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Photos of the week: Record fires singe the Amazon forest and Boris and Macron meet

Record fires this year at the Amazon rainforest and French president Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson meet in Paris-- photos of the week from across the world.

Updated on: Aug 24, 2019 6:02 PM IST

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Smoke billows during a fire in an area of the Amazon rainforest near Porto Velho, Rondonia State, Brazil. (Ueslei Marcelino / REUTERS)

Updated on Aug 24, 2019 6:02 PM

Smoke billows during a fire in an area of the Amazon rainforest near Porto Velho, Rondonia State, Brazil. (Ueslei Marcelino / REUTERS)

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Drops of dew sit on a spider web in the early morning mist in Los Angeles, California, USA. (Lucy Nicholson / REUTERS)

Updated on Aug 24, 2019 6:02 PM

Drops of dew sit on a spider web in the early morning mist in Los Angeles, California, USA. (Lucy Nicholson / REUTERS)

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Firefighters use a ladder while extinguishing the fire at an industrial building in Saint Petersburg, Russia. (Anton Vaganov / REUTERS)

Updated on Aug 24, 2019 6:02 PM

Firefighters use a ladder while extinguishing the fire at an industrial building in Saint Petersburg, Russia. (Anton Vaganov / REUTERS)

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General view of the 180-metre-hight and 165-metre-width rice field art featuring rugby football Japan national team players (L-R)Kazuki Himeno, Michael Leitch and Fumiaki Tanaka, in Gyoda city, Saitama prefecture, Japan. (Toshifumi Kitamura / AFP)

Updated on Aug 24, 2019 6:02 PM

General view of the 180-metre-hight and 165-metre-width rice field art featuring rugby football Japan national team players (L-R)Kazuki Himeno, Michael Leitch and Fumiaki Tanaka, in Gyoda city, Saitama prefecture, Japan. (Toshifumi Kitamura / AFP)

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Performers on stilts from the Amsterdam street theatre troupe Close-Act entertain spectators during the White Night festival in Melbourne, Australia. (William West / AFP)

Updated on Aug 24, 2019 6:02 PM

Performers on stilts from the Amsterdam street theatre troupe Close-Act entertain spectators during the White Night festival in Melbourne, Australia. (William West / AFP)

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Rangers stand next to a female northern white rhino, Najin, 30, one of the last two northern white rhinos on the planet, in her enclosure at Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya. (Ben Curtis / AP)

Updated on Aug 24, 2019 6:02 PM

Rangers stand next to a female northern white rhino, Najin, 30, one of the last two northern white rhinos on the planet, in her enclosure at Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya. (Ben Curtis / AP)

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A girl waits for customers to sell grains to feed pigeons at Basantapur Durbar Square in Kathmandu, Nepal. (Prakash Mathema / AFP)

Updated on Aug 24, 2019 6:02 PM

A girl waits for customers to sell grains to feed pigeons at Basantapur Durbar Square in Kathmandu, Nepal. (Prakash Mathema / AFP)

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A swimmer passes a swan as he trains during the early morning in the Serpentine lake in London, England. (Toby Melville / REUTERS)

Updated on Aug 24, 2019 6:02 PM

A swimmer passes a swan as he trains during the early morning in the Serpentine lake in London, England. (Toby Melville / REUTERS)

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A competitor swipes off the “gostra”, a pole covered in lard, as he slips off the pole during the week-long celebrations of the religious feast of St Julian, patron of the town of St Julian’s, Malta. (Darrin Zammit Lupi / REUTERS)

Updated on Aug 24, 2019 6:02 PM

A competitor swipes off the “gostra”, a pole covered in lard, as he slips off the pole during the week-long celebrations of the religious feast of St Julian, patron of the town of St Julian’s, Malta. (Darrin Zammit Lupi / REUTERS)

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Tourists ride in a vintage car in Havana, Cuba. (Fernando Medina / REUTERS)

Updated on Aug 24, 2019 6:02 PM

Tourists ride in a vintage car in Havana, Cuba. (Fernando Medina / REUTERS)

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Mario, 34, a Honduran migrant who lost his leg while traveling en route to the United States on a freight train known as ‘La Bestia’, rests during a physiotherapy session at the Rehabilitation Center for Disabled People in Silao, Mexico. (Edgard Garrido / REUTERS)

Updated on Aug 24, 2019 6:02 PM

Mario, 34, a Honduran migrant who lost his leg while traveling en route to the United States on a freight train known as ‘La Bestia’, rests during a physiotherapy session at the Rehabilitation Center for Disabled People in Silao, Mexico. (Edgard Garrido / REUTERS)

