20 photographs of the week
The US election, lockdown in London, flooding in the Philippines, and rising cases of Covid-19: the most striking images from around the world
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Venice, Italy
A resident of the Domenico Sartor nursing home is helped by nurses before talking to a relative through a plastic screen in a so-called hug room amid the coronavirus pandemic.Photograph: Piero Cruciatti/AFP/Getty Images
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Stadtallendorf, Germany
Police officers take an activist out of the Dannenroeder forest to record their personal details. Activists are staying in numerous camps and about 100-150 tree houses to protest against the construction of the A49 and to hinder deforestation.Photograph: Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images
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Great Missenden, England
Contractors tree felling at a section of an Iron Age earthwork known as Grim’s Ditch that will be destroyed by the HS2 high-speed rail line.Photograph: Jim Dyson/Getty Images
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New Delhi, India
People walk along Rajpath near India Gate under heavy smog conditions.Photograph: Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty Images
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Lansing, Michigan, US
Pro- and anti-Trump demonstrators argue at the Michigan state capitol in Lansing. Militia members had pledged to attend the Stop the Steal demonstration by Trump supporters, claiming the presidential election had been stolen.Photograph: John Moore/Getty Images
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Washington DC, US
Schevon Salmon celebrates with his two-year-old daughter Nyomi after president-elect Joe Biden’s win over Donald Trump.Photograph: Jacquelyn Martin/AP
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Habbaniyah, Iraq
A girl sits in a bus transporting displaced families from a camp in Habbaniyah. After five years hosting displaced Iraqis, the vast camp was emptied in under 48 hours as part of a sudden government push to close dozens of displacement camps by the end of the year.Photograph: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images
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Nagorno-Karabakh
Ethnic Armenian soldiers walk along the road near the border between Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia.Photograph: AP
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Saint-Etienne, France
A medical worker prepares to enter the Covid-19 unit of the Hopital Prive de la Loire.Photograph: Jeff Pachoud/AFP/Getty Images
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Tel Aviv, Israel
A technician demonstrates how samples are taken at a new on-site Covid-19 testing facility at Tel Aviv international airport.Photograph: Maya Alleruzzo/AP
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London, England
The Queen’s equerry, Lieutenant Colonel Nana Kofi Twumasi-Ankrah, places a bouquet of flowers at the grave of the Unknown Warrior on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II during a ceremony in Westminster Abbey.Photograph: Aaron Chown/PA
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London, England
Chelsea pensioners watch a Remembrance Sunday service from their windows at the Royal Hospital Chelsea during the lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak.Photograph: Henry Nicholls/Reuters
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Yerevan, Armenia
Demonstrators argue after they broke into the government building protesting against an agreement to halt fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Armenian prime minister Nikol Pashinian said that calling an end to the fight was ‘extremely painful for me personally and for our people’. Soon after the announcement, thousands of people streamed to the main square in the Armenian capital Yerevan to protest the agreement.Photograph: Dmitri Lovetsky/AP
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Marikina, Philippines
Residents negotiate a road flooded due to Typhoon Vamco. The typhoon swelled rivers and flooded low-lying areas as it passed over the storm-battered north-east Philippines.Photograph: Aaron Favila/AP
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Mediterranean Sea
Refugees and migrants are rescued after leaving Libya to try to reach European soil aboard an overcrowded rubber boat in the Mediterranean. The Open Arms rescue ship had been searching for the boat in distress for hours before finally finding it in international waters north of Libya.Photograph: Sergi Camara/AP
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Lima, Peru
Demonstrators protest against President Manuel Merino, who took office this week in a controversial constitutional process after the dismissal of former president Martin Vizcarra for ‘moral incapacity’.Photograph: Marlos Flores/EPA
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Lima, Peru
Police officers fire teargas canisters at demonstrators during a protest against Peruvian president Manuel Merino at Plaza San Martin.Photograph: Aldair Mejia/EPA
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Bangkok, Thailand
Riot police hold on to their shields as pro-democracy protesters take part in an anti-government demonstration.Photograph: Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP/Getty Images
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San Mateo, Philippines
A man takes a break from cleaning mud from his house after flooding caused by Typhoon Vamco.Photograph: Eloisa Lopez/Reuters
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Washington DC, US
A blimp depicting Donald Trump is seen stuck on a tree at Black Lives Matter Plaza.Photograph: Tom Brenner/Reuters
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