The Week in 7 Insane Photos: August 18, 2017
From the fall of confederate statues across the country to pigs literally flying, The Daily Beast brings you the best photos of the week.
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Hundreds of people march peacefully with lit candles across the University of Virginia campus on Wednesday, August 16, 2017, in Charlottesville, VA, in the wake of violence in the city and against torch-lit white nationalist parade the same campus last Friday night. Students and residents gathered at the university's Rotunda in Charlottesville to sing together for an evening vigil that stood in stark contrast to last weeks torch-lit march of white supremacists.
Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty
Pigs are herded off a platform into water by breeders during a daily exercise at a pig farm in Shenyang, Liaoning province, Chin,a August 14, 2017. Picture taken August 14, 2017.
Reuters
A statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee is removed from Lee Circle Friday, May 19, 2017, in New Orleans. Lee's was the last of four monuments to Confederate-era figures to be removed under a 2015 City Council vote on a proposal by Mayor Mitch Landrieu.
Scott Threlkeld/AP
Douglas Masuda, a former lawyer, impersonator and avid collector of Elvis Presley memorabilia, wears a replica jumpsuit of Elvis Presley, as he gestures inside his home in Makati city, metro Manila, Philippines August 14, 2017, two days before the 40th year death anniversary of the King of Rock and Roll.
Romeo Ranoco/Reuters
Firefighters tackle a wildfire at Vale de Abelha village in Macao, on August 16, 2017.
Patricia De Meo Moreira/AFP/Getty
People leave a cordoned off area after a van plowed into the crowd, killing one person and injuring several others on the Rambla in Barcelona on August 17, 2017.
Pau Barrena/AFP/Getty
Wrestlers perform at an all female wrestling event in London, Britain August 12, 2017.
Neil Hall/Reuters
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