Week in pictures: 13 - 19 August

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

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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