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A British Bulldog (L) waits to be groomed at a specialised pet shop in Bangkok, Thailand. According to market research in Thailand consumers are increasingly treating their pets as part of the family driven by young adults who consider owning a pet akin to having a child. (Mladen Antonov / AFP)

Updated on Aug 24, 2019 6:02 PM

A British Bulldog (L) waits to be groomed at a specialised pet shop in Bangkok, Thailand. According to market research in Thailand consumers are increasingly treating their pets as part of the family driven by young adults who consider owning a pet akin to having a child. (Mladen Antonov / AFP)

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Fishermen tend to their boats on the shores of Cape Coast Castle, Ghana. African-American visitors are flocking to Ghana as it marks the ‘Year of Return’ to remember the 400th anniversary of the first slave ship landing in Virginia. (Natalija Gormalova / AFP)

Updated on Aug 24, 2019 6:02 PM

Fishermen tend to their boats on the shores of Cape Coast Castle, Ghana. African-American visitors are flocking to Ghana as it marks the ‘Year of Return’ to remember the 400th anniversary of the first slave ship landing in Virginia. (Natalija Gormalova / AFP)

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Tourists visit the Salt Cathedral of Zipaquira, an underground church built into a mine that produces salt, 45 km north of Bogota. (Juan Barreto / AFP)

Updated on Aug 24, 2019 6:02 PM

Tourists visit the Salt Cathedral of Zipaquira, an underground church built into a mine that produces salt, 45 km north of Bogota. (Juan Barreto / AFP)

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Palestinian amputee Mohammed Eliwa, 17, who lost his leg during clashes on the border with Israel, plays football on the beach in Gaza City. (Mahmud Hams / AFP)

Updated on Aug 24, 2019 6:02 PM

Palestinian amputee Mohammed Eliwa, 17, who lost his leg during clashes on the border with Israel, plays football on the beach in Gaza City. (Mahmud Hams / AFP)

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A dog looks at a five-meter-long sperm whale stranded at San Bartolo beach, in Lima, Peru. Surfers and policemen saved an injured whale which remained stranded some hours at the beach. (Ernesto Bena Vides / AFP)

Updated on Aug 24, 2019 6:02 PM

A dog looks at a five-meter-long sperm whale stranded at San Bartolo beach, in Lima, Peru. Surfers and policemen saved an injured whale which remained stranded some hours at the beach. (Ernesto Bena Vides / AFP)

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People lay on the pavement in front of the Czech Communist party headquarter as a symbol of the people who died 50 years ago during demonstration marking the first anniversary of the Soviet-led occupation, in Prague, Czech Republic. (Michal Cizek / AFP)

Updated on Aug 24, 2019 6:02 PM

People lay on the pavement in front of the Czech Communist party headquarter as a symbol of the people who died 50 years ago during demonstration marking the first anniversary of the Soviet-led occupation, in Prague, Czech Republic. (Michal Cizek / AFP)

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A child stands at by a bullet riddled wall in the northern Syrian city of Raqa, the former Syrian capital of the Islamic State (IS) group. (Delil Soulieman / AFP)

Updated on Aug 24, 2019 6:02 PM

A child stands at by a bullet riddled wall in the northern Syrian city of Raqa, the former Syrian capital of the Islamic State (IS) group. (Delil Soulieman / AFP)

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The sun sets behind people walking on a North Sea beach in Cuxhaven, northern Germany. (Patrik Stollarz / AFP)

Updated on Aug 24, 2019 6:02 PM

The sun sets behind people walking on a North Sea beach in Cuxhaven, northern Germany. (Patrik Stollarz / AFP)

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People use their phone torches as they form a human chain in Hong Kong. The protest in Hong Kong coincided with the 30th anniversary of the Baltic Way demonstration in 1989, which saw about 2 million people form a human chain that spanned over 600 kilometres across Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in protest against Soviet occupation. (Anthony Wallace / AFP)

Updated on Aug 24, 2019 6:02 PM

People use their phone torches as they form a human chain in Hong Kong. The protest in Hong Kong coincided with the 30th anniversary of the Baltic Way demonstration in 1989, which saw about 2 million people form a human chain that spanned over 600 kilometres across Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in protest against Soviet occupation. (Anthony Wallace / AFP)

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Large icebergs float away as the sun rises near Kulusuk, Greenland. Scientists are hard at work, trying to understand the alarmingly rapid melting of the ice. (Felipe Dana / AP)

Updated on Aug 24, 2019 6:02 PM

Large icebergs float away as the sun rises near Kulusuk, Greenland. Scientists are hard at work, trying to understand the alarmingly rapid melting of the ice. (Felipe Dana / AP)

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French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speak during a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France. (Christophe Petit Tesson / REUTERS)

Updated on Aug 24, 2019 6:02 PM

French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speak during a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France. (Christophe Petit Tesson / REUTERS)

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