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Climate activists from the group Letzte Generation (Last Generation) hold up commuter traffic on a Monday morning in Berlin by supergluing themselves to the road. Police unstick their hands using cooking oil and a pastry brush while irate drivers look on, stuck for more than an hour. Esme Nicholson/NPR hide caption
Liang from Beijing, center, looks on as his 82-year-old grandmother is brought in a casket to the Gaobeidian Funeral Home in northern China's Hebei province on Dec. 22, 2022. Liang's grandmother had been unvaccinated when she came down with coronavirus symptoms, and had spent her final days hooked to a respirator in a Beijing ICU. AP hide caption
Clockwise from top left: Marlon Brando in the film The Godfather (1972); Emily Meggett, the author of Gullah Geechee Home Cooking; illustration from Kate Beaton's graphic memoir Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands; America Ferrera (clockwise from top left), Eva Longoria, Rosie Perez, Ivette Rodriguez, Rosario Dawson and Christy Haubegger. Allstar Picture Library/Alamy Stock Photo; Clay Williams/Courtesy of Abrams; Drawn & Quarterly; Mike Gallegos for NPR hide caption
A classroom that previously was used for girls sits empty in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. The country's Taliban rulers earlier this week ordered women nationwide to stop attending private and public universities effective immediately and until further notice. Ebrahim Noroozi/AP hide caption
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