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Week in pictures: 27 July - 2 August

3 Aug 2014

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A Palestinian collects human remains from a Gaza school

Marco Longari

GAZA, WEDNESDAY:

Women take selfies with actor Tom Cruise on Ladies Day at Goodwood Races

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CHICHESTER, THURSDAY:

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MANILA, MONDAY:

England's Andy Turner at Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games

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GLASGOW, TUESDAY:

Irish Bog Snorkelling Championship at Peatlands Park in Dungannon

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NORTHERN IRELAND, SUNDAY:

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TUESDAY, MAUBEUGE:

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GUATEMALA CITY, TUESDAY:

Gas explosion in the southern Taiwan city of Kaohsiung

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TAIWAN, FRIDAY:

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NAJAF, TUESDAY:

Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red at Tower of London

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LONDON, MONDAY:

Nato’s renaissance: how the world’s most powerful military alliance has taken centre stage

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Talking point

Curtailing abortion rights: will Republicans rue their victory?

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In Brief

How the Taliban is rolling back the freedoms of the past 20 years

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Today’s newspapers

‘Can we now just focus on the big issues?’

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Tall Tales

George W Bush performs ‘history’s greatest Freudian slip’

The flagship McDonald's on Pushkin Square in Moscow

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The latest on . . .

Russian roulette for McDonald’s, Unilever and Renault

The tombs of the Caliphs in el-Arafa necropolis

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In Depth

Inside Cairo’s City of the Dead

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Tall Tales

Women ‘benefit more from hugs than men’

The mysterious Russian oligarch deaths

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In Depth

Depp v. Heard: what the latest battle has revealed

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Why we’re talking about . . .

Is Vladimir Putin seriously ill?

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Week in pictures: 27 July - 2 August

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