Lenin underwater, a penguin weigh-in, monsoon flooding in India, an earthquake in central Italy, a deep blue lake in El Salvador, American partiers blown into Canada on the St. Clair River, towed back across the border by the Canadian Coast Guard, and much more.
Photos of the Week: 8/20-8/26
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One-year-old female giant panda cub Nuan Nuan reacts inside her enclosure during joint birthday celebrations for the panda and its ten-year-old mother Liang Liang at the National Zoo in Kuala Lumpur on August 23, 2016. #
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Congolese soldiers arrest a civilian protesting against the government's failure to stop the killings and inter-ethnic tensions in the town of Butembo, in North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo, on August 24, 2016. #
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A rebel soldier of the 48th Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, poses for a photo with his dog in the southern jungles of Putumayo, Colombia, on August 13, 2016. As the country’s half-century conflict winds down, with the signing of a peace deal with the Government perhaps just days away, thousands of FARC rebels are emerging from their hideouts and preparing for a life without arms. #
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Coatepeque Lake is seen from a road in the town of El Congo, El Salvador, on August 24, 2016. The color of the water in the lake has changed due to the proliferation of algae species Microcystis aeruginosa and Oscillatoria sp., according to results obtained from an analysis of samples taken on Monday by the Ministry of Environment. #
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Migrants from Nigeria crowd onto a dinghy with feet hanging over the edge, fleeing from Libya, before being helped by members of a Spanish NGO, during a rescue operation in the Mediterranean sea, about 17 miles north of Sabratah, Libya, on August 20, 2016. #
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An artist from the Deviation Collective group takes part in a performance called "Cegos" or Blind, in front of the Planalto Palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, on August 25, 2016. #
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This photo provided by the National Park Service shows people on the National Mall in Washington, looking toward the World War II Memorial, Thursday, August 25, 2016, creating a giant, living version of the National Park Service emblem. Participants used brown, green and white umbrellas to create the emblem. #
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A Canadian Coast Guard ship tows floatation devices used by U.S. partiers to the Canadian side of the St. Clair River between Michigan and Ontario on August 21, 2016. About 1,500 Americans ended up in Canada after getting hit by strong wind and rain. #
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A girl working on a wheat farm pauses for a photo in the village of Wakhan, in Badakhshan province, far northeastern Afghanistan, on August 16, 2016. The region is one of the country’s poorest and most isolated, sandwiched between Tajikistan & the Taliban-led insurgency just 50 km to the south. #
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French farmers sleep in the straw as they block access to the Lactalis group headquarters with a caravan of tractors in Change, northwestern France, on August 25, 2016 during night negotiations between farmers and the Lactalis group in Paris. The issue of the price of milk is at the heart of negotiations between producer organizations and Lactalis in Paris, under the watchful eyes of protesters who seem determined to continue the blockade of the factory of the dairy giant near Laval, if they do not receive fair pricing. #
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A staff member lies in a casket next an altar decorated with flowers and balloons as she demonstrates Okuribito funeral's funeral service at the Life Ending Industry Expo in Tokyo, Japan, on August 22, 2016. #
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Sri Lankan tourists ride on an elephant during a sightseeing tour in the ancient Sri Lankan city of Sigiriya some 165 kms north of Colombo on August 25, 2016. The number of foreign tourists visiting Sri Lanka has swelled since the island ended a 37-year separatist conflict with Tamil Tiger rebels in May 2009. #
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An Indian shopkeeper sits on a boat outside his flooded shop at The Manikarnika Ghat in Varanasi on August 23, 2016. India's holy city of Varanasi has been forced to halt cremations along the banks of the sacred river Ganges as deadly floods from monsoon rains hit parts of the country, an official said. More than 100,000 people have been forced from their homes in recent days in northern Uttar Pradesh and neighboring Bihar states as rain-swollen rivers burst their banks. #
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Rescuers search amid rubble of collapsed houses following an earthquake in Pescara Del Tronto, Italy, on August 24, 2016. The magnitude 6 quake struck at 3:36 a.m. (0136 GMT) and was felt across a broad swath of central Italy, including Rome where residents of the capital felt a long swaying followed by aftershocks. #
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Emergency services personnel wearing protective clothing participate in an anti-terror and anti-chemical terror exercise as part of the 2016 Ulchi Freedom Guardian (UFG) at Yeoui subway station in Seoul, South Korea, on August 23, 2016. #
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Revelers hold fireworks as they take part in "Correfoc" (Run with fire) party during the festivities of Gracia neighborhood in Barcelona, Spain, on August 21, 2016. Correfocs or "fire-run" originates from a form of medieval street theater that represents the fight of good against evil through parades using fireworks and effigies of the devil. #
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