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BEIJING, CHINA
Members of a band from the People's Liberation Army play following a speech by China's President Xi Jinping during the closing session of the National People's Congress at The Great Hall Of The People on March 20 in Beijing, China.
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DAMASCUS, SYRIA
Smoke rises after Assad Regime forces carried out airstrikes in Eastern Ghouta's Douma town in Damascus, Syria on, March 20.
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AKRA, IRAQ
Iraqi Kurdish people carry fire torches up a mountain, as they celebrate Newroz Day, a festival marking their spring and new year, in the town of Akra, Iraq, on, March 20.
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FRANKFURT, GERMANY
Light shines out from one of the buildings at Roemer Square during the official opening of the "Luminale" light festival in Frankfurt, Germany, on, March 20.
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ISTANBUL, TURKEY
A man jumps over a bonfire during a Kurdish celebration of Nowruz (aka Noruz or Newroz), the Persian calendar New Year, in Istanbul, Turkey, on March 21.
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KOSOVO
Kosovo's opposition lawmakers release a teargas canister inside the country's parliament in Pristina on March 21 before a vote for an agreement to ratify or not a border demarcation deal signed in 2015 with Montenegro.
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KAZAKHSTAN RUSSIA SPACE STATION
Photographers taking pictures of a Soyuz-FG rocket booster carrying the Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft with the ISS Expedition 55/56 main crew of Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev and NASA astronauts Richard Arnold, Andrew J. Feustel aboard blast off to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, March 21.
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WASHINGTON, D.C.
People make their way along the National Mall during a snowstorm in Washington, on, March 21.
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LONDON
Britain's Prince William and Duchess Catherine (not pictured) meet wheelchair basketball players, some of whom hope to compete in the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, during their visit to the Olympic Park in Stratford, London, Britain, March 22.
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AGARTALA, TRIPURA
An Indian labourer pushes heaps of bamboo on a river to be sold at a floating market -- and set to be used in the construction industry -- in Chakmaghat, some 56km north of Agartala, the capital of northeastern state of Tripura, on March 22.
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ABIDJAN, CÔTE D’IVOIRE
Riot policemen throw tear gas to dismantle a rally held by opposition activists on March 22, 2018 in Abidjan. Ivory Coast opposition activists called a "democratic march" ahead of senatorial, municipal and regional elections and as the country begins to look forward to presidential polls in 2020. |