A college girl takes part in the Holi festival celebrations in Bhopal, India, 19 March 2019. Holi is celebrated on the full moon day and marks the beginning of the spring season. Holi will be celebrated as the Hindu spring festival of colors across the country on 21 March. PHOTO: EPA-EFE
Floral tributes to those who were gunned down at the two mosques are seen against a wall bordering the Botanical Garden in Christchurch on March 19, 2019. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern vowed never to utter the name of the twin-mosque gunman as she opened a sombre session of parliament with an evocative "as salaam alaikum" message of peace to Muslims. PHOTO: AFP
A student cries during a tribute to victims of the shooting at the Raul Brasil school in Suzano, Brazil, March 19, 2019. PHOTO: REUTERS
A flooded parcel of land along the Platte River is pictured in this aerial photograph at La Platte, south of Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. March 19, 2019.PHOTO: REUTERS
Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, throws flowers into the Rio de la Plata river next to members of Madres de Plaza de Mayo movement, to pay homage to the victims of Argentina's former dictatorship, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 19, 2019. PHOTO: REUTERS
In this photo taken on March 16, 2019, Darrell Blatchley, director of D' Bone Collector Museum Inc., shows plastic waste found in the stomach of a Cuvier's beaked whale in Compostela Valley, Davao on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. A starving whale with 40 kilograms of plastic trash in its stomach has died after being washed ashore in the Philippines, activists said on March 18, calling it one of the worst cases of poisoning they have seen. PHOTO: AFP
Jockeys, most of whom are children, compete on their mounts during the 18th International Camel Racing festival at the Sarabium desert in Ismailia, Egypt, March 12, 2019. PHOTO: REUTERS
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