The Ministry of Fun Santa School in England opens for the season, a red fox meets a stegosaurus in Siberia, an earthquake causes destruction in Iran, judging Scotch Pies in Scotland, protesting a proposed total ban on abortions in Brazil, Australians vote to allow same-sex marriage, and much more.
Photos of the Week: 11/11–11/17
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, right, and his wife Louise Linton, hold up a sheet of new $1 bills, the first currency notes bearing his and U.S. Treasurer Jovita Carranza's signatures, at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) in Washington, D.C., on November 15, 2017. At left is BEP Director Leonard Olijar. #
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7-year-old Ismot Ara, a sick Rohingya refugee girl, sits in the doorway of her makeshift shelter at the Kutupalong refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on November 12, 2017. #
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Ash spews from the Popocatepetl volcano as seen from Tepehitec community in Tlaxcala State, Mexico, on November 10, 2017. The volcano, located about 55 kilometers from Mexico City, has been recording numerous low-intensity eruptions since late September. #
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Australians have voted for marriage laws to be changed to allow same-sex marriage. Rebecca Davies and her partner Paula Van Bruggen celebrate in the crowd as the result is announced during the Official Melbourne Postal Survey Result Announcement at the State Library of Victoria on November 15, 2017, in Melbourne. Despite the victory, the outcome of Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey is not binding, and the process to change current laws will move to the Australian Parliament in Canberra. #
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A woman poses for a selfie backdropped by the carcass of a humpback whale on Ipanema Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 15, 2017. Biologist Rafael Carvalho said the whale appears to have been dead for a few days. Authorities were urging beachgoers who had flocked to Ipanema on a national holiday to stay away from the animal. #
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Supporters of Kenyan's opposition party National Super Alliance (NASA) throw water on a burning bus during a demonstration on November 17, 2017, in Nairobi. Three men were shot dead as opposition leader Raila Odinga returned to Kenya on November 17, with police firing tear gas at his convoy and supporters, an Agence France-Presse reporter saw. #
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Judge Graeme Sharp poses as he views the entries by Scottish bakers for the 19th Annual Scotch Pie Championships on November 15, 2017, in Dunfermline, Scotland. Butchers and bakers throughout the country have entered the most prestigious pie competition in the world, as judges gather to each take a bite and pick out the winner. #
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A rainbow briefly lights up over downtown Seattle and the Space Needle between rain and windstorms on November 13, 2017. Thousands of people lost power in western Washington state after high winds swept through overnight. #
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A woman places flowers on coffins during the funeral service for 26 Nigerian women at the Salerno cemetery, southern Italy, on November 17, 2017. The women died last week while crossing the Mediterranean sea in an attempt to reach Italy. #
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Thousands of heavy-duty trucks loaded with coal sit in a line up to 130 kilometers long at the Mongolia-China border on the only road in this part of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, on October 29, 2017. A rise in coal prices and exports to China have driven traffic up, but high levels of illegal smuggling have led to stricter and lengthier border checks for each vehicle, making the wait longer still. The journey can take more than a week. Photo released on November 14, part of this larger Reuters story. #
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Rohingya Muslims on a raft made from plastic containers cross over the Naf River from Myanmar into Bangladesh, near Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, on November 12, 2017. More than 600,000 members of the Muslim minority have fled to Bangladesh since August, when Rohingya insurgents attacked Myanmar police and paramilitary posts, and security forces responded with a scorched-earth campaign against Rohingya villages. #
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6-year-old Gabriella Nijjer poses next to an ice sculpture at the launch of Hyde Park Winter Wonderland's Magical Ice Kingdom in London, England, on November 16, 2017. #
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U.S. Army Reserve LTC. John Ruckart folds the American flag over the casket of U.S. Army Sergeant Richard "Tiny" Sowell as his remains are buried at Woodlawn Cemetery on November 10, 2017, in West Palm Beach, Florida. Sgt. Sowell was killed in July of 1944 when a Japanese mortar hit him during the battle for the Japanese island of Saipan. He had been buried as an unknown soldier in Hawaii until last year, when a DNA match from a family member identified him. #
