Feb. 7, Our World In Photos

February 7, 2017 Brooklyn Daily Eagle

AP Photo/Craig Ruttle

Share this:

NEW YORK — Family Celebrates: Sarah Assali, 19, left, who just arrived from Syria, is embraced by her brother Tawfik Assali, 21, upon her and other family members’ arrival at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Monday. Attorneys said Dr. Assali’s brothers, their wives and their two teenage children returned to Syria after they were denied entrance to the U.S. on Jan. 28 although they had visas in hand.

POLAND — City Prepares for Chancellor’s Arrival: Two soldiers look on as a cleaner sweeps the red carpet in front of the office of Poland’s Prime Minister Beata Szydlo in Warsaw on Tuesday prior to the arrival of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

WASHINGTON — Residents Battle Storm: A person walks with a dog through snowy streets in Seattle on Monday. A snowstorm that blanketed the city prompted widespread school closures, flight cancellations and power outages.

ENGLAND — Exhibition Opens to Public: Animatronic baby London 2016, a mechanical human baby with an electronic umbilical cord, is displayed during a press preview for the exhibition “Robots” at the Science Museum in London on Tuesday. The exhibition, which shows 500 years of mechanical and robotic advances, is open from Feb. 8 to Sept. 3.

NEVADA — Citizens Rally: Supporters and critics of defendants on trial at the federal courthouse gather on Monday in Las Vegas. Jury selection began Monday in the state for the federal trial of six defendants accused of taking arms against federal agents herding cattle off public land near cattleman and states’ rights advocate Cliven Bundy’s ranch in April 2014.

SWITZERLAND — Skier Cheers: Austria’s Nicole Schmidhofer reacts in the finish area during the Women’s Super-G at the 2017 Alpine Skiing World Championships in St. Moritz on Tuesday.

BELARUS — Walking Despite Harsh Temperatures: A woman walks through ice-covered grass as a rainbow appears near Minsk on Tuesday.

PENNSYLVANIA — Cars are Removed from Line: Trains makes their way along the Market-Frankford Line in Philadelphia on Monday. The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority took cars out for inspection after a crack was found on a main load-carrying beam on a Market-Frankford Line car during regularly scheduled vehicle overhaul work.