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February 24, 2020, Hong Kong, CHINA: Lufthansa pilots and cabin crew, all wearing protective face masks exit from arriving hall at Hong Kong International Airport.

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March 4, 2020, Nashville, Tennessee, USA: Volunteers help neighbors clean up and secure houses the day after a tornado struck the East Nashville neighborhood in Nashville, Tennessee.

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WUHAN, March 10, 2020 Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, inquires about purchasing and supply of people’s daily necessities at a community in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei Province. Xi made an inspection of the epidemic prevention and control work in Wuhan on Tuesday.

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Documentary photographer Alison Wright will speak at Next Stage Arts Project in Putney about her photographs of resilient working women in developing countries. The talk will follow the opening reception for “Alison Wright: Grit and Grace, Women at Work” and six other new exhibits at BMAC.
Wright will share compelling stories about these hard-working women, show additional images not featured in the BMAC exhibit, and place the work within the broader context of her own extraordinary life story, which includes a two-decade friendship with the Dalai Lama and a near-death experience in Laos.

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February 9, 2020, Plymouth, NH, U.S: Longtime Bernie Sanders volunteers Harrison Weber of Las Vegas, NV, and Susan Mathison of Plymouth, NH, check in canvassing volunteers after Presidential candidate and Senator Bernie Sanders spoke to volunteers and media during a canvassing kickoff event in Plymouth, NH, on February 9, 2020. Canvassers use the app miniVAN to map and record voter contacts as they do their route.

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From India to Africa, tea fields to technology, women are the resilient hard-working backbones of their communities. Many of these women live in post-conflict or hard-to-reach areas, yet illuminate their shared determination to create better futures for their families through their creativity, ingenuity, and drive. These women from Africa, Asia and Latin America share stories of how they have risen above their circumstances to empower themselves through their tenacity and resiliency. On average, women make up just over 40 percent of the global agricultural labor force, yet own less than 20 percent of the land. Many have joined co-ops to learn the skills of building their business from kitchen garden to profitable business. Micro-loans and mobile money are taking women to another level. By starting their own businesses women are opening bank accounts and taking control of their own money. In many of these war torn countries, especially the Congo where a women is raped each minute of every day, nearly every woman has suffered some unspeakable atrocity. The numeracy, literacy, and job-training programs offered to these women gives them usable work skills. This offers them not only a sense of financial stability but equally as important it gives them a sense of self worth through like-minded community. Ask any of them why they do these jobs and it’s for the education and betterment of their children. Women in these countries are always somehow going to be the ones to figure it out for their families. Empowering women in the developing world not only benefits their immediate family, it benefits their whole village, their nation, our world.

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February 3, 2020, Des Moines, Iowa, U.S: CARL VOSS, the precinct chair for precinct 55, verifies results at the caucus site for precinct 55 in downtown Des Moines. More than 1,000 voters registered to participate in precinct 55 caucus. The precinct awarded 14 delegates during its caucus.

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President Trump is acquitted in the Senate Impeachment Trial, Coronavirus fears cause plunges in stock markets worldwide, a foreign language film wins Best Picture at the Oscars and the Kansas City Chiefs are Super Bowl champs! These stories and more as the February 2020 Pictures Of the Month for @ZUMApress. 

ZUMA’s talented award-winning picture editing staff of Jessica Cotsonas, Julie Rogers, Mark Avery, Ruaridh Stewart, Scott Mc Kiernan, Shalan Stewart, Tim Kothlow and the POM Editor-in-Chief Jim Colton made this ZUMA show possible. Enjoy and pass the word to others.

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Photographers © Aaron Chown • Adryel Talamantes • Alex Wroblewski • Alexander Ryumin • Anas Alkharboutli • Andreas Pranter • Andrew Mccaren • Angelos Tzortzinis • Bai Xuefei • Ben Birchall • Boris Roessler • Bradley Collyer • Brian Cahn • Bryan Smith • Caroline Brehman • Chaiwat Subprasom • Christian Charisius • Dave Bedrosian • David Crane • David Davies • Dinendra Haria • Diogo Baptista • Dorothee Barth • Doug Murray • Doug Peters • Fabio Sasso • Gao Qimin • Gian Mattia D’Alberto • Graham Macgillivray • Hans Gutknecht • Hendrik Schmidt • Idrees Abbas • Isabel Infantes • Ivarsson Jerker • Jack Kurtz • Jacob King • James Shaw • Jesus Merida • Johan Ben Azzouz • John Nacion • Jose Breton • Kenjiro Matsuo • Kevin Sullivan • Lannis Waters • Lev Radin • Li An • Li Liangyong • Li Yue • Liu Kun • Logan Arce • Lu Boan • Martin Schutt • Mitchell Gunn • Oliver Contreras • Pan Xiaojing • Paul Kitagaki Jr. • Pedro Fiuza • Peter Byrne • Peter Kovalev • Petter Arvidson • Prabin Ranabhat • Ren Long • Riccardo Giordano • Robin Loznak • Saqib Majeed • Skanda Gautam • Stanislav Krasilnikov • Stephen Chung • Stephen Lock • Tano Pecoraro • Then Chih Wey • Thomas Bachen • Vegard Wivestad Grott • Xiao Yijiu • Xiong Qi • Yu Fangping • Yuri Smityuk

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