A flock of sheep in Paris, demonstrations to mark International Women’s Day, an evacuated bear in Ukraine, a sandstorm in Iraq, skijoring in Colorado, a robot exhibition in Tokyo, images from the Beijing Winter Paralympics, Tibetan New Year celebrations in Nepal, and much more
Photos of the Week: Mud Bath, Sled Dogs, Ukraine Crisis
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People run from fireworks before the traditional "torito" (little bull) made of paper, wood, and fireworks during celebrations of San Juan de Dios in Tultepec, on the outskirts of Mexico City, on March 8, 2022. #
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A costumed demonstrator performs the song "Un Violador en Tu Camino," or "A Rapist in Your Path," with others, during a demonstration against gender-based violence on International Women's Day in Santiago, Chile, on March 7, 2022. #
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An exiled Tibetan performer waits to perform during celebrations to mark the third day of the Lhosar Tibetan New Year at the Boudhanath Stupa area in Kathmandu, Nepal, on March 5, 2022. #
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Members of the Beijing Military Pipe Band march after playing the bagpipes before the round-robin session-16 game of the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games wheelchair-curling competition, at the National Aquatics Center in Beijing on March 10, 2022. #
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Gian Luca Cavaliere of Team Italy celebrates after beating Slovakia in a shoot-out during the Group B Preliminary Round Para Ice Hockey game on day two of the 2022 Winter Paralympics on March 6, 2022. #
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Valerii Sushkevych, president of the Ukraine National Paralympic Committee, and the Ukraine delegation raise their fists and pose with a peace banner after a speech to the media at the Zhangjiakou Paralympic Village in China, on March 10, 2022. #
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Ukrainian emergency employees and volunteers carry an injured pregnant woman from a maternity hospital that was damaged by shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 9, 2022. #
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A soldier says goodbye to his partner before boarding a train to Dnipro from the main train terminal in Lviv, Ukraine, on March 9, 2022. As Ukrainian civilians in the east flee to the relative safety of western cities such as Lviv, and abroad, to escape Russia's assault, many members of the military are heading east to help with the war effort. #
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A girl carries her cat in a backpack as she waits to board a bus transporting her farther into Poland or abroad from the temporary shelter for refugees located in a former shopping center between the Ukrainian border and the Polish city of Przemysl, in Poland, on March 8, 2022. #
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A humanoid robot pushes a wheelchair at the Kawasaki Heavy Industries booth during the International Robot Exhibition 2022 at Tokyo Big Sight on March 9, 2022, in Tokyo, Japan. #
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A general view of the mass start of the 98th Vasaloppet cross-country-ski race, held in Salen, Sweden, on March 6, 2022. Some 15,800 skiers registered to participate this year. #
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Skier Bruce Stott catches air after flying off a jump while competing in the Open division during the 74th annual Leadville Ski Joring weekend competition on March 6, 2022, in Leadville, Colorado. #
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Lava flows down from the crater of Indonesia's most active volcano, Mount Merapi, seen from the village of Plunyon in Sleman, outside Yogyakarta, early on March 10, 2022. #
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A Nature Conservation Agency officer holds a leopard cub as it is displayed along with other animals during a press conference in Surabaya, Indonesia, on March 4, 2022, after the organization and the police arrested a group of wildlife traffickers. #
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Life-size 3-D-printed statues honoring women in STEM are seen at the Enid A. Haupt Garden outside the Smithsonian Castle in Washington, D.C., on March 4, 2022. The Smithsonian is presenting “#IfThenSheCan - The Exhibit,” a collection of 120 statues of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, which will be on display in Smithsonian gardens and in and around select Smithsonian museums from March 5 through March 27, to commemorate Women’s History Month. #
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Women with painted symbols on their cheeks look on during a rally for gender equality and against violence toward women, to mark International Women's Day, in Rome, Italy, on March 8, 2022. #
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Women of the brotherhood Trabajo y Luz jump while lifting a structure, training to carry their saint in a parade during Easter week, on March 6, 2022, in Granada, Spain. #
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Vice President Kamala Harris joins civil-rights leaders and other guests as they walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the “Bloody Sunday” commemorations in Selma, Alabama, on March 6, 2022. #
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People take part in a mud-bath tradition, known as Mebuug-buugan, held a day after Nyepi—the Balinese "Day of Silence"—aimed at neutralizing bad traits, in the village of Kedonganan on Indonesia's resort island of Bali, on March 4, 2022. #
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