Unbelievable wreckage left across the Caribbean by massive hurricanes, an epic refugee crisis in Bangladesh, huge protests in St. Louis, Manila, and Barcelona, and the aftermath of a terrible earthquake in Mexico City that is being met with an enormous volunteer effort.
Photos of the Week: 9/16–9/22
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches the launch of a Hwasong-12 missile in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency on September 16, 2017. #
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Rescue workers search for survivors at an apartment building located on Amsterdam street, that collapsed during an earthquake in the Condesa neighborhood of Mexico City, Mexico, on September 21, 2017. Tuesday's magnitude 7.1 earthquake has stunned central Mexico, killing more than 200 people as buildings collapsed in plumes of dust. #
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This aerial view shows rescuers, firefighters, policemen, soldiers, and volunteers searching for survivors in a flattened building in Mexico City on September 20, 2017, a day after a strong quake hit. #
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A rescue dog is helped to recuperate by volunteers after he became exhausted during search and rescue operations at a building that collapsed in Tuesday's earthquake in the Ciudad Jardin neighborhood of Mexico City on September 21, 2017. Thousands of professionals and volunteers are working frantically at dozens of wrecked buildings across the capital and nearby states looking for survivors. #
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A resident uses a cell phone light to show a pile of fallen brick inside an earthquake damaged building in the Roma neighborhood of Mexico City on September 20, 2017. The fifteen families who lived in the building are either camping out front or have gone to stay with relatives after they say inspectors declared it unsafe. Pointing to decades of neglect by the building's rental corporation, they say they will camp out indefinitely, insisting that the government recognize their rights to the property and provide them a suitable place to live. #
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Volunteers pick up the rubble from a building that collapsed during Tuesday's earthquake in the Condesa neighborhood of Mexico City on September 19, 2017. Thousands of survivors quickly rallied across the city, clambering over grotesque ruins of buildings and joining professional rescue workers to try to save friends, neighbors, and strangers. #
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A plane passes as firefighters attempt to extinguish a burning private airplane after it crashed at Ataturk Airport on September 21, 2017, in Istanbul. Turkey's main international airport was closed to traffic on September 21 after the jet crashed on landing and burst into flames, reports said. The plane, which had four people on board, was making an emergency landing at Ataturk International Airport, the DHA news agency said. All four were injured but the fire was brought under control, NTV television said. #
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A Turkish Navy diver in an atmospheric diving suit (ADS) surfaces after a dive aboard the Turkish Navy's submarine rescue mothership TCG Alemdar during the Dynamic Monarch-17, a NATO-sponsored submarine escape and rescue exercise, off the Turkish Naval base of Aksaz, Turkey, on September 20, 2017. #
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From left, sisters Melina, 17, Tiffany Baker, 12, and Jajuan Dunkins, 17, join other juggalos, as supporters of the rap group Insane Clown Posse are known, in front of the Reflecting Pool along the National Mall in Washington, D.C., during a rally on September 16, 2017. The event was to demand that the FBI rescind its classification of the juggalos as "loosely organized hybrid gang." #
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Hundreds of soldiers hold placards to create a mosaic of Petronilo Monroy's allegorical figure La Constitucion, during the annual Independence Day military parade in Mexico City's main square, on September 16, 2017. Mexico is marking the 207th anniversary of its independence from Spain. #
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Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen, right, of Finland collides with teammate Sebastian Vettel of Germany at the start of the Singapore Formula One Grand Prix on the Marina Bay City Circuit Singapore on September 17, 2017. #
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Rahima Khatun, 30, stands next to her makeshift shelter in the overcrowded Balukhali camp on September 17, 2017, in Balukhali, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Rahima was hiding in the forest in Burma, then walked four days to reach Bangladesh. More than 400,000 Rohingya refugees have fled into Bangladesh since late August during the outbreak of violence in Burma's Rakhine state. Recent satellite images released by Amnesty International provided evidence that security forces were trying to push the minority Muslim group out of the country. According to reports, the Rohingya crisis has left at least 1,000 people dead, including children and infants. Dozens of Rohingya Muslims have drowned when their ill-equipped, overloaded boat capsized in rough waters. #
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Rohingya Muslim women, who crossed over from Burma into Bangladesh, stretch their arms out to collect sanitary products distributed by aid agencies near the Balukhali refugee camp in Bangladesh, on September 17, 2017. #
