The world in photos: Jan 11 - 17
We present some of the most striking images from major stories around the world in the past week.
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| The 12th annual reading of Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream Speech" by Watkins Elementary School is held at Lincoln Memorial in Washington, the United States, Jan 15, 2016. [Photo/Xinhua] |
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| The skeleton cast of a titanosaur is seen during a media preview at the American Museum of Natural History in New York Jan 14, 2016. The new, 122-foot (37-meter) dinosaur skeleton to be unveiled on Friday is too long to fit in the fossil hall and so its neck and head will poke out toward the elevator banks, offering a surprise greeting when the lift doors open. [Photo/Agencies] |
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| Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (L), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano and the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini arrive at the United Nations building in Vienna, Austria, Jan 16, 2016. [Photo/Agencies] |
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| Indonesian police bomb squad members walk to the site of a bomb blast at Thamrin business district in Jakarta, Jan 14, 2016. Militants launched a gun and bomb assault in the center of the Indonesian capital on Thursday, killing at least six people, police said, in an attack on a country that Islamic State had threatened to put in its "spotlight". [Photo/Agencies] |
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| Indian Army soldiers perform a stunt on motorbikes during the Army Day parade in New Delhi, India, Jan 15, 2016. India celebrated the 68th anniversary of the formation of its national army with soldiers from various regiments, and artillery on display on Friday. [Photo/Agencies] |
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A woman pays tribute to victims who were killed in suicide bomb attack at Sultanahmet square in Istanbul, Turkey January 13, 2016. [Photo/IC] |
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| German Interior Minister Thomas De Maiziere (R) and his Turkish counterpart Efkan Ala (L) lay red carnations in front of the Obelisk of Theodosius as they visit the scene of yesterday's suicide attack at Sultanahmet Square in Istanbul, Turkey Jan 13, 2016. A suicide bomber who killed himself and 10 tourists, most of them German, in Istanbul's historic heart had registered with Turkish immigration authorities but was not on any list of known militant suspects, Turkey's interior minister said on Wednesday. [Photo/Agencies] |
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| A staff member of Canada Post shows domestic rate stamps of Monkey Year at a post office in Toronto, Jan 11, 2016. Canada Post issued the Year of the Monkey domestic rate stamps and collectibles on Monday in celebration of the upcoming Chinese Lunar Year of the Monkey. [Photo/Xinhua] |
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| Participants take a "selfie" at a sunflower field in Bangkok, Thailand, Jan 13, 2016. [Photo/Agencies] |
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| US President Barack Obama reacts to cheers as he arrives at the podium to deliver his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in Washington, Jan 12, 2016. [Photo/Agencies] |
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| Donald "Chip" Pugh is pictured in this undated booking photo (L), and in a selfie, provided by the Lima Police Department in Lima, Ohio Jan 12, 2016. Pugh, who is wanted on a drunk driving charge, was so dissatisfied with the mug shots that police put on their Facebook page, he posted a "better photo" of himself in a car wearing shades. [Photo/Agencies] |
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| A car covered with ice remains stranded on the waterfront in Hamburg, New York Jan 12, 2016. The owner left his Mitsubushi Lancer parked overnight outside a restaurant on Sunday and by the next day, spray from Lake Erie had encased it in ice. [Photo/Agencies] |
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| Local residents watch as a helicopter, known as 'Elvis', drops water onto a pile of burning tyres in Melbourne, Australia, Jan 11, 2016. A large pile of truck tyres caught alight at an industrial area located on the outskirts of Melbourne, local media reported. [Photo/Agencies] |
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| A woman with a Ziggy Stardust tattoo visits a mural of David Bowie in Brixton, south London, Jan 11, 2016. David Bowie, a music legend who used daringly androgynous displays of sexuality and glittering costumes to frame legendary rock hits "Ziggy Stardust" and "Space Oddity", has died of cancer. [Photo/Agencies] |
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| Spain's Princess Cristina sits in court facing charges of tax fraud, as a long-running investigation into the business affairs of her husband Inaki Urdangarin goes to trial, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Jan 11, 2016. [Photo/Agencies] |
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| Podemos (We Can) party deputy Carolina Bescansa holds up her son Diego as members of parliament took their seats as parliament convenved for the first time since a general election in Madrid, Spain, Jan 13, 2016. [Photo/Agencies] |
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