The Week in Pictures: August 17, 2018 - MSN.com

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San Francisco, California
Plaintiff Dewayne Johnson reacts after hearing the verdict to his case against Monsanto at the Superior Court Of California in San Francisco, California, on Aug. 10. - A California jury on Aug. 10, ordered agrochemical giant Monsanto to pay nearly $290 million for failing to warn a dying groundskeeper that its weed killer Roundup might cause cancer. Jurors found Monsanto acted with "malice" and that its weed killers Roundup and the professional grade version RangerPro contributed "substantially" to Dewayne Johnson's terminal illness.




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Yokohama, Japan
Performers dressed as Pikachu, a character from Pokemon series, march during the Pikachu Outbreak event hosted by The Pokemon Co. on Aug. 10, in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.




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Kerala, India
An Indian woman sits inside her houses immersed in flood waters in Ernakulam district of Kochi, in the Indian state of Kerala on Aug. 10. - Flash floods have claimed at least 27 lives in the southern Indian state of Kerala, officials said on August 10, prompting the US to advise its citizens to stay away from the tourist hotspot.




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Saada, Yemen
Children's backpacks lie at the site a day after an airstrike in Saada, Yemen on Aug. 10. Yemen's Shiite rebels are backing a United Nations' call for an investigation into a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in the country's north that killed dozens of people the previous day, including many children.




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Antalya, Turkey
Thousands of hand knotted Turkish carpets lay in fields owned by carpet companies at Dosemealti district in Antalya, Turkey, on Aug. 10. Workers put on fields almost 30,000 of carpets to soften their colors, to become more pastel under the sun in Antalya city. Carpet weaving tradition in Turkey has a long history dated back to ancient times.




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Aleppo, Syria
A child is recovered from the rubble of a building following Syrian government forces air strikes in the rebel town of Orum al-Kubra in the northern province of Aleppo late on Aug. 10.




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Louth, Australia
A horse has a roll in the sand before the 2018 Louth Races at Louth Turf Club on Aug. 10, in Louth, Australia.




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Rafah, Gaza
Palestinians mourn for Abdullah al-Qutati, 22 who was killed by Israeli gunfire during anti-occupation protests in the Gaza border a day earlier, at his funeral in Rafah, Gaza on Aug. 11.




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Malaga, Spain
Flamingos move around a pen at Fuente de Piedra lake, 70 kms from Malaga, on Aug. 11, during a tagging and control operation of flamingo chicks to monitor the evolution of the species. - The lake, which is the most important breeding ground for flamingos in the Iberian Peninsula, is also a nature reserve and a haven for birds with over 170 different species recorded.




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Amritsar, India
An Indian woman looks down the barrel of an 84-MM rocket launcher during an Indian Army exhibition at Panther Stadium in Amritsar on Aug. 11.

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Moscow, Russia
People watch as a Russian team's tank moves at speed during tank's biathlon competition in Alabino, outside Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Aug. 11. The competition called the International Army Games involves troops from Russia and several other nations.




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Manila, Philippines
Filipino residents fled their home during a flashflood on Aug. 11 in Marikina city, east of Manila, Philippines. According to reports, tens of thousands residents evacuated overnight from flooding caused by monsoon rain brought by Tropical Storm Yagi.




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Prague, Czech Republic
A participant in fancy costume takes part in the Prague Pride parade on Aug. 11, in downtown Prague, Czech Republic.




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Lombok, Indonesia
Two men bathe near their homes damaged or destroyed by an earthquake in Kayangan District, Lombok, Indonesia Aug. 11.




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Karachi, Pakistan
A Pakistani man creates a pattern design on a camel's skin at a market ahead of Eid al Adhal festival in Karachi on August 11.




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Bristol, England
The morning mass ascent taking place on Saturday morning after the previous mass ascents were cancelled due to weather conditions, at the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta 2018 at Ashton Court estate which runs from Thursday 09 to Sunday 12 August.




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Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Medical workers lead a young girl with suspected Ebola into the unconfirmed Ebola patients ward run by The Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA) on Aug. 12, in Beni, northeastern DRC. - Raging conflict is hampering efforts to rein in an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the WHO chief warned, urging a ceasefire to stop the virus from transmitting freely. As the death toll in the outbreak declared on August 1 in DRC's violence-wracked North Kivu province hit 41, the World Health Organization chief also called for the rapid roll-out of an unlicenced drug being used for the first time to treat Ebola patients.




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Cape Canaveral, Florida
The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launches NASA's Parker Solar Probe to the Sun on August 12 at Cape Canaveral, Florida.




