The Week in Pictures: July 30 - Aug. 6 - NBC News

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1. People cool off at a water park in Nanjing, in China's Jiangsu province on Aug. 1, 2015. Temperature hit 95 degrees Fahrenheit in Nanjing on Saturday.
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2. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden stands behind reporters as President Barack Obama and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon make statements after their meeting in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 4.
Jonathan Ernst / Reuters





3. Firefighters use a backfire to battle the Rocky fire near Clearlake Oaks, Calif. on Aug. 3. Earlier in the day, wind gusts caused flying embers from a backfire to cross Highway 20 allowing the Rocky fire to spread. Storm systems that deliver lightning but no rain caused havoc across drought-plagued California, officials said. An estimated 12,000 people have been evacuated or warned to be prepared to leave in the residential area west of the largest blaze in northern California.
Noah Berger / EPA





4. People react after an ultra-Orthodox Jew attacked people with a knife during a Gay Pride parade on July 30 in central Jerusalem. Israeli police said several people were stabbed.
Sebastian Scheiner / AP





5. Laborers work on giant bronze statue of former King Rama I at Ratchapakdi Park in Hua Hin, Prachuap Khiri Khan province, Thailand, on Aug. 4. The park is being constructed by the Thai army to honor past Thai monarchs and is situated on an army compound near the Klai Kangwon Palace. The project is estimated to cost about 700 million baht ($20,073,991), according to local media.
Athit Perawongmetha / Reuters





6. A migrant looks out the window of a train heading to the border with Serbia at the train station in Gevgelija on the Macedonian-Greek border on Aug. 4. Many migrants try to cross Macedonia and Serbia to enter the European Union via Hungary, a country that will finish building its anti-migrant fence on its southern border with Serbia by Aug. 31, ahead of a previous November deadline.
Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP - Getty Images





7. A Syrian child injured from a chemical attack, according to her father, waits to reach a train heading to the border with Serbia at the train station in Gevgelija, on the Macedonian-Greek border on Aug. 4.
Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP - Getty Images





8. Michal Navratil of the Czech Republic competes during the men's 27 meter high dive final at the Swimming World Championships in Kazan, Russia, on Aug. 5.
Denis Tyrin / AP





9. Liberal’s Gavin Wehby holds Bee Jays batboy Kaiser Carlile moments after the 9-year-old was accidentally hit in the head during a National Baseball Congress World Series game in Wichita, Kan on Aug. 1. Kaiser, who was wearing a helmet, was struck by a follow-through swing near the on-deck circle. He died on Sunday.
Earl Watt / Times via AP





10. A migrant waits to disembark from a Coast Guard ship in the Sicilian harbour of Messina, Italy on Aug. 4. Around 300 migrants were taken to safety in the Sicilian port of Messina on Tuesday after being rescued at sea near Libya. The migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa had been rescued on Monday after travelling on two dinghies sailing towards Europe.
Antonio Parrinello / Reuters





11. The moon rises over people gathered on Glastonbury Tor on July 31, in Somerset, England. The full moon appearing on July 31 is what is called a Blue Moon, which refers to the second of two full moons appearing in the same calendar month. The last time this happened was in 2012 and another one isn't due until 2018.
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