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Our world in photos: February 20

February 20, 2024 Brooklyn Eagle Staff
BOLIVIA — A red-hot finale to Carnival: Revelers dance on the closing day of Carnival in La Paz, Bolivia, on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024.Photo: Juan Karita/AP
BOLIVIA — A red-hot finale to Carnival: Revelers dance on the closing day of Carnival in La Paz, Bolivia, on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024.
Photo: Juan Karita/AP
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NEW YORK — All sorts of alliances going on at UN: Riyad Mansour, Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations, blows a kiss to someone before the start of a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024.Photo: Seth Wenig/AP
NEW YORK — All sorts of alliances going on at UN: Riyad Mansour, Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations, blows a kiss to someone before the start of a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024.
Photo: Seth Wenig/AP
LONDON — An exhibition against extradition, assuaging Assange: Pro-Assange activists demonstrate outside of the British Consulate in Milan, northern Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, to ask Britain's High Court at the beginning of its two days of arguments, to block the extradition of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the US where he's been indicted on 18 charges over Wikileaks' publication of hundreds of thousands of classified documents in 2010. If convicted, his lawyers say he could receive a prison term of up to 175 years, though American authorities have said any sentence is likely to be much lower.Photo: Luca Bruno/AP
LONDON — An exhibition against extradition, assuaging Assange: Pro-Assange activists demonstrate outside of the British Consulate in Milan, northern Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, to ask Britain’s High Court at the beginning of its two days of arguments, to block the extradition of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the US where he’s been indicted on 18 charges over Wikileaks’ publication of hundreds of thousands of classified documents in 2010. If convicted, his lawyers say he could receive a prison term of up to 175 years, though American authorities have said any sentence is likely to be much lower.
Photo: Luca Bruno/AP
WARSAW — Symbol of Poland’s resistance to Russian domination: Dancers of the WARSZAWIANKA ensemble of the University of Warsaw dance Poland’s national polonaise dance in 18th-century costumes during dress rehearsal in Warsaw, Poland, on Feb. 8, 2024. Once banned by rulers dispatched from Moscow, Poland’s stately polonaise dance that nurtured the country’s spirit even through the dark years of its partition is now honored by the United Nations’ education and culture agency, UNESCO.Photo: Czarek Sokolowski/AP
WARSAW — Symbol of Poland’s resistance to Russian domination: Dancers of the WARSZAWIANKA ensemble of the University of Warsaw dance Poland’s national polonaise dance in 18th-century costumes during dress rehearsal in Warsaw, Poland, on Feb. 8, 2024. Once banned by rulers dispatched from Moscow, Poland’s stately polonaise dance that nurtured the country’s spirit even through the dark years of its partition is now honored by the United Nations’ education and culture agency, UNESCO.
Photo: Czarek Sokolowski/AP
SINGAPORE — Lots of training, lots of bravado, lots of fuel: South Korean Air Force's Black Eagles aerobatic team performs during the first day of the Singapore Airshow in Singapore, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024.Photo: Vincent Thian/AP
SINGAPORE — Lots of training, lots of bravado, lots of fuel: South Korean Air Force’s Black Eagles aerobatic team performs during the first day of the Singapore Airshow in Singapore, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024.
Photo: Vincent Thian/AP
CALIFORNIA — Nature’s revenge — sometimes there’s too much water: Jackson Family vineyards are submerged in the Russian River near Trenton Road and River Road after flooding from the latest round of storms in Sonoma County, CA, Monday, Feb. 19, 2024.Photo: Chad Surmick/The Press Democrat via AP
CALIFORNIA — Nature’s revenge — sometimes there’s too much water: Jackson Family vineyards are submerged in the Russian River near Trenton Road and River Road after flooding from the latest round of storms in Sonoma County, CA, Monday, Feb. 19, 2024.
Photo: Chad Surmick/The Press Democrat via AP
PARAGUAY — When justice prevails: Political and human rights activists who are former detainees react as the court announces the 30-year prison sentence for retired Police Commissioner Eusebio Torres for the 1976 torture of detainees during the Stroessner dictatorship, at Justice Palace in Asuncion, Paraguay, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. Torres, 88, will serve his sentence at home. The signs read in Spanish, "More than 400 disappeared," "Without justice there is no democracy," and "Impunity for crime feeds a bad memory."Photo: Jorge Saenz/AP
PARAGUAY — When justice prevails: Political and human rights activists who are former detainees react as the court announces the 30-year prison sentence for retired Police Commissioner Eusebio Torres for the 1976 torture of detainees during the Stroessner dictatorship, at Justice Palace in Asuncion, Paraguay, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. Torres, 88, will serve his sentence at home. The signs read in Spanish, “More than 400 disappeared,” “Without justice there is no democracy,” and “Impunity for crime feeds a bad memory.”
Photo: Jorge Saenz/AP
DAYTONA — High-speed fender bender: Joey Logano (22) and Daniel Suarez (99) get involved in a multi-car collision in Turn 3 during the NASCAR Daytona 500 auto race at Daytona International Speedway, Monday, Feb. 19, 2024, in Daytona Beach, FL.Photo: Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP
DAYTONA — High-speed fender bender: Joey Logano (22) and Daniel Suarez (99) get involved in a multi-car collision in Turn 3 during the NASCAR Daytona 500 auto race at Daytona International Speedway, Monday, Feb. 19, 2024, in Daytona Beach, FL.
Photo: Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP

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