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 downtown
Los Angeles courtroom. Carey, who is homeless, has been charged with assault with a deadly
weapon against a police officer and resisting arrest after allegedly picking up an LAPD nightstick
during a fatal police shooting on skid row on March 1, and could face 25 years to life in prison under
California's three-strikes sentencing law for repeat offenders.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times
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A woman joins a rally in New York City's Times Square opposing the proposed nuclear deal with
Iran.
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Egyptian volunteers search the Nile River for victims after a passenger boat collided with a scow
and capsized in Giza. Egypt's Interior ministry says more than a dozen people drowned.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Amr Nabil / Associated Press
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Kenyan women in Nairobi pose for a photo in front of a poster depicting President Obama as he
would look wearing traditional headgear on the eve of Obama's visit to Kenya for the Pre-Global
Entrepreneurship Summit.
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Women mourn a man killed by robbers in Bujumbura, Burundi. Politically motivated killings are not
unknown 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 a
weeklong tour of the Middle East focused on reassuring allies about Iran and assessing progress in
the 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 main
company 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 at
their home in the town of Ceylanpinar on the border with Syria. The military wing of the outlawed
Kurdistan Workers' Party said it killed the two men as reprisal for a suicide bombing blamed on
Islamic 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 raging
in 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 algal
phenomenon, an annual occurrence in Qingdao, is usually caused by an abundance of nutrients in
the water, especially phosphorus, although the triggers for the enormous blooms -- which began to
appear 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, with
29.2 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-shaped
bright band in the sky, although it rarely can been seen with the naked eye.
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Rusty Malinoski of Canada competes in the Men's Wakeboard Semifinal during the Pan American
Games 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 increased
to 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 in
Birmingham, England, on July 22, 2015. A Koran manuscript has been carbon-dated to close to the
time of the Prophet Muhammad, making it one of the oldest in the world, a British university said
Wednesday. The two leaves of parchment, filled with "surprisingly legible" text from Islam's holy
book, 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 the
bodies of Huthi rebels killed in a car bomb that targeted a Shiite Muslim mosque in Sanaa earlier
this week. The attack on July 21, claimed by the Islamic State group, killed four people near a
mosque 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 by
2021 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 on
Wednesday.
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Turkish riot police use rubber bullets to disperse protesters as they set off fireworks at Kadikoy
district in Istanbul on Tuesday, a day after a suicide bomb attack blamed on the Islamic State killed
32 people in the southern Turkish town of Suruc. Turkish police on Wednesday fired tear gas and
water cannons against hundreds of protesters who took to streets to condemn the deadly suicide
attack 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 Nkurunziza
widely expected to win a third straight term despite international condemnation and thousands of
people fleeing feared violence.
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A woman votes in Bujumbura, Burundi, on the day of presidential elections. At least two people, a
policeman and a civilian, were killed in a string of explosions and gunfire overnight, police and
witnesses said.
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A 30-second exposure showing the Milky Way in the summer night sky over the vicinity of
Salgotarjan, Hungary.
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Father Giles Conacher kneels in the lady chapel at Pluscarden Abbey in Elgin, Scotland. Monks at
the abbey, which owes its foundation to King Alexander II of Scotland in the year 1230, are warning
their peaceful way of life will be threatened if a possible route for a new roadway linking the A96
between 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 of
Copenhagen.
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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 Benjamin
Poree 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 the
2015 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 the
Horns of Hattin, Israel. About 60 people took part in the three-day play near the Sea of Galilee that
reenacted 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 Fish
Market.
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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 of
street art, and then run back.
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Andrea Garfield protests against Ohio Gov. John Kasich outside the Ohio State University student
union where he is to announce he is running for the 2016 Republican party's nomination for
president. Kasich, a two-term governor and former congressman, has little name recognition in the
crowded GOP field, but he is already airing television ads in New Hampshire, where he is heading
immediately 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 blaze
jumped 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 charred
remains 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 of
Interstate 10 on Sunday in Desert Center. The bridge, which carries the eastbound interstate about
15 feet above a normally dry wash, snapped and ended up in the flood waters below, the California
Highway 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 in
Mandaluyong on Sunday. Residents broke the record for the largest Zumba class with 12,975
participants in a single venue.
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FIFA president Sepp Blatter is showered with dollar bills thrown by British comedian Simon Brodkin
during 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 take
place Feb. 26.
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