• Wooden pallets burn, as demonstrators gather during a rally called by French trade unions in outside the Gare de Lyon, in Paris on January 19, 2023. - A day of strikes and protests kicked off in France on January 19, 2023 set to disrupt transport and schooling across the country in a trial for the government as workers oppose a deeply unpopular pensions overhaul. (Photo by STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP)
    Wooden pallets burn, as demonstrators gather during a rally called by French trade unions in outside the Gare de Lyon, in Paris on January 19, 2023. - A day of strikes and protests kicked off in France on January 19, 2023 set to disrupt transport and schooling across the country in a trial for the government as workers oppose a deeply unpopular pensions overhaul. (Photo by STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP)
  • Priests celebrate Timkat (the Ethiopian epiphany) with the Ark of the Covenant on a lake near Batu, Ethiopia. AFP
    Priests celebrate Timkat (the Ethiopian epiphany) with the Ark of the Covenant on a lake near Batu, Ethiopia. AFP
  • Health workers visit homes during a polio vaccination campaign in Pakistani-administered Kashmir. EPA
    Health workers visit homes during a polio vaccination campaign in Pakistani-administered Kashmir. EPA
  • Chinese New Year lanterns in Hebei Province. EPA
    Chinese New Year lanterns in Hebei Province. EPA
  • Spain's Pablo Carreno Busta in action at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne. AFP
    Spain's Pablo Carreno Busta in action at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne. AFP
  • Football star Lionel Messi is depicted in a corn field sown with special algorithmic seeds in Cordoba, Argentina. Reuters
    Football star Lionel Messi is depicted in a corn field sown with special algorithmic seeds in Cordoba, Argentina. Reuters
  • A protest against the expansion of Covid-related biomedical research at the Reichstag building in Berlin. Reuters
    A protest against the expansion of Covid-related biomedical research at the Reichstag building in Berlin. Reuters
  • A dragon dance at the Lunar New Year celebration in Bangkok. Reuters
    A dragon dance at the Lunar New Year celebration in Bangkok. Reuters

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January 19, 2023

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