Woman shoping at a fish market in Ankara on December 20, 2021 as Turkey’s troubled lira nosedived today after Turkish President cited Muslim teachings to justify not raising interest rates to stabilise the currency. Erdogan has pushed the central bank to sharply lower borrowing costs despite the annual rate of inflation soaring to more than 20 percent. Economists believe the policy could see consumer price increases reach 30 percent or higher in the coming months.
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GALLERY: This Week in Pictures 18 December – 24 December
We look back on the pictures that have drawn our attention to the biggest news stories from SA and around the world over the past week.
Woman shoping at a fish market in Ankara on December 20, 2021 as Turkey’s troubled lira nosedived today after Turkish President cited Muslim teachings to justify not raising interest rates to stabilise the currency. Erdogan has pushed the central bank to sharply lower borrowing costs despite the annual rate of inflation soaring to more than 20 percent. Economists believe the policy could see consumer price increases reach 30 percent or higher in the coming months.
Anne Maczkowiack / Flickr
The past week offered some interesting imagery from around the world includes a unique Christmas celebration in Thailand, Netherlands into “lock-down” over the Christmas period and Pubs are busy getting stock in UK. Have a look at some of them.
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Normally these elephants give out gifts at some schools in Ayuttahaya at this time of year, but because of Covid they are handing out face masks outside of the schools this year. Video:. Photo :The foreign photographer / Flickr
DR CONGO-photograph taken in Kahuzi-Biega National Park, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, shows an area devastated by logging. Since summer 2018, some local communities have started logging in this protected area sheltering the critically endangered Grauer’s gorillas, threatening their habitat. ALEXIS HUGUET / AFP
Denmark’s parliament passed an emergency law which banned the breeding of the mammals in 2021, which was then extended to 2022, in a blow to the industry. Photo:
Dzīvnieku brīvība
/ Flickr
A passer-by walks towards the train station on 19 December, 2021, as the Netherlands have gone into “lockdown” over the Christmas period to try to stop a surge of the Omicron coronavirus variant, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on December 18, 2021. People are now only allowed two guests at home, except for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, December 26 and the New Year period when four guests are permitted.Photo: Peer Heesberg/ Flickr
Miriam Ujpan Navichoc from Fair Trade organisation Asociacion Ixoqui Ajkemaa posing in front of wall-paintings made by local Mayan artists. San Juan La Laguna, Guatemala.Indigenous people block a road in Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan, Guatemala on 21 December, 2021. Hundreds of indigenous people defied a state of siege on Tuesday and blocked a major road in Guatemala’s west for the second successive day, demanding the government resolve a bloody century-old land dispute. Photo:Erik Torner / Flickr
Here comes the beer. Pubs are busy getting stock in – In England Britain on Tuesday launched a £1.0 billion ($1.3 billion, 1.2 billion euro) aid package to help UK businesses hardest hit by the Omicron coronavirus variant over Christmas. The plan will provide grants to firms in the hospitality and leisure sectors during what is normally their busiest time – and hand out statutory sick pay for small and medium sized businesses, the government said in a statement.Photo: Neil Moralee / Flickr.
A fossilized dinosaur embryo. Scientists on 21 December, 2021, announced the discovery of an exquisitely preserved dinosaur embryo from at least 66 million years ago that was preparing to hatch from its egg just like a chicken. The fossil belonged to a toothless theropod dinosaur, or oviraptorosaur, which the researchers dubbed “Baby Yingliang.””It is one of the best dinosaur embryos ever found in history,” University of Birmingham researcher Fion Waisum Ma. Photo: Martin Sharman / Flickr
Christmas decoration in Israel 22 December. Photo: Wal_172619 / Pixabay.
Paramedics works inside an ambulance parked outside the Royal London hospital in London on 20 December, 2021. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday faced pressure to tighten coronavirus restrictions to prevent the spread of the Omicron variant, despite opposition to do so before Christmas. The UK reported 82,886 Covid-19 cases on Sunday as the new variant rages, with the highest number of infections in London. Photo: Allan Magill / Flickr
