Widespread and varied protests in the United States, Romania, England, and Mexico, wildfires in Chile, a cat with bionic paws in Bulgaria, a “fire hose of lava” erupting from a Hawaiian sea cliff, and Up Helly Aa in Shetland.
Photos of the Week: 1/28–2/3
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Sparks fly as Chinese dragon dancers perform at a fair at a local park on the fifth day of the Chinese Lunar New Year on February 1, 2017, in Beijing. China is marking the year of the Fire Rooster. #
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Russian servicemen of the Northern Fleet's Arctic mechanized infantry brigade participate in a military drill on riding reindeer and dogsleds near the settlement of Lovozero outside Murmansk, Russia, on January 23, 2017. #
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A displaced Syrian, fleeing from Deir Ezzor city besieged by ISIS fighters, poses for a picture in a refugee camp in al-Hol, located some 14 kilometers from the Iraqi border in Syria's northeastern Hassakeh province, on February 1, 2017. #
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An open lava stream pours out of a lava-tube exit, approximately 70 feet up on a sea cliff, falling into the ocean below. Lava flowing from Kilauea has been entering the sea in this location since the start of the year, intensifying recently into a "fire hose" of airborne lava this week. The flow has subsided after a collapse on February 2. #
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Barrett Martineau of Canada competes during the Men's Skeleton first run of the BMW IBSF World Cup at Olympiabobbahn Igls on February 3, 2017, in Innsbruck, Austria. #
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A U.S. soldier is pictured during a welcome of the U.S. Army's 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division for the inauguration of a bilateral military training of U.S. and Polish Forces in support of the Atlantic Resolve operation in Zagan, Poland, on January 30, 2017. U.S. troops are being deployed in Poland under Operation Atlantic Resolve. #
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The floral memorial on Bourke Street is removed on January 31, 2017 in Melbourne, Australia. Six people have now died and 37 were injured after a man deliberately drove his car into pedestrians in Bourke Street Mall on January 20. #
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A client sits in a hair salon as the barber Ramadan Edwan performs a technique that uses fire to straighten his hair, in the Rafah refugee camp, in the southern Gaza Strip on February 1, 2017. #
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Nearly 2,000 people float in a chain, setting a new Guinness world record for the most people floating while holding hands in Lake Epecuen, a salty lake, near Carhue, Argentina, on January 29, 2017. #
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Nadiya Volkova, 24, grieves over the body of her mother Katya Volkova, 60, who was killed by shelling at around 7:30 a.m. as she walked to the store on February 1, 2017 in Avdiivka, Ukraine. The conflict with Russia-backed rebels has intensified dramatically in the front-line town over the past several days, leaving residents without heat or electricity in frigid temperatures. #
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Demonstrators march from the Mound to the Scottish Parliament to protest against President Trump's Muslim travel ban to the U.S. on January 30, 2017 in Edinburgh, Scotland. #
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Sub-Saharan migrants rest on the deck of the Golfo Azzurro after being rescued from a rubber boat by members of the Proactive Open Arms NGO, on the Mediterranean sea, about 24 miles north of Sabratha, Libya, on January 28, 2017. Rescuers pulled nearly 300 people from two rubber boats on Friday, and all of them will be transferred to an Italian port in Sicily. #
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An inmate looks from behind a cell door, at the Jilava prison, in Jilava, Romania, on January 31, 2017. Romania's government decriminalized official misconduct overnight on February 1, 2017, defying mass protests and warnings from prosecutors and the president that the move will reverse the country's fight against corruption. #
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Pooh, a one-year-old cat who lost his hind legs in an accident and has been given bionic paws, walks in a vet clinic in Sofia, Bulgaria, on January 31, 2017. Pooh, who is thought to have lost his legs in a car or train accident last April, is back on the prowl thanks to the Bulgarian veterinary surgeon Vladislav Zlatinov. He is the first vet in Europe to successfully apply the pioneering method of the Irish neuro-orthopedic surgeon Noel Fitzpatrick, who shot to fame in 2009 when making Oscar the first bionic cat by fitting him with new hind legs in Britain. #
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A bonfire set by demonstrators protesting a scheduled speaking appearance by the Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos burns on Sproul Plaza on the University of California at Berkeley campus on Wednesday, February 1, 2017, in Berkeley, California. The event was canceled out of safety concerns after protesters hurled smoke bombs, broke windows, and started a bonfire. #
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President Donald Trump walks around the Resolute desk during a ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on February 1, 2017, before the swearing in ceremony of Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State. #
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Riot police take cover behinds their shields during a clash with farm workers in Mexico City on February 1, 2017. Rural residents from across the country flooded major boulevards of the capital on Tuesday, as they denounced a gasoline price hike that has raised the price of tractor fuel and called for the renegotiation of NAFTA to make it more favorable to small farmers. #
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Guzier Jarl Lyall Gair and his Jarl throw their torches onto the galley on January 31, 2017 in Lerwick, Shetland. The traditional festival of fire, known as Up Helly Aa, takes place annually on the last Tuesday of January. The climax of the day came with participants wearing costumes as they hauled a Viking long boat through the streets of Lerwick to the edge of town where up to 1000 paraders set the vessel ablaze by throwing torches into the galley. #
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Participants make their way to complete the approximately five kilometer distance between Badacsony and Fonyod on the frozen lake Balaton during the Balaton cross slide event near Badacsony, 160 km southwest of Budapest, Hungary, on January 28, 2017. More than 1,000 people made the trip by foot, skates, or sled. #
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Greenpeace activists climb the Golden Victoria monument on top of the Victory Column and install a banner "Breathless through the city" to protest against air pollution in Berlin on January 31, 2017. #
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Flames are seen reflected in the helmet visor of a firefighter as he works to stop a forest fire in Paso El Leon, in Concepcion, Chile, on January 28, 2017. Emergency services have battled the flames non-stop for days with thousands of firefighters on the ground and helicopters and airplanes in the air. #
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Members of the Libyan National Army (LNA), also known as the forces loyal to Marshal Khalifa Haftar, inspect a grave of an unknown person discovered in Qanfudah, on the southern outskirts of Benghazi, after retaking it from ISIS fighters on January 28, 2017. Haftar has managed to retake a large part of the eastern coastal city from jihadists since Benghazi came under their control in 2014. But jihadists still control the central districts of Al-Saberi and Souq al-Hout. #
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A participant walks between rows of tents lined up in the camping area during the Campus Party in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on February 1, 2017. Campus Party is an annual week-long, 24-hour technology festival that gathers hackers, developers, gamers and computer enthusiasts. #
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Romanian riot police detain a man, face covered in blood, after minor clashes erupted during a protest in Bucharest, Romania, on February 2, 2017. Brief clashes broke out between protesters and police in Romania's capital, as tens of thousands of people protested for the second night a government decision to decriminalize official misconduct. #
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