Today in Photos (Feb. 22)

View a gallery of photos from around the world, Feb. 22, 2016.

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Mon., Feb. 22, 2016

Nepalese Hindu devotees offer a prayer on the bank of Hanumante River during during the Swasthani Bratakatha festival in Bhaktapur, Nepal, Monday, Feb. 22, 2016. During this month-long festival, devotees recite Holy Scriptures dedicated to Hindu goddess Swasthani and Lord Shiva. Unmarried women pray to get a good husband while those married pray for the longevity of their husbands by observing a month-long fast.

Niranjan Shrestha Associated Press
An Afghan refugee jumps the fence as he tries to enter Macedonia at the Greek-Macedonia borderline near the northern Greek village of Idomeni, Monday, Feb. 22, 2016. Greece's government warned Monday it expected a growing number of stranded migrants and asylum seekers after neighbor Macedonia further restricted border access at the weekend.

Giannis Papanikos Associated Press
An Afghan refugee throws a child in the air at the transit center for refugees near the northern Macedonian village of Tabanovce, while waiting for a permission to cross the border into Serbia, Monday, Feb. 22, 2016. More than 600 Afghan refugees were stranded since Saturday at the transit center in Tabanovce in northern Macedonia. Serbia says the decision to block refugees from Afghanistan from passing through the so-called Balkan migrant corridor has been made by Austria and Slovenia.

Boris Grdanoski Associated Press
Ultra-Orthodox Jews mourn around the body of prominent Jewish Rabbi Yochanan Sofer of the Erlau dynasty in Jerusalem, Monday, Feb. 22, 2016. Sofer survived the Holocaust, he represented the Erlau Hasidic dynasty, founded In Hungary. He was 93.

Ariel Schalit Associated Press
People react as they use the new Samsung Gear 360, a 360-degree camera, at the Mobile World Congress wireless show, in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, Feb. 22, 2016.

Emilio Morenatti Associated Press
Thai Buddhist monks pray and gather at Wat Dhammakaya temple to participate in Makha Bucha Day ceremonies, in Pathum Thani province, Thailand, Monday, Feb. 22, 2016. Makha Bucha, a religious holiday that marks the anniversary of Lord Buddha's mass sermon to the first 1,250 newly ordained monks 2,559years ago.

Sakchai Lalit Associated Press
A Hindu holy man, or Naga Sadhu, rubs ash on his hair after a bath at Sangam, the confluence of the Rivers Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati on on 'Maghi Purnima', considered an auspicious bathing day, in Allahabad, India, Monday, Feb. 22, 2016. Hundreds of thousands of devout Hindus are expected to take holy dips at the confluence during the astronomically auspicious period of Magh Mela.

Rajesh Kumar Singh Associated Press
Cleveland Indians players make their way to a practice field for a spring training baseball workout Monday, Feb. 22, 2016, in Goodyear, Ariz.

Morry Gash Associated Press
Debris fly into the air as foreign fishing boats are blown up by Indonesian Navy off Batam Island, Indonesia, Monday, Feb. 22, 2016. Authorities on Monday sank dozens of fishing boats caught operating illegally in Indonesian waters as part of the country's campaign to battle illegal fishing.

M. Urip Associated Press