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Eduardo Ramon
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Colourful dancers, Tour of Oman, and the Gaudi Cube
Issei Kato / AFP
Performers take part in the opening ceremony of the Harbin 2025 Asian Winter Games in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang province, on February 7, 2025.
Loic VENANCE / AFP
The pack rides during the first stage of the Tour of Oman cycling race from Bushar to Bimmah Sinkhole, eastern Muscat Governorate, on February 8, 2025.
Josep LAGO / AFP
Spectators visit “In the Mind of Gaudi”, an experimental audiovisual installation named “Gaudi Cube” by Turkish visual artist Refik Anadol at Casa Batllo in Barcelona on February 8, 2025.
Martin LEVICOY / AFP
Aerial view of burned trees in the mountains of Mallin Ahogado near El Bolson, in the Patagonian province of Rio Negro, Argentina, on February 9, 2025.
Eyad BABA / AFP
A tricycle and a horse-drawn cart move along al-Rashid street across between Gaza City and Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on February 10, 2025 as displaced people return home amid the current ceasefire.
Mandel NGAN / AFP
An activist dressed as the Statue of Liberty is pulled in shackles near a large effigy of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu as they rally in support of Palestinians during the "Arrest Netanyahu Rally" on February 4, 2025.
Rizwan TABASSUM / AFP
Pakistani navy officers carry flags of foreign countries participating during the multinational naval exercise AMAN-25 in Karachi on February 7, 2025.
Victor GAHBLER / AFP
Members of the National Guard patrol the border wall in Juarez Valley, Chihuahua state, Mexico, on February 5, 2025.
Jung Yeon-je / AFP
South Korean folk band members play music around a huge bonfire during an event to celebrate the upcoming 'Jeongwol Daeboreum', a festival celebrating the first full moon of the lunar new year In Seoul on February 8, 2025.
AFP
A youth embraces an elderly man after receiving approval to leave the Hol camp, at which the families of suspected Islamic State (IS) fighters are detained, in Syria's northeastern Hasakah province on February 9, 2025.
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