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Images from around the world Take a look at some of the week’s best photographs from around the globe.
Oct. 20, 2012
Re-enactors shoot during the 199th anniversary reconstruction of the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig, Germany. More than 1,000 members of military history associations from all over Europe took part. The Battle of the Nations, on Oct. 16–19, 1813, was fought by the coalition armies of Russia, Prussia, Austria and Sweden against the French army of Napoleon. The battle involved more than 600,000 soldiers, making it the largest battle in Europe prior to World War I. After the battle, Napoleon had to retreat to France, the beginning of his downfall.
Jens Meyer
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AP
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Oct. 20, 2012
Free Syrian Army fighters run through a hole in a wall to escape a government sniper in Aleppo.
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Reuters
Oct. 20, 2012
Chinese customers walk on the spiral staircase of a newly opened Apple Store in the Wangfujing shopping district of Beijing. It was Apple Computer's fifth store in mainland China and the largest in Asia.
Andy Wong
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AP
Oct. 20, 2012
People release sky lanterns under a snowfall as they take part in a flash mob in Krasnoyarsk in Siberia.
ILYA NAYMUSHIN
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Reuters
Oct. 19, 2012
A Lebanese man carries an injured boy at the scene of an explosion in Beirut. A car bomb ripped through an eastern part of the city Friday, shearing the balconies off residential buildings and sending bloodied victims pouring out into the streets in the most serious blast this city has seen in years.
Hussein Malla
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AP
Oct. 19, 2012
Pakistani students, who were displaced with their families from Pakistan's tribal areas due to fighting between militants and the army, sing a song with their teacher during their daily schooling in Islamabad. A teenage activist who was recently shot and critically wounded by the Taliban risked her life to attend school, but the threat from the militant group is just one of many obstacles Pakistani girls face in getting an education. Others include rampant poverty, harassment and the government's failure to prioritize education spending. Both sexes have suffered from the lack of funding, but girls, who have lower rates of literacy and school attendance, are in a particularly perilous position.
Nathalie Bardou
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AP
Oct. 19, 2012
Indian Formula One Grid Girls prepare for a photocall during a promotional event ahead of the Indian Formula One Grand Prix, in New Delhi.
Altaf Qadri
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AP
Oct. 19, 2012
Mexican soldiers are backlit against sunlight after a gas pipeline explosion in the town of Zapotlanejo. A leaking gas pipeline exploded in western Mexico, forcing the evacuation of 2,000 people and injuring at least three, as crews battled Friday to put out the blaze. The fire broke out Thursday evening in Zapotlanejo near a highway and forced authorities to close the road, said Trinidad Lopez Rivas, head of the emergency services department in Jalisco state.
HECTOR GUERRERO
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AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 19, 2012
Indian wrestler Biniya, left, fights with Pakistan wrestler Bilal Hussain during an annual traditional wrestling championship at Mathwar Village in Akhnoor, India.
STRDEL
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AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 18, 2012
Celebrants in Lima, Peru, carry an image of the "Lord of Miracles," the patron saint of Lima, under a shower of rose petals.
Rodrigo Abd
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AP
Oct. 18, 2012
Birds fly over the covered photograph of an assassinated member of the Patriotic Union political party, which was launched by Colombia's Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) in the 1908's, during an event in Bogata. The event honored victims of the nation's armed conflict. Leaders of the political party were systematically gunned down by right-wing death squads linked to the Colombian military. Colombian government and rebel negotiators on Thursday formally launched peace talks aimed at ending the South American nation's complex, nearly half-century-old conflict.
William Fernando Martinez
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AP
Oct. 18, 2012
Riot police clash with protesters during the 24-hour nationwide general strike in Athens. Hundreds of youths pelted riot police with gasoline bombs, bottles and chunks of marble Thursday as yet another Greek anti-austerity demonstration descended into violence.
Kostas Tsironis
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AP
Oct. 18, 2012
A man photographs a woman standing behind an art piece called "VIEW," created by Dave Mercers, during the world's largest annual free-to-the-public outdoor art exhibition, "Sculptures by the Sea" in Sydney.
Rob Griffith
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AP
Oct. 17, 2012
A potential Indian Army recruit has his chest measured during a physical fitness test at an Army recruitment rally at the city of Kapurthala. The Indian Army is a voluntary service and the world’s largest standing volunteer army, with more than a million active personnel and just under a million in reserve.
SAHMMI MEHRA
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AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 17, 2012
Monaco’s Prince Albert II, left, Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski, center, and Princess Charlene of Monaco attend an official dinner in the presidential palace in Warsaw.
JANEK SKARZYNSKI
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AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 17, 2012
People look on as Uruguayan senators debate a bill in Montevideo to legalize abortion. Senators voted 17 to 14 in favor of a bill to legalize abortions in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, a rare move in largely Catholic Latin America that underscores the country’s liberal leanings.
ANDRES STAPFF
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Reuters
Oct. 17, 2012
A man dries handmade paper in Chunikhel, Nepal.
