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This Week in Pictures: 19 - 25 January

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Have a look at the opposition protests in Venezuela. Are you interested in the rally in Athens against the Prespa Agreement on the new constitutional name of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia? Would you like to see the Siberian tiger Amur rest at Primorsky Safari Park?

Check out this gallery, compiled for you by Sputnik.

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A reveller wearing a demon costume takes part in the traditional Correfoc festival in Palma de Mallorca on 21 January 2019. - The Correfoc is a night of revelry in which participants dress as demons and devils, and move through the streets scaring people with fire and fireworks.
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The celebration of Epiphany in Tatarstan Region, Russia on 19 January, 2019.
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Su-25SM3 jet during flight at tactical exercises in Krasnodar Territory.
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Models present creations by Dutch designer Iris van Herpen as part of her Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2019 collection show in Paris, France, 21 January 2019.
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Water flows around ice formed on the American Falls in Niagara Falls, New York, due to subzero temperatures, viewed from the Canadian side, in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, 22 January 2019.
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The Siberian tiger Amur rests at Primorsky Safari Park, outside Artyom, Primorsky Krai region, Russia. Amur is widely known in Russia due to his friendship with a goat named Timur, who was placed in Amur's enclosure as live prey; the tiger passed on the chance to gobble up the goat, and the two established a rapport and become inseparable.
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A man takes a traditional icy dip during the feast of the Epiphany near the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in the village of Norskoe.
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President Vladimir Putin and Viktor Sadovnichy, rector of M. Lomonosov Moscow State University (left), talking to students.
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Freight trains at a station in Bekasovo.
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A demonstrator throws back a tear gas canister while clashing with Venezuelan National Guards during a protest close to one of their outposts in Caracas, Venezuela 21 January 2019.
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Participants in the rally in Athens against the Prespa Agreement on the new constitutional name of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
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A woman wades through a flooded neighbourhood with her daughter in her arms in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, Wednesday, 23 January 2019. Torrential rains in central Indonesia overwhelmed a dam and caused landslides, killing at least six people and displaced more than 2,000, officials reported.
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Children react to a security robot patrolling a residential compound in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China, 18 January 2019.
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Readly Express is washed before a training session with his trainer Timo Nurmos, one week before the Prix d'Amerique on 18 January 2019 in Mortree, northwestern France.
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People throw turnips at the Jarramplas as he makes his way through the streets beating his drum during the Jarramplas festival in the tiny southwestern Spanish town of Piornal. The Jarramplas festival centres around a town resident dressed up in a colourful costume and a horned helmet. The Jarramplas has to dance around the village, facing a vicious onslaught of oversized turnips hurled at him by mobs of locals.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron attend the signing of a new agreement on bilateral cooperation and integration, known as the Treaty of Aachen, in Aachen, Germany, 22 January 2019.
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Tourists enjoy a swimming pool at a hotel in central Bangkok, Thailand, 21 January 2019.
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A woman tries to catch snowflakes with her tongue in Kathmandu's Chandragiri Hills in Nepal, 23 January 2019.
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A picture taken on 21 January 2019 shows the so-called Super Blood Wolf Moon behind Tours Cathedral in central France.
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Passerby during a snowfall in Gorky Park in Moscow
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The China National Acrobatic Troupe performs during the gala of the 43rd Monte-Carlo International Circus Festival in Monaco, 22 January 2019.
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Young women and men taking part in the traditional Zapust festival in Sorbian-Wendish costumes pose for a picture as they celebrate the driving out of the winter in Burg in eastern Germany's Spreewald region on 19 January 2019.
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A protester scuffles with an Israeli border guard during a demonstration by Palestinian, Israeli and foreign protesters against the newly-opened Route 4370 on 23 January 2019, in the occupied West Bank. The highway into Jerusalem divides Israeli and Palestinian drivers into separate lanes with a wall, leading Palestinians to label it an "apartheid road". Its western side serves Palestinians, who cannot enter Jerusalem, whereas the road’s eastern side serves settlers, who can now reach northern Jerusalem.
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Alina Zagitova (Russia) performs in the short program at the European Figure Skating Championships in Minsk.
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Star on the roof of a high-rise building on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment in Moscow.
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Thousands of Venezuelans living in Argentina, opposed to President Nicolas Maduro, hold a demonstration in Buenos Aires in support of opposition leader Juan Guaido's self-proclamation as acting president of Venezuela on 23 January 2019.
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Models present creations of French lingerie during the fashion show "Lingerie Rocks" in Paris on 20 January 2019. The show featured French brands such as Antigel, Antinea, Aubade, Chantelle, Empreinte, Eprise, Epure, Implicite, Lise Charmel, Lou, Louisa Bracq, Maison Lejaby, Passionata et Simone Perele, as well as three young invited designers: Badines, Jolies Memes and Henriette H.
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A Kashmiri fruit vendor waits for customers during a snowfall on the outskirts of Srinagar on 16 January 2019.
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