The week in photos (August 26 - 30)

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The week in photos (August 26 - 30)

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Antonio Parrinello/Reuters

Lava flows from the Stromboli volcano a day after an eruption unleashed a plume of smoke on the Italian island of Stromboli, Italy, Aug. 30.

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Adnan Abidi/Reuters

A Tibetan exile shouts slogans in New Delhi, India, Aug. 30 during a protest to support Hong Kong pro-democracy protestors.

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Gregg Newton/Reuters

Shoppers wait in line for a Sam's Club store in Kissimmee, Florida, to open before sunrise Aug. 29 as people rush to buy supplies ahead of the arrival of hurricane Dorian.

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Matthew Hinton/AP

New Orleans Pelicans forward Zion Williamson, the No. 1 draft pick in the NBA, poses with Tulane cheerleaders during an NCAA football game against Florida International Aug. 29 in New Orleans.

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Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters

A devotee offers prayers while performing rituals in memory of his deceased father during Kuse Aunse (Father's Day) at Gokarna Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, Aug. 30. Hindus all over the country, whose fathers have passed away, come to the temple for worship, holy dips, and to present offerings on this occasion.

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Jon Nazca/Reuters

A migrant child who was picked up in the Mediterranean Sea waves as she waits to disembark from a rescue boat at the port of Malaga, Spain, on Aug. 29.

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Eranga Jayawardena/AP

Survivors of the April 21 Easter Sunday bomb attacks in Sri Lanka wait to welcome the Church of England's Archbishop of Canterbury in Katuwapitiya village, Negombo, on Aug. 29. The Most Rev. Justin Welby emphasized the need for 海角大神 unity as he paid tribute to the victims at a Roman Catholic church. Seven suicide bombers from a local Muslim group attacked three churches and three luxury hotels, killing 263 people.

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Oliver Berg/dpa/AP

A woman takes a photo of a biplane sculpture made of pumpkins at a farm in Mechernich, Germany, Aug. 29.

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Moritz Hager/Reuters

Netherlands' Sifan Hassan wins the women's 1500m at the Diamond League athletics competition in Zurich, Switzerland, Aug. 29.

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Gregor Fischer/dpa/AP

A visitor photographs the plaster copy of 'The Age of Bronze' by artist Auguste Rodin at the James-Simon-Gallery in Berlin Aug. 29.

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Alberto Saiz/AP

Revellers throw tomatoes at each other during the annual 'Tomatina,' tomato fight fiesta, in the village of Bunol, near Valencia, Spain, Aug. 28. The party saw 145 tons of tomatoes offloaded from six trucks into crowds packing Bunol's streets for the midday hour-long battle.

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Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters

Protesters gather in Hong Kong Aug. 28 to condemn alleged sexual harassment of a demonstrator who was detained at a police station.

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Khalil Senosi/AP

Baby elephants play at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Elephant Orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya, Aug. 28. Countries that are part of an international agreement on trade in endangered species agreed to limit the sale of wild elephants, delighting conservationists but dismaying some of the African countries involved.

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Trevor Mahlmann/Reuters

SpaceX's Mars Starship prototype 'Starhopper' hovers over its launchpad during a test flight in Boca Chica, Texas, Aug. 27.

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Gleb Garanich/Reuters

Relatives hold portraits of servicemen killed in the conflict in eastern Ukraine as they attend a rally in Kiev, Ukraine, Aug. 28 ahead of the Day of Remembrance of Ukraine's Defenders.

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Toby Melville/Reuters

A reveller takes part in the Notting Hill Carnival in London Aug. 26.

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Lucas Landau/Top Pictures/Reuters

A tract of the Amazon jungle burns in Canarana, Mato Grosso state, Brazil, Aug. 26.

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Henning Bagger/Ritzau Scanpix/AP

Peter Wenzel trains Molina, a young condor, in the Eagle Reserve in Bindslev, Denmark, Aug. 27. Molina came to the Eagle Reserve in November 2018. He is trained every day by Mr. Wenzel. As an adult, the condor, which is a vulture, will have a wingspan of 3.5m and weigh 15 kg, making it the world's largest bird of prey.

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Gene J. Puskar/AP

River Ridge, Louisiana, celebrates an 8-0 win over Curacao in the Little League World Series Championship game in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania, Aug. 25.

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Aimee Dilger/The Times Leader/AP

Greta Norakus (r.) hugs nervous first-grader Kaitlin Chmielewski on Aug. 26, the first day of school at St. Nick's/St. Mary's school in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

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Michael Probst/AP

A man walks his dog next to straw bales as the sun rises on the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany, Aug. 26.

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Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters

People take a selfie by the wheels of BelAZ dump trucks at the Belarusian Autoworks manufacturer in Zhodino, Belarus, Aug. 27.

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Jason Lee/Reuters

A boy holds an umbrella on Tiananmen Square in Beijing Aug. 27.

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Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP

Hindu devotees dry their clothes after taking a dip at Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges and the Yamuna rivers, in Prayagraj, India, Aug. 27.

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Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

The Washington Monument looms in the background on Aug. 26 as a construction worker moves along the dome of the Jefferson Memorial, which is undergoing a 15-month project to restore the roofs, repair the stone, and clean the marble.