Niranjan Shrestha
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AP
Oct. 17, 2012
A young Brazilian drug addict cries as he is escorted by a social assistant during an operation to clear out the city’s crack addicts in the surroundings of Parque Uniao shantytown in Rio de Janeiro.
CHRISTOPHE SIMON
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AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 16, 2012
Workers hang a portrait of former King Norodom Sihanouk on the facade of the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, as part of preparations for his funeral. Sihanouk died Monday at age 89 of a heart attack in Beijing, where he had been receiving medical treatment since January for multiple ailments. Officials expect at least 100,000 people to line the route from the Phnom Penh airport, where his body is expected to arrive Wednesday, to the Royal Palace, where it will lay in state during a week of official mourning.
Wong Maye-E
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AP
Oct. 16, 2012
Hindu devotees offer prayers while taking a holy dip in the Ganges River on the first day of Navratri festival in Allahabad, India. Feasting and fasting takes over normal life for millions of Hindus during Navratri, the festival of nine nights.
Rajesh Kumar Singh
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AP
Oct. 16, 2012
Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik gives final touches on a sand sculpture in honor of Pakistani girl Malala Yousufzai at Puri beach, about 40 miles from Bhubaneswar, India. In an attack which outraged the world, Yousufzai was shot on a school bus in the former Taliban stronghold of the Swat valley on Oct. 9 as a punishment for campaigning for the right to an education.
STRDEL
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AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 16, 2012
Romania's supporters cheer before their team's World Cup Group D qualifying soccer match against the Netherlands at the National Arena in Bucharest, Romania.
Vadim Ghirda
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AP
Oct. 15, 2012
Japanese fish dealer Norio Sato, 65, casts a net to capture sweetfish, or “ayu,” in the Nakagawa River in Shirosato, north of Tokyo. Fishing season for sweetfish varies in the different regions of the country. The Nakagawa River was open to anglers for four months beginning July 10. Casting-net fishing is permitted only to certain people from local fisheries cooperatives.
Kimimasa Mayama
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European Pressphoto Agency
Oct. 15, 2012
Children learn to wash their hands with soap at a school in Johannesburg. Celebrated in over 100 countries, Global Handwashing Day is aimed at putting a spotlight on washing with soap as a lifesaving habit.
Greg Marinovich
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Getty Images for Unilever
Oct. 15, 2012
A Pakistani student holds a picture of 14-year-old schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai during a tribute at the Pakistani Embassy in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The teenage Pakistani activist -- shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting the education of girls -- arrived in Britain on Monday to receive specialized medical care and protection from follow-up attacks threatened by the militants.
Kamran Jebreili
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AP
Oct. 14, 2012
Policemen take up position at the Jacarezinho slum during a peacekeeping operation in Rio de Janeiro. The introduction of the peacekeeping program in the region is part of efforts to crack down on crime and increase security as the city prepares to host the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games.
Sergio Moraes
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Reuters
Oct. 14, 2012
Palestinian mourners gather around the body of Salafi militant Hisham Saidani during his funeral in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip. Saidani, a member of a faction of the ultraconservative Salafi trend believed to have ties to al-Qaeda, was one of two people killed in an Israeli airstrike on Saturday. Saidani is suspected of carrying out attacks against Israeli and Egyptian targets.
Hatem Moussa
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AP
Oct. 14, 2012
Devotees pray for Malala Yousufzai, who was shot on Oct. 9 by the Taliban, at a Sunday service at the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Lahore. Yousufzai, 14, was transferred on Oct. 11 from a hospital in a province that is a militant haven to a specialist hospital in the army garrison town of Rawalpindi.
Mohsin Raza
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Reuters
Oct. 14, 2012
A participant gets ready for the Miss Nepal Pink Pageant on the closing day of the South Asia Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Sports Festival in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Niranjan Shrestha
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AP
Oct. 14, 2012
Participants of the 26th Gamsbart Olympics show off their hats in front of the Karwendel Mountains in Bavaria, Germany. The Gamsbart is a tuft of hair traditionally worn as a decoration on trachten hats in the alpine regions of Austria and Bavaria. The Gamsbart originally was a hunting trophy made from the hair off the lower neck of a goat antelope.
Frank Leonhardt
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EPA
Oct. 14, 2012
Fireworks are seen as the Esimit Europa 2 crosses the finish line to win the 44th Barcolana Sail Race in the Gulf of Trieste, Italy. The annual race is the biggest sailing event in Europe and the only regatta in the world to set a single start line for so many yachts.
Andrea Lasorte
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EPA
Oct. 14, 2012
A bird of prey glides through the sky at sunrise in Bilbao, Spain, while the rain threatens from the distance.
Alfredo Aldai
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EPA
Oct. 14, 2012
A mentally ill Indonesian man identified as Goro is confined to a wooden stock at his family residence in Trenggalek, East Java, Indonesia. Thousands of Indonesians with mental health issues are spending their lives in shackles or chains due to the lack of psychiatric services for the poor.
Trisnadi
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AP
Oct. 14, 2012
Sri Lankan youths play at dusk in the seafront in Mirissa, about 90 miles south of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Eranga Jayawardena
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AP
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