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The week in pictures

From fighting between Libyan forces and ISIL to monsoon in India, here is the week in pictures.

Week in pictures
An Afghan shopkeeper carries a mannequin after a fire broke out a shopping mall in Kabul, Afghanistan. [Omar Sobhani/Reuters]
Published On 5 Aug 20165 Aug 2016

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Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau waves to the crowd while walking in the Vancouver Pride Parade with his family in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. [Ben Nelms/Reuters]
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Fighters of Libyan forces allied with the UN-backed government fire a rocket at ISIL fighters in Sirte, Libya. [Goran Tomasevic/Reuters]
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The carcasses of dead dogs are collected after they were culled using poison by the municipality in Karachi, Pakistan. [Akhtar Soomro/Reuters]
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Men inspect the wreckage of a Russian helicopter that had been shot down in the north of Syria's rebel-held Idlib province, Syria. [Ammar Abdullah/Reuters]
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Kashmiri men carry the body of Riyaz Ahmad Shah, a civilian, who according to local media was killed on Tuesday night by pellets fired by Indian police, during his funeral in Srinagar. [Danish Ismail/Reuters]
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Skeletal remains, with iron shackles on their wrists, are laid in a row at the ancient Falyron Delta cemetery in Athens, Greece. They were found earlier this year during construction. [Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters]
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People set fire to an effigy of the demon Ghantakarna, to symbolise the destruction of evil, during the Ghantakarna festival at the ancient city of Bhaktapur, Nepal. According to local folklore, the demon Ghantakarna is believed to "steal" children and women from their homes and their neighbourhoods. [Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters]
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Members of a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) team fumigate the Yolo Sud neighbourhood of Kinshasa, Congo, in an effort to kill mosquitoes that can transmit yellow fever. [Jerome Delay/AP]
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A man carries schoolchildren through a flooded street during monsoon rains in Mumbai, India. [Danish Siddiqui/Reuters]


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