Dancing on Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni, curfew measures in Bucharest, coronavirus testing in the U.K., monowheel broomsticks in Brazil, a marigold harvest in Kathmandu, celebrations of Joe Biden’s presidential win, a press conference at Philadelphia’s Four Seasons Total Landscaping, Veterans’ Day memorials, a wedding in Moscow, and much more
Photos of the Week: Fire Tunnel, Golden Dog, Santa Mask
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Carlo Marenda, a truffle hunter, pets his dog Buc as they search for white truffles through the Langhe countryside in Roddi, near Alba, northwestern Italy, on November 8, 2020. #
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A view shows a statue of a Turkmen shepherd dog, locally known as Alabai, in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, on November 10, 2020. The statue was unveiled by President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, the country’s longtime leader, who has also written an ode to the local breed and gifted one to Russian President Vladimir Putin. #
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Police officers are seen as demonstrators lie in hammocks hanging from trees during a protest against the extension of the A49 motorway, in a forest near Stadtallendorf, Germany, on November 11, 2020. #
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A woman walks over the Gapstow Bridge in Central Park in front of the Steinway Tower, One 57, and Central Park Tower on Billionaires' Row on November 9, 2020, in New York City. #
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A cemetery worker prepares new graves at the Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery on the outskirts of the Iranian capital, Tehran, on November 1, 2020. The cemetery is one of the world’s largest, with 1.6 million people buried on its grounds, which stretch across more than five square kilometers, but it is struggling to keep up with the coronavirus pandemic ravaging the country. Photograph released on November 11, 2020. #
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A bugler looks on as poppies are projected onto the sails of the Sydney Opera House on November 11, 2020, in Sydney, Australia, on Remembrance Day 2020, which marks 102 years since the armistice that ended the First World War on November 11, 1918. Almost 62,000 Australians died fighting in four years of global conflict. #
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Soldiers carry the coffin of the late French writer Maurice Genevoix into the Pantheon mausoleum during a ceremony honoring World War I soldiers and Genevoix, who will be inducted into the Pantheon, where key figures from France's history are honored, in Paris, on November 11, 2020. #
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Rudy Giuliani, an attorney for President Donald Trump, speaks to the media at a press conference held in the back parking lot of Four Seasons Total Landscaping on November 7, 2020, in Philadelphia. The press conference took place just minutes after news networks announced that Joe Biden had won the presidency over Trump, after it was projected that Biden had won the state of Pennsylvania. #
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An aerial view shows a structure, made of flowers, of an Emirates Airlines Airbus A380, which made it into the Guinness Book of World Records, at the Dubai Miracle Garden, the world's largest flower garden, in the United Arab Emirates, on November 11, 2020. #
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A woman harvests marigold flowers ahead of the upcoming Hindu Tihar (Diwali) festival in Ichangu Narayan village, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, on November 12, 2020. #
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Charles Michel, president of the European Council (left), and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz place candle tributes to those killed as they commemorate the terror attack one week ago in Vienna, Austria, on November 9, 2020. On November 2, an attacker opened fire in the city center, killing four and injuring 23 others, before being shot and killed by police. #
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An empty tram drives through an empty street in downtown Lisbon on November 9, 2020. Portugal introduced a curfew across most of the country in an effort to combat surging coronavirus case numbers. #
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Friends Vinicius Sanctus and Alessandro Russo ride modified electric unicycles, fitted with devices called "nuvem" that they invented, inspired by the magic flying brooms of the Harry Potter series, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on November 7, 2020. #
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Demonstrators from various economic sectors gather to protest against the closing of nonessential businesses in Toulouse, France, on November 6, 2020, during the national lockdown aimed at containing the spread of the new coronavirus. #
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A member of a feminist collective paints the helmet of a riot police officer during a protest against gender and police violence, in Mexico City, Mexico on November 11, 2020. #
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A face mask and a hand sanitizer sit on a desk as students take part in a training session at the Ministry of Fun Santa School, as it develops an online app for children to speak with Santa during the Christmas season, in London, England, on November 10, 2020. The continuation of the coronavirus pandemic means most in-person Santa experiences will have to be canceled. #
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Wescley Menezes receives help from the artist Jorge Silva Roriz to adjust his customized protective mask, amid the coronavirus outbreak in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 10, 2020. #
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People look at Brick House, a newly-installed sculpture by the artist Simone Leigh on the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia, on November 10, 2020. The 5,900-pound bronze sculpture was placed at the corner of 34th and Walnut Streets, the gateway to College Green. #
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A man sleeps inside a protection bubble, used by a pub for its customers as part of coronavirus social-distancing measures, during a newly-instated curfew in Bucharest, late on November 9, 2020. #
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Captain Shivam Singh, a motorcycle rider from the Tornadoes motorcycle-acrobatic team of the Indian Armed Forces, comes out ablaze after riding his bike through a tunnel of fire, during an attempt to break the Guinness Book of World Records in Bangalore on November 10, 2020. Singh broke the record for the longest ride through a fire tunnel, passing through 127 meters, and escaping with only minor injuries. #
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