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Washington, D.C.
White nationalist leader Jason Kessler rides a subway to leave the area after a Washington, D.C. rally marking the one year anniversary of the 2017 Charlottesville ‘Unite the Right’ protests, while en route to Vienna, Virginia, U.S. on Aug. 12.




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Airag Soum, Mongolia
This picture taken on Aug. 12, shows an aerial view of the site of a train derailment caused by heavy rainfall near Airag soum, southeast Mongolia. - The train was travelling from the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar to Sainshand, the capital city of the south-eastern province of Dornogovi.

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Berlin, Germany
Germany's Gesa-Felicitas Krause is lifted by mascot Berlino as she celebrates after winning the gold medal in the women's 3000-meter steeplechase at the European Athletics Championships on Aug. 12 in Berlin, Germany.




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La Ciotat, France
Divers explore the wreckage of an American bombardier fighter plane from the Second World War, the Lockheed P-38G Lightning, at 38 meters of depth, on Aug. 12, off the coast of La Ciotat, southern France. - Shot down by the German Air Force on January 27, 1944 his pilot Harry R. Greenup was taken prisoner, he found himself drowned in a road accident on October 6, 1957 in Colorado, near Denver USA.




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St Louis, Missouri
Tiger Woods reacts to his shot from the 17th tee during the final round of the 2018 PGA Championship at Bellerive Country Club on Aug. 12, in St Louis, Missouri.




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Colombia
A Humpback whale jumps in the surface of the Pacific Ocean at the Uramba Bahia Malaga National Natural Park in Colombia, on Aug. 12. - Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) migrate annually from the Antarctic Peninsula to peek into the Colombian Pacific Ocean coast, with an approximate distance of 8,500 km, to give birth and nurse their young. Humpback whales have a life cycle of 50 years or so and is about 18 meters long.




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Sydney, Australia
Competitors make their way up William St during the start of the 2018 City to Surf on Aug. 12, in Sydney, Australia. The City to Surf is an annual running event held in Sydney which sees participants run 14 kilometres from near Sydney's CBD to Bondi Beach. The City to Surf is an annual running event held in Sydney which sees participants run 14 kilometres from near Sydney's CBD to Bondi Beach. The City to Surf is an annual running event held in Sydney which sees participants run 14 kilometres from near Sydney's CBD to Bondi Beach. The City to Surf is an annual running event held in Sydney which sees participants run 14 kilometres from near Sydney's CBD to Bondi Beach.




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Redding, California
Ed Bledsoe tries to hold back tears as he searches through what remains of his home, on Aug. 13, in Redding, Calif. Bledsoe's wife, Melody, great-grandson James Roberts and great-granddaughter Emily Roberts were killed at the home in the Carr Fire.




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Fort Drum, New York
U.S. President Donald Trump observes a demonstration with U.S. Army 10th Mountain Division troops, an attack helicopter and firing artillery as he visits Fort Drum, New York, U.S., on Aug. 13.




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Istanbul, Turkey
A woman sits beside a digital billboard giving updates on various currencies and the Turkish stock exchange in Istanbul on Aug. 13. - Turkey's troubled lira tumbled on Aug. 13 to fresh record lows against the euro and dollar, piling pressure on stock markets on fears the country's crisis could spill over into the world economy.




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Dunkeld, Scotland
Brig the dog retrieves a grouse shot on first day of the grouse shooting season on Forneth Moor on Aug. 13, in Dunkeld, Scotland.




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Ukhia, Bangladesh
A Rohingya refugee man plays with his daughter by the entrance of their tent at the Kutupalong camp in Ukhia near Cox's Bazar on Aug. 13. - Nearly 700,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar's Rakhine state last year to escape a violent military crackdown.

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Hawthorne, California
People explore a mock up of the Crew Dragon spacecraft during a media tour of SpaceX headquarters and rocket factory on Aug. 13, in Hawthorne, California. SpaceX plans to use the spaceship Crew Dragon, a passenger version of the robotic Dragon cargo ship, to carry NASA astronauts to the International Space Station for the first time since the Space Shuttle program was retired in 2011.




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Havana, Cuba
Cubans read the draft proposal of changes to the constitution during the beginning of a public political discussion to revamp a Cold War-era constitution in Havana, Cuba on Aug. 13.




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Sydney, Australia
Katy Perry performs at Qudos Bank Arena on August 13, in Sydney, Australia.




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Caracas, Venezuela
A supporter of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro representing a "capitalist devil" takes part in a rally in Caracas, on Aug. 13.




