Street art, zombie marathons and Ramadan preparations

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YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP

A street performer covered in silver paint takes a break to eat in Jakarta on February 23, 2025.

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Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP

A zombie actor ahead of the Zombie Run Festival, a 5-kilometre-long race where participants must protect three plastic tags attached to their waists from zombies until they reach the finish line, in Jakarta on February 22, 2025.

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Mehmet Murat / Getty

Fatih Municipality teams cleaned the Suleymaniye Mosque as part of the disinfection work carried out before Ramadan in historical mosques in Istanbul, Turkiye, on February 25, 2025.

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Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty

A man sells dates at the market in the Sayyida Zeinab district in preparation for the holy month of Ramadan on February 21, 2025, in Cairo, Egypt. The Islamic holy month of Ramadan begins on February 28.

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Roman PILIPEY / AFP

Visitors stand next to a makeshift memorial paying tribute to Ukrainian and foreign fighters with flags at the Independence Square in Kyiv on February 23, 2025, ahead of the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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IBRAHIM AMRO / AFP

Mourners attend the funeral of slain Hezbollah leaders Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine at the Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium on the outskirts of Beirut on February 23, 2025.

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Simone Risoluti/REUTERS

General view of the mass and ordinations to the diaconate carried out by Archbishop Rino Fisichella, instead of Pope Francis, inside St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, February 23, 2025.

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FETHI BELAID / AFP

A Ruepell's griffon vulture perches on a branch at a bird sanctuary where it is prepared for release after receiving care by volunteers from Tunisia's Wildlife Association (ATVS) in Sidi Thabet on February 22, 2025.

REUTERS/Spasiyana Sergieva
REUTERS/Spasiyana Sergieva

Children spin rings of fire during rituals in celebration of Mesni Zagovezni, the second Sunday before Great Lent, in Lozen, Bulgaria, February 23, 2025.

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Philippe LOPEZ / AFP

"The Egypt of the Pharaohs from Kheops to Ramses II" exhibition at the "Bassin des Lumieres", the largest digital art centre in the world, in Bordeaux, Germany, on February 20, 2025.