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Pictures of the Year 2020, Part 62/82

Pictures of the Year 2020, Part 62/82
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Old woman stands in the entrance of her home with a rifle during the shelling of the azeri army over Stepanakert city during the clashes between Azerbaijan and Nagorno Karabakh on October 4, 2020. The old woman is determined not to move and defend her home until the last moments. (Photo by Arce Lavin/ZUMA Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

Old woman stands in the entrance of her home with a rifle during the shelling of the azeri army over Stepanakert city during the clashes between Azerbaijan and Nagorno Karabakh on October 4, 2020. The old woman is determined not to move and defend her home until the last moments. (Photo by Arce Lavin/ZUMA Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

An actor characterized as prehispanic performs la llorona show as part of Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico City, Mexico on October 7, 2020. The llorona is a Mexican legend who describe the soul of a woman who drowned her children, she appears in rivers and cities, scaring people with her weeping, the legend of the llorona has been known since the decade of 1521, before the conquest of the Spanish. (Photo by Carlos Tischler/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

An actor characterized as prehispanic performs la llorona show as part of Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico City, Mexico on October 7, 2020. The llorona is a Mexican legend who describe the soul of a woman who drowned her children, she appears in rivers and cities, scaring people with her weeping, the legend of the llorona has been known since the decade of 1521, before the conquest of the Spanish. (Photo by Carlos Tischler/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

Children run past a gun-mounted truck manned by Turkey-backed Syrian fighters near the rebel-controlled town of Tal Abyad in the northern Syria's Raqa province, along the frontline with Syrian Kurdish forces controling the Kurdish-majority city of Kobani, on October 10, 2020. (Photo by Bakr Alkasem/AFP Photo)

Children run past a gun-mounted truck manned by Turkey-backed Syrian fighters near the rebel-controlled town of Tal Abyad in the northern Syria’s Raqa province, along the frontline with Syrian Kurdish forces controling the Kurdish-majority city of Kobani, on October 10, 2020. (Photo by Bakr Alkasem/AFP Photo)

In this image released on October 2, Bella Hadid is seen backstage during Rihanna's Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 2 presented by Amazon Prime Video at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California; and broadcast on October 2, 2020. (Photo by Jerritt Clark/Getty Images for Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 2 Presented by Amazon Prime Video)

In this image released on October 2, Bella Hadid is seen backstage during Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 2 presented by Amazon Prime Video at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California; and broadcast on October 2, 2020. (Photo by Jerritt Clark/Getty Images for Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 2 Presented by Amazon Prime Video)

A worker decorates an amaranth skull during the manufacture to offer to customers during Dia de Muertos celebrations in Mexico City, Mexico on October 10, 2020. The Candy Factory “Dulceria Juanita”, who have been dedicated to the production of sweets for more than 30 years, have been affected due to low sales due to the new Covid-19 pandemic. Their production of sweet, amaranth and tamarind skulls has reduced to 70 percent, manufacturing only a thousand skulls due to the fact that they have not been sold due to the crisis caused by the Coronavirus pandemic, in previous years the production of amaranth skulls exceeded the 10 thousand pieces. (Photo by Carlos Tischler/Eyepix Group/Pacific Press/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

A worker decorates an amaranth skull during the manufacture to offer to customers during Dia de Muertos celebrations in Mexico City, Mexico on October 10, 2020. The Candy Factory “Dulceria Juanita”, who have been dedicated to the production of sweets for more than 30 years, have been affected due to low sales due to the new Covid-19 pandemic. Their production of sweet, amaranth and tamarind skulls has reduced to 70 percent, manufacturing only a thousand skulls due to the fact that they have not been sold due to the crisis caused by the Coronavirus pandemic, in previous years the production of amaranth skulls exceeded the 10 thousand pieces. (Photo by Carlos Tischler/Eyepix Group/Pacific Press/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tikhanovskaya ahead of a meeting with Slovak President Zuzana Caputova at the Presidential Palace in Bratislava, Slovakia, 08 October 2020. Tikhanovskaya attends the GLOBSEC Security Forum in Bratislava. (Photo by Jakub Gavlak/EPA/EFE)

Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tikhanovskaya ahead of a meeting with Slovak President Zuzana Caputova at the Presidential Palace in Bratislava, Slovakia, 08 October 2020. Tikhanovskaya attends the GLOBSEC Security Forum in Bratislava. (Photo by Jakub Gavlak/EPA/EFE)

Scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier, director of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin holds a Swedish themed puppet after winning the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of a method for genome editing likened to “molecular scissors” that offer the promise of one day curing genetic diseases, in Berlin, Germany, October 7, 2020. (Photo by Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters)

Scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier, director of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin holds a Swedish themed puppet after winning the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of a method for genome editing likened to “molecular scissors” that offer the promise of one day curing genetic diseases, in Berlin, Germany, October 7, 2020. (Photo by Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters)

A rocket case is seen after recent shelling during a military conflict over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh in Stepanakert, October 7, 2020. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)

A rocket case is seen after recent shelling during a military conflict over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh in Stepanakert, October 7, 2020. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)

