Jacaranda trees in Sydney, a ruined French castle seeking adoption, a terror attack in New York, a rally race in Wales, spooky scenes from Halloween and the Day of the Dead, a crab-shaped museum in China, and much more.
Photos of the Week: 10/28–11/3
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An aerial view of the ruined castle of La Mothe-Chandeniers in Les Trois-Moutiers, France, on November 3, 2017. Specializing in the rescue of old stone structures, the crowdfunding site Dartagnans.fr and the association Adopte un château recently launched a collective effort to adopt the ruined castle and give it a new life, hoping to raise 500,000 euros. #
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Photographers help a Rohingya refugee to climb out of the Nad River as they cross the Burma-Bangladesh border in Palong Khali, near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on November 1, 2017. On this day, Reuters photographers Hannah McKay and Adnan Abidi found themselves in front of hundreds of refugees struggling to cross the river. Mckay: "There was no end to the people. And we were just photographing everyone coming towards us. Then this woman appeared. She got to the point where she needed to get up to the footpath where we were. But she was just exhausted. She didn't have anything left to get herself up. Two refugee men on her level were trying to push her up, which was when we reached out to help. Another Reuters photographer, Adnan Abidi, took a hand. Another photographer took another and I got her leg when she got within range. It was a case of dragging her. She lay there for a few minutes and then I have no idea what happened to her. There were so many people around and it was chaos." #
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Ali Johar, 35, holds the hand of his daughter Minara, 4. She died at a hospital in Shamlapur near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, after a boat of Rohingya refugees fleeing from Burma capsized on October 31, 2017. #
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A bird stands on a white cross at the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery and Memorial in Nettuno, Rome, Italy, on November 2, 2017. Pope Francis celebrated a mass at the cemetery and visited the Fosse Ardeatine monument, the site of a mass execution in which 300 Italian civilians were killed by Nazi troops in 1944. #
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A girls yawns while observing the area from a mound in the Mathare slums of Nairobi, a stronghold of Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, on October 28, 2017. Kenya was stuck in limbo, as a repeat election remained on hold in flashpoint opposition areas. Kenyans picked up the pieces from violent protests that have claimed nine lives. #
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Natalia Stratton, left, and Sarah Santee pose for their friend as they blow bubble gum bubbles. They stand at the landmark "gum wall" in Post Alley at Pike Place Market, Seattle, on October 31, 2017. First cleaned in 2015 after 20 years of collecting gum stuck there by locals and tourists, the wall is now cleaned annually. The gum stuck there now has collected in just the last six weeks. #
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Multiple bicycles are seen crushed along a bike path in Lower Manhattan after a man driving a rented pickup truck mowed down pedestrians and cyclists in a terror attack in New York City on October 31, 2017. #
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Eric Fleming, 41, stops to express his condolences near a bicycle where people have placed flowers to remember the victims of the terrorist attack in New York City on November 2, 2017. #
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A woman places a candle during a vigil outside the Polytechnic School in Rosario, Argentina, on November 1, 2017. Five victims killed in the bike path attack near the World Trade Center in New York were part of a group of friends celebrating the 30th anniversary of their graduation from the Polytechnic School of Rosario, Argentina. #
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A replica equestrian statue of King Edward VII is nudged into position by Jon McCurley of art duo Life Of A Craphead, allowing it to float down the Don River during a performance in Toronto, Ontario, on October 29, 2017. #
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A woman reacts next to a portrait of a victim of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin's purges, at a memorial where victims were buried in the woods on the outskirts of Saint Petersburg, Russia, on October 30, 2017. Russia observed the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions as people honored the memory of the thousands who perished under the Soviet Communist regime. #
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The Los Angeles Dodgers warm up before the fifth game of the 2017 World Series against the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas, on October 29, 2017. #
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Prima ballerina Deborah Ribeiro, soloist of the Rio de Janeiro's Municipal Theatre, performs during a protest by the theatre's artists against both the non-payment of their salaries and the economic crisis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on October 31, 2017. #
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Samantha Hanahentzen, 17, poses for a #MeToo portrait in Detroit, Michigan, on October 29, 2017. Hanahentzen said: "When I saw the #MeToo hashtag I was just coming to terms with my sexual assault. It happened when I was in middle school by one of my teachers. It took me a while to come forward with what had happened to me and then when I went to the administration I was told I didn't have enough evidence to prove anything and I should just keep quiet about it because I and the school could be sued for slander if I went public with my experience. It was really silencing because when I was being assaulted it was that stereotypical line of 'let's keep this between me and you.' And then when I found the courage to come out with out I was told again 'let's keep this quiet.' So for me too, it was a way to have a voice and it was a way for me to see that I'm not the only one that has gone through this and that women all around the world have all experienced the same thing. It was really unifying." #
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Policemen and residents help a young schoolgirl. She inhaled tear gas as the police were trying to hold off a group of opposition supporters protesting in Kawangware on October 30, 2017, in Nairobi, Kenya. #
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Revelers hold fireworks as they take part in a "Correfoc," or "run with fire," party in Cornella Llobregat, on the outskirts of Barcelona, Spain, on October 28, 2017. Correfocs originate from a form of medieval street theater that represents the battle of good against evil through parades using fireworks and effigies of the devil. #
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A woman on a bike gestures with her middle finger as a motorcade carrying President Donald Trump departs Trump National Golf Course in Sterling, Virginia, on October 28, 2017. #
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Aerial view of a crab-shaped eco museum under construction on the shore of Yangcheng Lake in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China, on October 31, 2017. The crabs produced in Yangcheng Lake are sometimes known as "Chinese Mitten Crabs." The stainless-steel museum is 75 meters long and 16 meters high with three floors which will provide residents with a place for recreation and leisure after completion. #
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A woman with her face painted like a Catrina participates in a Day of the Dead march calling for justice for victims of femicide, in Mexico City, on November 1, 2017. #
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A Syrian man stands in a destroyed flat at the site of government air strikes which killed at least four civilians (including a child) on November 2, 2017, in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region outside Damascus, Syria. #
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A man holds an umbrella as he stands on a boat, which had capsized with a group of Rohingya refugees at Bailakhali, near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on October 31, 2017. #
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A descendant of a soldier from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) takes part in a dress rehearsal of a reenactment of the famous World War One cavalry charge known as "Battle of Beersheba," during which ANZAC soldiers conquered Turkish forces and helped the British capture the Holy Land in 1917, in Beersheba, southern Israel, on October 30, 2017. #
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A woman reacts amid the rubble of her home in a slum which was razed to the ground by local authorities in a bid to relocate the residents in Delhi, India, on November 2, 2017. #
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Visitors gather to look and photograph jacaranda trees on McDougall Street in Kirribilli, Sydney, Australia, on November 1, 2017. Jacaranda trees are not native to Australia, but can be found around Sydney and are popular for their stunning purple blooms in spring, which draw hundreds of tourists and locals alike to view their wonderful color. #
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Italian Paralympic Champion Beatrice Bebe Vio poses after a press conference to present the 2017 World Fencing Championships at Rome's Fiumicino Airport on October 31, 2017. Rome will host the Wheelchair Fencing World Championship from November 6 to November 12, 2017. #
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A picture taken during a training session off the coast of Le Havre, northwestern France, on October 31, 2017, shows the Vivo a Beira monohull IMOCA, bearing a work by French street artist JR on the sail, several days prior to the start of the 13th Transat Jacques Vabre sailing race, from Le Havre in France to Salvador de Bahia in Brazil. #
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