The Week in Pictures: Aug. 28 - Sept. 3, 2015 - NBC News

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1. Migrants walk through a field to cross the border from Greece to Macedonia near the Greek village of Idomeni on Aug. 29. Hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing war and economic migrants escaping poverty have been arriving in Europe, on rickety boats across the Mediterranean and over land across the Balkan peninsula.
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2. Hungarian police apprehend a family of migrants on the tracks in Bicske, Hungary on Sept. 3, after their train which departed from Budapest was stopped and the passengers were ordered to depart and be transferred to a refugee camp. Scuffles broke out between police and disappointed migrants who wanted to continue their journey to Germany and Austria.
Laszlo Balogh / Reuters





3. A judge hits a woman with a whip in front of a crowd in Ghor province, Afghanistan, on Aug. 31. An Afghan man and woman found guilty of adultery received 100 lashes in front of a crowd.
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4. A masked Kurdish protester holds a Molotov cocktail in front of a burning barricade during clashes with Turkish police on Aug. 27 in Istanbul. Turkish cities are tense as the government presses a controversial campaign against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants.
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5. A cyclist passes in front of a "supermoon" in Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain, on Aug. 29. A "supermoon" occurs when a full Moon coincides with the Moon's approach to its perigee – the point on its orbit closest to the Earth.
Carlos De Saa / EPA





6. A very woolly merino sheep wanders on its own outside Canberra, Australia. Animal welfare officers made a desperate appeal for shearers on Sept. 1 after the sheep was spotted by local bushwalkers. Fleece from the sheep - whose life was potentially in danger - weighed in at more than 88 pounds.
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7. A boy pretends to be a bullfighter backstage at a bullring in San Sebastian De Los Reyes, Spain, on Aug. 28.
Daniel Ochoa De Olza / AP





8. Palestinians fight to free a boy, bottom, held by an Israeli soldier during a protest against the confiscation of land to expand a Jewish settlement on Aug. 28 in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh.
Abbas Momani / AFP - Getty Images





9. A polar bear vehicle drives through the dust during the annual Burning Man festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada on Sept. 2. This year's theme is "Carnival of Mirrors."
Jim Urquhart / Reuters





10. Former President George W. Bush dances with Asia Muhaimin, the Warren Easton High School band director, as the group performs during a visit to the school to mark the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on Aug. 28 in New Orleans.
Joe Raedle / Getty Images





11. Retiree Madeline Barcelo swims with her granddaughter in Varadero, Cuba, on Aug. 26. Cubans are flocking to the beach in record numbers before a possible end to the U.S. travel ban that would open the gates to American tourists and bump up prices.
Alexandre Meneghini / Reuters





12. An engineer peeks through the tunnel boring machine, nicknamed Helen, after it breaks through a junction on the metro line in Bangalore, India, on Aug. 31.
Jagadeesh Nv / EPA





13. African penguins walk near Burghers walk at dawn in Cape Town, South Africa, on Aug. 28. Cape Town has placed a ban on dogs in the area after eight of the endangered birds were found dead last week.
Nic Bothma / EPA





14. Fire fighters smother the embers of a forest fire in Galicia, Spain, on Aug. 30.
Brais Lorenzo / EPA





15. A police officer cradles the body of drowned migrant child Aylan Kurdi near the Turkish resort of Bodrum on Sept. 2. A friend of the family, Mustafa Ebdi, told NBC News he had spoken to the boys' grieving father, Abdullah. Ebdi said Abdullah told him the family was trying to cross to Greece on Tuesday when their boat capsized and that his wife and two of their children — Aylan and Ghalib — had perished. Abdullah survived.
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