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Week in Photos

The Week in Photos: Surrounded

This is the week that was, in photos…

THIS IS THE week that was, in photos…

The Week in Photos: Surrounded
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    Indian Hindu married women perform rituals on Karva Chauth festival in Ahmadabad, India. Married women decorate their hands with henna on Karva Chauth festival and observe a fast to pray for the longevity and well-being of their husbands. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)Source: AP/Press Association Images
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    Chanting Hungarian soccer fans hold flares while arriving on a train at a railway station in Bucharest, Romania. Romanian authorities took exceptional security measures to prevent violence between soccer fans ahead of a Euro 2016 Group F qualifier soccer match between Romania and Hungary.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)Source: AP/Press Association Images
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    A cable car between La Paz and El Alto passes through a neighbourhood in La Paz Bolivia. The system is the world'’s highest cable car system, and transports thousands of passengers, about 4,000 metres above sea level. Bolivia will hold general elections on Sunday. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)Source: AP/Press Association Images
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    Men's race winner Eliud Kipchoge, left, hugs fellow Kenyans Sammy Kitwara, centre, and Dickson Chumba, right, at the finish line after completing the Chicago Marathon. Kitwara finished in second place and Chumba finished in third. (AP Photo/Andrew A. Nelles)Source: AP/Press Association Images
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    A competitor uses a paint roller to prepare himself backstage during the Kosovo body-building and fitness championship in the town of Gjakova, Kosvo. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)Source: AP/Press Association Images
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    St Louis police officers stand their post in the parking lot of a gas station as protesters march through the streets of St Louis protesting against recent shootings of young black men by law enforcement officers. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)Source: AP/Press Association Images
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    Racers hit the road during the 112-mi bike race during the 2014 IRONMAN World Championship (Marco Garcia/AP Images for IRONMAN )Source: Marco Garcia
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    The scoreboard is reflected in a rain drop before Game 3 of the American League baseball championship series between the Baltimore Orioles and the Kansas City Royals in Kansas City. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)Source: AP/Press Association Images
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    Indian ragpickers and their children participate in a rally to seek support and recognition from the government and citizens, for their contribution in keeping the city clean, in New Delhi.Source: AP/Press Association Images
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    Skulls and bones are stacked at the Catacombs in Paris, France. As if visiting the Paris Catacombs in the daytime weren't creepy enough _ soon you can visit the underground maze of skeletons at night, too. The subterranean tunnels, which once gave refuge to smugglers and saints, cradle the bones of some 6 million Parisians from centuries past. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)Source: AP/Press Association Images
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    Sand artist Ross Andrews at work on a piece entitled 'Legacy No.II' on Ramsgate beach in Kent, Andrews who grew up in Kent, uses the coast of Thanet as his canvas for artworks produced in about four hours in a race against the tides, he uses a rake and a stick to create his freestyle designs, which he says he does not plan before he starts.Source: PA Wire/Press Association Images
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    Queen Elizabeth II visits the Tower of London's Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red installation. The unique memorial was created by ceramic artist Paul Cummins and by Armistice Day on November 11 there will be 888,246 ceramic poppies planted, one for each British and Colonial death during the conflict which began 100 years ago. Source: Chris Jackson
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    Oscar Pistorius is escorted by police officers as he leaves the high court in Pretoria, South Africa. Following the testimony hearing, which is expected to end this week, Judge Thokozile Masipa will rule on what punishment Pistorius must serve after convicting him of culpable homicide for shooting his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp through a toilet door in his home.Source: AP/Press Association Images
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    Members of the Serbian army march under heavy rain during a military parade in Belgrade, Serbia. Waving Russian and Serbian flags and displaying banners "Thank You Russia"” tens of thousands came to see the parade in Belgrade attended by Vladimir Putin, which marked the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Serbian capital from the Nazi German occupation by the Red Army and Communist Yugoslav Partisans. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)Source: AP/Press Association Images
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    A Bangladeshi child stands in an alley as a boy climbs a ladder outside their home at a slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)Source: AP/Press Association Images
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    Upset pro-democracy students are moved as riot police clear their encampment in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong. Riot police moved in on the Mong Kok pro-democracy protest zone in a dawn raid on Friday, taking down barricades, tents and canopies that have blocked key streets for more than two weeks. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)Source: AP/Press Association Images