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£54.00The week has been full of striking news photographs from around the world. Riot police were photographed using pepper spray to disperse demonstrators during a protest outside the National Congress in Buenos Aires. The Argentinian Chamber of Deputies was debating whether to reverse a veto by President Javier Milei of a law aimed at increasing pensions. Also in the capital city, Shabana Mahmood, Britain’s Secretary of State for Justice, was caught on camera retrieving her shoe after the heel got stuck in the pavement outside 10 Downing Street in London.
Elsewhere, North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency released images, with its leader, Kim Jong Un, inspecting the uranium enrichment facility which produces materials for its nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, the UK Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, along with Foreign Secretary David Lammy, flew to the USA to talk with President Joe Biden about resolving conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza.
People stopped to look at a sculpture installed on the Sheffield & Tinsley Canal in England. The artwork, created by Alex Chinneck, is a 13-meter-long and six-meter-high canal boat painted in traditional canal boat colors. The primary body of the boat was made from eight tonnes of steel, as a nod to Sheffield’s history.
Finally, some 600,000 people gathered in the East Timor for Holy Mass, led by Pope Francis. The mass was one of the biggest events of the Pope’s papacy. Meanwhile, visitors to the Khao Kheow Open Zoo near Pattaya in Thailand have reportedly doubled since the birth of a female dwarf hippopotamus named Moo Deng in July. A zoo worker has been photographed playing with the hippopotamus, who has been given a name that roughly translates as “Bouncy Pig.
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