Photos of the week: Licking the heatwave away and athletic meets
Updated On Aug 11, 2018 11:46 AM IST
Ice creams, summer dips and sleeping out in the open just to beat the heat and the best of Athletic meets in Germany --photos of the week from across the world.
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Western lowland gorilla Richard licks ice cream, prepared from fruits, for the gorillas to cool down during a heat wave at Prague Zoo, Czech Republic. (Petr David Josek / AP)
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An aircraft is mirrored in a window facade in Frankfurt, Germany. (Ralph Orlwoski / REUTERS)
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US President Donald Trump boards Air Force One for travel to Ohio at the Morristown Airport in Morristown, New Jersey. (Leah Millis / REUTERS)
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Andy Jones of the US dives from a 27-metre high platform overlooking Lake Lucerne during the finals of the Red Bull Cliff Diving series in Sisikon, Switzerland. (Denis Balibouse / REUTERS)
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Sebastian Martos of Spain competes in the Men’s 3000m Steeplechase Qualifications during the 2018 European Championships at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany. (Kai Pfaffenbach / REUTERS)
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Ethiopian Federal Police officers detain a woman suspected to be carrying explosives during the welcoming ceremony of Jawar Mohammed, US-based Oromo activist and leader of the Oromo Protests, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (Tiksa Negeri / REUTERS)
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An Iranian woman walks past a mural depicting a gun painted on the wall of the former US embassy in the capital Tehran. (Atta Kenare / AFP)
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Team Belarus compete in the Synchronised Swimming Team Technical Routine Final during the 2018 European Championships at Scotstoun Sports Campus in Glasgow, Scotland. (Russell Cheyne / REUTERS)
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People crowd the beach as they wait to be evacuated from Indonesia’s Gili Trawangan island to neighbouring Lombok island a day after a 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck the area. (Melissa Delport / @trufflejournal / AFP)
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Students sing the national anthem as they take part in a protest over recent traffic accidents that killed a boy and a girl, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Mohammad Ponir Hossain / REUTERS)
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A volcano erupts near a ski lift at Nevados de Chillan, Chile. (Brigit Ertl via REUTERS)
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Swans are rounded up at Hamburg’s inner city lake Alster. Due to hot weather the swans are collected from waterways around the northern city of Hamburg, Germany, and taken to quarters where they usually spend the winter. (Fabian Bimmer / REUTERS)
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Migrants rescued by NGO Proactiva Open Arms rescue boat in central Mediterranean Sea stand on board before arriving at the port of Algeciras in San Roque, southern Spain. (Juan Medina / REUTERS)
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (L) inspects the Kumsanpho Fish Pickling Factory with his wife Ri Sol Ju (back C) in South Hwanghae Province, North Korea. (KCNA via KNS / AFP)
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A monument made of 50 steel columns and entitled ‘Release’ by South African artist Marco Ciafanelli, representing the 27 years behind bars of the first black and former South African president Nelson Mandela, is seen at the Nelson Mandela Capture Site in Howick, during a commemoration held marking 56-years to the day of his capture. (Rajesh Jantilal / AFP)
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People gather near the scene where two vehicles have fallen into a sinkhole on a street in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, China. (REUTERS)
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A man sleeps in front of a shopping mall along Nanjing East Road, a popular pedestrian street filled with shoppers and tourists during the day, to escape the heat of residential apartments in Shanghai. (Johannes Eisele / AFP)
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Rohingya refugee children play in a playground in the Thangkhali refugee camp near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. (Ed Jones / AFP)
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Victor, a 15-year-old Galgo Hound, sits on a sofa next to Belgian Valerie Luycx, a founder of the association “Les Petits Vieux” acting as home for dozens of elderly animals, including dogs, cats, pigs and goats in Chievres, Belgium. (Yves Herman / REUTERS)
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Greece’s Hrisoula Anagnostopoulou makes an attempt in the women’s long jump qualification at the European Athletics Championships at the Olympic stadium in Berlin, Germany. (Mattias Schrader / AP)
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A lioness takes a swipe at Bhanu the Asiatic lion during an event to publicise World Lion Day at London Zoo in London, England. (Toby Melville / REUTERS)
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A deer runs from flames as the Ranch Fire tears down New Long Valley Road near Clearlake Oaks, California. (Noah Berger / AFP)
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Iron Dome anti-missile system fires an interceptor missile as rockets are launched from Gaza towards Israel near the southern city of Sderot, Israel. (Amir Cohen / REUTERS)
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An aerial view shows people at a beach on the shores of lake Silbersee (Silver Lake) during a long-lasting heatwave over central Europe in Haltern, Germany. (Wolfgang Rattay / REUTERS)
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A Tukish soldier stands guard as the Artuklu Hamam, a centuries-old bath house weighing 1,600 tonnes, is loaded onto a wheeled platform an moved down a specially constructed road from the southeastern town of Hasankeyf to a new location to avoid being engulfed under floodwaters by a controversial dam project. (Ilyas Akengin / AFP)
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Parasols on a beach of the Adriatic Sea as temperatures rose to 38 degrees Celsius in Albania. (Gent Shkullaku / AFP)
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Palestinians receive aids at a United Nations food distribution centre in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. (Mahmud Hams / AFP)
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A cargo ship floats past the famous Kalyazin Bell Tower, part of the submerged monastery of St. Nicholas, in the town of Kalyazin located on the Volga River, north-east of Moscow, Russia. (Dmitry Lovetsky / AP)
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Activists in favour of the legalization of abortion comfort each other outside the National Congress in Buenos Aires, after Argentine senators rejected the bill to legalize abortion. (Eitan Abramovich / AFP)
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