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Our world in photos: February 28

February 28, 2024 Brooklyn Eagle Staff
GERMANY — Like protective jetties on the south shore of Long Island, Germany has buried posts called groynes: A woman walks on the Baltic Sea beach with its numerous rows of groynes, in Graal-Müritz, Germany, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024.Photo: Jens Büttner/dpa via AP
GERMANY — Like protective jetties on the south shore of Long Island, Germany has buried posts called groynes: A woman walks on the Baltic Sea beach with its numerous rows of groynes, in Graal-Müritz, Germany, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024.
Photo: Jens Büttner/dpa via AP
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MOSCOW — A mission growing in popularity: Yulia Navalnaya, widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, addresses the European Union's parliament on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, in Strasbourg, eastern France. The grief-stricken widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny implored the 27-nation bloc to stand up to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The legislature often interrupted her speech with applause and lauded her efforts to keep the memory of Navalny alive.Photo: Jean-Francois Badias/AP
MOSCOW — A mission growing in popularity: Yulia Navalnaya, widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, addresses the European Union’s parliament on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, in Strasbourg, eastern France. The grief-stricken widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny implored the 27-nation bloc to stand up to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The legislature often interrupted her speech with applause and lauded her efforts to keep the memory of Navalny alive.
Photo: Jean-Francois Badias/AP
<b>VATICAN — The patience of a saint, the pomp of a pope:</b> Pope Francis attends his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024.<br>Photo: Andrew Medichini/AP
VATICAN — The patience of a saint, the pomp of a pope: Pope Francis attends his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024.
Photo: Andrew Medichini/AP
KOLKATA — Everything in India has bright colors — even the tea breaks: A porter has tea with a bus driver, sitting right, before loading sacks on a bus at a terminus in Kolkata, India, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024.Photo: Bikas Das/AP
KOLKATA — Everything in India has bright colors — even the tea breaks: A porter has tea with a bus driver, sitting right, before loading sacks on a bus at a terminus in Kolkata, India, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024.
Photo: Bikas Das/AP
<b>CAPITOL HILL — ‘We made it through security… on to the next step’:</b> Hunter Biden, left, son of President Joe Biden, arrives with attorney Abbe Lowell at the O'Neill House Office Building for a closed-door deposition in a Republican-led investigation into the Biden family, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. Lawmakers from the House Oversight and Accountability Committee and the House Judiciary Committee are conducting the inquiry.<br>Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP
CAPITOL HILL — ‘We made it through security… on to the next step’: Hunter Biden, left, son of President Joe Biden, arrives with attorney Abbe Lowell at the O’Neill House Office Building for a closed-door deposition in a Republican-led investigation into the Biden family, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. Lawmakers from the House Oversight and Accountability Committee and the House Judiciary Committee are conducting the inquiry.
Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP
ATHENS — Painful memories of a deadly rail tragedy: A relative of a victim mourns as she lights a candle during a memorial service of the first anniversary of the country's deadliest rail crash, which killed 57 people, in Tempe, about 376 kilometers (235 miles) north of Athens, near Larissa city, Greece, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. The train disaster on the night of Feb. 28, 2023, shocked the country. Many of the victims were university students heading back to class after a public holiday when their passenger train slammed into an oncoming cargo train after the two were accidentally put onto the same track heading in opposite directions.Photo: Vaggelis Kousioras/AP
ATHENS — Painful memories of a deadly rail tragedy: A relative of a victim mourns as she lights a candle during a memorial service of the first anniversary of the country’s deadliest rail crash, which killed 57 people, in Tempe, about 376 kilometers (235 miles) north of Athens, near Larissa city, Greece, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. The train disaster on the night of Feb. 28, 2023, shocked the country. Many of the victims were university students heading back to class after a public holiday when their passenger train slammed into an oncoming cargo train after the two were accidentally put onto the same track heading in opposite directions.
Photo: Vaggelis Kousioras/AP
LONDON — Taking refuge behind a multimillion-dollar piece of art: The artwork "Study of George Dyer" by British artist Francis Bacon on display during a media preview of Sotheby's Modern & Contemporary auctions in London, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. The piece has an estimated price of 5-7 million UK pounds.Photo: Kin Cheung/AP
LONDON — Taking refuge behind a multimillion-dollar piece of art: The artwork “Study of George Dyer” by British artist Francis Bacon on display during a media preview of Sotheby’s Modern & Contemporary auctions in London, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. The piece has an estimated price of 5-7 million UK pounds.
Photo: Kin Cheung/AP
SAN DIEGO — A punch and a headbutt, a part of the game: Brazil's Yaya, right, tries to head the ball as Panama goalkeeper Yenish Bailey, left, punches it during the second half of a CONCACAF Gold Cup women's soccer tournament match, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024, in San Diego.Photo: Gregory Bull/AP
SAN DIEGO — A punch and a headbutt, a part of the game: Brazil’s Yaya, right, tries to head the ball as Panama goalkeeper Yenish Bailey, left, punches it during the second half of a CONCACAF Gold Cup women’s soccer tournament match, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024, in San Diego.
Photo: Gregory Bull/AP

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