Ice and cold in Alaska and Afghanistan; protests and riots in Beijing and Tehran.
Photos Of The Week -- January 7-13
![A boy reads the Koran at a religious seminary in Lahore, Pakistan. (Photo by Mohsin Raza for Reuters)](https://gdb.rferl.org/2da291a3-a995-4566-8193-0ddb87604f07_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A boy reads the Koran at a religious seminary in Lahore, Pakistan. (Photo by Mohsin Raza for Reuters)
![A boy runs to receive alms from pilgrims near the banks of the Ganges River south of Kolkata, India. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri for Reuters)](https://gdb.rferl.org/6d0bcfd0-6123-4206-be4a-e63b9603042c_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A boy runs to receive alms from pilgrims near the banks of the Ganges River south of Kolkata, India. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri for Reuters)
![People walk past graffiti on a street in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi. (Photo by David Mdzinarishvili for Reuters)](https://gdb.rferl.org/9cd108bb-b8bd-4d49-910a-153009ed1eea_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People walk past graffiti on a street in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi. (Photo by David Mdzinarishvili for Reuters)
![The U.S. Coast Guard cutter "Healy" approaches the Russian-flagged tanker "Renda" while breaking ice around the vessel 97 miles south of Nome, Alaska. (Photo by U.S. Coast Guard, distributed by AFP)](https://gdb.rferl.org/29e0ecee-1b09-4280-8759-5414bfed55cc_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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The U.S. Coast Guard cutter "Healy" approaches the Russian-flagged tanker "Renda" while breaking ice around the vessel 97 miles south of Nome, Alaska. (Photo by U.S. Coast Guard, distributed by AFP)
![A man protects his child from the cold on a road in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Ahmad Masood for Reuters)](https://gdb.rferl.org/b1fb778e-f1ec-4f14-8888-74611b025560_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A man protects his child from the cold on a road in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Ahmad Masood for Reuters)
![A voter checks her ballot in the "Ballot Room" of the Balsams Hotel in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire. (Photo by Jessica Rinaldi for Reuters)](https://gdb.rferl.org/8a8de947-8642-42b4-882c-a8629ff91c58_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A voter checks her ballot in the "Ballot Room" of the Balsams Hotel in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire. (Photo by Jessica Rinaldi for Reuters)
![A policeman looks out from a balcony as the crowd is dispersed from the front of an Apple store in Beijing. Sales of the iPhone 4S caused a near-riot in one of Apple's Beijing retail stores. (Photo by David Gray for Reuters)](https://gdb.rferl.org/f30262fd-a45e-4f8d-9e6e-fb5ebf84ac27_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A policeman looks out from a balcony as the crowd is dispersed from the front of an Apple store in Beijing. Sales of the iPhone 4S caused a near-riot in one of Apple's Beijing retail stores. (Photo by David Gray for Reuters)
![An artist and his students display an oversized page from the Koran at the Naser Khusro Balkhi Library during an opening ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Shah Marai for AFP)](https://gdb.rferl.org/bb1da28b-454f-452c-af7c-e0939f30b345_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An artist and his students display an oversized page from the Koran at the Naser Khusro Balkhi Library during an opening ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Shah Marai for AFP)
![A worshipper holds an anti-U.S. poster during the funeral for nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, who was killed in a bomb blast in Tehran. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl for Reuters)](https://gdb.rferl.org/8c693e70-104e-4452-b63c-4fbe986cb163_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A worshipper holds an anti-U.S. poster during the funeral for nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, who was killed in a bomb blast in Tehran. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl for Reuters)
![Serbian Patriarch Irinej (center) conducts the liturgy during a ceremony in Banja Luka. (Photo by Ranko Cukovic for Reuters)](https://gdb.rferl.org/0b5911b6-1cb6-482e-b451-e04a692ffc61_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Serbian Patriarch Irinej (center) conducts the liturgy during a ceremony in Banja Luka. (Photo by Ranko Cukovic for Reuters)
![A presidential regiment soldier guards the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier just outside the snow-clad Kremlin wall in Moscow. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev for AFP)](https://gdb.rferl.org/ef0f9b74-e41e-4849-abe6-197c452e961b_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A presidential regiment soldier guards the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier just outside the snow-clad Kremlin wall in Moscow. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev for AFP)
![Devotees dance at the shrine of a Muslim Sufi saint Data Ganj Bakhsh during a three-day festival marking the anniversary of his death in Lahore. (Photo by Mohsin Raza for Reuters)](https://gdb.rferl.org/3e635cc5-6b8f-429c-90be-06b3ec9308de_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Devotees dance at the shrine of a Muslim Sufi saint Data Ganj Bakhsh during a three-day festival marking the anniversary of his death in Lahore. (Photo by Mohsin Raza for Reuters)