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Our world in photos: April 20

April 20, 2022 Michaela Keil

VENEZUELA — Spare parts: A derelict car with “For spare parts,” written in Spanish on its windshield sat parked in the San Juan neighborhood of Caracas, on Tuesday. While used cars were banned for import, old cars make up the majority of the capital’s vehicular fleet and are expensive to maintain. Photo: Matias Delacroix/AP

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POLAND — Anniversary: Warsaw residents and government officials laid daffodils at the monument honoring the fighters of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on the occasion of the 79th anniversary of the ghetto’s ill-fated struggle against the German Nazi troops, in Warsaw, on Tuesday.
Photo: Czarek Sokolowski/AP

GERMANY — Header: Freiburg’s Nils Petersen headed the ball and scored against Hamburger during the German Cup, semifinal soccer match between Hamburger SV and SC Freiburg in Hamburg, on Tuesday.
Photo: Martin Meissner/AP

UKRAINE — Destroyed tank: Local civilians walked past a tank destroyed during heavy fighting in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol, on Tuesday. Taking Mariupol would deprive Ukraine of a vital port and complete a land bridge between Russia and the Crimean Peninsula, which was seized from Ukraine from 2014.
Photo: Alexei Alexandrov/AP

ITALY — “We Walked the Earth”: A view of an installation part of “We Walked the Earth” by artist Uffe Isolotto at Denmark’s pavilion during the 59th Biennale of Arts exhibition in Venice, on Tuesday.
Photo: Antonio Calanni/AP

TENNESSEE — Ref’s call: Minnesota Timberwolves guard Patrick Beverley (22) reacted to a referee’s call during the first half during Game 2 of the team’s first-round NBA basketball playoff series against the Memphis Grizzlies on Tuesday, in Memphis.
Photo: Brandon Dill/AP

CANADA — Collision: Ottawa Senators’ Connor Brown, left, and Vancouver Canucks’ Oliver Ekman-Larsson collided during the first period of an NHL hockey game on Tuesday, in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Photo: Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP

WASHINGTON — Drenched: Seattle Mariners’ Eugenio Suarez was doused with ice water by catcher Tom Murphy, left, during an interview after the Mariners defeated the Texas Rangers 6-2 in a baseball game on Tuesday, in Seattle.
Photo: Ted S. Warren/AP

INDIA — Demolition: An agitated Muslim resident asked media to leave during the demolition of Muslim-owned shops at the site of Saturday’s communal violence, in New Delhi’s northwest Jahangirpuri neighborhood, on Wednesday. Authorities riding bulldozers razed a number of Muslim-owned shops in New Delhi before India’s Supreme Court halted the demolitions on Wednesday, days after communal violence shook the capital and saw dozens arrested.
Photo: Altaf Qadri/AP

ISRAEL — Protest: Israeli police blocked right wing activists from marching towards the Old City, in Jerusalem, on Wednesday. Police prevented hundreds of ultra-nationalist Israelis from marching around predominantly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem’s Old City. The event planned for Wednesday was similar to one that served as one of the triggers of last year’s Israel-Gaza war.
Photo: Ariel Schalit/AP

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