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6 Dec 2025

TALLINN, ESTONIA – DECEMBER 6, 2025: Members of Nomme Marid, a girls’ folk dance group from the Nomme Cultural Center, perform traditional Estonian dances during St. Nicholas’ Day celebrations at the Market Square in Tallinn, Estonia, on December 6, 2025. Although St. Nicholas’ Day is observed in Estonia, it plays a modest role compared to Christmas Eve, when Jouluvana, the Estonian Santa, traditionally visits homes and children recite poems or sing songs to receive gifts.

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6 Dec 2025

TALLINN, ESTONIA – DECEMBER 6, 2025: Members of Nomme Marid, a girls’ folk dance group from the Nomme Cultural Center, perform traditional Estonian dances during St. Nicholas’ Day celebrations at the Market Square in Tallinn, Estonia, on December 6, 2025. Although St. Nicholas’ Day is observed in Estonia, it plays a modest role compared to Christmas Eve, when Jouluvana, the Estonian Santa, traditionally visits homes and children recite poems or sing songs to receive gifts.

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6 Dec 2025

TALLINN, ESTONIA – DECEMBER 6, 2025: Members of Nomme Marid, a girls’ folk dance group from the Nomme Cultural Center, perform traditional Estonian dances during St. Nicholas’ Day celebrations at the Market Square in Tallinn, Estonia, on December 6, 2025. Although St. Nicholas’ Day is observed in Estonia, it plays a modest role compared to Christmas Eve, when Jouluvana, the Estonian Santa, traditionally visits homes and children recite poems or sing songs to receive gifts.

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6 Dec 2025

TALLINN, ESTONIA – DECEMBER 6, 2025: Members of Nomme Marid, a girls’ folk dance group from the Nomme Cultural Center, perform traditional Estonian dances during St. Nicholas’ Day celebrations at the Market Square in Tallinn, Estonia, on December 6, 2025. Although St. Nicholas’ Day is observed in Estonia, it plays a modest role compared to Christmas Eve, when Jouluvana, the Estonian Santa, traditionally visits homes and children recite poems or sing songs to receive gifts.

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6 Dec 2025

TALLINN, ESTONIA – DECEMBER 6, 2025: Members of Nomme Marid, a girls’ folk dance group from the Nomme Cultural Center, perform traditional Estonian dances during St. Nicholas’ Day celebrations at the Market Square in Tallinn, Estonia, on December 6, 2025. Although St. Nicholas’ Day is observed in Estonia, it plays a modest role compared to Christmas Eve, when Jouluvana, the Estonian Santa, traditionally visits homes and children recite poems or sing songs to receive gifts.

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#13066790

6 Dec 2025

TALLINN, ESTONIA – DECEMBER 6, 2025: Members of Nomme Marid, a girls’ folk dance group from the Nomme Cultural Center, perform traditional Estonian dances during St. Nicholas’ Day celebrations at the Market Square in Tallinn, Estonia, on December 6, 2025. Although St. Nicholas’ Day is observed in Estonia, it plays a modest role compared to Christmas Eve, when Jouluvana, the Estonian Santa, traditionally visits homes and children recite poems or sing songs to receive gifts.

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6 Dec 2025

TALLINN, ESTONIA – DECEMBER 6, 2025: Members of Nomme Marid, a girls’ folk dance group from the Nomme Cultural Center, perform traditional Estonian dances during St. Nicholas’ Day celebrations at the Market Square in Tallinn, Estonia, on December 6, 2025. Although St. Nicholas’ Day is observed in Estonia, it plays a modest role compared to Christmas Eve, when Jouluvana, the Estonian Santa, traditionally visits homes and children recite poems or sing songs to receive gifts.

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#13066797

6 Dec 2025

TALLINN, ESTONIA – DECEMBER 6, 2025: Members of Nomme Marid, a girls’ folk dance group from the Nomme Cultural Center, perform traditional Estonian dances during St. Nicholas’ Day celebrations at the Market Square in Tallinn, Estonia, on December 6, 2025. Although St. Nicholas’ Day is observed in Estonia, it plays a modest role compared to Christmas Eve, when Jouluvana, the Estonian Santa, traditionally visits homes and children recite poems or sing songs to receive gifts.

