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The Week in Photos: September 6, 2014

From the end of ISIS’s siege of Amerli to a first at China’s Three Gorges Dam, the most compelling images from the last seven days.

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galleries/2014/09/06/week-in-photos-september-6-2014/140905-week-in-photo-tease_g3mrcx — Stonehenge
President Barack Obama visits Stonehenge in Wiltshire.

Larry Downing/Reuters

galleries/2014/09/06/week-in-photos-september-6-2014/140905-photo-of-the-day-9_zqh6wb — September 3, 2014
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories
A Palestinian man looks out of his heavily damaged house at neighboring homes, which witnesses said were destroyed during the Israeli offensive. An open-ended ceasefire between Israel and Hamas-led Gaza militants, mediated by Egypt, took effect Aug. 26 after a seven-week conflict. It called for an indefinite halt to hostilities, the immediate opening of Gaza's blockaded crossings with Israel and Egypt, and a widening of the territory's fishing zone in the Mediterranean.

Suhaib Salem/Reuters

galleries/2014/09/06/week-in-photos-september-6-2014/140905-photo-of-the-day-10_k6r3h0 — September 5, 2014
Ramallah, West Bank
A protester uses a slingshot to hurl a stone at Israeli troops during clashes at a weekly protest against Jewish settlements.
Mohamad Torokman/Reuters

galleries/2014/09/06/week-in-photos-september-6-2014/140905-photo-of-the-day-11_xxcaf3 — September 4, 2014
Rybnoye, Russia
Boys who have fled the fighting in the eastern regions of Ukraine play in a cloakroom while waiting for dinner at the "Zharki" health resort. About 370 Ukrainian refugees will stay at this temporary camp while being processed by the Russian authorities, local media reported.

Ilya Naymushin/Reuters

galleries/2014/09/06/week-in-photos-september-6-2014/140905-photo-of-the-day-5_iqojji — September 4, 2014
Kieve, Ukraine
A woman walks through an exhibition of photographs of protesters in Independence Square, also known as Maidan. The square was the famed site of the protests that eventually led to the February ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych, who is now in exile in Russia.
Spencer Platt/Getty

galleries/2014/09/06/week-in-photos-september-6-2014/140905-photo-of-the-day-7_dxidrr — September 1, 2014
Amerli, Iraq
Iraqi Shiite militia fighters fire their weapons as they celebrate breaking a long siege on the city by Islamic State militants.
Youssef Boudlal/Reuters

galleries/2014/09/06/week-in-photos-september-6-2014/140905-photo-of-the-day-2_zuzr0y — September 3, 2014
Malaga, Spain
Brett King reacts as he sits inside a car after leaving Materno-Infantil Hospital, where his 5-year-old son, Ashya, who is seriously ill with a brain tumor, was hospitalized. The parents of Ashya were released from custody in Madrid on Tuesday, after being detained for removing their son out of a hospital in England and taking him to Spain.

Jon Nazca/Reuters

galleries/2014/09/06/week-in-photos-september-6-2014/140905-photo-of-the-day-12_fiwhkc — August 30, 2014
Monrovia, Liberia
Residents of the seaside West Point neighborhood celebrate the lifting of a quarantine by the Liberian government. Crowds sang and danced in the streets to mark the end of the restrictions that were designed to contain the spread of the deadly Ebola virus.

Reuters

galleries/2014/09/06/week-in-photos-september-6-2014/140905-photo-of-the-day-8_gqindu — September 3, 2014
Kathmandu, Nepal
A youth rides a bicycle on the Nepalese hills.

Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters

galleries/2014/09/06/week-in-photos-september-6-2014/140905-photo-of-the-day-4_wvp2ku — September 3, 2014
Yichang, China
The Three Gorges Reservoir releases floodwaters for the first time. The Hubei province reservoir reached its flood peak Sept. 2.

ChinaFotoPress/Getty

galleries/2014/09/06/week-in-photos-september-6-2014/140905-photo-of-the-day-6_duzi5c — August 31, 2014
Kolkata, India
A devotee immerses an idol of the Hindu elephant god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, in the waters of the river Ganges during the 10-day Ganesh Chaturthi festival. Ganesh idols are taken through the streets in a procession accompanied by dancing and singing, and later immersed in a river or the sea, symbolizing a ritual seeing-off of his journey toward his abode, taking away with him the misfortunes of all mankind.

Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters

galleries/2014/09/06/week-in-photos-september-6-2014/140905-photo-of-the-day-3_bunhi8 — September 1, 2014
Beijing, China
Students play basketball before a huge poster of NBA great Michael Jordan.

Kevin Frayer/Getty

galleries/2014/09/06/week-in-photos-september-6-2014/140905-photo-of-the-day-16_ydengd — September 1, 2014
New York City
Revelers prepare to participate in the annual West Indian Day parade held in Brooklyn. The parade, which draws a crowd of a million plus, celebrates Caribbean culture.

Yana Paskova/Getty

galleries/2014/09/06/week-in-photos-september-6-2014/140905-photo-of-the-day-14_xnuv3f — September 2, 2014
Kunshan, China
Lightning strikes over buildings during heavy rainfall in Jiangsu province.
Reuters

galleries/2014/09/06/week-in-photos-september-6-2014/140905-photo-of-the-day-13_oqmfzo — September 4, 2014
Brieselang, Germany
A worker pulls items for an order among shelves lined with goods at an Amazon warehouse. Germany is the online retailer's second largest market after the U.S.

Sean Gallup/Getty

galleries/2014/09/06/week-in-photos-september-6-2014/140905-photo-of-the-day-1_qwxrmw — August 31, 2014
Tarifa, Spain
A kite surfer participates in the Guinness World Record attempt for the most kitesurfers sailing together at one time. Some 352 participants set a new record, breaking the previous mark of 318.

Sergio Camacho/Getty

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