News in Pics, Feb 5, 2022: Best pics from around the world

Dancers perform during a campaing rally of Costa Rican presidential candidate Welmer Ramos, of Acción Ciudadana party, in San José. Credit: AFP Photo

A man taking photos on a screen showing live footage of the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Shenyang, in China's northeastern Liaoning Province. Credit: AFP Photo

Hundreds of Salvadorans from several indigenous villages joined in pilgrimage to take two small images of the

A banner with “VOTE” on it is displayed facing the employee parking lot at an Amazon facility on the first day of the unionizing vote, in Bessemer, Alabama, US. Credit: Reuters Photo

Horsemen compete during buzkashi, a Central Asian sport in which horse-mounted players attempt to place a decapitated animal carcass in a goal, in Herat. Credit: AFP Photo

Costa Rica, one of the most stable democracies in Latin America, which will elect its president on February 6, has been affected by poverty. According to the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), it is one of the countries in the region, along with Brazil, where more people will fall into poverty, due to the cutback of government aid and the effects of the pandemic. Credit: AFP Photo

The first month of 2022 was the hottest for the Colombian Amazon in the last decade, leading to an increase in forest fires in the southeastern region and very likely impacting air quality in the capital Bogota, according to an official report released to AFP on Friday. Credit: AFP Photo