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In_pictures Week in pictures: 27 June-3 July 2020
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A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week.
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DALE DE LA REY/AFP
A woman is hit with pepper spray deployed by police as they cleared a street of protesters rallying against a new national security law in Hong Kong
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JOHN THYS/AFP
A vandalised statue of King Leopold II of Belgium is removed in Ghent, on the 60th anniversary of DR Congo’s independence
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AJENG DINAR ULFIANA/Reuters
A child carries a kite shaped like a ghost in Depok, on the outskirts of Jakarta
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Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Turkey’s world record-holding free-diver Sahika Encumen dives in the Bosphorus Strait to raise awareness of plastic pollution in the seas
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SHAHID ALI/AFP
Farmers try to scare away a swarm of locusts from a field on the outskirts of Sukkur, Pakistan. The country has declared an emergency, saying locust numbers are the worst in more than two decades
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Gabriel Kuchta/Getty Images
People dine at a 500m-long table on the Charles Bridge, after coronavirus restrictions were eased in Prague
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ATHIT PERAWONGMETHA/Reuters
Students in Pathum Thani province sit inside old ballot boxes repurposed into partitions, after schools reopened in Thailand
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Gary Hershorn/Getty Images
The Empire State Building is lit in rainbow colours to celebrate Pride weekend in New York City
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Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
Dharma the Sumatran tiger yawns, following the reopening of Edinburgh Zoo
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Kirsty Wigglesworth/Pool via REUTERS
Prince Charles looks at a Gloucestershire Old Spot pig with her piglets during a visit to Cotswold Farm Park in Guiting Power near Cheltenham, western England
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