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Our world in photos: November 17

November 17, 2021 By Michaela Keil
INDIA — Pollution: A woman bathed her daughter in the Yamuna River, covered by a chemical foam caused by industrial and domestic pollution as the skyline was enveloped in toxic smog, in New Delhi, on Wednesday. Schools were closed indefinitely and some coal-based power plants shut down as the Indian capital and neighboring states invoked harsh measures on Wednesday to combat air pollution after an order from the federal environment ministry panel. Photo: Manish Swarup/AP
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PERU — Vaccination: Health workers carried coolers of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine during a door-to-door vaccination campaign in the Villa Maria del Triunfo district on the outskirts of Lima, on Tuesday.
Photo: Guadalupe Pardo/AP

 

CHILE — Fans: Fans of Chile cheered before a qualifying soccer match against Ecuador for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 at San Carlos de Apoquindo in Santiago, on Tuesday.
Photo: Esteban Felix, Pool/AP

 

MALAYSIA — Clouds rolling in: A wave of clouds rolled in over the hills above Kuala Lumpur in the Genting Highland area on Wednesday.
Photo: Vincent Thian/AP

 

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CANADA — Highway shut down: Rising floodwater surrounded a home and covered Highway 1 in Abbotsford, British Columbia, on Tuesday. Abbotsford Mayor Henry Braun said impassable highways were creating havoc in his city as police and firefighters tried to get people to evacuation centers. Sunny skies followed two days of torrential storms that dumped the typical amount of rain that the city gets in all of November, but the mayor said the water was still rising and Highway 1 would be shut down for some time.
Photo: Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press via AP

 

PENNSYLVANIA — Collision: Pittsburgh Penguins’ Jake Guentzel (59) collided with Buffalo Sabres goaltender Dustin Tokarski during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Pittsburgh, on Tuesday.
Photo: Gene J. Puskar/AP

 

ARGENTINA — Graduation: Medical school graduates who finished their studies in 2020, held their graduation parade one year late, due to last year’s COVID-19 restrictions, in Rosario, on Tuesday.
Photo: Rodrigo Abd/AP

 

BELARUS — Border checkpoint: Migrants warmed themselves near a fire at the checkpoint “Kuznitsa” at the Belarus-Poland border near Grodno, on Tuesday. Some of the migrants had children with them at the border in their desperate bid to reach the EU. Most were fleeing conflict, poverty, and instability in the Middle East and elsewhere.
Photo: Maxim Guchek/BelTA via AP

 

SOUTH KOREA — Praying: Parents prayed during a special service to wish for their children’s success on the eve of the college entrance exams at the Jogyesa Buddhist temple in Seoul, on Wednesday. The exams, called the College Scholastic Ability Test, are taken by about 500,000 high school seniors and graduates across the country.
Photo: Ahn Young-joon/AP

 

CHINA —Tourists: Visitors, wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus, toured Qianmen Street, a popular tourist spot in Beijing, on Wednesday.
Photo: Andy Wong/AP

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