Today in Pictures, March 21, 2024
A fiery end to the Fallas Festival in Spain, Iraqi Kurds celebrating their traditional new year, and other photos from around the world in Today in Pictures.
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Firefighters making sure fire does not get out of control while a papier-mache sculpture burns during the Nit de la Crema, or Fire Night, of the Fallas Festival in Valencia in eastern Spain on March 19, 2024. The Fallas is a traditional celebration held annually in Valencia in commemoration of Saint Joseph.
PHOTO: EPA-EFE
Iraqi Kurds holding lit torches walking up a mountain during a procession to celebrate the Nowruz New Year festival in the town of Akre, about 100km north of Arbil, in Iraq's northern autonomous Kurdish region on March 20, 2024. Millions of people across the Middle East, Asia and Eastern Europe celebrate the Nowruz New Year, which marks the start of spring.
PHOTO: AFP
Emily Chan and Spencer Akira Howe of the United States competing in the pairs competition during the International Skating Union World Figure Skating Championships in Montreal, Canada, on March 20.
PHOTO: AFP
College students spreading awareness to first-generation voters during an election campaign in Chennai on March 19, 2024, ahead of India's upcoming national elections.
PHOTO: AFP
Ko Muang Phet, a white buffalo which was sold for 18 million baht (S$668,950), is seen with new owner Jintanat Limtongkul, after a meeting between Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin and members of the Thai Buffalo Breeding Development Association at Government House in Bangkok on March 20, 2024.
PHOTO: AFP
A man carrying a plastic bucket across the cracked bed of a dried-up pond in Vietnam's southern Ben Tre province in the Mekong Delta - the country's "rice bowl" agricultural heartland - on March 19, 2024. A blazing month-long heatwave has brought drought, parching the land in Ben Tre province, south of business hub Ho Chi Minh City.
PHOTO: AFP
Performers wearing traditional costumes taking part in Nowruz New Year celebrations in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, on March 20, 2024.
PHOTO: AFP
Pedestrians walking past a mural painted in solidarity with the people of Palestine, on the International Wall in Falls Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on March 19, 2024.
PHOTO : AFP
Workers installing electricity transmission lines in Yinchuan, in China's northern Ningxia region, on March 19, 2024.
PHOTO: AFP
