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Pictures of the week: From Kenyan wildlife to fishing in Venezuela
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An elephant keeper feeds enriched milk to a calf at Reteti Elephant Sanctuary in Namunyak Wildlife Conservancy, Samburu, Kenya. AFP -
Diego Maradona's family officially opened an Argentina Football Academy in Al Qusais, Dubai. Chris Whiteoak / The National -
The 'East-West/West-East' sculpture by American artist Richard Serra at sunset in Qatar's Dukhan desert, west of the capital, Doha. AFP -
A Syrian boy at the Yunani camp for Syrians displaced by conflict in the countryside of Raqa, Hamah and other regions along the banks of the Euphrates river in Syria's northern province of Raqa. AFP -
A section of the US-Mexico border wall near San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico. The wall disrupts wildlife and environmentalists from both countries are determined to rescue the natural habitat of species whose territories are broken by the controversial structure. AFP -
Lindell Wigginton of Milwaukee Bucks during the NBA game in Etihad Arena, Yas Island. Khushnum Bhandari / The National -
Workers sorting rubbish at the landfill of Burj Hammoud, north of the Lebanese capital, Beirut. AFP -
Shrimp fishermen, with the Gravelines nuclear power station in background, near Dunkirk, northern France. AFP -
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un with pupils while attending a ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of the Mangyongdae Revolutionary School and Kang Pan Sok Revolutionary School in Pyongyang, North Korea. EPA -
Migrants enter the water from the beach at Gravelines, near Dunkirk, northern France in an attempt to cross the English Channel. Since the beginning of the year, more than 33,500 people already made the perilous crossing of the busy waterway. AFP -
A Christian pilgrim from Indonesia is baptised in the waters of the Jordan River at Yardenit in northern Israel. Christians believe Jesus Christ was baptised in the river by John the Baptist. Evangelical pilgrims arrive in Israel during the Jewish holiday of Sukkoth to show their support for the Jewish state. AFP -
Ballooning enthusiasts near Garni in the Kotayk region of Armenia during the 'Discover Armenia from the Sky' international ballooning festival, with Mount Ararat in the background. Participants from Armenia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Germany, Kazakhstan, Poland and Russia take part in the festival. AFP -
Competitors in the women's 10km scratch race final during the UCI Track Cycling World Championships at the Velodrome of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, south-west of Paris. AFP -
Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan play table tennis in Astana, Kazakhstan. Reuters -
An elderly Palestinian man passes Israeli soldiers at the site of clashes with protesters in the West Bank city of Hebron. EPA -
The bow of the Soviet submarine K-3 'Leninsky Komsomol' is moved from the pier to a site where it will be assembled with the stern and installed as a museum, in the city of Kronstadt, outside St Petersburg. It was the Soviet Union's first nuclear submarine and was built in 1957. In 1967, while in the Norwegian Sea, 39 crew members died in a fire in the bow compartments. AP Photo -
Attendants wait for visitors to an exhibition entitled 'Forging Ahead in the New Era', showing the country's achievements during Xi Jinping's two terms, at the Beijing Exhibition Centre before the 20th Communist Party Congress meeting. AFP -
A woman takes photographs of her dog in a pink muhly grass field at a park in Hanam, South Korea. Reuters -
Inside Saudi Arabia's stand at Gitex, at Dubai World Trade Centre. Leslie Pableo for The National -
A multi-storey office building after Russian strikes hit the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. The head of the Ukrainian military said that Russian forces launched at least 75 missiles at Ukraine on Monday morning, with strikes targeting the capital Kyiv, and cities in the south and west. AFP -
People affected by floods caused by Tropical Storm Julia, take a rest after being moved by boat, in the municipality of Choloma, Honduras. Julia dissipated in western Guatemala, near Mexico, after leaving at least 11 dead and eight missing in northern Central America. AFP -
Empty seats as Pope Francis attends an audience with pilgrims who came to Rome for the canonisation of St Giovanni Battista Scalabrini, in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican. Reuters -
A Thai Buddhist monk watches the preparation of a site for the mass cremation rite for those killed in a childcare centre mass killing, at a temple in Nong Bua Lamphu province, north-east Thailand. At least 37 people were killed, mostly children, while another 12 were injured when a former policeman attacked the centre, and later killed his wife and their child, then himself, police said. EPA -
A man is reunited with his dog, which was rescued from the mud by neighbours after flooding in Las Tejerias, Venezuela. AP Photo -
The 28th Cape Town International Kite Festival, an awareness campaign for World Mental Health Day where kite enthusiasts gather to participate in social activities, and raise funds for mental health support at Melkbosstrand, Cape Town, South Africa. Reuters -
The Barcolana sailing regatta off the coast of Trieste, Italy. Reuters -
A residential building damaged by a Russian missile strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. Reuters -
A pink ribbon measuring 25x275 metres placed by more than 540 volunteers on top of the twin mountain named Tetasde Viana, in Trillo town, Guadalajara province, Spain. This initiative against breast cancer breaks the Guinness Largest Awareness Ribbon record. EPA -
Black smoke billows from a fire on the Kerch bridge that links Crimea to Russia, after a truck exploded, near Kerch. AFP -
A visitor at the annual Frieze London Art Fair in London. Reuters -
Yohandry Colina uses an oil-stained sheet for a sail on the boat he uses to catch fish on Lake Maracaibo in Cabimas, Venezuela. AP Photo
