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Our world in photos: August 13

August 13, 2021 By Michaela Keil
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MASSACHUSETTS — Heatwave: Isaiah Lee, 12, reveled in the cold water running over him at the splash pad at Clapp Park in Pittsfield on Thursday.
Photo: Stephanie Zollshan/The Berkshire Eagle via AP

 

CAMBODIA — Transportation: A man, left, transported sacks of scrap materials outside Phnom Penh on Friday.
Photo: Heng Sinith/AP

 

MEXICO — Anniversary: Mexican dancers burned incense during a ceremony to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the fall of the Aztec empire capital of Tenochtitlan, known today as Mexico City, at Mexico City’s main square, the Zocalo, on Friday.
Photo: Eduardo Verdugo/AP

 

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ECUADOR — Battle for the ball: Vinicius Mingotti of Brazil’s Athletico Paranaense, top, and Franklin Guerra of Ecuador’s Liga Deportiva Universitaria battled for the ball during a Copa Sudamericana quarterfinal soccer match in Quito, on Thursday.
Photo: Dolores Ochoa/Pool via AP

 

IDAHO — Firefighting: After walking down a gravel road to do recon on a fire cresting into the trees, a wildland firefighter grimaced as he walked back to his crew on Thursday, at the Bedrock Fire north of Lenore.
Photo: Pete Caster/Lewiston Tribune via AP

 

ALGERIA — Char: A car drove through a charred forest, after a fire burned near the village of Toudja, in the Kabyle region, on Friday. Dozens of fires began devouring forested mountainsides in the Berber region of Kabyle on Monday. The President declared a three-day mourning period to honor the lives lost.
Photo: Toufik Doudou/AP

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