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    Week in pictures: 13 - 19 August

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    By The Week Staff
    published 19 August 2016

    SUNDAY, BRAZIL:

    MONDAY, US:

    A man talks to officers in riot gear after a second night of clashes following the fatal police shooting of Sylville Smith

    MONDAY, US:

    six people dead and thousands more forced to flee their homes

    MONDAY, IRISH SEA:

    A paddleboarder is pictured on the water near Leasowe at Liverpool Bay at sunset

    WEDNESDAY, SCOTLAND: Entertainers perform on the Royal Mile as part of the annual Edinburgh Festival Fringe

    WEDNESDAY, SOUTH KOREA: Children play in the fountains at the former Seodaemun Prison in Seoul on Independence Day

    WEDNESDAY, SYRIA:

    WEDNESDAY, US: Smoke rises from a burned-out grove of trees following the Blue Cut wildfire in Wrightwood, California

    (Image credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

    THURSDAY, US:

    Bystanders photograph and pose with a statue of a naked

    THURSDAY, FRANCE:

    Pierre Thivillon, the director of the zoological park of Saint-Martin-La-Plaine, and his wife Eliane with Digit, an 18-year-old female gorilla

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