thursday to protest the move.
Photo: Czarek Sokolowski/AP

 

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GREECE — Students protests: A university student held a banner during a rally against education reforms in Athens on Thursday. Thousands of protesters in Greece have held demonstrations in the Greek capital and the second-largest city of Thessaloniki against proposed education reforms, defying a weeklong public ban on protests imposed as part of measures to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.
Photo: Thanassis Stavrakis/AP

 

CALIFORNIA — Wake of the storm: Jose Guadalupe cleared debris from a mudslide following heavy rains in the Chualar community of Monterey County on Thursday. The area sits beneath hillsides scorched in last year’s River Fire.
Photo: Noah Berger/AP

 

CALIFORNIA — Cloris Leachman: Flowers were laid on the Hollywood Walk of Fame star of the late Oscar-winning actress Cloris Leachman on Wednesday in Los Angeles. Leachman died Wednesday of natural causes at age 94.
Photo: Chris Pizzello/AP

 

PORTUGAL — Construction: A worker finished a wall just built in the Military Hospital canteen, which is being transformed into a 50-bed infirmary, in Lisbon, on Wednesday. At the hospital, hundreds of troops have spent frantic weeks this month rushing to turn every available space into makeshift COVID-19 wards, as Portugal scrambles to cope with a sudden deluge of cases engulfing the public health system.
Photo: Armando Franca/AP

 

INDONESIA — Burial: On Thursday, workers prepared a coffin for burial in the special section of the Padurenan cemetery, which opened to accommodate the surge in deaths during the coronavirus outbreak in Bekasi.
Photo: Achmad Ibrahim/AP

 

GERMANY — Vaccinated: A man wore a face mask on his walk back from the vaccination center in Frankfurt on Thursday.
Photo: Michael Probst/AP

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