The Week in Pictures | July 20 - 26, 2015

The Week in Pictures | July 20 - 26, 2015

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Defendent Trishawn Cardessa Carey listens as her lawyer speak during a bail hearing in a downtownLos Angeles courtroom. Carey, who is homeless, has been charged with assault with a deadlyweapon against a police officer and resisting arrest after allegedly picking up an LAPD nightstickduring a fatal police shooting on skid row on March 1, and could face 25 years to life in prison underCalifornia's three-strikes sentencing law for repeat offenders.

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A woman joins a rally in New York City's Times Square opposing the proposed nuclear deal withIran.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: KENA BETANCUR / AFP/Getty Images


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Egyptian volunteers search the Nile River for victims after a passenger boat collided with a scowand capsized in Giza. Egypt's Interior ministry says more than a dozen people drowned.

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Kenyan women in Nairobi pose for a photo in front of a poster depicting President Obama as hewould look wearing traditional headgear on the eve of Obama's visit to Kenya for the Pre-GlobalEntrepreneurship Summit.

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Women mourn a man killed by robbers in Bujumbura, Burundi. Politically motivated killings are notunknown in Burundi, but the man was killed by men who tried to rob the shop he worked in,authorities said.

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U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter, center, is greeted by U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Stu Jones, left,and Army Lt. Gen. James Terry as he arrives at Baghdad International Airport. Carter is on aweeklong tour of the Middle East focused on reassuring allies about Iran and assessing progress inthe coalition air campaign against the Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq.

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A young Lebanese man walks past garbage piled on a street in Beirut, where a dispute with the maincompany responsible for waste disposal has led to a halt in trash collection.

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Relatives grieve during a funeral in Sanliurfa, Turkey, for two police officers found shot to death attheir home in the town of Ceylanpinar on the border with Syria. The military wing of the outlawedKurdistan Workers' Party said it killed the two men as reprisal for a suicide bombing blamed onIslamic State jihadists, that killed 32 activists near the border.

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An exercise rider takes a horse for a morning workout at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs,N.Y. Saratoga kicks off its 147th summer of thoroughbred racing on Friday.

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A firefighter tries to extinguish a wildfire near Ponikve village in Croatia. Wildfires have been ragingin Bosnia, Croatia and Montenegro.

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A man swims amid a blanket of algae covering the water at a beach in Qingdao, China. The algalphenomenon, an annual occurrence in Qingdao, is usually caused by an abundance of nutrients inthe water, especially phosphorus, although the triggers for the enormous blooms -- which began toappear in the Yellow Sea in 2007 -- remain uncertain.

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People sunbathe at Levante Beach on Wednesday in Benidorm, Spain. Spain has set a record, with29.2 million visitors in June, 4.2% more than the same period in 2014.

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A free skier trains in the Freestyle Park Saas-Fee on the Feegletscher glacier on Wednesday in Saas-Fee, Valais, Switzerland.

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The Milky Way is seen in the summer night sky over Salgotarjan, northeast of Budapest, Hungary,late on July 20, 2015. The Milky Way contains our own solar system and appears as a disc-shapedbright band in the sky, although it rarely can been seen with the naked eye.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: PETER KOMKA / MTI


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Rusty Malinoski of Canada competes in the Men's Wakeboard Semifinal during the Pan AmericanGames in Toronto on Tuesday.

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A resident carries a television set as he wades along a flooded street in Villa Rica, Gravatai, Brazil,on Tuesday. The number of people hit by the rain in Rio Grande do Sul in the past 15 days increasedto 47,271, according to data released by the Civil Defense.

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Marie Sviergula, conservator of the University of Birmingham, holds a Koran manuscript inBirmingham, England, on July 22, 2015. A Koran manuscript has been carbon-dated to close to thetime of the Prophet Muhammad, making it one of the oldest in the world, a British university saidWednesday. The two leaves of parchment, filled with "surprisingly legible" text from Islam's holybook, have been dated to around the early seventh century, the University said.

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During a group funeral procession in the Yemeni capital on Wednesday, Yemeni mourners bury thebodies of Huthi rebels killed in a car bomb that targeted a Shiite Muslim mosque in Sanaa earlierthis week. The attack on July 21, claimed by the Islamic State group, killed four people near amosque in the rebel-controlled capital, according to Shiite rebels.

