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Our world in photos: September 1

September 1, 2022 Daniel Cody
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RUSSIA – Laying respects: In this image provided by Russian media last Thursday, Vladimir Putin paid his last respects near the coffin of former president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, in Moscow.
Photo: Russian pool via AP

 

INDIA – Standing up: Hari Shankar, who is HIV+, stood in the corridor of the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) office in New Delhi – where protest against shortages of lifesaving drugs have taken place – last Tuesday.
Photo: Altaf Qadri/AP

 

BRAZIL – “L” is good for Lula: Youth make an “L” with their fingers at a campaign rally in support of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s bid for reelection in Manaus last Wednesday.
Photo: Edmar Barros/AP

 

POLAND – Anniversary: A Polish veteran attended a wreath-laying ceremony of the anniversary of WWII in Warsaw last Thursday.
Photo: Michal Dyjuk/AP

 

TURKEY – New (ecclesiastic) year: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I – the religious leader of Orthodox Christians – held a ceremony marking the beginning of the ecclesiastic year at the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople last Thursday.
Photo: Khalil Hamra/AP

 

CALIFORNIA – Fire season closing: The Route Fire burned over the closed-off interstate 5 last Wednesday in Castaic.
Photo: Marcio Jose Sanchez

 

TURKEY – Man prays: A man, centered, prayed during a ceremony marking the beginning of the ecclesiastic year at the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople last Thursday.
Photo: Khalil Hamra/AP




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