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Our world in photos: August 9

August 9, 2021 By Michaela Keil
KASHMIR — Floating market: Kashmiri men sold their produce at the floating vegetable market on the Dal Lake in Srinagar on Saturday. Vegetables traded in this floating market are supplied to Srinagar and many towns across the Kashmir valley. It's one of the major sources of income for the lake dwellers who spend years carefully nurturing their floating gardens from the weed and rich soil extracted from the lake bed. Photo: Dar Yasin/AP
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SPAIN — Leaving the club: Lionel Messi cried at the start of a press conference at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on Sunday. FC Barcelona had previously announced the negotiations with Lionel Messi had ended and that Messi would be leaving the club.
Photo: Joan Monfort/AP

 

CHINA — Testing: A medical worker took a swab sample from a worker from the China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT) company in a gym during a round of COVID-19 testing in Wuhan on Thursday. More than 30 Chinese officials have been fired or received other punishments over accusations they failed to respond properly to the latest surge of the coronavirus in the country.
Photo: Chinatopix via AP

 

ITALY — Smoke and ashes: Smoke billowed from the Mt Etna volcano as seen from Linguaglossa, Sicily, on Monday. Europe’s most active volcano remained active, scattering ashes around a vastly populated area on its slopes.
Photo: Salvatore Allegra/AP

 

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MISSOURI — Reach: Kansas City Royals center fielder Michael A. Taylor (2) couldn’t quite reach the home run ball hit by St. Louis Cardinals’ Dylan Carlson in the first inning of a baseball game, on Sunday, in St. Louis.
Photo: Tom Gannam/AP

 

JAPAN — Closing ceremony: Fireworks illuminated over the National Stadium during the closing ceremony of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, on Sunday, in Tokyo.
Photo: Kiichiro Sato/AP

 

NEPAL — Vaccination: An elderly Nepalese couple held their arms after receiving the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in Kathmandu, on Monday.
Photo: Niranjan Shrestha/AP

 

GREECE — Wildfires: Residents stood on a hill as flames approached at Gouves village on the island of Evia, about 185 kilometers (115 miles) north of Athens, on Sunday. Pillars of billowing smoke and ash blocked out the sun above Greece’s second-largest island as a days-old wildfire devours pristine forests and triggers more evacuation alerts.
Photo: Petros Karadjias/AP

 

FRANCE — Protest: A protester marched with a sign during a demonstration in Marseille, on Saturday. Thousands of people marched in Paris and other French cities for a fourth consecutive week of protests against COVID-19 entrance requirements. The demonstrations on Saturday came days after France’s Constitutional Council upheld most provisions of a new law that expands the locations where health passes are needed.
Photo: Daniel Cole/AP

 

GERMANY — Landing: A long camera exposure photo showed an aircraft approaching to land at the international airport in Frankfurt on Monday.
Photo: Michael Probst/AP

 

AFGHANISTAN — Displaced: Internally displaced Afghans from northern provinces, who fled their homes due to fighting between the Taliban and Afghan security personnel, took refuge in a public park in Kabul, on Monday.
Photo: Rahmat Gul/AP

 

BRAZIL — Security: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, center right, was accompanied by security agents as he left the Chamber of Deputies headquarters where he attended a meeting in Brasilia, on Monday. Bolsonaro attended the meeting to present a proposal that aims to boost the government’s flagship social program coined “Bolsa Familia.”
Photo: Eraldo Peres/AP

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