Today in Pictures, Mar 15, 2019

Russia's Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft blasts off in Kazakhstan, South Korea's President Moon Jae-In's arrival in Cambodia, and other pictures from around the world in Today in Pictures.

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Mar 15, 2019, 03:31 PM

Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft with crew members of Expedition 59/60 Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin, NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Nick Hague lifts off from the launch pad at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on 15 Mar 2019. Hague, Koch, and Ovchinin will spend six-and-a-half months living and working aboard the International Space Station. PHOTO:EPA-EFE

Students get ready to welcome South Korea's President Moon Jae-In before his meeting with Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni outside the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Mar 15, 2019. PHOTO:REUTERS

A man bathes in a stream at the Wuaraira Repano mountain, also called "El Avila", in Caracas. The blackout has left millions without running water. Many people lined up to buy bottled water in Caracas supermarkets, but most are reduced to desperate means -- besieging fountains in public parks and any available water sources around the capital. PHOTO:AFP

Paul Casey of England plays a shot from a bunker on the ninth hole during the first round of The PLAYERS Championship on The Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass on Mar 14, 2019 in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. PHOTO:AFP

Office workers leave at the end of a working day in a mini business district in central Moscow on Mar 14, 2019. PHOTO: AFP

This photo shows workers building a new oil rig at an informal oil field in Minhla township, central Myanmar. The fields near Minhla are Myanmar's equivalent of the old American Wild West, where informal oil entrepreneurs scramble from site to site in the hope of drilling deep and striking lucky. PHOTO:AFP

Activists from the environmental group Greenpeace display an overturned car during a protest action outside the Chancellery where a meeting on the climate protection in the transport sector takes place on Mar 14, 2019 in Berlin, Germany. PHOTO:AFP

A forest of snow-covered trees on Mount Zao, Yamagata Prefecture. The skiing outpost draws tourists from around Asia to see the “juhyo,” or ice monsters, naturally formed by snow and ice encasing conifer trees spread across a mountainous landscape. PHOTO:NYT

A display of horns at “Mapping The Art of Music” near Gallery 681 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The gallery opened in February after a three-month makeover. PHOTO:NYT

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