An orphaned lion cub in Turkey, wildfires in Bolivia, ongoing protests in Hong Kong, a performance by Lizzo in New Jersey, a mudflat horse race in Germany, the Tango World Championship in Buenos Aires, La Tomatina in Spain, bog snorkeling in Wales, the Soldier Hollow Classic Sheepdog Championship in Utah, and much more.
Photos of the Week: Alpine Opera, Japanese Dunes, Weed Museum
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A young Rohingya is seen during a rainstorm at the Nayapara refugee camp on August 21, 2019, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Rohingya refugees said on August 21 that they did not want to return to Myanmar without their rights and citizenship, with repatriation set to start on August 22. August 25 marked the second anniversary of the Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh after Myanmar's military crackdown on the ethnic Muslim minority forced over 700,000 to flee to Bangladesh from violence and torture. The United Nations has stated that it was a textbook example of ethnic cleansing. #
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Birds are pictured as the sun rises amid smoke from a burning tract of Amazon jungle as it is cleared by loggers and farmers near Porto Velho, Brazil, on August 28, 2019. #
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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg arrives in the U.S. aboard the Malizia II, a zero-carbon yacht, after a 15-day journey across the Atlantic, on August 28, 2019, in New York. #
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One of about 300 hundred sheep leaps from a truck for this weekend's annual Soldier Hollow Classic Sheepdog Championship in Midway, Utah, on August 28, 2019. Handlers will send their dogs to herd sheep, via command, from a hilltop downward, through gates, and eventually into a corral in front of the stands. #
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Athletes begin the swim portion of the 2019 Ironman 70.3 Maine triathlon in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, on August 25, 2019. The race leads competitors along a 1.2-mile swim, 56-mile bike ride, and 13.1-mile run throughout the New England countryside. #
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People walk past decaying busts of former U.S. presidents near the mulching facility where they now reside in Williamsburg, Virginia, on August 25, 2019. Howard Hankins rescued the giant busts from the closed Presidents Park in Colonial Williamsburg when he was commissioned to destroy them. #
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A horse rider competes during the traditional "Duhner Wattrennen" mudflat race in Cuxhaven, Germany, on August 25, 2019. The traditional "horse race on the seabed" has been held since 1902. #
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Andres Uran and Estefania Arango, from Colombia, compete in the Stage category final at the annual Tango Dance World Championship in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on August 21, 2019. #
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Barcelona's French forward Antoine Griezmann celebrates after scoring a second goal during the Spanish League football match between Barcelona and Real Betis at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on August 25, 2019. #
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A Meerkat sits on a scale to be weighed during the London Zoo's annual weigh-in, on August 22, 2019. Home to more than 650 different species, zookeepers regularly record the heights and weights of all the creatures at ZSL London Zoo as a key way of monitoring the residents' overall wellbeing. #
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A man wearing a giant Boris Johnson head digs a grave at the foot of a pretend tombstone outside Downing Street in London, England, on August 28, 2019. Britain's Queen Elizabeth approved the U.K. government's request to suspend Parliament amid a growing crisis over Brexit. Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke to the queen on Wednesday to request an end to the current Parliament session in September. #
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A drone photo shows newly graduated cadets of the Isiklar Non-Commissioned Officer Vocational College as they attend their graduation ceremony in Bursa, Turkey, on August 24, 2019. #
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A woman takes a photo at a display in the "Weedmaps Museum of Weed" on August 23, 2019, in Los Angeles, California. The 30,000-square-foot museum, which includes historical artifacts and art installations, explores the legacy of cannabis consumption, prohibition, culture and medicinal use. #
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People visit the Tottori Sand Dunes on August 27, 2019 in Tottori, Japan. The Tottori Sand Dunes form the only large dune system in Japan, and were created by sediment deposits carried by the Sendai River into the Sea of Japan. Sea currents and wind brought the sand from the sea floor to the shore, where the wind constantly rearranges the shape. The dunes, about 90 miles northwest of Kyoto, have existed for over 100,000 years but are now decreasing due to a post-war government reforestation program and concrete barriers erected to protect the coast from tsunamis which have disrupted the currents responsible for bringing the sand to shore. Although authorities have begun measures to protect the dunes, including dumping sand off the shore in the hope that it will wash ashore, as well as employing the manual removal of encroaching grassy areas, the result is as yet unclear. #
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An armadillo, which has been blinded by the heat from a fire, according to veterinarian Jerjes Suarez, walks on the grounds of the Guarani Nation Ecological Conservation Area Nembi Guasu in the Charagua region, an area where wildfires have destroyed acres of forest, in Bolivia, on August 26, 2019. #
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A hiker enjoys a free concert with some of the world's most famous opera pieces by the Verona Arena Choir near the top of Monte Baldo near Malcesine, Italy, on August 21, 2019. The event was organized to introduce opera to locals and tourists alike. Many opera lovers took the cable car or made the hike up to nearly 2,000 meters above Lake Garda to enjoy the show. #
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A zookeeper hugs a lion cub named Pusat, who was rejected by his mother after his birth, at the Kayseri Metropolitan Municipality Zoo in Kayseri, Turkey, on August 23, 2019. #
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