Supreme Court confirmation hearings and protests in Washington, D.C., a military dance in China, a tattoo expo in Russia, the West Indian Day Parade in New York, an ice cave in a French glacier, earthquake-triggered landslides in Japan, a 3-D-printed Egyptian-cat-mummy skeleton, red peppers in Turkey, a protest in Greece, a devastating fire in the National Museum of Brazil, and much more
Photos of the Week: Hovercraft Racing, Mud Wallow, Balls of Fire
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Navy Lieutenant Jack McCain, the son of Senator John McCain, is reflected in the wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial as Jack's mother, Cindy McCain, accompanied by Defense Secretary James Mattis (right) and President Donald Trump's Chief of Staff John Kelly (left), departs after laying a wreath at the memorial, in Washington, D.C., on September 1, 2018. #
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The U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh is sworn in to testify during his U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on September 4, 2018. #
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People covered in black grease take part in the traditional festival of the Cascamorras, in Baza, near Granada, Spain, on September 6, 2018. Every year on September 6, a villager from Guadix dresses as an oddball character named "Cascamorras" and travels to the nearby village of Baza, flanked by a team of representatives, to stage an attempt to recapture the statue of the Pieta virgin before returning to Guadix after three days to be punished by the locals for his failure. #
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A child, dressed as Lord Krishna, sits on a doorstep during the Janmashtami festival, which marks the birth anniversary of Lord Krishna, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on September 2, 2018. #
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A newspaper vendor reads an article about the newly designated head of Romania's National Anti-Corruption Directorate, backdropped by an advertisement, at a bus stop in Bucharest, Romania, on September 7, 2018. #
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A glove painted in red stands in a fountain during a protest action titled "Sea Rescue Is Not a Crime" at Athens's central Syntagma Square on September 1, 2018, to denounce Italy's and the European Union's policy regarding immigrants. #
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The European champion Denis Ragot of France speeds up during the F1-race training session at the Hovercraft World Championship on the Bleiloch Dam Reservoir near Saalburg, Germany, on September 6, 2018. #
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A drone photo shows a worker spreading red peppers on a field in Gaziantep, Turkey, on September 6, 2018. After red peppers are separated from their stems, workers spread them on the ground to dry under high temperatures and split them into pieces before sending them through a machine process to made flake red pepper. #
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A 3-D print of the bones of an Egyptian-cat mummy is displayed at the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro on September 5, 2018. About 300 pieces from Brazil's National Museum that were scanned, and some printed in 3-D, could help to rebuild part of the heritage lost in the fire this weekend. #
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Water buffaloes wallow in a muddy pool to escape the summer heat and prevent mosquito bites in Jiaoyuan, Xuan'en county, Hubei province, China, on September 3, 2018. #
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A man participates in the "Bolas de Fuego" (Balls of Fire) festival in Nejapa, El Salvador, on August 31, 2018. Revelers commemorate the fight of Saint Geronimo against the devil with balls of fire. #
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An aerial view of houses damaged by a landslide in Atsuma town, Hokkaido prefecture, Japan, on September 6, 2018, after a powerful 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit the northern Japanese island #
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Visitors walk through a man-made ice cave inside the Mer de Glace valley glacier, one of the largest in the Alps despite substantial melting in recent decades, in Chamonix, France, on August 30, 2018. #
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Costumed dancers participate in the annual West Indian Day Parade on September 3, 2018, in Brooklyn. The parade is one of the biggest celebrations of Caribbean culture in North America. #
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Sheqerie Buqaj, a Kosovar woman, poses after receiving a traditional face painting by the Kosovar Bosnian woman Aziza Sefitagic on September 5, 2018, presenting a wedding tradition of Bosnian women from the Zhupa region during the "Etno Fest" festival in the village of Kukaj, Kosovo. As part of the centuries-old tradition, older women prepare young brides, painting their faces in many layers of color with golden circles to symbolize the cycles of life. Today, this tradition is nearing extinction, as only the 70-year-old Lady Aziza continues preparing young brides in this manner. #
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An activist from the LGBTQ community celebrates after the supreme court's verdict of decriminalizing gay sex and the revocation of the Section 377 law in Bengaluru, India, on September 6, 2018. #
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Airman First Class Italia Sampson closes the door of a vehicle containing the transfer cases containing the remains of U.S. Army Command Sergeant Major Timothy A. Bolyard and U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Diobanjo S. San Agustin at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, on Wednesday, September 5, 2018. According to the Department of Defense, Bolyard, of Thornton, West Virginia, and San Agustin, of National City, California, died while supporting Operation Freedom's Sentinel in Afghanistan. #
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Members of China's People's Liberation Army honor guard stand after the welcoming ceremony for Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on September 1, 2018. #
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Laury Thilleman, the former Miss France 2011, takes part in the Mud Day Lyon-Balcons du Dauphine 2018, a 13-kilometer obstacle race near Lyon, France, on September 1, 2018. #
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A protester is led away by police after disrupting the second day of the confirmation hearing for the Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on September 5, 2018. #
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Ayanna Pressley, a Boston City Council member and a Democratic candidate for Congress, delivers her victory speech at the IBEW Local 103 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, on September 4, 2018. Pressley defeated the incumbent Michael Capuano in the Democratic primary for Massachusetts's Seventh Congressional District. #
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