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This photograph shows Ninots (cardboard figurines) in a 'falla' (a huge ornate cardboard sculpture made to eventually be burnt) burning on the last night of the Fallas Festival in Valencia, on March 19, 2023. The fallas, gigantic cardboard structures that portray current events and celebrities in which individual figures, or "ninots" are placed, are burned in the streets of Valencia on March 19 as a tribute to San Jose (Saint Joseph), patron saint of the carpenters' guild.
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Opposition supporters carry stones and chant slogans demanding lower taxes and a reduced cost of living in Nairobi, Kenya, on March 20, 2023. Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga called on his supporters to participate in countrywide protests on March 20, 2023 to demand that President William Ruto lowers the cost of living while questioning last year’s presidential elections results. Kenyans face economic hardship following the government’s recent tax measures and increased food and fuel prices.
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A member of the Confederation Generale du travail (CGT) labour union raises his arms as he stands in front of an overturned burning car during a blocade of Marseille's port (Port Autonome de Marseille), southern France, on March 22, 2023, a few days after the French government pushed a pensions reform through parliament without a vote, using the article 49.3 of the constitution. The French President faces intensified protests and accusations of anti-democratic behaviour after pushing through a contentious pension reform without a parliamentary vote.
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Residents of the El Cardon community, who do not receive drinking water at home, carry drums with water collected from a natural pond formed in a tunnel near the Waraira Repano National Park during the World Water Day in Caracas on March 22, 2023.
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Ukrainian servicemen head toward Bakhmut in a BMP infantry fighting vehicle, in eastern Ukraine on March 22, 2023.
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A protester jumps next to a fire of waste containers during a demonstration, a week after the government pushed a pensions reform through parliament without a vote, using the article 49.3 of the constitution, in Toulouse, southwestern France, on March 23, 2023. French unions on March 23, 2023, staged a new day of disruption against President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform after he defiantly vowed to implement the change, with refineries at a standstill and mass transport cancellations.
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An aerial picture taken on March 22, 2023 shows activists laying on the dry soil during an environmental Global Climate Action demonstration, calling for climate action in the La Viñuela reservoir, in the province of Malaga.
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This aerial picture shows Muslim devotees offering prayers marking the start of Islam's holy month of Ramadan at the Baiturrahman grand mosque in Banda Aceh on March 22, 2023.
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