Week in Pictures 11 March 2017
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Displaced Iraqi people from different areas in Mosul flee their homes to reach safe areas after clashes broke out as Iraqi forces battle with Islamic State militants in the city of Mosul, Iraq, March 17, 2017. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal
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Bleached coral is photographed on Australia's Great Barrier Reef near Port Douglas, March 16, 2017 in this handout image from Greenpeace. Parts of Australia's Great Barrier Reef will never recover from the impact of unseasonably warm waters, as more of the World Heritage Site comes under renewed threat from a recent spike in sea temperatures, scientists said. Greenpeace/Brett Monroe Garner/Handout via REUTERS
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A Yazidi refugee from Kurdistan laughs as he learns the sport of curling at the Royal Canadian Curling Club during an event put on by the "Together Project", in Toronto, March 15, 2017. REUTERS/Mark Blinch
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Ziad (R), 14, who has a spinal cord injury, is pushed on a wheelchair by his friend along a street in Douma, the main rebel-stronghold in eastern Ghouta on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh
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Rescue workers carry the body of a victim recovered out from a pile of garbage following a landslide when a mound of trash collapsed on an informal settlement at the Koshe garbage dump in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, March 13, 2017. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri
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A girl reacts as coloured water is thrown on her face while celebrating Holi, the Festival of Colours, in Mumbai, India, March 13, 2017. REUTERS/Shailesh Andrade
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Iraqi Federal Police transport civilians, injured while opening a booby-trapped shop in Tayaran district, as Iraqi forces battle with Islamic State's fighters in western Mosul, Iraq March 12, 2017. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
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A man prays at the site where a house of his missing colleague once stood, in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture, Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo March 11, 2017, to mark the six-year anniversary of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster that killed thousands and set off a nuclear crisis. Mandatory credit Kyodo/via REUTERS
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In Canada, climate change could open new farmland to the plow
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On an overheating planet, parched nations look to the clouds
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Six ways to stay cool without air conditioning
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Richard Branson setting up green energy fund to rebuild Caribbean
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Sweltering planet braces for deadly heat shocks
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Eternally displaced: Afghanistan’s escalating crisis
In 2016 the conflict - a continued battle for control between beleaguered Afghan forces and both ISIS and the Taliban - has led to unprecedented levels of displacement, with 1.5 million internally-displaced and 3 million refugees. Almost 1 million people, half of whom are children, have already returned from Iran and Pakistan. At least half a million more are expected to return this year, despite a starkly deteriorating economic, political and security situation within the country.
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TrustLaw Legal Intern - New York
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