Today in Pictures, March 9, 2020

A young boy is rescued from the rubble of a collapsed hotel in Fujian province in China, protest in Paris, France, and other pictures from around the world in Today in Pictures.

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March 9, 2020 at 12:04 PM

A boy is rescued from the rubble of a collapsed hotel in Quanzhou, in China's eastern Fujian province early on March 8, 2020. At least four people were killed following the collapse of a hotel used as a coronavirus quarantine facility in eastern China, the Ministry of Emergency Management said on March 8. PHOTO: AFP

A hundred members of the conservative activist group called Manif pour Tous ("Protest for Everyone") dressed as Marianne, French Republic's allegory, stage a protest against assisted reproductive technology (ART) and surrogacy in front of the National Assembly, French Parliament lower house, in Paris on March 8, 2020, on International Women's Day. PHOTO: AFP

A woman ties a handkerchief over the mouth of the statue of pre-Columbian ruler Nezahualcoyotl, during International Women's Day in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, on the outskirts of Mexico City, Mexico March 8, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

People take pictures of blooming cherry blossoms outside an entrance of a closed park as the country is hit by an outbreak of the novel coronavirus, in Shanghai, China March 6, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

Lori Spencer talks on the phone through a window with her mother, Judie Shape, who is 81 and was tested for coronavirus this morning, at the Life Care Center of Kirkland, the long-term care facility linked to several confirmed coronavirus cases in the state, in Kirkland, Washington, U.S. March 8, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

A photo issued on Mar 9, 2020, shows villagers collecting food aid in gunny bags dropped from a plane onto a drop zone at a village in Ayod county, South Sudan, where World Food Programme (WFP) have just carried out a food drop of grain and supplementary aid on February 6, 2020. PHOTO: AFP

Migrants takes cover behind a trash container, a bathtub and a wooden board as Greek police uses water cannons to block them trying to break fences in the Turkey-Greece border province of Edirne on March 7, 2020. PHOTO: AFP

This handout image made available on March 8, 2020 by British art group "Sand In Your Eye" shows an aerial view taken on March 6, 2020 above Hebden Bridge, near Leeds, north of England, of a 60m portrait of Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg entitled "A girl inspiring the world" painted by children from Hebden Royd Primary School and Sand In Your Eye artists to celebrate March 8 International Womens Day. PHOTO: HANDOUT VIA AFP

People dressed as Smurfs, a Belgian comic franchise centered on a fictional colony of small, blue, human-like creatures who live in mushroom-shaped houses in the forest, attend a world record gathering of Smurfs on March 7, 2020, in Landerneau, western France. PHOTO: AFP

The full moon rises over the Selimiye Mosque in Edirne, Turkey, March 8, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

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