This Week in Pictures
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ABC News photo editors chose the best news images of the week for this collection. Saymon Claus, a student of Brazil's school of Santa Claus, has his beard cut during a ritual named "Barbas de Molho" to mark the end of Christmas season in Rio de Janeiro, Dec. 26, 2018.