Sputnik's weekly photo gallery includes a compilation of photos to show the highlights of the past week, where you can get a glimpse of what has been happening around the world during this truly extraordinary time.
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread across the globe, several countries are re-imposing restrictions, urging people to avoid public places. In the meantime, US President Donald Trump and his Democratic opponent Joe Biden continue their rivalry after the first presidential debate in the United States.
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People wearing traditional clothing sing and dance during the celebration of "Irreechaa", a thanksgiving holiday of the Oromo people, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 3 October 2020. Members of Ethiopia's largest ethnic group gathered under heavy security in Addis Ababa for a scaled-back version of their annual thanksgiving festival against a backdrop of unrest and political division.
© AFP 2023 / Eduardo Soteras
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Protesters in Bishkek. The demonstrators demand that the results of the parliamentary elections be annulled. The unrest in Kyrgyzstan has left one person dead and more than 1,000 people injured.
© Sputnik / Tabyldy Kadyrbekov
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Floodwaters surge through Saint-Martin-Vesubie in south-eastern France after heavy rains and flooding hit the Alpes-Maritimes department on 3 October. Heavy rains and violent floods have left villages cut off from the world in the Alpes-Maritimes, where hundreds of firefighters were mobilised on 3 October to find nine missing people.
© AFP 2023 / Valery Hache
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President Donald Trump takes off his protective face mask as he poses atop the Truman Balcony of the White House after returning from being hospitalised at the Walter Reed Medical Centre, 5 October 2020. Trump's return to the White House, while still contagious and receiving treatment, raised concerns about the risk for aides as well as day-to-day White House staff members, such as servers and housekeepers.
© REUTERS / Erin Scott
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A man helps an elderly woman walk out of a damaged house, carrying her belongings following recent shelling by Armenian forces, in Ganja, Azerbaijan. Fresh hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region broke out at the end of last month. Yerevan and Baku have both accused each other of violating the 1994 ceasefire and causing civilian casualties.
© Sputnik / Mikhail Voskresenskiy
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A car damaged by shelling in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh region.
© Sputnik / Asatur Yesayants
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A Catholic priest sprinkles holy water on a cat at a drive-thru pet blessing amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak on World Animal Day at Eastwood Mall, Quezon City, the Philippines, 4 October 2020.
© REUTERS / Eloisa Lopez
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Supporters of US President Donald Trump participate in a boat rally in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on 3 October 2020.
© AFP 2023 / Chandan Khanna
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A girl picks catkins in a field amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Sarighat, on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2 October 2020.
© REUTERS / Mohammad Ponir Hossain
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Harvesting white cabbage in fields of the agricultural enterprise "Michurinets" in the Novosibirsk region.
© Sputnik / Alexander Kryazhev
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Demonstrators clash with police following a protest against the government's labour reforms in a "jobs creation" bill outside the Regional People's Representative Assembly building in Semarang, Central Java Province, Indonesia, 7 October 2020.
© REUTERS / Antara Foto Agency / Aji Styawan
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People at a nationwide prayer at the Cathedral of Gregory the Illuminator (Surb Grigor Lusavorich) in Yerevan.
© Sputnik / Aram Nersesyan
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A groom transports his bride on a bicycle as they pose for wedding photographs on a street in Hanoi on 2 October 2020.
© AFP 2023 / Nhac Nguyen
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Baby lions adopted by a German shepherd dog after their mother refused to feed them.
© Sputnik / Vitaliy Ankov
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Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims are sprayed with water to cool them off as they make their way to the holy city of Karbala, ahead of the holy Shi'ite ritual of Arbaeen, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Baghdad, Iraq on 5 October 2020.
© REUTERS / Thaier Al-Sudani
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Aftermath of shelling of the city of Ganja, Azerbaijan.
© Sputnik / Mikhail Voskresenskiy
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Bavarian mountain farmers return their cattle from summer pastures across Lake Koenigssee near Berchtesgaden, Germany, on 2 October 2020.
© AP Photo / Matthias Schrader
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A child from the indigenous Guajajara ethnic group, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in the indigenous village of Urucu Jurua, municipality of Grajau, Maranhao sate, Brazil on 3 October 2020.
© REUTERS / Adriano Machado
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Fishermen try to protect their boats from heavy rains due to the passage of Storm Gamma in Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo state, Mexico, on 3 October 2020.
© AFP 2023 / Elizabeth Ruiz
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A protester helps another during a demonstration on the day of the verdict in the trial of suspected members of the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn accused of the September 2013 murder of an anti-fascist rapper in Athens, on 7 October 2020.
© AFP 2023 / Angelos Tzortzinis
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A dog peeks out from a sundries store in Tondo, Manila, the Philippines, 6 October 2020.
© REUTERS / Eloisa Lopez
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A worker at the Koyuncu salt production facility shovels large piles of salt by Turkey's famous Lake Tuz in Ankara, on 6 October 2020.
© AFP 2023 / Adem Altan
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A health worker (L) collects a swab sample from a woman to test for COVID-19 in a community health centre on the outskirts of Hyderabad on 7 October 2020.
© AFP 2023 / Noah Seelam
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Riot police use a water cannon to disperse student protesters during the second day of a three-day strike by labourers against a government omnibus bill on job creation which they believe will deprive workers of their rights, in Bandung on 7 October 2020.
© AFP 2023 / Timur Matahari
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Medical workers in the quarantine centre building in Kommunarka, an urban settlement in Russia.
© Sputnik / Iliya Pitalev
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Members of a local charity association carry bags of rice to distribute as hundreds of thousands of Senegalese Mouride Brotherhood pilgrims gather for the annual Grand Magal festival as the global spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in the holy city of Touba, Senegal on 5 October 2020.
© REUTERS / Zohra Bensemra
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A university student protests against the government's proposed labour reforms in a controversial "jobs creation" bill in Makassar, South Sulawesi province, Indonesia, on 6 October 2020.
© REUTERS / Antara Foto / Abriawan Abhe
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A boat on the Yenisei River in the taiga after the first snowfall in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.
© Sputnik / Ilya Naymushin
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A person in a Pikachu costume takes part in a protest against Chile's government in Santiago, Chile on 2 October 2020.
© REUTERS / Ivan Alvarado
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A fly is seen on the head of US Vice President Mike Pence as he takes part in the 2020 vice presidential debate with Democratic vice presidential nominee and US Senator Kamala Harris (not pictured) on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah, 7 October 2020.
© REUTERS / POOL