A deadly train crash in Greece, the northern lights above Stockholm, donations for quake-affected children in Turkey, an uphill race in Austria, fighting and survival in Ukraine, an air show in Australia, a traditional sled race in Slovakia, and much more
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Dancers wearing white Louboutin boots perform to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the red sole (semelle rouge) on the sidelines of Paris Fashion Week at the Opera Comique in Paris, France, on March 2, 2023. #
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A Chilean soldier helps a migrant cross a water canal near Colchane, Chile, on March 1, 2023, before the migrants are taken to a shelter where police will register them. The government announced that it is increasing its military presence on its border with Peru and Bolivia to tackle illegal immigration. #
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War-damaged railroad tracks and power lines in the village of Sosnove, Donetsk region, on March 1, 2023, more than a year since the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. #
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Svitlana Gynzhul carries broken branches toward a fire in her hometown, which is located between front lines and was devastated by shelling in the beginning of the war, in Luch, Mykolaiv region, Ukraine, on February 24, 2023. #
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A man puts on a performance with fire, during a show rooted in ancient traditions, to ward off bad luck and bring good fortune in Pan'An County, Jinhua, in China's eastern Zhejiang province, on March 1, 2023. #
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A house belonging to people engaged in illegal mining is set on fire during an operation by the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources to fight Amazon deforestation in Yanomami territory, in Roraima State, Brazil, on February 24, 2023. In early February, Brazil deployed hundreds of police and soldiers to evict gold miners accused of causing a humanitarian crisis on the Yanomami Indigenous reservation, as thousands of the miners fled. Justice Minister Flavio Dino said authorities estimate that at least 15,000 people have illegally invaded the protected Amazon rainforest reservation, where Indigenous leaders accuse gold miners of raping and killing inhabitants, poisoning their water with mercury and triggering a food crisis by destroying the forest. #
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A church tower peeks above an old lava flow from the Paricutin volcano, which buried the church decades ago, in San Juan Parangaricutiro, Mexico, on February 21, 2023. The volcano first erupted 80 years ago, emerging from a cornfield in 1943. #
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Thousands of opposition protesters gather to demonstrate against electoral reforms of the leftist ruling party, in Zocalo square in Mexico City on February 26, 2023. Opposition groups called for demonstrations in various cities in Mexico to reject a controversial electoral reform championed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador that critics see as an attack on democracy, ahead of key elections next year. The proposal aims to reduce the size and budget of the independent agency that organizes elections, the National Electoral Institute. #
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Devotees smear one another with colors as they celebrate the Hindu festival of Holi at the Shreeji temple in Barsana, Mathura district, Uttar Pradesh, India, on February 27, 2023. #
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An aerial view shows Israelis blocking the road during a demonstration as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's nationalist coalition government presses on with a contentious judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on March 1, 2023. #
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France's Tess Ledeux falls during the women's freeski slopestyle event at the Freestyle Skiing and Snowboarding World Championships in Bakuriani, Georgia, on February 28, 2023. #
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Participants take part in the Streif Vertical Up in Kitzbuehel, Austria, on February 25, 2023. Their aim is to conquer the Streif—860 vertical meters over 3.312 km, with an average slope of 27 percent and a maximum of 85 percent—as quickly as possible. #
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During a Turkish Super League match between Besiktas and Antalyaspor at Vodafone Park in Istanbul, Turkey, on February 26, 2023, Besiktas's Cenk Tosun reacts as fans throw toys on the pitch for children affected by recent earthquakes. #
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Debris of trains lie on rail lines after a collision in Tempi, near Larissa, Greece, on March 1, 2023. A passenger train carrying hundreds of people, including many university students returning home from holiday, collided at high speed with an oncoming freight train before midnight on Tuesday, killing dozens. #
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People watch the burning Fourth Wall art object during the celebration of Maslenitsa, a pagan festival marking the end of winter, in Nikola-Lenivets art park in Russia's Kaluga region on February 25, 2023. #
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A medical worker in protective gear waits to administer COVID-19 tests to reporters signed up to cover the press conference and opening of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, at a quarantine hotel in Beijing, China, on March 2, 2023. #
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A Ukrainian serviceman rests on a bed after returning from the front line, at a rest and recovery base in the Donetsk region, on February 24, 2023, on the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. #
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