Through photos: The world in a week

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Gaza

Photographed by a Jordanian aid plane, Gaza looks like the ruins of an ancient civilization, brought to light after centuries of darkness. 

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Gaza City

Smoke rises from the rubble after Israel targeted the area near the Abbas junction in western Gaza City.

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Gaza City

Palestinians at Shifa Hospital mourn a relative who was killed while trying to reach aid trucks entering the northern Gaza Strip through the Zikim border crossing from Israel.  

Jehad Alshrafi/AP

Khan Younis, Gaza

Palestinians wait to receive food from a charity kitchen in Khan Younis. 

Hatem Khaled/Reuters

Gaza City

Palestinians rush to collect humanitarian aid dropped from the air by parachute in Gaza City.  

Jehad Alshrafi/AP

Jerusalem

Orthodox Jews pray while reading from the book of Eicha to mark Tisha B'av, at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem.  

Abir Sultan/EPA

Kiev, Ukraine

A colleague cries as she looks at a portrait of Viktoriia Roshchyna, 27, a journalist who reported on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, during her funeral in central Kiev. 

Efrem Lukatsky/AP

Donetsk, Ukraine

A soldier of the Air Assault Division of the Ukrainian Armed Forces fires towards Russian troops on a frontline in Donetsk. 

Oleksandr Ratushniak/Reuters

Fontjoncouse, France

A forest is engulfed in flames as a large fire breaks out near Fontjoncouse. 

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Banyuls-sur-Mer, France

Tourists remain on the beach as smoke from fires raging in the Aude department engulfs the Mediterranean coast at Banyuls-sur-Mer.  

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Keratea, Greece

Stamatina, 86, and her daughter Eleftheria try to control small fires during a fire in Keratea, on the outskirts of Athens.

Thanasis Stavrakis/AP

Castaic, California, USA

A helicopter drops water on the Canyon Fire in Castaic.  

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Hasley Canyon, California, USA

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Rescue evacuates a horse as the Canyon Fire burns in Hasley Canyon.  

Marcio José Sánchez/AP

Salta, Argentina

A man flees with his dog from the flames that are raging through a neighborhood of Salta in the Andes.

Javier Corbalan/AP

Qingyuan, China

Chickens stand on a kitchen counter in a flooded house after days of torrential rain in Qingyuan.  

Florence Lo/Reuters

Tordera, Spain

A goat's eye is seen in the Montnegre mountain range near Tordera. 

Albert Gea/Reuters

Moroni, Comoros

The motorcade of Franco Comoran Faid Kassim, who lives with his wife Faizat Aboubacar in Reunion, heads towards his bride's family home in Moroni during a grand wedding ceremony.  

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Caracas, Venezuela

People train in preparation for the "Night of Boxing Legends" event in the San Agustin neighborhood of Caracas.

Miguel Gutiérrez/EPA

Singapore

Robbie Lee of Team Great Britain competes in the men's 10m platform preliminaries during the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore.

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