21 Of The Most Powerful Photos Of This Week

Here are the most moving, sorrowful, and beautiful pictures from the past week.

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Nine-year-old Belle Shefrin holds a doll of U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton while listening to Clinton speak at a campaign rally in Akron, Ohio.

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Reno, Nevada.

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An elderly man who was in a hospital before Hurricane Matthew hit, is carried home on a hammock in Baracoa, Cuba. He was carried back on foot because the roads are impassible due to damage caused by the storm, blocking all motor vehicle traffic to the area.

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A woman walks on a highway blocked by rocks after the passage of hurricane Matthew on the coast of Guantanamo province, Cuba.

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Mannequins are blown up during an anti-terror drill in Seoul, South Korea.

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A student is seen on the ground during clashes with South African police at Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

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A woman who said she was injured by a police projectile stands for a portrait after a protest over the death of Alfred Olango. Olango was shot and killed last Tuesday by El Cajon police in El Cajon, California.

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A fighter of the Libyan forces affiliated to the Tripoli government is helped by comrades after being shot by a sniper in Sirte, Libya. A sniper also fatally shot a Dutch photojournalist on Sunday in the Libyan city of Sirte, the Islamic State's last bastion in the chaos-wracked North African country.

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Memorabilia decorates a wall in the home of Frank Gleason, 96, a retired colonel with the Office of Strategic Services in Atlanta, Georgia. Legislation to recognize the contributions of a group of World War II spies is currently hung up in Congress. Some 75 years ago, the OSS carried out missions behind enemy lines in Nazi Germany and the Pacific theatre. Gleason's group was tasked with halting the Japanese advance into China.

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Dale Hall, dressed as Superman, stands before the casket during a superhero-themed funeral service for his brother, Jacob Hall, at Oakdale Baptist Church in Townville, South Carolina. A 14-year-old boy killed his own father, then drove to Townville Elementary and fired on two children and a teacher as recess began. Jacob died Saturday.

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An Afghan refugee girl returning from Pakistan looks on after she arrives at a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees registration center in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Jorge Cabrera / Reuters

A supporter of the Liberty and Refoundation party in Zambrano, Honduras, is chased by a policeman during a nationwide protest against the re-election bid of Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez for the 2017 election.

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Migrants are rescued from the Mediterranean sea by a member of Proactiva Open Arms NGO, some 12 nautical miles north of Libya. At least 1,800 migrants were rescued off the Libyan coast, the Italian coastguard announced, adding that similar operations were underway around 15 other overloaded vessels.

Nguyen Huy Kham / Reuters

Workers collect dead fishes floating in the polluted West Lake in Hanoi, Vietnam.

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Women gesture as people gather in an abortion rights campaigners' demonstration to protest against plans for a total ban on abortion in Warsaw, Poland.

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Members of the colla 'Castellers de Vilafranca' are seen building a human tower during the 26th Tarragona Competition in Tarragona, Spain. The 'Castellers' who build the human towers with precise techniques, compete in groups known as 'colles' with aim to build the highest and most complex human tower. The Catalan tradition is believed to have originated from human towers built at the end of the 18th century by dance groups.

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Goats wait to get unloaded from a vehicle at a livestock market in Kathmandu, Nepal, during Dashain, the biggest religious festival for Hindus in Nepal.

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Two horses fight during a competition on China's National Day in Liuzhou, China. 44 male horses participated Chinese tradition.

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A devotee of the Nine Emperor Gods is seen with multiple skewers pierced through his mouth during the annual Phuket Vegetarian Festival in the southern province of Phuket. Devotees throughout the week will show their religious devotion through ritualistic self-mutilation and pain trials, including running over hot coals and piercing their bodies with an astonishing -- and stomach-turning -- variety of objects.

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Pets are blessed during a mass event outside the San Francisco church in Lima, Peru.

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Ted Houston and his dog Kermit visit the beach as Hurricane Matthew approaches the area in Palm Beach, United States.