Preparations for the Lunar New Year in China, a new president of the United States takes office, protesters march on Washington, India holds its Republic Day parade, Venus Williams celebrates a victory in Australia, a foggy night in Paris, and much more.
Photos of the Week: 1/21–1/27
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Men soar through the air on their wooden sled during a traditional Bavarian horn sled race, known as "Schnablerrennen" in Gaissach, near Bad Toelz, Germany, on January 22, 2017. #
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Tohkoo Corp.'s battery-operated tiara embellished with 610 LED-lit zirconium is displayed at the International Jewellery Tokyo trade show in Tokyo, Japan, on January 24, 2017. #
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A picture taken on January 24, 2017, in Paris shows the statue of Marshal Foch at the Trocadero, with a view of the top of the Eiffel Tower hidden by the fog in the background. #
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Rescue teams and firemen remove the debris from the Plasco building, Tehran's oldest high-rise which collapsed the previous week, in the center of the capital on January 25, 2017. Rescue teams are trying to reach the missing firefighters and victims believed to be trapped under the rubble of the 15-story building which collapsed after a four-hour blaze while emergency services were still evacuating the tower. #
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Tourists take photographs as snow-covered mountain tops rise behind downtown Los Angeles from Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area on January 25, 2017. After years of drought and barren slopes, skiers and boarders have a bonanza of snow at resorts from the Sierra Nevada to the mountain ranges of Southern California following a barrage of storms. #
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Firefighters walk in a community threatened by a forest fire in Villa La Union, Chile, on January 26, 2017. The ferocity of the flames prompted President Michelle Bachelet's to declare a state of emergency, deploy troops, and ask for international help, calling it "the greatest forest disaster" in Chile's history. #
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A tourist takes a photograph of a sulfur lake in the Danakil Depression on January 23, 2017, near Dallol, Ethiopia. The depression lies 100 meters below sea level and is one of the hottest and most inhospitable places on Earth. Despite the grueling conditions, Ethiopians continue a centuries-old industry of mining salt from the ground by hand in temperatures that average 34.5 degrees Celsius but have risen to over 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit). #
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Palestinians shoot a water balloon with a paint gun during a training session at a youth camp with Palestinian security forces, in the West Bank city of Jericho, on January 25, 2017. #
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Father Yves Marie Lequin blesses mobile phones and tablets during a mass to honor Saint Francis De Sales, patron saint of journalists, transmissions, and communications, at Saint Pierre D'Arene church in Nice, France, on January 21, 2017. #
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A pigeon fancier inspects birds displayed in their cages at the annual two-day "British Homing World Show of the Year" held in the Winter Gardens in Blackpool, England, on January 22, 2017. The show, run by the Royal Pigeon Racing Association, is the largest gathering of pigeon fanciers in the United Kingdom; around 2,500 birds are on display. #
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Venus Williams celebrates her victory against Coco Vandeweghe during their women's singles semi-final match on Day 11 of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on January 26, 2017. #
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A picture taken on January 21, 2017 shows the interior of the Oberoi hotel in the city of Mosul after its liberation from the control of ISIS militants during an ongoing military operation. Iraqi forces battled the last holdout jihadists in east Mosul after commanders declared victory there and quickly set their sights on the city's west, where more tough fighting awaits. #
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Protesters unfurl a banner that reads "Resist" at the construction site of the former Washington Post building in Washington, D.C., on January 25, 2017, after police say protesters climbed a crane at the site refusing to allow workers to work in the area. #
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An inmate displays a makeshift knife moments after police left Alcaçuz prison in Nisia Floresta, near Natal, Brazil, on January 24, 2017. Military police entered the prison in northeastern Brazil again on Tuesday, where a temporary wall separating two rival gangs is being built, after a week of chaos and fighting between rival gangs that left dozens of inmates dead. #
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Deanna Furlow holds her cat Buttercream as she surveys and removes belongings from a friend's home after a tornado struck the residential area in Albany, Georgia, on January 23, 2017. #
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People dressed in white and red stand on a white sheet as they form a portrait of Abbe Pierre, founder of the Emmaus solidarity movement, at Place de la Republique during an event marking the 10th anniversary of his death, on January 22, 2017, in Paris. #
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Passengers wait to board trains at Shanghai's Hongqiao Railway Station as hundreds of millions of Chinese travel home for Lunar New Year, in Shanghai, China, on January 25, 2017. #
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A Chinese traveler rests as she holds her mobile phone on a crowded train between Beijing and Shijiazhuang, on January 25, 2017 in Hebei province, northern China. Millions of Chinese will travel home to visit families in what is often called the largest human migration during the Spring Festival holiday period that begins with the Lunar New Year on January 28, 2017. #
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People cheer as President Adama Barrow, center, arrives in the Westfield neighborhood of Serrekunda, Gambia, on January 26, 2017. Barrow returned triumphantly to Gambia on Thursday, nearly two months after winning an election disputed by the country's longtime dictator, to the cheers of hundreds of thousands who jammed the roads in welcome. #
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Firefighters try to stop a blaze as the worst wildfires in Chile's modern history are ravaging wide swaths of the country's central-south regions, in Santa Olga, Chile, on January 26, 2017. #
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Cameron Elder hugs his Samoyed during practice at a forest course ahead of the Aviemore Sled Dog Rally on January 24, 2016 in Feshiebridge, Scotland. Huskies and sledders prepare ahead of the Siberian Husky Club of Great Britain 34th race taking place at Loch Morlich this weekend near Aviemore. #
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