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The week in pictures

Here is an incomplete, yet surprising and moving, gallery of images of this week's events from around the world. 
The week in pictures Members of the National Guard rest in a hallway of the U.S. Capitol building underneath a bust of former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. The U.S. House prepared to vote on a history-making second impeachment of Donald Trump as lawmakers seethed over his role inciting last week's mob attack on the Capitol and the president’s once-firm control over the Republican party began to break down. Photographer: Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Members of the National Guard rest in a hallway of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. The U.S. House prepared to vote on a history-making second impeachment of Donald Trump as lawmakers seethed over his role inciting last week's mob attack on the Capitol and the presidents once-firm control over the Republican party began to break down. Photographer: Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Members of the National Guard rest in a hallway of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021.  Photographer: Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg via Getty Images
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 14: Members of the National Guard sleep in the U.S. Capitol on January 14, 2021 in Washington, DC. Security has been increased throughout Washington following the breach of the U.S. Capitol last Wednesday, and leading up to the Presidential Inauguration. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images)
Members of the National Guard sleep in the U.S. Capitol on January 14, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 13: Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) races into the House Chamber to cast the last vote to impeach U.S. President Donald Trump for the second time in little over a year in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol January 13, 2021 in Washington, DC. The House voted 232-197 to impeach Trump on the charge of “incitement of insurrection" after a mob attacked the U.S. Capitol where Congress was working to certify the Electoral College victory of President-elect Joe Biden on January 6. 10 Republicans voted to impeach. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) races into the House Chamber to cast the last vote to impeach U.S. President Donald Trump for the second time in little over a year in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol January 13, 2021 in Washington, DC.  (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 13: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) displays a signed an article of impeachment against President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol on January 13, 2021 in Washington, DC. The House of Representatives voted to impeach Trump for incitement of insurrection, following Vice President Mike Pences refusal to use the 25th amendment to remove him from office for his role in the breach of the U.S. Capitol last week. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images)
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) displays a signed an article of impeachment against President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol on January 13, 2021 in Washington, DC.  (Photo by Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 15: Boxes of equipment are stage in rows along the Reflecting Pool during preparations for next weeks inauguration ceremony on the morning of January 15, 2021 in Washington, DC. Due to security threats following the January 6th pro-Trump mob at the US Capitol, law enforcement agencies moved up security measures along the National Mall and much of downtown Washington, D.C. essentially closing down the Mall a week ahead of President-elect Joe Bidens inauguration. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
Boxes of equipment are stage in rows along the Reflecting Pool during preparations for next weeks inauguration ceremony on the morning of January 15, 2021 in Washington, DC. . (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 14: National Guard troops pose for photographers on the East Front of the U.S. Capitol the day after the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump for the second time January 14, 2021 in Washington, DC. Thousands of National Guard troops have been activated to protect the nation's capital against threats surrounding President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration and to prevent a repeat of last week’s deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
National Guard troops pose for photographers on the East Front of the U.S. Capitol the day after the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump for the second time January 14, 2021 in Washington, DC.  (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 14: Workers put concertina razor wire along the top of the 8-foot 'non-scalable' fence that surrounds the U.S. Capitol the day after the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump for the second time January 14, 2021 in Washington, DC. Thousands of National Guard troops have been activated to protect the nation's capital against threats surrounding President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration and to prevent a repeat of last week’s deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Workers put concertina razor wire along the top of the 8-foot 'non-scalable' fence that surrounds the U.S. Capitol the day after the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump for the second time January 14, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 14: A member of the New York National Guard stands watch along the 7-foot 'non-scalable' fence that surrounds the U.S. Capitol the day after the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump for the second time January 14, 2021 in Washington, DC. Thousands of National Guard troops have been activated to protect the nation's capital against threats surrounding President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration and to prevent a repeat of last week’s deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
