• Residents gather at the scene of a car-bomb attack near Somali Youth League Hotel, known as SYL hotel, in Hamarweyne district in Mogadishu, Somalia. At least nine people were killed when fighters from Somali Islamist group Al Shabaab set off a car bomb at the gate of a popular park and near the hotel in the capital, sending a plume of smoke above the coastal city. Feisal Omar / Reuters
    Residents gather at the scene of a car-bomb attack near Somali Youth League Hotel, known as SYL hotel, in Hamarweyne district in Mogadishu, Somalia. At least nine people were killed when fighters from Somali Islamist group Al Shabaab set off a car bomb at the gate of a popular park and near the hotel in the capital, sending a plume of smoke above the coastal city. Feisal Omar / Reuters
  • Kosovo police clash with supporters of the opposition political parties during a violent protest in Pristina, Kosovo. Thousands of opposition supporters clash with police as lawmakers of the ruling coalition vote for the new president of the Republic of Kosovo. Valdrin Xhemaj / EPA
    Kosovo police clash with supporters of the opposition political parties during a violent protest in Pristina, Kosovo. Thousands of opposition supporters clash with police as lawmakers of the ruling coalition vote for the new president of the Republic of Kosovo. Valdrin Xhemaj / EPA
  • Security forces wear gas masks at the Kosovo assembly, after opposition lawmakers released tear gas canisters disrupting a parliamentary session in Kosovo’s capital Pristina. Kosovo opposition members have released tear gas inside Parliament as the lawmakers were readying to vote on wether to elect Hashim Thaci, foreign minister and former guerrilla leader, as the next president. Visar Kryeziu / AP photo
    Security forces wear gas masks at the Kosovo assembly, after opposition lawmakers released tear gas canisters disrupting a parliamentary session in Kosovo’s capital Pristina. Kosovo opposition members have released tear gas inside Parliament as the lawmakers were readying to vote on wether to elect Hashim Thaci, foreign minister and former guerrilla leader, as the next president. Visar Kryeziu / AP photo
  • A Syrian rebel fighter from the Islamist Failaq Al-Rahman brigade comes out of a hiding position on the front line against regime forces in the town of Arbin in the eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus. A partial ceasefire between Syria’s regime forces and non-jihadist rebel fighters is due to take effect at midnight local time. Amer Almohibany / AFP
    A Syrian rebel fighter from the Islamist Failaq Al-Rahman brigade comes out of a hiding position on the front line against regime forces in the town of Arbin in the eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus. A partial ceasefire between Syria’s regime forces and non-jihadist rebel fighters is due to take effect at midnight local time. Amer Almohibany / AFP
  • A Syrian boy holds a toy gun as he plays football with others between destroyed buildings with graffiti that reads “Syria al-Assad,” in the old city of Homs, Syria. Hassan Ammar / AP photo
    A Syrian boy holds a toy gun as he plays football with others between destroyed buildings with graffiti that reads “Syria al-Assad,” in the old city of Homs, Syria. Hassan Ammar / AP photo
  • Oklahoma Muslims listen to the National Anthem in the rotunda of the State Capitol building in Oklahoma City, during “Muslim Day at the Capitol,”. Paul Hellstern / The Oklahoman via AP
    Oklahoma Muslims listen to the National Anthem in the rotunda of the State Capitol building in Oklahoma City, during “Muslim Day at the Capitol,”. Paul Hellstern / The Oklahoman via AP
  • A visitor of the Sonnenbad public pool swims during the season opening in Karlsruhe, Germany. The water in the pool has a temperature of 28 degree Celsius while the pool is partly covered by a roof. According to the Karlsruhe Baedergesellschaft, which operates the Sonnenbad public pools, they are the only ones in Germany who are open from end of February until the first Advent. Uli Deck / EPA
    A visitor of the Sonnenbad public pool swims during the season opening in Karlsruhe, Germany. The water in the pool has a temperature of 28 degree Celsius while the pool is partly covered by a roof. According to the Karlsruhe Baedergesellschaft, which operates the Sonnenbad public pools, they are the only ones in Germany who are open from end of February until the first Advent. Uli Deck / EPA
  • The Great Britain Cycling Men’s Endurance Team trains at the Manchester Velodrome during a Team GB Cycling media day in Manchester, England. Alex Livesey / Getty Images
    The Great Britain Cycling Men’s Endurance Team trains at the Manchester Velodrome during a Team GB Cycling media day in Manchester, England. Alex Livesey / Getty Images

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World in focus — best photos for February 27, 2016

Rob Gurdebeke

February 27, 2016

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