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Swimmers wade in the Irish Sea near Baily Lighthouse in Howth, just east of Dublin.
An elderly man receives the Covid-19 vaccine in Kuala Lumpur on June 7, 2021.
Masses of rotting seaweed blanket the Fundadores Park beach in Mexico’s Playa del Carmen region on July 4, 2021. Called sargassum, the macroalgae is washing up on Caribbean beaches every spring and summer, bringing ecological problems and hurting the tourism economy.
People desperate to be evacuated after the Taliban takeover try to scale the walls surrounding Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on August 16, 2021.
A window of a damaged house in the Geitawi neighbourhood of Beirut, Lebanon, frames a view of the city’s port, where a massive explosion on August 4 killed at least 191 people and damaged more than 6,000 buildings.
Venetians dress as plague doctors to celebrate the city's Carnival. This year, the last two days of the event were cancelled due to concerns regarding coronavirus.
On August 21, 2013, a suspected chemical weapons attack on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta left hundreds of people dead.
Iceland’s prime minister since 2017 is Katrín Jakobsdóttir. At age 43, she is among the youngest heads of state in Europe. From the country’s capital of Reykjavík, Jakobsdóttir has pursued policies of environmental and feminist reform.
Four Serbian Orthodox Monasteries—Dečani monastery, Patriarchal Monastery of Peć, Our Lady of Ljeviš, and Gračanica monastery—represent the melding of Byzantine and Western medieval traditions that developed between the 13th and 17th centuries. The vibrant frescoes that adorn the church interiors played an important role in the development of subsequent Balkan art and architecture. In 2006, the Medieval Monuments in Kosovo were listed "in danger" due to “difficulties in its management and conservation stemming from the region's political instability.”
Indian children play on a parched area of the shrunken Varuna River, a tributary of the Ganges River.