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Our world in photos: September 22

September 22, 2021 Michaela Keil
TEXAS — Wading through: Migrants, many from Haiti, were seen wading between the U.S. and Mexico on the Rio Grande, on Tuesday, in Del Rio. The options remaining for thousands of Haitian migrants straddling the Mexico-Texas border narrowed as the United States government ramped up to an expected six expulsion flights to Haiti, and Mexico began busing some away from the border. Photo: Julio Cortez/AP
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VENEZUELA — Vaccine: Residents stood in line to be injected with a second dose of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine after more than a three-month delay, in Caracas, on Tuesday.
Photo: Ariana Cubillos/AP

 

NEW YORK — Ring the bell: A.k.a Brands CEO Jill Ramsey rang the ceremonial first trade bell as her company’s stock began trading, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, on Wednesday.
Photo: Richard Drew/AP

 

HAITI — Blocked: A police officer tried to block Haitians deported from the United States from boarding the same plane they were deported on, in an attempt to return to the United States, on the tarmac of the Toussaint Louverture airport, in Port-au-Prince, on Tuesday.
Photo: Joseph Odelyn/AP

 

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UNITED KINGDOM — Kick: Manchester City’s Finlay Burns kicked at the ball as Wycombe Wanderers Adebayo Akinfenwa watched during the English League Cup third-round soccer match between Manchester City and Wycombe Wanderers at Etihad Stadium, in Manchester, on Tuesday.
Photo: Dave Thompson/AP

 

SPAIN — Eruption: Lava from a volcano eruption flowed on the island of La Palma in the Canaries, on Tuesday. A dormant volcano on a small Spanish island in the Atlantic Ocean erupted on Sunday, forcing the evacuation of thousands of people. Huge plumes of black-and-white smoke shot out from a volcanic ridge where scientists had been monitoring the accumulation of molten lava below the surface.
Photo: Emilio Morenatti/AP

 

CALIFORNIA — Burning: A tree stood in the Trail of 100 Giants grove as flames from the Windy Fire burned in Sequoia National Forest, on Sunday.
Photo: Noah Berger/AP

 

KENYA — Self-defense: Group leader Jane Waithageni Kimaru, 60 years old, center-left, and others, practiced moves during a Taekwondo self-defense class for women in the Korogocho slum of Nairobi, on Thursday. In Korogocho, which means “crowded shoulder to shoulder” in Swahili, the women meet every week to train in skills they hope can help them fight back if they are sexually assaulted.
Photo: Brian Inganga/AP

 

ISRAEL — Sukkot: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men prayed during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray in the Old City of Jerusalem, on Wednesday.
Photo: Sebastian Scheiner/AP

 

CAMBODIA — Ancestors’ day: Residents, wearing face masks, lit candles before throwing rice on the ground in a ceremony to celebrate Pchum Ben, or Ancestors’ Day, at Kob Srov pagoda on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, on Wednesday morning.
Photo: Heng Sinith/AP

 

CALIFORNIA — Reach: San Francisco Giants left fielder Kris Bryant couldn’t reach a home run hit by San Diego Padres’ Austin Nola during the sixth inning of a baseball game on Tuesday, in San Diego.
Photo: Gregory Bull/AP

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. — “In America: Remember”: Visitors sat among white flags that are part of artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg’s “In America: Remember,” a temporary art installation to commemorate Americans who have died of COVID-19, on the National Mall, on Tuesday.
Photo: Patrick Semansky/AP

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