JAPAN

Passengers are stranded on a train in Tokyo after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit northeast Japan on March 16

Tourists visit the fossil remains at Wadi Al-Hitan， or the Whale Valley， in Fayoum on March 11. The area contains invaluable fossil remains of the earliest， and now extinct， suborder of whales， the Archaeoceti

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell during a virtual press conference on March 16. The U.S. Federal Reserve on that day raised its benchmark interest rate for the first time since 2018， as it seeks to tame the highest inflation in four decades

A medical worker collects a COVID-19 swab sample at a health center in Rio de Janeiro on March 16. Brazil announced a day earlier it had two confirmed cases of Deltacron， a strain that combines genetic characteristics of the Delta and Omicron variants

A college student celebrates Holi， the festival of colors， in Bhopal， Madhya Pradesh， on March 16. The festival marks the end of winter and welcomes spring

Fuel prices at a gas station in Paris on March 16. The price of gasoline now exceeds 2 euros （$2.19） per liter in the wake of the Ukraine crisis， putting a severe strain on business and household budgets