Beshara: The most captivating pictures of the week

This week's collection includes half marathon in Giza, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Machado and Geminid meteors

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  Tourists ride camels during the seventh annual Pyramids Half Marathon at the Pyramids of Giza, Egypt. EPA

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  Musicians play the violin during the opening of the renovated Monument of Neutrality in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, before the 30th anniversary of the country’s neutrality. AFP

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  Nic von Rupp of Portugal rides a wave during a WSL Big Wave Challenge session in Nazare. AFP

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  A young male gorilla of the Amahoro family shows off his acrobatic flair in the Virunga Mountains. Photo by Mark Meth-Cohn, winner of the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards.

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  A duck crosses a street in Beijing. AFP

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  An Air Algerie airliner, with the moon seen in the background, flying above Marseille, south of France. AFP

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  An angler casts his fishing line from a rocky outcrop along the Beirut coastline, Lebanon. AP

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  Children play at the base of a 133 foot tall statue, that honours the Tamil poet and philosopher Thiruvalluvar, at Kanniyakumari, the southern most tip of India. AP

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  A motorist drives down a street lined with holiday lights, in Shawnee, Kan. AP

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  Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado with the crowd gathered in front of the Grand Hotel, in Oslo, Norway. AP

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  The two weeks old pygmy hippo baby 'Panya' walks with its mother for the first time into their enclosure at the zoo in Duisburg, Germany. AP

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  A girl looks out the window at the Amazon Pearl community farming project on the outskirts of Puerto Asis, Colombia. AP

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  People watch a multimedia light show during the 'Country of Light' festival at the Palace Square, in St Petersburg, Russia. AP

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  A boatman pushes his boat towards the Green Lagoon off the town of Coron in Palawan province in the Philippines. AFP

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  A composite of 480 stacked long-exposure images shows Geminid meteors streaking across the night sky over the Skopska Crna Gora mountain, about 45km north of the capital Skopje, North Macedonia. EPA