Gallery The best photos from around the world this week

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Vanessa Ferrari, of Italy, trains on the uneven bars for the artistic gymnastics at Ariake Gymnastics Centre venue ahead of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.Credit:AP

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Models display the collection by Russian designer Kima Dongak during the World Nomads Fashion festival Issyk-Kul 2021, at Cholpon-Ata, a resort town on the northern shore of Lake Issyk-Kul, 207 kilometres east of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.Credit:AP

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People wearing protective masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walk along a pedestrian crossing in Tokyo. The Japanese capital confirmed more than 1900 new coronavirus cases on Thursday.Credit:AP

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Two people hug in the middle of the dancefloor at Egg London nightclub in the early hours in London, England. As of 12:01 on Monday, July 19, England will drop most of its remaining Covid-19 social restrictions, such as those requiring indoor mask-wearing and limits on group gatherings, among other rules. These changes come despite rising infections, pitting the country's vaccination programme against the virus's more contagious Delta variant.Credit:Getty Images

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Israeli Arabs stand under a waterfall during the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday at the Gan HaShlosha national park near the northern Israeli town of Beit Shean. Eid al-Adha meaning "Feast of Sacrifice," this most important Islamic holiday marks the willingness of the Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham to Christians and Jews) to sacrifice his son. During the holiday, which in most places lasts four days, Muslims slaughter sheep or cattle, distribute part of the meat to the poor.Credit:AP

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Pigeons fly outside Shah-Do Shamshira Mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan.Credit:AP

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Suzy Ishkontana, 7, poses for a portrait in the house of a family member where she is currently living after her house was destroyed in an airstrike during an 11-day war in Gaza City\. Suzy's mother, her two brothers and two sisters -- ages 9 to 2 -- died in the May 16 Israeli attack on the densely packed al-Wahda Street in Gaza City. Israeli authorities say the bombs' target was Hamas tunnels; 42 people died, including 16 women and 10 children. "My kids who died and my wife, they are now in a safe place and there is no worry about them, but my greater fear is for Suzy," says her father, Riad Ishkontana. Credit:AP

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A worker measures water levels of La Punta lagoon in the Atacama Desert, Chile. Albemarle Corp., the world's biggest producer of lithium, is fast-tracking advanced forms of the metal that could result in better batteries for electric vehicles. Credit:Bloomberg

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A Buddhist monk wearing a face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus sits on a bench in the Hua Lamphong Railway Station in Bangkok, Thailand.Credit:AP

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Indonesian Muslims perform Eid al-Adha prayers at a mosque in Lhokseumawe, Aceh province, Indonesia. Muslims across Indonesia marked a grim Eid al-Adha festival for a second year Tuesday as the country struggles to cope with a devastating new wave of coronavirus cases and the government has banned large gatherings and toughened travel restrictions. Credit:AP

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Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, competes during the twentieth stage of the Tour de France, an individual time-trial over 30.8 kilometres with the start in Libourne and the finish in Saint-Emilion, France.Credit:AP

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A protester demanding justice for the assassinated President Jovenel Moise stands near a burning barricade in Cap-Haitien, Haiti. Demonstrations after a memorial service for Moise turned violent on Thursday afternoon with protesters shooting into the air, throwing rocks and overturning heavy concrete barricades next to the seashore as businesses closed and people took cover.Credit:AP

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Biologist Ricardo Freitas holds a baby broad-snouted caiman after capturing it in the Marapendi Lagoon in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Thousands of caimans living in lagoons adjacent to what was once the Olympic Golf Course are closely monitored by scientists, who hope to protect their numbers and encourage local residents to be environmentally conscious about living next to the scaly creatures. Credit:AP

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Volunteers and residents start the clean up process at their shops and restaurants following severe flash flooding on July 18, 2021 in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany.Credit:Getty Images

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Firefighters battle the Tamarack Fire in the Markleeville community of Alpine County, California.Credit:AP

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A worker carries stems of bananas during a harvest in a field in Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India. Poor monsoon showers are threatening India's nascent economic recovery and could make food even more expensive in a country where more than half of the population depends on rain for farming. Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/BloombergCredit:Bloomberg

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A bear cub clings to a tree after being spotted by a safety officer at the Bootleg Fire in southern Oregon, USA. As more fire personnel moved into the area, the cub scurried down the tree trunk and later left after being offered water. Credit:AP

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Muslim pilgrims pray on top of the rocky hill known as the Mountain of Mercy, on the Plain of Arafat, beside inscriptions which were left by pilgrims from previous years, during the annual hajj pilgrimage, near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The coronavirus has taken its toll on the hajj for a second year running. What once drew some 2.5 million Muslims from all walks of life from across the globe, the hajj pilgrimage is now almost unrecognizable in scale.Credit:AP

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A woman fires a homemade mortar during commemorations for the 42nd anniversary of the triumph of the 1979 Sandinista Revolution that toppled dictator Anastasio Somoza in Managua, Nicaragua.Credit:AP

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Honor guard soldiers remove their hats during a ceremony for Aviation Day which celebrates aviators, military and civilian, who lost their lives in the line of duty or contributed to the evolution of Romanian aviation. in Bucharest, Romania. The traditional flyover by military aircraft was cancelled after a US Air Force Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter experienced technical issues and had to make an emergency landing on a busy boulevard last week while taking part in rehearsals for Aviation Day. Credit:AP

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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and children read by candle light from the book of Eicha (Book of Lamentations) during the annual Tisha B'Av (Ninth of Av) fasting and a memorial day, commemorating the destruction of ancient Jerusalem temples, in the Ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem.Credit:AP

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A man rides a bicycle through a flooded intersection in Zhengzhou in central China's Henan Province. China's military has blasted a dam to release floodwaters threatening one of its most heavily populated provinces. The operation late Tuesday night in the city of Luoyang came after several people died in severe flooding in the Henan provincial capital of Zhengzhou, where residents were trapped in the subway system and left stranded at schools, apartments and offices. Credit:AP

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Journalists light candles and pay tribute to Reuters photographer Danish Siddiqui in New Delhi, India. The Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer was killed Friday as he chronicled fighting between Afghan forces and the Taliban near a strategic border crossing amid the continuing withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops. Credit:AP

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A family prepares to have its picture taken by a street photographer, amid new coronavirus pandemic, at the Plaza de Armas in downtown of Santiago, Chile. Santiago is moving into Phase 3, ending with the weekend quarantines and allowing more people inside restaurants and gyms as the city relaxes its lockdown rules. Credit:AP

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Residents of Addis Ababa Waving Ethiopia's national flag during a demonstration to protest against the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF) junta and show their support for the Ethiopian national defense force, in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. The United Nations is trying to deliver aid to the country's embattled Tigray region which faces the world's worst famine crisis in a decade with some 5.2 million people in urgent need of help.Credit:AP

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