In Brief

Week in pictures: 25 November - 1 December

From volcanic ash to The Ashes, here's the past seven days in pictures

by The Week team

1 Dec 2017

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SATURDAY, AUSTRALIA:

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SATURDAY, GERMANY:

Revierderby

rivals

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SUNDAY, GERMANY:

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MONDAY, USA:

Washington DC

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MONDAY, CHINA:

Weifang

Shandong

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Burkina Faso’

Ouagadougou, during the French president’s Africa tour

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WEDNESDAY, NETHERLANDS:

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THURSDAY, JORDAN:

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THURSDAY, INDONESIA:

olcanic ash belches up as high as two miles above the summit of Bali’s erupting

Mount Agung

volcano

Adrian Dennis / Getty Images

FRIDAY, UK:

Crackdown in Tunisia: the death of a young democracy?

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Tall Tales

Woman hits jackpot after flight cancelled

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Today’s newspapers

‘French reconnection’

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Getting to grips with . . .

Iran risking ‘disastrous’ miscalculation in the Gulf, warns UK military chief

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Today’s big question

What would it take to topple Lukashenko’s ‘rogue regime’?

The aftermath of the explosion in the port of Beirut

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In Depth

Lebanon one year on from the Beirut blast

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Tall Tales

Aliens ‘use stars to communicate’

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Today’s big question

What Australia’s new lockdowns reveal about a ‘zero Covid strategy’

Does the Tokyo Olympics branding amount to cultural appropriation?

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In pictures

World’s most extreme weather events in 2021

Mutaz Essa Barshim and Gianmarco Tamberi

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Why we’re talking about . . .

High jumping for joy: an iconic act of sportsmanship in Tokyo

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