Photos of the week: Nov. 12-18

Here are some photos of important stories that happened last week.

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Republican candidate for Governor of Virginia, Corey Stewart, gestures as he speaks at the Virginia Chamber of Commerce Economic Summit at Colonial Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Va., Friday, Dec. 2, 2016. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Breaking ranks with members of his party, outspoken Virginia Republican Corey Stewart has voiced support for Alabama Republican Roy Moore, saying allegations that Moore had sexual contact with a child should not be believed. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Workers work to remove a car from the entrance of a house in the town of Mandra, western Athens, on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017. A major flash flood on Wednesday left at least 16 people dead, turned streets into torrents of mud and debris that swept away cars, collapsed walls and submerged parts of a major highway. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Those buried at Belmont Slave Cemetery were honored with songs, prayers, a wreath and individual tributes of flowers. (WTOP/Liz Anderson)
They lived and died on two neighboring Loudoun County plantations; dozens gathered in Leesburg for an annual remembrance of the lives of the enslaved residents of two sister plantations. (WTOP/Liz Anderson)
First snow of the season covers wooden cottages in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Monday, Nov. 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
The Museum of the Bible opens its doors to the public on Friday, and a diverse set of exhibits await. (WTOP/Jack Pointer)
A woman prays next to a fence outside the Sutherland Springs First Baptist Church, Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017, in Sutherland Springs, Texas, a week after a man opened fire inside the church. Hundreds of people gathered in the tiny town for a Sunday service at a tent erected in a baseball field. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Howard County Police said they're looking for a woman who was caught on surveillance video climbing through a McDonald's drive-thru window in Columbia, Maryland earlier this month, to steal food and cash. (Courtesy Howard County Police Department)
Police in Howard County Maryland say they have arrested the woman seen on surveillance video climbing through a McDonald’s drive-thru window and taking food, drinks and cash. (Courtesy Howard County Police Department)
Children ride swings in a playground engulfed by smog in Lahore, Pakistan, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017. Officials said smog has enveloped much of the country, causing highway accidents and respiratory problems, and forcing many residents to stay home. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
** FILE ** Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.'s headquarters stands Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2004 in Hunt Valley, Md.  (AP Photo/Steve Ruark, File)
Hunt Valley, Maryland-based Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc., working to complete its $3.9 billion acquisition of Tribune Media, says it will invest $12 million in its Hunt Valley headquarters and more than double its Maryland workforce. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark, File)
A woman scatters grains during Bala Chaturdashi festival in the courtyard of Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, Nov. 17, 2017. Bala Chaturdashi is celebrated in memory of departed family members by lighting oil lamps and scattering seven types of grains along a prescribed route. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
A view of the food hall in the "Social." (Courtesy Hilton Hotels)
After a year of converting the first floor of its McLean headquarters, Hilton’s “The Social” features a food hall, co-working spaces, a Starbucks and an outdoor terrace — all of which is open to the public. (Courtesy Hilton Hotels)
Part of an election poster from the 2008 Zanu Pf election campaign is seen the wall of a dilapidated building in the Mbara suburb of Harare, Friday Nov. 17, 2017. State broadcaster ZBC — for decades, a mouthpiece for the Robert Mugabe government — reported on the surging campaign for his ouster and showed video of ruling party members saying he should resign. (AP Photo)
(Courtesy Austin Ensor)
After an hour and 30 minutes, they pulled the fish, which is the size of a large truck tire, onto the boat. Ensor said since he follows fishing-themed Facebook and Instagram accounts from the West Coast, he soon realized they just reeled in a rare catch: a 105-pound opah, or moonfish. (Courtesy Austin Ensor)
People walk next to a destroyed building after an earthquake in the city of Darbandikhan, northern Iraq, Monday, Nov. 13, 2017. A powerful 7.3 magnitude earthquake near the Iraq-Iran border has killed hundreds in both countries. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
FILE — Inova Fairfax Hospital Center in Falls Church, Virginia, is seen in this file photo Tuesday, March 31, 2015. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
A Fairfax County, Virginia, hospital is back to sterilizing its own medical equipment, and said there have been no signs of the sandlike particles on equipment that led to the cancellation of all elective surgeries earlier this week. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
Rohingya Muslim children play with a kite at the Balukhali refugee camp in Ukhiya, Bangladesh, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017. A key U.N. committee overwhelmingly approved a resolution Thursday calling on Myanmar’s authorities to end military operations against Rohingya Muslims, ensure their voluntary return from Bangladesh and grant them “full citizenship rights.” (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)
Lawyers for actress-activist Rose McGowan have filed a motion to have her drug possession charge dropped in Loudoun County District Court. (WTOP/Neal Augenstein)
In a case that’s getting about 10 times the attention of a typical local cocaine possession case — about 10 cameras were set up outside the Loudoun County Courthouse — Vienna defense attorney Jim Hundley told the judge Rose McGowan would bypass her initial court appearance. (WTOP/Neal Augenstein)
Rohingya Muslims aboard a makeshift raft made with plastic containers cross the Naf River from Myanmar into Bangladesh, near Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017. A key U.N. committee overwhelmingly approved a resolution Thursday calling on Myanmar’s authorities to end military operations against Rohingya Muslims, ensure their voluntary return from Bangladesh and grant them “full citizenship rights.” (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)
On Wednesday night, the Library of Congress presented Tony Bennett with the prestigious Gershwin Prize for American Song in a concert at D.A.R. Constitution Hall in Washington D.C.
A woman poses for a selfie photo near the carcass of a humpback whale on Ipanema beach, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017. Biologist Rafael Carvalho said the whale appears to have been dead for a few days. Authorities were urging beachgoers who had flocked to Ipanema during a national holiday to stay away from the decomposing animal. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
Baltimore Police Department Commissioner Kevin Davis speaks at a news conference outside the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017, to announce the death of Det. Sean Suiter. Suiter was shot in the head Wednesday while working in a troubled area of the city grappling with high crime rates. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Bumble the Abominable Snow Monster appears in spectacular, icy fashion, in ICE! at the Gaylord National Resort. (WTOP/Michelle Basch)
Saturday is opening day for the annual holiday ice sculpture spectacular at Gaylord National Resort at National Harbor. The theme of this year’s walk-through attraction called ICE! is the 1964 TV special “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” (WTOP/Michelle Basch)
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Republican candidate for Governor of Virginia, Corey Stewart, gestures as he speaks at the Virginia Chamber of Commerce Economic Summit at Colonial Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Va., Friday, Dec. 2, 2016. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Those buried at Belmont Slave Cemetery were honored with songs, prayers, a wreath and individual tributes of flowers. (WTOP/Liz Anderson)
Howard County Police said they're looking for a woman who was caught on surveillance video climbing through a McDonald's drive-thru window in Columbia, Maryland earlier this month, to steal food and cash. (Courtesy Howard County Police Department)
** FILE ** Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.'s headquarters stands Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2004 in Hunt Valley, Md.  (AP Photo/Steve Ruark, File)
A view of the food hall in the "Social." (Courtesy Hilton Hotels)
(Courtesy Austin Ensor)
FILE — Inova Fairfax Hospital Center in Falls Church, Virginia, is seen in this file photo Tuesday, March 31, 2015. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
Lawyers for actress-activist Rose McGowan have filed a motion to have her drug possession charge dropped in Loudoun County District Court. (WTOP/Neal Augenstein)
Bumble the Abominable Snow Monster appears in spectacular, icy fashion, in ICE! at the Gaylord National Resort. (WTOP/Michelle Basch)

The Associated Press contributed to this gallery.

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