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Photos of the week: Pan-Am Games to Ethiopia planting 350 mil trees

Sporting action from the Pan-American Games Lima 2019 and a national tree planting drive across Ethiopia with over 350 million trees planted in a span of 12 hours --photos of the week from across the world.

Updated on: Aug 03, 2019 2:52 PM IST

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Brazil’s Edival Marques (L) and Dominican Republic’s Bernardo Pie compete in the Taekwondo Men’s Under-68kg final during the Pan-American Games Lima 2019, in Lima, Peru. Marques won the gold medal. (Luis Acosta / AFP)

Updated on Aug 03, 2019 2:52 PM

Brazil’s Edival Marques (L) and Dominican Republic’s Bernardo Pie compete in the Taekwondo Men’s Under-68kg final during the Pan-American Games Lima 2019, in Lima, Peru. Marques won the gold medal. (Luis Acosta / AFP)

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Law enforcement officers detain a participant of a rally calling for opposition candidates to be registered for elections to Moscow City Duma, the capital’s regional parliament, in Moscow, Russia. Police arrested more than 1,000 demonstrators during the rally, (Shamil Zhumatov / REUTERS)

Updated on Aug 03, 2019 2:52 PM

Law enforcement officers detain a participant of a rally calling for opposition candidates to be registered for elections to Moscow City Duma, the capital’s regional parliament, in Moscow, Russia. Police arrested more than 1,000 demonstrators during the rally, (Shamil Zhumatov / REUTERS)

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Men perform fire breathing on the beach as entertainment for children during the summer vacation in Gaza City, Palestine. (Mohamed Abed / AFP)

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Men perform fire breathing on the beach as entertainment for children during the summer vacation in Gaza City, Palestine. (Mohamed Abed / AFP)

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US President Donald Trump gestures to the crowd before exiting a campaign rally at the US Bank Arena, in Cincinnati, Ohio. (John Minchillo / AP)

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US President Donald Trump gestures to the crowd before exiting a campaign rally at the US Bank Arena, in Cincinnati, Ohio. (John Minchillo / AP)

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Children try to catch locusts on a rooftop as they swarm over the Houthi rebel-held Yemeni capital Sanaa. (Mohammed Huwais / AFP)

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Children try to catch locusts on a rooftop as they swarm over the Houthi rebel-held Yemeni capital Sanaa. (Mohammed Huwais / AFP)

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A nineteen-month-old female panda cub Yi Yi, born to parents Liang Liang and Xing Xing on loan from China, eats during her naming ceremony at the National Zoo in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Lim Huey Teng / REUTERS)

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A nineteen-month-old female panda cub Yi Yi, born to parents Liang Liang and Xing Xing on loan from China, eats during her naming ceremony at the National Zoo in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Lim Huey Teng / REUTERS)

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A woman reacts during the funeral of Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi in Tunis, Tunisia. Essebsi, who helped guide the North African country’s transition to democracy after the 2011 revolution, died aged 92. (Zoubeir Souissi / REUTERS)

Updated on Aug 03, 2019 2:52 PM

A woman reacts during the funeral of Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi in Tunis, Tunisia. Essebsi, who helped guide the North African country’s transition to democracy after the 2011 revolution, died aged 92. (Zoubeir Souissi / REUTERS)

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Colombia’s Egan Bernal (C) celebrates his overall leader’s yellow jersey as he poses with second-placed Great Britain’s Geraint Thomas (L) and third-placed Netherlands’ Steven Kruijswijk on the podium of the 21st and last stage of the 106th edition of the Tour de France cycling race between Rambouillet and Champs-Elysees in Paris, France. (Marco Bertorello / AFP)

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Colombia’s Egan Bernal (C) celebrates his overall leader’s yellow jersey as he poses with second-placed Great Britain’s Geraint Thomas (L) and third-placed Netherlands’ Steven Kruijswijk on the podium of the 21st and last stage of the 106th edition of the Tour de France cycling race between Rambouillet and Champs-Elysees in Paris, France. (Marco Bertorello / AFP)

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More than 400 hot air-balloons take off from the Chambley-Bussieres airbase, eastern France, during a missed attempt to break the simultaneous air-balloon take off world record in Hagéville, as part of the international air-balloon meeting “Grand-Est Mondial Air Ballons” (Gemab). (Jean-Christophe Vergaegen / AFP)

Updated on Aug 03, 2019 2:52 PM

More than 400 hot air-balloons take off from the Chambley-Bussieres airbase, eastern France, during a missed attempt to break the simultaneous air-balloon take off world record in Hagéville, as part of the international air-balloon meeting “Grand-Est Mondial Air Ballons” (Gemab). (Jean-Christophe Vergaegen / AFP)

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Researchers Hamish Burnett (left) and Mads Forchhammer kneel next to a reindeer cadaver in the Arctic archipelago Svalbard. Some 200 reindeer have been found dead from starvation in the Arctic archipelago, an unusually high number, the Norwegian Polar Institute said this week, pointing the finger at climate change. (Siri Uldal / Norwegian Polar Institute / AFP)

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Researchers Hamish Burnett (left) and Mads Forchhammer kneel next to a reindeer cadaver in the Arctic archipelago Svalbard. Some 200 reindeer have been found dead from starvation in the Arctic archipelago, an unusually high number, the Norwegian Polar Institute said this week, pointing the finger at climate change. (Siri Uldal / Norwegian Polar Institute / AFP)

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Young Ethiopian girls take part in a national tree-planting drive in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The country plans to plant four billion trees by October 2019, as part of a global movement to restore forests, fight climate change and protect resources. The country says it has planted nearly three billion trees already since May with over 350 million on a single day recently. (Michael Tewelde / AFP)

