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Our world in photos: August 10

August 10, 2023 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

CHICAGO – Magic in the air: Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson forces New York Yankees' Harrison Bader out at second and gets Kyle Higashioka at first to turn the double play during the seventh inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023, in Chicago.
Photo: Charles Rex Arbogast/AP

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TAMPA – Florida fist pump intergenerational: Crossing guard Tony Pinion, left, gives a fist bump to Andrés Cantero, 4, while his father, Angel Cantero, 48, both of Carrollwood, walks him to school during the first day of class at Carrollwood K-8 School on Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023, in Tampa, Fla.
Photo: Jefferee Woo/Tampa Bay Times via AP

INDIA – Wild elephant killed by train: Forest officials place flowers on a wild elephant that succumbed to injuries after being hit by a speeding train at Kurkria village, outskirts of Guwahati, India, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023.
Photo: Anupam Nath/AP

HAWAII – Lava-free fires caused by wind and drought: A wildfire burned in Kihei, Hawaii, late Wednesday. Thousands of residents raced to escape homes on Maui as blazes swept across the island, destroying parts of a centuries-old town in one of the deadliest U.S. wildfires in recent years.
Photo: Ty O’Neil/AP

GERMANY – German word for Bambi? Nameless doe in a wheat field: A deer stood still for photograph in a wheat field in Neu Anspach near Frankfurt, Thursday.
Photo: Michael Probst/AP

LEBANON – Overturned truck: Lebanese soldiers stood guard next to an overturned truck, in the Christian town of Kahaleh, Wednesday.
Photo: Hussein Malla/AP

IOWA – Now that’s a cow hug: Five-year-old Jack Sawyer, of Dillon, Iowa, lays on the back of a cow in the cattle barn at the Iowa State Fair, Wednesday.
Photo: Charlie Neibergall/AP

COLOMBIA – Speaking out against rising fuel prices: Taxi drivers held a nationwide protest to pressure the government to halt rising fuel prices in Bogota, Wednesday.
Photo: Fernando Vergara/AP

ARGENTINA – Voice of the people, plus sticks and stones: Police took cover behind their shields as demonstrators threw missiles at them during a protest against the death of 11-year-old girl Morena Dominguez, who died from her injuries after criminals tried to rob her, outside a police station on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Wednesday.
Photo: Natacha Pisarenko/AP

QUEBEC – Canadian cheer at National Bank Open women’s tennis: Leylah Fernandez, of Canada, celebrated her win against Beatriz Haddad Maia, of Brazil, during the National Bank Open women’s tennis tournament Wednesday.
Photo: Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press via AP

ECUADOR – Last act before being gunned down: Presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio waves an Ecuadorean flag during a campaign event at a school minutes before he was shot to death outside the same school in Quito, Wednesday.
Photo: API via AP

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