Heavy fighting in Syria, protests in Greece, Spain, and Georgia, a flash mob in Russia, and pollution clearance measures in Belarus.
Photos Of The Week -- September 22-28
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A member of the rebel Free Syrian Army opens fire with his machine gun during clashes with Syrian Army forces in Aleppo on September 27. (REUTERS/Zain Karam)
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A Syrian rebel fighter carrying a rocket-propelled grenade moves across open ground under heavy tank fire from Syrian government forces during an intense battle in the al-Arqub neighborhood of Aleppo on September 26. (AFP/Zac Baillie)
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Rescue workers douse a Dornier aircraft that caught fire after it crashed in Kathmandu, Nepal. All 19 people on board died in the crash on September 28. (REUTERS)
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An officer looks at a candidate as she does push-ups during the selection process for a professional contract in the Russian army at a recruitment centre in the southern city of Stavropol on September 25. (REUTERS/Eduard Korniyenko)
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Chinese naval honor guards stand as they wait for an inspection on the "Liaoning" aircraft carrier in Dalian, Liaoning Province on September 25. (REUTERS/Xinhua/Zha)
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An elderly woman passes in front a billboard as she leaves an underground passage in central Kyiv, Ukraine, on September 26. (REUTERS/Gleb Garanich)
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Escorts of people with disabilities try to break through a police blockade outside the Greek parliament during a rally against new austerity measures in Athens on September 27. (REUTERS/John Kolesidis)
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A fire bomb explodes near a riot police squad during clashes with Greek antiausterity demonstrators in Athens on September 26. (AFP/Aris Messinis)
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Spanish antiausterity protesters shout slogans during a demonstration outside Madrid's Parliament on September 26. (REUTERS/Susana Vera)
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A policeman (center) tries to stop supporters of the ruling National Movement Party as they scuffle with advocates of the opposition Georgian Dream coalition during an election rally in the town of Signagi on September 26. (Reuters)
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An Afghan girl carries a pile of dried shrubs, which she gathered to use for cooking and heating purposes on the outskirts of Kabul on September 27. (REUTERS/Omar Sobhani)
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Ahmad Tazim, who makes a living as a construction worker, stands with his two sons Naim (right), 5, and Karim, 2, in front of his home in the hillside neighborhood of Jamal Mina high above Kabul, Afghanistan, on September 27. (AFP/Roberto Schmidt)
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An Afghan villager rides a donkey in a dusty road in the Zadyan district of Balkh Province on September 23. (AFP/Qais Usyan)
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A French soldier secures a perimeter on a forward observing post near the National Police Training Center in Wardak Province, Afghanistan. (AFP/Jeff Pachoud)
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Russian volunteers take part in a flash mob on September 25 to mark 500-days before the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi (AFP/Mikhail Mordasov)
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A Belarusian Emergency Ministry worker walks on barrels of pesticide at a burial site in a forest near the village of Savichi on September 26. About 640 tons of pesticides, including DDT, were extracted from the ground due to pollution issues. (REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko)
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Afghan children on their way to school in a village on the road to Naghlu, which houses a French Army base, on September 24. (AFP/Jeff Pachoud)
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A woman plays with her dog in front of huge images of the Belarusian flag and state emblem in central Minsk on September 24. (AFP/Viktor Drachev)
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A Chinese policeman leads prisoners along a road in the Emei Mountain region, Sichuan Province, on September 27. The inmates were being moved to a new prison. (REUTERS)
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South Korean soldiers give a demonstration on the eve of the Armed Forces Day anniversary at Gyeryong military headquarters on September 25. (REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won)
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Bulgarian Roma women react as a bulldozer tears down their home in a Roma suburb in the town of Maglizh, some 260 kilometers east of Sofia on September 25. The municipal authorites had ordered the demolishment of some 30 illegally built houses in the area. (REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov)