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The Weekly’s week in pictures

As the news cycle continues to spin 24/7, we so often miss moments which, in a split-second, can tell a story worth one thousand words. Here are just some of them from the week.

As the week comes to an end, we look back at the pictures that defined the past seven days.

Refugees waiting to cross the Greece-Macedonia border hold up a sign that reads ‘We need help’.

The New Zealand and Australian cricket teams don black armbands in memory of Phillip Hughes, who died one year ago today from an on-field injury.

Monks of Pantao release laterns into the night during the Yi peng festival in Chiengmai, Thailand.

A woman holds up a bunch of Poinsettia plants that are being prepared to be sent out for Christmas in Loanhead, Scotland.

A farmer looks back at the ravaging South Australian fires as he flees from his house. The fires have claimed two lives so far.

Protesters pay tribute to unarmed teenager Laquan McDonald, who was shot dead by a Chicago police officer.

A woman wears a sign that reads ‘Islam is peace’ during a protest of the Paris attacks.

China’s very last steam-powered train puts on a display before it is decommissioned.

An Amazon worker walks past a storage room full of boxes at the Hemel Hempstead branch in preparation for the Black Friday sales.

A giant panda plays in the snow at Beijing Zoo.

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, smiles as she abseils down a rockface with her husband, Prince William, in Capel Curig, Wales.

P&O’s newly commissioned cruise ships, the Pacific Aria, Pacific Eden, Pacific Dawn, Pacific Jewel and Pacific Pearl, meet for the first time in the Sydney Harbour.

A Northern Fur seal pup who was rescued, sick and malnourished, from the climate change-warmed California waters is tended to at a local animal sanctuary.

A masked man wearing the Australian flag around his face protests immigration laws in Melbourne’s ‘Reclaim Australia’ protests.

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