The International Day Against Homophobia is marked by marches and countermarches, and Pakistan prepares to ship fuel to Western forces in Afghanistan once again.
Photos Of The Week -- May 12-18
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Activists prepare to release balloons during the "Rainbow flashmob" organized at Petrovsky Ostrov Park on International Day Against Homophobia in St. Petersburg on May 17. (ITAR-TASS)
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Georgian gay-rights activists clash with Orthodox Christian counterprotesters in Tbilisi on May 17. (Reuters/David Mdzinarishvili)
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Mejra Dzogaz, who lost her husband, three sons, and a grandson in the Srebrenica massacre, watches former Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic's trial in her home in Potocari, near Srebrenica. (Reuters/Dado Ruvic)
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A Russian opposition activist waves a white ribbon on Kudrinskaya Square in central Moscow. (ITAR-TASS/ Sergei Karpov)
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A Tajik woman reads the Koran in Braille at the Islamic Center in Dushanbe. (Reuters/Nozim Kalandarov)
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A Palestinian protester kicks a burning tire during clashes between Palestinian stone-throwers and Israeli security forces outside Ofer prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah. (Reuters/Mohamad Torokman)
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A world-record 47.6-meter Ferris wheel is unveiled in an enclosed space called Alem (The Universe) in Ashgabat. (AFP)
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Officials and mourners perform funeral prayers over the coffin of former Taliban minister Maulvi Arsala Rahmani, a senior member of the Afghan High Peace Council, in Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
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Tanker trucks, used to transport fuel to NATO forces in Afghanistan, are seen parked near oil terminals in the Pakistani port city of Karachi. (AFP/Asif Hassan)
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A man cleans a fuel tanker parked at a compound in Karachi, as a U.S.-Pakistani agreement looked set to resume fuel shipments to Afghanistan. (Reuters/Athar Hussain)
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A boy is silhouetted against the sun while jumping on a trampoline on the outskirts of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. (Reuters/Faisal Mahmood)
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Presidential candidate and leader of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) Tomislav Nikolic at a final pre-election convention in Belgrade (AFP/Andrej Isakovic)
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A girl walks on a disused railway track, through what is known locally as the "Tunnel of Love," in the Ukrainian town of Kleven. (Reuters/Gleb Granich)
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An Orthodox priest conducts a service in front of the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft set on its launch pad at Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome. (Reuters/Shamil Zhumatov )
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Russian demonstrators vote at a permanent protest against the presidential inauguration of Vladimir Putin at a camp named "OccupyAbai" in Moscow. (epa/Maksim Shipenkov)
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An Afghan man walks with a cage of quails on a hill over Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
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Workers set up a giant canvas of the official poster of the 65th Cannes Film Festival featuring U.S. actress Marilyn Monroe on the facade of the Festival Palace in Cannes. (Reuters/Eric Gaillard)