Cherry blossoms in London, lava flowing in Iceland, Nowruz celebrations in Iraq, spring training in Florida, a COVID-19 memorial in Prague, an anti-racism rally in New York, record flooding in Australia, a stuck ship in the Suez Canal, and much more
Photos of the Week: Army Sweep, Goat Surf, Pasture Classroom
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Architect Cristina Ventura, who is in charge of the Christ the Redeemer statue's restoration, looks out from the top of the statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on March 24, 2021. Christ the Redeemer will celebrate its 90th anniversary in October 2021 and is receiving restoration work to ensure that it looks its best for the public and visiting tourists. #
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In this photo released by the Suez Canal Authority, a cargo ship, named the Ever Given, sits with its bow stuck in the canal wall on March 24, 2021, after it got wedged sideways in Egypt’s Suez Canal, blocking traffic in a crucial East-West waterway for global shipping. #
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A stranded bride and groom, rescued by helicopter to get them to the church on time, kiss in front of a flooded bridge that blocked their five-minute drive into town, in Port Macquarie, Australia, in this picture obtained from social media, dated March 20, 2021. #
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Ten-year-old Fiammetta attends her online lessons surrounded by her shepherd father's herd of goats in the mountains, while schools are closed due to coronavirus restrictions, in Caldes, northern Italy, on March 20, 2021. #
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A child rides a scooter at the Old Town Square in Prague, Czech Republic, on March 22, 2021, where thousands of crosses have been drawn on the pavement to mark one year since the first COVID-19 fatality in the country with the highest per capita death rate in the world. #
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Demonstrators hold signs next to pillows and sheets with roses, symbolizing the 300,000 victims of COVID-19 in Brazil. The protest was organized by the NGO Rio de Paz and was held in front of the Ronaldo Gazolla hospital in Rio de Janeiro, on March 24, 2021. #
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People come to visit the massive memorial of flowers and flags at the scene of the March 22 shooting at a King Soopers grocery store, where 10 people were killed, on March 24, 2021, in Boulder, Colorado. #
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Gloria Winston, 94, (left), a resident at Laurelmead Cooperative retirement community, in Providence, Rhode Island, hugs her great-niece Wensday Greenbaum, and her 5-year-old great-great-niece Cordelia Cappelano, (right), on March 18, 2021. Before the pandemic, the two would often join Winston for lunch or swim in the building's pool. Greenbaum said they'd visited a few times since, but always outside and always at a safe distance. #
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A guard holds the gate to a room where inmates wait 15 minutes after getting a voluntary shot of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine at Santiago Vázquez prison on the outskirts of Montevideo, Uruguay, on March 19, 2021. #
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A woman carries her dog to be blessed by Saint Lazarus, in the Monimbo neighborhood in Masaya, about 35 km south of Managua, Nicaragua, on March 21, 2021. According to tradition, faithful people ask Saint Lazarus for the health of their dogs and pay these favors back by bringing their pets dressed in costumes to attend Mass in honor of the saint. #
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Japan's Satoko Miyahara practices during a training session prior to the 2021 ISU World Figure Skating Championships at the Stockholm Globe Arena in Stockholm, Sweden, on March 22, 2021. #
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New York Mets starting pitcher Jacob deGrom follows through on a delivery during a spring training baseball game against the Washington Nationals, on March 21, 2021, in West Palm Beach, Florida. #
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Seen in a plexiglass reflection, Damian Lillard of the Portland Trail Blazers warms up in front of cardboard cutouts of fans before the game against the Brooklyn Nets at Moda Center on March 23, 2021, in Portland, Oregon. #
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Members of the Guatemalan army sweep ash off the runway at La Aurora International Airport, after authorities suspended its operations because of the fall of volcanic ash from the constant eruptions of the Pacaya volcano, in Guatemala City, on March 23, 2021. #
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Iraqi Kurds carry lit torches up Kali mountain to celebrate Nowruz, the Persian New Year, on March 20, 2021, in Akre, Iraq. The Persian New Year is an ancient Zoroastrian tradition celebrated by Iranians and Kurds that coincides with the vernal (spring) equinox and is calculated by the solar calendar. #
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Swedish skier Kristofer Turdell competes to win the overall men's ski ranking during the Verbier Xtreme Freeride World Tour final on the Bec des Rosses mountain on March 23, 2021, above the Swiss Alps resort of Verbier. #
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Mayor Kim Janey looks on after delivering her inaugural address as the mayor of Boston at City Hall on March 24, 2021, in Boston, Massachusetts. She is the city's first woman mayor, and its first Black mayor. #
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