Protesters run for cover after riot police fired tear gas towards the bridge they were climbing down to the road below, to escape from Hong Kong Polytechnic University campus and from police, in Hung Hom district in Hong Kong on November 18, 2019. Dozens of Hong Kong protesters escaped a besieged university campus on November 18 by lowering themselves on a rope from a footbridge to a highway, AFP video showed. Once on the road they were seen being picked up by waiting motorcyclists. (Photo by Anthony Wallace/AFP Photo)

A woman uses a face masks as a preventive measure against the spread of the new coronavirus, COVID-19, in Bogota, on March 19, 2020. Colombia will block all international flights from Monday for 30 days, President Ivan Duque announced on Thursday. (Photo by Raul Arboleda/AFP Photo)

A local resident fills in documents near a mobile ballot box outside her house during a seven-day vote on constitutional reforms, in the village of Troitskoye in Moscow region, Russia on June 25, 2020. (Photo by Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)

A worker cleans a statue of the founder of the Soviet Union Vladimir Lenin at Moscow Square in front of the House of Soviets in Saint-Petersburg on April 21, 2022. (Photo by Olga Maltseva/AFP Photo)

Most Russians intending to vote for Vladimir Putin in Sunday's election say stability is at the root of their faith in their candidate – though many young voters believe it's time for a change of leader. Putin, 65, is expected to win a fourth term in office with 69 percent of the vote, according to the latest survey by a state-run pollster. Reuters correspondents and photographers who travelled around the country talking to voters ahead of the March 18 election found nothing to contradict expectation of an emphatic Putin victory. (Photo by Anton Vaganov/Reuters)

The clown is on tour at Outlets on June 7, 2020 in Wuhan,Hubei Province,China.Wuhan has seen its urban life gradually get back to normal following encouragement from local city management to open up street-stalls. Since January, China has recorded more than 81,000 cases of COVID-19 and at least 3200 deaths, mostly in and around the city of Wuhan, in central Hubei province, where the outbreak first started. (Photo by Getty Images/Stringer)

This photo taken on February 26, 2019 shows an aerial view of a tea field in Zhangping in China's eastern Fujian province. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)

British tourist participates in a crab race at the annual Tobago Heritage Festival, at Buccoo Integrated Facility, in Tobago island, Trinidad and Tobago on July 29, 2018. (Photo by Andrea De Silva/EPA/EFE)