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Photos of the Week: 8/17-8/23

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This week's edition features coverage of mudslides in Japan, a home-made electric wooden horse in China, an oil
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Australia's Nathan Hedge rides a wave during the 14th edition of the Billabong Pro Tahiti surf event in Teahupoo, on the French Polynesian island of
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A man is doused with milk and sprayed with mist after being hit by an eye irritant from security forces trying to disperse demonstrators
protesting against the shooting of unarmed black teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 20, 2014. (Reuters/Adrees Latif) #

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A combination of three pictures taken in Gaza City on August 23, 2014 shows Palestinian men watching and then running as an Israeli bomb
(top photo, upper left) drops down and hits its target in the Palestinian enclave. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images) #

Groom Mahmoud Mansour and his bride Maral Malka celebrate with friends and family before their wedding in Mahmoud's family house in
Jaffa, south of Tel Aviv, on August 17, 2014. Israeli police on Sunday blocked more than 200 far-right Israeli protesters from rushing guests
at the wedding of a Jewish woman and Muslim man as they shouted "death to the Arabs" in a sign of tensions stoked by the Gaza war.
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British actor Rowan Atkinson, dressed in his popular television character Mr. Bean, dances with Chinese performers during the filming of a
promotional video in Shanghai on August 20, 2014. (Reuters/Stringer) #

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A tornado approaches the coastal city of Genoa, in Northern Italy, on August 19, 2014. At right, in background, the profile of the Costa
Concordia cruise liner wreck which was towed to Genoa for scrapping. Tornadoes and thunderstorms hit Genoa and the Liguria region coast
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Getty Images staff photographer Scott Olson is placed into a paddy wagon after being arrested by police as he covered the demonstration
following the shooting death of Michael Brown on August 18, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) #

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