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Photos of the Week: 2/20-2/26
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A Bernie Sanders action figure prototype, in a photo taken in Brooklyn, New York, on February 25, 2016. A Brooklyn product design company, FCTRY, created the prototype for a six-inch- (15-centimeter-) tall plastic toy of the U.S. Senator from Vermont and started a Kickstarter campaign with a goal of raising $15,000 to fund production. #
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The Berenson robot strolls among visitors during the exhibition “Persona: Oddly Human” at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris, France, on February 23, 2016. The Berenson robot, developed in France in 2011, is the brainchild of anthropologist Denis Vidal and robotics engineer Philippe Gaussier. Its programming allows it to record reactions of museum visitors to certain pieces of art and then use the data to develop its own unique taste, which allows ‘Berenson’ to judge whether or not it likes a certain work of art within an exhibition. #
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A model at the Sophia Webster AW16 presentation on day four of London Fashion Week Autumn Winter 2016, at The Chapel Of St. Barnabas on February 22, 2016, in London, England. #
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An ultra-right activist attacks an Alfa Bank office in central Kiev, Ukraine, on February 20, 2016. Nationalist demonstrators in Ukraine attacked two offices of Russian banks in the capital amid observances of the second anniversary of the protests that brought down the Russia-friendly president. The demonstrators on Saturday threw rocks through windows at the offices of Alfa Bank and Sberbank and damaged furniture and equipment inside. Tens of thousands of people in the Ukrainian capital came to various observances of the “Day of the Heavenly Hundred.” The term refers to those who died during the months of protests in Kiev that culminated with President Viktor Yanukovych fleeing. #
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A model wears a gas mask while demonstrating against the use of fur in clothing at a protest organised by PETA, ahead of Milan's Fashion Week in downtown Milan, Italy, on February 23, 2016. #
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Syrian government forces hold a portrait of late Syrian president Hafez al-Assad as they drive near smoke billowing from Aleppo's thermal power plant after re-taking the area on the eastern outskirts of Syria's northern embattled city of Aleppo from ISIS fighters on February 21, 2016. In two days Syrian government forces have taken more than a dozen villages from ISIS jihadists around a stretch of highway that runs east from the northern city of Aleppo to the Kweyris military base. #
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A supporter watches as returns come in at Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's rally on the day of the Nevada Democratic caucus, February 20, 2016, in Las Vegas. #
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Injured Egyptian fruit bats hang from a teddy bear in the home of Israeli woman, Nora Lifschitz, 28, in Tel Aviv, on February 21, 2016. Lifschitz says that she began caring for injured fruit bats from her home two years ago and now has about 70 of the flying mammals which she plans to release back into nature once they are healthy. #
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (center) and guests use Gear VR virtual reality headsets during the awards ceremony of the newly established Axel Springer Award in Berlin, Germany, on February 25, 2016. #
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A Ugandan police officer stands guard, visible through a tree trunk outside the house of Uganda's main opposition leader Kizza Besigye’s home on February 22, 2016, in Kasangati, a suburb of Kampala. Uganda's main opposition leader was taken by police on February 22, 2016, to a city police station from his home where he has been under house arrest since February 19. Kizza Besigye has rejected the results of February 18 election won by veteran President Yoweri Museveni. #
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South Koreans twirl cans with holes filled with burning wood chips and straw to celebrate the first full moon of the Lunar New Year, in Seoul, South Korea, on February 21, 2016. #
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An Afghan de-mining security worker looks on during an operation to clear mines from a field in the Panjwai district of Kandahar province on February 21, 2016. According to Mohammad Qasem, who heads the mine-clearance team, 34 anti-personnel mines and 1,453 unexploded ordinance have been cleared and rendered safe in the restive district so far this year. #
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A stray dog stands among outboard motors that were used by refugees and migrants to reach the Greek northern island of Lesbos, in Mytilene, Greece, on February 23, 2016. #
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Director of Emergency Operations for St. James Parish Blaise Gravois talks on the phone at Sugar Hill RV Park following a storm in Convent, Louisiana, on February 24, 2016. Tornadoes and severe weather ripped through the Gulf Coast on Tuesday, mangling trailers at an RV park and ripping off roofs from buildings in Louisiana and Mississippi, authorities said. #
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Lightning flashes near Christ the Redeemer statue (lower center, illuminated) and the Cantagalo favela community (lower right) on February 23, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. #
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A Palestinian man uses a rope to climb over a section of Israel's controversial separation barrier that separates the West Bank city of al-Ram from east Jerusalem (right) on February 24, 2016. Many Palestinians from the West Bank cross illegally into Israel everyday in search for work. #
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Smoke billows from a building where suspected militants took refuge during a gun battle on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, on February 21, 2016. A handful of rebels holed up in the building in the Indian portion of Kashmir exchanging fire with government forces for days, leaving some killed and many injured. #
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Residents with empty containers crowd around a municipal tanker to fetch water in New Delhi, India, on February 22, 2016. The Indian army took control of a canal that supplies three-fifths of Delhi's water, the state's chief minister said on Monday. Indian protesters angry at multiple economic injustices wrecked a main source of drinking water last week. #
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Aid supplies including generators, ration packs, and water containers are unloaded by Fijian soldiers from a Royal New Zealand Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft after Cyclone Winston in Suva, Fiji, in this image supplied by the New Zealand Defense Force on February 23, 2016. #
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Debris flies into the air as foreign fishing boats are blown up by the Indonesian Navy off Batam Island, Indonesia, on February 22, 2016. Authorities sank dozens of fishing boats caught operating illegally in Indonesian waters as part of the country's campaign to battle illegal fishing. #
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A four-year-old giraffe looks out from its cage while being transported on a truck in Kolkata, India, on February 23, 2016. The giraffe from Kolkata's Alipore Zoo is being sent to Nandankanan, the zoological park in Bhubaneswar, in an exchange of four tigers both male and female for breeding purpose, according to news reports. #
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