Updated on Aug 03, 2019 2:52 PM

Young Ethiopian girls take part in a national tree-planting drive in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The country plans to plant four billion trees by October 2019, as part of a global movement to restore forests, fight climate change and protect resources. The country says it has planted nearly three billion trees already since May with over 350 million on a single day recently. (Michael Tewelde / AFP)

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Plastic waste is pictured along a river bank in Jakarta, Indonesia. Global concern over plastic pollution has been spurred by shocking images of waste-clogged rivers in South-East Asia and accounts of dead sea creatures found with kilos of refuse in their stomachs. (Bay Ismoyo / AFP)

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Plastic waste is pictured along a river bank in Jakarta, Indonesia. Global concern over plastic pollution has been spurred by shocking images of waste-clogged rivers in South-East Asia and accounts of dead sea creatures found with kilos of refuse in their stomachs. (Bay Ismoyo / AFP)

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A red dye had been displayed in the fountain of the Place Royale in the western French city of Nantes, a day after the body of Steve Maia Canico, a 24-year-old French man who disappeared a month ago after falling in the river following a police operation during a music festival, had been found in the Loire river. (Loic Venance / AFP)

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A red dye had been displayed in the fountain of the Place Royale in the western French city of Nantes, a day after the body of Steve Maia Canico, a 24-year-old French man who disappeared a month ago after falling in the river following a police operation during a music festival, had been found in the Loire river. (Loic Venance / AFP)

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A sea lion is accidentally caught in the mouth of a humpback whale in Monterey Bay, California. In this stunning photo, a wildlife photographer has captured a rare sight of a sea lion falling into the mouth of a humpback whale in what he called a “once-in-a-lifetime” moment. (Chase Dekker / AFP)

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A sea lion is accidentally caught in the mouth of a humpback whale in Monterey Bay, California. In this stunning photo, a wildlife photographer has captured a rare sight of a sea lion falling into the mouth of a humpback whale in what he called a “once-in-a-lifetime” moment. (Chase Dekker / AFP)

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People light flares as they observe a minute of silence to mark the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi German occupiers during World War II in the Polish capital Warsaw. (Janek Skarzynski / AFP)

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People light flares as they observe a minute of silence to mark the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi German occupiers during World War II in the Polish capital Warsaw. (Janek Skarzynski / AFP)

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Protesters spray paint graffiti onto the back of a police van during a demonstration in the district of Yuen Long in Hong Kong. Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets on July 27 at protesters holding a banned rally against suspected triad gangs who beat up pro-democracy demonstrators near the Chinese border last weekend, tipping the finance hub further into chaos. (Anthony Wallace / AFP)

Updated on Aug 03, 2019 2:52 PM

Protesters spray paint graffiti onto the back of a police van during a demonstration in the district of Yuen Long in Hong Kong. Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets on July 27 at protesters holding a banned rally against suspected triad gangs who beat up pro-democracy demonstrators near the Chinese border last weekend, tipping the finance hub further into chaos. (Anthony Wallace / AFP)

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An Afghan man holds the dead body of a child killed when a bus hit a roadside bomb on the Kandahar-Herat highway, at a hospital in Herat, Afghanistan. Dozens of passengers, mainly women and children, were killed in the incident officials said. (Hoshang Hashimi / AFP)

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An Afghan man holds the dead body of a child killed when a bus hit a roadside bomb on the Kandahar-Herat highway, at a hospital in Herat, Afghanistan. Dozens of passengers, mainly women and children, were killed in the incident officials said. (Hoshang Hashimi / AFP)

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Wheelchair-bound lawmaker Eiko Kimura (C) is surrounded by the media upon her arrival at Parliament in Tokyo, Japan. Two lawmakers with serious paralysis took their seats in Japan’s upper house on August 1 to cheers from supporters, marking the first time people with severe disabilities have served in the body. (Kazuhiro Nogi / AFP)

Updated on Aug 03, 2019 2:52 PM

Wheelchair-bound lawmaker Eiko Kimura (C) is surrounded by the media upon her arrival at Parliament in Tokyo, Japan. Two lawmakers with serious paralysis took their seats in Japan’s upper house on August 1 to cheers from supporters, marking the first time people with severe disabilities have served in the body. (Kazuhiro Nogi / AFP)

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Screen grab image taken from North Korean broadcaster KCTV shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watching the launch of a ballistic missile at an unknown location in North Korea early on July 31. Kim “guided a test-fire of newly-developed large-caliber multiple launch guided rocket system” state-run KCNA said. (KCTV / AFP)

Updated on Aug 03, 2019 2:52 PM

Screen grab image taken from North Korean broadcaster KCTV shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watching the launch of a ballistic missile at an unknown location in North Korea early on July 31. Kim “guided a test-fire of newly-developed large-caliber multiple launch guided rocket system” state-run KCNA said. (KCTV / AFP)

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A police officer works near an explosion site in Bangkok, Thailand. Several small bombs exploded across Bangkok on Friday, rattling the Thai capital as it hosted a South-East Asian security meeting with top diplomats from the US, China and other world powers, leaving four people wounded but not disrupting the diplomatic event. (Soe Zeya Tun / REUTERS)

Updated on Aug 03, 2019 2:52 PM

A police officer works near an explosion site in Bangkok, Thailand. Several small bombs exploded across Bangkok on Friday, rattling the Thai capital as it hosted a South-East Asian security meeting with top diplomats from the US, China and other world powers, leaving four people wounded but not disrupting the diplomatic event. (Soe Zeya Tun / REUTERS)

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