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Images from around the world Here is a look at some of the week’s best photographs from around the globe.
Sept. 15, 2012
Military cadets adjust their shoes as they take part in a march on the main streets during the parade commemorating Independence Day in San Salvador. El Salvador gained independence from Spain on Sept. 15, 1821.
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Sept. 15, 2012
Extreme right-wing protesters throw a smoke bomb after lighting flares during a march against austerity measures applied by the Spanish government in Madrid. Tens of thousands of people from all over the country converged earlier on Madrid to hold a large anti-austerity demonstration Saturday. The demonstrations were called to protest government cuts during the country's financial crisis.
Paul White
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AP
Sept. 15, 2012
A resident wades through a flooded street following heavy rains that were spawned by typhoon Sanba in San Juan, Philippines. The rains flooded low-lying areas of metropolitan Manila, forcing the cancellation of classes and the evacuation of hundreds of residents in affected areas.
Bullit Marquez
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AP
Sept. 15, 2012
A Lebanese Catholic covers her head from the sunlight with a Pope Benedict XVI guide during his visit to Bkerke, Lebanon. The pope urged Middle Eastern Christians and Muslims to forge a harmonious, pluralistic society in which the dignity of each person is respected and the right to worship in peace is guaranteed.
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Sept. 15, 2012
An Egyptian man crosses through a cordon of riot police as they clear Tahrir Square in Cairo after days of protests near the U.S. Embassy over a video insulting the prophet Muhammad.
Khalil Hamra
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AP
Sept. 14, 2012
Helen Texeira Silva, 22, center, fiance of late police officer Diego Bruno Barbosa Henriques, cries during his burial as she holds a Brazilian flag at a cemetery in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Barbosa was killed late on Thursday, Sept. 13, while patrolling the Rocinha slum where he worked in the new Peacemaker Police Unit (UPP). He is the third police officer killed in the recently pacified slums.
Victor R. Caivano
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AP
Sept. 14, 2012
Egyptian protesters clash with security forces near the U.S. Embassy in Cairo as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a video ridiculing Islam's prophet Muhammad.
Khalil Hamra
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AP
Sept. 14, 2012
A man jumps into the Kaliganga River as fellow boaters prepare for a traditional race in Manikganj, Bangladesh.
ANDREW BIRAJ
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Reuters
Sept. 13, 2012
Yemeni demonstrators climb the gate of the U.S. Embassy during a protest about a video ridiculing Islam's prophet Muhammad in Sanaa, Yemen.
Hani Mohammed
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AP
Sept. 13, 2012
Riot policemen release a jet of water as they try to arrest a student during a protest against the government to demand changes in the public education in Santiago, Chile. Chilean students have been protesting what they say is profiteering in the state education system.
IVAN ALVARADO
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Reuters
Sept. 13, 2012
A child cools off near a plastic pool as he takes part in a holiday camp for children at Petare in Caracas, Venezuela.
JORGE SILVA
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Reuters
Sept. 13, 2012
An artist gets his neck painted with the word "Censor" during a protest demanding the safety of artist Manish Harijan and his freedom of expression in Kathmandu, Nepal. According to the local media, the protest was organized by Nepalese artists after Harijan received death threats for creating and exhibiting paintings depicting Hindu gods blended into images of Western superheroes like Ghost Rider and Superman. The Siddhartha Art Gallery, where the paintings are being exhibited, has been sealed by the District Administration Office.
NAVESH CHITRAKAR
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Reuters
Sept. 13, 2012
An artist of the French art company Cie Entre Terre et Ciel performs in downtown Bucharest, Romania, during a street theater festival that will last for three days.
Vadim Ghirda
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AP
Sept. 13, 2012
Plumes of smoke rise from the Volcano of Fire near Guatemala City. The volcano is spewing lava and ash, and the director of the national disaster agency says officials are carrying out “a massive evacuation of thousands of people” in five communities.
Moises Castillo
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AP
Sept. 12, 2012
Katherine, Duchess of Cambridge, talks with fans who had waited for her and her husband, Prince William, at Gardens by the Bay during his visit in Singapore. The royal couple was greeted by cheering well-wishers at the beginning of an Asia-Pacific tour in Singapore to mark Queen Elizabeth II's 60-year reign.
