Tash Sultana performs at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston.

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Kenyan musician J.S. Ondara backstage before a recent show in Boston

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An Argentine justice crusader who calls himself Menganno has been patrolling the streets of the city of Lanus since 2010. Netflix has now picked up his character.

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Aïda Muluneh's "To pursue the ceaseless way," is exhibited on a bus stop in the Boston area. The photograph is part of "This is where I am," presented by New York-based Public Art Fund.

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Posters with a message that read in Spanish "Free abortion."

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Smoke rises from the Trade Ministry in Baghdad after it was hit by a missile during US-led attacks, March 20, 2003.

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Colleagues gather at a cafeteria in the offices of Picsart, in Yerevan, Armenia.

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Fans are seen on the stands during the Russian Premier-League soccer match between Khimki and Rostov Rostov-on-Don, in Khimki, outside Moscow, Russia.

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Haitian Musician and Voudo priest Erol Josué has a new album titled Pèlerinaj, which includes songs like “Rén Sobo,” “Ati Sole” and “Palave Maria" that invoke Vodou goddesses and saints.

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Erol Josué’s new album Pèlerinaj highlights Haiti’s Vodou tradition and the artist’s own pilgrimage

A lab worker removes crane hoist from a load of rebar used to construct full-scale buildings and bridge spans that are then pushed to the limit in field tests.

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Wind generators near the Indigenous town of Juchitán de Zaragoza in Mexico.

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<p>Ethiopian musician Hailu Mergia is a legend in his home country. He's a member of the acclaimed Walias Band. But in 1985 he released a solo album and then went into relative obscurity.</p>

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Ethiopian Musician Hailu Mergia: From the Nightclubs of Addis Ababa to a Cab in DC

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