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A carnival float featuring Russia's President Vladimir Putin taking a blood bath in a yellow-blue bathtub is pictured during a Rose Monday street carnival parade in Duesseldorf, western Germany, on February 20, 2023.
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A car drives past collapsed buildings in Antakya, southern Turkey on February 20, 2023. A 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit near Gaziantep, Turkey, in the early hours of February 6, followed by another 7.5-magnitude tremor just after midday. The quakes caused widespread destruction in southern Turkey and northern Syria and has killed more than 44,000 people.
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A lightning hits the hand of the Christ the Redeemer statue at the Corcovado mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on February 21, 2023.
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US President Joe Biden (R) walks next to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) as he arrives for a visit in Kyiv on February 20, 2023. US President Joe Biden made a surprise trip to Kyiv on February 20, 2023, ahead of the first anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, AFP journalists saw. Biden met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Ukrainian capital on his first visit to the country since the start of the conflict.
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A man goes for a walk in front of the Minneapolis skyline at Bde Maka Ska Park during a snowstorm in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on February 22, 2023. Powerful winter storms lashed the United States on Wednesday, with heavy snow snarling travel across wide areas, even as unusual warmth was expected in others. Blizzards expected to dump up to two feet (60 centimeters) of snow swept across a vast band of the country from the West Coast to the Great Lakes, grounding flights and knocking out power to tens of thousands.
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A photo shows the Eiffel Tower lit in the colours of the Ukrainnian flag in a show of support to Ukraine, one year after Russia launched a military invasion on the country, in Paris, on February 23, 2023. Kyiv is set on February 24 to mark the first anniversary of Moscow's invasion, as Ukrainians braced for possible new Russian strikes after a year of defiance and grief, as a year ago, Russia's President stunned the world by sending troops across the border in the early hours of the morning to "de-militarise" Ukraine, in a move seen as punishment for Kyiv's pivot to the West.
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Floats pass by as members of the Grande Rio samba school perform during the first night of Rio's Carnival parade at the Sambadrome Marques de Sapucai in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on February 19, 2023.
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Palestinian youths burn tires during a protest near the Israel-Gaza border east of Jabalia refugee camp, on February 23, 2023. Israel and Palestinian militants traded air strikes and rocket fire in and around Gaza, a day after the deadliest Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank in nearly 20 years.
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