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Our world in photos: November 16

November 16, 2021 By Michaela Keil
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ECUADOR — Embrace: Relatives embraced a prisoner from the Litoral Penitentiary who was released after a deadly prison riot in Guayaquil, on Monday.
Photo: Dolores Ochoa/AP

 

NEW YORK — Return: Danny Fenster arrived for a news conference after he landed at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, on Tuesday. The American journalist, who spent nearly six months in jail in military-ruled Myanmar, arrived in the United States. Fenster was sentenced last week to 11 years of hard labor. He was handed over on Monday to former U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson, who helped negotiate the release.
Photo: Seth Wenig/AP

 

GEORGIA — Trial: The Rev. Jesse Jackson, left, listened to Ahmaud Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, right, during the trial of Greg McMichael and his son, Travis McMichael, and a neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan in the Glynn County Courthouse, on Monday, in Brunswick. The three were charged with the February 2020 slaying of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery.
Photo: Stephen B. Morton/Pool via AP

 

INDIA — Expressway inauguration: An onlooker ran away with the cut-out of Indian prime minister Narender Modi after the inauguration of Purvanchal expressway, in Sultanpur district, 140 kilometers (87 miles) from Lucknow, on Tuesday. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the 211 miles (341) kilometers long expressway Tuesday.
Photo: Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP

 

NORTH CAROLINA — Celebration: North Carolina State’s Madison Hayes (21), Diamond Johnson (0), Jakia Brown-Turner (11) and Raina Perez (2) celebrated their win over Towson in an NCAA college basketball game, on Monday, in Raleigh.
Photo: Karl B. DeBlaker/AP

 

CUBA — Reopening: A student wearing a mask and shield waited for the opening ceremony for the school year in Havana, on Monday. After 20 months of strict quarantine rules that included limiting foreign travel to the island, Cuba reopened to the world and the remaining half of the student population resumed in-person learning.
Photo: Ramon Espinosa/AP

 

WASHINGTON — Floodwaters: Benjamin Lopez stepped from floodwaters surrounding his parents’ home on Monday, in Sedro-Woolley. The heavy rainfall of recent days brought major flooding of the Skagit River that is expected to continue into at least Monday evening.
Photo: Elaine Thompson/AP

 

GEORGIA — Jump for the shot: Orlando Magic guard R.J. Hampton (13) made a shot as Atlanta Hawks guard Delon Wright (0) defended in the second half of an NBA basketball game on Monday, in Atlanta.
Photo: John Bazemore/AP

 

BELARUS — Checkpoint: Migrants from the Middle East and elsewhere gathered at the checkpoint “Kuznitsa” at the Belarus-Poland border near Grodno, on Monday. The EU called for humanitarian aid as up to 4,000 migrants were stuck in makeshift camps in freezing weather in Belarus, while Poland reinforced its border with 15,000 soldiers, in addition to border guards and police.
Photo: Leonid Shcheglov/BelTA via AP

 

KASHMIR — Mourning: A girl wept after her father Mohammad Altaf Bhat, the owner of a shopping center, was killed in Srinagar, on Tuesday. Bhat was one of the four people who died after a deadly raid by government forces on alleged militants in the center of the disputed region’s main city, police and families of the victims said Tuesday. Those killed included two civilians and two suspected rebels. Families of the slain civilians said Indian troops used them as human shields during the deadly standoff.
Photo: Mukhtar Khan/AP

 

FRANCE — Migrant camp: A migrant stood in a makeshift camp before its evacuation in Grande-Synthe, Northern France, early on Tuesday. French police were evacuating migrants from a makeshift camp near Dunkirk, where at least 1,500 people gathered in hopes of making it across the English Channel to Britain. Migrants, including some families with young children, could be seen packing their few belongings as police were encircling the camp, on the site of a former industrial complex in Grande-Synthe, east of Dunkirk.
Photo: Louis Witter/AP
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