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The basket of a fire-fighting helicopter is being filled with water over the sea: since the end of July, emergency services have been fighting massive forest fires in the western Turkish province of Muğla.
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At least eight people were killed as a result of the fires, and villages and holiday resorts had to be evacuated.
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3/22
Extinguishing work in the mountains of the municipality of Köyceğiz: In addition to Muğla, the Antalya region was also particularly hard hit by the fires.
In the meantime, the situation in Turkey has eased somewhat and, according to the authorities, most of the fires are under control.
Photo: Emre Tazegul / AP
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4/22
In Greece, however, the flames continued to rage.
On Evia, the country's second largest island, several villages were surrounded by fires, and the northern part was almost completely cut off from the rest of the island by the countless large fires.
Thousands had to leave the island and be brought to safety.
Residents and volunteers fought against the flames with all possible means to defend their belongings and to support the overwhelmed fire-fighting teams.
Photo: ANGELOS TZORTZINIS / AFP
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5/22
A man pours water from a bucket into the approaching flames.
Photo: ANGELOS TZORTZINIS / AFP
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6/22
Others tried to smother the fires with twigs.
Photo: Chokri Mahjoub / imago images / ZUMA Wire
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7/22
Any help comes in handy: 900 firefighters were on duty on Thursday night, after all, rain made it possible to relax and put out some of the fires.
Photo: ANGELOS TZORTZINIS / AFP
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8/22
Exhaustion and uncertainty: a woman sleeps in her car on Pefki Beach.
A draft for the second part of the IPCC's new report does not bode well for the Mediterranean: The region will have to prepare for stronger heat waves, drought and more fires.
Photo: ANGELOS TZORTZINIS / AFP
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9/22
A woman stands in front of her hut in the Nuevo Queja settlement in Guatemala.
The village of Queja was devastated by Hurricane Eta last November, killing 58 residents in a landslide.
The place was then declared uninhabitable by the government, but the people were not relocated.
The approximately thousand surviving residents then built new huts in the immediate vicinity of the old village and have lived there ever since.
Since then, several organizations from abroad have tried to improve people's lives with little success and / or a strange-seeming intention.
The mirrors hanging in each hut were donated by USAID - to give the residents more self-confidence.
Photo: Rodrigo Abd / AP
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Abdel Mobdi Moussalam cuts papyrus plants not far from his village al-Qaramous.
The place is located in the Sharqiyah province in Egypt's fertile Nile Delta and is known for the production of papyrus in the tradition of ancient Egypt.
Photo: KHALED DESOUKI / AFP
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11/22
Tangible: In freestyle wrestling up to 74 kilograms, Frank Márquez (left) from Italy lost to the American and two-time world champion Kyle Dake, who won the bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Tokyo together with the Uzbek Bekzod Abdurakhmonov.
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PIROSCHKA VAN DE WOUW / REUTERS
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12/22
After Marcell Jacobs' surprising Olympic victory over 100 meters, he also won gold in Tokyo with the Italian 4x100 meter relay.
Jacobs ran in second place, last runner Filippo Tortu made it to the finish just ahead of his rival from Great Britain, Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake.
However, Jacobs's performance, as well as his relationship with a controversial nutritionist, raise questions.
Photo: David J. Phillip / AP
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The Croatian water polo team is preparing for the match against the USA.
Croatia won 14:11 and thus secured fifth place in the Olympic tournament.
The gold medal went to Serbia, which relegated Greece to second place in the final with 13:10.
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Cheers among the Brazilian volleyball players: In the semi-final match, the team defeated South Korea 3-0, but had to admit defeat to the United States in the final, which won gold.
Photo: YURI CORTEZ / AFP
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Farewell tears: after 21 years, superstar Lionel Messi leaves FC Barcelona and moves to Paris Saint-Germain, where he gets a two-year contract.
The 34-year-old Argentine could not be held by his old club due to the statutes of Financial Fair Play, although both sides wanted to continue the cooperation.
Photo: PAU BARRENA / AFP
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Race with wooden horse heads: The so-called »Camp Olympics« are held in Fuaa, Syria, in the Idlib province.
Almost three million people live in the country's last rebel stronghold, two thirds of them are internally displaced people who live in camps and are dependent on humanitarian aid.
At the event, 120 boys from 12 camps competed against each other in various disciplines.
Photo: OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP
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Cooling off: After the Ganges overflowed its banks in the north Indian city of Prayagraj, a boy jumps from a flooded house into the water.
Photo: SANJAY KANOJIA / AFP
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After one and a half years of distance learning, a young student in her school in Brazil's capital Brasília is waiting for classroom teaching to start again.
Photo: Eraldo Peres / AP
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19/22
The Etna volcano in Sicily has grown: after dozens of eruptions since February of this year, lava and rock material have deposited on the south-east crater, so that it is now higher than the crater on the north-east side, which was considered the summit of the volcano for decades.
As the National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) announced on Tuesday after evaluating satellite images, the highest point of Etna is 3357 meters above sea level, with a tolerance of plus or minus three meters.
Photo: Salvatore Allegra / AP
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20/22
Thunderstorms over Altenmarkt: In parts of Bavaria there were again last Saturday, as in many other parts of Germany, partly violent thunderstorms and showers.
Hoch »Elfi« then brought better weather and higher temperatures in the middle of the week.
Photo: Tobias Hartl / dpa
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Lightning strike in One World Trade Center: In New York the temperatures rose to 35 degrees Celsius this week, the coming week should bring some cooling.
Photo: Gary Hershorn / Getty Images
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22/22
With pricked ears, a deer, presumably startled by the photographer, is fleeing through a field aisle in Vechta, Lower Saxony.
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Photo: Lino Mirgeler / dpa