A cheetah at rest in Kenya, flamenco dancing in Spain, tennis at a Berlin airport, a giant spoon on an English trail, a baby hippo in Mexico, an online mud festival in South Korea, the night sky above Syria, wildfires in Greece, concerts in Australia and Germany, a Chinese mission to Mars, and much more
Photos of the Week: Portland Moms, Beach Astronauts, Fire Whirl
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A Long March 5 rocket, carrying an orbiter, lander, and rover, as part of the Tianwen-1 mission to Mars, lifts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in southern China's Hainan province on July 23, 2020. #
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Fans watch from their numbered seats as the German band Brings performs onstage during the Bonn Live Kulturgarten Open-Air Festival 2020, at Rheinaue Leisure Park in Bonn, Germany, on July 17, 2020. Kulturgarten is Europe's first open-air music festival held since the restrictions of the coronavirus pandemic. #
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Members of the OL Reign kneel for the national anthem before the quarterfinal match of the National Women's Soccer League Challenge Cup at Zions Bank Stadium on July 18, 2020, in Herriman, Utah. #
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A female protester group called the Moms is seen during their nightly protest on July 20, 2020, in Portland, Oregon. The federal police response to the ongoing protests against racial inequality has been criticized by city and state elected officials as President Trump threatens to use federal law enforcement in other major cities as well. #
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Federal officers walk through tear gas while dispersing a crowd of about a thousand people during a protest at Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse on July 21, 2020, in Portland, Oregon. State and city elected officials have called for the federal officers to leave Portland as clashes between protesters and federal police continue to escalate. #
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Firefighters stand near a pine forest wildfire fanned by strong winds near the village of Athikia, near Corinth, Greece, late on July 22, 2020. Greek authorities evacuated five settlements as a precaution. #
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A long-exposure photo shows the Milky Way in the sky above a Syrian fighter of the Turkish-backed National Front for Liberation group on a motorcycle in the town of Taftanaz, along the front lines in the country's rebel-held northwestern Idlib province, on July 23, 2020. #
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Indigenous nurses from the Special Secretariat for Indigenous Health of the Arapiuns and Tapuia ethnic groups perform a rapid COVID-19 test on Chief Domingos from the Arapium tribe on the banks of the lower Tapajos River in western Para, Brazil, on July 19, 2020. #
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Italian Coast Guard divers work to free a sperm whale caught in a fishing net north of the Sicilian Aeolian Islands in this still image taken from a video, on July 19, 2020. #
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This photo, taken on July 19, 2020, shows the Guanyinge Temple, a 700-year old temple built on a rock, in the swollen Yangtze River in Wuhan, China. Heavy rains since June have left at least 141 people dead and missing, forced nearly 15 million people to be evacuated from their homes in July alone, and caused billions of dollars in economic losses, according to the government. #
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A photo taken in 2019 of spectators watching Tiger Woods walk up the hill to the third green in the 2019 Memorial Tournament, held in the same spot it was taken one year later, at the 2020 tournament, which is being played without spectators due to the ongoing pandemic, at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio #
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"Eat For England," a 15-foot spoon created by artist Bob Budd, sits between two fields in Cramlington, England, on July 20, 2020. The sculpture was commissioned in 2006 as part of a National Lottery–funded art trail in Northumberland. #
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Nino carries a basket with some groceries for his owner in Bogota, Colombia, on July 17, 2020. Nino learned to carry the basket as a puppy, and as time passed he began to bring food to his owner, Jose Ever Henao, 62, who is currently part of the population at risk during the pandemic. #
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People dressed as astronauts are seen amid the coronavirus pandemic along Ipanema Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 21, 2020. The outfits were created for trips around the city and the beach. Tercio Galdino Lima, a retired accountant who suffers from a chronic lung problem, decided to make the overalls and helmet for himself and his wife, Alicea Lima, so they could walk more safely on the streets of Rio and reduce the risk of contagion. #
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Oli Meeta, a registered nurse, is seen wearing personal protective equipment at a COVID-19 drive-through testing clinic in Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia, on July 22, 2020. #
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The Czech Republic's Petra Kvitova, photographed during the final match against Latvia's Anastasija Sevastova, at the Berlin tennis exhibitions in Berlin Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, Germany, on July 19, 2020. #
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A fire whirl shoots into the sky as flames from the Hog Fire jump over Highway 36, about five miles from Susanville, California, on July 20, 2020. The fire exploded quickly to more than 6,000 acres and created its own weather, generating lightning, thunder, rain, hail, and fire whirls out of a huge pyrocumulonimbus ash plume towering above. The Lassen County Sheriff's office issued a mandatory evacuation order for the area. #
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Visitors wearing face masks take pictures at the National Museum of Korea in Seoul, South Korea, on July 22, 2020. The museum reopened on Wednesday after having been closed for two months due to the coronavirus. #
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A young male cheetah rests on a mound at dusk, after feeding on the carcass of a topi antelope that he and his group of four brothers managed to hunt and bring down on the plains of Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve, on July 16, 2020. #
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