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Week in pictures 20 August 2022

KABUL: Taliban fighters and local residents gather around a mosque after a bombing attack, in Kabul, Afghanistan, during evening prayers on Wednesday, August 17 (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)

NAIROBI: Supporters of Kenyan presidential candidate Raila Odinga burn tires in Nairobi after Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto was announced as the country’s Presidente-elect on Monday, August 15 (Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images)

ATLANTA: Rudy Giuliani, who served as a lawyer to former President Donald Trump during the 2020 election, arrives at Fulton County Superior Court in Atlanta, Georgia, on Wednesday, August 17. Giuliani was there to testify as a witness before the grand jury that's investigating Trump's attempts to undermine the election (Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

DONETSK: A man tries to extinguish a fire at a home in Ukraine's Donetsk region after a Russian airstrike on Tuesday, August 16 (Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

FLORIDA: The Artemis 1 mega moon rocket is seen shortly before its rollout to the launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, August 16. Artemis 1 is scheduled to launch an unmanned mission to orbit the moon on August 29 (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News) Service/Getty Images)

ORJAIS: A woman cries as a wildfire advances toward her house and peach tree orchard in Orjais, Portugal, on Tuesday, August 16 (Patricia De Melo Moreira/AFP/Getty Images)

SPACE: In this photo taken from video footage released by Roscosmos Space Agency, cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev take part in a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Wednesday, August 17.  The spacewalk was cut short due to an issue with Artemyev's spacesuit. NASA officials said during a livestream that the cosmonaut was never in any danger. Still, issues with the battery pack that powers his spacesuit were concerning enough for flight controllers to urgently order him to return to the space station and attach his suit to ISS power (Roscosmos Space Agency/AP)

VELENCE: A goose looks for water in the dried lake bed of Lake Velence in Velence, Hungary, on Thursday, August 11. Last week, around 63% of the land across the EU and UK had either drought warnings or alerts, according to the EU's European Drought Observatory (Anna Szilagyi/AP)

YANGON: A girl looks out the window of her house surrounded by floodwaters on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, on Wednesday, August 17 (Stringer/AFP/Getty Images)

MUNICH: Athletes compete during a heat of the women's 3,000-meter steeplechase at the European Championships in Munich, Germany, on Thursday, August 18 (Matthias Schrader/AP)

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