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Week in pictures: From Somalia blast to refugee crises

A photo round-up of some of last week’s key events, including protests in Venezuela and the coming election in Kenya.

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Syrian refugees protest outside the German embassy in Greece against delays in reuniting with their relatives in Germany. [Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters]
Published On 4 Aug 2017
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A member of Brazil's Homeless Workers Movement (MTST) yells during a protest against President Michel Temer's proposed changes to labour and pension laws. [Leonardo Benassatto/Reuters]
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Kenyans in the capital city of Nairobi pray during a rally calling for peace before the August 8 presidential election. [Baz Ratner/Reuters]
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Flames erupted in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas as clashes broke out during Sunday's Constituent Assembly election. [Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters]
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Somali military officers evacuate an injured man from the scene of an explosion in Maka al-Mukaram road in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu. A car bomb exploded near a police station on Sunday, killing at least six people and wounding another 13. [Feisal Omar/Reuters]
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A university student participates in a march in San Salvador to commemorate the killings of students by Salvadoran military forces during a protest in 1975. [Jose Cabezas/Reuters]
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Refugee and migrant children sing during a concert at the Herod Atticus theatre in Athens. Dozens of children from refugee camps around the Greek capital performed at the theatre as part of a global initiative to teach music to refugee children. [Thanassis Stavrakis/AP Photo]
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People shout slogans as they gather around the body of Shabir Ahmad Mir, a Kashmiri rebel, who was killed in a gun battle with Indian security forces in the Pulwama district of Indian-administered Kashmir. Tensions have remained high in the region after the killing of a prominent leader of the Lashkar-e-Taiba group. [Danish Ismail/Reuters]
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US troops assess the damage to an armoured vehicle that belongs to the NATO-led military coalition in Afghanistan. On Wednesday, at least two US soldiers were killed when a Taliban suicide bomber targeted a convoy of foreign forces in the southern province of Kandahar. [Ahmad Nadeem/Reuters]