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Our world in photos: October 6

October 6, 2021 By Michaela Keil

PARAGUAY — Teacher’s protest: Teachers from across the country protested for higher salaries outside the Economy Ministry in Asuncion, on Tuesday. The teacher's union launched a national strike starting on Monday to demand a 16 percent increase, twice the pay increase proposed by the government. Photo: Jorge Saenz/AP

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FRANCE — Runway protest: A protestor held a banner on the runway during the Louis Vuitton Spring-Summer 2022 ready-to-wear fashion show presented in Paris, on Tuesday.
Photo: Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP

LEBANON — Bank block: A bank customer threw eggs towards the guards of a bank, during a protest in Beirut, on Wednesday. Dozens of Lebanese gathered outside a bank in Beirut’s downtown demanding that they be allowed to withdraw their deposits that have been blocked amid Lebanon’s severe financial and economic crisis.
Photo: Bilal Hussein/AP

INDIA — Mahalaya: A girl searched for coins amidst garbage left by Hindu devotees while performing rituals on the banks of the Hooghly River on the occasion of Mahalaya, an auspicious day to pay homage to ancestors, in Kolkata, on Wednesday.
Photo: Bikas Das/AP

ROMANIA — Superman: A man carried a mannequin depicting Superman ahead of a no-confidence vote against Romanian Prime Minister Florin Citu’s government in Romania’s parliament in Bucharest, on Tuesday.
Photo: Andreea Alexandru/AP

THAILAND — Preparation: A Chinese opera performer prepared for the stage in Bangkok, on Wednesday.
Photo: Sakchai Lalit/AP

VENEZUELA — Shopping trip: Venezuelans crossed illegally back into their country in La Parada after shopping in Cucuta, Colombia, on Tuesday. Venezuela partially reopened its border with Colombia after closing it in 2019 due to political tensions.
Photo: Ivan Valencia/AP

SLOVENIA — Tensions: A demonstrator stomped on a smoke canister during a protest against vaccinations and coronavirus measures in Ljubljana, on Tuesday. EU leaders met on Tuesday evening in nearby Kranj to discuss increasingly tense relations with China and the security implications of the chaotic U.S.-led exit from Afghanistan, before taking part in a summit with Balkans leaders on Wednesday.
Photo: Petr David Josek/AP

SOUTH KOREA — Cosmos flowers: A visitor wearing a face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus took photos in a field of cosmos flowers in Goyang, on Wednesday.
Photo: Lee Jin-man/AP

AFGHANISTAN — Treatment: Sofia cradled her 2-month-old baby, Abdul, as he underwent treatment at the malnutrition ward of the Indira Gandhi Children’s Hospital in Kabul, on Tuesday. Health workers in the hospital dashed back and forth caring for gasping premature newborns and others suffering from severe malnutrition and other diseases.
Photo: Felipe Dana/AP

NEW JERSEY — Nobel Prize: Syukuro Manabe spoke during a news conference in Princeton, on Tuesday. Manabe and two other scientists won the Nobel Prize for physics for work that found order in seeming disorder, helping to explain and predict complex forces of nature, including expanding our understanding of climate change.
Photo: Seth Wenig/AP

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Whistleblower testimony: Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen spoke during a hearing of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security, on Capitol Hill, on Tuesday.
Photo: Alex Brandon/AP

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