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Photos Of The Week #47
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Russian inmates watch a performance by Russian clown and cat trainer Yury Kuklachev at Kolpino prison outside St. Petersburg. (AFP/Olga Maltseva)
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Supporters of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Pakistan gather during the JI party convention in Lahore on November 21. (AFP/Arif Ali)
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A windsurfer wipes out in the Atlantic Ocean off of Cape Town, South Africa. (epa/Nic Bothma)
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Palestinian youths practice parkour outside the Dome of the Rock mosque at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound following Friday Prayers in the Old City of Jerusalem. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)
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An internally displaced woman waits out the fighting in a shelter in Donetsk, Ukraine. (Reuters/Antonio Bronic)
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Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko (left) warmly greets visiting U.S. Vice President Joe Biden in Kyiv. (Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko)
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Kurdish refugee children from the Syrian town of Kobani smile as they play in a refugee camp in the border town of Suruc, Sanliurfa Province, Turkey. (Reuters/Osman Orsal)
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A home is covered in snow in a neighborhood just south of Buffalo, New York, following a massive winter storm that dumped more than 1.5 meters of snow on the area. (epa/Mark Webster)
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A home is covered in snow in a neighborhood just south of Buffalo, New York, following an overnight winter storm that dumped a reported 5 feet (1.5 meters) of lake-effect snow on the area in Hamburg on Npvember 19. (epa/Mark Webster)
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A boy searches for onions amid grocery waste in Peshawar, Pakistan. (epa/Bilawal Arbab)
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This photograph shows the journey of Rosetta’s Philae lander as it approached and then rebounded from its first touchdown on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on November 12. (European Space Agency)
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A bust of the late Czech President Vaclav Havel was unveiled in a ceremony at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (AFP/Getty Images/Drew Angerer)
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A man dyes threads to be used in weaving carpets at a factory in Kabul. (epa/Hedayatullah Amid)
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A pro-Russian militant poses in front of a tank captured from Ukrainian forces in the eastern town of Ilovaysk, some 40 kilometers east of Donetsk. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews mourn near the bodies of the victims of an attack by two Palestinians on Jewish worshippers. Four Israelis were killed at a synagogue in the ultra-Orthodox Har Nof neighborhood in Jerusalem. (AFP/Gali Tibbon)
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Women place candles near an Orthodox church in Minsk to protest against abortion, which is legal in Belarus. (AFP/Sergei Gapon)
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An Afghan girl harvests cotton buds in a field in Balkh Province. (epa/Sayed Mustafa)
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Security guards hold up umbrellas as people throw eggs and tomatoes at Czech President Milos Zeman (center) before the unveiling of a plaque on the 25th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. Protestes are upset with Zeman's pro-Russian stance and his use of foul language in public. (AFP/Rene Volfik)
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Demonstrators show symbolic red cards to Czech President Milos Zeman during a protest rally in Prague on November 17 amid events marking the 25th annniversary of the country's Velvet Revolution. Protesters accuse the country's present-day leaders of once again cozying up to Russia. (Reuters/David W. Cerny)
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Iranian schoolgirls attend a parliament session in Tehran. (AFP/Atta Kenare)
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U.S. astronaut Terry Virts (left), Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov (center), and the European Space Agency's Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti pose in front of the Soyuz TMA-15M space vehicle at its launch pad in Kazakhstan. The three are due to blast off for the International Space Station on November 23. (AFP)
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An Israeli police officer gestures as he holds a weapon near the scene of an attack at a Jerusalem synagogue. Two suspected Palestinian men armed with axes and knives killed four people before being shot dead by police, the deadliest such attack in the city in years. (Reuters/Ronen Zvulun)
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A Kurdish refugee from the Syrian town of Kobani washes her daughter at a camp in the border town of Suruc, Sanliurfa Province, Turkey. (Reuters/Osman Orsal)
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An Afghan man works at a coal shop in Herat's old city. (AFP/Aref Karimipotw)