An open-air school in Kashmir, preparing for Eid al-Adha in Bangladesh, a Comic-Con blood drive in California, idle fishing boats in China, a Navy Day parade in Russia, wildfires in Portugal, a successful Mars-rover launch, a sparsely attended Hajj in Saudi Arabia, outdoor opera in Greece, a farewell to the late U.S. Representative John Lewis, and much more
Photos of the Week: Stari Most, Flaming Jet, Hug Kit
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Michael Hermosillo of the Los Angeles Angels catches a fly ball hit by Robbie Grossman of the Oakland Athletics for the final out of their game at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum on July 25, 2020, in Oakland, California. #
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A competitor dives from Stari Most (Old Bridge), the Ottoman-era bridge destroyed in the 1992–95 war and later restored, during the 454th traditional diving competition on July 26, 2020, in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. #
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The casket of Representative John Lewis moves over the Edmund Pettus Bridge by horse-drawn carriage during a memorial service for Lewis in Selma, Alabama, on July 26, 2020. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from the southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died on July 17, 2020. #
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Former President Barack Obama gives the eulogy at the funeral service for Representative John Lewis at Ebenezer Baptist Church on July 30, 2020, in Atlanta, Georgia. #
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Spectators attend a concert at the Herodus Atticus ancient theater at the foot of the Acropolis, during a national opera performance featuring a compilation of famous operas in Athens, Greece, on July 28, 2020. #
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A picture taken on July 29, 2020, shows pilgrims holding colored umbrellas along matching colored rings separating them as a COVID-19 precautionary measure, while circumambulating around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the center of the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca, at the start of the annual Muslim Hajj pilgrimage. Mask-clad Muslim pilgrims began the annual Hajj, dramatically downsized this year as the Saudi hosts strive to prevent a coronavirus outbreak during the five-day pilgrimage. #
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Boxes full of medical-grade personal protective equipment are given free of charge to representatives of medical practices at a drive-through distribution center set up in a Rose Bowl parking lot in Pasadena, California, on July 27, 2020. #
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Pad 41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on July 30, 2020, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, The mission is carrying a Mars rover to the red planet to search for signs of life, explore the planet's geology, and much more. #
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A Guatemalan army member keeps guard beside a burning Gulfstream III business jet that was carrying cocaine and was stopped by the military in Peten, Guatemala, on July 26, 2020. #
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Maura Silva, at teacher at the public school Escola Municipal Frei Vicente de Salvador and who created a "hug kit" using plastic covers, embraces her student Yuri Araujo Silva at Yuri's home, amid the coronavirus outbreak, in the 77 Padre Miguel neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 23, 2020. #
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A doctor takes heart-rate, blood-pressure, and blood-oxygenation readings of an asymptomatic COVID-19 patient quarantining at a hotel in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 24, 2020. #
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Cosplayer Leah Panos, as Snow White, donates blood at San Diego Blood Bank in San Diego, California, on July 25, 2020. With the cancellation of 2020 Comic-Con International due to the coronavirus pandemic, the San Diego Blood Bank moved its 44th Annual Comic-Con's Robert A. Heinlein Blood Drive to encompass all of their locations and mobile units. #
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Doctors and medical staff of Tata Memorial Center cancer hospital come out of a temporary facility set up to screen patients for COVID-19 and run outpatient-department check-ups in Mumbai, India, on July 30, 2020. #
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A man wears a protective mask while walking six dogs as New York City continues Phase 4 of reopening, following restrictions imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus, on July 27, 2020. #
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