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Here's a selection of the most amazing images captured around the world in the past seven days. Enjoy!

France is to name a new prime minister “in the coming hours," the country's presidency said Friday, shortly after announcing Edouard Philippe's resignation amid an expected reshuffle.

An armed man crashed his truck through a gate on the grounds where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lives Thursday before being arrested two hours later. Police identified the suspect as a member of Canada's armed forces.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un urged officials to maintain alertness against the coronavirus, warning that complacency risked “unimaginable and irretrievable crisis,” state media said Friday.

The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran sought to downplay the fire, calling it an “incident."

There is a Russian clandestine military intelligence unit known as the 29155, and it is believed to behind a string of scandals – most recently, a reported scheme to pay bounties to Afghan insurgents to kill U.S. troops.

The death toll from a shooting attack on a drug rehabilitation center in Mexico has risen to 26, officials confirmed Thursday, making it the deadliest such attack in a decade.

A British judge refused to hand over nearly $1 billion in gold to Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro Thursday, citing that the United Kingdom does not recognize him as the legitimate president of the country.

European police delivered a major blow to organized crime after cracking an encrypted communications network, allowing them to covertly watch "over the shoulder” of criminals in real time as they planned drug trafficking, arms sales, assassinations and torture, officers announced Thursday.

Four men who were sentenced to life in prison for the death of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl but then were later exonerated, will remain in prison for three more months, officials said Thursday.

A hillside of rock and debris slides down a hill into a crater, triggering a massive wave on a lake in shocking footage that shows the deadly landslide in Myanmar that struck a jade mine. 

A runaway horse in Ireland was rescued earlier this week after bolting over a mile into the Atlantic Ocean, according to officials. 

This was anything but paradise.

New Zealand’s embattled health minister — who was twice discovered violating coronavirus lockdown rules — has resigned after previously calling himself an “idiot” for showing poor judgment, according to reports.

An official logo for Finland’s Air Force that prominently featured a swastika is no more. 

An “incident” damaged an under-construction building Thursday near Iran's underground Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, though it did not affect its centrifuge operations or cause any release of radiation, a spokesman said.

Rescue workers say at least 113 people have been killed in a landslide at a jade mining site in northern Myanmar. The Ministry of Information cited the local fire service when giving the death toll at the site of the landslide in Hpakant in Kachin state.

Iran sentenced a once-exiled journalist to death over his online work that helped inspire nationwide economic protests that began at the end of 2017, authorities said Tuesday.

Gunmen burst into an unregistered drug rehabilitation center in central Mexico and opened fire Wednesday, killing 24 people and wounding seven, authorities said.

Nothing was about to keep Juan Manuel Ballestero from his family.