Week in pictures: 18-24 November 2023 - BBC News

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VALENTYN OGIRENKO

A woman walks through a snow-covered park in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni arrives for German-Italian government talks at the Chancellery in Berlin.

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Dolly Parton dressed as a cheerleader for her Thanksgiving performance during half-time at a football game between the Washington Commanders and the Dallas Cowboys in Arlington, Texas.

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Workers install decorations on a Christmas tree for the New Year and Christmas season near the Kremlin in Moscow. Russians are preparing to celebrate New Year's Eve on 31 December, and Christmas, which is observed on 7 January, according to the Russian Orthodox Julian calendar.

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King Charles III presents the members of the K-Pop band Blackpink with Honorary MBEs during a special investiture ceremony in the presence of the President of South Korea, Yoon Suk Yeol, and his wife, Kim Keon Hee, at Buckingham Palace in London.

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Geert Wilders, the Dutch right-wing politician and leader of the Freedom Party (PVV), speaks to the media in Scheveningen. The anti-Islam populist leader won a dramatic victory in the Netherlands general election. Before the vote, the three other big parties had ruled out taking part in a Wilders-led government.

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People gather at Praia Vermelha Beach during a record heatwave in Rio de Janeiro. Brazil has recorded its hottest ever temperature - 44.8C (112.6F) - as parts of the country endure a stifling heatwave.

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Hindu devotees offer prayers to the Sun God, during the Chhath Puja ritual, in Jalandhar, India.

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Albania's opposition politicians set off smoke flares in parliament in a bid to stop the chamber voting on the 2024 budget. They were protesting against what they said was increasingly authoritarian rule by the governing Socialist Party.

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A woman prepares injera, a sour fermented flatbread - Ethiopia's staple food - in a bakery in Addis Ababa.