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Our world in photos: November 23

November 23, 2021 Michaela Keil

GERMANY — Christmas market: Lights illuminate the Christmas market in Frankfurt on Monday. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the opening ceremony was canceled, fewer booths were set up and police checked if visitors stuck to coronavirus restrictions. Photo: Michael Probst/AP

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CALIFORNIA — Cross-town competition: UCLA running back Kazmeir Allen, left, made a touchdown catch as Southern California cornerback Isaac Taylor-Stuart defended during the first half of an NCAA college football game on Saturday, in Los Angeles.
Photo: Mark J. Terrill/AP

BELARUS — Migration: Migrants slept in a logistics center at the checkpoint “Kuznitsa” at the Belarus-Poland border near Grodno, on Monday. Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko on Monday chafed at the European Union for its refusal to hold talks on the influx of migrants on the country’s border with Poland and urged Germany to accommodate about 2,000 migrants who had remained on the border with Poland.
Photo: Maxim Guchek/BelTA via AP

CANADA — Flying puck: Winnipeg Jets’ Pierre-Luc Dubois (80) and Pittsburgh Penguins’ Jake Guentzel (59) vied for the puck during the first period of an NHL hockey game on Monday, in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Photo: Fred Greenslade/The Canadian Press via AP

VENEZUELA — Opposition: Opposition leader Juan Guaido was seen on the screen of a cell phone inside a plastic bottle holding it steady as he spoke to the press in Caracas, on Monday, the day after regional elections. Under the scrutiny of international observers, Venezuelans cast ballots for thousands of local races in elections that for the first time in four years included major opposition participation.
Photo: Ariana Cubillos/AP

BULGARIA — Bus crash: Firefighters and forensic workers inspected the scene of a bus crash which, according to authorities, killed at least 45 people on a highway near the village of Bosnek, western Bulgaria, on Tuesday. The bus, registered in Northern Macedonia, crashed around 2 a.m. and there were children among the victims, authorities said.
Photo: Minko Chernev/BTA Agency Bulgaria via AP

NORTH CAROLINA — Serving our country: President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden served dinner during a visit to Fort Bragg to mark the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, on Monday, in Fort Bragg.
Photo: Evan Vucci/AP

GERMANY — Spiderman: French urban climber Alain Robert climbed up the Skyper high-rise building in central Frankfurt, as a man watched from his office, on Tuesday.
Photo: Michael Probst/AP

UTAH — Collision: Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert, right, and Memphis Grizzlies forward Jaren Jackson Jr. (13) collided during the first half during an NBA basketball game on Monday, in Salt Lake City.
Photo: Rick Bowmer/AP

AUSTRIA — Lockdown: A man walked by a closed Christmas market, next to the St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna, on Monday. Austria went into a nationwide lockdown early on Monday to combat soaring coronavirus infections, a step being closely watched by other European governments struggling with national outbreaks that are straining health care systems.
Photo: Vadim Ghirda/AP

SPAIN — Protest: Protesters, left, marched during a strike organized by metal workers in Cadiz on Tuesday.
Photo: Javier Fergo/AP

ISRAEL — Vaccination: An Israeli boy squeezed his brother’s hand as he received a coronavirus vaccine at Clalit Health services in Jerusalem, on Tuesday. Israel approved the coronavirus vaccine for children aged 5 to 11.
Photo: /Maya Alleruzzo/AP

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