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Burlington, Vermont
Vermont Democratic gubernatorial candidate Christine Hallquist, center, a transgender woman and former electric company executive, embraces supporters after claiming victory during her election night party on Aug. 14 in Burlington, Vermont.




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Genoa, Italy
Italian rescuers climb onto the rubble of the collapsed Morandi motorway bridge to look for victims and survivors in the northern port city of Genoa on Aug. 14. - At least 30 people were killed on Aug. 14 when the giant motorway bridge collapsed in Genoa in northwestern Italy. The collapse of the viaduct, which saw a vast stretch of the A10 freeway tumble on to railway lines in the northern port city, was the deadliest bridge failure in Italy for years, and the country's deputy transport minister warned the death toll could climb further.




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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Ivanka Trump poses with Kristina Hilko, Lauren Shovlin, and Anna Nesbitt, members of the Girls of Steel Robotics initiative, at the Astrobotic Technology facility in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S., Aug. 14.




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Nanjing, China
People visit Nanjing Museum of the Site of Lijixiang Comfort Stations on Aug. 14, in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province of China. People visit Nanjing Museum of the Site of Lijixiang Comfort Stations during the International Memorial Day for Comfort Women.




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Mexico
This combination of pictures taken on Aug. 10 and created on Aug. 14, shows (Top L to R) Honduran migrant Sandra, and her daughter, Venezuelan migrant Faviola Lourido Vergara, deported Mexican migrant Angel Ayala (Bottom L to R) Honduran migrant Jorge Reyes, Guatemalan migrant Paola, with her baby and Mexican migrant Pedro Andres Mora. - From the south border with Guatemala to the north border with the United States, AFP met during 24 hours migrants in pursue of their "American dream" risking their lives though Mexican territory, who share their journey stories. Ronaldo Schemidt,Ulises




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Hamburg, Germany
Sculptor Gottfried Krueger poses with the wax figure of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, which he created, during its presentation day at Panoptikum on Aug. 14, in Hamburg, Germany. Panoptikum is Germanys oldest wax figure museum.

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Usak, Turkey
Milky Way is seen across the night sky during Perseid meteors streak in Esme district of Usak, Turkey on Aug. 14.




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Lairg, Scotland
A farmer lifts a sheep at Lairg auction for the great sale of lambs on Aug. 14, in Lairg, Scotland. Lairg market hosts the annual lamb sale, which is one of the biggest one day livestock markets in Europe, when up to fifteen thousand sheep from all over the north of Scotland can be bought or sold.




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Lalitpur, Nepal
A member of Nepalese police checks a pressure cooker suspected of being an improvised bomb during a bomb scare in Lalitpur, Nepal on Aug. 14. The scare was later found to be a false alarm.




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Prague, Czech Republic
A newly born endangered Silvery Gibbon baby hangs on its mother Alangalang at Prague Zoo, Czech Republic, on Aug. 14.




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Yuxi, China
Temporary tents are seen after a 5.0-magnitude earthquake at Sijie Township on August 15, in Yuxi, Yunnan Province of China. The disaster-relief supplies including tents, quilts, beds and clothes have been sent to quake-hit areas of Yunan Province by Chinese government.




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Beijing, China
Visitors take pictures of a bionic flying fox at Festo's booth at the World Robot Conference (WRC) in Beijing, China on Aug. 15.




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Funafuti, Tuvalu
Children jump off a shipwreck into the lagoon on Aug. 15, in Funafuti, Tuvalu. The ship was the victim of a cyclone and now sits on the shoreline. The small South Pacific island nation of Tuvalu is striving to mitigate the effects of climate change. Rising sea levels of 5mm per year since 1993, well above the global average, are damaging vital crops and causing flooding in the low lying nation at high tides.




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Asuncion, Paraguay
A member of Paraguayan Army's Special Forces Cavalry with a snake around his neck marches in front of Paraguay's President Mario Abdo Benitez during a military parade in Asuncion, Paraguay on Aug. 15.




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Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Muslim worshippers perform prayers around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca on Aug. 15, prior to the start of the annual Hajj pilgrimage in the holy city.




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Lodi, New York
A car floats in Seneca Lake as crews attempt to drag a shed out of the water at Lodi Point in Lodi, N.Y., Wednesday, Aug. 15, after heavy rain and flash flooding Tuesday led to evacuations and destruction in the Finger Lakes region.




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Brussels, Belgium
A 1,800 square meters flower carpet on the theme "Guanajuato, cultural pride of Mexico" and made with over 500,000 dahlias and begonias is seen at Brussels' Grand Place, Belgium on Aug. 16.