Photos Of The Week #32
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People hold umbrellas in heavy rain as Typhoon Soudelor approaches in China's Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, on August 7. (Reuters)
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A soldier takes part in the international military games Masters Of Antiaircraft Battle 2015 outside the southern Russian town of Yeisk. (AFP/Sergei Venyavsky)
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The shadow of a Pakistani Army helicopter is seen next to land surrounded by floodwaters where affected villagers gathered to seek higher ground in the Rajanpur district, in Punjab Province, on August 6. (AFP/SS Mirza)
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A man sits under a waterfall in the central Bosnian town of Jajce. (Reuters/Dado Ruvic)
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Boys take a moment to float paper lanterns to comfort the souls of victims during ceremonies marking the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Peace Park in Hiroshima in eastern Japan. (epa/Kimimasa Mayama)
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Belarus's Yana Nestsiarava competes in front of the Blagoveshchensk cathedral and the Kul-Sharif mosque to place third during the women's 20-meter high-diving final at the 16th FINA World Championships in Kazan, Russia. (AFP/Roman Kruchinin)
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A handout picture released by NASA on August 6 and taken on July 16 shows a unique view of the moon taken by a camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR). A series of images shows the fully illuminated dark side of the moon that is not visible from Earth. (epa)
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Hang-gliding enthusiasts enjoy breathtaking views over Tegernsee Lake and the town of Rottach-Egern, southern Bavaria, Germany. (epa/Matthias Balk)
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Vacationers at the Laguna women's resort in the village of Aldy, Chechnya, on August 4. (Elena Afonina/TASS)
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A woman sits in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, western Japan. On August 6, Japan marks the 70th anniversary of a nuclear attack on Hiroshima, where the United States dropped an atomic bomb in 1945, killing about 140,000. (Reuters/Thomas Peter)
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A couple gathers mushrooms in Russia's Kostroma region. (Vladimir Smirnov/TASS)
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An Indian Border Security Force soldier, a member of the world's largest border-guarding force, is silhouetted against the evening sky at the India-Pakistan border in Attari. (epa/Raminder Pal Singh)
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Shoppers load groceries as smoke from a forest fire billows over Clearlake, California. The fire, one of dozens raging in drought-parched northern California, has destroyed dozens of homes and scorched 22,000 hectares. (epa/Noah Berger)
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A man fishes near rusted debris that has washed onto a beach on the shoreline of the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion. On August 2, a small piece of metal debris found washed up on a beach on Reunion was taken into police custody. A flaperon, which help pilots control an aircraft in flight, will be analyzed to determine if the debris came from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which disappeared without a trace 16 months ago with 239 passengers and crew on board. (Reuters/Jacky Naegelen)
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Residents of Kurdyumivka look at an ammunition depot of the Ukrainian armed forces that was destroyed by pro-Russian separatists with Russian Krasnopol guided shells. Two Ukrainian soldiers were killed and 14 more injured over 24 hours in clashes between government forces and pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine, a security official in Kyiv said on August 2. (AFP/Anatolii)
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A herder is seen amidst antlers while working with reindeer some 200 kilometers northeast of Naryan-Mar, the administrative center of Nenets Autonomous Area, in far northern Russia. People, including local herders and members of their families, gathered to mark Reindeer Day, a professional holiday of reindeer breeding workers, which is celebrated annually on August 2. (Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin)
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Fighters loyal to Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi gather on a road leading to the Al-Anad military and air base in the country's southern province of Lahej. Fighters loyal to Yemen's exiled President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, bolstered by Gulf Arab support, seized the country's largest military base from Huthi forces on August 3 after heavy combat in which dozens were killed or captured, a pro-Hadi commander said. (Reuters)
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Sarah Sjostrom of Sweden swims to set a new world record in the women's 100-meter butterfly final at the Aquatics World Championships in Kazan, Russia. (Reuters/Stefan Wermuth)
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A general view shows the damage after a Syrian Army fighter jet crashed into a busy marketplace in the rebel-held northwestern town of Ariha. At least 27 people were killed and dozens injured. (Reuters/Ammar Abdullah)
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A man cools down during hot weather in Landsberg am Lech, Germany. (AFP/dpa/Karl-Josef Hildenbrand)
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A Pakistani carrying his possessions wades through floodwater in the area of Larkana. According to Pakistani officials, the death toll from three weeks of floods has reached 118. (epa/Waqar Hussein)
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A pilot (left) stands near his burning Mi-28N from the Berkuty (Golden Eagles) helicopter display team after a crash during a military aviation competition at the Dubrovichi range near Ryazan, Russia. The other pilot was killed. (Reuters/Maxim Shemetov)
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Afghan women wait to get medical treatment at the refugee camp in Herat. The camp provides refugees with basic medical treatment, education, food, and hygiene. (epa/Jalil Rezayee)
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U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks before participating in a discussion at the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) Mandela Washington Fellowship Presidential Summit in Washington, D.C. (epa/Olivier Douliery)
