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Week in pictures: 28 November - 4 December 2020

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A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week.

image copyrightSilvio Avila / AFP
image captionLightning bolts streak the sky above the empty Beira Rio stadium in Porto Alegre, Brazil, before the start of the Copa Libertadores football match between Brazil's Internacional and Argentina's Boca Juniors.
image copyrightJuan Mabromata / AFP
image captionStreet artist Alfredo Segatori paints a mural of the late Argentine football legend Diego Maradona in Buenos Aires. Argentina held three days of mourning after Maradona died on 25 November at the age of 60.
image copyrightJoy Christian / AFP
image captionResidents watch Mount Ili Lewotolok spew ash during a volcanic eruption in Lembata, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. Thousands fled as the eruption sent a column of ash and smoke 4km (2.5 miles) into the sky.
image copyrightHamed Malekpour / AFP
image captionMembers of the Iranian armed forces pray around the coffin of nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh during a burial ceremony at Imamzadeh Saleh shrine in northern Tehran. The scientist was killed in a mysterious attack on a road outside the capital and was given a state funeral with full military honours.
image copyrightBaz Ratner / Reuters
image captionA man waves a whip as he rides a camel near the village of Wad al Hulaywah, Sudan.
image copyrightSergei Supinsky / AFP
image captionThe Azerbaijan gymnastic team competes in the final five balls event during the 36th European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Kiev, Ukraine.
image copyrightGary Hershorn / Getty Images
image captionThe moon rises behind people standing on the Edge Observation deck at 30 Hudson Yards in New York City.
image copyrightThomas Coex / AFP
image captionFrench riot police clash with protesters in Paris during a demonstration against Article 24 of a new security bill. The article makes it a criminal offence to publish images of on-duty police officers with the intent to harm their "physical or psychological integrity". There are fears the new law could stop people exposing police brutality.
image copyrightPunit Paranjpe / AFP
image captionPigeons fly over the Gateway of India at sunrise in Mumbai.
image copyrightKen Jack / Getty Images
image captionA robin sits on a holly branch at the RSPB's Loch Leven nature reserve in Kinross, Scotland.

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