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The week in pictures
From the end of a 16-year hunger strike in India to the Erdogan-Putin meeting, here is this week’s news in photos.
Following clashes with members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, Syria Democratic Forces fighters and fleeing residents walk towards safer parts of Manbij, in northern Syria. [Rodi Said/Reuters]
Published On 12 Aug 2016
12 Aug 2016
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One of India's most prominent political activists ended a 16-year hunger strike on Tuesday, licking honey from her hand and declaring: "I will never forget this moment." Irom Sharmila had been force-fed through a tube in her nose and held by police since November 2000, when she began her hunger strike to protest against a law that gives immense power to security forces in the northeastern state of Manipur. [Anupam Nath/AP]
Ukrainian servicemen are seen at their positions on the front line near Avdeyevka, Ukraine. [Gleb Garanich/Reuters]
People from Nigeria and the Ivory Coast rest on a vessel after being rescued in the central Mediterranean Sea, close to the Libyan territorial waters. [Manu Brabo/AP]
Brazil's national security force officers aim their weapons during a police operation in search for criminals in Vila do Joao, part of the Mare complex of slums, during the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. A police officer died after being shot in the head when he and two Rio Olympics security workers got lost near a slum and encountered gunfire. [Felipe Dana/AP]
A woman shows the body of her son, who suffers from a skin disease, at a camp for internally displaced people near Sanaa, Yemen. [Khaled Abdullah/Reuters]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan travelled to Russia to meet with his counterpart, Vladimir Putin, for the first time since apologising in late June for the downing of a Russian fighter jet along the Syrian border in November last year. [Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP]
Civilians and police officers use water buckets to help to extinguish a forest fire near houses at Sao Joao Latrao, Funchal, in Madeira, Portugal. [Duarte Sa/Reuters]
A worker holds a hand-made [Donald] Trump sign as US President Barack Obama rides past in his motorcade to a golf outing at Mink Meadows Golf Club during his annual family summer vacation on Martha's Vineyard, in Massachusetts. [Jonathan Ernst/Reuters]