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#13066799

6 Dec 2025

TALLINN, ESTONIA – DECEMBER 6, 2025: Members of Nomme Marid, a girls’ folk dance group from the Nomme Cultural Center, perform traditional Estonian dances during St. Nicholas’ Day celebrations at the Market Square in Tallinn, Estonia, on December 6, 2025. Although St. Nicholas’ Day is observed in Estonia, it plays a modest role compared to Christmas Eve, when Jouluvana, the Estonian Santa, traditionally visits homes and children recite poems or sing songs to receive gifts.

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#13051078

2 Dec 2025

Palestinian women and girls cheer and dance as they gather on the rubble of buildings destroyed during the Gaza War to watch the mass wedding of 54 couples, dubbed ''The Dress of Joy,'' organized by the Al-Fares Al-Shahm Foundation, in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, on December 2, 2025. ''The Dress of Joy'' is a project helping 54 grooms in the Gaza Strip to get married, an initiative that coincides with the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) 54th National Day. The war is sparked by Hamas's October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, which results in the deaths of 1,221 people. Israel's retaliatory assault on Gaza kills over 70,000 people, according to figures from the health ministry that the UN considers reliable.

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#13041415

30 Nov 2025

Girls run inside a ground in Kolkata, India, on November 30, 2025, on a cold winter morning.

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#13041226

30 Nov 2025

Girls from the Newa community take part in the Bel Bibaha ceremony, in which they are symbolically married to a bael fruit (wood apple), at Banglamukhi Temple in Lalitpur, Nepal, on November 29, 2025. The ritual is performed for girls aged between 5 and 9 years, typically before they reach puberty. The ceremony, also called the Ihi ceremony, is rooted in Hindu and Tantric traditions and serves to protect girls from social stigma, especially widowhood. The fruit symbolizes the god Vishnu, ensuring the girl is symbolically married to a divine entity for life.

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30 Nov 2025

Girls from the Newa community take part in the Bel Bibaha ceremony, in which they are symbolically married to a bael fruit (wood apple), at Banglamukhi Temple in Lalitpur, Nepal, on November 29, 2025. The ritual is performed for girls aged between 5 and 9 years, typically before they reach puberty. The ceremony, also called the Ihi ceremony, is rooted in Hindu and Tantric traditions and serves to protect girls from social stigma, especially widowhood. The fruit symbolizes the god Vishnu, ensuring the girl is symbolically married to a divine entity for life.

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#13041228

30 Nov 2025

Girls from the Newa community take part in the Bel Bibaha ceremony, in which they are symbolically married to a bael fruit (wood apple), at Banglamukhi Temple in Lalitpur, Nepal, on November 29, 2025. The ritual is performed for girls aged between 5 and 9 years, typically before they reach puberty. The ceremony, also called the Ihi ceremony, is rooted in Hindu and Tantric traditions and serves to protect girls from social stigma, especially widowhood. The fruit symbolizes the god Vishnu, ensuring the girl is symbolically married to a divine entity for life.

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#13041229

30 Nov 2025

Girls from the Newa community take part in the Bel Bibaha ceremony, in which they are symbolically married to a bael fruit (wood apple), at Banglamukhi Temple in Lalitpur, Nepal, on November 29, 2025. The ritual is performed for girls aged between 5 and 9 years, typically before they reach puberty. The ceremony, also called the Ihi ceremony, is rooted in Hindu and Tantric traditions and serves to protect girls from social stigma, especially widowhood. The fruit symbolizes the god Vishnu, ensuring the girl is symbolically married to a divine entity for life.

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30 Nov 2025

Girls from the Newa community take part in the Bel Bibaha ceremony, in which they are symbolically married to a bael fruit (wood apple), at Banglamukhi Temple in Lalitpur, Nepal, on November 29, 2025. The ritual is performed for girls aged between 5 and 9 years, typically before they reach puberty. The ceremony, also called the Ihi ceremony, is rooted in Hindu and Tantric traditions and serves to protect girls from social stigma, especially widowhood. The fruit symbolizes the god Vishnu, ensuring the girl is symbolically married to a divine entity for life.

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