Shi'ite pilgrims flood Baghdad, while a different sort of pilgrim floods Poland and Ukraine.
Photos Of The Week -- June 9-15
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Shi'ite pilgrims head on foot to the Kadhimiyah Shrine in north Baghdad to commemorate the death of eighth-century Imam Musa al-Kadhim. (AFP/Ali al-Saadi)
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Shi'ite pilgrims gather at the shrine of Imam Musa al-Kadhim in northern Baghdad's Kadhimiyah neighborhood on June 14. (Ahmad al-Rubaye)
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Children play in front of a Euro 2012 poster in Lviv, Ukraine. (AFP/Anne-Christine Poujoulat)
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Stilt walkers dressed in the colors of Ukraine and France pose in front of the Donbass Arena ahead of the Euro 2012 match Ukraine and France in Donetsk. (AFP)
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A supporter of jailed ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko wears a T-shirt with the slogan "Football fest in prison" at a protest tent camp near the Euro 2012 fan zone in Kyiv. (Reuters/Michael Dalder)
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A Croatian supporter holds a ball bearing the sentence "Accept Kosovo in UEFA" in downtown Poznan, Poland. (AFP/Fabrice Coffrini)
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England soccer fans walk near signboards put up by supporters of jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko in Kyiv. (Reuters/Anatolii Stepanov)
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Riot police react after Polish and Russian soccer fans clash in Warsaw on June 12. (AFP/Wojtek Radwanski)
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Egyptian presidential candidate Muhammad Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood waves to a crowd outside a mosque after attending Friday Prayers in Cairo. (Reuters/Ahmed Jaddalah)
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Egyptian antimilitary protesters wave their shoes as they demonstrate in Cairo's Tahrir Square. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)
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A Russian-built, multiple-launch rocket system fires during the Peace Mission 2012 joint counterterrorism military exercises of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Tajikistan. (AFP)
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An Afghan female officer salutes during a graduation ceremony at the Kabul Military Training Center. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
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Russian activists hold a huge imperial-era flag during an antigovernment protest in Moscow on June 12. (Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin)
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A pair of sandals lies on bloodstained ground after shelling at the Talbisah area in the Syrian city of Homs. (Reuters/Shaam News Network)
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Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic (right) and his predecessor, Boris Tadic, at the inauguration ceremony in Belgrade on June 11. (RFE/RL-Vesna Andjic)
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Panayiota Mario, a survivor of the World War II-era Distomo massacre, touches a glass panel containing the remains of victims during the 68th anniversary of that massacre by Nazis in Greece in 1944. (Reuters/Yannis Behrakis)