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Images from around the world Take a look at some of the week’s best photographs from around the globe.
Nov. 17, 2012
A man looks at a wall painting created by graffiti artists to welcome President Obama on a street in Rangoon, Burma. Obama will visit the country, renamed by its ruling military leaders as Myanmar, on Monday, a first for a sitting U.S. president. White House officials on Nov. 15 said he will use his visit "to lock down progress and to push on areas where progress is urgently needed" — most notably freeing political prisoners and ending ethnic tensions in the western state of Rakhine and the northern state of Kachin.
Khin Maung Win
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AP
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Nov. 17, 2012
Voters wait in line to cast their ballots in presidential, parliamentary and local elections at a polling station in Freetown, Sierra Leone. A decade after Sierra Leone's brutal civil war, voters on Saturday chose between an incumbent president who has provided new roads and free health care and a field of opposition candidates who decry the poverty and pace of economic recovery.
Rebecca Blackwell
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AP
Nov. 17, 2012
Job seekers attend a job fair with more than 600 employers providing over 20,000 jobs in Nanjing, China.
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AP
Nov. 17, 2012
Palestinian mourners bury the body of Hamas militant Shadi al-Sheir during his funeral in Maghazi refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. Israeli strikes on Gaza killed at least eight Palestinians and destroyed the Hamas government headquarters as Israel called up thousands more reservists for a possible ground war.
MAHMUD HAMS
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AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 17, 2012
Children stand in front of a locomotive train which collided with a school bus rnear Manfalat, Egypt. According to media reports on 17 November, at least 49 people including including 44 children were killed during the accident. There were about 60 pupils aged between 4 and 12 on the bus when it was hit by a train at a level-crossing in the province of Assiut. ransport Minister Rashad al-Mateeni and the chief of the state-run rail authority, Mustafa Qenawi, resigned following the accident.
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Nov. 17, 2012
An activist of the Hindu nationalist party Shiv Sena removes the party flag from the headquarters after the news of the death of party leader Bal Thackeray in Mumbai, India. Thackeray, the extremist leader linked to waves of mob violence against Muslims and migrant workers in India, died Saturday after an illness of several weeks. He was 86.
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AP
Nov. 17, 2012
A bride and a groom protest in Paris against French President Francois Hollande's plan to legalize marriage and adoption for gay people. The event entitled "march for everyone" attracted several thousand people in cities such as Lyon, Marseille and Paris.
Thibault Camus
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AP
Nov. 16, 2012
People hang from an overcrowded train at a railway station in New Delhi as they try to travel home for the Chhath Puja festival. Migrant workers from Bihar, one of India's poorer states, are traveling home in large numbers for Chhath, one of the most significant festivals in the region.
Kevin Frayer
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Associated Press
Nov. 16, 2012
An Israeli soldier fires a tear gas canister toward Palestinian stone throwers in the West Bank village of Beit Omar. Thousands of angry Palestinians rallied across the West Bank, urging Hamas militants to "bomb Tel Aviv" as Israel pursued a relentless air campaign on the Gaza Strip.
HAZEM BADER
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Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Nov. 16, 2012
An Afghan man poses for a picture amid a flock of pigeons outside a mosque in Kabul.
ADNAN ABIDI
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Reuters
Nov. 16, 2012
A member of the Coordinadora-Espana organization wears a mask of Spain's prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, and holds scissors and a rope during a performance to protest the government's cuts ahead of the XXII Ibero-American Summit of Head of States and Governments in Cadiz, Spain.
LLUIS GENE
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Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Nov. 16, 2012
Ayesha, 15, works on a carpet at her home in Jowzjan, Afghanistan. The young weaver has made a carpet with an image of Barack Obama and wants to meet the American president and give him the carpet with her own hands. She has woven her cellphone number into the carpet in the hope that if the reelected president should see the picture, he will call and talk to her.
QAIS USYAN
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Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Nov. 15, 2012
Opposition candidate Julius Maada Bio waves to supporters as his campaign convoy drives through the Kissy neighborhood in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Ten years after the end of a devastating civil war, Sierra Leone voters will go to the polls on Sunday to choose between candidates including Bio and the incumbent president, Ernest Bai Koroma.
