
A Week in World Photos
Tear gas in Hong Kong, a rocket launch in Kazakhstan, and a volcano festival in Indonesia.
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Protesters run from tear gas fired by police after a march against a controversial extradition bill in Hong Kong on July 21.
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Assa Traoré, the sister of Adama Traoré, who died during his arrest by police in July 2016, takes part in a march to passively protest police violence in Beaumont-sur-Oise, France, on July 20.
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A firefighter monitors a wildfire in Mação, central Portugal, on July 21. More than 1,000 firefighters battled to control wildfires that forced village evacuations in a region where dozens were killed in huge blazes in 2017.
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A Syrian rescuer from the Violet nongovernmental organization runs during airstrikes by Syrian regime forces on the outskirts of Maaret al-Numan in northwestern Syria on July 16.
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Anti-government protesters fill the streets in Hong Kong on July 21.
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A man waves a Turkish national flag as he takes part in a rally at the Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul on July 15 for the third anniversary of a failed coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Russia’s Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft blasts off for the International Space Station from the launch pad at the Russian-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on July 20.
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People look at an image of a Saturn V, the rocket that sent Apollo 11 into orbit on July 16, 1969, projected on the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., on July 16 in honor of Apollo 11’s lunar landing.
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Sheep arrive at the square at the Trocadéro facing the Eiffel Tower during a transhumance in Paris on July 17. The shepherds of Seine-Saint-Denis began an 11-day movement of their herd from a suburb of Paris to highlight the benefits of urban farming.
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Members of Zohra, Afghanistan’s first all-female orchestra, get ready for their performance in a German evangelical church in Modra, Slovakia, on July 15.
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Belarus’s team competes in the free artistic swimming event during the FINA World Championships at Yeomju Gymnasium in Gwangju, South Korea, on July 17.
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People try to catch offerings thrown off the summit of the active Mount Bromo volcano by Tengger tribe members and local tourists in Probolinggo, East Java province, Indonesia, as part of the Yadnya Kasada festival on July 18. During the festival, the Tenggerese climb the volcano to seek blessings from the main deity by presenting offerings of rice, fruit, livestock, and other items.
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Demonstrators take part in a rally to support opposition and independent candidates after authorities refused to register them for September elections in Moscow on July 20.
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A firefighter investigates inside the building where more than 30 people died in a fire at an animation company building in Kyoto, Japan, on July 19. A man reportedly doused the building with flammable liquid and shouted “drop dead.”
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People hold pictures of victims of the 1994 bombing attack against the Jewish Community Center of Buenos Aires that killed 85 people and injured 300 during the commemoration of the attack’s 25th anniversary in Buenos Aires on July 18.
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Visitors are reflected in a mirror at the General Aung San Museum, the former residence of Aung San Suu Kyi’s father, during Martyrs’ Day in Yangon, Myanmar, on July 19. Martyrs’ Day marks the assassination of independence heroes including Aung San, who helped end British colonial rule.
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A group of schoolchildren hold up their colored posters of former South African President Nelson Mandela as they mark his birthday in Durban, South Africa, on July 18.
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Supporters waves Algeria’s national flag as they celebrate in front of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris after Algeria won the Africa Cup of Nations final soccer match against Senegal on July 19.
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People walk on footbridges as they visit the Grotte de Glace, an ice cave on the largest French glacier, Mer de Glace, in the French Alps on July 19.
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An electromagnetic crane carries firearms seized by Peruvian authorities to a smelting pot to be destroyed in Pisco, south of Lima, on July 19.
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A volunteer diver recovers e-scooters thrown into the sea along Marseille’s coast in southeastern France on July 20.
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People hold flags and placards during the city’s first gay pride march in Bialystok, eastern Poland, on July 20.
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Members of the Colombian army take part in a military parade during Independence Day celebrations in Bogotá on July 20.
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A Mexican migration officer checks identification documents of migrants from Guatemala on the banks of the Suchiate River in Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, on July 20.
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Palestinian military cadets take part in a training session organized by Hamas’s military wing in Gaza City on July 20.
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Indian commuters ride along a waterlogged street after heavy monsoon rains in Allahabad on July 20.
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Flood-affected victims walk past a damaged road in Laswa Valley near the Line of Control in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir on July 17.
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Indian women walk during a dust storm at the Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganges, Yamuna, and the mythical Saraswati, in Allahabad on July 16.
SANJAY KANOJIA/AFP/Getty ImagesA Week in World Photos
Tear gas in Hong Kong, a rocket launch in Kazakhstan, and a volcano festival in Indonesia.