Doughnuts, drones and a dancer: Photos of the week

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A selection of news photographs from around the world.

Flooded properties line the banks of the River Ouse, in YorkImage source, Danny Lawson/PA Media
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Storm Darragh caused disruption throughout the UK, including here, in York, where the River Ouse burst its banks.

Pilgrims walk towards the Basilica of Guadalupe along the Paso de Cortes, in Puebla, MexicoImage source, Hilda Ríos/EPA-EFE
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Catholics in Mexico marked the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the day, almost 500 years ago, on which the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to an indigenous man near modern-day Mexico City.

An aerial view shows a Syrian man waving a Syrian flag above Damascus' Umayyad SquareImage source, Bakr Alkasem/AFP
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A man takes a selfie above Damascus' central Umayyad Square, after Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) rebels overthrew President Bashar al-Assad's regime and took control of large swathes of the country.

An aerial view of James Town fishing harbour in AccraImage source, Olympia De Maismont/AFP
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A drone captures fishermen as they ply their trade off the coast of James Town in Accra, Ghana.

A Kashmiri farmer searches for lotus stems in Anchar Lake, near Srinagar
Image source, Farooq Khan/EPA-EFE
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A Kashmiri farmer gathers lotus stems in Anchar Lake on the outskirts of Srinagar. The stems are harvested annually between September and March, and are used in many Kashmiri recipes.

Kenyan activists shout slogans and hold placards on the streets of Nairobi, Kenya
Image source, Daniel Irungu/EPA-EFE
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In Kenya's capital, Nairobi, people took to the streets to protests against endemic violence against women under the banner End Femicide Kenya.

A local resident fills bottles with water in the Ukrainian city Pokrovsk, in the Donetsk regionImage source, Roman Pilipey/AFP
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A man fills bottles with water in the city of Pokrovsk, in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk, where there is heavy fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces.

Workers construct a circular sculpture in Harbin, China Image source, Xinhua/REX/Shutterstoc
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Construction of the towering ice and snow structures at the heart of Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival is under way. The festival, in China's north-east Heilongjiang province, is one of the biggest of its kind.

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton carries out a doughnut manoeuvre at the end of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at the Yas Marina Circuit, Abu DhabiImage source, Andrej Isakovic/Getty Images
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Seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton executes a doughnut manoeuvre on the track in Abu Dhabi, as he brings to a close his 12 years with Mercedes. The team-driver partnership was both the longest, and most successful, combination of its kind in F1 history.

Scottish Ballet dancer Melissa Parsons poses on a carousel 
Image source, Lesley Martin/Reuters
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Ballet dancer Melissa Parsons poses on a carousel during a photocall for The Nutcracker in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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