
A Week in World Photos
Preparation in India, upheaval in Venezuela, and mourning in Kenya.
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Kashmiri girls take part in a full dress rehearsal for the Republic Day parade in Srinagar on Jan. 24.
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Riot police clash with anti-government demonstrators in the neighborhood of Los Mecedores in Caracas on Jan. 21. A group of soldiers rose up against Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro at a command post in northern Caracas but were quickly arrested.
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Venezuelans raise their hands during a mass opposition rally against President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas on Jan. 23. Venezuela’s National Assembly leader, Juan Guaidó, declared himself the country’s acting president on the anniversary of a 1958 uprising that overthrew a military dictatorship in Caracas.
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A man walks by a car that was vandalized in Caracas on Jan. 23.
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Indian soldiers stand guard during a rehearsal for the Indian Republic Day parade at the presidential palace in New Delhi on Jan. 23.
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A Hindu devotee takes part in the annual Thaipoosam Kavady festival at Shree Emperumal Hindu Temple in Mount Edgecombe township, north of Durban, South Africa, on Jan. 21.
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Newly sworn-in U.S. citizens celebrate and wave flags during a naturalization ceremony at the Lowell Auditorium in Massachusetts, where 633 immigrants became citizens on Jan. 22.
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People hold flares in colors of the Ukrainian flag as they form a human chain on the bridge across Kiev’s Dnieper River on Jan. 22 to mark the 100th anniversary of the unification of eastern and western Ukraine in 1919.
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India’s Railway Protection Force contingent marches during the full dress rehearsal for the Republic Day parade in New Delhi on Jan. 23.
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A supporter of Martin Fayulu, the runner-up in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s elections, protests in the street in Kinshasa on Jan. 21 against last month’s election of Félix Tshisekedi as president.
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Supporters of the newly elected president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Félix Tshisekedi, gather for his inauguration in Kinshasa on Jan. 24.
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Demonstrators take part in a march against gender violence in Quito, Ecuador, on Jan. 21.
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A pro-Brexit protester wearing “I Voted Leave” and other slogans on her tie poses in London on Jan. 23.
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Greek anti-riot police officers arrest a protester during a demonstration in Athens against an agreement to rename Greece’s neighbor Macedonia as the Republic of North Macedonia on Jan. 24.
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A woman mourns during the memorial service at the Consolata Shrine in Nairobi on Jan. 23 for staff members of the Dusit hotel who were among those killed in a terror attack at the hotel complex on Jan. 15.
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People attend a demonstration holding pictures of killed and jailed lawyers behind a banner reading “If the voice of lawyers is cut off, the public will be muted,” during a protest in central Istanbul on Jan. 24.
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Somali security personnel arrive as a vehicle burns after an explosion in front of Premier Bank in Mogadishu on Jan. 23.
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A young Indian boy sorts tomatoes at a wholesale vegetable market in Jalandhar on Jan. 23.
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Women grieve during the burial of seven miners at the Ntunga public cemetery in Rwamagana, eastern Rwanda, on Jan. 22. An accident at an eastern Rwanda mine killed 14 people, including seven women, a local government official said.
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Turkish-backed Syrian fighters sit with their firearms around a campfire at a position along the front line with Syrian Democratic Forces near the village of Kiridiyah on Jan. 15.
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Flood-affected residents transport a motorcycle using a makeshift bamboo raft in Makassar, Indonesia, on Jan. 23.
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High school students from a Protection of Civilian site take their final national school exams after traveling to the school by buses escorted by United Nations peacekeepers in Juba, South Sudan, on Jan. 24. Around 35,000 internally displaced persons from across South Sudan remain living in two camps on the outskirts of the country’s capital.
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An Afghan boy pushes a wheelbarrow carrying a child as they play on the outskirts of Jalalabad on Jan. 21.
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A boy walks a camel after winning a fight during a camel wrestling festival in the town of Selcuk, near the western Turkish coastal city of Izmir, on Jan. 20.
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Britain’s Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, is reflected in a glass door as she looks toward Family Action CEO David Holmes as he speaks with people supported by the charity, during a visit in Lewisham, south London, on Jan. 22.
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People take photos of a miniature Eiffel Tower as snow falls over Paris on Jan. 22.
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Preparation in India, upheaval in Venezuela, and mourning in Kenya.