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Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral is illuminated in Paris on November 11, 2017, during a light show as part of the Armistice Day commemorations marking the end of World War I. #
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99-year-old World War II veteran Les Cherrington attends the annual Armistice Day Service at The National Memorial Arboretum on November 11, 2017, in Alrewas, England. #
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Zoo employee Vlada Zapolskaya walks past a figure of a dinosaur with Ralf, a 1.5-year-old red fox, during a training session. The training is part of a program which tames wild animals for research and interaction with visitors at the Royev Ruchey Zoo in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Russia, on November 14, 2017. Ralf was born at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk, which experimented on fox domestication through long-term selection and breeding for more than 50 years, according to zoo representatives. #
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A member of a pro-Syrian regime force fires a machine gun as a comrade holds his ammunition belt during an advance towards rebel-held positions west of Aleppo, near Abu al-Zuhur military airport in the Idlib province countryside in Syria, on November 11, 2017. #
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A car is wedged into the entrance of a flooded house after the water receded in the town of Mandra, western Athens, Greece, on November 16, 2017. Greece's fire department says rescue crews were searching for several people reported missing in the western Athens area following major flash flooding that left at least 14 people dead. #
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Rescuers attempt to push stranded whales back into the ocean at Ujong Kareng beach in Aceh province, Indonesia, on November 13, 2017. An official said 10 whales were stranded at the beach and attracted hundreds of onlookers, who posed for pictures with them. #
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Performers take part in the Land of Green Ginger Unleashed procession presented by the Hull U.K. City of Culture 2017 in Kingston upon Hull, England, on November 11, 2017. #
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A damaged building is seen following an earthquake in Sarpol-e Zahab county in Kermanshah, Iran, on November 13, 2017. A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck along the Iran-Iraq border on Sunday night, killing at least 500 people and injuring another 8,000. #
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Professor Pawel Spiewak, Director of the Jewish Historical Institute, guides visitors around the permanent exhibition What We Were Unable To Shout Out To The World from the underground archive of the Warsaw Ghetto, a few days before its public opening in the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland, on November 13, 2017. The Holocaust-era Emanuel Ringelblum Archive is an unparalleled trove of documents chronicling everyday life in the Warsaw Ghetto. The documents were hidden from the Nazis in milk jugs buried in the heart of the then-occupied Polish capital. #
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Villagers move a cone of sticks as a man stands on top during a ritual called "Mekotek," a traditional stick-fighting ceremony held every six months to celebrate the triumph of good over evil, in Bali, Indonesia on November 11, 2017. #
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Founder and instructor James Lovell talks through the finer points of outfit details as performers dressed as Santa Claus and an Elf take part in a posed classroom media photocall at the Ministry of Fun Santa School at the Ragged School Museum in east London on November 16, 2017. The Ministry of Fun Santa School is Britain's only genuine training school for professional Santas, preparing them to help out in grottos, department stores, attractions, and events over the Christmas period. #
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Military vehicles and soldiers patrol the streets in Harare, Zimbabwe, November 15, 2017. Longtime leader Robert Mugabe was placed under house arrest in an apparent coup this week. #
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The inside of the historic Durham Cathedral is illuminated by a light installation titled "Methods" by artist Pablo Valbuena during a media preview evening ahead of the Durham Lumiere event on November 14, 2017, in Durham, England. #
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A woman protests a proposal for a total ban on abortions in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 13, 2017. Abortion is currently allowed in cases of rape, a pregnancy that threatens a woman's life, or a fetus with anencephaly, but a congressional committee adopted a measure that would remove those exceptions. #
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Smoke rises following an airstrike on the rebel-held besieged town of Harasta, in the Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, on November 15, 2017. #
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