A beaver released in London, an earthquake in Japan, a mountaineering race in France, a motorcycle club in Libya, Ukrainian refugees in Poland, a spring-break concert on a Texas beach, a humpback whale in Antarctica, a huge dragon puppet in France, and much more
Photos of the Week: Sloth Rescue, Moon Rocket, Ukraine Crisis
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The Dragon of Calais carries members of the public along the renovated seafront in Calais, France, on March 11, 2022. The mechanized dragon breathes fire and steam, and is controlled by a team of puppeteers. #
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A Maltese dog with clips on its coat rests on its grooming table on the third day of the Crufts dog show at the National Exhibition Center in Birmingham, England, on March 12, 2022. #
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This photograph taken on March 15, 2022, shows sand from the Sahara desert that fell overnight and covered the snow at the Piau-Engaly ski resort in southern France. #
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Sandbags are piled high around the statue of the Duc de Richelieu, a landmark at the top of the stairs made famous by the 1905 film Battleship Potemkin, in expectation of a Russian assault on the strategic Black Sea port city of Odessa, Ukraine, on March 14, 2022. #
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A concert in Lviv, Ukraine, is performed on March 16, 2022, to protest Russian attacks. The Lviv Symphony Orchestra and Mikola Lisenko Music Academy held concerts at Rynok Square and Svobody Street. #
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Members of the Ukrainian military stand amid debris from a damaged residential apartment block caused after a Russian rocket was shot down by Ukrainian air defenses on March 14, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine. #
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A mother and son sleep in a family area while waiting to board a train to Poland on March 12, 2022, in Lviv, Ukraine. More than 3 million people have fled Ukraine following Russia's large-scale assault on the country, with hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians passing through Lviv on their way to Poland. #
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A child follows the lines of a heart drawn by a Polish volunteer on the window of a bus, after crossing from Ukraine into Poland at the Medyka border crossing on March 14, 2022. #
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A man carries a girl, helping her cross a river, as a team of mountaineers took a group of visually impaired Iraqi Kurds on a trip to the mountains in Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, on March 13, 2022. #
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Workers in protective suits prepare a drone to disinfect a residential compound under lockdown, following a COVID-19 outbreak in Changchun, Jilin province, China, on March 14, 2022. #
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NASA's next-generation moon rocket, the Space Launch System, with its Orion crew capsule perched on top, is seen in the Vehicle Assembly Building before it is scheduled to make a slow journey to its launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on March 16, 2022. #
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Performers take part in the St. Patrick's Day parade on March 17, 2022 in Dublin, Ireland. St. Patrick's Day celebrations returned to the streets of Dublin after a two-year absence due to the pandemic. #
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People shop in a store in a residential area during a power outage in Tokyo's Koto district on March 16, 2022, after a powerful 7.3-magnitude quake jolted eastern Japan. #
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Twin panda cubs Yuandudu and Huanlili, born on August 1, 2021, are pictured in their enclosure at Beauval's zoological park in Saint-Aignan, France, on March 14, 2022. #
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A beaver swims after being released in a specially designed enclosure, as beavers were reintroduced to London for the first time in more than 400 years, as part of a project launched by Enfield Council and Capel Manor College, on the grounds of Forty Hall Farm, Enfield, England, on March 17, 2022. #
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Juan Carlos Rodriguez holds on to Chuwie, a sloth, in San Antonio, on the outskirt of Caracas, Venezuela, on March 12, 2022. Juan Carlos and his wife, Haydee, have transformed their home into a sloth rescue-and-rehabilitation center that seeks to care for and release sloths that have suffered electric shocks or accidents. #
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