Mendenhall Glacier in Alaska, a beard and mustache competition organized by the Bangalore Beard Club, wildfires in Tennessee and Israel, Cubans mourn Fidel Castro, a monkey buffet in Thailand, and much more.
Photos of the Week: 11/26–12/2
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A monkey eats a banana at an ancient temple during the annual "monkey buffet" in Lopburi province, north of Bangkok, on November 27, 2016. The central Thai town of Lopburi put on a five-star banquet for its hundreds of macaque inhabitants, sparking a mass simian food fight. #
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President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama embrace as they watch the musical performances at the 2016 National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony at the Ellipse near the White House in Washington, on December 1, 2016. #
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Members of the public enjoy a ride on the star flyer on November 28, 2016 in Edinburgh, Scotland. The star flyer is one of a number of rides situated in Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh along with an ice rink carousel and Big Wheel, open from late November and running until January 7, 2017. #
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Rescue workers stand in the wreckage of a chartered airplane that crashed in a mountainous area outside Medellin, Colombia, killing 71 passengers on November 29, 2016. The plane was carrying the Brazilian first division soccer club Chapecoense team that was on its way for a Copa Sudamericana final match against Colombia's Atletico Nacional. #
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Relatives of Chapecoense soccer players who died in a plane crash in Colombia, cry during a memorial inside Arena Condado stadium in Chapeco, Brazil, on November 30, 2016. #
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Coffins containing the remains of the victims of the Colombian air tragedy are lined up in the parking garage of the San Vicente funeral home in Medellin, Colombia, on December 1, 2016. Because of the large number of casualties, the funeral home had to place the coffins in its parking garage. #
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A royal guard to Charles Wesley Mumbere, king of the Rwenzururu kingdom, is seen handcuffed after Uganda security agencies apprehended him with assault rifles and improvised explosive devices during a search at one of the kingdom’s shrines near Kasese town, western Uganda, on November 29, 2016. #
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Oil lamps offered by devotees illuminate the Bagmati River flowing through the premises of the Pashupatinath Temple during the Bala Chaturdashi festival in Kathmandu, Nepal, on November 28, 2016. #
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The sun sets as free range bronze turkeys gather their barn for the night at Lydiard Turkeys, a week ahead of their slaughter for Christmas, near Swindon on November 30, 2016 in Wiltshire, England. The hand reared turkeys arrived at the award winning farm that has been owned by the same family for over 100 years, when they were a day old in June, living in a barn at night and an orchard during the day. They will be slaughtered, dry plucked and hung at the farm next week, before being collected by customers just before Christmas. According to Chris Rumming slaughtering the birds at the farm improves the bird's welfare by eliminating unnecessary stress from travel meaning the meat tastes better. #
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People sit on their rooftop to get a better view as the body of former Cuban President Fidel Castro passes by on a cross-country journey from Havana to Santiago de Cuba on December 1, 2016 in Santa Clara, Cuba. Castro, the revolutionary leader who brought communism to his island nation in 1959, died November 25 at the age 90 years old. #
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Chanel, left, and Maia Marti, stand next to a poster of Fidel Castro as they wait in line to pay their final respects to the late Fidel Castro at Revolution Plaza, in Havana, Cuba, on November 29, 2016. The government invited people to the square for a two-day commemoration and tribute sites were set up in hundreds of places across the country to bid farewell to Castro. #
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A Croatian firefighter plane helps extinguish a new fire that broke out in the Israeli town of Nataf, west of the Arab Israeli town of Abu Ghosh, along the border with the occupied West Bank on November 25, 2016. #
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Officials from the Indian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) and local villagers help rescue a deer which fell into a drainage hole at Vallah village on the outskirts of Amritsar on November 30, 2016. #
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A rebel tank fires towards Syrian government forces located in northern Quneitra province, from Jubata al-Khashab, in Quneitra province, Syria, on November 26, 2016. #
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An Iraqi shepherd watches over his flock of sheep, their fleece blackened by smoke from burning oil wells set ablaze by ISIS jihadists before retreating towards Mosul, as they graze near the town of Qayyarah on November 25, 2016. #
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Graffiti on a building on the main square in the town of Pripyat, which was abandoned following the Chernobyl nuclear accident, on November 29, 2016 in Pripyat, Ukraine. On April 26, 1986, workers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant inadvertently caused a meltdown in reactor number four, causing it to explode and send a toxic cocktail of radioactive fallout into the atmosphere in the world's worst civilian nuclear incident. More than thirty years later, the New Safe Confinement sarcophagus has been constructed and slid into place over the old reactor, an event being marked today by a ceremony including Ukraine's president. #
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A Turkish Canadair firefighting plane prepares to replenish water from the Mediterranean sea near the Israeli coastal city of Netanya, on November 26, 2016, as it helps extinguish an ongoing fire close to Jerusalem. Wildfires near Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank have forced hundreds to flee their homes, after mass evacuations in Israel and more than a dozen arrests, police said, while Israeli and Palestinian firefighters, helped by foreign aircraft, have been battling dozens of bush blazes fed by drought and high winds that have seen tens of thousands of people evacuated. #
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A burned car sits in a parking lot on November 30, 2016, in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, after a wildfire swept through the area on Monday. At least 13 deaths have now been blamed on the wildfires that torched hundreds of homes and businesses in the Great Smoky Mountains area. #
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Iraqi citizens who fled the fighting between ISIS militants and Iraqi forces scramble during aid supply and clothes distribution, in the Samah front line neighborhood, in Mosul, Iraq, on November 28, 2016. #
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