
The Week in World Photos
A flooding nightmare in South Asia, coronavirus prayers and patrols, and a special knighting by the queen.
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A young girl and woman sit in their flooded house in Sunamganj, Bangladesh, on July 16. Al Jazeera reported that “a third of Bangladesh is underwater” after some of the worst flooding in a decade.
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Doctors and nurses take care of a COVID-19 patient in the intensive care unit of Sharda Hospital in Greater Noida, India, on July 15.
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Chilean lawmaker Pamela Jiles runs through the legislative building wearing a pink cape and waving matching fans to celebrate the passage of a coronavirus emergency aid measure in Valparaiso, Chile, on July 15.
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A health worker prepares to take a swab sample from a passenger at Ranip Bus Terminus in Ahmedabad, India, on July 13.
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A woman has her hair curled by special equipment at a beauty salon in Bangkok on July 12.
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A tourist stands inside a zorb ball on the banks of Vltava River in Prague on July 13.
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Socially distanced reporters wait for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden at a campaign event in Wilmington, Delaware, on July 14.
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Residents ride past a flood-destroyed house near the Poyang Lake in China’s central Jiangxi province July 15.
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Friends pay their respects to Australian Olympic snowboarder Alex “Chumpy” Pullin at North Narrabeen Beach in Sydney on July 12. Pullin died in a drowning accident while spearfishing at the age of 32.
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U.S. President Donald Trump wears a mask as he visits Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, on July 11.
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A stork stands on a pillar as the comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) streaks across the sky above the village of Kreva, Belarus, on July 13.
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Penitentiary guards carry an inmate with symptoms related to the coronavirus to the COVID-19 unit of San Juan de Dios Hospital in Guatemala City on July 13.
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A loyalist waves a Union Jack flag at the Ballycraigy estate’s Eleventh Night bonfire in Antrim, Northern Ireland, on July 11. Loyalists traditionally light bonfires at the stroke of midnight to signal the beginning of the Twelfth of July, which marks the victory of the Protestant King William of Orange over the Catholic King James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.
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People are drenched by sea spray thrown up by huge swells as a cold front moves in over Cape Town, South Africa, on July 13.
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Balls are sanitized before the Copa por Mexico preseason football tournament match at Akron Stadium in Zapopan, Guadalajara, in Mexico on July 12.
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Queen Elizabeth II awards Capt. Sir Tom Moore with the insignia of Knight Bachelor at Windsor Castle in England on July 17. British World War II veteran Moore raised more than $40 million for the U.K.’s National Health Service during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Colombian soldiers patrol the streets in Bogota on July 13 after a strict quarantine was declared to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
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A woman prays during a protest against the Romanian government and its coronavirus measures in Bucharest on July 12.
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Isaiah Campbell bows his head at a funeral in Bronxville, New York, on July 15 for his friend and former teammate Brandon Hendricks-Ellison, a young basketball star who was fatally shot in the Bronx just days after graduating from high school.
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A man feeds pigeons in St John’s shopping center in Liverpool, England, on July 15.
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The sun sets in Miami Beach, Florida, on July 14.
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A flooding nightmare in South Asia, coronavirus prayers and patrols, and a special knighting by the queen.