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Actress Yulia Peresild, main crew member of ISS Expedition 66, blows a kiss through a bus window as she leaves for the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The launch of the Soyuz MS-19 mission involved in making the feature film "The Challenge" (working title) aboard the International Space Station was scheduled for October 5, 2021 at 11:55 Moscow time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. In addition to actress Yulia Peresild, other ISS Expedition 66 main crew members include Roscosmos cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov and filmmaker Klim Shipenko.

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Soyuz MS-19 mission carrying Russian film crew to launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome

A street performer dressed as an angel walks past ambulances near Nikolskaya Street.

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Daily Life in Moscow

Researchers follow a Polar bear on Alexandra Land, an island of the Franz Joseph Land archipelago, in the Arctic Ocean during the Umka 2021 expedition organized by the Russian Geographical Society. Taking part in the expedition are experts from Russian Arctic National Park, the N.N. Zubov State Oceanographic Institute, and institutes and research centers of the Russian Academy of Sciences: the Geophysical Survey Federal Research Centre, the Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, and the Melnikov Permafrost Institute. The expedition, which started in mid-March 2021, aims to carry out comprehensive research and monitor the local polar bear population, assess the impact of climate change, and create an instrumental base for studying the active geological structures of Franz Joseph Land.

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Umka 2021 Expedition to Franz Joseph Land in Arctic Ocean

Aerial photo taken on Sept. 24, 2021 shows taxis used to grow vegetables at a parking lot in Bankok, Thailand. In the parking lot on the outskirts of Bangkok, hundreds of taxis were out of service for more than a year due to the COVID-19 epidemic. Taxi company staff piled soil on the roof and hood of these cars to grow vegetables and distributed them to employees and unemployed drivers.

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Parking Lot of Vegetable

Aerial photo shows students lining up to take swab samples for nucleic acid testing at a primary school in Lu'an, east China's Anhui Province, May 22, 2021.

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Nucleic Acid Testing

Aerial photo taken on April 29, 2021 shows a fire at a tire yard in Jahra Governorate, Kuwait.

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Fire at a Tire Yard in Kuwait

A Bryde's whale forages in waters off Weizhou Island in China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Jan. 15, 2021.

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Bryde's Whale

None of us knows our strength until we find it in ourselves in need and draw it from ourselves ... These famous words are classic and so relevant today, when the world is fighting the coronavirus pandemic. Everyday extraordinary heroes of the times. Your father, brother, sister, or even a colleague ... I lived with this man under the same roof for several weeks.

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We Are Made to Exceed Ourselves

President-elect Joe Biden, left, and Vice President Mike Pence, right, watch as Lady Gaga steps off the stage after performing the National Anthem during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021.

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Red Dress

Members of Congress shelter in the House gallery as rioters try to break into the House Chamber at the US Capitol on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, in Washington DC.

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Deadly Attack

Primoryeterritory, Russia – November 9, 2021: The Rise Shine container ship ran aground off the port of Nakhodka and split in two. There are 14 foreign crew members aboard and the vessel was stable. A crack in the hull was discovered, but there was no threat to the crew.

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The "Rise Shine" Container Ship Ran Aground off the Port of Nakhodka

Polar bears are excellent swimmers who can cover more than 100 kilometers. However, these mighty predators cannot always resist the elements. Autumn 2021 was marked by a slew of powerful storms in the Chukchi Sea. After one such storm, residents of the Chukchi village of Enurmino discovered the corpse of a polar bear, an extremely rare occurance even for these northern whereabouts.

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Polar Bear on the Coast of the Chukchi Sea

This sort of phenomenon was observed in the Chukchi national village of Enurmino at the time of a total lunar eclipse.

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Night Enurmino

Fog blankets the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul, Turkey on November 5, 2021.

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Foggy Weather in Istanbul

Hikers hold hands while watching Guatemala's Pacaya Volcano erupt.

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Love and Lava

February 15, 2021 - The Tajhiz team of the Negeri Sembilan Islamic Religious Affairs Department (JHEAINS) together with the staff of Malaysia's Ministry of Health (MOH) carry the body of a coronavirus (COVID-19) victim in Tanah Islamic cemetery in a village in Lenggeng, Malaysia.

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COVID-19 Funeral 

A local resident gestures as he holds an empty water hose during an attempt to extinguish forest fires approaching the village of Pefki on Evia (Euboea) island, Greece's second largest island, on August 8, 2021. Hundreds of Greek firefighters fought desperately on August 8 to control wildfires on the island of Evia that have charred vast areas of pine forest, destroyed homes and forced tourists and locals to flee.
About 300,000 acres of forest were burnt in different parts of Greece this past summer, during the country worst heatwave in 30 years. Thousands of animals lost their lives.

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The Fire Took Everything

Online New Year’s Eve with friends in Budakeszi, Hungary on December 31, 2020. An overnight curfew was introduced on November 11th that was in force between 8pm and 5am as a response to the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic in Hungary, and New Year’s Eve was no exception.

