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Our world in photos: August 16

August 16, 2021 By Michaela Keil

SPAIN — Heatwave: A delivery rider cooled off by a beach in Barcelona on Saturday. Temperatures were set to hit a maximum of 46 degrees Celsius in some parts of Spain on Saturday, as the country sweltered on the hottest day of the year so far. Photo: Joan Mateu Parra/AP

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AFGHANISTAN — Takeover: Taliban fighters took control of the Afghan presidential palace after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, in Kabul, on Sunday.
Photo: Zabi Karimi/AP

HAITI — Earthquake: A man walked on a collapsed building in Saint-Louis-du-Sud on Monday, two days after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck the southwestern part of the hemisphere’s poorest nation on Aug. 14.
Photo: Matias Delacroix/AP

ZAMBIA — Elections: A woman swept outside her house in Lusaka on Saturday. Zambian opposition candidate Hakainde Hichilema’s supporters celebrated on Saturday as early election results showed him leading in the tightly-fought, tense presidential race. Ignoring calls by the Electoral Commission for people to wait peacefully for the final official results, young opposition supporters drove through the streets of the capital, Lusaka, playing music and singing.
Photo: Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP

INDIA — Mobile classroom: On Sunday, children attended a mobile classroom set up in a parked bus by a social activist for children living in a slum in Mumbai.
Photo: Rafiq Maqbool/AP

CANADA — Fire cloud: A pyrocumulus cloud, also known as a fire cloud, produced by the Lytton Creek wildfire, rose into the sky from the fire burning in the mountains above Lytton, British Columbia, on Sunday.
Photo: Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP

INDIA — Independence Day: Indian Boxer Mary Kom saluted as she arrived on Sunday for the Independence Day celebrations at the historic 17th century Red Fort in New Delhi. India commemorated its 1947 independence from British colonial rule on Aug. 15.
Photo: Manish Swarup/AP

NEVADA — Leap: Seattle Seahawks’ Dom Wood-Anderson flew over Las Vegas Raiders cornerback DeVante Bausby (41) during the second half of an NFL preseason football game on Saturday, in Las Vegas.
Photo: Rick Scuteri/AP

TEXAS — Slide: Oakland Athletics catcher Sean Murphy was unable to tag Texas Rangers’ Yonny Hernandez (65) who scored on an Isiah Kiner-Falefa double in the first inning of a baseball game in Arlington, on Sunday
Photo: Tony Gutierrez/AP

MALAYSIA — Smile and wave: Embattled Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin waved from a car while entering the National Palace to meet with the King in Kuala Lumpur, on Monday. Muhyiddin arrived at the palace for a meeting with the king on Monday, where he is expected to hand in his resignation after conceding he didn’t have majority support to rule.
Photo: FL Wong/AP

PAKISTAN — Checkpoint: Pakistan soldiers checked documents of travelers crossing the border to Afghanistan through a crossing point in Chaman, on Monday. A special flight of Pakistan’s national airline PIA has arrived in Islamabad carrying 329 passengers from Kabul, and another carrying 170 people will arrive later today. A spokesman for the airline said Saturday that the airline will operate three flights tomorrow to transport Pakistanis and other nationalities looking to leave Kabul.
Photo: Jafar Khan/AP

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