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Week in pictures: 16-22 October 2021

A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week.

John Keeble / Getty Images 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, on 17 October 2021John Keeble / Getty Images
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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Jim Weber / The New Mexican A distraught Alec Baldwin lingers in the parking lot outside the Santa Fe County Sheriff's offices on Camino Justicia, after being questioned about a shooting with a prop gun, on 21 October 2021Jim Weber / The New Mexican
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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Clodagh Kilcoyne / Reuters A man watches the sunset from St Stephen's Green bandstand in Dublin, Ireland, on 19 October 2021Clodagh Kilcoyne / Reuters
A man watches the sunset from St Stephen's Green bandstand in Dublin.
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AFP Rescue workers push an overturned vehicle stuck in the mud and debris at the site of a landslide apparently caused by heavy rains in Kokkayar, Kerala state, India, on 17 October 2021AFP
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.
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Aris Messinis / AFP Greek actress Xanthi Georgiou, playing the role of the High Priestess, lights up the torch during the flame lighting ceremony for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at the Ancient Olympia archaeological site, on 18 October 2021Aris 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.
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Arif Ali / AFP A man installs floral decoration at a market place in Lahore, Pakistan, on 17 October 2021, ahead of the celebrations for Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi which is the birthday of Prophet MohammadArif 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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STR / AFP Detainees released from Insein Prison celebrate with the crowd in Yangon on 19 October 2021, as authorities released thousands of people jailed for protesting against a February coup that ousted the civilian governmentSTR / AFP
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.
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Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP A man sleeps on shoe shine chairs in the late evening in Nairobi on 21 October 2021 after Kenya's president ordered the immediate lifting of the curfew that had been in place since March 2020Yasuyoshi 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.
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Tolga Akmen / AFP An assistant displays the artwork entitled Diego y yo (Diego and I) by Mexican painter Frida Kahlo at Sotheby's auction house in central London on October 21, 2021Tolga 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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Toms Kalnins / EPA African ostriches are seen during a sunny autumn day at a farm in Snepele, Latvia, on 18 October 2021Toms Kalnins / EPA
African ostriches are seen during a sunny autumn day at a farm in Snepele, Latvia.

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