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12-year-old Kurshida holds a drawing she made at a CODEC and UNICEF "child friendly space" on September 21, 2017, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Kurshida fled to Bangladesh from Bourashidapara village in Burma almost a month ago. Her drawing depicts a scene that she witnessed while fleeing her village; the military shooting everywhere, lighting her home on fire, cutting her niece's throat with a machete while she slept, her newborn sister being shot, aircraft dropping bombs, and her neighbors being shot while they tried to flee. Over 230,000 child refugees have fled into Bangladesh since late August during the outbreak of violence in Rakhine state and are now in urgent need of help, according to UNICEF. With children making up around 60 percent of the 420,000 Rohingya that have fled into Bangladesh, many arrived in the makeshift tents highly traumatized after seeing family members killed and homes set on fire. Aid agencies like UNICEF are offering counseling for Rohingya children and have set up spaces for them to play and relax. They have so far counted more than 1,400 children who have crossed the border with no parents at all, and many children are displaying signs of trauma, such as shaking and the inability to interact with other people. #
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An Indian man collects pieces of an iron sheet damaged by a mortar shell allegedly fired from the Pakistan side of the border in the Arnia sector near the India-Pakistan international border, about 47 kilometers (30 miles) from Jammu, India, on September 17, 2017. Pakistani soldiers on Saturday night fired mortar shells and automatic rifles at border posts in five places in Arnia sector, officials said. #
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Fishermen pull up a live 2.5-meter caiman in their net in the Western Amazon region, Brazil, on September 20, 2017. The fishermen were fishing for a large river fish called arapaima, but sometimes caimans become stuck in the nets as well. #
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Thousands of protesters gather outside the Catalan region's economy ministry building during a raid by Spanish police on government offices in Barcelona, Spain, on September 20, 2017. #
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Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jewish men are sprayed with water during clashes with police at a protest against the detention of a member of their community who refuses to serve in the Israeli army in Jerusalem on September 17, 2017. #
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Volunteers collect garbage along the coast of Manila bay during the annual International Coastal Cleanup Day in Paranaque city, Metro Manila, Philippines, on September 16, 2017. #
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People walk past smashed boats on September 16, 2017, at Marigot shipyard on the French Caribbean island of Saint Martin after the island was hit by Hurricane Irma. The Caribbean island of St. Martin was a place of spectacular inequalities before Hurricane Irma flattened rich and poor neighborhoods alike—but some residents now dream of a fresh start. Ten days after the storm devastated the island, cleaning up and reconstruction remain a priority for St. Martin, although repairing roads and buildings before the high season, which usually starts in November and runs until April, seems nearly impossible. #
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A photo taken on September 17, 2017, shows a woman sitting in a room without a roof or windows at the Alizea residence in Mont Vernon, on the French Caribbean island of Saint Martin, after the passage of Hurricane Irma. Almost two weeks after Hurricane Irma slammed into St. Martin, killing 15 people, the French-Dutch Caribbean island has begun to take small steps toward reconstruction. Out on the roads, soldiers and volunteers work side by side to clear debris clogging the streets, stocking branches, metal sheets, and other rubble in long piles along the embankment. #
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Vessels that sank during Hurricane Irma are seen in a Saint John bay, 12 days after the devastating storm raked the island, near St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, on September 16, 2017. #
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A photo taken on September 22, 2017, shows the 42.5-meter-high titanium monument of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, overlooking the roofs of Moscow buildings. #
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Municipal workers try to retrieve the lid of a manhole to prevent pedestrians from falling in, in Mumbai, India, on September 20, 2017. Incessant rainfall in India's commercial capital has affected air and rail traffic, and schools and colleges remained shut for the day. #
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Hundreds of protesters march towards a Manila park for a huge rally to call for an end to the killings in the so-called "war on drugs" of President Rodrigo Duterte and his alleged tyrannical rule of the country on September 21, 2017, in Manila, Philippines. Thousands of protesters were marking the anniversary of the 1972 martial law declaration by late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos with an outcry against what they say is the current president's authoritarian tendencies and his brutal crackdown on illegal drugs. #
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Demonstrators hold up their mobile phones as they continue to protest for a fourth day after the not-guilty verdict in the murder trial of Jason Stockley, a former St. Louis police officer charged with the 2011 shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith, who was black, in St. Louis, Missouri, on September 18, 2017. #
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Jared Stein (left) and Daniel Levitch (right) blow the shofar as Gillian Levitch, 4, watches at a Tashlich ceremony, a Rosh Hashanah ritual to symbolically cast away sins, during the Nashuva Spiritual Community Jewish New Year celebration on Venice Beach in Los Angeles, California, on September 21, 2017. #
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