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Our world in photos: May 6

May 6, 2021 By Michaela Keil

MISSISSIPPI — Tree house: A. Wells took photos of her mother's home after a tree landed on the roof on Hall Mark Drive, on Wednesday, following severe weather the day before in Jackson. According to the National Weather Service, tornadoes touched down in Hinds and Rankin counties. Photo: Eric Shelton/The Clarion-Ledger via AP

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ETHIOPIA — Playful: Two displaced Tigrayan girls giggled next to their mother, left, as their photograph was taken outside the Hadnet General Secondary School which has become a makeshift home to thousands displaced by the conflict, in Mekele, in the Tigray region, on Wednesday. The Tigray conflict displaced more than 1 million people, the International Organization for Migration reported in April, and the numbers continue to rise.
Photo: Ben Curtis/AP

COLOMBIA — Protest: On Wednesday, a man looked into a police post damaged by protesters the night before, in Bogota. Protests that began last week over a tax reform proposal continued despite President Ivan Duque’s withdrawal of the tax plan from Congress on Sunday, May 2.
Photo: Fernando Vergara/AP

UKRAINE — Blackout: An elderly COVID-19 patient breathed with the help of an oxygen mask at a hospital in the frontline town of Krasnohorivka, near Donetsk, on Wednesday. Hospital workers said that Tuesday night an artillery shell exploded outside the COVID-19 ward, shattering windows and cutting the electricity.
Photo: Felipe Dana/AP

SERBIA — Vaccinated: Popular folk singer Jelena Karleusa who was previously known as a vaccination critic, spoke to the media after receiving her vaccination, in the Usce shopping mall in Belgrade on Thursday. The Serbian government promised a payment of around 25 euros to everyone who gets vaccinated by the end of May as an incentive for people to get vaccinated.
Photo: Darko Vojinovic/AP

INDONESIA — Sweet treats: A worker made a toffee-like traditional sweet cake called “dodol,” one of the special Muslim holiday Ramadan delicacies, at a home factory in Cikarang, West Java, on Thursday.
Photo: Achmad Ibrahim/AP

SOUTH AFRICA — Fresh produce: A woman carried bags of vegetables on her head, at the Johannesburg Fresh Produce Market, in Johannesburg on Thursday.
Photo: Denis Farrell/AP

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