People look at the cargo ship Heng Tong 77 before it is dragged by a salvage crane, after it ran aground near Sea View beach in Karachi, Pakistan August 24, 2021.
Soldiers of the presidential guard stand before the arrival of the Guinea-Bissau's President Umaro Sissoco Embalo at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, August 24, 2021.
Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games - The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony - Olympic Stadium, Tokyo, Japan - August 24, 2021. Protesters hold signs near the national stadium during the opening ceremony.
An Afghan refugee shouts from inside a police vehicle as he is detained during a rally asking for justice and resettlement, outside the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR's office in Jakarta, Indonesia, August 24, 2021.
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is trailed by reporters as she departs a meeting with fellow House Democrats as they teed up a vote on President Joe Biden's sweeping plan to expand spending on social programs, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. August 23, 2021.
French farmer Olivier Chatellier walks on harvested grains of wheat stored in Vieillevigne near Nantes, France, August 24, 2021.
Soccer - England - Carabao Cup Second Round - Barrow v Aston Villa - Holker Street, Barrow-in-Furness, Britain - August 24, 2021 Aston Villa fans playing with a football at half time.
Ukraine's former President Petro Poroshenko speaks with a supporter after he was splashed with a green liquid by an assailant during an event marking Independence Day in Kyiv, Ukraine, August 24, 2021. Mikhail Palinchak/Press Service of Petro Poroshenko/Handout via REUTERS
A child sits on the floor at Fiumicino Airport, as Afghan evacuees arrive in Italy following their journey from Kabul, in Rome, Italy, August 24, 2021.
Members of Task Force 1-194 fly to Hamid Karzai International Airport on a C17 Globemaster when called for rapid deployment in support of Operation Allies Refuge in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 23, 2021. Picture taken August 23, 2021. Minnesota National Guard/Handout via REUTERS.
A nurse works in a COVID-19 patient's room during a tour of SSM Health St. Anthony Hospital's intensive care unit (ICU) amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S., August 24, 2021.
Afghans make their way to a bus taking them to a refugee processing center upon arrival at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia, U.S., August 24, 2021.
Zoo keeper Thomas Maunders measures a Postman Butterfly at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo 2021 weigh-in and measurement, in Dunstable, Britain, August 24, 2021.
U.S. Representative Brian Mast (R-FL), who lost his legs while serving in the U.S. Army in Afghanistan in 2010, participates in a news conference with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) after a Biden administration briefing on Afghanistan for the members of the House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S. August 24, 2021.
A nurse collects a nasal swab sample from a Brazilian Indigenous woman at the camp Luta pela Vida (Struggle for Life) during a a demonstration in defence of local indigenous people, in Brasilia, Brazil August 23, 2021.
New York Chief Judge Janet DiFiore, left, swears in Kathy Hochul, right, as the first woman to be New York's governor while her husband Bill Hochul holds a bible during a swearing-in ceremony in the Red Room at the state Capitol, in Albany, New York, U.S., early August 24, 2021. Hans Pennink/Pool via REUTERS
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris departs Singapore for travel to Vietnam, August, 24, 2021.
A relative of Palestinian Emad Hashash, 15, who was killed during a clash with Israeli forces, attends his funeral in Balata refugee camp in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, August 24, 2021.
Police officers stand next to an activist who glued herself to the window of the Selfridges department store during an Extinction Rebellion climate activists' protest, at Oxford Street, in London, Britain August 24, 2021.
Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games - The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony - Olympic Stadium, Tokyo, Japan - August 24, 2021. Fireworks during the opening ceremony from the Shibuya Sky observation deck.
An Afghan evacuee arrives on a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft at Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait, August 23, 2021. Picture taken August 23, 2021. Staff Sgt. Daryn Murphy/U.S. Marine Corps/Handout via REUTERS
German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a news conference after a virtual G7 summit on the crisis triggered by Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan, at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany August 24, 2021. John Macdougall/Pool via REUTERS
A llama called Winter, whose antibodies were used in the hunt for a treatment for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), stands in a meadow in Genk, Belgium August 23, 2021.
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