Sled dog training in Scotland, a famous rat hole in Chicago, scenes from the 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games in South Korea, Roman ruins in a field in Serbia, a new photothermal power plant in China, forest fires in Colombia, a World Snow Day celebration in Egypt, and much more
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A helicopter from the Armed Forces loads water to fight forest fires in Bogota, Colombia, on January 23, 2024. At least four active forest fires hit several regions of Colombia and the capital Bogota on Tuesday, amid a wave of conflagrations due to recent high temperatures. #
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Long-tailed tits frolic on a snow-covered branch in Daqing, Heilongjiang province, China, on January 20, 2024. #
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Italy's Alexandra Oberstolz and Katharina Sofie Kofler compete in the Luge Women's doubles event at the Gangwon 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games in the Alpensia Sliding Centre in Gangwon, South Korea, on January 21, 2024. #
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Egyptian girls enjoy the Ice Warrior Challenge during a celebration of World Snow Day, promoting snow sports and encouraging individuals to enjoy winter, at Ski Egypt, in Giza, Egypt, on January 20, 2024. #
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Maya Gabeira rides a wave during the Nazare Big Wave Challenge surfing tournament at Praia do Norte, or North Beach, in Nazare, Portugal, on January 22, 2024. #
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Rescuers work to extinguish a forest fire in Bogota, Colombia, on January 24, 2024. #
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Demonstrators attend a protest by police professional associations demanding better salaries and work conditions in Lisbon, Portugal, on January 24, 2024. #
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People gather to protest against the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) political party on January 21, 2024, in Munich, Germany. Protests against the AfD and to defend democracy have been taking place across Germany over the past week, following the recent revelation that high-ranking AfD members met with far-right extremists at a villa in Potsdam last November. Participants at the meeting reportedly discussed how to possibly introduce legislative measures to enable the mass expulsion of immigrants from Germany, as well as German citizens with immigrant roots and German citizens who have helped refugees. #
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A woman holds a child as people gather for the funeral of Sadegh Omidzadeh and Mohammad-Amin Samadi, members of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, in Tehran, Iran, on January 22, 2024. #
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A flock of pigeons fly in front of the Lord Murugan Statue during the Thaipusam festival at Batu Caves on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur on January 25, 2024. #
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A member of the Ramnami religious movement, with tattoos of the Hindu god Ram's name on his body, looks on during an annual festival near the Mahanadi river in Jaijaipur, India's Chhattisgarh state, on January 20, 2024. #
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A chinstrap penguin is pictured at Deception Island, on the western Antarctic Peninsula, on January 24, 2024. #
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Models walk the runway during the On Aura Tout Vu Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2024 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 22, 2024, in Paris, France. #
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An aerial view of some of the 11,960 heliostats installed at the construction site of a photothermal power plant in Jiuquan, Gansu province, China, on January 23, 2024. #
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An aerial view of snow-covered terraced fields and buildings in Yuncheng, Shanxi province, China, on January 24, 2024. #
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Swans spend their winter in a hot spring in Yili prefecture, Xinjiang province, China. #
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China's Xiao Siyu competes during the final run of the women's freeski slopestyle qualification at the Gangwon 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games at Welli Hilli Park Ski Resort in Hoengseong, South Korea, on January 24, 2024. #
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Palestinians, carrying their belongings with a horse carriage as they flee from intense Israeli attacks, migrate towards Rafah and Deir Al Balah from Khan Younis on January 22, 2024, in Deir Al Balah, Gaza. #
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A local resident leaves the site of residential buildings heavily damaged during a Russian missile attack in central Kharkiv, Ukraine, on January 24, 2024. #
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A temporary hut burns in a square in the small village of Forcall, Spain, on January 19, 2024. Forcall, with 450 inhabitants, holds an annual festival to celebrate the patron saint of animals, Sant Antoni, where, after a procession through the streets with people dressed as demons, and another procession with animals, villagers cross through a huge bonfire in the middle of the village square. #
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The excavated site of an ancient Roman triumphal arch that was discovered by archaeologists at Viminacium, a former Roman settlement, near the town of Kostolac, Serbia, photographed on January 22, 2024. #
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A view of a polluted canal filled with styrofoam and single-use plastic at Obalende in Lagos, Nigeria, on January 23, 2024. #
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Coins are left behind by visitors at an impression in a sidewalk known as the Chicago Rat Hole, seen in the Roscoe Village neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, on January 24, 2024. The decades-old impression in the the shape of a rat (or squirrel) began attracting a regular stream of visitors after a post on X garnered more than 5 million views. #
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Photographer Peter Bennett takes pictures of the prize-winning pigeons at the British Homing World Show of the Year in the Winter Gardens in Blackpool, England, on January 20, 2024. #
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Cowboys and cowgirls from the Jesson Ranch drive cattle along downtown Park Street in Livingston, Montana, on their way back to their ranch from winter pasture on January 20, 2024. #
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Snow covers the roofs of the so-called "Alter Flecken" (old spot), the historic core of Freudenberg, with its half-timbered houses from the 17th century in the heart of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia near the city of Siegen, Germany, on January 19, 2024. #
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An aerial view of Sumela Monastery, a historical Greek-Orthodox monastery carved into the Pontic Mountains in the Roman Imperial Period, during winter in Trabzon, Turkey, on January 24, 2024 #
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An aerial shot of a breeder going to dig out hay that had been stacked in the summer, from beneath a layer of snow, in the Gürpınar district of Van, Turkey, on January 25, 2024 #
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One of several sled dogs, excited prior to team training runs held before this weekend’s annual sled dog rally in Aviemore, Scotland, on January 25, 2024. #
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A Cucumber and a Chuta Cholero hug during the traditional Desentierro del Pepino festival (unearthing the cucumber) to mark the beginning of Carnival on January 21, 2024, in La Paz, Bolivia. #
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Students belonging to the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) carry a long banner in the colors of the Indian national flag through the city on the eve of Republic Day in Jammu, India, on January 25, 2024. #
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Gamer Miriam Castella is locked in a coffin while participating in an extreme escape room named Catalepsia, which takes place inside a coffin, simulating her funeral while she tries to escape from it by solving puzzles, in Barcelona, Spain, on January 18, 2024. #
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A man adjusts his goggles amid thick smoke from a fire in the mountains around Ocean View, Cape Town, South Africa, on January 22, 2024. #
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Russia's Daniil Medvedev plays his fourth round match against Portugal's Nuno Borges at the Australian Open at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia, on January 22, 2024. #
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A man takes a dip during Orthodox Epiphany celebrations in Moscow, Russia, on January 19, 2024. #
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