A man lies still as devotees light oil lamps over his body as part of rituals to celebrate the tenth and final day of Dashain festival in Bhaktapur, Nepal, Friday, Oct. 15, 2021. The festival commemorates the slaying of a demon king by Hindu goddess Durga, marking the victory of good over evil. (
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Nurses carry coolers of the Sinopharm vaccine for COVID-19 as they go house to house to vaccinate residents in the Villa Maria del Triunfo neighborhood of Lima, Peru, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021.
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A public telephone booth lays on the sidewalk after the passing of Hurricane Pamela in Mazatlan, Mexico, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021. Pamela made landfall on Mexico's Pacific coast just north of Mazatlan on Wednesday, bringing high winds and rain to the port city
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An air tanker drops retardant on the Alisal Fire on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021, in Goleta, Calif. A wildfire raging through Southern California coastal mountains threatened ranches and rural homes and kept a major highway shut down Wednesday as the fire-scarred state faced a new round of dry winds that raise risk of flames.
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Valley fog wafts through the autumn-colored hills near the Picket Hill Farm, Wednesday morning, Oct. 13, 2021, in Denmark, Maine. The farm complex was built in the 1830s.
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A fisherman stands on a boat in Cienaga Grande de Santa Marta marsh in Nueva Venecia, Colombia, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021. About 400 families live in stilt houses in the Cienaga Grande, the largest of the swampy marshes located in Colombia between the Magdalena River and the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains.
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Followers of Maria Lionza's cult practice a ritual at Sorte Mountain in Venezuela's Yaracuy state, early Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021, one year after the annual pilgrimage was cancelled due to COVID-19 restrictions. Along with Santeria, Venezuela is home to other folk religions, such as the sect surrounding the Indian goddess Maria Lionza, an indigenous woman who according to tradition was born on Sorte Mountain and whose cult has spread to Colombia, Panama, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and Central America.
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Pedestrians walk across Golden Horn Metro bridge near the Suleymaniye mosque, background, as the sun sets in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021.
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Young boxers warm up during a training session in La Magdalena neighborhood of Barranquilla, Colombia, Monday, Oct. 11, 2021. Local amateur boxer Miguel Angel Guzman, also known as "El Ñato Guzman," sponsors a gym where boys wanting to become boxers train free of charge.
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Tatanka Gibson of the Haliwa-Saponi/Nansemond Tribal Nations leads attendees in song and dance during a gathering marking Indigenous Peoples Day at Penn Treaty Park in Philadelphia, Monday, Oct. 11, 2021.
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