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Our world in photos: March 16

March 16, 2021 By Michaela Keil
BRITAIN — “She was walking home”: A person held a sign near the Parliament during a march to reflect on the murder of 33-year-old marketing executive, Sarah Everard, in London on Monday. Parliament prepared to debate a sweeping crime bill amid anger over the way police broke up a vigil for Everard, who was murdered and abducted on the streets of London. Photo: Matt Dunham/AP
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PERU — Campaign trail: Presidential candidate George Forsyth, with the National Victory party, spoke with a supporter as he campaigned in Manchay on the outskirts of Lima, on Monday. Peru’s general election is set for April 11.
Photo: Martin Mejia/AP

 

BRAZIL — Vaccine delivery: On Monday, a health worker gave a dose of the Sinovac vaccine from the door of her vehicle, in the Kalunga Vao de Almas community, a rural area on the outskirts of Cavalcante. The local government initiated its planned COVID-19 vaccination for priority Quilombolas populations with the goal of vaccinating 190 families residing in the Kalunga Vao de Almas community, a traditional community of black people descended from slaves.
Photo: Eraldo Peres/AP

 

JAPAN — Allies: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, right, met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, during a courtesy call at the prime minister’s official residence on Tuesday. Defense and foreign ministers from the U.S. and Japan met to discuss their concern over China’s growing influence in the Indo-Pacific region in an attempt for the Biden administration to reaffirm engagement with its key regional allies.
Photo: Eugene Hoshiko/Pool via AP

 

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GREECE — Flying kites: A family tried to fly a kite in a field of flowers in Drapetsona, a suburb of Piraeus, near Athens, on Sunday. The coronavirus pandemic, which hit Cyprus and Greece especially hard this winter, threatened to ground the kite-flying, an essential part of the celebration of Clean Monday, the first day of Lent.
Photo: Petros Giannakouris/AP

 

LEBANON — Yellow bouquet: On Tuesday, a Syrian boy who sells flowers on the street watched protesters burn tires to block a main road during a protest against the increase in prices of consumer goods and the crash of the local currency, in Beirut. Scattered protests broke out on Tuesday in different parts of the country after the Lebanese pound hit a new record low against the dollar on the black market.
Photo: Hussein Malla/AP

 

FLORIDA — Socially-distanced seating: Socially distanced fans watched a spring training exhibition baseball game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the New York Yankees at George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, on Monday.
Photo: Gene J. Puskar/AP

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