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Our world in photos: April 28

April 28, 2022 Michaela Keil
SWITZERLAND — Glacier Patrol race: Competitors, photographed using a long exposure, climbed in front of the iconic Matterhorn mountain after the start of the 22nd Glacier Patrol race in Ober Stafel, above Zermatt, on Wednesday. The Glacier Patrol, organized by the Swiss Army, is a trek by highly-experienced hiker-skiers over a distance of 36 miles on the Haute Route along the Swiss-Italian border from Zermatt to Verbier.
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AFGHANISTAN — Pose: An Afghan girl held a chicken as she posed for a photo, in Kabul, on Thursday.
Photo: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP

 

COLOMBIA — Pollution: Residents and dogs sat along a street as foam rising from the Balsillas River wafts over the Los Puentes neighborhood in Mosquera, on Wednesday. According to local authorities, the white, toxic foam was caused in part by untreated sewage mixing with chemicals found in household detergents.
Photo: Fernando Vergara/AP

 

UKRAINE — To the ambulance: An emergency worker was helped by locals to carry a man to an ambulance following a Russian bombardment in Kharkiv, on Wednesday.
Photo: Felipe Dana/AP

 

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ISRAEL — Remembrance: A woman placed a flower on a marker for the Auschwitz concentration camp in the Hall of Remembrance during the Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, on Thursday.
Photo: Maya Alleruzzo/AP

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Funeral: The escorted casket of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was taken out of the Washington National Cathedral, after a funeral service, on Wednesday.
Photo: Evan Vucci/AP

 

INDIA — Breaking fast: A Muslim boy waited to break his day-long fast during Ramadan in Hyderabad, on Wednesday. Islam’s holiest month is a period of intense prayer, dawn-to-dusk fasting, and nightly feasts.
Photo: Mahesh Kumar A./AP

 

GERMANY — Misty morning: A regional train traveled through the outskirts of Frankfurt on a misty Thursday morning.
Photo: Michael Probst/AP

 

MEXICO — Trophy: Retired Mexican soccer goalkeeper and striker Jorge Campos held the CONCACAF Champions League trophy before the first leg of the final between Mexico’s Pumas and United States’ Seattle Sounders in Mexico City, on Wednesday.
Photo: Marco Ugarte/AP

 

UNITED KINGDOM — Audience with the Queen: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II smiled while receiving the President of Switzerland Ignazio Cassis and his wife Paola Cassis during an audience at Windsor Castle in Windsor, on Thursday.
Photo: Dominic Lipinski/Pool Photo via AP

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