A dance on the beach in England, international competition at the 2018 Asian Games, ink on display at the Shanghai Tattoo Extreme & Body Art Expo, the MTV Video Music Awards in New York City, the hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, camels in Inner Mongolia, night patrol in El Salvador, Hurricane Lane seen from orbit, agricultural drones in Japan, lightning over Mexico, and much more
Photos of the Week: Silent Sam, Turbine Down, Mutton Bustin’
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After a guilty verdict on the first count, an unidentified man holds a sign while Natasha Bertrand, a staff writer for The Atlantic, runs out of a U.S. district courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia, on August 21, 2018, the fourth day of jury deliberations in the former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort's trial on bank and tax fraud charges stemming from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russia's role in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. #
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A Nileworks automated drone flies over rice plants, spraying pesticide while diagnosing growth of individual rice stalks, during a demonstration in Tome, Miyagi prefecture, Japan, on August 20, 2018. #
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Police stand guard after the Confederate statue known as Silent Sam was toppled by protesters on campus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on August 20, 2018. #
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The police officer Joselyn Mejia, 27, rides in the back of a pickup during a nighttime police patrol through a market street in central San Salvador, El Salvador, on August 20, 2018. #
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An unidentified man stands with his hands up against a wall after being stopped by Brazilian soldiers during a military operation at the Complexo da Alemão slum, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 22, 2018. Direct confrontations between soldiers and armed traffickers have marked a deepening of the military's role in Rio's security. In operations on Monday, at least 11 suspects and 2 soldiers were killed. #
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A male brown bear scales a fence in the courtyard of Octavian Goga High School in the Transylvanian city of Csikszereda, or Miercurea Ciuc, in Romania, on August 21, 2018. The bear broke into several homes and killed a goat. In the end, the bear was killed by a hunter. #
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Muslim pilgrims pray during the annual hajj pilgrimage outside Namira Mosque on the plains of Arafat, outside the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on August 20, 2018. #
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The Russian couple Dmitry Vasin and Sagdiana Khamzina compete to win the stage category at the World Tango Championship final in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on August 22, 2018. #
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Tear-gas canisters, thrown by Israeli forces, leave trails as they fall onto Palestinian protesters during a demonstration along the border of the Gaza Strip, east of Gaza City, on August 17, 2018. #
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Jeon Hee Sook of South Korea in action with Sera Azuma of Japan at the 2018 Asian Games women's individual foil semifinals in Jakarta, Indonesia, on August 20, 2018. #
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A woman prays over the belly of another woman at a prophetic church held in a closed street market in San Salvador, El Salvador, just after midnight on August 21, 2018. #
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A young Muslim girl dances and runs in the sea as she and her family celebrate Eid al-Adha by watching the sun set at Crosby Beach in Liverpool, England, on August 21, 2018. #
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