The past week was marked by numerous events and an upsurge in the coronavirus outbreak which saw the disease spreading across various countries and being declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. The week was also marked by International Women's Day celebrations, the Holi spring festival of colours, the Olympic flame lighting ceremony, the World Junior Championships in Tallinn, the festival "Yalta - The City of March 8th" and more.
Check out the gallery to make sure that you didn't miss the most significant events around the world this past week.
A mannequin in a lace mask is displayed in a shop window, in Tbilisi, Georgia. So far, some 105,000 people have been infected with the COVID-19 coronavirus and more than 3500 have died worldwide, according to the latest reports from the World Health Organization.
Migrants take cover behind a wooden board as Greek police use water cannons to block them from trying to break fences in the Turkey-Greece border province of Edirne on 7 March 2020. Makeshift camps have sprung up around the border where thousands of refugees have been encouraged by Turkey to leave for the European Union, in a bid to gain Western backing in Syria. As part of a 2016 agreement, Turkey agreed to stop the flow of migrants to Europe in exchange for billions of euros, but Ankara accused the European Union of failing to fulfil its promises.
Passengers during the opening of a regular commuter rail link between the Crimea and the Krasnodar Territory. The first comfortable railbus of the RA2 model set off from Kerch to Anapa on 7 March.
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a plenary meeting of the Russian State Duma on 10 March 2020.
A fire show at the "Yalta - The City of March 8th Festival" in Yalta.
Revellers dance as they celebrate Holi, the spring festival of colours, in Allahabad, India on 10 March 2020.
Lambkin cat at the Catsburg International Cat Show at the Crocus Expo Exhibition Center in Moscow region.
Dollar, Euro to ruble exchange rate display in Moscow.
Greek actress Xanthi Georgiou, playing the role of High Priestess lights the flame during the dress rehearsal for the Olympic flame lighting ceremony for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics on 11 March 2020.
Workers in protective suits disinfect Dolmabahce Palace due to coronavirus concerns in Istanbul, Turkey, 11 March 2020.
A shepherd rides a donkey across a pumpjack operating in an oil field in the countryside of al-Qahtaniyah town in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province near the Turkish border, on 11 March 2020.
Two men wait for customers at their motorcycle repair workshops in Jakarta on 11 March 2020.
Boat garages on the shore of Lake Onega in the Republic of Karelia's Pudozhsky district.
Winners in the women's single skating event at the World Junior Championships in Tallinn during the award ceremony (from left to right): Daria Usacheva (Russia) wins the silver medal and Kamila Valieva (Russia) wins the gold.
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An aircraft flies past the rising full moon at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, 9 March 2020.
Participants in the women's Beauty Run in Krasnodar.
One hundred members of the conservative activist group 'Manif pour Tous' ("Protest for Everyone") dressed as the allegorical character 'Marianne' a symbol of France, stage a protest against assisted reproductive technology (ART) and surrogacy in front of the National Assembly, French Parliament's lower house, in Paris on International Women's Day.
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Opposition protesters clash with police blocking their march in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, 10 March 2020. US-backed Venezuelan political leader Juan Guaido is leading a march aimed at retaking the National Assembly legislative building, which opposition lawmakers have been blocked from entering.
Reindeer of the "Tundra" agricultural production cooperative on free pasture in the tundra near the village of Lovozero in the Murmansk region.
Participants of the "Lady with a Dog" promenade as part of "The City of March 8th Festival" in Yalta.
Migrants, intercepted off the coast in the Mediterranean Sea, wait to disembark from a rescue boat at the port of Malaga, southern Spain, 7 March 2020.
The 2S19 "Msta-S", self-propelled Howitzer during exercises at the Molkino training ground in the Krasnodar Territory.
Displaced Syrian children pose for a picture at a camp created by Turkey's Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) in Kafr Lusin village on the border with Turkey in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib, on 10 March 2020. When protesters in March 2011 demanded their rights and regime change, they likely never imagined it would trigger a reaction leading to the 21st century's biggest war. Nine years on, President Bashar al-Assad is still in power, and there to stay, more than 380,000 people have died, dozens of towns and cities have been razed to the ground and half of the country's population has been displaced.
A reveller smeared in coloured powder celebrates Holi, the spring festival of colours, in Mumbai on 10 March 2020.
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Participants take part in the women's 'Beauty Run' in Minsk, Belarus, Sunday, 8 March 2020. Five thousand participants took part in the event in connection with International Women's Day, which is an official holiday in Belarus.
A pig looks out from a cage, as it waits to loaded onto a cargo plane en route to China from the Brest-Bretagne Airport in Guipavas, Brittany, on 10 March 2020. One thousand pigs, handpicked for their reproductive performance, were flown from Brest to China on 10 March. China was severely hit by the African swine fever virus in 2019. Between March 10 and 11, 2,000 breeding pigs in total will leave the Breton airport, specialising in the air transport of live animals since 2017, to be transported to Taiyuan Wusu, in the Chinese province of Shanxi.
Slum-dwellers search for their household items after a fire broke out in a slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 11 March 2020.
Participant in an International Women's Day rally in Rostov-on-Don.
Participants in the annual amateur rural equestrian competitions held as part of the "Goodbye Russian Winter" holiday on the outskirts of the village of Tyulkovo, in the Krasnoyarsk Territory's Balakhta district.
A woman in a mask walks one of the streets of Novara, Italy.
