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Week in pictures: From Hurricane Irma to DACA

A photo round-up of some of last week’s key events, Ganesh Chaturthi Hindu festival and celebrations in Pyongyang.

Week in pictures
A Ukrainian serviceman inspects an abandoned library, with numerous books seen on the floor, near his position on the front line in the town of Maryinka, Ukraine. [Oleksandr Klymenko/Reuters]
Published On 8 Sep 2017
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Hindu devotees participate in a procession towards the Arabian Sea with a giant idol of the elephant-headed god Ganesha to immerse it on the final day of the ten-day long Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai, India. [Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo]
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Carlos Esteban, 31, a nursing student and recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, known as DACA, rallies with others in support of DACA outside of the White House, in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump began dismantling the government program protecting hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who were brought into the country illegally as children. [Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo]
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Ghanaian refugees Simon, left, and Peace hold their newborn baby girl on board a Spanish rescue vessel on the Mediterranean Sea. The Ghanaian woman gave birth right after being rescued by members of the Spanish NGO ProActiva Open Arms while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea from Libya to Italy. [Bram Janssen/AP Photo]
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A home surrounded by debris brought in by Hurricane Irma in Nagua, Dominican Republic. Irma cut a path of devastation across the northern Caribbean, leaving thousands homeless after destroying buildings and uprooting trees. Irma flooded parts of the Dominican Republic when it roared by Thursday, just off the northern coast of the island it shares with Haiti. [Tatiana Fernandez/AP Photo]
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A Rohingya woman comforts her exhausted son as they take shelter inside a school after having just arrived from the Myanmar side of the border at Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh. Some 164,000 Rohingya from the area have fled across the border into Bangladesh in less than two weeks since August 25. [Bernat Armangue/AP Photo]
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Evacuees stay in an evacuation centre - as government troops continue their operations against pro-ISIL fighters who seized Marawi city - in Baloi village, Lanao Del Norte, southern Philippines. [Romeo Ranoco/Reuters]
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Pyongyang city civilians celebrate the successful completion of a hydrostatic test for an intercontinental ballistic rocket installation in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang. [KCNA/Reuters]
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People gather in front of the Cathedral Primada in Simon Bolivar Square waiting for the arrival of Pope Francis in Bogota, Colombia. His 20th trip abroad as pope, Francis' five-day visit to Colombia fulfils a promise he made to Colombian government and FARC negotiators when he visited Cuba in 2015 as negotiations between the two dragged on in Havana. [Ivan Valencia/AP Photo]
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Bicycles of various bike-sharing services are seen at an urban village in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China. [Reuters]