A theme park’s reopening in California, Holi celebrations in India, flooding in Australia, whale watching in Mexico, protests in Turkey, a masked rock concert in Barcelona, a snowy Opening Day in Detroit, China Fashion Week in Beijing, tulip fields in Italy, and much more
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The shadow of a member of a bereaved family is seen as he paints red hearts on the COVID-19 Memorial Wall opposite the Houses of Parliament on the Embankment in London, England, on March 29, 2021. Hearts are being painted onto the wall in memory of the many thousands of people who have died in the U.K. from the coronavirus. #
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A mother and her son, migrants from Honduras, walk after crossing the Rio Bravo river to turn themselves in to U.S Border Patrol agents to request asylum in El Paso, Texas, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on March 29, 2021. #
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Minors are housed at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley, run by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, in Donna, Texas, on March 30, 2021. The minors are housed by the hundreds in eight pods that are about 3,200 square feet in size. Many of the pods have more than 500 children in them. The Biden administration on Tuesday for the first time allowed journalists inside its main detention facility for migrant children at the border, revealing a severely overcrowded tent structure where more than 4,000 kids and families were crammed into pods and the youngest were kept in a large playpen with mats on the floor for sleeping. #
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A young girl practices her skating skills in the spring sunshine on Blackpool's promenade as parts of the U.K. experienced the warmest day of the year so far on March 30, 2021, in Blackpool, England. #
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Shane Bieber of the Cleveland Indians throws a first-inning pitch to Miguel Cabrera of the Detroit Tigers during a snowy Opening Day at Comerica Park on April 1, 2021, in Detroit, Michigan. #
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Models dressed in traditional lace mantillas walk through the center of Seville, Spain, on March 26, 2021, ahead of the Holy Week, whose rituals and processions have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic. #
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People wearing face masks attend a music concert in Barcelona, Spain, on March 27, 2021. Five thousand music lovers attended a rock concert in Barcelona on Saturday, after passing a same-day COVID-19 screening, to test the effectiveness of prescreening and mask wearing in preventing outbreaks of the virus at large cultural events. The show, by Spanish rock group Love of Lesbian, had the special permission of Spanish health authorities. While the rest of the country is limited to gatherings of no more than four people in closed spaces, the concertgoers were able to mix freely while wearing face masks. #
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Commuters walk on the Mombasa floating bridge connecting the mainland and the island as ferry services were paused during commuting hours to curb the spread of COVID-19 in Mombasa, Kenya, on March 31, 2021. #
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At sea in the Maltese SAR zone, two lifeguards from the Spanish NGO Open Arms move a child from a wooden boat in which 38 migrants of different nationalities, the majority of them Libyans, were trying to cross to Europe, on March 27, 2021. Political and economic migrants continue to risk the journey across the Mediterranean Sea, hoping to be rescued by a humanitarian-aid vessel or by coast guards who will take them to a European country. #
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Turkish police officers try to detain a student as a woman pulls him away during a demonstration in support of Boğaziçi University students on April 1, 2021, in Kadıköy, Istanbul. Turkish police detained students protesting against the Turkish president's appointment of a party loyalist as rector of the elite Boğaziçi University, and against the detention of dozens of fellow protesting students the previous week. #
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A worshipper prays at Saint Hripsime Church, one of the oldest churches in Armenia, in Etchmiadzin, the spiritual capital of Armenia, to mark Holy Thursday on April 1, 2021. #
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A kitten sits near a library user as he reads a book at Kedili Tekke ("Lodge With Cats"), currently used as a library in Bursa, Turkey, on March 30, 2021. The library was a Sufi lodge centuries ago, and was named after the hosts, who fed the local cats. The cats at the library are today taken care of by the Osman Gazi Municipality Stray Animals Center. #
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Mia Harris hugs her horse Sharny, who survived the recent flooding that inundated her family home in the small township of Croki in Taree, Australia, on March 29, 2021. #
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A family takes a picture at the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile during a visit to the Flower Fields, as California reopens after its pandemic shutdown, in Carlsbad, California, on March 31, 2021. #
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Kate Johnston (left) and Hollie Raythorne (center) celebrate the 22nd birthday of Grace Flaherty as they picnic among the daffodils in St James's Park in London, England on March 30, 2021. #
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Visitors ride a roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain on its first day of reopening to members and pass holders in Valencia, California, on April 1, 2021. The theme park had been closed since March 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic. #
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Yoshia Uomoto, 98, reacts as her son Mark Uomoto and niece Gail Yamada surprise her with their first in-person visit in a year, after indoor visitation COVID-19 restrictions were lifted at Nikkei Manor, an assisted-living facility primarily serving Japanese American seniors, in Seattle, Washington, on March 30, 2021. Residents, who have all been fully vaccinated, can visit with family for an hour at a time. #
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