Pictures of the day: March 4, 2017

We look at 13 pictures from events around the world
Multimedia Desk | March 04, 2017

A US Navy F18 fighter jet takes off from aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson during a FONOPS (Freedom of Navigation Operation Patrol) in South China Sea. PHOTO: REUTERS

An Iraqi Special Forces soldier runs across a street during a battle with Islamic State militants in Mosul. PHOTO: REUTERS


A graffiti work painted by street artist Banksy shows an Israeli soldier and masked Palestinian youth having a pillow fight, in the Walled Off hotel in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. PHOTO: REUTERS


A woman wearing a prototype of Stemrad's new protective vest, Astrorad, sits inside Russian spacecraft, Excalibur-Almaz Space Capsule, during a demonstration for Reuters, at Madatech, National Museum of Science Technology and Space in Haifa, Israel. PHOTO: REUTERS


Attendants prepare tea before the opening session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. PHOTO: REUTERS


Tourists (rear) on board of a tour boat watch as migrants, who are part of a group intercepted aboard a dinghy off the coast in the Mediterranean sea, stand on a rescue boat (R) upon arriving at a port in Malaga, southern Spain. PHOTO: REUTERS


French far-right Front National (FN) party candidate for the presidential election Marine Le Pen delivers a speech on stage as she is reflected on a mirror during a press conference on the theme "What role for the State in the economy", in Paris. PHOTO: AFP



German Stephan Leyhe soars during the first competition jump during men large hill individual ski jumping competition of the FIS Nordic Ski World Championships in Lahti. PHOTO: AFP


Dutch skipper Peter Heerema, placing 17th in the Vendee Globe around-the-world solo sailing race, celebrates aboard of his Imoca 60 monohull "No Way Back" as he arrives in Les Sables-d'Olonne, western France. PHOTO: AFP


Visitors get tattooed during the Tattoo World Fair in Paris. PHOTO: AFP


Nepalese women Pabitra Giri (L) and Yum Kumari Giri (R) sit by a fire as they live in a Chhaupadi hut during their menstruation period in Surkhet District, some 520km west of Kathmandu. PHOTO: AFP


The industrial town of Madawaska, Maine can be seen across the St. John River from the US/Canada border town of Edmundston, New Brunswick. PHOTO: AFP


Attendants serving delegates from a hotel pose for a photo at Tiananmen Square as delegates attend a meeting during the annual session of China's parliament, the National People's Congress (NPC), in Beijing, China. PHOTO: REUTERS


A farmer shovels dirt between rows of seedlings protected from the cold under plastic at a farm in Charsadda, Pakistan. PHOTO: REUTERS
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