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Our world in photos: August 27

August 27, 2021 Michaela Keil

MEXICO — For sale: A pulque vendor sells his product aboard a trajinera flat bottom boat in Xochimilco, on the outskirts of Mexico City, on Thursday. Pulque is an alcoholic beverage made from the fermented sap of the maguey plant traditional in central Mexico, where it has been produced for millennia. Photo: Marco Ugarte/AP

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GUATEMALA — Vaccinated: A man was comforted by a relative after getting his second dose of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine at a temporary health center installed at Constitution square in Guatemala City, on Wednesday.
Photo: Moises Castillo/AP

CZECH REPUBLIC — Film Festival: American actor Johnny Depp, center, arrived at the 55th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival to present the movie “Crock of Gold” in Karlovy Vary, on Friday.
Photo: Petr David Josek/AP

IRELAND — Presidential pups: The dogs of Irish President Michael D. Higgins walked around him and French President Emmanuel Macron as they met in Aras an Uachtarain, Dublin, on Thursday. French President Emmanuel Macron was on his first visit to Ireland, where talks were expected to focus on the situation in Afghanistan and European issues.
Photo: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Pool Photo via AP

RUSSIA — Spasskaya Tower Festival: An actress of a Russian military band performed during the Spasskaya Tower International Military Music Festival in Red Square in Moscow, on Thursday.
Photo: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP

JAPAN — Start: Melissa Baldera of Peru was assisted by her guide at the starting line during the women’s 400m T11 at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics Games in Tokyo, on Friday.
Photo: Eugene Hoshiko/AP

VENEZUELA — Flooding: A car was amid the debris left behind by flooding and landslides triggered by torrential rains in the Tovar municipality of Merida state, on Thursday.
Photo: Luis Bustos/AP

MAINE — Fishing: Mackerel fishermen brought in their catch on the Maine State Pier, on Wednesday, in Portland.
Photo: Robert F. Bukaty/AP

SOUTH KOREA — Arrivals: Afghans, who worked for South Korea-run facilities in Afghanistan and their family members, waited to board a bus after they arrived at the Incheon International Airport on Thursday.
Photo: Ahn Young-joon/AP

AFGHANISTAN — Attack: An Afghan woman tried to identify a dead body at a hospital in Kabul on Friday, a day after deadly attacks outside the airport. Two suicide bombers and gunmen attacked crowds of Afghans flocking to Kabul’s airport on Thursday, transforming a scene of desperation into one of horror in the waning days of airlifts for those fleeing the Taliban takeover.
Photo: Wali Sabawoon/AP

BRAZIL — Protest: Indigenous protesters set fire to a mock coffin representing the death of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and carried a sign that reads in Portuguese “Stop the genocide!” outside Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, on Friday. Indigenous groups demanded the Supreme Court protect their land rights and reserves, asking the justices to uphold their territorial rights in a landmark case that could open their lands to outside development by commercial interests.
Photo: Eraldo Peres/AP

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