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Flames rise from the cremation pyres of 13 COVID-19 patients who died in a fire that broke out in Vijay Vallabh COVID hospital, at Virar, near Mumbai. [Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo]
![Members of a family of COVID-19 victim prepare a funeral pyre as multiple pyres are seen at a crematorium in New Delhi. [Altaf Qadri/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/AP21115597052475.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Members of a family of COVID-19 victim prepare a funeral pyre as multiple pyres are seen at a crematorium in New Delhi. [Altaf Qadri/AP Photo]
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Members of the family of a COVID-19 victim put a shroud over the body lying on a road outside a crematorium in New Delhi. [Altaf Qadri/AP Photo]
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Family members put the body of their relative who died of COVID-19 on the funeral pyre at a crematorium in New Delhi. [Altaf Qadri/AP Photo]
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A man in a protective suit digs a grave for the body of a person who died of COVID-19 in the northeastern city of Guwahati. [Anupam Nath/AP Photo]
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People line up the bodies of those who died of COVID-19 at a crematorium in New Delhi. [Altaf Qadri/AP Photo]
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A relative of a person who died of COVID-19 is consoled by another during the cremation in Jammu, Indian-administered Kashmir. [Channi Anand/AP Photo]
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A man sits on a log while waiting for the funeral of his relative who died of COVID-19, at a crematorium in New Delhi. The city has been cremating so many bodies of coronavirus victims that authorities are getting requests to start cutting down trees in city parks. [Altaf Qadri/AP Photo]
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Relatives and municipal workers in protective suits bury the body of a person who died due to COVID-19 in Guwahati city. [Anupam Nath/AP Photo]
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A woman is consoled by a relative at a crematorium during the mass cremation of COVID-19 victims in New Delhi. The nation of nearly 1.4 billion people set a global record of new daily infections for a fifth straight day on Monday. [Altaf Qadri/AP Photo]
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Relatives walk amid burning funeral pyres as they perform last rites for COVID-19 victims in the central city of Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh state. [Sanjeev Gupta/EPA]
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Relatives perform the last rites for COVID-19 victims in Bhopal. [Sanjeev Gupta/EPA]
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Family members place flowers as they perform the last rites for a COVID-19 victim at a crematorium in Jammu, Indian-administered Kashmir. [Channi Anand/AP Photo]
![Exhausted workers who bring dead bodies for cremation sit on the rear step of an ambulance inside a crematorium in New Delhi. [Altaf Qadri/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/AP21115597699168.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Exhausted workers who bring dead bodies for cremation sit on the rear step of an ambulance inside a crematorium in New Delhi. [Altaf Qadri/AP Photo]
![A dead body waits to be cremated as multiple funeral pyres of those who died of COVID-19 burn at a crematorium in New Delhi. [AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/AP21115597702998.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
A dead body waits to be cremated as multiple funeral pyres of those who died of COVID-19 burn at a crematorium in New Delhi. [AP Photo]
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Sarah Gamal: First Arab female basketball referee at Olympics
Hijab-wearing Sarah Gamal will be the first Arab and African woman to referee 3-on-3 basketball games at the Olympics.
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And the Oscar goes to … The winners of the 2021 Academy Awards
Chloe Zhao made history as she became only the second woman to win Best Director at the Oscars. Who else won?