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Our world in photos: July 28

July 28, 2021 By Michaela Keil
JAPAN — Artistic gymnastics: Sunisa Lee, of the United States, performed on the balance beam during the artistic gymnastics women's final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, on Tuesday, in Tokyo. Photo: Ashley Landis/AP
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HAITI — Vaccination: A health worker injected a person with a dose of the Moderna vaccine for COVID-19 at Saint Damien Hospital in Port-au-Prince, on Tuesday. After months of not having any vaccines in the country, the U.S. donated 500,000 doses through the U.N. COVAX system for Haiti in mid-July.
Photo: Joseph Odelyn/AP

 

JAPAN — Badminton: Kento Momota of Japan reacted after losing to South Korea’s Kwanghee Heo during the men’s singles group play stage Badminton match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, on Wednesday, in Tokyo.
Photo: Markus Schreiber/AP

 

MYANMAR — Riding by: People wearing face masks rode a motorcycle past a Health Ministry public information campaign billboard about proper hand washing in Shwe Pyi Thar township in Yangon, on Wednesday.
Photo: AP

 

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CALIFORNIA — On the mound: Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Brusdar Graterol reacted after San Francisco Giants’ Wilmer Flores lined out to end the sixth inning of a baseball game in San Francisco, on Tuesday.
Photo: Jeff Chiu/AP

 

INDONESIA — Eruption: People watched as Mount Sinabung spewed volcanic materials during an eruption in Karo, North Sumatra, on Wednesday. The rumbling volcano on Indonesia’s Sumatra island on Wednesday shot billowing columns of ash and hot clouds down its slopes.
Photo: Sastrawan Ginting/AP

 

PERU — Inauguration Day: President-elect Pedro Castillo arrived at the Foreign Ministry before going to Congress for his swearing-in, on his Inauguration Day in Lima, on Wednesday. The rural teacher popularized the phrase “No more poor in a rich country,” and stunned millions of Peruvians and observers by advancing to the runoff.
Photo: Guadalupe Pardo/AP

 

ITALY — Landslide: A view of a landslide in the municipality of Laglio, on Lake Como, on Wednesday. Towns around Italy’s Lake Como were hit by mudslides and floods on Tuesday, in yet another example of an extreme weather phenomenon that an agricultural lobby said has intensified in recent years. Italian firefighters carried out more than 60 rescues after storms wreaked havoc around the picturesque lake ringed by mountains in northern Italy. No deaths or injuries were reported.
Photo: Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP

 

JAPAN — Underwater: United States’ Caeleb Dressel, left, swam in a 100-meter freestyle semifinal at the 2020 Summer Olympics, on Wednesday, in Tokyo.
Photo: David J. Phillip/AP

 

TEXAS — Vigil: Arlington Police Chief Al Jones, left, and Sharetta Sublet, center, the mother of two teens who died on Friday, prayed during a vigil on Tuesday, at Artisan at Rush Creek in Arlington. Sublet’s sons were fatally shot after a dispute at a nearby barbershop escalated and spilled over to an apartment complex. A third teen wounded in the gunfight is now suspected of the killings, police said.
Photo: Yffy Yossifor/Star-Telegram via AP

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