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Photos of the day - March 3, 2017

An Iraqi special forces soldier reacts after Islamic State militants shot dead another Iraqi special forces soldier during a battle in Mosul, Iraq; A woman and a child in the drought-affected village of Bandarero, near Moyale town on the Ethiopian border, in northern Kenya; Attendants prepare tea before the opening session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China; and, President Donald Trump's grandson Joseph Kushner holds a model of Marine One, as they walk across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington.

These are just a few of the photos of the day for March 3, 2017.

(Photos: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters, Ben Curtis/AP, Jason Lee/Reuters, Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)

Cette semaine, Pékin accueille les assemblées politiques les plus importantes de l’année en Chine, communément appelées les ‘Deux Sessions’. Ces réunions annuelles, soigneusement orchestrées, offrent une fenêtre unique sur les orientations stratégiques de la deuxième économie mondiale, à un moment où la croissance intérieure peine à décoller et où les tensions géopolitiques persistent. Que…

The newspaper of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Congress (CPPCC) a Chinese discussion body with broad national representation that meets each March published a paper calling for more opening up of China’s financial sector.  Per the CPPCC Wikipedia article: The Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC, Chinese: 中国人民政治协商会议) is a political advisory body in the People’s…

Former Jiangxi Provincial Political Consultative Conference member Xiao Yi sentenced to life imprisonment for bribery and abuse of power, linked to Fuzhou Chuangshi Company’s Bitcoin mining. (Read More)