A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week:
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Juice, a pit bull, is cared for at a mobile veterinary service for pets in Skid Row, Los Angeles, California. The Pets in Need Project has been travelling to areas with homeless populations throughout California over the past eight weeks and has provided around 1,200 pets with free veterinary services and food.
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Fishermen at Qiandao Lake after the Xin’anjiang dam discharged flood water in Zhejiang province, China.
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David Mercado / Reuters
A sex worker wearing a protective face mask, a face shield and gloves poses for a picture at her workplace in La Paz, Bolivia. The precautions have been recommended by the Organisation of Night Workers of Bolivia (OTN-B). Prostitution in the South American country is legal and regulated in licensed brothels.
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Sam Yeh / AFP
Two armoured vehicles launch smoke grenades during the annual Han Kuang military drills in Taichung, Taiwan. The five-day military drills aim to test how the armed forces would repel an invasion from China.
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DJ Craig Harrison plays to festivalgoers at the first purpose-built, socially-distanced outdoor festival in the UK, held on the Gisburne Park Estate in Lancashire. Guests book their own hexagonal pitch – each large enough for a social bubble of six.
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Rodrigo Garrido / Reuters
Chile’s opposition congresswoman Pamela Jiles celebrates after the Chamber of Deputies passed a bill allowing people to withdraw up to 10% from their privately held pension funds early to ease their financial problems during the pandemic. Ms Jiles said it will save poor Chileans from going hungry.
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Money Sharma / AFP
A doctor performs yoga with a young patient in a ward at the Commonwealth Games Village sports complex in New Delhi, India. The venue has been temporarily converted into a Covid-19 care centre.
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Ilan Rosenberg / Reuters
A drone photo shows Rabin Square in Tel Aviv as Israelis protest against the government’s response to the financial fallout of the Covid-19 crisis.
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Pablo Sanhueza / Reuters
Atanasio, a 10-day-old white rhino calf, stands next to his mother, Hanna. He is the first white rhino born in captivity in Latin America, at Buin Zoo in Santiago, Chile.
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