The past week has been marked by numerous protests in Thailand, Iraq, Chile, and Spain, a fashion festival in Vilnius, Lithuania, heavy rainfall in Venezuela and the presidential race in the United States.
Sputnik shares with you a compilation of photos to show what has been happening around the world during this truly extraordinary time.
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A model presents a creation by Estonian designer Kristel Kuslapuu at the fashion festival ''Fashion Infection'' in Vilnius, Lithuania, on 16 October 2020. Fashion Infection is the most prominent annual fashion festival in Lithuania.
Women in the basement of their home in Stepanakert, the capital of the unrecognised Republic of Artsakh (Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh).
University of Tennessee cheerleaders during a game between Tennessee and Kentucky at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, the US on 17 October 2020.
NHRA funny car driver Alexis DeJoria suffers an engine fire after winning her first-round matchup during the Fall Nationals at the Texas Motorplex. DeJoria was not harmed in the fiery incident.
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Migrants from Morocco have their temperature checked because of the coronavirus, after arriving on the coast of the Canary Islands, sailing the Atlantic Ocean on a wooden boat on 20 October 2020. Some 1,000 migrants spent the night again sleeping in emergency tents at a dock while authorities in the Canary Islands complain that the Spanish government continues to block the transfer of newly arrived migrants to the mainland over coronavirus concerns.
Sailing ship Sedov, formerly the Magdalene Vinnen II and Kommodore Johnsen, in the waters of Kola Bay in the Murmansk Region of Russia.
Models demonstrate clothes from the Julia Dalakian collection during Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Russia at the Nadezhda loft.
A man pushes against police officers during an anti-government protest, in Bangkok, Thailand, 16 October 2020.
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© AP Photo / Jorge Saenz
The bed of the Cerro Lagoon is dry and cracked from an extended drought, and contans purple water due to untreated waste from a tannery in Limpio ("clean"), Paraguay, on 21 October 2020. The Environment Ministry has proposed the Waltrading S.A. tannery company be closed due to the presence of heavy metals like chromium, commonly used in the tannery process.
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© AP Photo / Fareed Khan
Pakistani troops and rescue workers look for survivors in the rubble following an explosion in Karachi, Pakistan, 21 October 2020. Police and rescuers say a powerful blast ripped through a multi-storey building in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi.
A member of the Iraqi security forces intervenes as demonstrators, supporters of the pro-Iranian group Hashed al Shaabi, burn down the Kurdish Democratic Party's headquarters in the capital Baghdad on 17 October 2020.
Visitors are seen on the staircase of the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on 21 October 2020. The Jewish Museum re-opened on 21 October 2020 after more than five years of reconstruction.
Students from the Autonomous University participate in the tenth edition of the "March of the Brides" in Santo Domingo on 20 October 2020. The march aims to increase public awareness about the proliferation of domestic and gender violence in the Dominican Republic.
US actor Tom Cruise (C) jumps between two taxi boats during the shooting of the film "Mission Impossible: Lybra" in Venice on 20 October 2020.
The dome of the Church of Asuncion in Santiago, Chile collapses after being set on fire by demonstrators commemorating the first anniversary of the social uprising in the nation on 18 October 2020, as the country prepares for a landmark referendum.
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A man uses a door as a makeshift raft to transport a woman through the inundated streets of the Mata Redonda neighbourhood of Maracay, Venezuela on 21 October 2020. Heavy rainfall in the central Venezuelan state of Aragua caused the Madre Vieja River to overflow flooding several neighbourhoods.
A girl goes rollerblading at Venice Beach in Los Angeles, the US.
A demonstrator is detained by riot police during a protest against Chile's government in Valparaiso, Chile on 19 October 2020.
US President Donald Trump counts money before donating it while attending a service at the International Church of Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada, the US, 18 October 2020.
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Medical residents, who removed their clothes to protest against working conditions, take part in a protest during a strike in Barcelona, Spain, 20 October 2020.
Spaniard Jorge Prado Garcia celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win the motocross MXGP Grand Prix at the FIM Motocross World Championship, on 21 October 2020 in Lommel.
Nigerian police fire tear gas at people during clashes between youths in Apo, Abuja, Nigeria, on 20 October 2020, following the ongoing demonstrations against the unjust brutality of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).
