In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian security officers gather around a burned bus at the site of a deadly explosion, in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, October 20, 2021. Two roadside bombs exploded near a bus carrying troops during the morning rush hour in the Syrian capital early Wednesday, killing and wounding several people, state TV reported. (Photo by SANA via AP Photo)
BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launchers take part in the Echelon 2021 joint military logistic support exercise held by CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organisation) members simulating response to a terrorist invasion, at the Harb Maidon military training ground in Tajikistan, close to the Afghan border on October 20, 2021. (Photo by Peter Kovalev/TASS)
People are seen in front of clouds of black smoke from fires in the aftermath at the scene of an airstrike in Mekele, the capital of the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia Wednesday, October 20, 2021. New airstrikes have hit Mekele, residents said Wednesday, as Ethiopia’s government said it was targeting facilities to make and repair weapons, which a spokesman for the rival Tigray forces denied. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)
People who were marching to the prime ministers’ residence, to demand justice for the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, run from tear gas fired by police in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, October 20, 2021. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)
A protester is detained by police officers following a demonstration at Lekki Toll plaza in Lagos Nigeria Wednesday, October 20, 2021. Nigerian police officers fired tear gas at protesters in Lagos, the country’s largest city, as they tried to disperse hundreds of people demonstrating against police brutality on Wednesday. One year ago, thousands marched in Nigeria for the #EndSARS movement to protest the activities of the now-disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a unit accused of police brutality. (Photo by Sunday Alamba/AP Photo)
Demonstrators are dressed in sheets covered by fake blood to represent people who died of COVID-19, one holding the Portuguese message “Get out Bolsonaro”, referring to the president, outside the Planalto presidential palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, October 20, 2021. (Photo by Eraldo Peres/AP Photo)
A woman views the National Covid Memorial Wall, a dedication of thousands of hand painted hearts and messages commemorating victims of the COVID-19 pandemic, in London, Britain, October 20, 2021. (Photo by Toby Melville/Reuters)
Commuters, some wearing face coverings to help prevent the spread of coronavirus, walk out of a Transport for London (TfL) underground train in London on October 20, 2021. Healthcare leaders urged the British government to reinstate some coronavirus restrictions to ease pressures on hospitals because of spiralling case numbers. But ministers remain opposed to reintroducing any curbs, arguing the situation is still far better than earlier this year and the country is learning to “live with the virus”. (Photo by Tolga Akmen/AFP Photo)
A serviceman of Russia’s Emergencies Ministry wearing protective gear disinfects Moscow’s Belorussky railway station on October 20, 2021, amid the ongoing coronavirus disease pandemic. Russia said Wednesday 1,028 people died of Covid over the past 24 hours, a new record, as President Vladimir Putin mulls introducing nationwide restrictions to curb the spread of the disease. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP Photo)
A woman reacts as a health worker inoculates her during a vaccination drive against coronavirus inside a school in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, October 20, 2021. India is nearing a milestone of administering a total of one billion doses against COVID-19. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)
A worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) sanitizes seats inside a movie theatre ahead of its reopening, amidst the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Mumbai, India, October 20, 2021. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)
Melanie (L) and her daughter are reunited after spending two months apart after Melanie returned on flight QF427 at the Qantas Domestic Arrivals terminal, at Melbourne Airport, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 20 October 2021. Domestic flights between Victoria and New South Wales (NSW) have resumed on the day with fully vaccinated travellers from NSW no longer required to isolate. (Photo by James Ross/EPA/EFE)
Members of the ancient Samaritan community attend the pilgrimage for the holiday of the Tabernacles or Sukkot at the religion’s holiest site on the top of Mount Gerizim, near the West Bank town of Nablus, early Wednesday, October 20, 2021. (Photo by ajdi Mohammed/AP Photo/)
Pope Francis talks with a 10-year-old boy Paolo Junior, family name not available, after he unexpectedly walked up to him at the beginning of a weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, October 20, 2021. (Photo by Remo Casilli/Reuters)
A visitor walks through a check point as mall security guards dressed in the Netflix series Squid Game costumes look on at Lotte Shopping Avenue in Jakarta, Indonesia, 20 October 2021. The popular Korean series was taken as the theme as part of the Halloween celebrations. (Photo by Mast Irham/EPA/EFE)
British singer and songwriter Ella McMahon, better known by her stage name Ella Eyre performs on stage at SWG3 on October 20, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Roberto Ricciuti/Redferns)
A view of the monument to Emir Timur (1336-1405), a Turkic military commander and conqueror considered one of the founders of Uzbek statehood, in the city’s centre in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on October 18, 2021. (Photo by Vladimir Smirnov/TASS)
A staff member poses next to a red postbox artwork by Alex Chinneck, at The Beano: The Art of Breaking the Rules, an exhibition of the world’s longest-running weekly comic at Somerset House in London, United Kingdom on October 20, 2021. (Photo by Yui Mok/PA Wire Press Association)
