Week in pictures: 11-17 December 2021

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

IMAGE SOURCE,BRANDON BELL / GETTY IMAGE

American flags are seen near a damaged home in Mayfield, Kentucky. More than 30 tornados hit the state, and one tore a straight path for 227 miles (365km), in what is thought to be the longest path a tornado has taken in US history.

IMAGE SOURCE,GAVRIIL GRIGOROV / TASS VIA GETTY IMAGES

Workers cut down a 90-year old fir tree in the woods of the Shchyolkovsky district of Moscow. It will be installed in the Kremlin's Sobornaya (Cathedral) Square for Christmas.

 

IMAGE SOURCE,SAJJAD HUSSAIN / AFP

Indian farmers cheer as they leave their protest site at the Delhi-Haryana state border in Singhu, after formally ending year-long mass protests. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has abandoned his push for agricultural reforms.

 

IMAGE SOURCE,JANE BARLOW / PA MEDIA

The waxing Moon sets behind the dome of the Old College at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

 

IMAGE SOURCE,FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP

A surfer dressed as Santa Claus rides an artificial wave in cold water in the Alaia Bay surf wavepool in Sion, Switzerland.

 

IMAGE SOURCE,LUIS ACOSTA / AFP

People of the Panamanian Embera community compete in a tug-of-war during the third ancestral indigenous games in Pueblo Nuevo Buri, in the province of Bocas del Toro, Panama.

 

IMAGE SOURCE,BORJA SUAREZ / REUTERS

A house buried in ash from the Cumbre Vieja volcano n Las Manchas on the Canary Island of La Palma, Spain. The volcano erupted on Monday, the first time since late September - when eruptions forced thousands of people to leave their homes.

 

IMAGE SOURCE,BEN STANSALL / GETTY IMAGE

Members of the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) help migrants ashore at Dungeness on the south-east coast of England. The Home Office said recent drownings were "a devastating reminder" of the dangers of Channel crossings.

 

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Helen Morgan and Tim Farron of the Liberal Democrats symbolically burst the 'Boris Bubble' following Morgan's surprise victory in the North Shropshire By-Election. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was "very disappointed" by the result.

 

IMAGE SOURCE,DMINIC LIPINSKI / PA MEDIA

Seven-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton receives his knighthood for services to motorsport from Prince Charles at Windsor Castle, just days after Hamilton finished second to Max Verstappen in the drivers' world championship.

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