Ice and cold in Alaska and Afghanistan; protests and riots in Beijing and Tehran.
Photos Of The Week -- January 7-13
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A boy reads the Koran at a religious seminary in Lahore, Pakistan. (Photo by Mohsin Raza for Reuters)
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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)
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People walk past graffiti on a street in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi. (Photo by David Mdzinarishvili for Reuters)
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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)
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A man protects his child from the cold on a road in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Ahmad Masood for Reuters)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Serbian Patriarch Irinej (center) conducts the liturgy during a ceremony in Banja Luka. (Photo by Ranko Cukovic for Reuters)
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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)
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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)