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Photos of the Week: 11/19–11/25
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Read moreA Call Duck is seen at the National Poultry Show on November 20, 2016, in Telford, England. The annual event continues to grow with around 7,000 entries this year from all around the world. #
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Read moreA woman poses underneath Wolfgang Buttress' illuminated Hive Installation at Kew Gardens on November 22, 2016 in London, England. The world-famous Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew launches a festive illuminated trail, lit by over 60,000 lights and includes eight artworks by British and international artists. #
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Read moreAn Israeli firefighter plane helps extinguish a bushfire in the northern Israeli port city of Haifa on November 24, 2016. Hundreds of Israelis fled their homes on the outskirts of the country's third city Haifa with others trapped inside as firefighters struggled to control raging bushfires, officials said. #
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Read moreA young girl smiles while having her portrait taken during Prince Harry's visit to Holy Trinity Primary School and Nursery on the third day of an official visit on November 22, 2016 in Barbuda, Antigua and Barbuda. He joined the school children preparing celebrations for the school's 93rd anniversary of their Founders' Day. #
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Read moreA TV cameraman films fire retardant foam blowing in the wind after a fire alarm malfunctioned in a hangar according to local media, near the San Jose airport in Santa Clara, California, on November 18, 2016. #
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Read moreAn Iraqi special forces soldier gestures in front of a burning house after an ISIS suicide car bomb attack at Iraqi special forces during clashes in Mosul, Iraq, on November 19, 2016. #
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Read moreThe dead body of a man believed to be a refugee, who was seen floating with a life jacket approximately 15 miles from the Libyan Coast, before being picked up by a team made up of members of MOAS (Migrant Offshore Aid Station) and the Red Cross on November 20, 2016 in Pozzollo, Italy. MOAS are currently patrolling international waters off the coast of Libya, and running rescue missions for the many migrants and refugees who continue to attempt to make the dangerous crossing across the Mediterranean Sea to Italy. MOAS are a Malta based registered foundation dedicated to providing professional search-and-rescue assistance to refugees and migrants in distress at sea and work alongside with the Red Cross on board the Topaz Responder. The number of deaths this year of people crossing the Mediterranean has risen to almost 4,300. MOAS alone have rescued around 19,000. #
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Read moreA performer wearing a traditional kankurang mask, a ceremonial attire of the Manding tribe worn during circumcisions and propitiatory ceremonies, dances in Brikama in the Gambia on November 24, 2016, during a rally ahead of the ruling APRC (The Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction), attended by the incumbent president, ahead of the December 1 presidential election. #
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Read moreStudents from "the cliff village" in Atule'er take a rest as they climb newly-constructed steel ladders after school to go home for holidays, in Liangshan Sichuan province, China, on November 19, 2016. Steel ladders that replaced older unsafe vine ladders have shortened the time taken for the children to go home, from three hours to two. #
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Read moreProtesters hold candles during an anti-government rally in central Seoul on November 19, 2016, aimed at forcing South Korean President Park Geun-Hye to resign over a corruption scandal. #
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Read moreIndian fisherman arrange their nets as fishing ferries line up on the ocassion of International Fishermans day, on the coast of the Bay of Bengal in Chennai on November 21, 2016. #
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Read moreA soldier of the Iraqi Special Forces drives an armored vehicle in the Aden district of Mosul after troops almost entirely retook the area from ISIS group jihadists following heavy fighting on November 22, 2016. The fighting inside the city so far has focused on eastern neighborhoods, which elite counter-terrorism and army forces entered earlier this month. ISIS has offered fierce resistance to defend its last remaining bastion in Iraq, the city where its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi proclaimed a caliphate in June 2014. #
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Read morePeople look at the Tour de Santa Maria della Chiappella, a ruined Genoese tower, on November 20, 2016 in Rogliano at Cap Corse, northern part of French Mediterranean island of Corsica. The tour was built in 1549 by the Genoese as a coastal defence and was partially destroyed by English army in 1794 during the war against France. #
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Read moreDriver Max Verstappen drives in the second practice session at the Yas Marina racetrack in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on November 25, 2016. The Emirates Formula One Grand Prix will take place on Sunday. #
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Read moreJulie Hambleton, sister of Birmingham pub bombings victim Maxine Hambleton, pauses for thought in the rain as she attends a memorial service and vigil at Birmingham Cathedral to mark 42 years since the Birmingham pub bombings on November 21, 2016 in Birmingham, England. On the night of 21 November 1974 the IRA detonated two bombs in Birmingham. Twenty-one people were killed and 182 were injured at the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town pubs. Earlier this year Cornoner Louise Hunt announced that their will be fresh inquests into the deaths after years of campaigning by relatives and supporters. #
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Read moreIn this November 20, 2016 photo, a humpback whale pops up in the waters between 48th Street and 60th Street as seen from New York City, with New Jersey visible in the background. For nearly a week, a humpback whale has been cavorting in the Hudson River just off the wharves of Manhattan. Sightings have been reported from the Statue of Liberty to well north of the George Washington Bridge. #
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Read moreIndian rescue workers search for survivors in the wreckage of a train that derailed near Pukhrayan in Kanpur district on November 20, 2016. A passenger train derailed in northern India on November 20, killing at least 63 travellers most of whom were sleeping when the fatal accident occurred, police said. #
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Read morePhotographs illustrating the political persecution of some 100,000 Albanians from 1945 until 1991 during the former communist regime cover the walls of a bunker at a new museum in the capital, Tirana, on November 19, 2016. The former top-secret nuclear bunker has been reopened as a museum in Albania’s capital to show visitors how Communist-era police persecuted the regime's opponents. #
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Read moreA woman poses in a tunnel of LED lights at Kew Gardens on November 22, 2016 in London, England. The world-famous Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew launches a festive illuminated trail, lit by over 60,000 lights and includes eight artworks by British and international artists. #
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Read moreA woman fires to the air at a Popular Mobilization Units base south of Mosul, Iraq, on November 20, 2016. Iraqi troops on Sunday fortified their positions in Mosul neighborhoods retaken from ISIS as their advance toward the city center was slowed by sniper fire and suicide bombings, as well as concern over the safety of civilians. #
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Read moreKashmiri Muslim women attend the funeral of Rayees Ahmad, a pro Kashmir rebel killed in a gun battle with Indian government forces, is being consoled by relatives and neighbors, on, November 20, 2016 in Kakpoor 35 km (21 miles) south of Srinagar. Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims attended the funeral procession of Rayees Ahmad, a pro Kashmiri rebel of Lashkar-e-Taiba (Army of the Righteous), one of the largest and most active militant organization operating in Indian controlled Kashmir, who was killed the night before in a brief gun battle with Indian government forces. #
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