GREECE

GREECE

Migrants and refugees stand behind a barbed wire fence at the border between Greece and Turkey， trying to enter Greece on March 2. Greece has increased its border restrictions to the maximum

THE PHILIPPINES

Security personnel help hostages come out after a 10-hour hostage-taking incident in San Juan City， Metro Manila， on March 2. The gunman holding the group was finally persuaded to free everyone and surrender to the authorities

UNITED STATES

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg attends a campaign event in McLean in Virginia on February 29. He announced his withdrawal from the presidential race in favor of former Vice President Joe Biden on March 4

EGYPT

Visitors at the Step Pyramid of Djoser near Cairo on March 5， the day it was inaugurated after restoration. It took almost 14 years to restore the pyramid， the oldest stone construction in the world

REPUBLIC OF KOREA

A medical worker screens an arrival at a drive-through clinic in Daegu on March 4. The number of COVID-19-infected people totaled 5，621 on that day， with two more deaths reported， lifting the death toll to 33

JAPAN

Yoshiro Mori， President of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games， says the Games will be held as planned during a press meeting on March 4