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Best Photos of the Week

Ramallah, West Bank

A Palestinian protester throws a tyre on to a fire during clashes with Israeli border guards near a checkpoint in Ramallah
Photograph: Chris McGrath/Getty Images

Ramallah, West Bank

An undercover Israeli policeman detains a Palestinian protester during demonstrations against Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as capital of Israel
Photograph: Abbas Momani/AFP/Getty Images

Bnei Brak, Israel

People pay their respects to leading rabbi Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman at his funeral
Photograph: Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images

London, England

A tube train passes the remains of Grenfell Tower in west London, six months after the fire that killed 71 people
Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

London, England

Mourners pay their respects outside St Paul’s Cathedral after a memorial service in honour of the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire
Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images

Ciudad Juárez, Mexico

Rogelio and Miriam embrace through the border wall between Mexico and the US after marrying. Families separated by the border are reunited for three minutes through the fence that separates Ciudad Juárez in Mexico and Sunland in New Mexico, US, during an event named ‘keep our dream alive’ on International Human Rights Day
Photograph: Herika Martinez/AFP/Getty Images

Montecito, California

Flames from the Thomas fire burn in the hills after a week of devastating wildfires
Photograph: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images

Kutahya, Turkey

A Geminid meteor shower streaks through the sky over over the Murat mountains
Photograph: Alibey Aydin/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Supporters of Flamengo football club light flares in the stands during the Copa Sudamericana final against Argentina’s Independiente at the Maracanã stadium
Photograph: Silvia Izquierdo/AP

Cali, Colombia

Soldiers patrol the Siloe district in Cali in an attempt to reduce high rates of violence. With 2.4 million inhabitants, Cali is ranked 21st of the world’s 50 most dangerous cities, according to the citizen council for public safety and criminal justice
Photograph: Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images

Boa Vista, Brazil

A woman stands in the kitchen of a gym which has been transformed into a shelter for Venezuelans
Photograph: Nacho Doce/Reuters

Guatemala City, Guatemala

Children play guitar and marimba during the celebration of the apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe to a peasant in 1531
Photograph: Johan Ordonez/AFP/Getty Images

Mexico City, Mexico

Clowns pay homage to Mexico’s patron saint, the Virgin of Guadalupe
Photograph: Edgard Garrido/Reuters

Pyongyang, North Korea

Participants at the eighth conference of the munitions industry at the house of culture in the North Korean capital
Photograph: KCNA/AFP/Getty Images

Nanjing, China

People take part in a ceremony at the Nanjing massacre memorial hall to mark the 80th anniversary of the second world war atrocity
Photograph: Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Police fire teargas at people who threw stones outside the Congress building in protest against reforms to the retirement and pension system
Photograph: Natacha Pisarenko/AP

Harare, Zimbabwe

A portrait of the former president, Robert Mugabe, is removed from the Zanu-PF party HQ
Photograph: Jekesai Njikizana/AFP/Getty Images

Liverpool, England

A statue from Antony Gormley’s sculpture, Another Place, formerly upright, lists in the sand on Crosby beach
Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Damascus, Syria

A man awaits treatment at a makeshift hospital in Zamalka
Photograph: Ammar Suleiman/AFP/Getty Images

Beit Lahia, Gaza

Palestinians peer from apartments damaged by Israeli airstrikes.
Photograph: Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

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