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  • Photo by Merveille Kavira Luneghe, Democratic Republic of Congo

    Senior Reporter

    At La Victoire, a hair salon in Kirumba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dalmon Katembo Ndughuta cuts Devotte Katungu’s hair while Mumbere Jacques, 2, watches. Katembo Ndughuta uses homemade products to straighten customers’ hair.

  • Photo by Patricia Zavala Gutiérrez, Mexico

    Reporter

    Rafael Sánchez strolls by the Guadalajara Cathedral in historic downtown Guadalajara, Mexico.

  • Photo by Nakisanze Segawa, Uganda

    Senior Reporter

    Nambooze Vanesa, 5, blows on the fire that he and Semuguuma Shaban, 5, are using to prepare a dish known as tokotoko in Nsumbi village, in Uganda’s Wakiso district. Tokotoko is sometimes used as a game to teach children how to cook.

  • Photo by Aline Suárez del Real, Mexico

    Reporter

    From her home in Tecámac, in the state of Mexico, kindergarten teacher Berenice Cruz video chats with parents to discuss her students’ learning environments and upcoming schoolwork. “I’m going to change the decorations based on the holidays that come up,” she says.

  • Photo by Uranchimeg Tsoghuu, Mongolia

    Reporter

    During a traditional ceremony, Buyandalai Ulambayar gallops on his horse while offering horse milk to the air with a tsatsal, a ceremonial wooden milk spoon, in Bayandalai soum, Umnugovi province, Mongolia. During the ceremony, he chants, “Tsegeend tsad,” which means, “May we have plenty of food!”

  • Photo by Lilette A. Contreras, Mexico

    Reporter

    A delivery of roses from the Mexican state of Tlaxcala waits to be arranged and sold at a florist in the Mercado de las Flores, a flower market in Guadalajara, Mexico.

  • Photo by Myagmarsuren Battur, Mongolia

    Reporter

    Uranzaya Jamiyansuren tends vegetables in the greenhouse at her home in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Uranzaya and her neighbor Munkhbaatar Tsogzolmaa built the greenhouse three years ago to grow food for their families’ consumption.

  • Photo by Françoise Mbuyi Mutombo, Democratic Republic of Congo

    Reporter

    Fisherman Jose Menga makes a fishing net by hand at his home in Kisangani, DRC, before going to a nearby river to fish.

  • Photo by Shilu Manandhar, Nepal

    Senior Reporter

    Purushottam Giri Sangeet Acharya, 60, a Hindu holy man known as a sadhu, reads near the Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal. He says that after the government announced a lockdown and religious sites closed due to COVID-19, many sadhus chose to leave Pashupatinath, where they lived.

  • Photo by Aline Suárez del Real, Mexico

    Reporter

    Miguel de los Santos sculpts tree trunks for the Sierra Hermosa Sports Complex in Tecámac, in the state of Mexico. One of his sculptures is a Mexican grizzly bear that went extinct in the 1960s, to raise awareness of the role humans play in the extinction of animals.

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