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January 28, 2026, Washington Dc, Virginia, USA: Activists light candles and hold signs as they take part in a vigil for Alex Pretti outside of the US Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, DC, USA, on January 28, 2026. Pretti, an intensive care nurse for the Department of Veterans Affairs, was killed on January 24, 2026, by federal agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Nationwide protests continue after federal immigration operations in Minneapolis resulted in the fatal shootings of two US citizens, Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti. (Credit Image: © Gent Shkullaku/ZUMA Press Wire)

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September 10, 2025, Orem, Utah, USA: A man is arrested after right-wing pundit Charlie Kirk, the CEO and co-founder of the conservative youth organization Turning Point USA, who was shot and killed Wednesday during an event at Utah Valley University. According to Police the man arrested was not the shooter who is still at large. (Credit Image: © Charles McClintock Wilson/ZUMA Press Wire)

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Images of the terror and conflict between U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and protesters captured by ZUMA photojournalist Dave Decker in January 2026 document the activity in Minneapolis, Minnesota and are featured in the Weekend Financial Times. In the immediate wake of reports citing two ICE involved fatalities on the streets of Minneapolis citizens have taken to the streets in protest. (Credit Images: © Dave Decker/ZUMA Press Wire)

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• ICE ORDERED TO EASE TACTICS • WINTER STORMS CAUSE WORLDWIDE HAVOC • ATHLETES PREPARE FOR WINTER OLYMPICS •

Scott Mc Kiernan presents “The Pictures Of the Week” highlighting the best images from around the world by ZUMA Press contributors, curated by ZUMA Editor-at-large Jim Colton.

Enjoy thepicturesoftheweek.com, showcasing images from January 24-30, 2026 “The best two minutes you’ll spend on the internet today!”

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ZUMA PHOTOGRAPHERS Featured:
Jane Barlow, Jordi Boixareu, Guerin Charles, Zhang Chen, David Davies, Dave Decker, Blondet Eliot, Umar Farooq, Elizabeth Flores, Florian Gaertner, Sebastian Gollnow, Alex Halloway, Matthias Hauer, Muhammad Iqbal, Hu Jingchen, Amy Katz, Ye Myo Khant, Robin Loznak, Mathias Mandl, Neil McCartney, Moiz Salhi, Holden Smith, Yuri Smityuk, Richard Tsong-Taatarii, John Walton, Georg Wendt,Jan Woitas

January 27, 2026, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: COCO GAUFF of USA during the match against E. Svitolina of Ukraine in the quarterfinal of Australian Open. Svitolina won 6:1, 6:2. (Credit Image: © Marcin Cholewinski/ZUMA Press Wire)

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January 26, 2026, Washington, District Of Columbia, United States: A homeless person rests on a warm air vent to stay warm following a heavy winter storm near the Washington Monument in Washington, DC. A massive winter storm sweeping across large parts of the United States has brought frigid temperatures, ice and heavy snowfall, leaving at least 10 people dead nationwide and causing widespread power outages affecting hundreds of thousands. (Credit Image: © Mehmet Eser/ZUMA Press Wire)

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January 22, 2026: Brussels, Belgium: Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen arrives for an informal meeting of the members of the European Council. EU leaders are holding an emergency informal summit to address an escalation in transatlantic tensions related to Greenland and new U.S. trade threats. (Credit Image: © Wiktor Dabkowski/ZUMA Press Wire)

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LEFT: May 12, 1945 – Hiroshima, Japan – Ground Zero, Hiroshima the after the A-Bomb. Nuclear weapons have been delivered only twice in the history of warfare, both in the ending days of World War II; the first bombing was on the morning of August 6th 1945, when the United States dropped a uranium gun-type device code-named ‘Little Boy’ on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, and the last nuclear bombing occurred three days later; the second bomb was a plutonium implosion-type device code named ‘Fat Man’ dropped on the city of Nagasaki killing 120,000 civilians and twice that over time died of nuclear diseases. (Credit Image: © Keystone Press Agency/ZUMA Press Wire)

RIGHT: August 1, 1945, Paris, France: August 1945 damage from the atomic bombing of the Japanese City of Nagasaki at the end of world war two (Credit Image: © PHOTO12 via ZUMA Press)

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TOP LEFT: Cortina D’ampezzo, Italy: Milan, The final press conference of the Milan Hockey Finals of the Italian Cup and Serie A at the Santa Giulia Arena for the Test Events of the XXV Winter Olympic Games Milan Cortina 2026. In the photo: An external view of the arena (Credit Image: © Alessandro Bremec/IPA via ZUMA Press)

FIRST HEADSHOT INSERT: Cortina D’ampezzo, Italy: Milan, The final press conference of the Milan Hockey Finals of the Coppa Italia and Serie A at the Arena Santa Giulia for the Test Event of the XXV Olympic Winter Games Milan Cortina 2026. In the photo: Luc Tardif (President of the International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF) (Credit Image: © Alessandro Bremec/IPA via ZUMA Press)

SECOND HEADSHOT INSERT: Cortina D’ampezzo, Italy: Milan, The final press conference of the Milan Hockey Finals of the Coppa Italia and Serie A at the Arena Santa Giulia for the Test Events of the XXV Olympic Winter Games Milan Cortina 2026. In the photo: Christophe Dubi (Olympic Games Executive Director) (Credit Image: © Alessandro Bremec/IPA via ZUMA Press)

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