Week in pictures: 28 January - 3 February 2023 - BBC News

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Members take part in the morning procession of the fire festival Up Helly Aa 2023 in Lerwick, Scotland. The 142-year-old event, which celebrates Shetland's Norse heritage, is the biggest fire festival in Europe. The event ends with the burning of a Viking boat.

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Paul Nowak, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, is joined by a representative of the Fire Brigades Union and the Ambulance Service, as they hand in a petition against plans for a new law on minimum service levels during strikes, to No 10 Downing Street.

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Horticulturalists make final adjustments to a display based on the Indomitable Lions, the men's and women's football teams of Cameroon, at Kew Gardens' annual Orchid Festival at the Princess of Wales Conservatory, London. The festival runs until 5 March.

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A restorer from Appia Antica archaeological park cleans a life-sized statue of a Roman emperor posing as the classical hero Hercules, after it was discovered during sewer repair works near the old Appian Way, ancient Rome's first highway.

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Douglas Emhoff, husband of US Vice-President Kamala Harris, pauses at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also called the Holocaust Memorial, in Berlin, Germany. In the previous week, leaders and survivors around the world marked Holocaust Memorial Day to honour the six million Jewish people murdered, along with the millions of other people killed, under Nazi persecution.

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Workers install the Heart of the Empire by Niels Moller Lund (1904), on display at the exhibition 'The Big City: London painted on a grand scale' at the Guildhall Art Gallery in London.

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Kateryna Avdeyeva mourns as she holds a portrait of her friend, Oleksandr Korovniy, a Ukrainian serviceman killed in action in Bakhmut, as she attends his funeral ceremony at a cemetery in Sloviansk. This month will mark one year since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine.

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A potter sorts clay flower pots inside a kiln at a factory in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.

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Pope Francis, seated on a wheelchair, waves as he arrives for a meeting with Bishops at the National Episcopal Conference of Congo in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

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A dog has its portrait taken at a pet show in Hong Kong.