A member of the New York National Guard stands watch along the 7-foot 'non-scalable' fence that surrounds the U.S. Capitol the day after the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump for the second time January 14, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 14: Workers put up "Biden-Harris" branded bunting on a press riser along the inaugural parade route near the White House on January 14, 2021 in Washington, DC. Thousands of National Guard troops have been activated to protect the nation's capital against threats surrounding President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration and to prevent a repeat of last weeks deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Workers put up "Biden-Harris" branded bunting on a press riser along the inaugural parade route near the White House on January 14, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 14: Workers move boxes onto a truck on West Executive Avenue between the West Wing of the White House and the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House on January 14, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Workers move boxes onto a truck on West Executive Avenue between the West Wing of the White House and the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House on January 14, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
HARLINGEN, TX - JANUARY 12: President Donald Trump walks to the Marine One helicopter after greeting his supporters at Valley International Airport on January 12, 2021 in Harlingen, Texas. President Trump later delivered remarks during a visit to the U.S.-Mexico Border in Alamo, Texas. (Photo by Go Nakamura/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump walks to the Marine One helicopter after greeting his supporters at Valley International Airport on January 12, 2021 in Harlingen, Texas.  (Photo by Go Nakamura/Getty Images)
BEIRUT, LEBANON - JANUARY 13:  A Lebanese person with COVID-19 symptoms gets oxigen support inside the fever clinic of Saint George Hospital on January 13, 2021 in Beirut, Lebanon. Overwhelmed hospitals in Lebanon have been forced to treat COVID-19 patients in cars and improvised rooms. The country is introducing an 11-day, 24-hour curfew that confines people to their homes with limited exceptions. Residents will even be banned from going to the grocery store. (Photo by Diego Ibarra Sanchez/Getty Images)
A Lebanese person with COVID-19 symptoms gets oxygen support inside the fever clinic of Saint George Hospital on January 13, 2021 in Beirut, Lebanon. (Photo by Diego Ibarra Sanchez/Getty Images)

 

A general view of graves at Vlakfontein Cemetery on January 08, 2021 in Dunnottar, South Africa. According to media reports, the COVID-19 pandemic has put immense pressure on the death-care industry as they are battling to cope with the high number of burials. (Photo by Gallo Images/OJ Koloti)
A general view of graves at Vlakfontein Cemetery on January 08, 2021 in Dunnottar, South Africa. (Photo by Gallo Images/OJ Koloti)
MEISSEN, GERMANY - JANUARY 11: Coffins containing mainly a Covid-19 victims lie at the city crematorium during the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic on January 11, 2021 in Meissen, Germany. Meissen county, which is located in the state of Saxony, currently has the highest Covid-19 infection rate in all of Germany, with 547 new cases per 100,000 people in the last seven days. Saxony currently has the highest Covid infection rate of any state in Germany. The total number of Covid-related deaths to date in Saxony has skyrocketed, from 458 two months ago, on November 11, to 4,130 today. (Photo by Maja Hitij/Getty Images)
Coffins containing mainly a Covid-19 victims lie at the city crematorium during the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic on January 11, 2021 in Meissen, Germany. (Photo by Maja Hitij/Getty Images)
BERLIN, GERMANY - JANUARY 14: An assistant waits to help on the opening day at Berlin's second vaccine center in the Erika Hess Ice Stadium during the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic on January 14, 2021 in Berlin, Germany. Germany's vaccine program is picking up pace as infection and death rates continue to reach record highs. (Photo by Kay Nietfeld - Pool/Getty Images)
An assistant waits to help on the opening day at Berlin's second vaccine center in the Erika Hess Ice Stadium during the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic on January 14, 2021 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Kay Nietfeld - Pool/Getty Images)
CANNES, FRANCE - JANUARY 13: A sign for a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination center installed in front of the red carpet of the Palace on January 13, 2021 in Cannes, France. The Cannes Palace of Festivals and Conferences, the flagship for the Cannes Film Festival, has been converted into a vaccination centre. (Photo by Arnold Jerocki/Getty Images)