Rebecca Blackwell
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Associated Press
Nov. 15, 2012
A bus driver smokes inside a bus as a screen, reflected on a window, shows a live broadcast of China's new Communist Party general secretary, Xi Jinping, speaking during a news event to introduce the newly elected members of the Politburo Standing Committee in Beijing. The seven-member Standing Committee, the inner circle of Chinese political power, was paraded in front of assembled media on the first day after the end of the 18th Communist Party Congress.
Andy Wong
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Associated Press
Nov. 15, 2012
Soldiers from the Royal Regiment of Scotland stand behind the hearse carrying the coffin of Capt. Walter Reid Barrie from the Royal Scots Borderers on the repatriation of his body from Afghanistan to RAF Brize Norton air base in England. The British Ministry of Defense reports that Barrie was shot and killed in an "insider attack" at Forward Operating Base Shawqat in the Nad-e Ali district of Helmand province on Nov. 11.
Richard Watt/British Ministry of Defense
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Nov. 15, 2012
Israelis take cover in a large concrete pipe used as a bomb shelter in Kiryat Malachi, Israel, after a rocket was launched from the Gaza Strip. The rocket attack happened about 24 hours after the Israel Defense Forces targeted nearly 200 sites in the Gaza Strip, killing Ahmed Jabari, a top military commander of Hamas, in the process.
Uriel Sinai
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Getty Images
Nov. 15, 2012
Towns and villages emit light visible through a layer of cloud covering the Lake Geneva region in western Switzerland.
David Azia
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Associated Press
Nov. 14, 2012
Thousands of people from France and Belgium stage an anti-austerity demonstration in Lille, France. Trade unions led nationwide strikes and anti-austerity rallies across Europe.
Philippe Huguen
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Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Nov. 14, 2012
Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi scatters rose petals at the memorial of India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, in New Delhi. Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is on a six-day visit to India.
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Reuters
Nov. 14, 2012
Palestinian men throng a Gaza City hospital where the body of Ahmed Jabari, the head of Hamas's military wing, was brought. The Israeli military said its assassination of the Hamas commander marks the beginning of an operation against Gaza militants.
Hatem Moussa
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Associated Press
Nov. 14, 2012
Chinese President Hu Jintao, left, and former president Jiang Zemin attend the closing session of the Communist Party congress. Hu will step down as president in March.
Lintao Zhang
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Getty Images
Nov. 14, 2012
German soldiers take part in a welcome ceremony at the Chancellery in Berlin. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is hosting Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk for talks expected to focus on the forthcoming European Union summit on the bloc's seven-year budget.
Odd Andersen
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Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Nov. 14, 2012
A warped house, inspired by drawings of Polish illustrator Jan Szancer, on the main street in Sopot, Poland.
Janek Skarzynski
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Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Nov. 13, 2012
Couples take part in a mass wedding ceremony in Kyrgyzstan's capital of Bishkek. Thirty-five couples took part in the mass wedding sponsored by a state company.
Vyacheslav Oseledko
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Agence France -Presse/Getty Images
Nov. 13, 2012
Pakistani policemen present suspected militants to the media in Karachi. Police in Karachi have arrested four suspected militants they said were planning a wave of sectarian attacks in the city following a bloody three days in which about 40 people were killed. Pakistan's largest city is in the grip of political and sectarian violence between majority Sunni Muslims and minority Shiites, and the arrests come just days before the start of the holy month of Muharram.
Asif Hassan
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Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Nov. 13, 2012
A young girl covers her face as she and other relatives wait at a Nairobi mortuary where the bodies of slain police officers were taken. Armed cattle rustlers believed to have come from the Turkana tribe had stolen livestock from a neighboring community in Kenya's remote northern county of Samburu and killed more than 40 police officers who were pursuing them, according to the local media. More than 100 officers were ambushed by the cattle rustlers while trying to recover the stolen livestock on Nov. 10. It was the deadliest attack on the police in the country since iKenya's independence in 1963.
Dai Kurokawa
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 13, 2012
Smoke rises after a Syrian aircraft bombed the strategic border town of Ras al-Ain, Turkey.
