The removal of Confederate statues in Baltimore, big waves in Brazil, the World Jousting Championships in Australia, violent demonstrations and counter-protests in Charlottesville, daily exercise at a pig farm in China, a newborn mandrill in France, and much more.
Photos of the Week: 8/12–8/18
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Members of the Charlottesville community hold a vigil for Heather Heyer following last Saturday's protest organized by white nationalists that turned deadly at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 16, 2017. #
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A counter-demonstrator uses a lighted spray can against a white nationalist demonstrator at the entrance to Lee Park in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017. #
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A day after the "Unite The Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, organizer Jason Kessler is helped by police while being tackled by a woman after he attempted to speak at a press conference in front of Charlottesville City Hall on August 13, 2017. #
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Looking up toward Big Ben. A view up the spiral staircase within the Elizabeth Tower, consisting of 334 steps, ahead of the bell ceasing to chime on Monday, closed for renovations, at the Palace of Westminster on August 17, 2017 in London, England. #
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A Comfort Woman statue installed in a bus ahead of the 72nd Independence Day on August 14, 2017 in Seoul, South Korea. The statue was originally erected in 2011 in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul and regarded as a symbol of the sex slaves forced to work by the Japanese Imperial Army during WWII. #
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Third generation immigrant from India Chinama Pillay celebrates her 75th birthday as she joins members of the public to take part in celebrating India's 70th Independence Anniversary at the Pietermaritzburg Railway Station in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, on August 15, 2017. The railway station is seen draped in lights depicting the colors of India.The Father of the Indian Nation, Mahatma Gandhi was ejected at the railway station in 1893 after refusing to leave the first class compartment because of his race. #
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Thousands of revellers try to navigate their hand-made rafts in the port of the northern Spanish Basque city of San Sebastian during the "Abordaje" (boarding) festive event, called by "Donostiako Piratak" (Pirates of San Sebastian), on August 12, 2017. The "Abordaje" is celebrated during San Sebastian's Great Week Festival, that runs from August 12 to 19. #
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A surfer catches a wave during strong winter swells on the Atlantic Ocean on August 11, 2017 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Waves were measured as high as thirteen feet in Rio today in the middle of Brazil's winter season. #
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Immigrants listen to the National Anthem at a naturalization ceremony held in the observatory of the One World Trade Center on August 15, 2017 in New York City. Thirty immigrants took the oath of citizenship to become American citizens at One World Trade, which at 1,776 feet high is the tallest building in the Western hemisphere. #
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Workers remove the monuments to Robert E. Lee, commander of the pro-slavery Confederate army in the American Civil War, and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, a Confederate general, from Wyman Park in Baltimore, Maryland, on August 16, 2017. #
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Syrian rebel fighters from the Faylaq al-Rahman brigade hold a position inside a tunnel in Ain Tarma, in the eastern Ghouta area, a rebel stronghold east of the capital Damascus, on August 16, 2017. Earlier in the week air strikes pummeled rebel-held parts of the Jobar district of Damascus and the adjacent district of Ain Tarma. #
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A man grimaces walking by the "Lettuce Ladies", a group of PETA activists, during an event promoting a vegan lifestyle, in downtown Bucharest, Romania, on August 4, 2017. #
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A woman walks in front of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, a copy of the original early 19th century building blown up on Stalin's orders in 1931 to make way for a swimming pool, in downtown Moscow, on August 17, 2017. #
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Protesters march down North Broad street in Philadelphia, in response to a white nationalist rally held in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend, on August 16, 2017. #
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An opposition supporter aims a sling at Kenyan police forces as the two sides clashed in the Kibera slum on August 12, 2017 in Nairobi, Kenya. Demonstrations turned violent in some areas throughout Kenya after Uhuru Kenyatta was named to his second term in Kenya's 2017 presidential election. #
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Medieval jousters Luke Binks (left) and Andrew McKinnon, pose for a photograph in Sydney, Australia, on August 16, 2017, during a photo call for the World Jousting Championships to take place in Sydney on September 23 and 24. #
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A mural adorns the wall of a cemetery that was painted by Polish artist Lukasz Zasadni, in the City of the Dead, a slum where half a million people live among tombs, in Cairo, Egypt, on August 14, 2017. #
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Bangladeshi policemen take cover following a blast as they try to flush out suspected Islamist radicals who had holed up in a building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on August 15, 2017. #
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A family that stated they are from Haiti walk toward the US-Canada border to cross into Canada from Champlain, New York, on August 11, 2017. The Canadian Armed Forces has set up a small encampment near the border in Lacolle, Quebec, to accommodate asylum seekers fleeing the United States. #
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A woman uses a float in the Tumon Bay area of Guam on August 15, 2017. The Guam governor's office said that no changes in tourism figures were anticipated following the threat of a planned North Korean missile strike near the US island territory. #
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