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Our world in photos: November 18

November 18, 2021 By Michaela Keil

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC — Wheelie: A youth performed a wheelie on his bike near the Lima batey in La Romana, on Wednesday. The bateyes formed around the sugar cane mills where cane workers, mainly Haitians, eventually established their immigrant communities. Photo: Matias Delacroix/AP

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UNITED KINGDOM — Pelican perch: A pelican shared a bench with a cyclist in St James’s Park in London, on Wednesday.
Photo: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP

NEVADA — Performance: Beatriz Luengo, from foreground to background, Maria Toledo and Rozalen perform “El Padre Antonio y El Monaguillo Andres” at the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year gala honoring Ruben Blades at the Mandalay Bay on Wednesday, in Las Vegas.
Photo: Chris Pizzello/AP

TAIWAN — Photo-op: Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen posed for photos from the cockpit during a ceremony to commission into service 64 upgraded F-16V fighter jets at an Air Force base in Chiayi in southwestern Taiwan on Thursday. Taiwan deployed the most advanced version of the F-16 fighter jet in its Air Force, as the island stepped up its defense capabilities in the face of continuing threats from China.
Photo: Johnson Lai/AP

CANADA — Flooded: A tractor traveled through flooded farmland on a road partially covered with water in Abbotsford, British Columbia, on Wednesday.
Photo: Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP/AP

CHINA — Smog: A woman walked against the office buildings in the Central Business District shrouded by pollution haze in Beijing, on Thursday.
Photo: Andy Wong/AP

MEXICO — Migrant transport: Migrants were transported on the bed of a trailer in Jesus Carranza, in the Mexican state of Veracruz, on Wednesday. A group of mainly Central American migrants was attempting to reach the U.S.-Mexico border.
Photo: Felix Marquez/AP

WASHINGTON — Storm damage: A woman cleaned out her flood-damaged home on Wednesday, in Sumas. An atmospheric river — a huge plume of moisture extending over the Pacific and into Washington, Oregon, and parts of British Columbia in Canada — caused heavy rainfall in recent days, bringing major flooding in the area.
Photo: Elaine Thompson/AP

ARGENTINA — March: People marched in support of President Alberto Fernandez’s administration in Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires, on Wednesday. Last Sunday, Fernandez suffered a severe setback in the country’s midterm elections with his governing coalition losing control of the Senate.
Photo: Victor R. Caivano/AP

LITHUANIA — Runway: Lithuania’s designer Juozas Statkevicius walked the runway after his Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2022 fashion collection presented in Vilnius, on Wednesday.
Photo: Mindaugas Kulbis/AP

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