The continuing battle against ISIS in Iraq, much-needed aid reaches some far-flung corners of Puerto Rico, horror and mourning in Las Vegas, legal same-sex weddings in Germany, Serbian paprika, and much more.
Photos of the Week: 9/30–10/6
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Air Force One departs Las Vegas past the broken windows on the Mandalay Bay hotel, where shooter Stephen Paddock conducted his mass shooting along the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada, on October 4, 2017. #
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A girl wearing a gas mask exits from a tent full of smoke during a festival marking the 85th anniversary of civil defense in Russia, in St. Petersburg, on October 4, 2017. #
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Sgt. 1st Class Jeff Flynn of the New Jersey State Police passed a wayward cow on his way to headquarters on October 5, 2017, in Stockton, New Jersey. Flynn said the cow's farmer soon arrived and with the help of another trooper, they managed to get the cow back to its farm on the other side of the highway. #
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Independence supporters march during a demonstration in downtown Barcelona, Spain, on October 2, 2017. Catalan leaders accused Spanish police of brutality and repression when they tried to block a referendum on Catalan independence on Sunday. #
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Police officers advise people to take cover near the scene of a shooting near the Mandalay Bay resort and casino on the Las Vegas Strip on October 1, 2017, in Las Vegas. #
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A pair of cowboy boots lies in the street outside the concert venue after a mass shooting at a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip on October 1, 2017. A lone gunman fired automatic weapons into a gathering of 22,000 country music fans killing 58 people and wounding hundreds more. #
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People pray during a candlelight vigil for victims of the Route 91 music festival mass shooting next to the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, on October 3, 2017. #
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People hold candles and flashlights into the air during a memorial for Rachael Parker and Sandy Casey, Manhattan Beach city employees and victims of the October 1 Las Vegas mass shooting, in Manhattan Beach, California, on October 4, 2017. #
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Veronica Hartfield, widow of slain Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Officer Charleston Hartfield, and their son Ayzayah Hartfield, 15, attend a vigil for Charleston Hartfield at Police Memorial Park on October 5, 2017, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Charleston Hartfield, who was off duty at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival on October 1, was killed when Stephen Paddock opened fire on the crowd killing at least 58 people and injuring more than 450. #
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People use their phones to take photos of the L'Oreal fashion show on the Champs Elysees during a public event organized by the French cosmetics group L'Oreal as part of Paris Fashion Week on October 1, 2017. #
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A rodeo clown is chased down by a bull during the Deni Rodeo at the 2017 Deni Ute Muster on September 29, 2017, in Deniliquin, Australia. The annual Deniliquin Ute Muster is the largest in Australia, attracting more than 18,000 people to the rural town of Deniliquin to celebrate all things Australian and the icon of the ute (a car-truck hybrid) in a weekend of music, competitions, and camping. #
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A black bear checks out his surroundings in Granite Basin in Juneau, Alaska, on October 4, 2017. Low-lying blueberry bushes dotted the landscape, and this bear and another were seen in the basin rooting around for food. #
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A monkey climbs over rubble left in the wake of Hurricane Maria on Cayo Santiago, known as Monkey Island, in Puerto Rico, one of the world’s most important sites for research into how primates think, socialize, and evolve, on October 4, 2017. The storm destroyed virtually everything on the island, stripping it of vegetation, wrecking the monkeys’ metal drinking troughs, and crushing the piers that University of Puerto Rico workers use to bring in bags of monkey chow, brown pellets of processed food that complete the primates’ natural vegetation diet. Read more on rescuing Puerto Rico's Monkey Island. #
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An aerial view of the volcanic cone that has formed in Lake Vui near the summit of Ambae Island, Vanuatu, on October 1, 2017. The evacuation of Vanuatu island was continuing on October 2 even after scientists said an erupting volcano had stabilized. A makeshift fleet of vessels ranging from large landing craft to tiny water taxis was moving thousands of people from Ambae Island to other nearby islands in the Pacific archipelago. #
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Rohingya boys reach for humanitarian aid as the Bangladesh military keeps things under control on October 2, 2017, near Balukhali, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Over a half a million Rohingya refugees have fled into Bangladesh since late August during the outbreak of violence in Rakhine state causing a humanitarian crisis in the region with continued challenges for aid agencies. #
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A woman collapses from exhaustion as Rohingya refugees arrive by a wooden boat from Burma, on the shore of Shah Porir Dwip, in Teknaf, near Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh, on October 1, 2017. #
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A fox yawns in the morning as it sits elevated above the ground after climbing up onto the top of a wooden arbor covered in climbing plants in a domestic garden in southwest London on October 3, 2017. #
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An Iranian Shi'ite Muslim woman looks on after rubbing mud on her body during the "Kharrah Mali" (Mud Rubbing) ritual to mark the Ashura religious ceremony in the city of Khorramabad, some 470 km southwest of Tehran, early in the morning on October 1, 2017. Mud rubbing is a ritual that is held in Khorramabad every year to commemorate the seventh century slaying of the Prophet Mohammed's grandson Imam Hussein. #
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A dog barks hidden among threads of drying red paprika peppers in the village of Donja Lokosnica, near the city of Leskovac, Serbia, on September 25, 2017. Donja Lokosnica is the Serbian "capital of paprika," since almost all of the 1,300 inhabitants are involved in growing paprika. As autumn approaches, the whole village turns red, because of the many threads of dried peppers that hang around Lokosnica, waiting for their winter use. #
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People work at a construction site for prototypes of President Trump's border wall with Mexico in San Diego, California, in this picture taken from the Mexican side of the border in Tijuana, Mexico, on October 3, 2017. #
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Same-sex couples kiss their partners after getting married in the town hall after the German parliament approved marriage equality in a historic vote this summer, in Hamburg, Germany, on October 1, 2017. #
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Displaced men from Hawija stand against a wall facing away in order not to see security officers at a Kurdish screening center in Dibis, Iraq, on October 3, 2017. They are brought to the center for a screening process before being moved to camps for displaced people in the Kurdish region of Iraq, during the continuing battle between Iraqi forces and ISIS fighters. #
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A Libyan migrant rests on the migrant search and rescue vessel MV Seefuchs of the German NGO Sea-Eye after being rescued south of the Al Jurf Oilfield, off the coast of Libya, on October 2, 2017. #
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Carlos Pesquera hugs U.S. Army 1st Special Force Command SFC Charles Fernandez after receiving food and water for the first time in the wake of the devastation left across the island by Hurricane Maria on October 5, 2017, in Utuado, Puerto Rico. The neighborhood was cut off from help for about two weeks and there is still a need for basic life necessities after the Category 4 hurricane passed through. #
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Two women, one with a Catalan independence flag wrapped around her shoulders, the other with a Spanish flag, walk together as demonstrators gather in downtown Barcelona, Spain, on October 3, 2017. Thousands of people demonstrated in Barcelona to protest what they say was police brutality during a referendum on Catalonia's secession from Spain that was previously declared illegal by Spain's Constitutional Court. #
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