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The week in pictures: From blasts to protests

From suicide blast in Somalia to protests in Venezuela, here is the week’s news in pictures.

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Syrian citizens carry their belongings as they prepare to leave Daraya, a blockaded Damascus suburb, on Friday, August 26, 2016. The evacuation is part of an agreement struck between the rebels and the government of President Bashar al-Assad. Rebels agreed to evacuate after four years of gruelling bombardment and a crippling siege that has left the sprawling suburb southwest of the capital in ruins. [Local Council of Daraya City/AP]
Published On 2 Sep 2016
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Students wave the Malaysian flag during the 59th National Day celebrations at the Independence Square in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia gained its independence on August 31, 1957. [Joshua Paul/AP]
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Somali soldiers help a man, centre, who was wounded by a blast near the presidential palace in the capital Mogadishu. A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden truck near the gate of the palace on Tuesday, killing at least five people. [Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP]
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Libyan soldiers pray as they prepare for an advance against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant positions in Sirte. [Ismail Zitouny/Reuters]
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The ruined streets of Amatrice, in central Italy, after the earthquake of August 24 in the Apennine Mountains. Italian authorities are pondering how to provide warmer, more permanent housing for those made homeless by the earthquake who are living in tents region. Nearly 2,700 people whose homes collapsed or were left unsafe are now staying in 58 tent camps or other shelters arranged by the Civil Protection agency. [Stefano Rellandini/Reuters]
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A demonstrator shouts insults against Venezuela''s President Nicolas Maduro during a protest in Caracas. Venezuela''s opposition is vowing to keep up pressure on Maduro after flooding the streets of Caracas with demonstrators on Thursday in its biggest show of force in years. Protesters filled dozens of city blocks in what was dubbed the "taking of Caracas" to pressure electoral authorities to allow a recall referendum against Maduro this year. [Fernando Llano/AP]
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Bangladeshi Muslims stand in queues to buy advance train tickets to return home before the Eid al-Adha holiday, at Kamlapur central train station in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of the Sacrifice, is celebrated to commemorate the prophet Ibrahim's faith in being willing to sacrifice his son. [AM Ahad/AP]
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A member of the Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army, seen in front of a mural by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, stands guard outside a building in the border town of Jarablus, Syria. [Umit Bektas/Reuters]
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, centre, ministers and army commanders follow a guard of honour at the mausoleum of modern Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk on Victory Day in Ankara, Turkey. Turkey's 94-year-old victory over Greece was considered crucial in the Turkish Independence War and the foundation of modern Turkish republic. [Burhan Ozbilici/AP]
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A dog, wearing a camouflage pet shirt, stands in front of a cordon of policeman outside a court where military officers and soldiers are on trial accused of killing 71 people in 1985 in the Andean city of Accomarca, in Lima, Peru. On Thursday, the court sentenced 10 members of the Peruvian Army to various prison terms for the massacre, one of the cruellest by soldiers during the country’s war that took place between 1980-2000. Counted among the dead were more than two dozen children. [Rodrigo Abd/AP]