Dog catchers in Cairo, luge championships in Russia, flooding in parts of England, a crash at the Daytona 500, London Fashion Week, heavy rains in Australia, continued fighting in Syria, demining in Colombia, Carnival in Venice, and much more
Photos of the Week: Ghost Ship, Greek Spring, Naked Festival
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A participant presents her outfit during the Queen of the Carnival pageant in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, on the Spanish Canary Island of Tenerife, on February 19, 2020. #
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Floodwater surrounds headstones in a graveyard in Tenbury Wells, western England, on February 16, 2020, after the River Teme burst its banks and Storm Dennis caused widespread flooding. #
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Activists from the Youth for Climate Justice movement protest the national energy and climate plan during a Valentine's Day performance in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on February 14, 2020. #
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Daryl (left) and Lynette Lipham of Atlanta, Georgia, ski after the 29th Annual Valentine's Day Mountaintop Matrimony ceremony at Loveland Ski Area near Georgetown, Colorado, on February 14, 2020. #
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Rato (Priest) Kedu Wawo holds a javelin as he delivers a speech during the Pasola War Festival, an ancient annual ritual to welcome the new harvest season and ask for God's blessing for a good harvest, which is believed to increase crops in future years, in the Lamboya district of West Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia, on February 20, 2020. #
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A member of a demining team takes part in a search for explosives in the southern Colombian jungle of the Caquetá department in Milán, Colombia, on February 17, 2020. The demining team, made up of 12 people, including eight women, is taking its country back one land mine at a time. The mines are unearthed by hand and the team members spend hours on their knees looking for them, to make their country safer. #
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A Turkish military mobile rocket launcher fires from a position in the countryside of the Syrian province of Idlib toward Syrian government forces' position in the countryside of the neighboring Aleppo province on February 14, 2020. #
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Destroyed buildings are seen in the Ariha district of Idlib, Syria, on February 19, 2020. The Ariha district has turned into a ghost town as civilians have fled toward the Turkish border because of attacks by the regime of Bashar al-Assad and its supporters. #
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A boy is seen under a flow of water as it hits the Brewarrina Weir in Brewarrina, Australia, on February 16, 2020. The weir overflowed for the first time in years, as rainwater from upstream flowed into the dry riverbeds. #
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Men dressed in loincloths prepare to snatch a wooden stick called the shingi, which is tossed by a priest, during a naked festival at Saidaiji Temple in Okayama, Japan, on February 15, 2020. The person who grabs the wooden stick is considered to be the "luckiest man of the year." #
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Race fans watch from the grandstands as Air Force One circles the Daytona International Speedway as President Donald Trump makes his arrival at the Daytona 500 auto race in Daytona Beach, Florida, on February 16, 2020. #
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The abandoned 77-meter (250-foot) cargo ship MV Alta is pictured stuck on rocks near the village of Ballycotton, southeast of Cork, southern Ireland, on February 18, 2020. The "ghost ship," which has been drifting without a crew for more than a year, washed ashore on Ireland's south coast in high seas caused by Storm Dennis, the republic's coast guard said. #
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Ryan Newman, the driver of the No. 6 Koch Industries Ford, flips over as he crashes during the NASCAR Cup Series 62nd Annual Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on February 17, 2020. #
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A Suffolk sheep and her three-week-old lamb are seen on the Bwthyn Pen Y Bont farm in Brecon, Wales, on February 17, 2020, after being rescued from a flooded field following Storm Dennis. #
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A member of Team USA is seen in action during a run in the 2020 FIL World Luge Championships team relay at the Sliding Center Sanki in Sochi, Russia, on February 16, 2020. #
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Construction workers continue to build containers to provide temporary residences for earthquake survivors in Elaziğ, Turkey, on February 17, 2020. They will build 4,790 containers in total to meet the sheltering needs of the earthquake victims whose homes were destroyed or damaged after the 6.8-magnitude earthquake on January 24. #
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A young Asian leopard cat (Felis bengalensis) is cared for after residents surrendered several cats to officers from the Nature Conservation Agency in Pekanbaru, Indonesia, on February 19, 2020. The kittens will be released into the wild once they are old enough and ready to go. #
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Dog catchers and veterinarians who are part of the Free Rabies Egypt campaign catch dogs to give them rabies shots in Cairo, Egypt, on February 14, 2020. After centuries of stigma, the street dogs of Egypt are finding popular acceptance. Grassroots efforts to provide sterilization, medical care, and shelter have surged in defiance of a government extermination policy. #
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