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Photos of the Week: From a freak car accident in California to the Pope in Peru
A car dangles off the second floor of a building after speeding into a median and going airborne, according to local media, in Santa Ana, California on January 14. (REUTERS)
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A car dangles off the second floor of a building after speeding into a median and going airborne, according to local media, in Santa Ana, California on January 14. (REUTERS)
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Milena Popovic Ivanovic, wife of Serbian politician Oliver Ivanovic at his funeral, after he was assassinated in front of the party office in Belgrade on January 18. (Djordje Kojadinovic / REUTERS)
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A vehicle that ran over people at Copacabana beach is seen in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on January 18. According local media, a baby was killed and at least 15 injured during the incident. (Sebastian Rocandio / REUTERS)
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Women walk along a road in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa on January 16, still in tatters after a military operation last year defeated the Islamic State group but also left the city completely disfigured. (Delil Souleiman / AFP)
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Peruvian shamans perform a ritual prior to the arrival of Pope Francis in Peru at the Pescadores beach on January 17. (Guadalupe Pardo / REUTERS)
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Sebastian Steudtner, a big wave surfer from Germany drops in on a large wave in Portugal on January 18. (Rafael Marchante / REUTERS)
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People take part in a pro-abortion demonstration in front of the Polish parliament on January 13. (Wojtek Radwanski / AFP)
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A smoky heart takes shape in the sky above a Qatar Airways plane during the Kuwait aviation show in Kuwait City on January 17. (Yasser Al-Zayyat / AFP)
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An aerial view shows the Paardenmarkt area in Antwerp on January 16 after several buildings collapsed following a blast likely to have been a gas explosion. (Eric Lalmand / AFP)
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An overcrowded train leaves Tongi rail station after the final prayer of the first phase of this year’s “Bishwa Ijtema”, an annual theological congregation of Muslims on the banks of the Turag river in Bangladesh on January 14. (Mohammad Ponir Hossain / REUTERS)
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Palestinian children play in their house at the Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on January 15. (Mohammed Salem / REUTERS)
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A fox walks past 10 Downing Street in London, Britain on January 16. (Hannah McKay / REUTERS)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin watches an exhibit dedicated to the breakthrough of the Nazi Siege of Leningrad in the World War II, at a war museum in Russia on January 18. (REUTERS)
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A Kosovo-Albanian woman Vezire Gjeladini, 76, kisses the picture of her son etched into a commemorative plaque on a wall dedicated to victims of the Racak massacre on January 15. In 1999, forty-five Albanian civilians were killed by Serb forces in the village of Racak. (Armend Nimani / AFP)
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A Palestinian woman rides in a car after collecting aid provided by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City on January 17. (Mohammed Abed / AFP)
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Pope Francis looks out of the window of a plane at Rome's Fiumicino airport on January 15. (Filippo Monteforte / AFP)
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Indian bowler Mohammed Shami (back to lens) celebrates the dismissal of South African batsman Quinton de Kock (not pictured) during the fourth day of the second Test cricket match between South Africa and India at Supersport cricket ground on January 16. (Gianluigi Guercia / AFP)
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Mount Sinabung volcano, active since 2010, spews smoke and ash into the air during an eruption in North Sumatra, Indonesia on January 15. (Albert Damanik / REUTERS)
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Skyscrapers are seen shrouded in fog in Hefei, in China's Anhui province on January 17. (AFP)
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A murmuration of migrating starlings is seen across the sky near the village of Beit Kama in Israel on January 16. (Amir Cohen / REUTERS)
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Crates of cucumbers lie scattered in the snow after a cargo truck slid off a snow-packed highway in Germany on January 17. (Bodo Schackow / AFP)
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Toyota's driver Nasser Al-Attiyah of Qatar and co-driver Matthieu Baumel of France compete during the Stage 11 of the 2018 Dakar Rally in Argentina on January 17. (Franck Fife / AFP)
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A person enters a sauna atop Mount Lagazuoi in Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy on January 16. (Stefano Rellandini / REUTERS)
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Ivanka Trump walks from Air Force One to a waiting vehicle upon arrival, as US President Donald Trump boards Marine One in the background at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, US on January 18. (Kevin Lamarque / REUTERS)
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A handout from the Transport Ministry of China shows smoke and flames rising from the burning oil tanker ‘Sanchi’ off the coast of eastern China. An Iranian official said on January 14, 2018 that there was no chance of any crew members having survived. (AFP)
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A firefighter monitors a bushfire in the eastern suburbs of Perth, Australia on January 14. (AFP)
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Horsemen jump over a bonfire in the village of San Bartolome de Pinares in the province of Avila in central Spain, during the opening of the Luminarias festival in honour of San Antonio Abad (Saint Anthony), patron saint of animals, on January 16. (Gabriel Bouys / AFP)
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An electronic sign reads "There is no threat" in Oahu, Hawaii after a false emergency alert that said a ballistic missile was headed for the island, on January 13. (REUTERS)
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A Pakistani health worker administers polio vaccine drops to school children during a polio campaign in Lahore on January 15. Pakistan is one of only two countries in the world where polio remains endemic. (Arif Ali / AFP)
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Switzerland's Roger Federer hits a return against Australia's Alex De Minaur during their men's singles first round match on day two of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on January 16. (Peter Parks / AFP)
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