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Photos Of The Week #37
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An Afghan policeman points his weapon during an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Herat. (AFP/Aref Karimi)
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A Turkish protester wearing a gas mask chants slogans in the Kadikoy district of Istanbul.(AFP/Ozan Kose)
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A frog is captured in an image of a liftoff of NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer from a flight facility in Virginia. (Reuters/Chris Perry)
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A Tajik rider in the Kazakh capital Astana prepares for a game during the first Asian championships in kokpar, or buzkashi, a traditional Central Asian sport in which teams on horseback attempt to score goals by propelling a headless goat carcass down a field.
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Russian Orthodox believers take part in a September 12 procession along St. Petersburg's Nevsky Prospect to mark the 300th anniversary of the city's Aleksandr Nevsky Monastery.
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An Afghan woman begs for money in Kabul as soccer fans watch a giant TV screen showing the Afghanistan-India final at the South Asian Football Federation championship.
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An Iranian woman pets her dog, Jessica, in downtown Tehran.
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A Turkish demonstrator takes cover from tear gas thrown by riot police during a protest in Istanbul's Kadikoy district. (Reuters/Cevahir Bugu)
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A worker at the National Portrait Gallery in London poses beside a portrait of Malala Yousafzai, the teenage Pakistani advocate for girls education who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012. (AFP/Leon Neal)
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A girl plants some of the 3,000 flags placed in memory of the lives lost in the September 11, 2001 attacks at a park in Winnetka, Illinois. (Reuters/Jim Young)
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A woman in a burqa walks past a beauty salon in Kabul. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)
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A model shows off a creation by a group of Kyrgyz designers during a fashion festival called 'Creators of Beauty' in Bishkek. (AFP/Vyacheslav Oseledko)
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In Romania, a protester holds a flag reading "Save Rosia Montana" during a demonstration in Bucharest against a proposed open-cast gold mine. (AFP/Daniel Mihailescu)
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A teenager in Kazakhstan rides a bicycle in the capital, Astana. (Reuters/Shamil Zhumatov)
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People walk through the 9-11 Empty Sky memorial across from New York's One World Trade Center at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey. (Reuters/Gary Hershorn)
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Afghan children carry coal from a brick factory to their home on the outskirts of Jalalabad. (AFP/Noorullah Shirzada)
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Female troops take part in a parade marking the 1948 establishment of North Korea in Pyongyang, on September 9. (Reuters/Kyodo)
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Members of Ukraine's Roma community pose for a picture in the village of Pidvynogradiv near the city of Vynogradiv in Transcarpathia on September 8. (AFP/Yuriy Dyachshyn)
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Supporters of acting Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin hold a rally after voting in a mayoral election in Moscow, on September 8. Sobyanin won the vote in the first round, although opponents have disputed the result. (Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin)
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Afghan footballers participate in a training session at Kabul Stadium. (AFP/Shah Marai)