A sign for a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination center installed in front of the red carpet of the Palace on January 13, 2021 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Arnold Jerocki/Getty Images)
The Jacob Javits Convention Center Covid-19 vaccination site in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. New York plans to open pop-up sites statewide that could be used to test customers and workers in a push to reopen offices, restaurants and theaters, Governor Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday in his State of the State speech. Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images
The Jacob Javits Convention Center Covid-19 vaccination site in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021.  Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Chinese workers, including security guards, wait to receive a COVID-19 vaccine jab at a mass vaccination center for Chaoyang District on January 15, 2021 in Beijing, China. With at least 5 homegrown vaccines nearing approval, China says it will vaccinate 50 million people by early February. The wider rollout is being coordinated mainly through employers and industry groups, with delivery drivers, food handlers, and construction workers among the first to receive doses. While China has largely controlled the spread of the virus, it is imposing quarantines and restrictions on much of the country to contain fresh outbreaks ahead of the Lunar New Year period when millions are expected to travel. Chinese companies are also producing over a billion doses of vaccines for export to mainly developing countries, a form of vaccine diplomacy as China tries to deflect criticism over their handling of the pandemic. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
Chinese workers, including security guards, wait to receive a COVID-19 vaccine jab at a mass vaccination center for Chaoyang District on January 15, 2021 in Beijing, China. With at least 5 homegrown vaccines nearing approval, China says it will vaccinate 50 million people by early February. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE - JANUARY 11: President-elect Joe Biden receives the second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccination from Chief Nurse Executive Ric Cuming at ChristianaCare Christiana Hospital on January 11, 2021 in Newark, Delaware. Biden received the second dose of the coronavirus vaccine three weeks after his first dose, received a few days before Christmas. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
President-elect Joe Biden receives the second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccination from Chief Nurse Executive Ric Cuming at ChristianaCare Christiana Hospital on January 11, 2021 in Newark, Delaware.  (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 15: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a media briefing on coronavirus (COVID-19) at Downing Street on January 15, 2021 in London, England. (Photo by Dominic Lipinski - WPA Pool/Getty Images)
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a media briefing on coronavirus (COVID-19) at Downing Street on January 15, 2021 in London, England. (Photo by Dominic Lipinski - WPA Pool/Getty Images)
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - JANUARY 13: A Students participate in a protest near the Japanese Embassy on January 13, 2021 in Seoul, South Korea. The Seoul central district court on last week said Japan was liable to compensate 12 women who were forced to work as so-called “comfort women”, in a ruling that is expected to inflict further damage on the countries’ already fraught ties. Japan has denounced as “utterly unacceptable” a South Korean court ruling ordering it to pay damages to women who were sexually enslaved by the Japanese military before and during the second world war. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
A Students participate in a protest near the Japanese Embassy on January 13, 2021 in Seoul, South Korea. The Seoul central district court on last week said Japan was liable to compensate 12 women who were forced to work as so-called “comfort women”, in a ruling that is expected to inflict further damage on the countries’ already fraught ties.  (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
People vote at a polling station on January 14, 2021 in Kampala, Uganda.(Photo by Luke Dray/Getty Images)
People vote at a polling station on January 14, 2021 in Kampala, Uganda. (Photo by Luke Dray/Getty Images)
JAKARTA, INDONESIA - JANUARY 10: Indonesian search and rescue personnel carry body bags with human remains and debris from Sriwijaya Air flight SJ182 to be examined by investigators on January 10, 2021 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Sriwijaya Air flight SJ182, carrying 62 people on board a flight from Indonesia's capital to Pontianak, Indonesia, lost contact with air controllers shortly after take-off and is believed to have crashed into the waters off the coast of Jakarta. Indonesian authorities say they have found the location where they believe the plane crashed into the sea and have been focusing their efforts there. (Photo by Ed Wray/Getty Images)
Indonesian search and rescue personnel carry body bags with human remains and debris from Sriwijaya Air flight SJ182 to be examined by investigators on January 10, 2021 in Jakarta, Indonesia.  (Photo by Ed Wray/Getty Images)
