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Wednesday August 2, Our World in Pictures

August 2, 2017 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
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GERMANY — Lightning Strikes: In this Tuesday photo, lightning illuminates the night sky over the Odervorland wind farm in the Oder-Spree district near Sieversdorf.

CHINA — Celebrating Army Anniversary: Paramilitary policemen march outside the Great Hall of the People after attending a ceremony to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army in Beijing on Tuesday.

VATICAN CITY — Pope Poses for a Photo: A pilgrim takes a selfie with Pope Francis before the start of the weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican on Wednesday.

FRANCE — Troupe Performs: Dancers from the Alaia Basque dance group perform during an exhibition in Arcangues on Tuesday.

ENGLAND — Runner Prepares for Retirement: Jamaican athlete Usain Bolt celebrates after a press conference ahead of the World Athletics championships in London on Tuesday. The sprint legend, a multiple Olympic and World Championship gold medalist, is set to retire after the World Championships, which begin on Friday, Aug. 4.

RWANDA — Citizens Support President: Supporters of Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame, portrait center, attend an election campaign rally on the hills overlooking Kigali on Wednesday. Kagame has been in power since the end of the country’s genocide in 1994 and is widely expected to win another term in the Aug. 4 elections after the government earlier this month disqualified all but three candidates.

KASHMIR — Family Mourns: Relatives comfort wailing Rukaya Firdous, the pregnant wife of a Kashmiri civilian who was killed during a protest near the site of gun battle at her residence, in Begumbagh on Tuesday.

CHICAGO – Runner in the Rising Sun: An early morning runner is silhouetted by the rising sun along Lake Michigan, Tuesday in Chicago. 

PUERTO RICO – Germinating Marijuana Plants: In this photo, Noel Sola, a cultivation worker at Natural Ventures inspects germinated marijuana plants in Caguas, Puerto Rico. In addition to buying licenses for medical marijuana, everyone ranging from patients to growers pays an 11.5 sales and use tax, with 10 percent of those revenues going to the trauma center at Puerto Rico’s largest public hospital, which faces a shortage of funds. 

MEXICO – Weapons for Destruction: Weapons slated for destruction are displayed by the Mexican Army, in Mexico City, Tuesday. The weapons were confiscated from organized crime and civilians who turned them in. 

BRAZIL – Protester in Airport: An activist protests, dressed with a mask of Brazil’s President Michel Temer, as he holds fake 100 Brazilian Real notes and a sign that reads in Portuguese “I buy votes,” at the arrivals area of the airport in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday. Temer faces a congressional vote on his future Wednesday, a showdown coming in a month dreaded by leaders of Latin America’s largest nation. 

BOLIVIA – Llama in the Air: A spiritual guide holds up a taxidermied “cria” or baby llama while carrying out an offerings’ ceremony for “Pachamama”, the Mother Earth figure in Aymara mythology, at the La Cumbre mountaintop, on the outskirts of La Paz, Bolivia, Tuesday. According to lore, Pachamama awakens every August hungry and thirsty after the Bolivian dry season. To satiate the earth goddess, believers hold syncretic rituals in which they toss offerings including fruit, coca, sweets and a dead llama fetus into a bonfire and they water the soil with the warm blood of a sacrificed llama. 

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