A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week.
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A police officer moves floral tributes for Sir David Amess, which were left near the entrance of the Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. A 25-year-old man has been charged with murder and the preparation of terrorist acts, after the UK Conservative MP was stabbed to death during a constituency surgery.
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US actor Alec Baldwin is seen outside the Santa Fe County Sheriff's office, following a fatal accident with a prop gun on a New Mexico film set. Director of photography Halyna Hutchins died and director Joel Souza was injured when the actor discharged the firearm, while filming the 19th Century western Rust.
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A man watches the sunset from St Stephen's Green bandstand in Dublin.
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Rescue workers push an overturned vehicle at the site of a landslide in Kokkayar, India. More than 180 people have died after heavy rainfall triggered flash floods in the Indian states of Uttarakhand and Kerala, and neighbouring Nepal.
Aris Messinis / AFP
Greek Actress Xanthi Georgiou, playing the role of the High Priestess, lights the Olympic torch during the flame-lighting ceremony for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, at the Ancient Olympia archaeological site.
Arif Ali / AFP
A man installs a floral decoration at a market place in Lahore, Pakistan, ahead of the celebrations for Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi, which marks the birthday of Prophet Mohammad.
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Detainees released from Insein Prison celebrate with a crowd in Yangon, Myanmar, as authorities released thousands of people jailed for protesting against a February coup which ousted the civilian government.
Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP
A man sleeps on shoe shine chairs in Nairobi, after Kenya's president ordered the immediate lifting of a curfew which had been in place since March 2020.
Tolga Akmen / AFP
An assistant displays Mexican painter Frida Kahlo's 1949 self-portrait Diego y yo (Diego and I) at Sotheby's auction house in London. The painting, which carries an estimate in excess of $30 million, is due to be auctioned next month in New York.
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African ostriches are seen during a sunny autumn day at a farm in Snepele, Latvia.
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