Photos of the week: From a birthday bash in protesting Palestine to a K-pop death
Updated On Dec 23, 2017 12:00 PM IST
From the death of K-pop superstar Kim Jong-hyun to protestors taking time out for a birthday cake during anti-Trump protests in Palestine --photos of the week around the world.
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Palestinian demonstrators cut a birthday party during a protest against US President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, near the Jewish settlement of Beit El, near the West Bank city of Ramallah December 18, 2017. (Mohamad Torokman / REUTERS)
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Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates winning the FIFA Club World Cup after a 1-0 win against Gremio FBPA at Zayed Sports City Stadium in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates on December 16, 2017. (Amr Abdallah Dalsh / REUTERS)
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A man ignites an aerosol canister as Palestinians living in Greece protest US President Donald Trump's declaration of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, near the US embassy in Athens. (Louisa Gouliamaki / AFP)
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The former wife of Nelson Mandela, Winnie Mandela (R), and candidate for the African National Congress presidency and ex-wife of incumbent South African president, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma greet each other as they attend the 54th ANC National Conference at the NASREC Expo Centre in Johannesburg on December 16, 2017. (Mujahid Safodien / AFP)
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Displaced pygmies sit with their belongings outside a classroom, which serves as their shelter by night, on December 16, 2017 in Oicha. Displaced from deep in the forests, they are now struggling to adapt to more urban villages. Attacks allegedly carried out by the Ugandan Muslim Group, ADF in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), have displaced thousands of Pygmies. (John Wessels / AFP)
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Pope Francis blows out a candle on a pizza on December 17, 2017 during an audience with children assisted by "Dispensario Santa Marta", a Vatican pediatric clinic at the Vatican. Pope Francis celebrated his 81st birthday on December 17, 2017. (Osservatore Romano / AFP)
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Fallow deer caught in a field as snow falls near Moerfelden-Walldorf, Germany on December 18, 2017. (Boris Roessler / dpa / AFP)
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A child holding a phone to her ear bids farewell through the window of a bus in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza strip on December 16, 2017 prior to departure for the Rafah border crossing with Egypt. (Said Khatib / AFP)
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French skipper Francois Gabart answers journalists' questions upon his arrival at the end of a solo world navigation, on December 17, 2017 in Brest, France. Frenchman Francois Gabart smashed the world record for the fastest solo navigation of the globe, in 42 days, 16 hours, 40 minutes and 35 seconds. (Damien Meyer / AFP)
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A man holds an EU and a Romanian flag as people, with their eyes and mouths covered with black cloth, take part in a silent flash mob outside the government’s headquarters to denounce the left-wing government for backtracking on efforts to fight corruption on December 17, 2017 in Bucharest. More than 10,000 people braved biting cold to stage protests across Romania. (Daniel Mihailescu / AFP)
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Santa Claus gets a closer look at the fish on view during a dive in the Paris aquarium on December 21, 2017. (Alain Jocard / AFP)
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A statue seems to reach out to the sun encircled in a solar halo in Santiago, Chile on December 18, 2017. (Ivan Alvarado / REUTERS)
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Russia's Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft carrying members of the International Space Station (ISS) expedition 54/55 blasts off from the launch pad at the Russian-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome on December 17, 2017. (Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP)
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A commuter climbs stairs during morning snow fall in Lausanne, Switzerland on December 18, 2017. (Denis Balibouse / REUTERS)
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A ice swimmer dives into a partly frozen lake in Shenyang in China's northeastern Liaoning province on December 18, 2017. Winter swimming is believed to improve blood circulation and benefit health. (AFP)
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An aerial view shows floating ice blocks cut from the frozen surface of Xiuhu lake in Shenyang, China on December 20, 2017. The ice blocks are used as part of winter tourism activities in the region. (AFP)
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Prima ballerina Cecilia Kerche of the Rio de Janeiro's Municipal Theatre, performs during a protest of the theatre's artists against the non-payment of their salaries and the economic crisis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on December 18, 2017. (Ricardo Moraes / REUTERS)
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Medicine students clash with riot police officers, during a protest against a new law, that proposes penal sanctions for medical malpractice, near Murilo square in La Paz, on December 19, 2017. (Jorge Bernal / AFP)
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A girl covers one eye with her hand in the rebel-held town of Douma in Syria's besieged eastern Ghouta region on December 18, 2017, as part of a campaign in solidarity with a baby boy, Karim Abdallah, who lost an eye, as well as his mother, in government shelling on the nearby town of Hammouria. (#SolidarityWithKarim campaign / AFP)
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US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley speaks during a UN Security Council meeting over Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel on December 18, 2017, at UN Headquarters in New York. (Kena Betancur / AFP)
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Carles Puigdemont, the dismissed President of Catalonia, reacts while viewing the results in Catalonia's regional election in Brussels, Belgium on December 21, 2017. (Francois Lenoir / REUTERS)
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A worker pulls a cart filled with Jinhua ham at a ham-processing facility in Jinhua, Zhejiang province, China on December 18, 2017. (William Hong / REUTERS)
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The portrait of Kim Jong-Hyun, a 27-year-old lead singer of the massively popular K-pop boyband SHINee, is seen on a mourning altar at a hospital in Seoul on December 19, 2017. The top K-pop star bemoaned feeling "broken from inside" and "engulfed" by depression in a suicide note, it emerged on December 19, as his death sent shockwaves across K-pop fans worldwide. (Choi Hyuk / Pool / AFP)
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A man dressed as Santa Claus somersaults during a charity event for socially disadvantaged children at the Fitnesscenter Meridian gym in Hamburg, Germany on December 20, 2017. (Daniel Reinhardt / dpa / AFP)
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Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson attends a family photo session during his and British Prime Minister Theresa May's visit to Poland, at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister in Warsaw, Poland on December 21, 2017. (Kacper Pempel / REUTERS)
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Lots of notes with wishes hang from the branch of a "Peace Olive Tree" during the Catalan regional election day, in a square of Vic on December 21, 2017. Catalans flooded the polls in a crucial election that could mark a turning point for their region, just two months after a failed secession bid triggered Spain's worst political crisis in decades. (Pau Barrena / AFP)
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A flock of birds fly past the Marine One helicopter with U.S. President Donald Trump aboard, as he returns to the White House after a visit to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington, US on December 21, 2017. (Jim Bourg / REUTERS)
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A man walks through a tunnel at the government district in Berlin, Germany on December 20, 2017. (Markus Schreiber / AP)
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