Week in pictures: 15


A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week.

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A tree burns during a wildfire in Mandra, Greece, July 18, 2023.

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A woman cools off at Fontana della Barcaccia at the Spanish Steps in Rome during a heat wave in Italy, July 17, 2023.

GUGLIELMO MANGIAPANE/REUTERS

Tourists dressed as astronauts visit the Wulanhada Volcano Geopark on July 17, 2023 in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China.

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David Barber (C), the King's swan marker, holds a captured swan to be measured and checked during the annual Swan Upping on the River Thames in Staines, west of London, on July 17, 2023.

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Dancers compete during the Inveraray Highland Games on July 18, 2023 in Inveraray, Scotland.

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Muslim devotees gather during the flag-changing ceremony at the shrines of Imam Hussein and Imam Abbas in Iraq's central shrine city of Karbala on July 18, 2023

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People cross a damaged street following an underground gas explosion in downtown Johannesburg, South Africa, 21 July 2023.

KIM LUDBROOK/EPA

Members of the Indian Youth Congress protest over sexual violence against women and for peace in the ongoing ethnic violence in India's north-eastern state of Manipur, at Raisina Road on July 20, 2023 in New Delhi, India.

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David Barber (C), the King's swan marker, holds a captured swan to be measured and checked during the annual Swan Upping on the River Thames in Staines, west of London, on July 17, 2023.

HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP

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