A car plows into a group of counterprotesters who were marching against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, August 12. Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old woman from Charlottesville, was killed and 19 others were injured. A 20-year-old man is accused of ramming the car into the crowd. James Alex Fields Jr. has been charged with second-degree murder, three counts of malicious wounding, and failure to stop in an accident that resulted in death. Read more: New photos reveal details of Charlottesville tragedy
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White nationalists chant at counterprotesters after marching through the University of Virginia's Charlottesville campus on Friday, August 11. Chanting "blood and soil" and "you will not replace us," the group rallied around a statue of Thomas Jefferson before clashing with the counterprotesters, CNN affiliate WWBT reported. Charlottesville has become the latest Southern battleground over the contested removal of Confederate monuments. In February, the city council voted to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, but that is on hold pending litigation. The council also voted to rename two city parks that had been named for Confederate generals.
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US President Donald Trump talks about the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, during an impromptu news conference in New York on Tuesday, August 15. "I think there is blame on both sides," Trump said during a contentious back-and-forth with reporters in the lobby of his Midtown Manhattan building. He also defended his 48-hour delay in denouncing white supremacists, arguing that he took his time because he didn't know the facts.
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Workers remove a monument dedicated to the Confederate Women of Maryland after it was taken down in Baltimore on Wednesday, August 16. The removals began a day after the city council voted unanimously to take the monuments down, CNN affiliate WBAL reported. Other cities and states are considering taking down Confederate monuments following the clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, that left one dead and 19 injured.
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Medics and police tend to injured people near the scene after a terror attack in Barcelona, Spain, on Thursday, August 17. A van plowed into a crowd of pedestrians, killing at least 13 people and injuring at least 100 others. The driver fled the scene.
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A dog in New York City attends Dogumenta, an art show for dogs, on Friday, August 11.
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This satellite image, made available by DigitalGlobe on Tuesday, August 15, shows the devastating mudslide that killed hundreds near Freetown, Sierra Leone. Hundreds more are still unaccounted for. It is the rainy season in Sierra Leone, and this year has been particularly wet, with Freetown receiving more than 41 inches of rain since July 1 -- about triple the average of 13.8 inches, according to the US National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center.
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Pauline Hanson, an Australian senator known for her strong stance against Muslim immigration, takes the veil off her burqa during a parliamentary session in Canberra on Thursday, August 17. "I'm quite happy to remove this because it's not what should belong in this parliament," said Hanson, who has long called for the burqa to be banned in public.
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A firefighting helicopter works on a wildfire near Kapandriti, Greece, on Tuesday, August 15. The fire left a smoky haze over much of Athens, Greece's capital.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel holds a watering can she got as a gift during a campaign rally in Heilbronn, Germany, on Wednesday, August 16. Merkel recently launched her bid for a fourth term. See Merkel's life in photos
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A man in Manila, Philippines, cries near the body of a relative who was killed following a police operation against illegal drugs on Thursday, August 17. Since coming to power in June 2016, President Rodrigo Duterte has unleashed an aggressive crackdown on drugs that has left at least 3,400 dead.
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A protester adds to a fire in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, on Friday, August 11. Violence erupted after the re-election of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, leaving at least 24 people dead nationwide, a rights group said. Most of the demonstrators were supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga, who has rejected the results of the election and called the vote rigged. National election officials have decried the accusations, saying the vote was free and credible.
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A lion, rescued from a zoo in the war-torn city of Aleppo, Syria, cuddles with her newborn cub at a Jordanian wildlife reserve on Saturday, August 12.
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Men climb a greased pole during celebrations that marked Indonesia's Independence Day on Thursday, August 17. Indonesia gained independence from the Netherlands in 1945.
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Two trains collided in Alexandria, Egypt, on Friday, August 11, leaving dozens dead. An engineering team was sent to the scene to examine the causes of the accident and determine who was responsible.
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A man in Changsha, China, competes in a chili-pepper eating contest while wading in a water vat filled with peppers on Saturday, August 12. The winner ate 15 chili peppers in one minute.
Hot-air balloons fly over Bristol, England, on Friday, August 11. It was the second day of the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta, one of Europe's largest gatherings of hot-air balloons.
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People in Copenhagen, Denmark, watch a diver compete in the country's annual cannonball championship on Sunday, August 13. Judges graded each dive on style and the size of the splash.
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Broken glass shows where the New England Holocaust Memorial was vandalized in Boston on Monday, August 14. A 17-year-old was charged with disorderly conduct, malicious destruction of property over $250, and causing injury over $5,000 to a church, synagogue or memorial, authorities said. Witnesses told police they saw him throwing what appeared to be a rock at the memorial.
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Honor guards in Beijing shout during a welcoming ceremony for US Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on Tuesday, August 15. Dunford was visiting Beijing as part of a trip that also includes stops in South Korea and Japan.
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People float on a banana boat Wednesday, August 16, after heavy flooding in Bogra, Bangladesh.
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A boy waits to receive free bread at a charity bakery in Sanaa, Yemen, on Tuesday, August 15. The country's two-year conflict has devastated the economy and spurred a disastrous food crisis.
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A woman dives in Switzerland's Verzasca river on Tuesday, August 15.
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Zookeeper Eva Ravagni kisses Hujan, a 2-month-old Bornean orangutan, in Krefeld, Germany, on Tuesday, August 15. Hujan was abandoned by its mother and has to be fed with a baby bottle.
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A man enjoys a brass band Friday, August 11, during the Guca Trumpet Festival, an annual event in Guca, Serbia. During the festival, wild street parties take place throughout the night as bands perform in restaurants, bars and pop-up tents.
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Meteors cross the night sky over an Orthodox church in Bezdezh, Belarus, on Saturday, August 12. See last week in 30 photos
