Elephant Festival

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A selection of news photos around The World This Week .

rescuers use an Inflatable Boat , a baby to safety after the floods a residential area in Tangerang, near Jakarta, Indonesia. More Than 20 people met died and thousands were forced to leave their homes after Heavy Rain triggered floods and landslides. Smoke rises from a fire in East Gippsland, Victoria. Deadly Bush fires ravage to destroy the Australian landscape, so far, 1,200 households in New South Wales and Victoria. This Week , the fire razed to the ground, a minimum of 381 houses in New South Wales and 43 in Victoria, with at least 17 people missing. Coach decorates an elephant before the elephant beauty contest in Sauraha, Chitwan, South-West of Kathmandu, Nepal - a part of the Chitwan Elephant Festival , play elephant football. Rioters throw flour and eggs, such as the Els Enfarinats battle, a 200-year-old tradition in the Spanish town of Ibi. The participants wear military-style costumes, and stage a mock coup, the takeover of the control over the city until sunset. A Man fishes near a frozen waterfall in the Drang area of Tangmarg, North of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir. Actor rests during a Chinese Opera performance of Thailand Sai Bo Hong troops on an improvised stage at a street festival in Bangkok. The Egyptian police cadets take part in a training session at a Police Academy in Cairo. Zookeeper Rowan Swainson counts squirrel monkeys during the annual stocktake at London Zoo . Daniel Andre Tande of Norway takes a practice ski jump, the third stage of the 68-Four-hills tournament in Innsbruck, Austria. To condemn a US flag defaced, during a demonstration in Tehran, the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani , Iran, the most powerful military commander, died on Friday at the airport of Baghdad, along with other Iran-backed militia figures in a strike, ordered by US President Donald Trump .

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Source of news: bbc.com