Photos Of The Week -- January 29-February 4

A flood victim drinks water from a hand pump in Murad Chandio village in Pakistan's Sindh province on January 26. Six months after Pakistan's epic floods demolished this farming village, its residents still live in limbo on a roadside. Photo by Akhtar Soomro for Reuters

1 A flood victim drinks water from a hand pump in Murad Chandio village in Pakistan's Sindh province on January 26. Six months after Pakistan's epic floods demolished this farming village, its residents still live in limbo on a roadside.

Photo by Akhtar Soomro for Reuters

The grand mufti of Bosnia, Mustafa Ceric, visits the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in southern Poland on February 1. Prominent Muslims joined Jews and Christians at Auschwitz in a gesture of interfaith solidarity designed to refute deniers of the Holocaust, such as Iran's president. Photo by Michal Lepecki/Agencja Gazeta for Reuters

2 The grand mufti of Bosnia, Mustafa Ceric, visits the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in southern Poland on February 1. Prominent Muslims joined Jews and Christians at Auschwitz in a gesture of interfaith solidarity designed to refute deniers of the Holocaust, such as Iran's president.

Photo by Michal Lepecki/Agencja Gazeta for Reuters

Police detain a man during a protest rally to defend Article 31 of the Russian Constitution, which guarantees the right to freedom of assembly, in St. Petersburg on January 31. Photo by Aleksandr Demianchuk for Reuters

3 Police detain a man during a protest rally to defend Article 31 of the Russian Constitution, which guarantees the right to freedom of assembly, in St. Petersburg on January 31.

Photo by Aleksandr Demianchuk for Reuters

An Afghan National Army recruit marches through green-colored smoke during a graduation parade at the Ghazi military training center in Kabul on February 3. Photo by Ahmad Masood for Reuters

4 An Afghan National Army recruit marches through green-colored smoke during a graduation parade at the Ghazi military training center in Kabul on February 3.

Photo by Ahmad Masood for Reuters

Afghan National Army noncommissioned officers march during a graduation ceremony in Kabul on February 3. Some 400 Afghan NCOs graduated at a ceremony at the Camp Ghazi.Photo by Marai Shah for AFP

5 Afghan National Army noncommissioned officers march during a graduation ceremony in Kabul on February 3. Some 400 Afghan NCOs graduated at a ceremony at the Camp Ghazi.

Photo by Marai Shah for AFP

Activists of Pasban Pakistan hold signs and toy guns as they  demonstrate against U.S. Consulate worker Raymond Davis  in Karachi on February 2. The families of three Pakistanis who died after Davis opened fire in broad daylight demanded that terror charges be brought against him. Photo by Asif Hassan for AFP

6 Activists of Pasban Pakistan hold signs and toy guns as they demonstrate against U.S. Consulate worker Raymond Davis in Karachi on February 2. The families of three Pakistanis who died after Davis opened fire in broad daylight demanded that terror charges be brought against him.

Photo by Asif Hassan for AFP

Protesters pray in front of army tanks during a mass demonstration against the government in Tahrir Square in Cairo on February 1. Photo by Yannis Behrakis for Reuters

7 Protesters pray in front of army tanks during a mass demonstration against the government in Tahrir Square in Cairo on February 1.

Photo by Yannis Behrakis for Reuters

A mother carries her daughter on her shoulders with the word "Masr" or "Egypt" written on her forehead as Egyptians gather in Cairo's Tahrir Square, heeding a call by the opposition for a "march of a million" to mark a week of protests calling for the ouster of Mubarak's regime on February 1. Photo by Mohammed Abed for AFP

8 A mother carries her daughter on her shoulders with the word "Masr" or "Egypt" written on her forehead as Egyptians gather in Cairo's Tahrir Square, heeding a call by the opposition for a "march of a million" to mark a week of protests calling for the ouster of Mubarak's regime on February 1.

Photo by Mohammed Abed for AFP

A rock flies past an opposition supporter during rioting against pro-Mubarak demonstrators near Tahrir Square in Cairo on February 3. Antigovernment protesters and Mubarak supporters clashed near the square in a rerun of overnight violence that killed six and wounded more than 800 people. Photo by Goran Tomasevic for Reuters

9 A rock flies past an opposition supporter during rioting against pro-Mubarak demonstrators near Tahrir Square in Cairo on February 3. Antigovernment protesters and Mubarak supporters clashed near the square in a rerun of overnight violence that killed six and wounded more than 800 people.

Photo by Goran Tomasevic for Reuters

Antigovernment protesters take part in Friday Prayers next to an effigy of President Hosni Mubarak on Tahrir Square in Cairo on February 4. The sign reads, "We want to put the murderous president on trial." Photo by Amr Abdallah Dalsh for Reuters

10 Antigovernment protesters take part in Friday Prayers next to an effigy of President Hosni Mubarak on Tahrir Square in Cairo on February 4. The sign reads, "We want to put the murderous president on trial."

Photo by Amr Abdallah Dalsh for Reuters

A woman pushes a baby carriage through the morning mist in Bishkek, early on February 4. Mist covered the Kyrgyz capital while temperatures reached 3 degrees Celsius. Photo by Vyacheslav Oseledko for AFP

11 A woman pushes a baby carriage through the morning mist in Bishkek, early on February 4. Mist covered the Kyrgyz capital while temperatures reached 3 degrees Celsius.

Photo by Vyacheslav Oseledko for AFP

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