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Labor groups and supporters for an increase in minimum wage in Los Angeles County to $15 by2021 show up in large numbers at the Board of Supervisors meeting in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

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A train and a truck collide in Studenka, Czech Republic, killing two people and injuring 13 onWednesday.

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Turkish riot police use rubber bullets to disperse protesters as they set off fireworks at Kadikoydistrict in Istanbul on Tuesday, a day after a suicide bomb attack blamed on the Islamic State killed32 people in the southern Turkish town of Suruc. Turkish police on Wednesday fired tear gas andwater cannons against hundreds of protesters who took to streets to condemn the deadly suicideattack in a border town, an AFP photographer reported.

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People gather around the body of a man shot dead in the Nyakabiga neighborhood of Bujumbura,Burundi. Burundians voted amid gunfire and grenade blasts, with President Pierre Nkurunzizawidely expected to win a third straight term despite international condemnation and thousands ofpeople fleeing feared violence.

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A woman votes in Bujumbura, Burundi, on the day of presidential elections. At least two people, apoliceman and a civilian, were killed in a string of explosions and gunfire overnight, police andwitnesses said.

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A 30-second exposure showing the Milky Way in the summer night sky over the vicinity ofSalgotarjan, Hungary.

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Father Giles Conacher kneels in the lady chapel at Pluscarden Abbey in Elgin, Scotland. Monks atthe abbey, which owes its foundation to King Alexander II of Scotland in the year 1230, are warningtheir peaceful way of life will be threatened if a possible route for a new roadway linking the A96between Forres and Fochabers will run close to their retreat near Elgin.

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Participants in the 2015 World Congress of Santa Clauses take a bath at Bellevue beach north ofCopenhagen.

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A stuntman shows tricks on an inflatable tube during a preview of the Zwarte Cross (Black Cross)festival in Lichtenvoorde, the Netherlands.

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Actors perform during a dress rehearsal of the play "Trilogie du Revoir" by French director BenjaminPoree at the Gymnase Aubanel in Avignon, southern France.

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Golfer Phil Mickelson putts in the rain on the 5th green during his third round 70, on day four of the2015 British Open Golf Championship on The Old Course at St. Andrews in Scotland.

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A 3-day-old bonobo chimp baby sleeps on the belly of its mother Kutu in the zoo in Frankfurt,Germany.

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A bee sits on a sunflower in a field in Munich, Germany.

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An Israeli reenactor wears a costume during a reenactment of the historic Battle of Hattin at theHorns of Hattin, Israel. About 60 people took part in the three-day play near the Sea of Galilee thatreenacted the combat between Muslim forces led by Sultan Saladin and the Crusaders in 1187.

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Ariana Guevara, center, celebrates her birthday as mariachis play for her at the San Pedro FishMarket.

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Runners of The BlacklistLA group gather in front of a mural on Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice.BlacklistLA is a group of 200 runners, who start from a spot, run for about three miles to a piece ofstreet art, and then run back.

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Andrea Garfield protests against Ohio Gov. John Kasich outside the Ohio State University studentunion where he is to announce he is running for the 2016 Republican party's nomination forpresident. Kasich, a two-term governor and former congressman, has little name recognition in thecrowded GOP field, but he is already airing television ads in New Hampshire, where he is headingimmediately after making his run official.

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The North fire burns near Baldy Mesa in the San Bernardino Mountains in California after the blazejumped the 15 Freeway on Friday night.



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Denny Doyle, a family friend of the owners of a burned home, helps recover items in the charredremains of the house in the Baldy Mesa area in California after the North fire swept through.



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Emergency crews respond after a pickup truck crashed into the collapse of an elevated section ofInterstate 10 on Sunday in Desert Center. The bridge, which carries the eastbound interstate about15 feet above a normally dry wash, snapped and ended up in the flood waters below, the CaliforniaHighway Patrol said, blocking all traffic headed toward Arizona.

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Rain on windows at Santa Monica Beach on Saturday.



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Storm clouds over the Port of Los Angeles as the region gets rain on Sunday.

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Filipino residents participate in a Zumba class in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record inMandaluyong on Sunday. Residents broke the record for the largest Zumba class with 12,975participants in a single venue.

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FIFA president Sepp Blatter is showered with dollar bills thrown by British comedian Simon Brodkinduring a press conference following the FIFA Executive Committee meeting in Zurich on Monday.The agenda for the elective congress for the FIFA presidency was approved. The congress will takeplace Feb. 26.

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The Week in Pictures | July 20 - 26, 2015