A wildfire in Venezuela, cherry blossoms in eastern China, a deadly terrorist attack in Russia, a surf competition in Australia, Holy Week processions in Spain, a full moon above Istanbul, a vast solar power farm in Texas, and much more.
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An aerial view of the cargo vessel Dali, seen after it had crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing it to collapse, in Baltimore, Maryland, on March 26, 2024. #
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Waves crash against a lighthouse during a storm in Les Sables d'Olonne, France, on March 28, 2024. #
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Lava flows from a fissure, backdropped by the Northern Lights, near the town of Grindavik, Iceland, on March 25, 2024. #
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Firefighters try to contain a four alarm fire in two homes in Brooklyn on March 22, 2024, in New York City. The fast-moving fire took dozens of firefighters to contain. #
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A fire rages inside the Crocus City Hall on March 22, 2024, in Krasnogorsk, Russia, following a terrorist attack on a concert hall that left at least 140 people dead and another 350 injured. #
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Candles are placed outside the Crocus City Hall concert venue on a day of mourning declared following the deadly attack, in the Moscow Region, Russia, on March 24, 2024. #
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Penitents with the Cristo de la Buena Muerte brotherhood take part in a procession during Holy Week in the northwestern Spanish city of Zamora on March 25, 2024. #
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Penitents of the La Paz brotherhood take part in the Palm Sunday procession in Seville on March 24, 2024. #
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A view shows pyramidal anti-tank obstacles known as "dragon's teeth," installed across a field as a part of a new fortification line, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, seen on March 24, 2024. #
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An aerial view of the Oberon Solar O&M farm on March 24, 2024, seen in Ector County, Texas. In 2023, Texas led the nation in solar installations on its power grid, surpassing California for its second consecutive year. #
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New electric cars for sale are seen parked at a distribution center of the Changan automobile company in southwestern China's Chongqing municipality on March 24, 2024. #
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Karol G performs during her Mañana Será Bonito tour at the Monumental Stadium of Caracas Simón Bolívar in Caracas, Venezuela, on March 22, 2024. #
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Visitors view a sunset above Hong Kong on March 22, 2024. #
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An installation entitled "Continuous" by Japanese art collective teamLab, featuring some 200 giant egg-shaped objects which change color to music as part of the Art@Harbour initiative, is seen at Tamar Park in front by Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour on March 25, 2024. #
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Members of a folk dance troupe prepare to perform during Ramadan in Iraq's southern city of Basra on March 22, 2024. #
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A Hindu devotee dances during the Huranga, a game played between men and women a day after Holi, at Dauji temple near the northern city of Mathura, India, on March 26, 2024. #
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A surfer warms up at sunrise, ahead of the 2024 Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach on March 27, 2024, in Winkipop, Australia. #
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Giovanna Barbosa enjoys cold water in a stream in the Tijuca forest, during World Water Day in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on March 21, 2024. #
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Scottish Ballet dancers Seira Winning, Urara Takata, and Danila Marzilli pose on the banks of Loch Lomond ahead of the Swan Lake tour, near Glasgow, Scotland, on March 26, 2024. #
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Daffodils bloom in the snow in Le Sepey, Switzerland, on March 24, 2024. #
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A view of a large iceberg floating off the coast of Antarctica on February 18, 2024 (photo released on March 22, 2024). #
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The full moon rises over the Fatih Mosque and Süleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, on March 25, 2024. #
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Humanitarian aid is airdropped over the northern Gaza Strip, as seen from central Gaza, on March 25, 2024. #
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A flock of pelicans fly in the direction of Lake Manyas at sunset in Bursa, Turkey, on March 24, 2024. #
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Russian tourists pose for a photo beneath an inbound airplane on Mai Khao Beach in Phuket, Thailand, on March 24, 2024. #
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Horses compete in the 21st Dubai International Arabian Horse Championship in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on March 24, 2024. #
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France's Felix Lebrun serves to France's Alexis Lebrun (not pictured) during the men's table tennis singles final match in the France 2024 Championship at FDI Stadium in Montpellier, France, on March 24, 2024. #
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A person poses beneath cherry blossoms on a campus in Nanjing, in eastern China's Jiangsu province, on March 24, 2024. #
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Hundreds of demonstrators hold a large banner with portraits of people who disappeared during Argentina's military dictatorship (1976-1983) in Plaza de Mayo Square in Buenos Aires on March 24, 2023. The march was held on the 48th anniversary of the 1976 coup d'état, which led to a dictatorship responsible for tens of thousands of disappearances, exiles, and executions in clandestine centers. #
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A young boy crawls through concertina wire at the border as migrants cross from Mexico into El Paso, Texas, on March 22, 2024. #
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Jolimar, an 18-year-old migrant from Venezuela, shelters her two-year-old son Gail from cold and blustery weather as they search for an entry point into the U.S. past a fortified fence along the bank of the Rio Grande river in El Paso, Texas, on March 25, 2024. #
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A lizard climbs on a burning tree at El Café Hill, in the municipality of Naguanagua, Carabobo State, Venezuela, on March 27, 2024. #
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Smoke and fire rise above the Dnipro hydroelectric power plant after Russian attacks in Dnipro, Ukraine, on March 22, 2024. #
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Members of the Civil Defense help a man who lost his house, destroyed by heavy rains in Petropolis, Brazil, on March 23, 2024. A powerful storm claimed at least nine lives in southeastern Brazil. #
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Austria's Daniel Tschofenig makes a jump during the men's individual HS240 at the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup in Planica, Slovenia, on March 24, 2024. #
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