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Photos Of The Week #6
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A Russian woman stands in front of the wall of the Kolomna Kremlin with huge painting of Dmitry Donskoy Assembles An Army Against The Tatars, in Kolomna, Russia. (epa/Sergei Ilnitsky)
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A woman and her children run for cover following reported air strikes by regime forces on the town of Kafr Batna in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area, on the outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus. (AFP/Amer Almohibany)
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A local resident gestures while standing in his garage, which was damaged during the recent exchange of fire between Ukrainian government forces and Russia-backed separatists, on the outskirts of Donetsk, Ukraine. (Reuters/Alexander Ermochenko)
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A migrant child looks out of a window at a train station in the town of Sid, Serbia. (Reuters/Marko Djurica)
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People burn incense to worship the god of fortune on the fifth day of the Chinese Lunar New Year in Hubei Province on February 12. (Reuters)
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A Turkish family, who earn their living by collecting garbage, ride their cart near the town of Kilis, central Turkey. (AFP/Bulent Kilic)
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Iranian schoolgirls wave their national flag during celebrations on Tehran's Freedom Square to mark the 37th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution on February 11. (AFP/Atta Kenare)
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Internally displaced Afghan children watch a girl play with a jump rope at a refugee camp in Ghazni. (AFP/Sayed Zakeria)
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A migrant woman looks through a window as migrants and refugees wait for their train to depart to Slovenia on their journey to Western Europe at a refugee transit camp in Slavonski Brod, Croatia. (Reuters/Darrin Zammit)
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An Afghan woman begs on a roadside in Kabul. (epa/Hedayatullah Amid)
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Orthodox Christians pray around a cross-shaped platform covered with candles placed in jars of honey during a ceremony marking the feast day of Saint Haralampi, the Orthodox patron saint of beekeepers, at a church in eastern Bulgaria on February 10. (AFP/Nikolay Doychinov)
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An elderly homeless Ukrainian man begs for money next to a sign showing exchange rates for the Ukrainian hryvnia against major international currencies inside an underground passage in downtown Kyiv. (epa/Sergey Dolzhenko)
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A migrant, identified as 20-year old Pelen Hussein from Syria, with a capsized boat in the background, is reportedly rescued by a member of the Turkish Coast Guard in the Aegean Sea. (Reuters)
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A farmer harvests mustard from his field on the outskirts of Lahore, Pakistan. (Reuters/Mohsin Raza)
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Police officers detain a demonstrator who was taking part in a protest by foreign-currency mortgage-holders near Central Bank headquarters in Moscow on February 8. (Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin)
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A newly-wed Syrian couple pose for a wedding picture amid heavily damaged buildings in the war-ravaged city of Homs. (AFP/Joseph Eid)
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A migrant woman carries her child as they wait to cross the Greek-Macedonian border near Gevgelija on February 8. (AFP/Robert Atanasovski)
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People take part in a cleansing ritual ahead of celebrations of the Chinese Lunar New Year of the Fire Monkey in the Far Eastern Russian city of Novosibirsk. (TASS/Kirill Kuchmar)
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A wounded Afghan boy walks with a soldier at the site of a suicide attack near Mazar-e Sharif, on February 8. (AFP/Farshad Usyan)
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Syrian refugees are pictured in a camp near the Turkish border. Thousands of Syrians have been fleeing the embattled city of Aleppo, which has been the scene of heavy fighting in recent days. (AFP/Bulent Kilic)
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A man wearing a climbing harness and fixed to a rope, jumps from a 75-meter-high building near Chisinau. "Flying rope" jumping has become a popular unofficial sport among young Moldovans. (epa/Dumitru Doru)