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Week in pictures: From Venezuela protest to Eid al-Fitr

A photo round-up of some of last week’s key events, including protests in Venezuela and Haiti and forest fire in Spain.

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Anti-government protester in Caracas, Venezuela. More than 70 people have been killed during almost 90 days of protests seeking President Nicolas Maduro's removal. [Fernando Llano/AP Photo]
Published On 30 Jun 2017
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The destroyed al-Hadba minaret at Grand al-Nuri Mosque in Mosul, Iraq. Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says ISIL's "state of falsehood" has ended after Iraqi forces retook the wrecked landmark mosque in Mosul. [Erik De Castro/Reuters]
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Bollywood actress Shabana Azmi during a protest against a spate of violent attacks across India targeting the country's Muslim minority, in Mumbai, India. Thousands of protesters gathered in different cities to decry the silence of India's Hindu right-wing government in the face of the public lynchings and violent attacks on at least a dozen Muslims since it was voted to power in 2014. [Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo]
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Relatives burn incense and paper offerings to appease the dead at the site of a landslide in Xinmo village in Maoxian County in southwestern China's Sichuan Province. Crews searching through the rubble left by a landslide that buried a mountain village under tons of soil and rocks in southwestern China found bodies, but more than 100 people remained missing. [Ng Han Guan/AP Photo]
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Iranian worshippers perform Eid al-Fitr prayer marking the end of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Tehran, Iran. [Vahid Salemi/AP Photo]
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A forest fire in southern Spain has forced the evacuation of some 1,000 people and is threatening Donana National Park, one of Spain's most important nature reserves and a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1994, and famous for its biodiversity. [Alberto Diaz/AP Photo]
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Zeid Ali, 12, left, and Hodayfa Ali, 11, comfort each other after their house was hit and collapsed during fighting between Iraqi forces and ISIL in Mosul, Iraq. The Ali cousins said some of their family members are still under the rubble. [Felipe Dana/AP Photo]
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South Sudanese refugees at a match between refugee women's football teams Iyete Central and Salvation FC, in the Bidi Bidi refugee settlement in northern Uganda. Football fields and inter-village competitions are found across the world's largest refugee settlement and even more are being built, underscoring the importance of sport in a community trying to forget the horrors of war with a rare source of entertainment in an otherwise dreary existence. [Ben Curtis/AP Photo]
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte checks the scope of a Chinese-made CS/LR4A sniper rifle during the presentation of thousands of rifles and ammunition by China to the Philippines at Clark Airbase in northern Philippines. [Bullit Marquez/AP Photo]
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A factory worker during a protest march demanding a minimum wage increase, from $4.67 per eight-hour work day to $12.47 per day, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. [Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photo]