WUHAN, CHINA - JANUARY 15：(CHINA OUT）The view of Wuhan city model at Wuhan in Wuhan planning exhibition hall on January 15, 2021 in Wuhan, Hubei Province,China.Wuhan planning exhibition hall is an important platform to show the history, achievements and future blueprint of Wuhan.World Health Organization Arrived the Chinese city to investigate the origins of the novel coronavirus. The 10-member team is expected to conduct the research in Wuhan.Wuhan With no recorded cases of community transmissions since May 2020, life for residents is gradually returning to normal.(Photo by Getty Images)
The view of Wuhan city model at Wuhan in Wuhan planning exhibition hall on January 15, 2021 in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. (Photo by Getty Images)
MADRID, SPAIN - JANUARY 09: People walk on the snow next to La Almudena Cathedral during heavy snowfall on January 09, 2021 in Madrid, Spain. Spain is on red alert for a second day due to storm Filomena, which has brought unusually cold weather and heavy snowfalls. The storm has caused cancelled services and transport disruption. (Photo by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)
People walk on the snow next to La Almudena Cathedral during heavy snowfall on January 09, 2021 in Madrid, Spain.  (Photo by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)
FELDBERG (SCHWARZWALD), GERMANY - JANUARY 09: Ski tourers make their way through the snow to the top of the mountain Feldberg in the black forest region on January 9, 2021 in Feldberg (Schwarzwald), Germany. (Photo by Daniel Kopatsch/Getty Images)
Ski tourers make their way through the snow to the top of the mountain Feldberg in the black forest region on January 9, 2021 in Feldberg (Schwarzwald), Germany. (Photo by Daniel Kopatsch/Getty Images)
A boy plays with an ice sculpture at the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, China, 12 January 2021 (issued 15 January 2021). The winter festival opened to the public with strengthened precautions due to new Covid-19 outbreaks in nearby cities. With temperatures at -20 degrees Celsius, visitors must patiently scan all the codes at the entrance, get their temperature checked and wear masks at all times. In 2021, few tourists are visiting the Harbin Ice Festival compared to the millions of tourists in previous years. In the past years, one of the festival's highlights was a group wedding ceremony, which has been canceled this year along with other usual events, performances, and activities such as sledding, speed skating, ice hockey, ice football competitions. According to the National Health Commission, there are 144 COVID-19 new cases reported in mainland China as of 15 January 2021. On 13 January 2021, the Heilongjiang Province government declared a state of emergency as the outbreak spreads. EPA-EFE/ALEX PLAVEVSKI ATTENTION: This Image is part of a PHOTO SET
A boy plays with an ice sculpture at the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, China, 12 January 2021. EPA-EFE/ALEX PLAVEVSKI
KRAKOW, POLAND - JANUARY 10: Members of a local Boxing club take a dip in a former limestone mine that has been flooded and nowadays know as Zakrzowek lake, on January 10, 2021 in Krakow, Poland. The cold water swimming practice, that is popular in the Central Eastern European Country for the health benefits such as boosting the immune system, has seen an increase of participants as the sport facilities continue closed due to the partial lockdown to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Poland is now passing through the second wave of COVID-19 infections and has registered more than 1 million infections and a death toll above 31,000. (Photo by Omar Marques/Getty Images)
Members of a local Boxing club take a dip in a former limestone mine that has been flooded and nowadays know as Zakrzowek lake, on January 10, 2021 in Krakow, Poland. (Photo by Omar Marques/Getty Images)
TOKYO, JAPAN - JANUARY 10: A man wearing only a loincloth bathes in ice-cold water during the annual new year Shinto ritual to purify their body and soul at Teppozu Inari Shinto Shrine on January 10, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. Fewer participants were seen at this closed to the general public event this year due to COVID-19. (Photo by Christopher Jue/Getty Images)
A man wearing only a loincloth bathes in ice-cold water during the annual new year Shinto ritual to purify their body and soul at Teppozu Inari Shinto Shrine on January 10, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Christopher Jue/Getty Images)
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 11: Young people jump off St Kilda Pier on January 11, 2021 in Melbourne, Australia. Melbourne is forecast to record its hottest day in a year with temperatures expected to reach 38 degrees Celsius. (Photo by Darrian Traynor/Getty Images)
Young people jump off St Kilda Pier on January 11, 2021 in Melbourne, Australia.  (Photo by Darrian Traynor/Getty Images)
Lifeguards patrol by an empty Clifton Fourth Beach, closed due to Covid-19 restrictions, in Cape Town, South Africa, on Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. The pandemic and restrictions imposed to contain it have devastated Africa's most industrialized economy, and the extension of curbs that came into effect at the height of the holiday season bode ill for efforts to engineer a rebound. Photographer: Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Lifeguards patrol by an empty Clifton Fourth Beach, closed due to Covid-19 restrictions, in Cape Town, South Africa, on Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. Photographer: Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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