Bulent Kilic
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Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Nov. 13, 2012
Pakistani Hindu revelers in Karachi wave sparklers on the occasion of Diwali, the festival of lights. One of the biggest Hindu festivals, it is celebrated with jubilation. People decorate their homes with flowers and earthen lamps to commemorate the homecoming of the god Ram after he vanquished the demon king Ravana.
Asif Hassan
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Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Nov. 13, 2012
Parachutists from the People's Liberation Army perform during the 9th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai. China's air show comes as the Communist Party holds a meeting to select the country's new leaders, including the party's Central Military Commission, which controls the armed forces.
Philippe Lopez
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Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Nov. 13, 2012
Officers of China's People's Liberation Army watch planes performing during the 9th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai.
Philippe Lopez
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Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Nov. 13, 2012
The "diamond ring" effect is visible following totality of a solar eclipse at Palm Cove, Australia. Eclipse-hunters flocked to tropical north Queensland to watch Australia's first total solar eclipse in a decade. The moon’s shadow path on the Australian mainland lasted for a maximum of 2 minutes and 5 seconds.
Greg Wood
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Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Nov. 13, 2012
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton casts a vivid shadow as she speaks at the University of Western Australia.
Matt Rourke
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Associated Press
Nov. 12, 2012
Flag-waving supporters of the Ukrainian opposition are reflected in a fountain during a rally in Kiev, Ukraine. Opposition supporters gathered near the Central Election Committee building to protest the alleged fraud in recent parliamentary elections and called on their jailed leader Yulia Tymoshenko to stop her hunger strike.
Sergey Dolzhenko
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 12, 2012
An Indian man dressed as the monkey god Hanuman prepares for a religious procession ahead of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, in Allahabad, India. Diwali, or Deepavali, was celebrated on Nov. 13.
Rajesh Kumar Singh
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Associated Press
Nov. 12, 2012
Indian girls hold earthen lamps on the occasion of Dhanteras, ahead of the Diwali festival in Bhopal, India. The word “dhan” means wealth, and the day before the Diwali festival has great importance for the Hindu community in western and central India. Dhanteras is also the first day of the five-day Diwali festival as celebrated in parts of northern India.
Sanjeev Gupta
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 12, 2012
A man rides his bicycle alongside a large crevasse on a badly damaged road in the village of KhuLe in Burma. A strong earthquake rocked the central region; at least 13 people are feared dead and dozens more injured.The 6.8-magnitude quake struck some 75 miles north of the second-largest city, Mandalay.
Nyein Chan Naing
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 12, 2012
A monk tries to salvage a statue of Buddha from a damaged building at a village in Sintgu township in central Burma. Rescuers struggled to help villagers hit by an earthquake that aid agencies said killed at least 13, injured dozens and caused a bridge and mine to collapse.
Soe Than Win
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Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Nov. 12, 2012
A carpenter works on a coffin at the Cite Soleil neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The United Nations made a humanitarian call for $39 million to combat malnutrition and to cover the basic needs of more than a million victims of Hurricane Sandy.
Orlando Barría
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 11, 2012
Security cameras attached to a pole in front of a giant portrait of former Chinese chairman Mao Zedong keep watch on Beijing's Tiananmen Square, near the Great Hall of the People, where the 18th National Party Congress is being held.
David Gray
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Reuters
Nov. 11, 2012
People view marriage ads looking for spouses for themselves or their single children during a matchmaking party to mark Singles Day at a shopping mall in Qingdao city in eastern China's Shandong province. Young people celebrate Singles Day to have dinner with their single friends or take part in matchmaking parties, and many people choose to marry on this day. But it has become an online shopping promotion day that urges consumers to buy more discount goods.
Wu Hong
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European Pressphoto Agency
Nov. 11, 2012
A woman holds a folding fan near a decoration in Beijing.
Lee Jin-man
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Associated Press
Nov. 11, 2012
A horse throws a rider at a rodeo held for Tradition Day in San Antonio de Areco, Argentina.
Natacha Pisarenko
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Associated Press
Nov. 11, 2012
A Buddhist pagoda in the village of Ma Lar at Kyauk Myaung township in central Burma lies badly damaged after an earthquake occurred near Burma's second-biggest city, Mandalay.
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Reuters
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