Nicolas Asfouri
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AP
Sept. 12, 2012
Labour Party Pvd A leader Diederik Samsom casts his vote for parliamentary elections as his son Fane, 6, left, and daughter Benthe, 11, center rear, look on at a polling station in Leiden, Netherlands.
Peter Dejong
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AP
Sept. 12, 2012
An Islamic Tunisian woman holds the Koran and a poster during a protest at the U.S. embassy in Tunis, as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad.
Hassene Dridi
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AP
Sept. 12, 2012
Supporters of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez carry speakers away from the international airport after they broke in before the start of an opposition campaign event in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. Tensions have sporadically erupted into violent clashes and scuffles between supporters of the two candidates ahead of the Oct. 7 presidential vote.
Ariana Cubillos
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AP
Sept. 12, 2012
A giant screen displays names of victims of a 1989 sporting disaster during a vigil outside St. George's Hall in Liverpool, England, after the disclosure of the independent report into the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster. The secret files were viewed by relatives and campaigners today after the Hillsborough Independent Panel scrutinized more than 400,000 pages of documents and made its findings public. Ninety-six Liverpool fans were crushed to death on overcrowded terraces at Hillsborough soccer stadium during the FA Cup semifinal on April 15, 1989.
Christopher Furlong
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Getty Images
Sept. 12, 2012
A single woman looks at a bachelor's profile as a man poses in a glass box at the French dating site "adopt-a-guy" store in Paris. The boutique, with a short-term lease, opened its doors on Tuesday, promising a high-end shopping experience for women searching for Mr. Right.
Christian Hartmann
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Reuters
Sept. 11, 2012
The mother of one of six teenagers found dead in Mesquita, Brazil, reacts during their funeral in Nilopolis. The youths — between 15 and 19 and missing since Saturday — were found wrapped in sheets naked with signs of torture in Mesquita on Monday, according to police. The youths, who live in Nilopolis in the Baixada Fluminense region, were in Mesquita for a kite festival and went missing after they decided to visit a waterfall near the Chatuba slum, which is dominated by a drug gang.
Ricardo Moraes
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Reuters
Sept. 11, 2012
Homeless people sleep at the Komolapur railway terminal in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
A.M. Ahad
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AP
Sept. 11, 2012
People walk on a road blanketed with stones to block traffic on the outskirts of La Paz, Bolivia. Hundreds of miners are blocking three principal highways leading into Bolivia's capital city, demanding that authorities grant them — rather than a rival group of miners — control over a profitable tin mine.
Juan Karita
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AP
Sept. 11, 2012
Miners march against Andrew Saffy Memorial Hospital discharging injured colleagues into police custody in Lonmin Platinum Mine near Rustenburg, South Africa. Union rivalry is at the root of violent illegal strikes that have been troubling the mining industry that is the engine driving Africa's largest economy.
Themba Hadebe
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AP
Sept. 10, 2012
Alcoa workers protest against their dismissals from employment in downtown Rome after the U.S.-listed aluminium maker decided to close its Sardinian smelter, putting at risk around 1,500 jobs in an area that has one of the highest unemployment rates in Italy.
Alessandro Bianchi
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Reuters
Sept. 10, 2012
A rebel fighter, right, eats while others chat as they wait for transportation to go and fight government forces in Aleppo, Syria.
Muhammed Muheisen
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AP
Sept. 10, 2012
In the southern Negev Desert, a woman watches one of the 96 eagles that were trapped and released by the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel after the birds underwent examination and received a number and a ring.
Tsafrir Abayov
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AP
Sept. 8, 2012
Soldiers from the Free Syrian Army help a severely wounded fighter after he was shot by a Syrian Army sniper in the Izaa district of Aleppo, Syria.
Manu Brabo
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AP
Sept. 9, 2012
A Syrian child, displaced with her family from Aleppo because of shelling by government forces, waves to a relative from a vehicle while crossing the border heading to Turkey, near the Syrian town of Azaz.
Muhammed Muheisen
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AP
Sept. 9, 2012
U.S. Air Force F-15s fly over the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York before the start of the U.S. Open women's singles final between Serena Williams of the United States and Victoria Azarenka of Belarus.
Timothy A. Clary
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AFP/Getty Images
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