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Online New Year’s Eve 

Looters flee from a police officer at a shop in the Springfield Value Centre in Durban. Unrest erupted in parts of South Africa in July over former President Jacob Zuma’s imprisonment, resulting in many businesses being looted and burnt. At least 337 people died. President Cyril Ramaphosa deployed the army to the affected areas to bring stability. Even though this looted and damaged shopping center where this photo was taken will be rebuilt and will be fully functional by the spring of 2022, some small businesses have closed down permanently. Hundreds of people have lost their jobs raising the rate of unemployment to 34.4%, or 7.8 million jobless people. The entire damage to businesses comes to $1.7 billion (25 billion rand), according to the state insurance company handling the claims.

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Looting

A customer uses her mobile phone before the start of a movie show as she sits amid social distancing markers during the first day of reopening at a cinema in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021. Cinemas in several cities shut during the deadly wave of coronavirus outbreak that hit the country in July. They were allowed to start reopening with capacity limit as cases decline.

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Physical Distancing

Ludo Khayat, 41, is recovering from a COVID-19 infection which put him in a coma and on a ventilator for 24 days in the COVID-19 intensive care unit at the La Timone Hosptial in Marseille, Southern France. When he awoke Ludo was weak and a mere fragment of who he used to be before his infection. His childhood friend turned lifelong lover and wife, Amelie, began to visit him as he regained consciousness. Doctors at the la Timone hospital were stunned to see how fast Ludo's condition improved once he received his wife's regular visits. Now Ludo tests negative for the virus but has a long road of rehabilitation ahead of him before he can resume his normal life. This photograph was taken in the COVID-19 ward of the La Timone hospital's continued care section at the end of one of Amelie's visits. Their embrace lasted for minutes on end. When asked about his wife's visits, Ludo who is currently unable to speak, wrote on his white board "She brought me back to life".

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Ludo & Amelie

Javier Antó, 90, reacts in front of his wife Carmen Panzano, 92, through the window separating the nursing home from the street in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. Since the pandemic struck, a glass pane has separated and united Javier and Carmen for the first prolonged period of their six-decade marriage. Antó has been coming to the street-level window that looks into the nursing home where his wife is, since it was closed to visits when COVID-19 struck Spain last spring.

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90-year-old Man Keeps His Love Alive Despite Pandemic

People collect drinking water from a tanker at Vivekanand Camp, Chanakyapuri as a water crisis during the ongoing COVID19-induced lockdown, in New Delhi, Sunday, June 13, 2021.

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Water Crisis 

Russia. The Murmansk Region. Reindeer forming a carousel before the start of anthrax vaccination in the village of Lovozero.

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Reindeer Carousel

The Russian trampoline team in front of judges. The 27th European Championships in Trampoline Gymnastics.

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In the Air

Work to save wild elephant who fell into a well at Pinavoorkudi tribal area in Kerala south India.  The elephant, who fell into the well during the wee hours of the morning, was pulled out by a bulldozer from the forest department and dugout in the morning. The elephant returned to the forest after chasing away bystanders. Climate change forced the animals to move into human communities to search for food.

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The Trunk Escape

At the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020/2021, Svetlana Romashina won 2 gold medals in synchronized swimming and became a seven-time champion.

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Seven-Time Olympic Champion

A roadside SIM card vendor takes a mugshot of a customer as another holds a white cloth as a white background before selling a mobile connection to him in Noida, a suburb of New Delhi, India, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. India has rolled out new regulations for social media companies and digital streaming websites to make them more accountable for the online content shared on their platforms.

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Photo Booth

WHO virus expert Peter Ben Embarek, a member of the World Health Organisation (WHO) team tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), receives a swab test on the balcony of a hotel in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, February 3, 2021.

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WHO Investigates the Origins of COVID-19

Thousands of commuters and travelers try to find a spot on the train, with many resorting to standing on the roof and holding onto the front. 
With no seats and few trains, people are forced to resort to grabbing hold of the outside and standing on the roof so they can get home. 
I was able to capture the dangerous overcrowding as people tried to board trains at Tongi, Bangladesh. 
Between 8,000-10,000 people were trying to find any possible space to board the trains.

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Massive Gathering on a Local Train

An aerial view shows a hockey rink after a match on the ice of Lake Baikal, organized by United Nations Environment program and Vyacheslav Fetisov to draw attention to the environmental problems of the lake, in the village of Bolshoye Goloustnoye in the Irkutsk Region, Russia.

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Last Game on Lake Baikal

An eldery Nepalese man doing a PCR test at Kathmandu on the occasion of 27th Kathmandu Metropolitan Day 2021. Covid-19 has seriously affected the psychological and social life of the Nepalese causing the deaths of more than 11,000 people.

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PCR-Test

Rafael Peled, an 8-year-old Israeli child, looks through VR virtual reality goggles as he receives a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from the medical staff at the Sheba Tel Hashomer Hospital in Ramat Gan, Israel, Monday, Nov. 22, 2021. Israel has approved the coronavirus vaccine for children aged 5 to 11.

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Virus Outbreak Kids Vaccination

Kritsiopi Panayiota, 81, reacts to a wildfire approaching her house in the village of Gouves on Greece's Evia Island on August 8, 2021. Following a long heatwave, which was actually the most scorching one Greece has seen in 30 years, thousands of residents were evacuated by boat after wildfires engulfed Greece’s second largest island.

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An elderly lady leaves her home threatened by wildfire

COVID-19 Christmas