Week in pictures: 27 January - 2 February 2024 - BBC News

A selection of striking images from around the world, taken over the past seven days.

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Image source, Agustin Marcarian / ReutersImage caption, Police clash with protesters in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, as lawmakers discuss a controversial bill proposed by newly elected president Javier Milei. The "omnibus reform bill" contains hundreds of articles which - if passed - will usher in sweeping free-market reforms.Image source, Lee Smith / ReutersImage caption, Reverend Rob Kelsey marks the start of the salmon season with the annual Blessing of the Salmon service at Pedwell Landings in Norham, Northumberland, England.Image source, Valentyn Ogirenko / ReutersImage caption, Ukrainian border guard and former prisoner of war Alina Panina embraces her service dog Roksi in the town of Novovolynsk, Ukraine.Image source, Leonhard Foeger / ReutersImage caption, A worker adjusts Austrian painter Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Fraulein Lieser, at the Kinsky auction house in Vienna. The painting was last seen in public in 1925, and will be put up for auction on 24 April.Image source, Erwin Mascarinas / AFPImage caption, Residents push a makeshift raft loaded with a motorcycle through floodwaters brought about by heavy rain, in Prosperidad, Agusan del Sur, in the Philippines.Image source, Andrew Milligan / PA WireImage caption, Up Helly Aa - the biggest fire festival in Europe - saw people celebrate their Norse heritage, as a replica Viking galley is set alight as part of a spectacular annual event in Lerwick, Shetland. It was only last year that women and girls took part in the torchlit procession for the first time in its 142-year historyImage source, Guglielmo Mangiapane / ReutersImage caption, Pope Francis meets students of La Rochefoucauld College during his weekly general audience, in Paul VI hall at the VaticanImage source, Jon Nazca / ReutersImage caption, A flock of sheep cross an old bridge which was revealed by the low waters of the Guadalteba reservoir during a period of drought in Campillos, near Malaga, southern Spain.Image source, Carl De Souza / AFPImage caption, Every new year, Purepecha's Indigenous people - from different regions of Michoacan State in Mexico -celebrate the Fuego Nuevo Purepecha (Purepecha's New Fire), a fire-lighting ceremony.Image source, Steve Taylor/SOPA Images/REX/ShutterstockImage caption, Horticulturalists put the finishing touches to the Orchid Festival display at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in west London. This year's festival celebrates the biodiversity of Madagascar, with colourful orchids and hundreds of other tropical plants arranged in hand-crafted horticultural displays.All photos subject to copyright

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