Photos of the week: Budding photographers and strike for climate action
A budding interest in photography captured on its medium in Dhaka and global rallies and demonstrations for action towards climate change --photos of the week from around the world.
Updated on: Sep 22, 2019 6:02 PM IST
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Children act out taking pictures with a non-functioning camera in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Mohammad Ponir Hossain / REUTERS)
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Orangutans gather as smoke from wildfires covers Salat Island which is used by Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOSF) as a pre-release island for orangutans, in Pulang Pisau regency, Central Kalimantan province, Indonesia. (Willy Kurniawan / REUTERS)
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Updated on Sep 22, 2019 6:02 PM
A man poses as if he is going to “Naruto run” at an entrance to Area 51 as an influx of tourists responds to a call to ‘storm’ Area 51, a secretive US military base believed by UFO enthusiasts to hold government secrets about extra-terrestrials, in Rachel, Nevada. (Jim Urquhart / REUTERS)
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Updated on Sep 22, 2019 6:02 PM
Hunter Peter Marugg and his dog, Fjura, look for chamois, in the second of the three-week-long hunting season in Klosters, Graubuenden, Switzerland. The 69-year old said he has been hunting since 1970. Hunting has a long standing tradition in the canton of Graubuenden, with approximately 5,500 practicing. (Gian Ehrenzeller / Keystone via AP)
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Updated on Sep 22, 2019 6:02 PM
The world’s first fully 3D-printed urban biodiversity habitat installation, the ‘Genesis Eco Screen’, manufactured with a large-format 3D printer by BigRep out of PET bottles recycling is presented during a media event in Berlin, Germany. (Fabrizio Bensch / REUTERS)
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Updated on Sep 22, 2019 6:02 PM
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addresses the media in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Trudeau’s campaign was by the publication of a yearbook photo showing him in brownface makeup at a 2001 costume party. The prime minister apologized and said “it was a dumb thing to do.” (Sean Kilpatrick / The Canadian Press via AP)
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Updated on Sep 22, 2019 6:02 PM
Carabineros police officers march with their sniffer dogs during a military parade in Santiago, at the 209th anniversary of Chile’s independence. (Claudio Reyes / AFP)
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Updated on Sep 22, 2019 6:02 PM
A protester is made up like a blessed globe during the “Fridays for Future” demonstration in Stuttgart, Germany during a protest for climate action, part of a global climate action day. (Sebastian Gollnow / dpa / AFP)
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Updated on Sep 22, 2019 6:02 PM
Pallbearers carry the coffin of former Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe for a mass at the family homestead in Kutama village. The remains arrived for a subdued farewell after a weekend state funeral with African leaders in the capital. (Zinyange Auntony / AFP)
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Deer are seen clashing antlers during the rutting season in the early morning at Richmond Park, west London, England. (Toby Melville / REUTERS)
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Updated on Sep 22, 2019 6:02 PM
A woman looks at Chiharu Shiota’s art installation titled ‘Uncertain Journey’ at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan. (Jae C. Hong / AP)
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Updated on Sep 22, 2019 6:02 PM
People take part in a yoga class near the border wall next to Rio Grande river in the border between El Paso, US, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. (Herika Martinez / AFP)
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Updated on Sep 22, 2019 6:02 PM
Dead fish lie on the shores of Koroneia Lake in northern Greece. Tens of thousands of dead fish are washing up as the water level has plummeted to less than a meter deep accompanied by a lack of oxygen in the water. (Giannis Papanikos / AP)
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A Kayapo indigenous woman paints her daughter with a Kayapo traditional drawing in Bau village near Novo Progresso, Para state, Brazil. (Amanda Perobelli / REUTERS)
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An aerial photo shows Boeing 737 MAX aircraft at Boeing facilities at the Grant County International Airport in Moses Lake, Washington. (Lindsey Wasson / REUTERS)
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Members of the Cavalry honorary escort practice on the beach for Prinsjesdag in Scheveningen, Netherlands. The horses and riders involved are subjected to a final heavy test by exposing them to gunfire, cannon blows, music, smoke and possible public reactions. (Koen van Weel / ANP / AFP)
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Updated on Sep 22, 2019 6:02 PM
A Palestinian man reads a newspaper featuring news on the Israel’s parliamentary election, in the southern Gaza Strip. (Ibraheem Abu Mustafa / REUTERS)
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Updated on Sep 22, 2019 6:02 PM
Replica of Ferdinand Magellan’s ship Victoria sails as Spain’s navy commemorates the 500th anniversary of the first expedition that circumvented the globe during an event near the southern naval base of Rota in Sanlucar de Barrameda, Spain. (Jon Nazca / REUTERS)
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Updated on Sep 22, 2019 6:02 PM
Rescue workers (C) standing on a railway track near a passenger train, after it derailed during rush hour outside Hung Hom station on the Kowloon side of Hong Kong. (Anhony Wallace / AFP)
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Updated on Sep 22, 2019 6:02 PM
Young street vendors look on in the Hanuman Dhoka Durbar area on the second last day of the Indra Jatra festival in Kathmandu, Nepal. (Prakash Mathema / AFP)
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Updated on Sep 22, 2019 6:02 PM
Visitors use an escalator at Marina Bay shopping mall in Singapore. (Mladen Antonov / AFP)
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Updated on Sep 22, 2019 6:02 PM
An Electric boat, the Sea Bubbles, aka ‘flying taxi’ cruises on the river Seine with the Eiffel Tower in background during a test in Paris, France. (Martin Bureau / AFP)
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Updated on Sep 22, 2019 6:02 PM
An aircraft crosses a bridge over a highway the airport in Frankfurt, Germany ahead of protests for the ‘Friday For Future’ movement against the increase of carbon dioxide emissions. (Michael Probst / AP)
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Updated on Sep 22, 2019 6:02 PM
Richard, 34-years-old, an ebola survivor and sole parent to his two children after his wife passed away from the virus earlier this year is seen inside his bedroom in Beni, north eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Since the beginning of the Ebola epidemic in August 2018 there has been over two thousands deaths and now nearly 1000 survivors. (John Wessels / AFP)
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