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STUNNING images from the week gone by

August 18, 2014 07:53 IST
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Rediff.com presents a collection of pictures shot around the world by Reuters photographers.

A girl from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, rests at the Iraqi-Syrian border crossing in Fishkhabour, Dohuk province.

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A man has his temperature taken using an infrared digital laser thermometer at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja.

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A tightrope walker performs between two spheres of the Atomium monument in Brussels. The 102-metre-tall (335-feet-tall) structure and its nine spheres, which was designed for Expo 58, is in the shape of a unit cell of an iron crystal, magnified about 165 billion times.

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Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing violence from forces loyal to the Islamic State in Sinjar town, walk towards the Syrian border, on the outskirts of Sinjar mountain, near the Syrian border town of Elierbeh of Al-Hasakah Governorate.

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An injured worker is seen trapped under the rubble of a collapsed condominium building, which had been under construction, in Pathum Thani province, on the outskirts of Bangkok.

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The winning team retrieves a goat from the water during the Deopokhari festival in Khokana. During the annual festival, a live goat is thrown into a pond and the team of devotees that retrieves the animal first wins.

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An injured woman (C) reacts as she gets a haircut to keep her hair off the wound on her neck, which she incurred when she was attacked by a wolf pack, at a hospital in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. Five herder families in a village of Altay Prefecture of Xinjiang were attacked by the wolf pack.

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Visitors run away as waves caused by a tidal bore surge past a barrier on the banks of Qiantang River, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province.

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First Lt. Matthew Greene (L) comforts his mother, Susan Myers, wife of US Army Maj Gen Harold J Greene, as she pats his casket during the end of a full military honors funeral at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

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Volunteers sit in wooden boxes at Parliament Square, to represent living conditions in Gaza, during a protest in London.

Some one hundred and fifty men, women and children crammed into boxes in a bid to illustrate the conditions faced by the people of Gaza trapped by the blockade, in an event organised by Oxfam.