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Our world in photos: March 18

March 18, 2021 By Michaela Keil

NEW YORK — Extra security: Capt. Tarik Sheppard, left, Commander of the New York Police Department Community Affairs Rapid Response Unit spoke to a resident while on a community outreach patrol in the Chinatown neighborhood of New York on Wednesday. New York City deployed additional law enforcement personnel to Asian communities in the wake of a series of shootings at three Atlanta area massage parlors. Photo: Mary Altaffer/AP

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MEXICO — Owl catch: On Tuesday, researcher Rodrigo Medellin from UNAM’s Institute of Ecology held an owl as he and his students caught and released birds on campus as part of a nighttime field study to identify bird species on the university campus in Mexico City. According to Medellin, this owl is called in Spanish “Tecolote del Oeste,” and its scientific name is Megascops kennicottii. In English, it is known as a Western screech owl.
Photo: Marco Ugarte/AP

GERMANY — Gatekeeper: A gatekeeper stood at the entrance of the Cologne Cathedral in Cologne on Thursday. Faced with accusations of trying to cover up sexual violence in Germany’s most powerful Roman Catholic diocese, the archbishop of Cologne Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki published an independent investigation.
Photo: Martin Meissner/AP

NETHERLANDS — Lined up: People queued to vote outside a polling station in the last hour of voting in the general election in Amsterdam, on Wednesday. The election was spread over three days to allow people to vote safely during the coronavirus pandemic, an exit poll published immediately after voting ended in the Dutch general election suggested that the conservative party of caretaker Prime Minister Mark Rutte has won the most seats, putting him first in line to form a new ruling coalition.
Photo: Peter Dejong/AP

FRANCE — Security bill: Photos of police violence were hung on the fences of the Luxembourg garden next to the Senate as part of an action from anti-globalization organization ATTAC, in a protest against a global security bill in Paris, on Thursday. Critics protested against a proposed security law they perceived as hardening police tactics and stymieing press freedoms. The government said the measure is needed to better protect police officers from online calls from violence, amid other measures.
Photo: Francois Mori/AP

HAITI — Burning buildings: A boy ran out from the Nissan auto dealership, which was set ablaze during a protest by a sector of the police force known as Fantom 509 in Port-au-Prince, on Wednesday. The dealership was looted and vandalized after officers stormed and set ablaze some police stations, freeing jailed comrades accused of participating in an alleged coup against embattled President Jovenel Moise last month.
Photo: Dieu Nalio Chery/AP

MEXICO — Serve: Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime served during his second round match against Sebastian Korda of the U.S., at the Mexican Open tennis tournament in Acapulco on Wednesday
Photo: Rebecca Blackwell/AP

SPAIN — Taxi protest: Taxi cabs moved slowly, blocking traffic along one of the avenues in downtown Barcelona, on Thursday. The demonstration was a protest against the return of the ride-hailing giant Uber to the northeastern city after a 2-year hiatus.
Photo: Emilio Morenatti/AP

CHINA — Flying flags: A woman twirled a flag at a public park in Beijing on Thursday. China has been regularly reporting no locally transmitted cases of COVID-19 as it works to maintain control of the pandemic within its borders.
Photo: Mark Schiefelbein/AP

PERU — Transport strike: On Thursday, residents walked along the Central Highway while it was blocked by trucks and buses in Chaclacayo on the outskirts of Lima. Cargo truckers and passenger buses blocked highway access to the capital to demand lower fuel prices, tax breaks, and the lowering of toll prices.
Photo: Martin Mejia/AP

SWITZERLAND — Winner: Switzerland’s Lara Gut-Behrami winner of the alpine ski, women’s World Cup super G discipline title, held her trophy as she listened to her country’s national anthem, in Lenzerheide on Thursday.
Photo: Gabriele Facciotti/AP

BOLIVIA — Shouting support: Supporters of Bolivia’s former Interim President Jeanine Áñez shouted slogans against the government of Luis Arce during a protest in La Paz on Wednesday. A judge in Bolivia ordered Áñez held for four months in pre-trial detention following her arrest on charges linked to the 2019 ouster of President Evo Morales, which his supporters consider a coup détat.
Photo: Juan Karita/AP

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