Photos of the week: Myanmar journalists sentenced and Typhoon Jebi hits Japan
Myanmr sentences Reuters journalists to seven years imprisonment and Typhoon Jebi causes destruction in Japan --photos of the week from across the world.
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Detained Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo leave Insein court after listening to the verdict sentencing them to seven years in prison, in Yangon, Myanmar. (REUTERS)
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A Ryanair pilot waves from the cockpit of the Boeing 737-8AS during an event of the Irish low-cost airline to present the first flight to Berlin from Boryspil International Airport outside Kiev, Ukraine. (Gleb Garanich / REUTERS)
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Young cadets attend a ceremony on the occasion of the first day of school at a cadet lyceum in Kiev, Ukraine. Ukraine marks Knowledge Day, as a traditional launch of the academic year. (Efrem Lukatsky / AP)
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Kosovar woman Sheqerie Buqaj lays on her back as she receives a traditional face painting while presenting the traditional wedding of Bosnian women from Zhupa region, during the “Etno Fest” festival in the village of Kukaj. (Armend Nimani / AFP)
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World’s oldest living married couple Masao Matsumoto (108) (L) and Miyako Matsumoto (100) look at albums in their room at a nursing house in Takamatsu, Kagawa prefecture, Japan. (Kwiyeon Ha / REUTERS)
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Pope Francis (R) meets members of the Vespa Piaggio association during a meeting at the Vatican City where the Roman Catholic Church leader was donated an original Vespa 50R. (Vatican Handout / AFP)
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Johnny Jones drinks a beer while floating and watching a single-file line of drivers make their way down Broadway Boulevard after heavy rains caused substantial street flooding in Galveston, Texas. (Stuart Villanueva / The Galveston County Daily News via AP)
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Deer rest in front of the Papal cross during sunny weather at the Phoenix Park in Dublin, Ireland. (Clodagh Kilcoyne / REUTERS)
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Models wait for a presentation of the creations by Ukrainian designer Jean Gritsfeldt during Ukrainian Fashion Week at the railway station in Kiev, Ukraine. (Valentyn Ogirenko / REUTERS)
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Visitors walk through a man-made ice cave inside the Mer de Glace valley glacier, one of the largest in the Alps despite large substantial melting in recent decades, in Chamonix, France. (Toby Melville / REUTERS)
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Participants take part in a parade to celebrate Muslim and Buddhist culture in Yi-ngo district of Narathiwat province, Thailand. (Madaree Tohlala / AFP)
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A competitor takes part in the Hammer Throw event at the annual Braemar Gathering in Braemar, central Scotland. The Braemar Gathering is a traditional Scottish Highland Games which predates the 1745 Uprising, and since 1848 it has been regularly attended by the reigning Monarch and members of the Royal Family. (Andy Buchanan / AFP)
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Arturo Perez, 14, plays on the street with a condom in Havana, Cuba. (Alexandre Meneghini / REUTERS)
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Ariana Grande performs during Aretha Franklin’s funeral at Greater Grace Temple in Detroit, Michigan. (Angela Weiss / AFP)
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A mountain lion kitten which National Park Service researchers discovered in August 2018 in a remote area of the Santa Monica Mountains, California is held up. (Courtesy National Park Service / REUTERS)
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Revellers take part in the annual Cascamorras festival in Baza, southern Spain. The festival was inspired by a dispute between the town of Baza and Guadix over the possession of an icon of the Virgin of Piedad. It refers to representatives from Guadix, who were sent to Baza to recover the statue. As the Cascamorras had to stay perfectly clean to gain possession, Baza residents attempt to make them as ‘dirty’ as possible. (Jon Nazca / REUTERS)
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Participants attend a professional camel race during the 29th edition of the Maralal International Camel Derby at Maralal, Samburu County, Northern Kenya. (Andrew Kasuki / AFP)
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Embers fly above a firefighter as he works to control a backfire as the Delta Fire burns in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, California. (Noah Berger / AP)
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A Palestinian protester uses a slingshot in front of Israeli forces as smoke rises from burning tyres during a protest near the border with Israel, east of Gaza City. (Mahmud Hams / AFP)
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A Yemeni child recites a prayer by the graves of schoolboys who were killed while on a bus that was hit by a Saudi-led coalition air strike on the Dahyan market in August, at a cemetery in the Huthi rebels’ stronghold province of Saada. (AFP)
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Cindy McCain, wife of the late US Sen. John McCain, stands over his casket as he lies in state in the US Capitol Rotunda, in Washington. (Morry Gash / Pool / AFP)
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Manchester City’s Argentinian striker Sergio Aguero attempts an overhead kick during the English Premier League football match between Manchester City and Newcastle United at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, north west England. (Oli Scarff / AFP)
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A woman takes a photo on her phone of models parading outfits by Australian label Asiyam during a Melbourne Fashion Week show in an inner-city laneway. (William West / AFP)
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Spain’s Carla Suarez Navarro serves to US Madison Keys during their Women’s Singles Quarter-Finals match at the 2018 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez / AFP)
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Drone view of Rio de Janeiro’s treasured National Museum, one of Brazil’s oldest, a day after a massive fire ripped through the building. (Mauro Pimentel / AFP)
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An aerial view of Crescent Lake in Dunhuang in China’s northwestern Gansu province. (AFP)
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An aerial view from a Jiji Press helicopter shows a ship that collided with a breakwater due to strong winds caused by typhoon Jebi in Nishinomiya city, Hyogo prefecture, Japan. (Jiji Press / AFP)
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Protesters try to storm and burn the governor’s building during protests demanding better public services and jobs, in Basra, southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi security forces fired tear gas and live ammunition on hundreds of protesters. (Nabil al-Jurani / AP)
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The Villarrica Volcano is seen at night from Pucon town, Chile. (Cristobal Saavedra Escobar / REUTERS)
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