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September 4, 2025, Ceska Skalice, Czech Republic: Hot air balloons take off on a sunny evening from Ceska Skalice (near Hradec Kralove city). Hradec Kralove hosted a spectacular launch of eighty-one hot-air balloons during this year’s largest European gathering of its kind. The simultaneous lift-off from one location established a Czech record for the highest number of balloons taking off at the same time. The festival continues until Sunday, 7 September 2025, with participants from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the Netherlands, Germany and Hungary.

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September 5, 2025, Merritt Island, Florida, USA: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 28 Starlink satellites lifts off from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 8:32 a.m. EDT on Sep. 5, 2025. The reusable first-stage booster supporting this mission marked the company’s 500th successful Falcon booster landing to date.

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September 2, 2025, Tokyo, Japan: Waleed Siam Ambassador of Palestine to Japan speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan (FCCJ) in downtown Tokyo. Ambassador Siam called on Japan and the international community to recognize Gaza’s suffering and support the pursuit of an independent Palestinian state.

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ISRAEL BLOWS UP A GAZA HIGH-RISE • CHINA’S MILITARY PARADE TAUNTS TRUMP • FASHION AND POLITICS AT THE VENICE FILM FESTIVAL

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 36, showcasing images from August 30-September 5, 2025 “The best two minutes you’ll spend on the internet today!”

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ZUMA PHOTOGRAPHERS Featured:
Ruben Albarran, Maria Laura Antonelli, Omar Ashtawy, Luca Barsali, Dicky Bisinglasi, Sergei Bobylev, Peter Byrne, Mickael Chavet, Simone Comi, Dubreuil Corinne, Mark Cosgrove, Marco Destefanis, Sue Dorfman,Alessandro Garofalo, Bob Karp, Igor Kupljenik, Patrick Pleul, Dimas Rachmatsyah, Boris Roessler, Javier Rojas, Hendrik Schmidt, Thomas Warnack, Huang Zongzhi

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September 4, 2025, Nove Mesto Nad Metuji, Czech Republic: Hot air balloons take off on a sunny morning from the airport in Nove Mesto nad Metuji (near Hradec Kralove city). Hradec Kralove hosted a spectacular launch of eighty-one hot-air balloons during this year’s largest European gathering of its kind. The simultaneous lift-off from one location established a Czech record for the highest number of balloons taking off at the same time. The festival continues until Sunday, 7 September 2025, with participants from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the Netherlands, Germany and Hungary. (Credit Image: © Slavek Ruta/ZUMA Press Wire)

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June 25, 2025, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: Buildings and Scenes and Symbols Around Harvard University. (Credit Image: © Kenneth Martin/ZUMA Press Wire)

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August 30, 2025, Leominster, Ma, USA: Harvard University and Harvard Square buildings and scenes as students return to the area. (Credit Image: © Kenneth Martin/ZUMA Press Wire)

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November 6, 2019, Houston, Texas, USA: As officials watch, a woman who goes by the name Harvest removes her belongings during the third day of a state-sanctioned homeless camping crackdown in Texas’ capital city. On orders from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, highway crews are clearing 17 identified homeless camps on major highways. (Credit Image: © Bob Daemmrich/ZUMA Wire)

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December 28, 2024, Tampa, Florida, USA: Homeless men and women gather under an interstate bridge in downtown Tampa where volunteers and ministries distribute food and clothing items every Saturday. The United States saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year, a dramatic rise driven mostly by a lack of affordable housing as well as devastating natural disasters and a surge of migrants in several parts of the country, federal officials said Friday..That increase comes on top of a 12% increase in 2023, which HUD blamed on soaring rents and the end of pandemic assistance. The 2023 increase also was driven by people experiencing homelessness for the first time. The numbers overall represent 23 of every 10,000 people in the U.S., with Black people being over represented among the homeless population. (Credit Image: © Robin Rayne/ZUMA Press Wire)

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August 26, 2025, Tel Aviv, Israel: Hundreds of thousands joined the hostages’ families tonight, calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the release of the captives. The mother of two hostages declared: “Enough — I won’t give up.”

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