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Our world in photos: April 19

April 19, 2021 By Michaela Keil

TENNESSEE — Country Music Awards: Thomas Rhett performed at the 56th annual Academy of Country Music Awards on Saturday, at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. The awards show aired on April 18 with both live and pre recorded segments. Photo: Mark Humphrey/AP

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LEBANON — Scuffle: An opponent of Judge Ghada Aoun grabbed the weapon of a soldier, after he hit the protester with it, during a sit-in outside the Justice Palace in Beirut on Monday. Lebanese troops separated supporters and opponents of Aoun amid minor scuffles, as the country’s top judicial body held a meeting to discuss a dispute between Aoun and the state prosecutor.
Photo: Bilal Hussein/AP

PARAGUAY — Sunset: Neotropic Cormorants flew at sunset near the Paraguay River, in Asuncion on Sunday. Neotropic Cormorants are medium-sized birds found throughout the American tropics and subtropics.
Photo: Jorge Saenz/AP

PENNSYLVANIA — Hanging out: Philadelphia Phillies center fielder Roman Quinn hung over the wall trying to catch a home run hit by St. Louis Cardinals’ Paul DeJong (11) during the third inning of a baseball game on Saturday, in Philadelphia.
Photo: Laurence Kesterson/AP

CHINA — Auto show: Stephan Wollenstein, CEO of Volkswagen Group China, prepared to present the ID 6 SUV during a launch event at the Shanghai Auto Show in Shanghai on Monday. Volkswagen unveiled the electric SUV made for China ahead of the opening Monday of the Shanghai auto show, the industry’s biggest marketing event in a year overshadowed by the coronavirus pandemic.
Photo: Ng Han Guan/AP

INDIA — Looking out: A boy wearing a face mask looked through the window of a train at a railway station in Guwahati on Monday. India now has reported more than 15 million coronavirus infections, a total second only to the United States.
Photo: Anupam Nath/AP

MINNESOTA — Support: Community organizer Anthea Yur Kokoro, left, hugged Del Shea Perry, mother of Hardel Sherrell, who died while in police custody, during a rally at the site where George Floyd was killed, on Sunday, in Minneapolis.
Photo: Julio Cortez/AP

ITALY — Winner: Red Bull driver Max Verstappen of the Netherlands celebrated on podium after winning the Emilia Romagna Formula One Grand Prix, at the Imola racetrack on Sunday.
Photo: Luca Bruno/AP

BRAZIL — Legalization: A Munduruku Indigenous woman and child from Alto Tapajos attended a show of support for a government decree legalizing mining on Indigenous land outside the Supreme Court in Brasilia, on Monday.
Photo: Eraldo Peres/AP

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