The Day in Photos – January 7 2023
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People walk through the partially destroyed town of Borodianka on January 02, 2023 in Borodianka, Ukraine. Borodianka, northwest of the Ukrainian capital, came under heavy air-strike and artillery bombardment by Russian forces as they tried to seize Kyiv early in their invasion of Ukraine. Once Russian forces withdrew at the end of March, many of its residential buildings lay in ruins. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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A local resident stands behind the broken window of her home in Chasiv Yar, eastern Ukraine, on January 5, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo)
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A cat with shrapnel damage sits at an apartment block destroyed by a missile strike, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, from the frontline Donbas city of Bakhmut, Ukraine on January 5, 2023. (Photo by Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters)
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A view of an apartment building, damaged during a heavy fighting, in Mariupol, in Russian-controlled Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, January 5, 2023. (Photo by Alexei Alexandrov/AP Photo)
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Construction workers climb onto the roof of a destroyed church in the village of Bohorodychne, Donetsk region on January 4, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Bohorodychne is a village in Donetsk region that came under heavy attack by Russian forces in June 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. On August 17, 2022 the Russian forces captured the village. The Armed Forces of Ukraine announced on September 12, 2022 that they took back the control over the village. A few resident came back to restore their destroyed houses and live in the village. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo)
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Local residents carry the body of a 20-year-old man killed in Russian shelling in Kherson, Ukraine, Thursday, January 5, 2023. (Photo by Alexei Alexandrov/AP Photo)
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Anhelina, 6, receives a Christmas gift from humanitarian aid organisation UA Future, who are delivering gifts to children living in underground shelters ahead of Orthodox Christmas, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Bakhmut, Ukraine on January 4, 2023. (Photo by Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters)
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A woman sits in a boat crossing the Siverskyi-Donets river near Staryi-Saltiv, Kharkiv region on Wednesday January 4, 2023, transporting the coffin containing her dead son, a soldier who was killed in fighting with Russians. (Photo by Erik Marmor/AP Photo)
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Cardinals and Bishops attend the funeral mass of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI at St. Peter's square in the Vatican on January 5, 2023. Pope Francis is presiding on January 5 over the funeral of his predecessor Benedict XVI at the Vatican, an unprecedented event in modern times expected to draw tens of thousands of people. (Photo by Filippo Monteforte/AFP Photo)
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The crowd gathered at Saint Peter's Square in the Vatican for the funeral of Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday, January 5, 2023. Benedict lived inside the Vatican, mostly hidden from the public eye, since he resigned in 2013. His funeral, the first in modern history presided over by a reigning pope, included much of the grandeur of a funeral for a reigning pontiff, but with some significant exceptions. (Photo by Alessandro Grassani/The New York Times)
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Pope Francis, seated left, presides over the funeral of Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican on Thursday, January 5, 2023. (Photo by James Hill/The New York Times)
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Faithful attend the Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI funeral mass at St. Peter's square on January 5, 2023 in Vatican City, Vatican. Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger was born in Marktl, Bavaria, Germany in 1927. He became Pope Benedict XVI, serving as head of the Catholic Church and the sovereign of the Vatican City State from 19 April 2005 until his resignation, due to ill health, on 28 February 2013. He succeeded Pope John Paul II and was succeeded by the current Pope Francis. He died on 31 December 2022 aged 95 at the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in Vatican City. (Photo by Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)
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A general view shows the St Peters square before the Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI funeral mass at St. Peter's square on January 5, 2023 in Vatican City, Vatican. (Photo by Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)
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A nun awaits the funeral of Pope Benedict XVI on January 5, 2023 in Vatican City, Vatican. (Photo by Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)
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Family members of prison guard killed during a riot at the Cereso 3 prison react over the coffin during a tribute to pay homage to the prison guards killed and to the police officers from the State Investigation Agency killed during the search for the fugitives, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on January 4, 2023. (Photo by Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters)
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A truck burns on a street in Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Thursday, January 5, 2023. Mexican security forces captured Ovidio Guzmán, an alleged drug trafficker wanted by the United States and one of the sons of former Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, in a pre-dawn operation Thursday that set off gunfights and roadblocks across the western state’s capital. (Photo by Martin Urista/AP Photo)
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Residents block roads, in Sicuani-Canchis, Cusco province, Peru, 05 January 2023. A group of protesters blocked the Panamericana Sur highway, the most important highway in the country, in the early hours of Thursday, as well as bridges and secondary roads, at the start of the second day of protests against the government of the president of Peru, Dina Boluarte. (Photo by Aldair Mejia/EPA/EFE)
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Cars make their way along the flooded A1101 in Welney in Norfolk, United Kingdom where the River Delph and New Bedford River have flooded the surrounding area on Thursday, January 5, 2023. (Photo by Joe Giddens/PA Wire)
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This photograph shows a general view of snow cannons operating due to lack of snow at the Peyragudesski resort, southwestern France on January 5, 2023. (Photo by Charly Triballeau/AFP Photo)
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People skiing on a slope in Filzmoos south of Salzburg, Austria, Thursday, January 5, 2023. Sparse snowfall and unseasonably warm weather in much of Europe is allowing green grass to blanket many mountaintops across the region where snow might normally be. It has caused headaches for ski slope operators and aficionados of Alpine white this time of year. (Photo by Matthias Schrader/AP Photo)
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Britain's Prince Harry's book “Spare” is seen in a bookstore, before its official release date, in Barcelona, Spain on January 5, 2023. (Photo by Nacho Doce/Reuters)
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A cornfield features an image of Argentine soccer player Lionel Messi in Cordoba, Argentina, Wednesday, January 4, 2023, on the day it was created. According to the farmer, Pablo Luccero, his planter machine has the technology to imprint images fed to it electronically. (Photo by Leandro Vallerino/AP Photo)
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An Elvis Presley impersonator leans against the Elvis Express train at Sydney Central Railway Station before departing for the Parkes Elvis Festival, in Sydney, Australia on January 5, 2023. (Photo by Jaimi Joy/Reuters)
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Stella Clark of BMW AG, shows off the BMW i Vision Dee concept car that changes color during a pre-show keynote at CES 2023 Wednesday, January 4, 2023, in Las Vegas. (Photo by Jack Dempsey/AP Photo)
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Locals attend to Chinese Lantern Festival in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, January 4, 2023. (Photo by Matias Basualdo/AP Photo)
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People slide down in an ice slide at the Harbin Ice and Snow World in Harbin, in China's northeastern Heilongjiang province, on January 5, 2023, during the opening ceremony of the 39th Harbin China International Ice and Snow Festival. (Photo by Hector Retamal/AFP Photo)
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Men sing and dance in the waters of Tundzha river during a celebration of Epiphany Day in the town of Kalofer, Bulgaria on January 6, 2023. (Photo by Stoyan Nenov/Reuters)
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A pilgrim holds up the cross after it was thrown by an Orthodox priest into the water, during an epiphany ceremony to bless the sea, on the southeast resort of Ayia Napa, Cyprus, Friday, January 6, 2023. By tradition, a crucifix is cast into the waters of a lake or river, and it is believed that the person who retrieves it will be freed from evil spirits and will be healthy through the year. (Photo by Petros Karadjias/AP Photo)