The Emmy Awards in Los Angeles; a bird-singing competition in Thailand; Durga Puja preparations in India; an earthquake in Pakistan; flooding in Texas; protests in Indonesia; impeachment-inquiry drama in Washington, D.C.; sea-turtle conservation in Israel; a zebra foal in Kenya; wearable art in New Zealand; an underwater tank in Turkey; and much more
Photos of the Week: Roaring Stag, Garden Fox, Goose Gathering
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Scuba divers explore a model tank from 1960 off the coast of the Mediterranean seaside resort of Kas, in Turkey's Antalya province, on September 22, 2019, after it was submerged 20 meters underwater as a reef and tourist attraction. #
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Chinese troops take part in marching drills at a camp on the outskirts of Beijing on September 25, 2019, ahead of an October 1 military parade to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. #
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Participants dressed in traditional attire pose for pictures during rehearsals for Garba, a folk dance, in Ahmedabad, India, on September 25, 2019, in preparation for the upcoming Navaratri, a festival during which devotees worship the Hindu goddess Durga. #
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The Blomar, by Akhilesh Gupta of India, is modeled in the White Section of the World of WearableArt Preview 2019 at TSB Bank Arena in Wellington, New Zealand, on September 25, 2019. #
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A polka-dot zebra foal stands close to its mother at the Maasai Mara game reserve in Kenya on September 19, 2019. Antony Tira, the Maasai guide who first spotted the foal, named him Tira. Tira has a condition called pseudomelanism, a rare genetic mutation in which animals display some sort of abnormality in their stripe pattern. #
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A newly hatched baby sea turtle makes its way into the Mediterranean Sea for the first time, as part of the Israeli Sea Turtles Rescue Center's conservation program, at a beach near Mikhmoret, north of Tel Aviv, Israel, on September 9, 2019. #
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Floodwaters inundate areas along the Ganges in Prayagraj, India, on September 23, 2019. Heavy monsoon rains raised the water of the Ganges to dangerous levels, triggering the evacuation of thousands of people from flooded homes around the area. #
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Tourists sitting in a chili-covered pool participate in a chili-pepper-eating contest at Song Dynasty Town (Songcheng) in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, on September 22, 2019. #
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A photographer lines up her shot at the National Mall Reflecting Pool as the sun begins to rise behind the Washington Monument and the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., on September 21, 2019. #
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Kids from the Tembe indigenous tribe, which is facing a conflict with illegal loggers on its land, play at the Gurupí River in the Teko-haw indigenous village near Paragominas, Para state, Brazil, on September 10, 2019. #
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Students raise their fists as they protest, along with the relatives of the 43 missing Ayotzinapa teachers'-college students, outside the attorney general's office in Mexico City, Mexico, on September 25, 2019. As the families continued to call for justice on the five-year anniversary of their children's disappearance, authorities began searching a new location in Guerrero state. #
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Police officers fire a tear-gas launcher to disperse students during a protest in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, on September 24, 2019. Thousands of students have staged rallies across Indonesia against a new law that they fear will cripple the fight against the country's endemic corruption. #
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The activist Greta Thunberg speaks at the United Nations, where world leaders were holding a summit on climate change, in New York City on September 23, 2019. The summit at the UN came after the worldwide Youth Climate Strike, which saw millions of young people around the world demanding action to address the climate crisis. #
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An armadillo swims toward a boat as it struggles in floodwaters on Highway 124 in Beaumont, Texas, on September 20, 2019. Governor Greg Abbott declared much of Southeast Texas disaster areas after heavy rain and flooding from the remnants of Tropical Depression Imelda dumped more than two feet of water on some areas. #
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Residents walk alongside a road damaged by a powerful earthquake in Jatlan, near Mirpur, in northeast Pakistan, on September 25, 2019. Thousands of people whose homes were damaged by the strong earthquake were desperately waiting for the arrival of government help 22 hours after the 5.8-magnitude tremor struck Pakistan-held Kashmir and elsewhere, killing 25 people and injuring 700. #
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People carry a giant Pride flag during the annual Pride parade along Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on September 22, 2019. The 24th annual parade was titled "For Democracy, Freedom, and Rights, Yesterday, Today, and Forever." #
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An artisan applies finishing touches to the decorative ceiling of a pandal, or temporary platform, in Kolkata, India, on September 26, 2019, during preparations for the upcoming Hindu festival of Durga Puja. #
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Birds sit in their cages during the annual bird-singing competition in Thailand's southern province of Narathiwat on September 22, 2019. More than 1,800 birds from Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore took part in the contest. #
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A CZ-3B carrier rocket blasts off, carrying navigation satellites into orbit, at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Xichang, in Southwest China's Sichuan province, on September 23, 2019. #
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A fire burns through vegetation in Pekanbaru, Riau province, Indonesia, on September 24, 2019. Firefighters, military personnel, and water-dropping helicopters were deployed to combat the fires in Sumatra and Borneo that have caused thick haze in the neighboring countries of Singapore and Malaysia. #
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A General Prosecutor's Office agent takes a selfie during the incineration of 26 tons of seized drugs at the 28th Infantry Battalion facilities in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on September 26, 2019. #
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From left: The performers Kit Harington, Emilia Clarke, Gwendoline Christie, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau speak onstage during the 71st Emmy Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California, on September 22, 2019. #
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