An election, an inauguration, a marriage, a parade, and protests highlight memorable images from the week's news.
Photos Of The Week -- May 6-11
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A sculpture depicting the body of Osama bin Laden called "He," created by artists Manolo Castro, Julio Lorente, and Alberto Lorente, is displayed during the 11th Havana Biennial in Cuba. (AFP)
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Solders of Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh march in Stepanakert during a military parade marking Victory Day. (AFP/Karen Minasyan)
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A Pakistani girl cools off in a water channel in Lahore. A heatwave saw temperatures in excess of 40 degrees Celsius in many parts of the country. (AFP/Arif Ali)
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Pari, 33, sweeps her house in the Afghan city of Herat. She lost her hands when she was 7 when her village was bombed during the Soviet invasion. She sells handicrafts to feed her three children and her elderly husband. (AFP/Aref Karimi)
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Members of the Samaritan sect take part in the traditional pilgrimage marking the holiday of Passover atop Mount Gerizim near the West Bank city of Nablus. (Reuters/Ammar Awad)
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Wounded Syrian soldiers react following a roadside bomb attack that targeted their convoy as they escorted UN peace observers in Daraa. (AFP/Louai Beshara)
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Afghan students visit a park in Kabul that was destroyed during the country's civil war and then rebuilt. (AFP/ Bay Ismoyo)
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People displaced after military operations against Taliban militants in South Waziristan wait to receive rations in Dera Ismail Khan in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. (epa/Saood Rehman)
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Russian riot police chase opposition supporters during an unsanctioned protest in Moscow against the rule of President Vladimir Putin. (Reuters/Denis Sinyakov)
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A girl peers under a polling booth while her mother prepares to vote at a polling station in Athens during Greece's general elections on May 6. (Reuters/Panayiotis Tzamaros)
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Actor Sacha Baron Cohen, in character from his upcoming film "The Dictator," speaks to members of the media during a news conference in New York. (Reuters/Keith Bedford)
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New Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and former President Dmitry Medvedev after Putin's inauguration ceremony at the Kremlin. Putin appealed for unity in Russia amid ongoing protests against his continued rule. (Reuters/Dmitry Astakhov)
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Activists wear masks depiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel and incoming French President Francois Hollande as they perform a fake marriage in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. (AFP/John MacDougall)