This week in pictures: Trump supporters in Capitol, snow record in Spain, waste islands in Bosnia

This week five people died after a mob broke into the US Capitol building while Congress met to certify Joe Biden’s win.

While in Europe, Spain recorded its coldest ever temperature ever at -35.8°C, floating waste was shown clogging a river in Bosnia, and the EU admitted a sharp rise in illegal sea crossings (with an overall drop in illegal migration).

Here’s how these and other key stories from the week were captured by photographers around the world.

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Ellen Prosser, 100, receives the new Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at a care home in south-east London. January 7, 2021Kirsty O’Connor/AFP
Agung Supriyanto/AFP or licensors
Lava flows from Mount Merapi, Indonesia’s most active volcano. January 7, 2021Agung Supriyanto/AFP or licensors
Kena Betancur/AFP or licensors
Demonstrators hold a banner calling for the impeachment of US President Donald Trump during a protest in Brooklyn, New York, USA. January 7, 2020Kena Betancur/AFP or licensors
Ciro Fusco/AFP
An aerial view shows a sinkhole in the Ospedale del Mare hospital car park after the ground there collapsed. January 8, 2021Ciro Fusco/AFP
Kemal Softic/AP Photo
Migrants cook inside a makeshift shelter at the Lipa camp, outside Bihac, Bosnia. January 8, 2021Kemal Softic/AP Photo
Eldar Emric/AP Photo
Plastic bottles, wooden planks, rusty barrels and other rubbish floats in the Drina River near the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad. January 5, 2021Eldar Emric/AP Photo
Javier Bauluz/AP Photo
Migrants from Morocco walk on a beach after arriving in Gran Canaria, Spain, after crossing the Atlantic Ocean sailing on a wooden boat. January 7, 2021Javier Bauluz/AP Photo
Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo
A woman kisses an icon after an Orthodox Christmas mass in the Holy Trinity church in Iltsi village, Ivano-Frankivsk region in western Ukraine. January 7, 2021Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo
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People walk on the snow-covered Nanzoin Buddhist temple towards the bronze statue of the reclining Buddha in Sasaguri town, Japan. January 8, 2021STR/AFP
January 4, 2021. Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP or licensors
Supporters of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange celebrate outside the court in London after a judge ruled Assange should not be extradited to the US to face espionage chargesJanuary 4, 2021. Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP or licensors
Manu Fernandez/AP Photo
Children throw snowballs as the landscape is covered with snow in Rivas Vaciamadrid, Spain. January 7, 2021Manu Fernandez/AP Photo
Matthias Schrader/AP Photo
People cross a road in a snow-covered landscape in Oberhof, Germany. January 7, 2021Matthias Schrader/AP Photo
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People look at ice sculptures at the Harbin Ice and Snow Festival in Harbin, in northeastern China’s Heilongjiang province. January 5, 2021STR/AFP
Laszlo Balogh/AP Photo
Agnes Keleti, the oldest living Olympic champion, turns 100 in Budapest, Hungary. January 4, 2021Laszlo Balogh/AP Photo
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