Bar owner Tracie England sings inside a makeshift “shower stall”, set up in order to protect patrons from the coronavirus at Tracie's Place Restaurant and Karaoke in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada October 2, 2020. The karaoke bar is letting its customers sing in the shower during the pandemic – to keep people safe, they've constructed a shower stall on stage, complete with curtains and tubular piping. (Photo by Carlos Osorio/Reuters)

Bar owner Tracie England sings inside a makeshift “shower stall”, set up in order to protect patrons from the coronavirus at Tracie’s Place Restaurant and Karaoke in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada October 2, 2020. The karaoke bar is letting its customers sing in the shower during the pandemic – to keep people safe, they’ve constructed a shower stall on stage, complete with curtains and tubular piping. (Photo by Carlos Osorio/Reuters)

A social distancing sign is seen among autumn leaves, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in St. Albans, Britain, October 8, 2020. (Photo by Peter Cziborra/Reuters)

A social distancing sign is seen among autumn leaves, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in St. Albans, Britain, October 8, 2020. (Photo by Peter Cziborra/Reuters)

A Halloween decoration is pictured in Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, Denmark on October 10, 2020. (Photo by Emil Helms/Ritzau Scanpix via Reuters)

A Halloween decoration is pictured in Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, Denmark on October 10, 2020. (Photo by Emil Helms/Ritzau Scanpix via Reuters)

A protester gestures while a church is set on fire during a protest against Chile's government, on the one-year anniversary of the protests and riots that rocked the capital in 2019, in Santiago, Chile, October 18, 2020. (Photo by Ivan Alvarado/Reuters)

A protester gestures while a church is set on fire during a protest against Chile’s government, on the one-year anniversary of the protests and riots that rocked the capital in 2019, in Santiago, Chile, October 18, 2020. (Photo by Ivan Alvarado/Reuters)

The driver of a delivery service performs with his motorcycle in front of protesters gathered ahead of the one-year anniversary of mass protests that saw thousands of Chileans take to the streets, in Valparaiso, Chile on October 16, 2020. (Photo by Rodrigo Garrido/Reuters)

The driver of a delivery service performs with his motorcycle in front of protesters gathered ahead of the one-year anniversary of mass protests that saw thousands of Chileans take to the streets, in Valparaiso, Chile on October 16, 2020. (Photo by Rodrigo Garrido/Reuters)

People pose for photographs in front of autumn leaves covering the facade of a house in London, Britain on October 18, 2020. (Photo by Simon Dawson/Reuters)

People pose for photographs in front of autumn leaves covering the facade of a house in London, Britain on October 18, 2020. (Photo by Simon Dawson/Reuters)

A demonstrator is detained by riot police during a protest against Chile's government in Valparaiso, Chile on October 19, 2020. (Photo by Rodrigo Garrido/Reuters)

A demonstrator is detained by riot police during a protest against Chile’s government in Valparaiso, Chile on October 19, 2020. (Photo by Rodrigo Garrido/Reuters)

A person uses an extinguisher on a burning paper-made globe during a demonstration against the fossil fuel industry, in front of the headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt, Germany, October 21, 2020. (Photo by Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters)

A person uses an extinguisher on a burning paper-made globe during a demonstration against the fossil fuel industry, in front of the headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt, Germany, October 21, 2020. (Photo by Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters)

The Day in Photos – February 16, 2021

Members of the Bavarian State Parliament are separated by plexiglass panels during the speech of Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Soeder, in Munich, Germany, October 21, 2020. (Photo by Peter Kneffel/Pool via Reuters)

Members of the Bavarian State Parliament are separated by plexiglass panels during the speech of Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Soeder, in Munich, Germany, October 21, 2020. (Photo by Peter Kneffel/Pool via Reuters)

Nurses wearing protective suits and face masks talk at a testing site as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Brussels, Belgium on October 21, 2020. (Photo by Francois Lenoir/Reuters)

Nurses wearing protective suits and face masks talk at a testing site as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Brussels, Belgium on October 21, 2020. (Photo by Francois Lenoir/Reuters)

A woman is carried by police officers after security guards broke up a small protest near the Chinese embassy opposing alleged plans to boost Beijing's military presence in the country, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on October 21, 2020. (Photo by Heng Mengheang/Reuters)

A woman is carried by police officers after security guards broke up a small protest near the Chinese embassy opposing alleged plans to boost Beijing’s military presence in the country, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on October 21, 2020. (Photo by Heng Mengheang/Reuters)

Bodies are pictured during the exhumation by members of the Government of National Accord's (GNA's) missing persons bureau, in what Libya's internationally recognized government officials say is a mass grave, in Tarhouna city, Libya on October 27, 2020. (Photo by Ayman Al-Sahili/Reuters)

Bodies are pictured during the exhumation by members of the Government of National Accord’s (GNA’s) missing persons bureau, in what Libya’s internationally recognized government officials say is a mass grave, in Tarhouna city, Libya on October 27, 2020. (Photo by Ayman Al-Sahili/Reuters)

Raymond Hinze
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