Moments of the week (8/12-8/18/2019)
By Yan Yiqiao
People's Daily app
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Hundreds of people on Wednesday attend a community memorial service honoring victims of the El Paso mass shooting at Southwest University Park in El Paso, Texas. The community came together to grieve and stand up to the hatred that claimed 22 lives, with attendees holding up their phones with flashlights during the memorial. (Photo: VCG)
Thousands of people participate in the river lantern floating activity beside the bridge along a river on the night before Ghost Festival in Ziyuan County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on Friday. (Photo: VCG)
Young Nepali Hindu priests perform a ritual during the Janai Purnima Festival at the Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Thursday. (Photo: Xinhua)
Violent radicals illegally seize a reporter with Global Times, a Beijing-based newspaper, at Hong Kong International Airport on Tuesday. Two months on, the escalating violence in Hong Kong has taken a heavy toll on the social order. (Photo: Xinhua)
Photo taken on Friday, shows paramotor performance during the 8th Faku Flight International Conference in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province. (Photo: Xinhua)
Bright meteors whiz through the night sky as the annual Perseid meteor shower passed through the Northern Hemisphere on Monday and Tuesday. (Photo: VCG)
Flock of sheep is herded past the Government Building by Farmers for a Peoples Vote, to protest against the impact of a no-Deal Brexit on farming and agriculture, on Thursday in London. (Photo: VCG)
Tens of thousands of hand-woven carpets create a colorful patchwork on the horizon below crooked mountains on Monday. As they are flipped by attendants, the freshly washed carpets ripple in the wind before being laid out to dry in Turkey. (Photo: VCG)
People honor Nanjing Massacre victims during a commemorative activity at the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province, on Thursday. A peace assembly was held Thursday in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, to commemorate the 74th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II. (Photo: Xinhua)
Performers take part in the Rapa'i Geleng dance using a traditional tambourine to celebrate Indonesia's 74th Independence Day in Blang Pidie, Aceh province on Saturday. (Photo: VCG)