The Week in Photos: From Digging in Jerusalem to Building a Bridge in India

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Author:: Pacific Standard Staff
Updated:: Jan 9, 2018
Original:: May 27, 2017

Indian television repairman Balwinder Pal works at his shop in Amritsar on May 26th, 2017. — Indian television repairman Balwinder Pal works at his shop in Amritsar on May 26th, 2017.
(Photo: Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty Images)

Israel Antiquities Authority and Nature and Parks Authority workers dig in an underground tunnel on May 25th, 2017, unveiling evidence from 2,000 years ago of the battle of Jerusalem following the destruction of the Second Temple. — Israel Antiquities Authority and Nature and Parks Authority workers dig in an underground tunnel on May 25th, 2017, unveiling evidence from 2,000 years ago of the battle of Jerusalem following the destruction of the Second Temple.
(Photo: Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images)

Performers carry a giant graffiti ball during the opening Mass of the Kirchentag (Church Day) festival in Berlin, Germany, celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, on May 24th, 2017. — Performers carry a giant graffiti ball during the opening Mass of the Kirchentag (Church Day) festival in Berlin, Germany, celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, on May 24th, 2017.
(Photo: John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images)

A fruit vendor reads a newspaper as he waits for customers on a street in Islamabad, Pakistan, on May 23rd, 2017. — A fruit vendor reads a newspaper as he waits for customers on a street in Islamabad, Pakistan, on May 23rd, 2017.
(Photo: Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images)

A welder constructs a temporary pontoon bridge over the Ganges River in Allahabad, India, on May 22nd, 2017. — A welder constructs a temporary pontoon bridge over the Ganges River in Allahabad, India, on May 22nd, 2017.
(Photo: Sanjay Kanojia/AFP/Getty Images)

Syrian opposition fighters are stopped at a checkpoint manned by regime forces ahead of their evacuation from the al-Waer neighborhood, the last opposition-held district in the city of Homs, on May 21st, 2017. — Syrian opposition fighters are stopped at a checkpoint manned by regime forces ahead of their evacuation from the al-Waer neighborhood, the last opposition-held district in the city of Homs, on May 21st, 2017.
(Photo: STR/AFP/Getty Images)

A chrysanthemum producer walks in his field as he picks up pots in Ajaccio, on the French Mediterranean Island of Corsica, on October 26th, 2017. Thousands of chrysanthemums are sold on the island as they are placed on graves for All Saints' Day on November 1st.

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An Indian craftsman makes effigies of the Hindu demon king Ravana at a workshop in Amritsar on September 22nd, 2017. Held at the end of the Navratri Festival, Dussehra symbolizes the victory of good over evil in Hindu mythology.

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Young pilgrims wait for the arrival of Pope Francis at the Sanctuary of Fatima on May 12th, 2017, in Fatima, Portugal.

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Local residents and policemen fight a huge fire in the Moravia neighborhood in Medellin on August 18th, 2017. The Moravia sector is known for having been built on a garbage dump and for being the base for late drug lord Pablo Escobar's first political campaign and where he helped to build a football field and to install the electric network.

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Government worker Laurie Ridgley watches as Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney tours the binding facility where President Donald Trump's FY'18 budget books are being produced, at the Government Publishing Office, on May 19th, 2017.

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Waterliner Ludwig Mayerlen walks a 90-meter-long line over the Danube river attached from a tree to Georg Danzer bridge in Vienna, Austria, on June 2nd, 2017.

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