World Lens: Week of Feb. 23
Guadeloupe protests and Carnival celebrations in the Caribbean. See more!
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Trini Style - In Trinidad and Tobago, a dancer celebrates Carnival in Port-of-Spain. REUTERS/Jorge Silva (TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
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Kids Carnival - Children get in on the Carnival action too in Trinidad and Tobago. The girls dance to Soca music while participating in the children’s Carnival parade, before the carnival festival. REUTERS/Jorge Silva (TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO)
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Dominican Party - A Dominican participates in the nation’s annual carnival celebration in La Vega. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz (DOMINICAN REPUBLIC)
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Waiting - Women from Comoros, an island nation off of east Africa, wait at the airport for the arrival of Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. REUTERS/Stringer (COMOROS)
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Soccer - Polio-stricken boys from the Democratic Republic of Congo play soccer together at the Stand Proud compound in Bunia. The charity helps Congo children suffering leg defects; fighting in the nation has destroyed many health facilities. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO)
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African Mardi Gras - Children in the Ivory Coast celebrate Mardi Gras in the streets. REUTERS/LucGnago (IVORY COAST)
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A Nice Stretch - West Indies’ cricket player Daren Powell uses a coach’s head to stretch right before a match against England at Bridgetown. REUTERS/Philip Brown (BARBADOS)
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In Protest - Protestors in the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe take to the streets to speak out against the nation’s economic problems. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen
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Obama Dress - A Venezuelan fashion designer shows off a dress emblazoned with a portrait of President Barack Obama in Italy’s Gattinoni fashion house. The global economic crisis is hitting Italian high fashion hard as well, with haute couture sales dropping 40 percent in 2008 – the first loss in the industry’s 62-year history. REUTERS/Chris Helgren (ITALY)