Hurricane Eta damage in Nicaragua, a Halloween blue moon, a presidential election in the U.S., earthquake aftermath in Turkey, a whale-tail wreck in the Netherlands, colorful vineyards in Germany, the Day of the Dead in Mexico, a light show in Shanghai, and much more
Photos of the Week: Golden Monkey, Bubble Dining, Water Dance
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Sabrina Jackson waits while her dad Jack Jackson fills out a ballot at the St. Pauls National Guard Armory on Election Day, November 3, 2020, in St. Pauls, North Carolina. #
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Theresa Greenfield, a Democratic Senate candidate, speaks with Phil Short while touring Short's Family Farm as the farm's dog, Tuffy, plays nearby during Greenfield's RV tour across Iowa on November 2, 2020, in Winthrop, Iowa. #
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Shout The Bar, who won the previous day's Group 1 of the Empire Rose Stakes, is seen with dogs playing in the water during a recovery session at Altona Beach on November 1, 2020, in Melbourne, Australia. #
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The full blue moon (and hunter's moon) rises behind lower Manhattan and the One World Trade Center in New York City on Halloween, October 31, 2020, as seen from Greenbrook Township, New Jersey. #
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Sikh devotees light candles on the eve of the birth anniversary of the fourth Sikh Guru Ramdas, at the illuminated Golden Temple in Amritsar, India, on November 1, 2020. #
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Dancers raise their fists at the end of a dance in the middle of a water fountain during a presentation to mark the opening of Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on November 4, 2020. #
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People attend a candlelight vigil remembering the victims of the terrorist attack in Vienna, Austria on November 5, 2020. Austria is mourning four civilians shot dead by a 20-year-old Islamic State sympathizer who attacked a popular nightlife area in the heart of Vienna on November 2, 2020. #
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Sehabettin Ozcelik, a phone repairman and collector of mobile phones, displays his collection of more than a thousand phones in his house in Van, Turkey, on October 20, 2020. #
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An aerial view of the closed historical Rakowicki Cemetery in Krakow, Poland, on November 1, 2020. Poland's prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, announced the closure of the cemeteries from October 31 to November 2 as part of the latest restrictive measures to tackle the spread of the coronavirus. #
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In a photo taken on November 4, 2020, visitors wearing the traditional Korean hanbok dress walk beneath yellow ginkgo leaves in a courtyard at Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul, South Korea. #
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Journalists stand in the hall of the Circle Convention Center Zurich ahead of the opening news conference at the newly-built office and business complex at Zurich Airport, in Kloten, Switzerland, on November 5, 2020. #
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A general view of a metro that crashed through a stop block and landed on an art installation of a whale tail at a subway station in Spijkenisse, near Rotterdam, Netherlands, on November 2, 2020. #
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Members of the public view a 45-foot-tall giant golden monkey on the side of Inverleith House on November 4, 2020, in Edinburgh, Scotland. The inflatable golden monkey installation, created by the Australian ecological artist Lisa Roet, has previously scaled skyscrapers in Beijing and Hong Kong. #
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A public art statue in Beverly Gardens Park is seen wrapped in plastic in preparation for Election Day, in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, on November 2, 2020. #
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A person walks by the "Wall of Lies" art installation that highlights false or misleading claims by Trump in the Soho area of New York on November 2, 2020. The piece is a collaboration by Tom Tenney, the executive director of Radio Free Brooklyn, and Bushwick artist Phil Buehler. #
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Leopoldo Luque, the personal physician of the Argentine former football star and coach of Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata, Diego Maradona, gives a medical report outside the private clinic where he underwent brain surgery for a blood clot, in Olivos, Buenos Aires, on November 4, 2020. The procedure was successful, his doctor said. #
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An aerial photo taken on November 1, 2020, shows volunteers and rescue personnel searching for survivors in a collapsed building in Izmir, after a powerful earthquake struck Turkey's western coast and parts of Greece. At least 116 people were killed, and more than a thousand injured in the 7.0-magnitude quake. #
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In this handout photo, Ayda Gezgin is tended to by a member of rescue services in the rubble of her collapsed building, in Izmir, Turkey, on November 3, 2020. Rescuers in the Turkish coastal city pulled Gezgin out alive from the rubble, some four days after a strong earthquake hit Turkey and Greece. The girl was taken into an ambulance, wrapped in a thermal blanket, amid the sounds of cheers and applause from rescue workers. #
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Activists of the environmental protest group Extinction Rebellion take part in a demonstration to warn about the risk of sea level rise, in Madrid, Spain, on November 2, 2020. #
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An ambulance worker wearing safety equipment goes through a disinfection routine after arriving at the headquarters of the Bucharest Ilfov Ambulance Service, in Bucharest, Romania, on November 1, 2020. #
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Locals look at damage caused by the passing of Hurricane Eta in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, on November 4, 2020. Hurricane Eta slowed to tropical storm speeds on Wednesday morning even as it pummeled Nicaragua, killing two people there and one in neighboring Honduras, while unleashing fierce winds and heavy downpours. #
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A woman visits the memorial where the victims of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin's regime were buried in the woods on the outskirts of Saint Petersburg, Russia, on October 30, 2020. Russia observed the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions as people honored the memory of the thousands of victims of the repressions of the Soviet Communist regime. #
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Autumn foliage is seen at Stourhead Gardens, as the National Trust that manages the estate said that it intends to keep its gardens, parks, and countryside sites open following the U.K. government's announcement of an England-wide four-week lockdown, in Wiltshire, England, on November 4, 2020. #
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