A pharaoh statue discovered in Egypt, a close look at Saturn’s tiny ‘ravioli’ moon, drought threatens Somalia, marches on International Women’s Day, colorful Holi images from India, and much more.
Photos of the Week: 3/4–3/10
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President Donald Trump points to a child in the crowd as he surprises visitors during the official reopening of public tours at the White House in Washington, DC, on March 7, 2017. #
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People rally during the Native Nations Rise protest on March 10, 2017 in Washington, DC. Native tribes from around the US gathered for four days of protest against the administration of US President Donald Trump and the Dakota Access oil pipeline. #
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Visitors form the word 'LOVE' with their hands in front of a cherry blossom tree in Gucun Park in Shanghai on March 4, 2017. Every year the cherry blossoms in this park attract hundreds of thousands of visitors. #
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Saturn's tiny moon, Pan, viewed on March 7, 2017, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Pan is about 21 miles wide, orbiting in a gap in Saturn's rings. This view, the closest and most detailed yet, shows its pronounced equatorial ridge, made up of particles from the rings that have accumulated on Pan's equator over centuries. #
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A hostess waits for attendees to leave the Great Hall of the People after a plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in Beijing, China, on March 9, 2017. #
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A local volunteer working with the international animal welfare charity "Four Paws" feeds the a bird to Simba the lion, as he gives treatment to animals which were abandoned in the Muntazah al-Nour zoo in eastern Mosul, Iraq, on February 21, 2017. #
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A boy rides his his bicycle past a recently discovered statue in a Cairo slum that may be of pharaoh Ramses II, in Cairo, Egypt, on March 10, 2017. Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a massive statue that might depict pharaoh Ramses II, one of the country's most famous ancient rulers. The colossus, whose head was pulled from mud and groundwater by a bulldozer on Thursday, is around eight meters (yards) tall and was discovered by a German-Egyptian team. #
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A worker cleans a monument to famed Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko in Kiev, Ukraine, on March 7, 2017. The monument was installed in 1939 and has become one of the dramatic symbols of the capital city. #
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Attendants serving delegates from a hotel pose for a photo at Tiananmen Square as delegates attend a meeting during the annual session of China's parliament, the National People's Congress (NPC), in Beijing, China on March 4, 2017. #
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A young drought victim at the UN aid relief camp at Bandadero village near Moyale, North Kenya. Last week, the Kenyan government declared the region a 'National Emergency' as the severe drought takes hold. United Nations Agencies (OCHA and World Food Program) with the Kenyan government are providing humanitarian relief and assistance in the badly-hit area near the Ethiopian border. #
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Riot police use pepper spray against protesting farmers during clashes outside the Agriculture Ministry, in Athens, Greece, on March 8, 2017. Several hundred farmers from the island of Crete are protesting against government tax reforms tied to the country's international bailout. #
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Hindu priests throw colored powder at devotees inside Banke Bihari temple, dedicated to Lord Krishna, during Holi festival celebrations in Vrindavan, India, on March 8, 2017. #
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Women are arrested by the New York City Police Department after sitting down in the street outside the Trump International Hotel and Tower in New York on March 8, 2017 during a #DayWithoutAWoman protest in New York City. #
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A member of the Tinstix of Dynamite aerobatics team flies in front of a wall of fire during the Australian International Airshow in Melbourne on March 5, 2017. The annual event sees 180,000 visitors over the 3-day public event held at the Avalon Airfield. #
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A female Israeli soldier from the Haraam artillery battalion takes part in a training session in Krav Maga, an Israeli self-defense technique, at a military base in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on March 1, 2017. #
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Cori Brown takes a break from helping salvage items from a friend's tornado-damaged home on March 7, 2017, after a severe storm passed through Oak Grove, Missouri, on Monday night. #
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Young people run amidst fireworks exploding off of a wheeled paper bull rigged with pyrotechnics, during the annual pyrotechnics fair in Tultepec, on the outskirts of Mexico City, on March 8, 2017. Two months after an explosion tore through the Tultepec fireworks market, killing 42, the town honored its patron saint San Juan de Dios in its usual exuberant style, by exploding hundreds of colorful bulls elaborately rigged with fireworks in a field and the packed town square. #
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A Union City firefighter walks on the scene of a 6-alarm fire that damaged several buildings and struck the Sts. Joseph and Michael Church in Union City, New Jersey, on March 4, 2017. #
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A Syrian man drives a home-made toy car in the rebel-held town of Beit Naim, in the eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, on March 7, 2017. #
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A Humvee passes over the body of an ISIS jihadist lying in a street in west Mosul on March 10, 2017 as Iraqi forces advance in the city in the ongoing battle to seize it from ISIS. #
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The carcass of a dead goat lies in the desert in a drought-stricken area near Bandar Beyla, in Somalia on March 8, 2017. Somalia's government has declared the drought a national disaster, and the United Nations estimates that 5 million people in this Horn of Africa nation need aid, amid warnings of a full-blown famine. #
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Camel herders scoop up water in plastic buckets from one of the few watering holes in the area, to water their animals near the drought-affected village of Bandarero, northern Kenya, near Moyale town on the Ethiopian border, on March 3, 2017. The U.N. humanitarian chief, Stephen O'Brien, toured Bandarero on Friday and called on the international community to act to "avert the very worst of the effects of drought and to avert a famine to make sure we don't go from what is deep suffering to a catastrophe." #
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People carry burning bundles of pinewood chips on their shoulders during the "Chienbase" procession on March 5, 2017 in Liestal, northern Switzerland. The procession takes place on the Sunday night after Ash Wednesday through the medieval town center. On this occasion, hundreds of people carry burning bundles of pinewood chips (called Chienbase, the Swiss German word for 'pinewood besom') #
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