In upday we show you the most relevant images of the last days.
1. The journalist Sylwia Pieczara will get into the ring for a good cause
Sylwia Pieczara is a popular face in Poland as she is a journalist for TVP Krakow. She but she is also an amateur boxer. She trains under the direction of Klaudiusz Hejmej, from the Gota Underground martial arts school, in Krakow. On March 16, Sylwia will box for a good cause: she will participate in the ‘Biznes Boxing Polska’ charity gala for amateur boxers and the proceeds will go to the ‘Full Power’ Foundation, which assists sick children, the elderly and athletes who require medical treatment after accidents or injuries. Sylwia continues the legacy of her late mother, Izabela Pieczara, a renowned journalist who addressed social issues and threats to civilization in more than 1,500 television shows.
2. More than 600,000 people in the 8-M concentrations throughout Spain
Thousands of people, most of them women, participated in the 8M demonstration, International Women’s Day, in Spain, with the largest concentration in Madrid. During the march, the organizers called for “emptying the classrooms” in a day of feminist student strike and filling the streets to fight for women’s rights. The Government estimated that 600,979 attended the 8M marches throughout Spain, of which 136,430 demonstrated in the Community of Madrid, in 41 marches in different locations. The second community with the most people was Andalusia, with more than 99,000 in 59 demonstrations, and in third place the Basque Country, with more than 93,000 people in 64 marches.
3. Holi, the festival of colors, unleashes madness in India
People eager to have a good time dance in the streets of the Indian city of Prayagraj on March 8, to celebrate the Hindu spring festival of colors, known as Holi but also the festival of love. It is an ancient religious festival popular in India among non-Hindus as well. It is somewhat reminiscent of La Tomatita de Buñol, in Valencia, since the participants are thrown colored liquid instead of tomatoes, and they enjoy it. It is celebrated mainly in India and Nepal, as well as other parts of the world with Hindu populations, including Europe and North America. Men and women usually commemorate this festival separately, although joint celebrations are increasingly taking place.
4. Islamabad and Karachi: Pakistan commemorates International Women’s Day in very different ways
The commemorations for International Women’s Day, on March 8, in Pakistan were very different, according to the city. In Karachi, the most populous city in the country, women sympathizers of the Jamaat-e-Islami religious party participated in a demonstration to celebrate this day with their faces fully covered. However, in the country’s capital, Islamabad, women defied the authorities by showing themselves as they are, unveiled. In other towns, women also wanted to go out into the street without their faces covered, but they were not able to do so in all of them.
5. War food for Ukrainian soldiers and civilians on the Bakhmut front
Ukrainian troops and civilians who have not abandoned the city of Kostiantynivka, very close to the disputed and punished Bakhmut, where more than 77,000 civilians lived and barely 5,000 who have nowhere to go; they receive hot food at a gas station from a religious organization supported by Polish donors. In the vicinity of Bakhmut, the most intense fighting is taking place since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, with thousands of deaths on both sides.
6. Carnival in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem
Mea Shearim is an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem, the capital of Israel, at least in its western part. There the festivity of Purim is commemorated, similar to carnival, with parties and parades that are intended to remember the liberation of the Jewish people from extermination by the ancient Persian empire, 2,500 years ago. This is how it is recorded in the Biblical Book of Esther, the woman who hid her Jewish origins so as not to die at the hands of the men of the Persian king Ahasuerus around 450 BC.
7. Gaza by day, Gaza by night
Israel has stepped up its nightly attacks on the Gaza Strip and Gaza City itself, just as Palestinian militants are firing missiles from there aimed at Israeli territory. In Gaza bombs can fall at any time, but it is at night when there is usually more activity and the fighting is more frequent and violent. Thus, in the first photo we see two Palestinian women walking past a mural depicting Israel’s Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, with apparent normality, and in the second, young Palestinians burning tires near the border between Israel and Gaza.
8. Golf among elephants
The Kenya Golf Open, Magical Kenya Open for sponsorship reasons, always leaves spectacular images. It is a professional tournament that has been held since 1967 at the Muthaiga Golf Club in Nairobi, and in 2019 it became a European Tour tournament, despite the fact that it is held in Africa. In the photos we see Samuel Njoroge, from Kenya, on the first hole during the first round, and an elephant in the vicinity of the golf course.
9. Dog Day in Birmingham
In a freezing environment, lots of dogs, some from charities such as ‘Say no to dog meat’, participate in the British city of Birmingham in ‘Crufts 2023’. The event is billed as the world’s largest dog show, where each dog competes to be chosen as the best of the show.
10. Dozens of sub-Saharan migrants survive on the streets of Tunisia
Dozens of irregular sub-Saharan migrants slump on the streets of Al-Buhaire, in the north of the Tunis capital, waiting for opportunities. Some have left the country after Tunisian President Kais Said gave the order to repatriate hundreds of them. He classifies them as “clandestine hordes” and accuses them of threatening the demographic balance of Tunisia, despite the fact that they only represent 0.2% of the population. Those who have stayed do not have it easy, but most say they have nowhere to go.
11. Arctic Urban Art Festival in Russia
Unaware of the war in Ukraine, up to 16 large murals have been drawn by 18 artists on the walls of houses in the Russian city of Murmansk, as part of the ‘Rost’ Arctic urban art festival. Murmansk is a port city located in the far north-west of Russia, on the northern coast of the Kola Peninsula.
12. German Police investigate a shooting with at least eight dead in Hamburg
German police investigators work at the scene of a shooting that on Thursday night left at least eight dead and several injured at a Jehovah’s Witness community center in the Alsterdorf district of the city of Hamburg. The shots occurred inside the premises. In fact, the first officers who arrived at the scene heard a shot as they entered the building. Apparently, there was a single attacker.
