A selection of striking news photographs taken around the world this week.
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US Vice-President Kamala Harris arrives for a college athletics teams celebration at the White House. President Joe Biden ended his re-election campaign and endorsed Ms Harris to succeed him as the Democratic candidate. She said that she would “earn and win this nomination” and unite the country against Donald Trump.
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Women weep while volunteers leave for the night after digging in the mud to search for survivors at the scene of a landslide in Gofa. Rescue teams retrieved the bodies of 229 people killed in two landslides in southern Ethiopia, after heavy rains.
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Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado greets supporters during a presidential election campaign rally in Caracas. Venezuelans will be going to the polls on Sunday in the most tensely awaited election in more than a decade.
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People in the Philippines have been battling knee-deep floodwater after Typhoon Gaemi lashed the country’s capital. Some attempted to walk through the flooding in Manila, while others tried to drive or even swim to their destination.
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French military forces walk past a restaurant ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. It’s the largest peacetime deployment of security forces in French history, with up to 75,000 police, soldiers and hired guards on patrol at any one time.
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Simone Biles, the most decorated gymnast in history with 37 world and Olympic medals, participates in podium training at the Bercy Arena in Paris. The American is back at the Olympics after pulling out of several events at the Tokyo Games three years ago with the “twisties” – a disorientating mental block.
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Principal curator of science, Dr Rebekah Higgitt, looks at the Ilay Glynne sundial, an exceptional example of 18th century ornate precision and design, which has gone on display for the first time at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.
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California crews battle four wildfires during a triple-digit heatwave in parts of the state. The Park Fire is seen burning along Highway 32 in the Forest Ranch community of Butte County, in this long-exposure photograph.
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Hot air balloons take off from College Green and Queen Square to mark the countdown to the 46th Bristol International Balloon Fiesta in England.
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A butterfly lands on a flower after a downpour in the Sarikamis district of Kars in Turkey .
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