Week in pictures: 17-23 November 2018 - BBC News

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A boy plays on the glass at Thailand's first skywalk. The platform is 314 metres high, on top of Bangkok's 78-storey King Power Mahanakhon building.




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Artist Nick Cave at the Australian premiere of his solo exhibition, Until, in Sydney.




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A Pakistani Muslim girl takes part in a rally during Eid Milad-un-Nabi in Karachi.




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Kira, a 23-year-old western lowland gorilla, holds her newborn baby in their enclosure at Moscow Zoo.




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An employee selects a book from the shelves of the Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Founded in 1837 by a group of Portuguese immigrants, the library has been open to the public since 1900 and houses many rare and valuable books.




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A six-year-old boy from Honduras, part of a caravan of thousands of people from Central America trying to reach the United States, lies in front of Mexican riot police outside the El Chaparral port of entry between Mexico and the US.




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People stand in a kaleidoscope during the Staro Riga Light Festival in Riga, Latvia.




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Principal of the Royal Ballet, Natalia Osipova, performs outside the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, where she is starring in the new ballet The Mother.




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A man is swarmed by seagulls as he paddles a boat on the Yamuna River in New Delhi, India.




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US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump take part in the annual tradition of pardoning the National Thanksgiving Turkey. Following the ceremony, pardoned turkeys take up residence at Gobbler's Rest in the Virginia Polytechnic Institute.